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Glenn Beck, conspiracy nut
dallasmorningnews-Opinion Blog ^ | 9-18-09 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 09/19/2009 5:09:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog

How on earth did this crackpot get a national TV show? Watch this amazing eight-minute monologue in which Glenn Beck interprets public art, and ties together the Rockefellers, communism, fascism, corporatism, the United Nations and the Obama White House together in a grand conspiracy. If this were in a movie, you wouldn't believe it. But this is on national TV, on Fox News, every weeknight:

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Where's Beck getting this garbage? Listen to this 1976 speech by Beck guru W. Cleon Skousen, in which he cites Mormon prophecy to bolster his rant against the Rockefellers, the communists, and all kinds of "secret combinations" infiltrating everything, trying to destroy the Constitution at the direction of Satan.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beck; conspiracytheory; dreher; fox; glennbeck; roddreher; skousen; tinfoil
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To: smokingfrog

The closer Glenn gets to the truth, the louder they squeal!


61 posted on 09/19/2009 6:13:29 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: smokingfrog

All they are turning up are his ratings.


62 posted on 09/19/2009 6:14:48 PM PDT by maggief (He had a dream. We got a nightmare!)
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To: The Human G-Nome

You are joking? Right?


63 posted on 09/19/2009 6:15:09 PM PDT by yellowhorse (6 good horses, 3 good women)
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To: smokingfrog

We need a thousand more Glen Beck’s in this country! The libs can call him all of the names that they want BUT he is awakening a sleeping giant in this country and that awakening is long overdue.......


64 posted on 09/19/2009 6:17:48 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: keats5

Here is the current war going on between the Socialists and Glen Beck:

Glen: Here are the facts - roll the video - in their own words. Guilty.

Socialists Response: Liar Liar, Pants on Fire!

Glen: And here is yet more video, notice what Mr. X says here. And here are the documents that go along with it - again, in his own hand.

Socialist Response: Glen Beck is a nut!

And so on - Glen pumps out the undeniable evidence - often with the target speaking the accusation him/her self. All this while the lamestream “fringe” media and the rest of the Commies just point fingers and call him names.

Hmmm... who has the better argument?

And are the American people really dumb enough to fall for this?


65 posted on 09/19/2009 6:20:21 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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To: smokingfrog
In the article's comments section, I particularly liked this repeated comment: "And it bears repeating, Rachel Maddow is a Rhodes scholar."

Which,of course, means that GB isn't as qualified and, probably, doesn't even have a right to discuss political issues.

I'm old enough to recall that 90% of the Soviet spies working in England during the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's were also Rhodes scholars.

In fact, every Rhodes scholar I've encountered were such leftist ideologues that, it appeared to me, they physically leaned left at least 30 degrees when they walked.

Now that I think of it, speaking of Soviet enablers, Bill Klintoon was a Rhodes scholar. Fortunately for him, the KGB files were closed before his Moscow vacation could be examined in detail before they could be erased.

(Too bad he couldn't have been exposed as an outright "spy" like Teddy K was!

66 posted on 09/19/2009 6:21:59 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

“To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie.. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.”

Also:

"Truth to a Liberal is like garlic to a vampire."

67 posted on 09/19/2009 6:25:51 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: smokingfrog

Isn’t Dreyer the Dallas Morning News token conservative?


68 posted on 09/19/2009 6:27:12 PM PDT by altura
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To: skeeter

The kept media still seems to believe they have influence.

The MSM is irrelevant - they just don't know it yet!

69 posted on 09/19/2009 6:27:21 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: nagdt

Dallas Morning News. Better than nothing on local news, I guess, but way liberal even there. Liberal in the arts section also. Have to take it for the Mister’s need for the sports section which is pretty good.

But you could read the front section, cover to cover, every day and still know nothing about what’s going on.


70 posted on 09/19/2009 6:30:26 PM PDT by altura
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To: BP2

I think the MSM newspapers are becoming irrelevant, but way too many people watch NBC news at night or CBS or ABC and think it’s gospel.


71 posted on 09/19/2009 6:32:23 PM PDT by altura
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To: BP2

One nice thing: if you click on the blog at the bottom of the story you will find comments, 90% of which are refuting all of Dreyer’s statements. Pretty reassuring that so many people understand the situation and are taking the time to comment.

Wonder if Rod, and/or anybody at the News reads these comments or takes them seriously?


72 posted on 09/19/2009 6:48:24 PM PDT by altura
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To: smokingfrog
Beginning to wonder about Dreher on this. To be fair, he is saying that some of the conspiracy stuff is Mormon-inspired, and we know that there are all kinds of varieties of religious opinion (e.g. you can even find Christian sites which call C.S. Lewis a tool of Satan).

But, coming on the heels of the Van Jones boycott of Beck, and the word going out from Obama to put the hit on Beck and his listeners, the timing seems a little *too* coincidental.

So I'm wondering if the Kathleen Parkers, David Brooks, and so on, are getting the word that they are "on a short leash" and can be replaced with other token conservatives unless they toe the line on Palin, Beck, etc.

No proof, just a suspicion.

Cheers!

73 posted on 09/19/2009 7:02:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: smokingfrog
Even if Glenn Beck is a nut, he's still no ACORN. /rim shot>

Cheers!

74 posted on 09/19/2009 7:03:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: svcw

Just ‘cause you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong.


75 posted on 09/19/2009 7:04:17 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: SuperLuminal
And it bears repeating, didn't Ted Kennedy get thrown out of Harvard for cheating? And Al Gore flunk out of divinity school?

So much for academic credentials.

76 posted on 09/19/2009 7:05:25 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules
See my post #74 this thread.

Cheers!

77 posted on 09/19/2009 7:06:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: smokingfrog

We are making some progress. At least the focus has shifted from “racism”.


78 posted on 09/19/2009 7:10:12 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: The Human G-Nome

The ratings don’t support your theory.


79 posted on 09/19/2009 7:21:07 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: wku man
...Mad-cow was a Rhodes Scholar.

As I recall, Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, also.

Color me "unimpressed".

80 posted on 09/19/2009 7:25:23 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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