...At the same time, guys like Glenn Beck make their job way easier because they really are irresponsible with their endless hysterics and comparisons of everything with a pulse to Hitler....Beck spends his show feeding hysteria about obscure crap that, as ever, is going to doom us all....who are we kidding if we completely exonerate Beck thereby? Is “incitement” a word without any real world referent?...
....A civilization (like ours) that treats freedom of speech as a license for irresponsible rodeo clowns to incite murderous nuts or irresponsible clowns like Andrew Breitbart to slime people without apology is a civilization that is about to destroy yet another of its liberties....
If you have to exaggerate to the point of outright lying to make your point, you really don't have much of a point. I don't see Beck often. But when I do, I always come away thinking how he is actually quite measured and bookish; and how criticism such as the above is more or less a fabrication.
If you have to exaggerate to the point of outright lying to make your point, you really don't have much of a point. I don't see Beck often. But when I do, I always come away thinking how he is actually quite measured and bookish; and how criticism such as the above is more or less a fabrication.