[ansel12]

I thought that his comments on Beck were appropriate to the subject of the article.

I guess we have a different read of it.

[jobim]

So I can, to give a very public and obvious example, credit apostate Catholic and Mormon Glenn Beck's claim to be (in some sense or other) seeking to follow Jesus.

But being kind does not, in the slightest, mean that I have to accept Beck's claims about the truth of the Mormon faith, nor about any of the many other crazy or silly things he alleges.

He wishes me to believe that Woodrow Wilson is the source of all evil in the American Experiment? Show me the evidence.

I am under no obligation to order my life according to your historical quackery.

Why does he drag out Beck's cadaver to dissect for this essay? I believe it indicates his animus towards him. Examples that might have fit his thesis abound. Why the gratuitous slapping of the cadaver about all those other falsehoods? Why does he specifically mention Wilson, when on the other threads I referred to on Shea's website, Shea acknowledges hardly having watched him, and stood fast when it was pointed out to him that historians appear on the show, yes even Wilsonian historians? Why the inflammatory word choice? Shea scowls and walks away to his next manifesto. And I walked away too.