Fox News host Glenn Beck's national domination

Washington Post ^ | 1/2/2010 | Dana Milbank

[Saije]

It's official: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.

This news, at once unsettling and unsurprising, came from the Gallup polling organization on Wednesday. Beck, the new Fox News host who has said President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" and alternately likens administration officials to Nazis and Marxists, was also more admired by Americans than Billy Graham and Bill Gates, not to mention Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. In Americans' esteem, Beck only narrowly trailed South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the man who defeated apartheid.

The 45-year-old recovering alcoholic and Mormon convert has become the first true demagogue of the information age. His nightly diet of falsehoods and conspiracies on Fox, and his daily outrages on the radio, have propelled his popularity past even Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. His method is simple: He goes places where others are forbidden by conscience.

Death panels? Government health insurance for dogs? FEMA concentration camps? An Obama "civilian national security force" like Hitler's SS or Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard? An administration official advocating forced abortions and sterilization agents in drinking water? Beck trafficked in them all in 2009.

He also proposed on his radio show that people should read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to prepare for Obama's health-care plan -- and that's in addition to the 28 times the Fuhrer made an appearance on Beck's Fox show in 2009. The Anti-Defamation League identified the secret to Beck's success when it noted that he, unlike other prominent right-wing talkers, was willing "to give a platform to the conspiracy theorists and anti-government extremists."

[Domandred]

FEMA concentration camps?

This one always cracks me up when the libs bring it up because it shows they obviously don't watch or flat out lie.

The FEMA camp episode Glenn was DEBUNKING their existence, but the libs never mention that part.

[Salvation]

Once a person is baptized a Catholic — they are ALWAYS a Catholic. Regardless......

[Wurlitzer]

When you have 100% of the MSM, AND most of our institutions of higher learning AND hollywierd spinning a LIE about the socialists, marxists, communist sympathizers in this administration maybe a little “hyperbole” is required to get the sleeping giant's attention.

As to his beliefs, I don't agree with him either but I am not looking for religious enlightenment from Glenn. HOWEVER, I am looking for the media to do their job which is to be a watch dog against government abuse and the enemy within. Not too many are doing as good a job as Glenn. You can probably count them on one hand.