Posted on 01/02/2010 8:11:26 AM PST by 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."
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Excellent Packerboy....I had the same thoughts. Thank you.
Excellent Packerboy....I had the same thoughts. Thank you.
Dana should encourage the white house to call the red phone to debunk Beck’s “falsehoods.” Oh wait, I guess they can’t because he uses the administration’s own words and actions against them.
Milbank needs to find a new career. One involving asking about ‘fries with that’ would be appropriate for Milbank’s perceived level of intellect.
Your post concerning Beck is very misleading. Becks comments about 9-11 families concerned a certain group of them wanting money from taxpayers.
Beck is EXPOSING one world government, so I guess he didn’t get the Murdoch memo.
And as you know Paulycy Glenn OFTEN says “verify what you hear - even what I tell you” He knows he’s not infallible and he’s very sensitive to misleading people
“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.”
I noticed he didn’t say any of this is untrue.
This is, IMO, why he is so successful and why I like him. He is saying the same stuff we are and he isn't pretending to be telling us something as though it were coming down from the Media Mountain. He's a goofball and (mostly) a regular guy ( He *is* quite a showman and that helps, too.)
So does my congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, but he’s a bit better than Milbunk (yep, I like that spelling better. Thanks to the previous poster).
Maybe Obama is still using
more “misleading” (to some)info for your (self-serving) perusal....
;)
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&rls=gm&q=beck%20gunnyg
So Devvy Kidd doesn’t trust GB...well I don’t trust a 9/11 Truther like Kidd.
Hey Washington Post. How does Beck’s a** taste?
LOL
Penis envy......
When you’re a liberal you can just claim things. No need to actually argue your point. I’m still waiting for them to explain how the Swiftboaters lied about John Kerry.
I'm sure he can get hired at the Dupont Circle Starbuck's.
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