Free Republic

Glenn Beck loves freedom. He loves freedom of speech, freedom of travel, and he fights anyone who tries to take away those freedoms. Beck is also against labels of left and right. Just like O’Reilly, he wants the image of an independent centrist. Both men do it by criticizing the right at times. Both men, in my opinion, care more about criticizing the right than they do about facts or logic (I admit I made a driveby comment about Bill. Maybe I’ll expand another time). Recently, in his March 8th TV show, about 13 minutes in, Glenn Beck started warning...

A couple of week's ago, I blogged about Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's charm-blitz through NY, juxtaposing Fox News' Neil Cavuto's sweetheart interview with "the prince" and Charlie Rose's far more revealing conversation -- essentially, it's (everything's) all Israel's fault, and "my" 1.5 billion Muslims are all like the underpants' bomber's father. I kept thinking about Alwaleed -- his stake in News Corp., his stakes in Georgetown and Harvard -- and realized that as a leading scion of the so-called House of Saud (q: how many countries are named for their rulers?), a totalitarian theocracy whose foundational documents -- http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1261/Should-Fox-News-Register-as-a-Saudi-Agent.aspx