daveman
Diamond Member
Gaea damn that First Amendment, huh?I think that anybody that doesn't see how dangerous Glenn Beck is, is one of two things. Either dumber than a bag of rocks or as crazy as he is. We have been warned about him over and over through a variety of sources. This article is almost a year old and he is worse than ever:
On a number of his TV and radio programs, Beck has even gone so far as to make comparisons between Hitler and Obama and to promote the idea that the president is dangerous.
On an August 2009 radio program, after claiming that President Obama was lying about his health-care plan, Beck told his audience to read Hitlers Mein Kampf. Beck said that Hitler told Germans what he was going to do but no one listened. Beck then urged his audience not to make the same mistake with Obama: Please America take this man for what he says.
That same month, David Bellavia, a former army staff sergeant who wrote a book about his experiences as a soldier in Iraq, appeared as a guest on Becks TV show. Bellavia discussed the claim that President Obama was trying to create a civilian national security force and compared this to the efforts of Hitler and Saddam Hussein to create sinister military forces composed of political loyalists that answered only to them.
On a July 2009 TV show, Beck said that President Obama is a dangerous man.
In March 2009, as a guest on another FOX News show, Beck also promoted an anti-government conspiracy theory popular among right-wing extremiststhat FEMA is building concentration camps to house dissidents. Beck declared that he could not debunk the theory. Before introducing the topic of FEMA camps on that show, Beck claimed that the United States was headed towards socialism, totalitarianism beyond your wildest imagination. Later, he also promoted the FEMA camps conspiracy theory on his own show. After much controversy, Beck later backed away from the FEMA camps theory. The FEMA episode, however, is a good example of Becks key role as a fearmonger-in-chief, using constant laments such as I fear for my country to create a sense of anxiety about and hostility towards the government in his audience.
These kinds of claims from Beck create an intersection between the mainstream and the extreme. They play an important role in drawing people further out of the mainstream, making them more receptive to the more extreme notions and conspiracy theories.
This man is just a lying scumbag and will not be happy until something terrible happens.
ADL Special Reports: Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies - The Influence of the Mainstream Media
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