TagsTagsIf you want to know if someone’s blowing a dog whistle, ask the dogs. Beck insists his critics are imagining things, that he does not engage in racial fear-mongering, that a string of guests with ties to hate groups do not form a meaningful pattern, and that he’s not a ...
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At last weekend’s Value Voters Summit, attended by top GOP politicians and run by a man (Tony Perkins) who associates with white supremacists like David Duke and the Council of Conservative Citizens, Texas Governor Rick Perry urged the audience to read “The 5,000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen — ...
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Commentary’s Peter Wehner agrees with me: Glenn Beck: Harmful to the Conservative Movement. Also see: About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2 And possibly the craziest show ever to air on Fox News: Glenn Beck Does the Rockefeller Boogie For even more evidence of how destructive Beck’s influence is, here’s an ...
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TIME Magazine’s David Von Drehle asks: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? I don’t know why anyone would think a far right populist demagogue who rants and weeps in front of millions of people and spreads conspiracy theories straight out of the canon of the John Birch Society would be a ...
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Here’s an excellent exposé at Salon by Alexander Zaitchik, on one of the main ideological sources for Glenn Beck’s extremist rhetoric — a paleo-right crank connected to the John Birch Society named Cleon Skousen, whose bizarre book (“The 5,000 Year Leap”) Glenn Beck has been relentlessly promoting: Meet the man ...
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David Frum asks “What is going on at Fox News?” The whole column makes good points (and Beck has already savaged Frum for it, of course), but let’s focus on one section: The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon ...
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