News Hounds: From Rodeo Clown to Would-be Scholar: Glenn Beck ‘Exposes’ Obamas Progressive Agenda in Documentary Series
Well, Gentle Readers, I meant this to be a post about Glenn Beck University, but Faith 102 got booted off my priority list by the first in a series of documentaries called “Fundamental Transformation,” presented Wednesday night to “Insider Extreme” subscribers of GlennBeck.com. It’s Beck in full Visionary-Transformer-of-America mode; or that’s what he’d call himself at least, though “Demagogue and Rabble-Rouser” might be a better description. Anyway, this series of documentaries is intended to hatemonger expose the Obama progressive agenda. He’s running them as a lead-up to the big rally he’s planning in Washington for the end of August.
Beck didn’t get to the documentary right away. First, we poor Extreme Insiders had to sit through an hour of His Beckness patting himself on the back for his soaring ratings, with the obsequious assistance of partner Scott Baker. We learned that Beck works himself really hard but, as he said, “I feel I have no choice.” Because he’s awakening the people. And blowing Keith Olbermann out of the water because Beck doesn’t “treat his audience like morons.”
Finally, we got to the documentary. It began by asking rhetorically if people who voted for Obama knew what they were voting for? Did they realize that he was actually going to keep his campaign promise of “fundamental transformation,” and impose on poor America a progressive agenda that would lead it down the “road to serfdom?”