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Esquire: McCarthyism 2.0? The Right's Battle with ACORN

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Killgore Trout1/05/2010 8:20:59 pm PST

Well, I finally made it through tonight’s Glenn Beck show. I took me a couple sittings. What a wonderful peek into the way he (and many others) view the world they inhabit. I have to admit I think he’s brilliant at what he does. He exploits complicated issues like economics and condenses it into a conspiracy theory that’s easy to understand. I don’t think he’s smart enough to have intentionally plotted his rising influence but I think he sort of stumbled into it. The time was right and he’s certainly the man for the job. What a bizarre thing he’s helped to create.