Although I do listen to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s radio program on occasions and have at times perused a story or two on his Infowars.com website, I have done so with reluctance and trepidation.
Although Jones has amassed quite a following, which includes some conservative-minded, right-thinking patriots, I think many of the patriots would share my reservations had they witnessed his badgering of conservative blogger Michelle Malkin in front of the Denver Mint during the 2008 Democrat National Convention.
Malkin was taking pictures and reporting on a protest stunt held by the leftist group “Recreate 68 who were there to “levitate” the Mint and shake out its money. The group was paying homage to the anti-war demonstrators who tried to levitate the Pentagon in 1967 during the Vietnam conflict.
Of course the combined effort of anti-capitalists’ energies, magic wands, and wizardry failed to levitate the Mint, but the show wasn’t over. Jones and a handful of 9/11 Truthers spotted Malkin in the crowd of reporters and began heckling her, as bystanders shouted “Kill Michelle Malkin!”
“Desperate to salvage the fizzled demonstration, 9/11 nutball Alex Jones started barking at me and attempting to make a scene and incite a riot. I should have brought my spit shield. Ick. Jim Hoft was there, along with my friends from Pajamas Media, and provided volunteer bodyguard services (thanks, guys)” Michelle Malkin
Shouting orders not let Malkin leave, Jones and a band of protesters followed the diminutive woman and the gaggle of reporters for a number of blocks harassing her and calling her names.
Jones should be ashamed; grown men don’t treat ladies like that. Whether he likes it or not, Malkin’s entitled to her opinion. His intimidation tactics, immaturity, and inability to behave in public prove the new media curator’s aligned more with left-wing radicals than with right-wing conservatives.
Jones’s maniacal antics not only discredit him as a source of credible information, but they also damage the reputation of anyone who might use or cite him as a source.
The purpose of the “Glenn Beck Show” is entertainment, and the joke’s on those who take Glenn Beck seriously.
According to a 2010 USA feature story, “Don’t judge Beck by his cover,” Beck is not a registered Republican. In fact he accuses Ronald Reagan of selling out the American people.
Although Beck masquerades as a grass roots champion of conservative values and libertarian dissent, he’s a showman and a “rodeo clown,” a Mormon entertainer who satirizes politics and criticizes society.
Like, Bufo Bill O’Reilly, his brother from another mother, Beck uses populist rhetoric and watered-down patriotism to attract patriots and evangelical Christians to his program.
He sells books and subscriptions for his internet TV program, and he promotes his internet news site “The Blaze” for ad revenues.
Sadly, too many patriots and evangelicals have deluded themselves into believing that Beck is a kindred spirit with an elaborate strategy for saving America.
The truth is Beck is a product of an intellectually-challenged generation of gutless political illiterates who are desperate for someone to lead them and tell them what to think.
He’s not a patriot or an intellectual; in fact, he’s not even a “self-made man.” Beck is famous because of his powerful connections in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was LDS members who dried him out, resurrected his career, and set him up as a superstar in the conservative movement.
American patriots and evangelicals have not only made this Mormon a personal fortune, but they’ve also helped him grow the cult and promote a false gospel.
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God only knows if right-thinking people will stop being intellectually lazy and begin to think for themselves instead of listening to Glenn Beck for what to think.
People who love America don’t put money ahead of their country and hire Democrats who support the progressive agenda, no matter how competent. Yet Beck surrounds himself with leftist Democrats.
Leftist Democrat Liz Julis is the editor of Beck’s Fusion magazine; Betsy Morgan, former CEO of the Huffington Post, former Hillary Rodham Clinton fundraiser, and former CBS News employee, runs his website, The Blaze, and Matt Hiltzik, Democrat power player who helped elect Hillary Rodham Clinton to the U.S. Senate, is Beck’s personal publicist.
After Obama was elected in 2008, Beck told CBS News’ Katie Kouric that a McCain presidency would have been worse for the country.
To which Mark Levin responded, “McCain is no conservative … but to say that he would be worse than a president who’s a Marxist … is mindless.”
Not only did the right-wing values-crusader say that the Democrat Obama was better for the nation than the Republican McCain, he has routinely disparaged Republicans and the country’s two-party system, which served only to undermine the Republican Party and aid the Democrat Party.
It’s an irony almost too mind-boggling to comprehend to think that someone who surrounds himself with leftist Democrats, thinks George Clooney is “a good, honest man,” and believes that people cause global warming has made millions off patriotic evangelicals and conservatives who desperately want to preserve their republic.
Glenn Beck reminds me of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, the persuasive con artist from Elia Kazan’s 1957 film A Face in the Crowd.
Rhodes’ “every man” shtick and populist message bring him fame and fortune. His sagebrush wisdom and colloquial charm connect with rural Americans, whom he secretly despises.
“This whole country’s just like my flock of sheep! … Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers – everybody that’s got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. … They’re mine! I own ’em! They think like I do. Only they’re even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for ’em.” Lonesome Rhodes
Beloved and idolized by his fans, Rhodes becomes a scheming, manipulating megalomaniac who uses people and discards them in his climb to the top.
His meteoric rise from jailbird to TV star, to political king-maker reveals the public’s gullibility for demagogic media personalities.
Like Rhodes, Beck’s patriotic spiel and carney barker routine have resonated among O’Reilly’s folks and many Christians. But in truth Beck’s crew cut, wide eyes, and cherubic smile are a guise for the duplicitous chameleon whose political viewpoints change with the direction of the political winds.
“I have no idea what philosophy Glenn Beck is promoting. And neither does he. It’s incoherent. One day it’s populist, the next it’s libertarian bordering on anarchy, next it’s conservative but not really…” Mark Levin
Beck’s an entertainer; he’s a shock jock/stand-up comedian who uses news, issues, and hysterics as bread and circuses for the folks. He comes across as being so patriotic that many Americans ignore the red flags and applaud him for anything he says and everything he does.
It’s sad that so many patriots have not yet realized that the operative word in the phrase “The Glenn Beck Show” is “show.”
Glenn Beck is a duplicitous assclown who portrays himself as a courageous patriot championing the country’s founding principles. But Beck’s not the only flag waving scoundrel picking the bones of America’s Founders.
Both Bufo Bill O’Reilly and Ma-hedonist Rushie Limbaugh have equated themselves to American folk hero Paul Revere, who participated in the Boston Tea Party and alerted the Lexington Minutemen of the British invasion.
Neither O’Reilly nor Limbaugh have exhibited anything that comes close to the courage, valor, and bravery displayed by Revere to warrant the comparison. Yet, patriotic Americans will stand in line for hours just to hear them speak or to get their autograph.
During one his shows on Fox, Beck – who is a Mormon – demonstrated what he claimed were similarities between ancient American Indian earthen structures and the Egyptian pyramids.
He claimed that the Bat Creek stone, which was found in an Indian burial mound in Tennessee in 1889, was in fact a Hebrew artifact.
Beck didn’t tell his audience upfront that the authors, scientists, and teachers he cited on his program were Mormons. He presented Mormon theology as “historical fact,” and accused historians and scholars of rewriting American history and engaging in a cover up.
Beck never mentioned that mainstream archeologists, with no ax to grind, have thoroughly debunked Mormon claims that Hebrew artifacts have been found in American Indian burial sites.
The Mormon Church teaches that American Indians are descendants of a lost tribe of Israel even though there’s not a shred of evidence that the civilization Joseph Smith wrote about ever existed in North America.
Major media know that Beck can do more harm than good to the conservative cause. They promote little-known personalities like Glenn Beck to national prominence in order to distract Americans from ever finding another effective, articulate spokesman for conservatism like Ronald Reagan.
Adding insult to injury, Beck stated that the belief in Manifest Destiny (a 19th century belief that Americans were destined to expand their political, social, and economic influence over North America) resulted from an American conspiracy to hide the story of an ancient North American Indian culture.
The Heartlanders claim that the Book of Mormon records events that took place in the northeastern United States. The Heartlanders say that Hebrew descendants lived in North America but not Central America, and in the “documentary” they twist the words of archaeologist and anthropologists to justify their beliefs.
But Beck did not disclose the connection to the Mormon legend because the make up of his audience is not Mormon and could care less what “evidences” a Mormon group has for believing the Book of Mormon is a literal historical record of real people and places.
In a December 29, 2010, response to the program published in the Columbus Dispatch, archaeologist Bradley Lepper of the Ohio Historical Society wrote:
“The Lost Civilizations of North America DVD can be ignored since it misrepresents reputable interpretations of Midwest archaeological data—except, perhaps, by those interested in the persistence of pseudoarcheological claims about the cultures and peoples of North America before European colonization.
It is unfortunate that Glenn Beck did not use his forum to emphasize the true charge that Manifest Destiny propaganda fed the racist denigration of America’s past and its ethnic citizens.”
The bottom line is Glenn Beck used deceit and lies to proselytize his Mormon beliefs in an attempt to evangelize an unsuspecting audience.
He presented Mormon legend, Mormon revisionist history, and Mormon propaganda as historical fact; then he stated the reason people don’t know their history is that there’s been a vast American conspiracy to keep it hidden.
Beck is a liar and a hypocrite. He tells his audience to check out what he’s saying, knowing full well that he hasn’t done so himself. Yet he claims that he has to purposely deceive his listeners.
Beck is far worse than just a distraction. He’s a real danger to patriots and tea-party members who are trying to remove Democrat statists and neoconservative Republicans from power to reestablish Constitutional principles and the rule of law and set America right.
It’s heartbreaking that so many Americans ignorantly assume that he’s well read, knows Republican politics, and is good for the nation.
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