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Glenn Beck channels X-Files

March 16, 2009 2:38 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

Jeffrey Feldman at HuffPost notes that Beck's latest bout of on-air insanity, in which the talks about how FEMA under the Obama administration may be building concentration camps in order to take totalitarian rule of the country, appears to be lifted directly from the The X-Files movie.

Maybe that's why even Fox News anchors can't stop mocking Beck.

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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (March 16, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
         
      Where was beck between January 2001 and January 2009 when the Bush administration actually did build camps, intern people without charges or access to lawyers, and engage in extraordinary rendition -- the process of spiriting people to unknown foreign detention facilities so they could be tortured (or worse)? Oh, yeah -- Beck SUPPORTED those actions when it was a Republican doing them. Now that a Democrat is in office and NOT doing those things, Beck sees nothing but Nazism -- up is down, down is up, white is black, black is white.

      Hypocrisy isn't a strong enough word to describe Beck's inanity. I'm calling it BDS for Beck Derangement Syndrome. In short, he's just nuts.
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    • Author by magnolialover (March 16, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
         
      Beck, more and more, is showing hot indeed crazy that he is. I mean, detention camps really? Seriously? Totalitarian rule of the country? Really Beck? Really?

      See, thing is Mr. Beck, is that he doesn't need to build camps. He does have control of the country already, as in, he runs the White House. He has a majority of democrats in Congress and so on. I haven't heard of anything like martial law being declared and all, or you know, the rule of law being lifted and all.

      Beck, if someone hasn't told you already, you are a freakin' loon. You're nuts. Get a grip man. Get a grip.
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    • Author by harley (March 16, 2009 5:44 pm ET)
         

       

      Becky really is one spooky character.   I think he's moments away from a Nicholson like "You can't handle the truth"-style meltdown.  

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    • Author by Roxie (March 16, 2009 5:46 pm ET)
         
      I love it when Limbaugh, Savage, esp. Beck get going on the concentration camps stuff, calling our new president a Nazi. It shows the American public just what a bunch of numbnuts they are as well as how devoid they are of any rational thought.
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