Not that Glenn Beck is calling progressives communists
January 05, 2010 9:20 pm ET by Jeremy Holden
Mounting a fact-challenged defense against his being named Media Matters' Misinformer of the Year, Glenn Beck claimed during the January 4 edition of his Fox News show that former White House adviser Van Jones was the "only person, by the way, we have ever accused of being a communist." One day later, Beck explained how the progressive movement used secret language to hide its plans to collapse the system, instead using words like "transformation" and "social justice." Beck went on to describe the secret language of progressives:
BECK: What I would call socialist or communist, they'll call just social justice or progressive. That is critical to understand, because it really is what helps these people sleep at night, and what's allowing them to get away with it.
Among the secret initiatives Beck identified from progressives' 100-year campaign were the United Nations, the teaching of case law, income taxes, and the Federal Reserve system. Not that Beck called any of those things communist.
Regular viewers of Beck's show might recall his glorious debut on Fox News just about one year ago. His first broadcast was preceded by commercials in which Beck breathlessly lamented a national discourse that devolved into ad hominem attacks such as "those donkeys trying to turn us into communist Russia." I think Beck's record speaks for itself.
Dumb...and typical of someone who ain't too bright, but thinks he is.
and typical of someone who knows he has a dominant place in the media and can get away with blatant lies and flip-flops on practically a daily basis.
--------
January 25, 2008 6:14 pm ET
SUMMARY: Glenn Beck asserted that Hillary Clinton is "a liberal fascist ... who wants to redistribute the wealth in this country the way she believes is good for everybody," adding that her desire "to get back to the appropriate balance of power between government and the market ... sounds like the Soviet Union," and that "Comrade Clinton has railed against the excesses of the offensive executive pay packages and an out of whack tax code that favors the wealthy while holding down the middle class." Beck also said of John Edwards: "Now, put a red star on his furry head. He's a communist."
http://mediamatters.org/research/200801250012
And in the case above, Beck didn't even wait until the next day. On the very same show he implied that Obama, and others, were communists because they preferred Marx to Madison.
As Beck pointed out in last night's broadcast, lets have a real discussion based on facts. Instead of trying to disprove what he actually says about Van Jones, Obama, and his administration, all you do is call him names and try to point out contradictions by taking his words out of context.
Who really cares if he called them communists or not. Maybe he did and maybe he didn't. Lets try to stick to the real topics that he brings up. Let me hear your defense of Van Jones.
What? There's nothing inherantly wrong or evil about socialism or communism so why should it cost anyone any sleep?