WATCH: Glenn Beck warned against Glenn Beck's red-baiting
June 28, 2010 10:33 am ET by Ben Dimiero
Last Thursday, Glenn Beck devoted an entire show to red-baiting and trying to rehabilitate what he deemed the unfairly tarnished historical legacy of Joseph McCarthy. During the show, Beck and his guest, author M. Stanton Evans, agreed that McCarthy was "telling the truth." Beck went on to explain that progressives "mutate" communism's "evil" so that it "goes undercover." He claimed that "Marxism is alive and well" and "thriving here in the United States."
Beck also claimed that "three years ago," he would have "made fun of people like" himself for devoting a show to the threat of communism. However, far more recently than three years ago, Beck was mocking the idea of conservatives who always play the "communist" card.
During the promo for his then-upcoming Fox News show that ran on the network last January, Beck decried conservatives who say things like "Oh, those donkeys trying to turn us into communist Russia." He then yelled, "Stop!"
As we detailed at the time, this plea was disingenuous, as Beck had already labeled Obama a "Marxist" and criticized "Comrade Clinton." Indeed, Beck wasted no time in exposing himself as a hypocrite, spending the first several weeks of his show smearing President Obama, Democrats, and their policies as communist, Marxist, socialist, and fascist.
But based on how much farther he's tumbled down the red-baiting rabbit hole since then, it's possible that even the hypocritical Glenn Beck of January 2009 would want June 2010 Glenn Beck to "Stop!"
I wrote your quote without Spell-Checking, if you've read any of mine i have no Grounds.
Glenn Beck, The Rodeo Clown? or how about Cro-Magnon? I think i prefer the Missing Link?
I base this partly on his Facial Expressions & that he actually believes his Behind don't Stink.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
I distinctly remember one night when he did a show about the phony 1963 "Goals of Communism" and how they had all come true.
This was about three years ago. He was as full of sh!t then as he is now.
Doesn't apply.
For them to have a short attention span, you'd first have to prove that they have a brain...and I don't think we want to go there.
In fairness, conservatives spend some of their time eating and sleeping.
Rule #2: See Rule #1.
Examples:
MONTANABORN (on Pelosi)
[i]Amnesia? Hardly...She is pure evil....How do you get rid of something like that? I'm afraid that putting a bullet through her head would make no difference. History tells us we burn witches.[i]
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Dago Red
MSNBC is Chris Mathews just saying: "Me Sucking Negro's Big C*ck."
Friday, May 01, 2009 at 04:33 PM
Robert J.
It's assumed that you must have a brain to actually have amnesia and the stupid b*tch Pelosi has shown that there's nothing between her ears but air. What a worthless individual.
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 08:29 PM
Well, it's clear that these posters are far from civil. Anyone notice how O'Reilly has stopped attacking netroots bloggers and posters since the site launched? I certainly did.
What a lying freakin' putz!
And as a side note. I ran up to the school where I teach today and our HISTORY TEACHER has a Palin/Beck 2012 sticker on her brand new vehicle!!!!!!! I like her but I can't believe that a history teacher can be that boneheaded! It scares me that someone that believes the BS Beck and Palin spew is teaching children about history. But what she doesn't know, is that any democrat/liberal/progressive in the country would LOVE it if Palin and Beck ran in 2012. We could run a monkey and a pig against them and still win by a landslide!!!