Beck still linking Tides Foundation to his Weather Underground conspiracy theory

Yeah, I was 10 in 1970, the whole dynamite and Molotov cocktail thing sure put me off. I was pretty much a hippy (boy, were my parents annoyed) but I was never, ever in favor of violence.

The whole Weather Underground movement was tiny. Beck is trying to drag in the younger folks who don't know the history of the radical peace movement. The Weather Underground got press, but that's all it got. A simple Google will tell you more than you want to know about it.

People WERE interested in getting high . . . but that did tend to inhibit performance.

Beck is so full of bull he could drive a cattle car.

As a former hippie who lived for a brief period in commune in a geodesic dome made of car tops, conflating the Weather Underground with hippies is so absurd it could only come from a nutcase like Glenn Beck. That guy is on a really BAD trip every day of the week, where's Wavy Gravy when we need him?

Hippies were a large non-group (visualize a herd of cats) of very mellow and peaceful people who were opposed to violence and into living in a blissful state of being by any means available. I met and still know quite a few hippies who have gone on to very productive careers with the same ethos. We mostly do red wine, but some prefer Guinness.

The Weather Underground was a very small group of nihilists that was bent on destruction for the sake of destruction. I met a couple wannabe WU in my day and they were total poseurs and losers. I don't know anybody who supported them, and I knew quite a few guys just back from 'Nam who had the kind of skills the WU tried to recruit. The WU were the clueless al Qaeda of the era without the religion, who dressed and looked like hippies as deception and camouflage, but were the antithesis of hippies. They literally burned out on violence.

What's really amusing, however, is that as others have noted only people age 70+ would have any fear of hippies because they were too old to tune in, turn on and drop out. They are the relics of the "Silent Majority" (sic) of the Nixon era circa 1968.

This suggests we'll eventually get Beck's conflation of Shirley Sherrod and the Symbionese Liberation Army. Perhaps he's already done it?

Freaking culture war stuff. Only FauxNoise would have an audience that would watch this BS and think it's real.

I was around then too, I was in my twenties. I went to anti-war demonstrations and talked to a lot of people. I've never met one single person, not one, who sympathized with the Weather Underground or with their tactics.

In fact, if it hadn't been for the news reports about them, no one would have known who they were. And even with the news reports, few if any, knew anything about them. I can't remember anyone even mentioning their name.

Beck is pulling these scary organizations out of his rectum and waving them around for his fan base to see and fear.

I was around then too, I was in my twenties. I went to anti-war demonstrations and talked to a lot of people. I've never met one single person, not one, who sympathized with the Weather Underground or with their tactics.

In fact, if it hadn't been for the news reports about them, no one would have known who they were. And even with the news reports, few if any, knew anything about them. I can't remember anyone even mentioning their name.

Beck is pulling these scary organizations out of his rectum and waving them around for his fan base to see and fear.

Everybody knows that the Weather Underground has it's beginnings with that famous Radical , Woodrow Wilson....Jeez.