Not that Glenn Beck is calling progressives communists

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.