Earlier today, Glenn put his audience on extra double high alert, warning, “You will not recognize your country by Christmas. I don't recognize my country now, but everyone will be on board by Christmas.” The stakes in Beckland haven't been this high since before last Christmas.

It all got underway -- as these things often do -- with Beck talking. Opening his radio show with not even remotely unprecedented hyperbole, Beck foretold the prophesy that, come Christmas, game over. Or game changed. Whatever. You'll know it when you see it. He already sees it.

From the May 25 edition of The Glenn Beck Program:

Yeah. Beck sees it. In fact, he sees it all the time. Every Christmas, it would seem. Flash back 8 months. It was late summer, 2009. Day care was all the rage. Indoctrination, too. And America was in deep, deep doo-doo.

From the September 29, 2009, edition of The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: As we told you last week, they are pushing day care. They are pushing day care. That way they can control the money that goes into day care, which means they can control the environment, and they can indoctrinate. This is -- this is -- you know, I said a while back at Christmas, you're not even -- now I said this a year ago Christmas -- you're not even going to recognize this country. You won't even recognize it. Well put yourself back into the place that you were last Christmas, when I said that. Do you think you would -- if I told you last Christmas that these things would happen by September that already are going on, would you say that I was a kook? Of course you would. There's even more coming. By Christmas, you will not recognize it.