It seems to be getting worse, something I would not have thought possible-RG.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Electio...nd-a-caliphate
By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / February 12, 2011
Caliph: A successor of Muhammad as temporal and spiritual head of Islam.
Caliphate: What Glenn Beck warns could take over much of the western world.
It’s not a “conspiracy,” Glenn Beck says, but just a group of “like-minded” organizations and individuals – from the Muslim Brotherhood to the AFL-CIO (with assorted other fellow travelers in a "red-green alliance") – working together to “overthrow and overturn stability.” And he has the charts, graphs, and a map to prove it.
If such protests become "contagious," he warns, they will "sweep the Middle East" then "begin to destabilize Europe and the rest of the world."
Beck’s latest theory about where the freedom revolution in Egypt is headed may resonate with his hard-core followers. But it has some conservatives wondering if he’s gone off the deep end.
William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and a regular Fox News commentator, welcomes the debate among conservatives over the political revolution in Egypt.
“It’s a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice,” he wrote recently.
“But hysteria is not a sign of health,” he continued. “When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.”
In the conservative National Review, editor Rich Lowry called Kristol’s comments “a well-deserved shot at Glenn Beck’s latest wild theorizing.”
On PBS’s Newshour Friday night, New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks contrasted Beck’s “delusional ravings about the caliphate coming back” with “the conservative establishment, which saw [the end of the Mubarak regime in Egypt] as a fulfillment of Ronald Reagan's democracy dream.”
“For the first time, you began to see a lot of really serious conservatives taking on Beck and people like that, and saying, you know, your theories are just wacky,” Brooks said.
Beck, whose signature image is being outraged at the left (tinged with conspiracy theories), apparently has decided to push his brand ever farther. Do his ratings have anything to do with that?
From January 2010 to last month, the number of his viewers dropped 39 percent – the steepest decline of any cable news show.
“It's entirely possible viewers are simply tiring of the chalkboard and the high rhetoric, which has been notably higher of late,” Business Insider reported earlier this month. “And needless to say Beck is not the phenom he was a year ago, merely by dint of the country becoming more familiar with him.”
Meanwhile, some 300 advertisers have asked not to be on his show – a trend that began when Beck called President Obama a “racist.”
As is typically his style, Beck doesn’t address the arguments of his opponents but goes after them personally.
"People like Bill Kristol ... I don't think they stand for anything anymore," says Beck. "All they stand for is power. They'll do anything to keep their little fiefdom together, and they'll do anything to keep the Republican power entrenched."
And in his latest monologue about “the new world order,” Beck had this to say about his critics: “You want to call me crazy? Go to . Call me crazy all you want."
All of this has become great fun for others in the commentariat.
“Of course, the conspiracy goes deeper than Beck has yet revealed,” writes Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic. “I'm hoping that, in coming days, if the Freemasons, working in concert with Hezbollah and the Washington Redskins, don't succeed in suppressing the truth, that Beck will reveal the iden ies of the most pernicious players in this grotesque campaign to subvert our way of life.”
“I can't reveal too much here,” Goldberg writes. “But I think it's fair to say that Beck will be paying a lot of attention in the coming weeks to the das ly, pro-caliphate work of Joy Behar; the makers of Little Debbie snack cakes; the 1980s hair band Def Leppard; Omar Sharif; and the Automobile Association of America. And remember, you read it here first.”
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I wonder if Beck is aiming to pick up a breakfast cereal endorsement gig.
If a nutbar falls in a forest, does it make a sound?
It does if anyone bothers to listen, I guess.
I don't understand the fascination with Beck. I don't listen to him, read him, or even devote .025 sec/day to thinking about him. Is he so relevant that even the csmonitor runs articles about him?
Difficult to resolve.
300M Americans statistically has room for a few million locked-and-loaded, NRA gun fetishist mentally disturbed assholes stocked up at the local greedy gun dealers an/or private sellers.
Here's some less BecKKK gunners threatening an old lady:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-bec...-from-viewers/
Fox Repug Network knows exactly what it's doing, and how many $Ms it's pocketing from corps that buy ads on BecKKKs show.
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Glenn Beck's mission is to keep repug voters focus (albeit a confused focus) on rejecting anything liberal or democrat.
you mean keep their eyes on stupid.
Beck? Oh yes, the entertainer.
I remember Beck on am radio when he wasn't this one sided polarizing... wtf happened to him.
This. The fools are those that think he's anything else.
Why are you guys obsessing over Beck?
Ding!
Exactly. That probably explains the nature of the guys particular brand of crazy.
He is laughing all the way to the bank.
Although given that what he is saying is making him radioactive to sponsors, I wonder if he will dial it back a smidge.
or if he is aiming to get out of his Fox contract and take his act solo.
It is amusing to do so.
That and I think it says a lot about what passes for the right wing in this country that no small percentage seem to take his word for gospel.
Along with Rush and pitbull , he is the unchallengeable spokesman and though dictator for tea baggers and Repugs.
They also typify how the right wing has been and continues to draw public discourse into the gutter.
Sorry you believe that. He makes good points, but as gospel...
Wow...
Again, sorry you believe that.
If you cannot challenge him, then maybe he's right quite a bit of the times...
Something to think about.
However, I don't understand your obsession with him. He's only one voice of many, and his rants don't compare with the likes of many liberal voices out there.
Do we conservatives obsess over any of the liberals?
Fell sorry for you man.
You are a delusional idiot.
You should stop speaking into the mirror.
You're right. He's way more insane.and his rants don't compare with the likes of many liberal voices out there.
But fortunately his ratings are tanking. Apparently his audience isn't as dumb as he and his bosses think they are.
Words fail me.
These words will come back to haunt you.
It didn't take long to find at least one of his points that you now have to own up to.
Is this a "good point"?
Glenn Beck Mocks Pres. Obama's Daughter
Your schtick is tired, played-out, garbage, cobra. Garbage. I'm sorry, everytime someone starts a thread about one of your beloved right-wing hate mongers you don't get to scream the word obsessed over and over and draw comparisons with fictional, made-up figures from the left who simply do not exist in an even remotely comparable form.
You constantly [try to] manipulate the cause of tossed out threads as 'obsession' and scream like a loon about how much worse the left is. Which is odd as the left doesn't even have televised/AM Radio media figures they vigorously defend and subscribe to like gospel, like you and the ilk; sorry, for us, Maher and Olbermann are an afterthought, at best. We prefer the facts on the ground rather than hateful, money hoarding, media mouthpieces.
There is no basis in reality for your highly defensive, make-believe, bull , ramblings. You are a deusional idiot.
this is all you need to know about wild coma.
Beck makes the rest of the Fox newsroom look sane and reasonable. Maybe that's why they pay him the big bucks to jackass it up.
So hoping you're right about this.
The way Beck continues to make money despite a 39% drop in ratings from this time last year and the abandonment of several hundred advertisers who refuse to be viewed on his show, is that the ads he does run, appeal to the most fleece-able, lowest common denominator of society.
He makes a lot of money from/for claim settlement companies, gold investment firms, online payday lenders, commemorative coin makers and the insufferable like. Luckily for him, and Fox, his audience is ass re ed enough to keep him in business.
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