Sunday, November 22, 2009

Greg Stillson's Glenn Beck's


Date With Destiny

From the NYT:

Glenn Beck Stakes Out a More Activist Role in Politics
By BRIAN STELTER

Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action.

To do so, Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. In an interview, he said he would promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of seven conventions across the country featuring what he described as libertarian speakers.

On Saturday he held a festive campaign-style rally in The Villages in Florida, north of Orlando, in which he promoted his recently released book, “Arguing With Idiots,” and announced another book to come next August filled with right-leaning policy proposals gathered from the conventions.
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In describing the conventions, he told the crowd on Saturday: “You’re going to learn about finance. You’re going to learn about community organizing. You’re going to learn everything we need to know if you want to be a politician.”

His staff would not say whether particular candidates for office in the 2010 midterm elections would be invited to speak at the conventions or the August rally.

As for the question of Mr. Beck’s intentions, “He might just be trying to sell books, but there are much simpler ways to sell books,” said Ari Rabin-Havt, a vice president at Media Matters, the liberal media monitoring group. He said Mr. Beck sounded more like a presidential candidate than a pundit.

Catch an average, semi-literate "Conservative" Beck fan out in the cold light, brandish one or ten or a hundred of Beck's million racist, liquidationist, of just plain fucking de-ranged public remarks in their face and they'll smirk and shrug and swear on the life of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. that Beck ir harmless. That he's just an "entertainer".

That it's all just fun and games.

Of course back home, jerking off under an Army blanket to a rerun of their favorite Beckian rant

while they whimper "Mister Preeeeesident" into their commemorative "Fair and Balanced" needlepoint throw pillow, it's quite a different story.

A very old and very ugly story.

Glenn Beck is as pure a product of News Corp as Big Bird or Elmo is a product of The Jim Henson Company; Rupert Murdoch's own fascist stalking horse Lil' Lonesome Rhodes

Crying Baby Doll.

One of Hate Media's gibbering, raging band of veal crate-raised rough beasts.

Slouching relentlessly towards Washington and Destiny.

6 comments:

pwapvt said...

In awe at your work again.

One of Hate Media's gibbering, raging band of veal crate-raised rough beasts.

Slouching relentlessly towards Washington and Destiny.

Cirze said...

Oh, Dg.

If only we could crate your kind up and run them on our media conglomerate, huh?

But, there again, no.

We have integrity.

A quality which has served us so well that many of us are now marching in quick step to the poor house as the Becks of the world accept their just due(s).

Thanks for being one of the few lucid voices still afloat.

S

blackdaug said...

If this were a movie, the end would come with Beck melting down in some screeching crying Bealian rant... and everyone would turn away in disgust.....
But then...he does that every night...and all the orcs can do is clamor for more....

libhom said...

Beck is part of why I don't patronize any of Rupert Murdoch's media properties. I don't want to do anything to support that fascist propaganda empire.

Distributorcap said...

Palin/Beck in '12!
yeah Murika...

if beck can drag in more dollars for the cretan pee-smelling Rupert Murdoch, trust me, he will fund his election to anything

Montag said...

Ah, well, Blech's understanding of history is so incomplete and distorted that I wouldn't expect him to remember that crying in public pretty much ended Ed Muskie's chances of becoming President in 1972.

In politics, rather than on a FauxSnooze studio set, crying in public is seen as an indicator of emotional instability.

So, when Blech ditches the tears and the histrionics, we'll know he's running... for something.