Timely post, synching nicely with my own ruminations on Beck-drivel. Of course, what Glenn doesn't bother to mention in his weepy fulminations is fascism's obsessive preoccupation with violent social Darwinism -- a preoccupation bubbling just below the surface of the wingnuts' grab-a-gun-and-man-the-barricades bloviating.

According to historian Robert Paxton fascism is:

a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

Hmm. I hadn't considered this angle; I was thinking of the less outwardly violent but no less benign form being practiced here in South Carolina by our monochromatic, proto-libertarian governor and his tea-bagging minions. But no matter. If the shoe fits, Glenn, wear it -- no matter how bad it smells.

You needed proof?

Beck, O'Reilly, Maddow, Olbermann, etc, are all there to sell commercial airtime for their respective TV networks.

Each one of them wants to make a living and the size of their personal income is directly proportional to the size of the audience viewing their tabloid TV.

Glenn Beck is just nuts with his comparison of progressives to Nazi's. I can't stand listening to his whiny voice. He is an angry nutcase and he shouldn't be on the air.

I was just watching Glenn Beck and realized that he is such a moron. This guy is so far out there that I think he really belives some of the crap that comes out of his mouth. He is a FEAR MONGER.
People need to realize this guy is never right about anything he comments on. I dont know who is worse Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity....

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the Flag and carrying the Cross."
--Sinclair Lewis

Now which "side" does that sound more like? The fault, Glenn, is not in the stars but in yourself.

While Beck is an idiot who couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were written on the bottom of the heel he may be the epitome of the blind pig finding an acorn.

Wiki: Palmer Raids

Labor and political tensions were already high before the beginning of World War I, with government repression of radical left-wing political groups beginning even before American entry into the war. But after a series of labor conflicts and violence - including bomb attacks of court buildings, police stations, churches, and homes of government officials attributed by the authorities to violent immigrant anarchist groups - the Department of Justice and its small Bureau of Investigation (BOI) (predecessor to the FBI) had begun to track their activities with the approval of President Woodrow Wilson.
In 1916, Wilson warned of:
"Hyphenated Americans (who) have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy must be crushed out."

On June 15, 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act. The law set punishments for actions interpreted as acts of interference in foreign policy and espionage - including many activities that would be seen by contemporary standards as dissent, such as the publication of magazines critical of the government. The act authorized stiff fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who obstructed the military draft or encouraged "disloyalty" against the U.S. government. After two anarchist radicals, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, continued to advocate against conscription, Goldman's offices at Mother Earth were thoroughly searched, and volumes of files and detailed subscription lists from Mother Earth, along with Berkman's journal The Blast, were seized. As a Justice Department news release reported:
A wagon load of anarchist records and propaganda material was seized, and included in the lot is what is believed to be a complete registry of anarchy's friends in the United States. A splendidly kept card index was found, which the Federal agents believe will greatly simplify their task of identifying persons mentioned in the various record books and papers. The subscription lists of Mother Earth and The Blast, which contained around 10,000 names, were also seized.

Luckily Wilson was committed to the principle of democracy. Because that was about the only thing that prevented America under the likes of Attorney General Palmer and starting in 1919 J. Edgar Hoover from crossing the bounds to what would be known as Fascism

In 1919, J. Edgar Hoover was put in charge of a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division. By October 1919, Hoover's division had collected 150,000 names in a rapidly expanding index. Using this information, starting on November 7, 1919, BOI agents, together with local police, orchestrated a series of well-publicized and violent raids against suspected "radicals" and foreigners, using the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. Palmer and his agents were accused of using torture and other illegal methods of obtaining intelligence, including informers and wiretaps

Beck's "acorn" is a poison pill.

Because while he may rightly recognize a movement of fascist-style political corruption to our country in the 20th Century, he fails to point out it is his own political heroes of the right, not "The Left", who picked up that power-mongering infection.

It is the right wingers who and have been driven by that power-hunger infection to create unspoken, government-protected monopolies that far outstrip the kinds of "trusts" Roosevelt broke up a century ago in their pernicious prevention of healthy competition.

(Think "industrial hemp, for one obvious example.)

Beck may have stumbled onto an acorn, but he's become a blind, babbling, blubbering tool of those who are most guilty of the ideological sins he seems so concerned with.

Please take a look at C-SPAN when they are broadcasting the House of Representatives session. When the camera is showing the Speakers podium take a look at the symbols on the wall behind the podium. There are 2 HUGE "fasces" on either side and they have been there as long as I can remember.
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I was just watching Glenn Beck and realized that he is such a moron. This guy is so far out there that I think he really belives some of the crap that comes out of his mouth. He is a FEAR MONGER.Thanks
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Please take a look at C-SPAN when they are broadcasting the House of Representatives session. When the camera is showing the Speakers podium take a look at the symbols on the wall behind the podium. There are 2 HUGE "fasces" on either side and they have been there as long as I can remember.
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I'll bet a $100 that Beck has not a single clue about the particulars of the political events on each side of WWI, but that doesn't mean there weren't some rotten acorns lying around at the time. Thank you
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Please take a look at C-SPAN when they are broadcasting the House of Representatives session. When the camera is showing the Speakers podium take a look at the symbols on the wall behind the podium. There are 2 HUGE "fasces" on either side and they have been there as long as I can remember.
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I was just watching Glenn Beck and realized that he is such a moron. This guy is so far out there that I think he really belives some of the crap that comes out of his mouth. He is a FEAR MONGER.Thanks
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