He really is. I'm not sure if he really believes what he says every day on his crazy tv show, but even if he doesn't he's still crazy. And because he's crazy, and because he's saying some seriously messed up stuff, he's egging on the lunatic fringe of this country into killing people. People in that fringe see their paranoid ideas on a major news network and they feel that they are validated, that everything they believe is true, and then they act on what they are hearing. And that is why this year more people have died of violent attacks here in the US than have died in Iraq.
The fact that Beck is saying that he isn't responsible for this new and interesting turn of events is insane in and of itself. Since he started really going batshit on air there has been rise in violence. Blame it on Obama, on the economy, on lots of things, but at some point Fox News is going to have to also blame themselves. They have allowed a crazy man to talk about crazy things on air. And when they saw that he was starting to break down, and they saw the effect he was having on people, they allowed him to stay on air. They chose ratings over common sense, and they are just as responsible as anyone else in this. No, they didn't hand the crazy people a gun, but they did tell the crazy people that Obama will take their guns, so they need to buy them quickly and then shoot the people coming to get them. Tell me, how that is really any different?
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Sean Hannity makes Glenn Beck look like the portrait of sanity, and Fox has allowed that psychopath to remain on the air for years now.
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I don't know, I think Beck might be worse, if only because his breakdown has been happening on air, and it is spectaular. And he cries. All the time. That ain't right!
ReplyDeletemore people died in the last 30 days from random acts of violence than died in the last 30 days in afghanistan and iraq combined. you know, where there are active wars going on.
ReplyDeletepf: I read that last week and was stunned. If that doesn't tell you something about how things are in the country you are very very blind.
ReplyDeleteOK, I've heard some new insanity from Beck, and while I stand by my assertion that Hannity is a psychopath, I must admit that Glenn Beck is certainly making a case for having a judge commit him to a psych ward.
ReplyDeleteBecause he's afraid of *dimes.*
http://www.buzzfeed.com/yacomink/glenn-beck-is-afraid-of-dimes/fascist_dime_are_not_fascist
The whole 3 minutes are just pants-on-head crazy, but around the 2:30 mark, he breaks out this mouth-frothing lunacy that we've been tra-la-la-ing down the road to fascism since a fasces appeared on the back of the dime that was minted when *Woodrow Wilson* was president - almost a decade before Mussolini introduced fascism to the world - but hey, look over there! EVIL DEMOCRATS!
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Bwahahaha! Oh man, that's just awesome! I'm reposting your comment as it's own post, because it deserves it.
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