9/12.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Today is the day Glenn Beck is rallying assorted teabaggers, Larouchies, and miscellaneous malcontents in Washington DC to protest against the President and the imaginary horrors he will soon unleash upon us. To mark this special day, I'll post (again) this Colbert bit from earlier in the year on the Beck 9/12 project-

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PS- Before the comments get going, I'll just say that people like Glenn Beck don't make me angry. They get off on that. It's performance art, like a male Ann Coulter. If he believes more than half of what he says, I'd be very shocked. It's theatre, people.

Comments

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

As the other guy said, the 9/11 Truthers are crazy but they don't have a national platform. You don't see any prominent liberal media types advancing the claim that Bush knew about 9/11. Even Van Jones didn't have a pulpit to scream his beliefs from and his beliefs were not as extreme as many of the Truthers, he simply wanted an investigation into whether the government did everything it could, not whether they knew exactly what would happen and let it go. Also, there are plenty of Truthers on the right-wing as well as the left-wing.

Are you suggesting that O'Reilly and Beck don't actually believe what they say?

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

i think a fair character assessment of o'reilly is that he believes most of it, but he'll say something he knows is a lie if it keeps him or his ideology from looking bad

like once a year he'll actually be all aggressive towards a conservative guest out of nowhere, as though it enhances his credibility and he can keep pretending to be "independent"

beck is trickier, since he's an adult who converted to mormonism after he got drunk and fell down some stairs (BUT MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED!!!!!), so naturally he decided god had spared his life and had a divine purpose for him. everything about his writing and personality suggest he's about as dumb as he claims ("i'm a workin' stiff college is evil blar blar blar"), and i'm pretty sure he buys into the "common sense" logic that pervades the propaganda wing of the right (which usually takes the form of "IF GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL THEN WHY IS IT COLD?!?!?!?!? *smugface*)