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Adapted from Blue Moose Democrat. Earlier this week, I accused Glenn Beck of lying about what his critics say about him - of putting words in their mouth while ignoring their true criticisms. His new book is more proof of that. In it, Beck pretends to teach his audience how to "argue with idiots." These idiots are allegedly representative of progressives, only they say things that no liberal ever says, giving the reader a false impression of half the country's populace. From Media Matters: In , Beck is engaged in an ongoing argument with "the idiot," who comes armed with some truly idiotic statements, such as, "They may not be perfect, but France is doing socialism right -- we should be more like them," and, "Private schools aren't beholden to unions, but they should be closed because they're only for the rich." Beck fearlessly tears down these strawmen throughout the 300-page book.
In addition to lying about his critics and ginning up dangerous anger against forces that do not exist, Beck's new book asserts that Teddy Roosevelt is a bigger "bastard" than Pol Pot, and that Keith Olbermann is worse than Adolf Hitler. The biggest bastard of all, however, is Woodrow Wilson - because apparently if you dare to give women the right to vote, win a world war you didn't start, create National Parks, win a Nobel Peace Prize, stop powerful men from making money by exploiting the powerless (which brings someone else to mind), or simply express political opinions different than Beck's, than you have done more to harm creation than if you used "slave labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions" to kill an entire 21% of your country's population.
In his chapter titled "U.S. Presidents: A Steady Progression of Progressives," Beck treats us to his list of the "Top Ten Bastards of All Time." The occupants of that list, in ascending order, are Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe, Teddy Roosevelt, Bernie Madoff, Adolf Hitler, Keith Olbermann, Pontius Pilate, FDR, Tiger Woods, and Woodrow Wilson. That's right, in Beck's book, mass slaughter of millions of innocents makes you a less reprehensible person than the presidents who won both World Wars for the United States... In Beck's world, any progressive is an enemy, and any enemy is progressive.
Speaking of slave labor, it may even appear that Beck thinks American slavery was a good thing. The book asserts that the Constitutional tariffs on slaves were "a price tag on coming to this country," and that we should impose that fee on modern immigrants to show that we take pride in our country. (This particular point comes as no surprise given that Beck's literary hero, Cleon Skousen, was a man who called blacks "pickaninnies" and asserted that salves "in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains.")
Glenn Beck does not love America, Glenn Beck loves Glenn Beck. He does not love his neighbors who were created in God's own image; he wants to remake them in Glenn Beck's own image. His book, like his TV show, has some legitimate and talented humor, which is too bad. His entertaining showmanship only helps to mask his lies, arrogance, and narrow-minded hatred for over half of America's ever-changing population. He does not truly cherish the "republic" he claims to love so very much; he loves only an imagined Aryan paradise brimming over with his beloved "white culture." To Glenn Beck, that is the true "republic," and anyone who would dare be less than perfect in it is the worst form of animal imaginable.
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