The Beck Bank Bailout: Glenn Beck Championed the Wall Street Bailout He Now Criticizes

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The Beck Bank Bailout: Glenn Beck Championed the Wall Street Bailout He Now Criticizes
by: David Sirota
Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 15:38
I wrote a newspaper column this week noting the rank hypocrisy in political and media circles when it comes to their supposed concerns about the deficit. I noted that Tea Party protesters are among the biggest hypocrites - and chief among them is political terrorist Glenn Beck, because, as you'll see, the truth is the bailout is the Beck Bank Bailout.

As Frank Rich notes, Beck has been promoting himself not only as a racist culture warrior, but as an economic populist who rails on government giveaways to Wall Street. In that sense, he's sort of trying to be a neo-Buchananite...except, there's just one problem with his economic argument: Glenn Beck championed the Wall Street bailout he claims to be leading the fight against. In fact, when progressives were fighting tooth and nail against the bailout (and taking significant criticism for doing so) Beck was promoting it, offering criticism only for it not being bigger:

***** "I think the bailout is the right thing do. The "REAL STORY" is the $700 billion that you're hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it." - Glenn Beck, CNN, 9/22/08

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-beck-bank-bailout-gle_b_293789.html

[Eric J in MN]

1. The link is going to a different article. NT

NT

[MrScorpio]

2. Talking out of both sides of his mouth

Glenn Beck is not only an idiot, he's a hypocrite as well

[11 Bravo]

3. In my experience I've found that crazy people are seldom consistent.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Caught a couple minutes of Beck today--He basically claimed Obama was

a communist.

[Selatius]

5. Beck is only consistent in that he panders.

He was being the banksters' bitch last year, and now that the banksters got what they wanted, he is now free to pander to the far right wing elements in the US population.

[ihavenobias]

6. This story is even better when you put it together with *this* quote...

"I am so mad about this proposed federal bailout of Wall Street, I can't see straight. Do you understand what they're going to do? They are about to steal ONE TRILLION dollars from us and just hand it over to the guys on Wall Street who screwed everything up. They are going to take all of their bad loans and dump it on us. We're going to have pay for their mistakes!"

Cenk Uygur, Huffington Post, 9/19/2008

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/this-federal-bailout-prop_b_127837.html