Must read: the incomparable Jimmy Breslin on Glenn Beck

[hlthe2b]

Remember, Jimmy Breslin is not just one of the best writers/journalists of his very long-lived generation, but he was there when Bobby Kennedy was shot and was one of those who wrestled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground. So, he knows of what he speaks in this article. Please go to Harper's and read the whole thing. It is worth it. http://harpers.org/archive/2010/09/hbc-90007573

(H/T to Americablog who cited this sample writing of Breslin's: "The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.") ;)

Here's some snippets:

Jimmy Breslin on the National Mood

There are these sudden loud noises in the hotel kitchen, one, two, three, probably a tray falling, and then there is so much screaming and a hand holding a gun high in the air and Robert Kennedy, who had walked into the gun, is on the floor with his eyes seeing nothing. On this June night in 1968 he has just won a Presidential primary and suddenly he is fit only for a gravedigger’s dirt.
--snip--
And now in New York they are turning an empty lot of the old World Trade Center and a mosque that isn’t built and probably never will be, into national fear. Omaha fights the mosque in Manhattan! Some foamer named Jones says he burns the Koran, and he actually is treated as news. All day on television yesterday you had the aimless babbles of this Beck, who looks like he eats Bibles.

They all come with the double barrels of a Low IQ and High Color Fear let loose on cable stations and e-mail, of which yesterday you read in disbelief.

(read the rest at the link)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Superb!! " double barrels of a Low IQ "

[Warren Stupidity]

2. I didn't know Breslin was still kicking. k&r

[hlthe2b]

3. Actually, I had to google too...

He's circa 1929 or so.... ;)

[lunatica]

4. I'm glad people are speaking out about Beck and his ilk

It reminds me that there are intelligent people in this Country.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. they are still here...

the idiots just have louder voices.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Good read...

I forgot Rosey Grier was there

[ThomCat]

7. "many could barely wait for September 11th,"

"when they can act as owners of the place where the World Trade Center stood. Look around; they say they are victims but they appear to be just another mob trying to take us apart."

Ain't that the truth.

They all claim to own 9/11, all those people who weren't there, and don't know anyone who was there. All these people who lost NOTHING!
:grr:

And for what! So they can gain everything, and shove their batshit worldview down our throats. :(