Why Glenn Beck Keeps Peddling Whack-Job Fantasies About Euthanizing Grandma, Outlawing Christmas and

[Donnachaidh]

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Why Glenn Beck Keeps Peddling Whack-Job Fantasies About Euthanizing Grandma, Outlawing Christmas and Turning Junior into a Raging Homosexual

Wolraich's 'Blowing Smoke' exposes the frightening and darkly humorous path of Glenn Beck's rise to fame and the absurd tactics he uses to garner his loyal audience.

The following is an excerpt from Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies About the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual by Michael Wolraich. Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2010

The Progressive Hunter: Glenn Beck and His Chalkboard Save Real America from Murderous Czars, Black Radicals, and Other People Who Aren’t from Iowa



The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.—H. L. Mencken

In December 2004, when Bill O’Reilly was warning the nation that dark forces were threatening to destroy Christmas, Glenn Beck was touring local performance venues across the country on a “politically incorrect comedic romp” called the Real American Christmas Tour. His show satirized the secularization of Christmas with songs like “Happy RamaHanuKwanzMas.”

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[eleny]

1. Well, he's got to dehumanize us or make us so eeeee-vil that they can eliminate us

Justifications - every single adjective.