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Shakesville —
Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media: And let's drop the idea -- pushed hard by Beck himself -- that he's simply a modern-day Howard Beale, from the classic film Network, just an angry, I'm-mad-as-hell everyman lashing out at the hypocrisies of our time. Nonsense. Beale's unvarnished on-air rants from Network targeted conformity, corporate conglomerates, and the propaganda power of television. ("This tube," he called it.) Beale's attacks were not political or partisan. Beck, by contrast, unleashes his anger against, and ...
Remainders: Whitaker in Washington
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Boehlert on Beck; 'rise of militia media.'
FixCNBC campaign headed to Wall Street.
WH reporters not surprised by Iraq trip.
But the rest of the WH press gets stuck in Istanbul.
Rosenthal doesn't think Merken op-ed needed disclosure.
Whitaker says there should be more women WH correspondents.
And how'd the first "Ed Show" go?
Poplawski's neo-Nazi activism included posting Glenn Beck video, but media talk about dog pee
Orcinus —
... dispute. An account kept on Stormfront, a gathering place for racial extremists and others from the far-right show Mr. Poplawski's increasing belief in a coming economic and political collapse in the days leading up to the time of the deadly standoff in which he is charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers. The ADL report also delves his love of Alex Jones' conspiracy theories. Roddy has more details on this today. Boehlert observes that this is the same Alex Jones who's been prominently featured on Fox News lately. ...
O'Reilly and Beck know why evil liberal bloggers criticize their fearmongering: it's jealousy
Orcinus —
-- by Dave Bill O'Reilly is unhappy that evil liberal bloggers are connecting the hateful, violent, and paranoid rhetoric coming from the likes of himself and Glenn Beck to actual incidents of violence. So he and Beck sat down to talk about it last night. And of course, much unintentional hilarity ensued: O'Reilly: As you may know, the Factor and the Glenn Beck Program are enjoying huge ratings. ... On the flip side, CNN and NBC, their cable ...
Glenn Beck No Howard Beale
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
This point is worth recalling: let's drop the idea -- pushed hard by Beck himself -- that he's
simply a modern-day Howard Beale, from the classic film Network, just
an angry, I'm-mad-as-hell everyman lashing out at the hypocrisies of
our time. Nonsense. Beale's unvarnished on-air rants from Network
targeted conformity, corporate conglomerates, and the propaganda power
of television. ("This tube," he called it.) Beale's attacks were not
political or partisan. Beck, by contrast, unleashes his anger against,
and whips up dark scenarios about, the new ...
Jeffrey Feldman: Conspiracy Theory Conservatism
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The shift to conspiracy theory Conservatism is not hard to spot, even if a ready description has only just begun to rise through the din of the 24/7 news chatter. ...
Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off the birther story
The Hollywood Liberal —
... . It’s hard to see how Dobbs’ career survives the humiliation. Of course, it’s always dangerous when hateful and cuckoo conspiracy theories are ushered into the mainstream and right-wing critics are given a platform to peddle their hateful whodunits about Obama’s nationality the way Dobbs did. But, in this case, I almost think it was worth running that risk in order to watch the tidal wave of media disapproval that Dobbs’ fearmongering unleashed. Because in retrospect, the birthers, who had spent months lurking on the sidelines, needed to be called out on national TV; they ...
