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Glenn Beck blames bad economy on existence of central banking system
Orcinus — ... factors and personalizes the issue in the classic conspiracist paradigm. Glenn Beck wants everyone to think he's just an independent thinker -- that's his schtick, after all -- but, like Sarah Palin, he's tra-la-la-ing down the yellow brick populist road that has been traveled so many times by so many others on the right in the past. And it always leads not to an Emerald City but the witch's fortress, where flying monkeys await. Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars.]

Glenn Beck might be a populist if he knew what that meant
Crooks and Liars — Download | Play    Download | Play OK, we already knew that Glenn Beck is an ignoramus about economics. Last night, in a brief guest appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show, Beck let slip that he's an ignoramus about political ideologies. Now, we've been saying for a long time that Beck is a right-wing populist; lately, a number of other observers have reached the same conclusion. So Beck has been making special note of being called a populist, and in ...