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Frum vs Fox
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The Glenn Beck insanity strikes a chord:
The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon Skousen’s Five Thousand Year Leap. Skousen, who died in 2006, is one of the legendary cranks of the conservative world, a John Bircher, a grand fantasist of theories about secret conspiracies between capitalists and communists to impose a one-world government under the control of David Rockefeller.
There’s always been a market for this junk of course. Once that market was reached via mimeographed ...
The Naked Conspiracist
Hit & Run —
David Frum offers a reductionist explanation for Glenn Beck's bursts of political paranoia: Conspiracy theories always flourish during economic downturns. They flourished during the terrible slump of the 1890s (when they captured even so fine a mind as Henry Adams) and again in the 1930s. I suppose that's true. But they also flourish during economic upturns. Since Frum is specifically attacking Beck for spreading tales of FEMA concentration camps, it's worth noting that the very same fears were previously popular on the left during the booming ...
uggabugga — David Frum asks: WHAT IS GOING ON AT FOX NEWS?Good question. (He is particulary annoyed at Glenn Beck). ...
Tuesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... will be the U.S. ambassador to Ireland. * David Frum can't believe the nonsense his fellow conservatives are putting on the air at Fox News. I can't say I blame him; if I were conservative, I'd feel embarrassed and frustrated, too. * Good for David Shuster for ...
Glenn Beck might be a populist if he knew what that meant
Crooks and Liars —
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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 ...
New wingnut paradigm?
Balloon Juice —
... Glenn Beck and friends may be about to change all of this. David Frum (not my favorite, I’ll admit) has an excellent run-down on how Glenn Beck has taken wingnuttia in a new direction: ...
The big three come out for AIG bonuses
Balloon Juice —
... their money. Why should I trust the treasury. Why should I trust the Fed. I know I can’t trust Washington and congress and the White House. I haven’t been able to trust them for years.” Why should you trust the contract that you have with your boss? Why should the unions be able to trust their contract?
By the way, is everyone as excited about Glenn Beck as I am? I don’t just mean the 9.12 stuff, I’m talking about stuff like this:
The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each ...
Weekly Wrap: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Fired Up! Missouri —
... David Frum, one of Dubya's top aides, wants to know "the hell is going on at Fox News." (I think we've all been wondering about that for some time now.) ...
Krauthammer's not yet diagnosing 'ODS'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... and Beck -- but other conservatives have recently questioned what they consider to be simply vitriolic, and unhelpful, attacks on Obama. ...
About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2
Little Green Footballs —
David Frum asks “What is going on at Fox News?”
The whole column makes good points (and Beck has already savaged Frum for it, of course), but let’s focus on one section:
The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon Skousen’s Five Thousand Year Leap. Skousen, who died in 2006, is one of the legendary cranks of the conservative world, a John Bircher, a grand fantasist of theories about secret conspiracies between capitalists and communists to ...
