Seeing as how the word “terrorist” has become a common part of our everyday vernacular, doesn’t it behoove us to look at the meaning of the word?
“A radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities.” – FODConsidering that an American court recently found a woman who swatted her child and then argued with a stewardess guilty of terrorism, why don’t we also condemn the fear-mongering demagoguery of people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck as “terrorism”?
Here’s a sample of terrorist Glenn Beck’s work on Faux News:
If we’re going to throw the word “terrorist” around as loosely as Bush did over the last eight years, we should at least be intellectually honest about it.Suggestion for Glenn Beck: Just rename your new Fox News show “The Apocalypse Now! Hour” and spare us the pretense. Because the looming-doom schtick is already getting beyond predictable.
Every night it’s a new conspiracy, same as the old conspiracy. (Sometimes Beck promises these stories will “make blood shoot out your eyes.” Which makes me mostly want to change the channel.) Last week, for instance, we had several episodes on Mexico’s impending collapse. Plus the socialism/communism/fascism thing…
This time, the ranting is reserved to a conspiracy theory about that new Iranian satellite and the secret meaning of its name.But Beck also wants us to delve the Biblical meaning of it all:
If I may — If you look at the extremist Muslim version of the Mahdi, and then you read the Book of Revelation, he suspiciously looks like the Anti-Christ. Seeing that he’s the one that’s running a one-world government and executing everyone that disagrees with him from Babylon — I don’t know where I’ve heard that one before.
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Before a couple months ago, I had only encountered Glen Beck a few times probably 2 years ago and each time, he seemed fairly rational. A bit to the right maybe, but not extremely so (at least not in the pieces I read). Then I saw him recently ranting about the legal decision that made the "moment of silence" in school uncontitutional and I must say, he's turned into a complete right-wing nutjob. Not only was hew spewing hate and vitriol (like an unpolished Rush Limbaugh), but he didn't even have his facts remotely straight.
I suppose it's all his newfound fame that has warped his mind. ;-)
the scary thing is that he and limbaugh and hannity ARE the mainstream republican party right now! without thinking it over, name one sane, moderate conservative thinker besides george will who has any kind of audience to rival theirs. i suspect the republicans are in for a long winter of irrelevance