Bill Kristol on Glenn Beck: He's Marginalizing Himself

Glenn has cranked up the crazy to new levels this week. I sure wish he would quit calling himself a Libertarian or Conservative, since people assume real Libertarian Conservatives are remotely like Glenn. Even Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard calls Glenn out on his paranoia and conspiracy theories this week.

Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end. And it's a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice.

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He's marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it's a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.

from Stand for Freedom by William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

The Glenn Beck Review: Beck's anti-Semitism addressed by Jonathon Schell

The Glenn Beck Review: Beck's anti-Semitism addressed by Jonathon Schell: "Home Disclaimer Contents For Glenn Beck Share This URL The following article, 'An Now: Anti-Semitism' by Jonathan Schell, is being repr..."

Glenn Beck's 2 AM Letter to Sarah Palin ...

Hey, Glenn, I know. You ARE doing more harm.

“I wrote Sarah Palin a letter last night about 2 in the morning,” Beck said on his radio show in September. “And I said: ‘Sarah, I don’t know if I’m doing more harm or more good. I don’t know anymore.’ ” - Being Glenn Beck NY Times article

Glenn Beck for the bailout before he was against it ...

"The "REAL STORY" is the $700 billion that you`re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it." ---Glenn Beck 9/22/2008

Glenn Beck starting a “100 Year Plan”… WTF?

Glenn Beck Unveils his "I am Fucking Crazy" plan for America and his Book Sales

Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"

Glenn Beck's talking up some scary plan for 2010 lately. It's scary because Glenn Beck is talking. And today, Glenn Beck unveiled his 100-year plot to fundamentally change America—and democracy—as we know it. Glenn Beck is fucking insane.

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Glenn Beck living vicariously thru Doug Hoffman ... Unconceeds

Doug Hoffman Blames ACORN for Stealing Election

The Conservative Party candidate who conceded a closely-watched upstate New York House race has formally repudiated that concession in a statement that suggests community-organizing group ACORN stole the election for his Democratic opponent.

Doug Hoffman first suggested he was "unconceding" earlier this week on Glenn Beck's radio show.

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