He forgot to tell us who, but popular Republican radio and Fox News host Glenn Beck (KTTH m-f,6-9a) told his easily-ignited conservative fans Tuesday they should worry about commies infesting President Obama's government, not the birther nonsense he's been teasing for months.
“Who cares about the birth certificate thing? The time to do that was during the election. There are other things you should concentrate on- he’s appointing Communists!” Beck said.
Talk radio, the controlled, conservative monologue it usually is doesn't have to allow or ask itself follow-up questions, so Beck didn't.
We're dying to hear exactly who these commie rats are. We've been worried that President Obama's people were too buttoned down and from Wall Street and K Street, places where Communists are hard to come by. (Communists are darned hard to find these days, except in North Korea, Cuba, and roaming the vast plains inside the wingers' skull-plates). The right-wing public interest-mongers threw the made-up birth certificate "issue" against the proverbial wall for the rubes,hoping the most vulnerable among them would get really worked up about it. They did; it played out; and after it got away from them a little, they're backing away.
Beck is one of the self-appointed leaders of the tea-bagging McMovement. He's called the president a Moslim and a terrorist. Only a few weeks ago, he was held up for national ridicule for calling the president "a racist," who "hates white people ... white culture."
(According to TVNewser, Beck advertisers Proctor and Gamble, Lawyers.com and Progressive Insurance have all pulled their ads from Beck's show because of the Obama-hates-white-people remark).
He claims the president enjoyed the birther inanity more than anyone. “This is so great for him,” he said. “Because it immediately marginalizes anyone who says this kind of stuff. It makes them look like flat-earthers."
Beck is right about that: the political advantage is Obama's: those that bit on the birther hook are flat-earthers, and the issue further delegitimizes the right's stands on other issues. Now it's time for phase 2: The Red Menace.
(The Red Scare was a creepy time in America. We've been reading local history lately about the rancid activities of the red baiters and right-wing activists in Washington State in the 1950's. They used the same tactics as the birthers and the anti-health care reform lobby use today: disrupting local public meetings with angry fist-waving mobs stirred up by partisan (Republican) interests; and making frightening, but unspecific accusations against specific citizens. Washington may have been the so-called the "Little Soviet," but the hard right was (and is) strong and ugly here).
Beck is a demagogic ratings-whore to whom small people hearken for entertainment and political guidance. For him to name names would be expecting too much, because at long last, Glennn Beck has no sense of decency left, sir.
One thought - Why has BO appointed 21 czars to date to oversee cabinet positions in his Administration ?
They only have to be accountable to BO. This looks like a page of out of the old Soviet Union playbook.
No other recent president has done this, although FDR (who he has tried to emulate on occasion) appointed some of those in similar roles and referred to them as dictators during the '30's.
Posted by: KS | August 06, 2009 at 06:52 PM
KS, I thought that obama had appointed more like 33 czars at this point. More czars than the Romanovs had appointed in Russia over a 200 year span.
The neocommies are starting to get wet over this stuff.
Of course those Republicans that were stirring the fear over "The Red Scare" included Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson. But in fairness to BlaM, compared to the commie bastard in the White House now, Maggie and Scoop were Republicans.
Posted by: chucks | August 06, 2009 at 07:19 PM
It still sucks to be a republican.
Posted by: Coiler | August 06, 2009 at 07:43 PM
Czars? CZARS???? goddamnit, Obama must be a RUSSIAN communist! I thought he was a just a Kenyan Muslim terrorist. This IS serious.
Posted by: MIKE not Michael | August 06, 2009 at 07:45 PM
OMG - another birther...
Posted by: KS | August 06, 2009 at 10:04 PM
It sucks more to be a progressive.
Posted by: KS | August 06, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Great post! Communists can be found easily by the billion in China. A country on the move buying factories left and right to displace freedom loving American workers with their near endless supply of 19 to 24 yr old women. Working real well for communist China these days. How can you tell who supports communism in America? Go to Walmart and see who's buying.
Posted by: thothman | August 06, 2009 at 11:46 PM
payday loans: much like Obama's 'stimulus package.' Jessica you have come to the right spot.
Posted by: woody held | August 07, 2009 at 01:05 AM
Hey, KS... if you know any Russian history, you might be aware that the Soviet Union was notable for its ABSENCE of czars. That was kinda the point of the Revolution -- get rid of the czars. Which I guess makes Obama a Russian royalist.
So, in your mind, is anything at all Russian automatically Communist? Those Matryoshka dolls? (Tiny concealed fellow travelers inside!) The works of Tolstoy? (Long-winded, articulate, complicated, ACADEMIC!) Tchaikovsky? (Soft, emotional, unmanly, probably GAY!!) The balalaika? (Wikipedia sez "An important part of balalaika technique is the use of the left thumb." Aha -- the LEFT thumb!!) Borscht? (Red!!!!!)
Hmm. I guess you've convinced me: Russia was Communist even before Karl Marx was born.
Posted by: jvwalt | August 07, 2009 at 05:30 AM
Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingram, Gibson, etc. et al need to be rounded up and sent to Gitmo to entertain the troops.
Posted by: Duffman | August 07, 2009 at 05:30 AM
Duffy, You say that in jest but maybe the time will be here soon that we may need to be concerned about re-education camps.
With the White House official snitch line, how can anybody be sure.
Posted by: chucks | August 07, 2009 at 06:17 AM
Great Hillary moment: When asked about John Bolton's reaction (whining) to her husband's successful mission to N.Korea, she said,"If Obama walked on water, Bolton'd say he couldn't swim."
Posted by: sparky | August 07, 2009 at 08:50 AM
Love it! :)
Posted by: Duffman | August 07, 2009 at 09:01 AM
jvwalt - you being the expert on Russian history - could you produce some documentation on what the role of czars in Russia was ?
BTW - Karl Marx was born before the last of the czars.
I realize thet they came to be prior to the Bolshevik Revolution. Czars may not have been officially Commies, but they were high on the totalitarian scale.
The original point was that Obama has selected a number of unelected czars to oversee cabinet positions only accountable to him and another expansion of government moving toward totalitarian.
Posted by: KS | August 07, 2009 at 12:22 PM
You sound like Col. Flagg on MASH
Posted by: Coiler | August 07, 2009 at 01:06 PM
I never could get it straight....was Col. Flagg CIA, CIS or CID?
Posted by: Bill | August 07, 2009 at 01:14 PM
I think he was CID, as a psyops attached to CIA
Posted by: Coiler | August 07, 2009 at 01:41 PM
If Blam keeps giving Glenn Beck prominent coverage, Beck will be morally obligated to write Blam a check as an advertising fee.
Posted by: mrogi | August 07, 2009 at 03:14 PM
Sounding like a CID psyops beats being a psycho progressive poster on the blogs.
Posted by: KS | August 07, 2009 at 08:11 PM
Check this out. Barry O and his Chicago style thugocracy in acttion - draw your own conclusions. Beck, in spite of his Howard Beel approach and dramatic antics seems to be resonating well and attracting more attention on this blog than Dori and Bill O recently.
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dont-want-the-folks-who-created-the-mess-to-do-a-lot-of-talking/
Posted by: KS | August 07, 2009 at 08:28 PM
"Chicago style"... does that mean you were assaulted by brass knuckles or is it a race thing?
Posted by: Coiler | August 07, 2009 at 08:49 PM
What a deal; show up & disrupt 3 meetings and you will be issued your own BROWN SHIRT. Show up at 5 meetings and drown out all debate and receive THE SILVER SWASTICA & a check from the medical lobby.
Posted by: saintrudy | August 07, 2009 at 08:59 PM
"What a deal; show up & disrupt 3 meetings and you will be issued your own BROWN SHIRT. Show up at 5 meetings and drown out all debate and receive THE SILVER SWASTICA & a check from the medical lobby."
Another flippant response from a Neo-com. You say you want a revolution ??
Posted by: KS | August 08, 2009 at 08:58 AM
"Mistah Speakah....I have in my hand the names of 57 Communists infiltrating our government at the highset level!"
He's McCarthy, Johnny Iselin and Howard Beal all rolled into one.
Geeez, what an ultra-maroon!
Posted by: Bill | August 08, 2009 at 04:42 PM
Medicare is a form of “socialized healthcare. These poor, frightened people scream against socialized healthcare at the same time they scream “don’t take away my Medicare.” The non-sequiturs are overwhelming.
Posted by: DougJ | August 08, 2009 at 06:07 PM
Wow, what is this Neo-com sick and tired of.
Posted by: nevets | August 08, 2009 at 08:30 PM
The main thing that is the most infuriating and criminal is that these asshats in Congress don't bother having them or their staff read and brief them on what is in this crucial bill.
I'll remember this and others should also when the 2010 elections come around.
Posted by: KS | August 08, 2009 at 11:08 PM