Let's pause and give thanks to Glenn Beck. No, seriously--because that's what he's due. We owe this talk-show-host-turned-political-leader gratitude for using his televised keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference to so frankly outline what the conservative movement has become--and why it repulses so [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Come on David, go back and read your own stuff. It appears to me you’re going OTT far more lately.
Check this: “Beck is deliberately employing coded and menacing language…”
and this: “What is the difference between Beck
This is no drill!
I often ask myself why Americans don’t use the “F” word when describing the rhetoric and actions of Right-wing demogagues? I’m not referring to the word “FU*K”, but the word FASCIST! An answer was provided me within the first comment left here, for if the writer “whattheheck” reflects the Progressive mind and feels David Sirota is going too far, then I think Mr Sirota and I have more to fear from Progressives than Glenn Beck.
It is Progressives who block the light from revealing the true character of the Far Right, as they block themselves from admitting the quiescent and submissive character of President Obama. They will gladly walk into cattle cars if the guard is ethnic, politically correct and wearing a “Dem” badge.
Mr Sirota, if you read this, know that some feel as you. In fact, this writer has been warning of it for years. When it arrives, we can blame both the Conservatives AND the Progressives who enabled them!
If Mr Sirota is too extreme for readers in his dire interpretation of a future envisaged by the Right, I will outdistance him and suggest that able-bodied Americans who have health and resources available to leave the country (while they still can).
After 62 years of living in America, I see there is no resistance to the obvious, due in part to the total bankruptcy of the Left.
Unless organized resistance in the name of “anti-Fascism” erupts (and there is no such sign on the horizon), the Liberal and Progressive will awake to a new day and wonder what occurred while they were sleeping.
As I said: This is no drill!
The problem with Beck and others of his ilk is that there are those here in this Country that take his message to heart.
And believe me, most of them wouldn’t know a hidden meaning if it slapped them in the face.
I live in East Texas and while these folks ain’t exactly ‘Deliverance’ types, they ain’t that far from ‘em.
Jesus Christ could come down, perform 5 miracles in front of them, and tell them that they are wrong ... and, with a deep sigh, they’d say, That damn Liberal Media done got to you too.
If all folks still had common sense, Beck and the rest would find no market for their tirades.
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