“Rupert Murdoch keeps me on air because I have proof that progressives want to control every aspect of your life. Progressives work in the cover of darkness and manipulation. They are using regulation to seize control.”
That’s the clearly deranged Glenn Beck from America’s top-rating Fox Network, a network owned by the same man who controls 70 percent of the Australian print media and who is gradually introducing the same unhinged, crazy partisanship to our media.
Notice Beck’s line about “the progressives are hiding the true nature of the debt”. And the constant railing against “elites” trying to screw the ordinary working people. It is positively Orwellian and would be funny but for the fact that millions take this stuff seriously…
2 Comments
Anonymous · September 24, 2010 at 12:00 AM
what a wingnut! Conservative rhetoric dominates the airwaves of the electronic media, currying all the influence that engenders, yet here he is suggesting the progressives have the upper hand. Paranoid.
I guess if you're paid to say thousands of words on the air per week the mouth is going to get ahead of the mental processes from time to time. But as gaffes go this is an entertaining one for sure!
Anonymous · September 24, 2010 at 7:35 AM
I wish you weren't right.