America has been on pins and needles waiting to find out who Glenn Beck regards as the person who had the most impact on the world in 2013. Suffice to say that he does not agree with Time that it was Pope Francis, the Marxist, anti-capitalist, who advocates for the poor in defiance of the principles of Jesus.
Oh no. Beck has his own honoree, and it’s someone who has distinguished himself in a particularly notable manner. So, to end the suspense, here is the news you’ve been waiting for – Beck’s choice for Man of the Year: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Beck immediately lashes out at Time for selecting the leader of the world’s Catholics who has shaken up the church with pronouncements opposing trickle-down economics, and refusing to continue the church’s historical obsession with social issues like homosexuality and abortion, at the expense of ministering to those who are truly needy as their savior did. Beck is convinced that Time passed over Cruz because “they didn’t want to give him any more power. They don’t want to make him into anything. I mean they’ll put Hitler on, they did make Hitler and Mussolini the man of the year.”
There you have it. Beck wants Cruz to be recognized in the same way that Hitler was. After all, if Hitler was worthy of the honor of being on the cover of Time Magazine, then surely Cruz is worthy of the same honor. And Beck wants to make sure that the world knows that Cruz and Hitler are in the same category.
Beck also wants the world to “Remember, progressives are fascists. They are for fascism.” Of course, if that were true, then according to Beck’s own logic, they would have given Cruz the Man of the Year award, just like Hitler. The problem is that Cruz has proven himself to be an embarrassingly inept Tea Bagging blowhard. He has accomplished precisely nothing in his freshman year in the senate. Other than making frequent appearances on Fox News, the only thing that Cruz has done that anyone can recall is his fake filibuster (which was not a filibuster at all, and had a designated end time), that failed to rollback ObamaCare or achieve any other goal that he had articulated.
So Beck has compared that record of failure with the Pope’s profoundly consequential doctrinal transformations and concluded that “[Cruz] is the guy who is going to affect our life, your life, much more than anybody else.” That’s true, so long as your life is confined to Tea Party rallies, Apocalypse parties, and Ayn Rand reading groups in the basement of a WalMart on Loop 289 outside of Lubbock.
Well, Megyn Kelly just assured Fox viewers that Jesus is every bit as real as Sanata Claus, and both are white. So, the right wing has jumped the shark. May they drown.
You mean The Great and Powerful Turtle didn’t choose himself as his Man of the Year? Beckie’s Ego really allowed him to choose someone else? Amazing…
I watched that embedded video and he called progressives fascists – so I got this definition from merriam-webster.com to compare:
Philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the state, unquestioning obedience to its leader, subordination of the individual will to the state’s authority, and harsh suppression of dissent.
So he says you’re beliefs are as noted above – maybe he’s not all that far off, but even I can’t agree with all of it – much of it maybe, but certainly not all of it – actually I could connect some of that to republicanism of today sadly. I see why you hate him so much, if he wasn’t so out there, he may get some traction, Ted Cruz as his Blaze man of the year, that is a political choice only. I think Time got it right in this case, even though I’m sure most leftists are getting ahead of themselves on this guy (the pope).
You Gotta Love These People for destroying such a useless Party of Un-educated and On leave Faculties holding a GOP Card! Our Enemies are Hoping we will Stupid are selves to Death.