If you thought that Glenn Beck was nuts when he had a daily program on Fox News, get a load of him now that he’s been unleashed on his own web site that he thinks is a TV network.
Last night Bill O’Reilly hosted Beck to hear his ruminations on the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Beck began his tale spinning by asserting that this is the start of a global revolution orchestrated by those two internationally powerful provocateurs, Code Pink and a union of service employees (SEIU). These monolithic enterprises, according to Beck, are funding the omnipresent Working Family Party to perform some unexplained treachery aimed at “collapsing the system.”
For his part, O’Reilly is upset that MSNBC is “promoting” the movement, perhaps with the consent of Comcast, the new corporate parent of NBC. Surprisingly, O’Reilly was never the least bit upset at Fox News for promoting the Tea Party, even to the extent of branding their rallies as Fox events and sending their anchors across the country to serve as MCs.
In response to O’Reilly’s inquiry as to “the George Soros factor,” Beck advanced the discredited assertion that Soros money was funneled to the movement through one of Beck’s favorite instigators of evil:
“George Soros is connected to this through the Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation, his Open Society, and Code Pink are involved in what is called the Wall Street Journal…Occupied Wall Street Journal. And it is a full color newspaper. You know what it costs to print a newspaper. Huge money.”
Actually, newspapers are one of the least expensive publications to print. And Beck’s assertion that the Occupied Wall Street Journal is a project of Soros and Code Pink is hysterical and, of course, false. It is well known that the satirical newspaper was produced by pranksters, The Yes Men, and funded by donations. But it is probably asking too much to expect Beck to present arguments based on facts.
In summation Beck illuminates his theory that the Occupy movement is growing like a tree with two branches: a Marxist, revolutionary, angry branch, and a more peaceful, Tea Party like branch that will be run by Van Jones. Then this mutant tree will somehow produce chaos and violence in the streets. And don’t forget that “the President knows everything that is going on, he knows everyone that is involved.” So the conspiracy is almost complete. Now all Beck needs to do is unify this theory with his global caliphate of Muslims and western progressives and we’ll have the makings of his long promised Perfect Storm.