Rupert Murdoch’s pet paranoidal pea-brain, Glenn Beck, has been a persistent purveyor of fear for years. He has predicted the most dire catastrophes for America, its economy, its values, and its people. The stench of doom that surrounds him is debilitating even in small doses.
On his program yesterday, Beck leveled an accusation that President Obama, or someone on his staff, had threatened Sen. Ben Nelson with the closing of a military base in Benson’s state, Nebraska. The only evidence of such a threat was a posting by a former McCain spokesman with an anonymous source on the conservative Weekly Standard web site. But Beck has blown this unreliable, unverified, rumor up into a serious allegation that crossed over into territory into which even he can’t believe he is going:
“The Obama administration is possibly – and I can’t bring myself to say these words because it is abhorrent if it is true but it sure fits the pattern. They’re playing politics with the national security of the United States.”
Despite insisting that he couldn’t say the abhorrent words, he managed to summon up the resolve to say them in the very next sentence. And with those words he came within a hair’s breadth of declaring President Obama a traitor – several times.
“There’s a story at the bottom of the hour that if it is true, and we have three sources on it now, if it is true. I mean how much closer do you get to treason?“
“But his party reportedly very angry and allegedly making threats. This one borders treason, I believe.”
“Threatening to weaken our national security defenses to fulfill your Utopian social justice agenda. To me that borders on treason.“
Beck has a lot of nerve accusing other people of treason. There are numerous examples of him making statements that are hard to interpret as anything less than treasonous. He agreed with his guest Michael Scheuer, that…
“… the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.”
And he declared his own enmity of America in a discussion that speculated about civil war:
“And don’t get me wrong. I am against the government, and I think that they have just been horrible, and I do think they are betraying the principles of our founders every day they’re in office.”
During yesterday’s program, Beck dispensed his usual legal disclaimer that he may not have all the information necessary to draw a conclusion. He conceded that all parties involved, the White House and Sen. Nelson, have denied the allegation, which they did emphatically. Yet, just as he did with his floating of the FEMA prison camp nonsense, Beck went just far enough to introduce the heinous charges, then allowed them to simmer while his conspiracy-addled audience sucked in the fumes of malicious hearsay. But even that wasn’t enough as Beck explicitly characterized these rumors as fact:
“It doesn’t matter if it’s credible or not that they could do it. The fact that they threatened it – it is our national security.”
The truth is that the whole scenario is not credible and they couldn’t do it. The procedure for base closings takes years and was designed specifically to disallow political influence. Both the White House and Sen. Nelson would be aware of this. Therefore, the only purpose for advancing a vile and improbable lie like this one is to slander the President. Beck is deliberately seeking to cast the nation’s leader as a traitor, which could lead to removing him from office and imprisoning or even executing him. And since these charges are wholly unsupported, Beck’s intentions would be tantamount to assassination. This, if true, would make Beck a traitor. Is Glenn Beck guilty of treason? Well, to paraphrase him…
“No one wants to believe that the
president of the United Stateshost of a TV program or any of his advisors would stoop to these kinds of tactics. But what are we supposed to believe here?”
Exactly! What are we supposed to believe? I’m not accusing Beck of anything. I’m just asking questions. Beck knows that he can reach me here at this web site to respond to or correct any misinformation. To date he has not done so. That leads me to conclude that all of this is true. Why else wouldn’t he contact me?
Beck is a Patriot! Finally, someone with the courage to stand up and speak the real truth that BOTH parties are selling us out!
I didn’t vote for Obama because I suspected he was a Socialist at heart, although he never really spells out his vision for America. And, most of the media let him get away with it. After less than one year in office is increasing clear that what we have empowered is a bunch of would-be central planners that would like to manage us all like animals in a zoo.
Socialsim is Slavery. But that’s where he wants to take us. I find it really ironic that our first black president wants to lead us all into slavery.
Wow. You’ve really chewed on Beck bone too long. And you apparently have no idea what socialism is.
Neither do! Can’t you get through the concept of nationalization? In a socialist state the government controls all national assests and properties! And of course, why not use all technological equipment to enhance the “prosperity” of a country? I mean, its not like what the people think matters! (I’m getting sick writing this!)
Not sick enough, because you keep coming back.
And since the government doesn’t control all national assets, and doesn’t propose to, your whole argument is moot.
And you know, if everything on this website is true, if Beck has really commited treason, doesn’t the government have the “authority” to arrest him? Aren’t there laws, maybe even standards, to prevent this “lunatic” from lying to America? Has he been silenced, as you think he should be (because you fear the truth)? No, he hasn’t. Why not then?
I see you watched Beck’s show today. Like a good BeckPod you regurgitate almost verbatim.
To answer your (and Beck’s) question, of course there are no laws to prevent that lunatic from lying. Have you ever heard of the First Amendment? And I have never advocated silencing him – just rebutting his lies with the truth.
I think it’s hilarious that you believe that the fact that he keeps spewing his crap is evidence that it’s true. What a friggin zombie.
JG,
People like Mark are scared of people like Glenn Beck. They are scared because Mark and his ilk have nothing to offer society, and Beck points it out. They can’t argue with ideas, that’s why they use rhetoric…
Look at the following – obviously from an intellectual – all words from this blogtard…
paranoidal
pea-brained
heinous
conspiracy-addled audience
malicious hearsay
vile
slander
Mark, Go back to your KGB Handler for some new material, …. Or, just get a real job and work harder – millions of people on welfare depend on you!
I sincerely apologize for using “rhetoric” that is too complex for wingnuts and Tea Baggers to grasp. That was very elitist of me. We intellectuals are so inconsiderate.
For someone so eager to criticize me for not arguing with ideas, you didn’t bother to rebut a single point I made.
And it was very astute of you to notice how consumed with fear I am over Beck. You can almost feel my keyboard shaking, can’t you? You’re right. I am afraid of Beck. I’m afraid he will poison the minds of more gullible and ill-informed people who will act out as a result of being terrorized by Beck’s delusional horror stories. But other than that, I think he’s hoot.