Well, we waited all week for it. Glenn Beck had promised that, after going through “chalkboards full of questions,” he would tell us the solutions to the vexing crisis in Egypt – a crisis he revealed could lead to Muslim domination of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. (Note: Apparently South America will be spared, so you may want to brush up on your Spanish).
Beck waited until Friday to disclose his solutions, presumably to build up his faltering ratings. He has lost 40% of his audience in the past year. Unlike Beck, I won’t make you wait to learn what brilliant plans he has for the troubled region. Here is his introduction to the solutions that he and his guests presented:
Beck: We spent an hour here trying to talk about what is happening in Egypt, and we haven’t – and we’ll get into this more next week – but we haven’t talked about a solution yet. Real quick, off the top of your head, Because I don’t think we agree on a solution…your solution to what is happening in Egypt now.
Wait a minute. After building up to this for a week he wants a solution off the top of his “expert” guest’s head? And they don’t even agree on it? This better be good.
Joel Rosenberg: Well, two things for me. First the political side. The President needs to not go with the Muslim Brotherhood. He cannot play with gasoline in front of an open flame. Because if he allows…if he encourages the Islamacists to take over, this is a worst case scenario.
That’s not really a solution. It’s just a couple of things that he advises against doing. And they are things that the President is already not doing. He doesn’t suggest any action that he would affirmatively recommend, although he later says something about a spiritual plan. Perhaps he hopes to convert all the Muslims to Christianity. Next…
Zhudi Jassar: I think the solution is to come back to American principles so that we’re consistent, and we say what we mean, and we mean what we say about freedom and humanitarianism, and what we are, and to defend those entities in the Middle East. And to stand by them. And to have a long term strategy, Glenn, to start to transform the Middle East. This is the first step.
That should do it. Mean what we say and be who we are. The State Department should call this guy right away. How come Hillary Clinton didn’t think of that? At least he went on to advocate that the Muslim Brotherhood should be permitted to be legal and that their rights should not be suppressed, even while we oppose them. Next…
Damon Vickers: For solutions, we have to start walking our own talk. We need to be the change that we want to see in the world. We need to transform our own hearts, and our own minds, and be living examples in a country that is able to project the right ideals and the right values that will influence the world.
This is a profound expansion of the previous expert’s analysis. In addition to meaning what we say, we should walk our talk as well. Where have these geniuses been hiding? And what could be a more effective method of influencing Egyptian revolutionaries than offering ourselves as shining examples for them to follow. I’m sure that’s all they have been waiting for.
So far we have solutions that span the intellectual gamut from platitude to slogan. But next we have the foreign policy guru himself. The man who thinks that Bill Ayers and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are in cahoots; who likens English students angry about higher tuition fees to Egyptians fed up with three decades of dictatorship; who fears a coming insurrection inspired by a French pamphlet no one has ever heard of, much less read. Make me proud, Glenn…
Beck: I will tell you, I honestly don’t know…If I were president of the United States, I think…I wouldn’t want the Muslim Brotherhood in. I think I would just let it play out, and then just…just let it play out. And then just pull my money and support and do what you say. Go in and…ah…and…ah…make sure you’re speaking out against it. But I don’t think we have any credibility in the world anymore. Because we don’t have values and principles anymore.
You don’t know? After making us wait all week you don’t know? After berating President Obama for five days your advice is to “just let it play out?” Doing nothing? And after that continue to do nothing but speak out against it? Against what? And how can you call yourself a patriotic American if you think our country has no credibility, values, or principles?
Beck summed up his “solution” by advising his viewers to store food and find alternative sources of energy. I’m not sure what that has to do with Egypt, but it probably made his survivalist advertisers happy. He also came out in favor of rebuilding our communities. But not with community organizing. He must have some secret method of disorganized, chaotic community rebuilding he is saving for his next book. I can hardly wait for that.
Beck also said that “We can’t change the past, but we can change the future.”
Really? How exactly do we change something that hasn’t happened yet?
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Assuming that that’s Joel C. Rosenberg who is being quoted, Beck finally found a bigger crackpot than himself. I have an old lecture of his on tape where he claims that the USSR is going to invade Israel. Obviously just the man to be telling us what’s going to happen in the Middle East!
I watched some of his schtick this week and was confused. He admits that he is just a “rodeo clown” and if you believe anything he says “your an idiot.” So why did he seem so serious and loud and conspiritorial and talk as if this is the end of humanity and the world is burning and “the left” is behind all of it? Who is he talking too? The people he calls “idiots” if they believe what he is screaming about?
I deliberately tried to make that as “rambling” as I could so any rightwing Beck koolaid drinkers will be able to decode it much easier.
If Lying to you, the “idiots,” about the oposition party is entertainment, then why is he so serious and insane when preaching to his congregation? Sam Kinnison, at least, made his audience laugh there heads off.
Honestly, it’s impossible to tell who is the bigger ignoramus; Beck, Bachmann, or Palin. Their mothers must have starved them of the nutrients required for brain development when they were infants. More surprising still is how such stupid people rise to such positions of prominence. Says an awful lot about the state of intelligence in this country.
Glenn Beck is and always was a complete idiot. You’d have to be less than a half educated idiot to believe anything this fool says. This closet homosexual never went to college and never knew anything about World History, American History, World Religions or the US Constitution. He is simply a mocking bird for the twisted views of the John Birch Society and people need to wake up to the fact that Glenn Beck is just another uneducated charlatan who does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity. He is definitely not a conservative. In short, he is just another opinion pusher which is why he blends in so well with the bigots on Fox News Network. This self important racist climbed in bed with Satan a very long time ago as lies, half truths, fear and hate are his only products that he has for sale and he is making big money off of impressionable fools who love being told what to think. Glenn Beck is simply a product of mormon cult theology that he mixes with cherry picked parts of Catholicism, New Age Religions and his personal core as a washed up, dry alcoholic. This makes Glenn Beck one very screwed up moron who sold his soul to the lowest common denominator of personal stupidity. Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them who think they are conservative are all guilty of perverting truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths. They are all idiots who live in and speak to some alternate reality of stupid red necks that feed off of fear & hate mongering while being fed a steady dose of extreme right wing lies.