{"id":1376,"date":"2009-08-25T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2009-08-25T17:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T00:56:44","slug":"i-have-here-in-my-hand-a-list-of-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"I Have Here In My Hand A List Of Names…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On day two of Glenn Beck’s week long special “The New Republic,”<\/i> Beck extends his diatribe against the Obama czars. On the first day<\/a> he focused extensively on Van Jones, who was a co-founder of Color of Change<\/a>, the group spearheading the Beck advertiser boycott (coincidence?). Today Beck sought to lengthen the list of Communist subversives that he imagines are squirreled away in the dark recesses of the government.<\/p>\n

Just like old Joe McCarthy, Beck has in his hands a list of names. A list that he impugns as commie traitors. A list that he implies is evidence that President Obama himself is a commie traitor. The list: Cass Sunstein, Carol Browner, John Holdren, Ezekiel Emmanuel, Jeff Jones, are all respected professionals and public servants. Add to these persons the organizations at whom Beck is pointing his finger of righteousness: ACORN, SEIU, the Apollo Alliance, AFL-CIO, and any environmental group he can find. Yet Beck has no problem slandering these groups and people. At long last, Glenn, have you no decency?<\/p>\n

Beck appears to have single-handedly reanimated the defunct red-baiting era of McCarthy with a new twist. He has no official power to investigate or punish his targets, but he has a bigger megaphone than McCarthy could have ever dreamed. And while McCarthy sought to remove the alleged fiends from government employment, Beck seeks to tie them to the President and whip up a holy fury against him that can only lead to a violent overthrow. Beck doesn’t even offer any other alternative to what he insists is a committed cabal intent on subverting our nation’s most sacred values. To the people who believe what Beck says, where is the line over which they would not cross to forestall the destruction of everything they hold dear?<\/p>\n

It’s too bad that McCarthy didn’t have a funny mustache or some other distinctive characteristic that we could draw onto Beck to drive home the similarity. This week’s series of programs is establishing Beck as the foremost McCarthy impressionist since McCarthy himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On day two of Glenn Beck’s week long special “The New Republic,” Beck extends his diatribe against the Obama czars. On the first day he focused extensively on Van Jones, who was a co-founder of Color of Change, the group spearheading the Beck advertiser boycott (coincidence?). Today Beck sought to lengthen the list of Communist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[33,44,627],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-joe-mccarthy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-mc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1592,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1592","url_meta":{"origin":1376,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Beck Forgets To Expose His Latest White House Marxist","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/16\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We can chalk this one down to another broken promise from Fox News' star paranoid, Glenn Beck. 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