{"id":19760,"date":"2014-07-15T12:11:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19760"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T03:29:28","slug":"glenn-becks-vainglorious-brand-of-charity-and-the-ugliness-of-his-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19760","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck’s Vainglorious Brand Of Charity And The Ugliness Of His Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much is being made of reports<\/a> that politi-vangelist Glenn Beck is planning to deliver food and toys to the immigrant children that are suffering under harsh conditions in detention facilities in Texas. Beck’s convoy is expected to roll into McAllen, Texas this weekend. One wonders if it will be met by the same protesters who showed up to holler and spit at the buses of children seeking safe refuge.<\/p>\n

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While it’s difficult to find fault with the result of his project, it cannot be left unsaid that the whole thing smacks of self-serving motivations aimed at improving his ultra-rightist image and reputation for prejudice, and openly expressed hatred for the very people he is pretending to help. In a video appeal last week, Beck said…<\/p>\n

“Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire. And while we continue to put pressure on Washington and change its course of lawlessness, we must also help. It is not either\/or. It is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that sounds very nice, but it must be remembered that this is coming from the same conspiracy-rattled demagogue who just last month said that it was Obama who “engineered a humanitarian crisis in order to advance progressive policies on illegal immigration.”<\/em> So the political crossfire of which Beck spoke is largely of his own making.<\/p>\n

The way Beck has gone about promoting this gesture reeks of undisguised boastfulness and worse, near messianic posturing complete with allegations of death threats. Beck sermonized to his disciples that “I’ve never taken a position more deadly to my career than this.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Really? After saying that President Obama has a “deep-seated hatred of white people;”<\/em> that if America reelects Obama then God’s response must be<\/a> that “we have to be destroyed because we will be a remarkable evil on this planet;”<\/em> that the Obama administration “aided and abetted”<\/em><\/a> the Boston marathon bomber; and agreeing with his guest that the only hope for America<\/a> “is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Beck has a long record of being dishonest, divisive, and downright dumb, which led to hundreds of advertisers refusing to permit their ads on his Fox News program. That, in turn, led to Fox canceling his show and relegating him to his current status as an Internet video blogger. Yet after all of that, and so much more, Beck believes that his initiative to provide relief to kids undergoing a severe hardship holds more mortal risk to his career than anything he’s ever done?<\/p>\n

What does that say about Beck’s fans? Apparently Beck’s own opinion of the people who follow him (and who knows them better) is that they would be so outraged by this act of charity that they would respond by ditching him in droves. If Beck’s assessment is correct, then his audience is closely aligned with many others in the conservative ranks who have been viciously protesting these immigrant children with taunts and barricades and displays of hostility<\/a> that surely frighten the kids who have no idea why they are the objects of such vile hatred from residents of a place that they believed to be the “shining city on a hill.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Beck has already disclosed that his subscriptions have declined since the announcement of his charity drive. So the ugliness of his fan base is already surfacing. It remains to be seen if his relief trucks will be greeted by hostile protesters, or if that sort of repulsive behavior is reserved for frightened kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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