{"id":27411,"date":"2015-04-13T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=27411"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:18:36","slug":"will-glenn-beck-keep-his-promise-to-resign-from-the-nra-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=27411","title":{"rendered":"Will Glenn Beck Keep His Promise To Resign From The NRA? (Yeah, Right)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month Glenn Beck flew into one of his patented frenzies<\/a> over some imagined conspiratorial threat that only he could see. This one involved his belief that Grover Norquist, the ultra-conservative anti-tax crusader, was secretly a Muslim who was plotting to destroy America through his seat on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Beck’s proof that Norquist was an activist Islamic radical was that he had a Muslim wife and a beard. In Beck’s mind, that clinches it.<\/p>\n

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On his radio program last month, Beck interviewed renowned Islamophobe and conspiracy kook, Frank Gaffney, who affirmed Beck’s wildest fears about Norquist. Consequently, Beck expressed his intent to resign his lifetime membership in the NRA<\/a> if Norquist was reelected to the board at their conference last weekend. Well, guess what? Norquist did win<\/a> another term on the board, along with hate monger Ted Nugent and other wingnut ammosexuals.<\/p>\n

So the question now is, will Glenn Beck keep his word? Not that his word has ever meant anything in the past. After all, he once promised<\/a> that his “Restoring Honor”<\/em> event in 2010 would be a “turning point for America.”<\/em> The next year he promised<\/a> that his event “Restoring Courage”<\/em> in Israel would be “a global shockwave. It will ripple across the earth.”<\/em> The following year President Obama was reelected in a landslide. In 2013 Beck promised<\/a> to reveal what he said would be “the most important story in history”<\/em> in a Friday tease. However, on Monday he completely forgot about this historic story. And finally, Beck once promised<\/a> that he was preparing to release a document in his possession that would “take down pretty much the whole power structure.”<\/em> And once again, he failed to deliver.<\/p>\n

We can pretty much write off the promises of Beck just as we have with those of Rush Limbaugh (who promised to move to Costa Rica if ObamaCare became law); or Ted Nugent (who promised to be dead or in jail in a year if Obama was reelected); or Sean Hannity (who promised to be waterboarded for charity to prove it’s not torture); or Donald Trump (who promised to publish a report by the investigators he allegedly sent to Hawaii to prove Obama wasn’t born there). Another promise we can set aside is the one that the NRA made to Beck to \u201cget to the bottom of this once and for all\u201d<\/em> by conducting a thorough ethics investigation into Norquist. To date there has been no release of the results of that investigation.<\/p>\n

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Former President George H.W. Bush kept his promise to resign his lifetime membership in the NRA after Wayne LaPierre called federal law enforcement agents “jack-booted government thugs.”<\/em> But don’t hold your breath waiting for Beck to show that sort of commitment to his word. He is an unrepentant liar with no regard for honor or courage or truth. He only cares about how he can manipulate and deceive his glassy-eyed disciples to his advantage financially and as their de facto savior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month Glenn Beck flew into one of his patented frenzies over some imagined conspiratorial threat that only he could see. This one involved his belief that Grover Norquist, the ultra-conservative anti-tax crusader, was secretly a Muslim who was plotting to destroy America through his seat on the board of directors of the National Rifle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"Will Glenn Beck Ever Keep His Word? 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