{"id":3391,"date":"2010-12-08T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2010-12-08T23:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T07:44:19","slug":"glenn-beck-goes-nuts-over-forbes-blurb-on-soros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3391","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck Goes Nuts Over Forbes Blurb On Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Lenzner posted a brief item<\/a> today on Forbes.com about an event last night honoring George Soros. In the article Lenzner noted Soros’ warnings that…<\/p>\n

“…the combination of Fox News, Glenn Beck, The Tea Party, and the ability of Americans to fantasize unrealistically about their political system might lead ‘this open society to be on the verge of some dictatorial democracy.’<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a fairly cogent observation that recognizes the risks associated with a severely naive and misled electorate and an opportunistic and doctrinaire media. Lenzner continued saying….<\/p>\n

“Soros also characterized Fox newscaster Glenn Beck, who has been falsely vilifying Soros publicly, as a throwback to the wild and crazy radical elements that never before were given such a public pedestal to foment their hate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>Well that’s all it took to send Beck into one of the most demented tantrums I’ve seen him throw to date. Beck spun wildly from mocking Lenzner, to outlining a plot to “enslave”<\/em> America, to pretending to hypnotize his viewers. He was in rare form as he employed several of his cartoon voices, held up props, and dashed manically from his video screen to his blackboard. In the end it was nothing more than petulant hysterics brought on by the perceived insult he suffered in a blog post. Beck spent twenty enraged minutes rebutting two paragraphs. It was an epic display of psychosis.<\/p>\n

In the course of his tirade, Beck claimed that he didn’t hate Soros. If that’s true, he has an Olympian tolerance for evil. Beck’s three day Puppet Master series described Soros as a Nazi collaborator who collapses economies and destroys nations, with the United States next on his hit list. Beck cast Soros as advocating a tyrannical, one world government that would prohibit freedom and renounce God. He was plainly fomenting hate, just as Lenzner said. How Beck could not hate such a person I have no idea.<\/p>\n

All of this built to a climax with Beck challenging Forbes to put up or shut up:<\/p>\n

“The most egregious statement from Forbes Magazine is one that I would either like proof of or an apology from Forbes. In fact, I think I might demand one. Yes, I’m going to. That I “falsely vilified”<\/em> Soros. Forbes Magazine – show it or apologize. I’d like to know exactly what I lied about.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I sincerely hope that Forbes takes Beck up on this challenge. It would be a pretty easy task for them to document the litany of lies from Beck’s Soros-athon. They could start with Beck’s contention that Soros was a Nazi collaborator. Then they could address his deceitful editing of videotape that misrepresented Soros’ position on foreign influence in Congress. They could raise his reliance on the widely debunked book by David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party. They could point out his misrepresentations of Soros’ support for Poland’s Solidarity movement and the anti-communist Velvet and Orange revolutions in Czechoslovakia and the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

So have at it, Forbes. This is your opportunity to take Beck apart. He wants to know what he lied about and you can tell him. Try it, it’s easy. There is no shortage of lies in any episode of Beck’s program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Lenzner posted a brief item today on Forbes.com about an event last night honoring George Soros. 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