{"id":9832,"date":"2013-06-05T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:10:06","slug":"glenn-beck-ive-never-been-called-a-conspiracy-theorist-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9832","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck: “I\u2019ve Never Been Called A Conspiracy Theorist In My Life”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had intended to write an article this morning congratulating President Obama on his selection of Susan Rice for National Security Adviser and Samantha Power to succeed Rice as U.N. Ambassador. Not only are these two public servants brilliant and capable, the GOP will regard their appointments as a poke in the eye, which they thoroughly deserve. I intended to further note that Power was singled out by Glenn Beck as the “most dangerous woman in America,”<\/em><\/a> at least partly because she is married to Cass Sunstein who Beck has called the “most dangerous man in America.”<\/em> And then all my plans were upended when this happened:<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow recently did a segment on how the right-wing media has been mainstreaming conspiracy theories<\/a> once thought to be beyond the fringe. She went into great detail with examples of batty theories and the people who propound them. Included amongst the theorists were folks you might expect like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.<\/p>\n

Apparently Glenn Beck took offense. He devoted a considerable portion of his program to swinging back at Maddow and questioning her “intellectual integrity.”<\/em> [I’ll wait for you to stop laughing and get get back into your chair — OK then]<\/em> Beck took particular aim at the suggestion that he is a conspiracy theorist. He even went so far as to make this explicit declaration in his defense:<\/p>\n

“I’ve never been called a conspiracy theorist in my life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Oh my. This may be the best example of severe detachment from reality that’s ever played out in public. It was just one week ago that Beck bitterly complained<\/a> that there is “a concentrated effort now to label me a conspiracy theorist?”<\/em> How he can go from a concentrated effort to label him, to never having been called a conspiracy theorist, in only one week is mind-boggling. But it isn’t just a matter of acute short-term memory loss, Beck has been addressing allegations of his conspiracy theorism for years:<\/p>\n