MarsBonfire -> RE: Glen Beck and rush Limbaugh. (9/28/2009 4:07:29 PM)
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Same ol' same ol'... to be frank. Huey B, Long Father Coghlin Lonesome Roads (fictional) Don Imus Limbaugh Beck Hannity (who was caught on tape admitting he only did this schtick for the money) O'Riley ("Fuck it! We'll do it live!" [which according to some of the folks working with him, was one of his mre sedate moments.] ) As long as there's a portion of the American population that's disgruntled, that feels like things aren't as good as they used to be in the "good ol' days"... As long as there's a bunch of people who've lost jobs, or homes, but still have a radio or a TV set... there will be hate mongers and paranoia vectors out there ready, willing, and able to stir up the hornets nest. Especially now that it's become big business. The book with Glenn Beck's name on it (I'm sure it's ghosted by someone from the Murdock pool) has now spent two weeks at the top of the non-fiction (?) book lists. An estimated $80 million a week... just to tell people too stupid to look up facts on their own, what they want to hear. People in hard times want and need to have an enemy. I remember watching a documentary on "Hate Groups in America." In it, they interviewed a recruiter for a white supremiscist group, who said it was ridiculously easy to get people to turn to them. All you had to do was target the schmuck who was up to his neck in debt, or about to be foreclosed upon, or who just got shitcanned. He'd just sidle up to them, and whisper, "You know who did this to you, don't you? It was the (blacks/jews/mexicans/democrats- take your pick) and they are taking our country apart. We're trying to stop them! Join us, brother!" Which is EXACTLY what I see these creeps doing now on Fox and on EIB. So far, only one census volunteer has been killed in Kentucky. But lots of people have shown up packing guns at Presidential events. The Klannish elements of the GOP are growing. To comment on an earlier post, Limbaugh didn't declare himself leader of the GOP. He was just the default after the "great moderate purge" that started even before the last election. Nothing left now but gun totin', Bible thumpin', "kill all the gays, perverts, illegal immagrants" whack jobs. The Republican Party: RIP
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