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October 5, 2009
Barnard Chapin on Glenn Back
Topics: Political News and commentariesBernard Chapin calls Glenn Back "A man for his time" and posits If Beck is detrimental to the conservative cause, why does the left expend so much energy trying to destroy him?[...] My first impression of the host of the blockbuster Fox News program that bears his name was that, despite its obvious content value, Beck's hyper-emotive, overly familiar style made it unfit for long-term consumption. I believed this for the same reasons I get the heebie-jeebies from Oprah or the prospects of repeating kindergarten, but wrong is wrong. I hereby offer up an article of contrition. Not only has Mr. Beck grown on me; I also acknowledge that he is one of the finest warriors in all of conservadom. So let us rally around our -- suddenly famous -- flag bearer.
And rally we must because the left has placed him at the center of their character assassination machine. This is predictable as what else could they do with a sixty-minute, five-day-a-week program that functions as a siege engine upon the castle of pseudo-liberalism, addressing corruption, the follies of statism, government chicanery, and the disinterest of politicians in the welfare of their constituents?
Beck has even declared war on our entire political class -- those Mark Levin terms "our new robber barons" -- and he single-handedly took down President Obama's "green jobs czar," the bombastic scandal previously known as Van Jones.
Further, his investigation into the politicization of the National Endowment for the Arts resulted in demotion for one of its partisan advocates and, without the stalwart host's volleys, many of us would have never heard of the Apollo Alliance or the Tides Foundation.
With the exception of Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe, and Hannah Giles, Mr. Beck has proven to be the most powerful and recurring nightmare that the nefarious embezzlers who run ACORN have ever faced.
Beck recently exposed the attempt on the part of one educator to indoctrinate students by showing a heinous leftist video called "The Story of Stuff." Sadly, in my time, I witnessed a vile and unusual teacher try to pass off worse.
As a result of the Fox superstar's devout efforts, his foes are now attempting to censor and ridicule him.
Yes, rather than refute his positions and statements, the left has reverted to their time-tested and anti-democratic methods of seeking to silence via boycott of corporate sponsor. Color for Change led the assault, which is not surprising given that one of its co-founders was the aforementioned radical, Van Jones.
Read it all ...As for a likely answer to the question of why does the left expend so much energy trying to destroy Beck if he is detrimental to the conservative cause, I would suggest that it's because he speaks the truth to a large and growing audience about that which doesn't stand up under the light of day, and the left depends on the American people being kept in the dark about the its agenda and its facilitators. However, Chapin sums up the answer a bit more succinctly:
[...] The Democrats must bitterly cling to their objections over tone and style in the hopes that the rest of the population will fail to discern that President Obama is pursuing his transformative change for America at a methedrinic pace.Clearly, the left believes that we the people labor to serve the federocracy.
Beck confronts the transformer and answers those questions that concern us most, such as why did the media hide evidence of Obama's radicalism throughout the entire 2008 campaign?
And why did taxpayers ever fund ACORN in the first place? Moreover, is there a limit to how much we should pay in taxes? Thirty percent of our earnings? Fifty percent? Seventy percent? What amount exactly do we owe our government? Lastly, does the federocracy exist to serve the people or do we labor to Serve.gov them?
Posted by Abdul at October 5, 2009 1:35 PM
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