Inside The Meltdown: What Glenn Beck Was Saying About Egypt While You Weren't Watching Glenn Beck

[Turborama]

Run time: 05:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2PIajiMtjc   Posted on YouTube: February 09, 2011 By YouTube Member: mediamatters4america Views on YouTube: 2912   Posted on DU: February 10, 2011 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1680

 
February 09, 2011 11:28 am ET by Bradley Herring & Jon Salvia

Even far-right conservatives like William Kristol have attacked Glenn Beck for his unhinged and paranoid fearmongering over the turmoil in Egypt. But what did he actually say? Here are some low-lights from his week-long public meltdown that you need to see because, like virtually everyone in America, you weren't watching while it happened. The fear, hatred, and outright lying spewed daily by Beck deserves a much larger audience just to demonstrate how low conservative journalism has fallen.

A whole torrent of comments at the YouTube link and here: http://mediamatters.org/studios/video/201102090021

[greiner3]

1. As a Mormon;

I wonder if Glenn;


Wears that funny underwear??????????

[bongbong]

2. Whatever

Whatever he is wearing, it is about 10 sizes too small. It's squeezing his brains into mush.

[sulphurdunn]

3. There have been people

just as crazy as Beck on television since at least the early 60s and on radio since the 30s. The only difference is that Beck is the first to go prime time all the time.

[Turborama]

4. Beck has embarked on a bold one-man expedition to previously uncharted corners of crazy over Egypt

Is Glenn Beck Sinking?

Has Beck gone too far even for Fox News and his conservative viewers?

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Since the turmoil began in Egypt, Beck has embarked on a bold one-man expedition to previously uncharted corners of crazy. In his efforts to frame events, he has laid out, collapsible pointer in hand, a scenario that has left even the most jaded Beck watchers slack-jawed. On February 1, Beck offered his much-derided theory of a new Marxist Caliphate.

"Look, you can call it a new world order or a caliphate, but the world right now is being divvied up," http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201102010044">said Beck. "And the uber-left and the Islamists and the global elites are moving in the same direction."

To make sure that views understand the new global political geography, Beck offered a roadmap:

I believe that I can make a case in the end that there are three powers that you will see really emerge. One, a Muslim caliphate that controls the Mideast and parts of Europe. Two, China, that will control Asia, the southern half of Africa, part of the Middle East, Australia, maybe New Zealand, and God only knows what else. And Russia, which will control all of the old former Soviet Union bloc, plus maybe the Netherlands. I'm not really sure. But their strong arm is coming. That leaves us and South America. What happens to us?

In Beck's telling, leftist-anarchist street brigades in Europe will join forces with radical Islamists (with implicit support from Democrats) to sow chaos from Tehran to Tallin, with the goal of establishing a leftist Islamic super-state across the Middle East and Europe. This will open up a geopolitical vacuum into which, Beck has mused, the Russian and Chinese armies may sweep. Van Jones, Francis Fox Piven, and groups that http://other98.com/2011/01/30/media-alert-thousands-protest-billionaire-koch-bros-secret-meeting/">protested in Rancho Mirage last week (at the Koch brothers secret seminar for right-wing billionaires) play supporting roles in this unfolding global catastrophe.

Continues: http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149864/is_glenn_beck_sinking/?page=entire

Interesting stats from that article:

Last month, Glenn Beck averaged 1.8 million viewers. This drop, the steepest in cable news, was even worse among the prize demo of viewers between the ages of 25 and 54. During 2010, in other words, Beck lost nearly half of his viewers.

[BREMPRO]

5. i think he's gotten a message that is too complicated for his viewers

and they may also be leaving in droves because of suffering from post traumatic stress from watching his show. I'm hoping that after the years of listening to his rambling weepy chalkboard conspiracy nonsense they have witnessed that his calamitous prognostications have not come true and his brand of "truth" is nothing close to reality.

[sabrina 1]

6. What's sad is that CNN hired this moron and kept him on the air

for several years despite losing so much of its audience. Only when they probably could not afford to pay for him anymore did they finally drop him. Fox stepped in, as they always do on behalf of the criminally indicted or convicted from the far right and gave him a new start.

I envision him one day ending up in an asylum somewhere. But remembering his prime-time show on CNN during the Bush years should give people an idea of the state of the U.S. media until Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow finally came along to present some kind of sanity.

At the time CNN hired Beck, thousands of people on the left wrote in to protest his being hired. Airc, the response was that CNN didn't care much what 'liberals' wanted because they 'don't yell loud enough' and apparently were merely an irritant.

Either he is completely certifiable, or is acting that way. But I will never forget or forgive CNN for giving him a platform during one of the most critical periods of the last several years.

[glinda]

7. He could be reaching violence stage. Ready to explode.

[wxgeek7]

8. Wrong line of work

I think he's in the wrong line of work. Seems like he'd be better at theatre, or working for Sesame Street. But he'd most likely have to take a huge pay cut, hehe.

[Enthusiast]

9. Hey Glenn boy, where

do I sign up for this fucking revolution? Because I am ready! I am ready for an alternative to a status quo that would allow a supposed TV News channel to have a fucking idiot like you.

There should be at least SOME accountability to the allegations made by a News organization, at least a minimal accountability. To achieve some level of minimal accountability Fox news will have to show you the door immediately.

[sabrina 1]

10. I agree with you. The idea that this man is taken seriously

enough to earn millions of dollars is a sign that this is a very, very sick society. Don't forget he spent years on CNN so we can't just blame Fox for this.

[Enthusiast]

11. I was appalled when Glenn Beck

was on CNN. CNN's credibility is also in the toilet with me. What we really need is that good old 'liberal media' that exists only in their imagination.

[kenfrequed]

12. I can't believe it

Sometimes I just can't believe people are stupid enough to actually take this moron seriously.

[colorado_ufo]

13. What the blazes was he wearing in the first clip?

Was he indulging a Moses fantasy? Snake staff and all? How could anyone take this seriously? He is putting everyone on and laughing all the way to the bank.

And why don't his "true believers" ask, "How does he have this insider knowledge of the universe?"

My head hurts.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. "I stand by my theories."

Art Bell stood by his theories, too. And they were also also a lot of nonsense.