On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> Glenn Beck's Hysteria Reaches New Heights With Obama, Saddam Comparison
> By Andrew Belonsky, 10:20 PM on Thu Aug 27 2009, 6,721 views
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> If Glenn Beck is, in fact, laying the ground work for Fox News banishment,
> he's doing so in true, fear-mongering, overwrought style!
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> Apparently undeterred by advertising boycotts — which now total 46 — Beck
> this evening unleashed a torrent of accusations against Barack Obama and his
> plans for AmeriCorps, which he equates with Adolf Hitler's "brown shirts."
> For those not as familiar with Nazis as Beck, he drives his hysteria home by
> comparing Obama to Saddam Hussein.
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> Vets for Freedom vice chairman David Bellavia and the Heritage Foundation's
> Matthew Spalding help egg on Beck, who thinks Obama's organizing an army to
> quash its enemies, create a horrific "national society" and generally
> destroy democracy.
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> Though clearly outraged, Beck also seems sadly resigned, muttering, "This
> is what I've been warning for a very long time." He goes on to beg the White
> House to declare it doesn't support "revolutionary communists." Robert
> Gibbs, we're sure, will get right on that...
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