[lbo-talk] Beck & Co. really go around the bend

[Left-Wing Wacko]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Doug Henwood<dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> <http://gawker.com/5347396/glenn-becks-hysteria-reaches-new-heights-with-obama-saddam-comparison>
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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...
> ___________________________________


>From some blogs I have read and the clips I have seen linked from
Media Matters, Beck has been doing some serious red baiting. First
there is this "Czar" for "green jobs" Van Jones who at one time was a
radical and allegedly quoted as saying he was a "militant black
nationalist" and a "communist", and then apparently ex-weatherman Jeff
Jones is somehow tangentially associated with the Obama White House.

All this is kind of silly if one is on the radical left as we are.  I
mean so what if a former radical, now establishment liberal is
associated in some way to the White House?  But what kind of delusions
and confusion does this sow in the minds of those people who take Beck
seriously?  I don't know.