The right-wing menace of Glenn Beck

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The right-wing menace of Glenn Beck

Wednesday 08 September 2010

Vivian Weinstein

A short time ago, US right-wing pundit Glenn Beck started out as a none-too-successful morning DJ with a bare education who hadn't a thought about politics. He loved to party and was a mean-tempered, self-centred cocaine addict.

He developed a nostalgic vision of the US (that never was) of his grandfather's day, sitting on a porch rocking chair in a country, "the heartland," with a relatively small government and about four million white people.

There were no "evil progressives" leaving one to wonder how slavery ended or child labour or who brought about social security or the right of women to vote, among other things.

Beck expresses a strange populist, paranoic, conspiratorial vision of a world divided into "them" and "us."

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/95009

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