Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media
Fox News is playing an increasingly erratic and dangerous game by embracing paranoid insurrection rhetoric and conspiracy theorists.
Beck's sure "[d]epression and revolution" are what await America under Obama, and fears moving "towards a totalitarian state." The country today sometimes reminds Beck of "the early days of Adolf Hitler." Beck thinks that Obama, who has "surrounded himself by Marxists his whole life," is now "addicting this country to heroin -- the heroin that is government slavery." Full Story »
Posted by Peter L. Combs
I explicitly recall, at the time of Bush's re-relection, the right screaming about how everyone of every ideology needed to back the President. Those who failed to do so were being unpatriotic, and possibly treasonous. Where are the well-deserved shouts of "treason!" now? They should be louder than ever, because this coordinated media attack on a President who has been in office less than 100 days is tantamount to treason.