Glenn Beck v. WWP
By
Caleb T. Maupin
Published Feb 9, 2008 8:55 AM
Glenn Beck is a right-winger and propagandist for the rich and powerful. His
radio program is broadcast over 260 radio stations and he has a nightly
“news” program on CNN.
He called Che Guevara a “cold-blooded killer.” He wants Mumia
Abu-Jamal to die. He says the John Birch Society, whose founding document
accused the civil rights movement of “making trouble in the South,”
is “making more and more sense.”
He called for Barack Obama to change his name to Osama bin Laden. He has
compared the global warming awareness movement to Nazism. He says the people of
New Orleans chose to die.
He is truly a disgusting character.
On Jan. 9 he talked about Democratic candidate John Edwards. Beck is outraged
that Edwards has been appealing to workers by saying, “It’s the
very rich against everybody else.”
Of course, Citigroup, the Fortress Investment Group, Goldman-Sachs and other
ruling class firms have been funding the Edwards campaign. That should tell us
something about Edwards. But even mouthing populist demagogy is too much for
Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck proclaimed, “I listened to him [Edwards] last night give a
speech, and, I mean, why not just start wearing the Soviet star on your head
and the Workers World Party?”
So Workers World Party is the incarnation of what Glenn Beck, a modern-day
McCarthyite, fears the most. What a compliment.
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