Thursday, April 2, 2009

A Whole New Kind of Crazy



I'm in the car this morning and I turn on the Glenn Beck show and he is going on and on about a "wheat dime", making these Limbaughesque leaps in logic and concluding that starting with Woodrow Wilson in 1916, the liberals have had the goal of turning America into a fascist state. His big proof? The back of the wheat dime has a symbol that is similar to a symbol of fascism and since the dime came into circulation during Wilson's presidency then obviously it was Wilson's idea and there is your proof that liberals have been trying to bring fascism to America. Crystal clear, right?

First of all, if fascism has been the goal of liberalism since 1916 then I'd have to say it has been one big huge giant FAIL. But kudos to the liberals for keeping the dream alive through successive generations. I think Beck has been reading too many Illuminati conspiracy books lately.

Anyway, I laughed it off because it was Beck and he's well known for being a complete idiot. But then, I got back in the car nearly three hours later and he was STILL going on about his conspiracy du jour. So I came home and did a little research on the fascist dime and it turns out that Wilson DID design it all by himself and forced it into circulation in 1916. Yeah, right. Type in wheat dime at Wikipedia.com if you want a somewhat more SANE history of the dime.

Then, I found this video of Beck going on about, you guessed it, wheat dimes and fascism on his tv show last night. Which is funny, because Beck never said a word about fascism when Duh was holding prisoners without charging them, torturing them, illegally spying on innocent Americans, ignoring the Constitution, etc.

What it all comes down to is this. The ridiculous "socialist" tag didn't stick. Next on the right wing nut jobs list of propaganda words to march out? You guessed it, fascist. This is what happens when a political party has no ideas and an eight year path of failure directly behind them.

It would be funny if I didn't see people actually buying into this nonsense. I mean we're going to have to invent a whole new word to describe crazy when referring to Beck. You can't just say he's crazy, you have to say he's "Glenn Beck crazy". But what do we call the people who actually believe the ignorance that oozes out of this guys pores?

I'm done.

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