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Glenn Beck is like a drug dealer of hate
by Benintn
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Tue Apr 07, 2009 at 04:54:59 AM PDT

The thought hit me after once again reviewing the Anti-Defamation League's dossier on Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh-area cop killer with ties to extreme right-wing groups like Stormfront.

After watching Glenn Beck yesterday, I was absolutely appalled. It wasn't just because Beck is an irresponsible wingnut. There was something else - something I couldn't quite put my finger on.

And then, as I was getting ready for work, it hit me.

Glenn Beck is using drug dealer arguments.

Update: Important article from Media Matters detailing Beck and Fox News attempts to rally the wingnuts.

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To be specific, Beck is trying to exonerate himself from blame by avoiding any responsibility for his own actions or words. For months, we've seen Beck working as the fearmonger-in-chief, making Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh look like mere entertainers. Beck's "9/12 project" is, in one way, a call to action. But in another way, it's a call to arrogant self-pity (poor, pitiful me, no one could understand because I'm uniquely patriotic and "I just love my country.") and the worst kind of sarcasm.

Let's briefly outline Beck's argument:

1. Blaming anyone other than Poplawski is crazy.

2. I can't be responsible for other people's actions.

3. All I'm doing is providing a public service.

4. The fact that so many people share my concerns is proof that what I'm saying is very important.

5. Poplawski would have acted that way "no matter what."

6. Anyone who doesn't think the way I do is "irrational."

I think part of the reason I got upset was Beck's protests of innocence. He was like the guy who claims that he was just "holding the drugs for a friend" or the guy who says "I just gave the guy what he wanted. He would have gotten it from someone else if not from me."

Glenn Beck is talking, thinking, and acting like a drug dealer. The mind-altering substances he's dealing are his words, which are designed to skew people's sense of reality, make them delusional, and incite fear and anger. Beck might not "try from his own supply", but he knows exactly how to pull on the heartstrings and he's zeroing in on disgruntled working-class Americans who have given up hope that democracy can work for them.

Words can hurt. Words can heal. Words can medicate. Words can literally change your mind. Combine those words with some visual imagery and you've got a powerful cocktail of mind-altering medicine capable of turning ordinary 23-year-old citizens into cop-killing madmen.

If Beck fails to understand this, then he's an idiot.