OK, so I'm surfing around on the 'net, and I land on the opinion blog of The Dallas Morning News. The topic was Glenn Beck's most recent paranoid fantasy about the Rockefellers and art. It's weird, and you can watch the video below, if you so choose. Anyway, the blog post was short, but interesting. But it was the comments section I found the most entertaining, with Beck defenders and--surprisingly for Texas--Beck deriders as well. One of the comments provided my first genuine belly laugh of the day. The entire quote is below, with the best bits in bold.
[Excerpt]
Glenn Beck, conspiracy nut
How on earth did this crackpot get a national TV show? Watch this amazing eight-minute monologue in which Glenn Beck interprets public art, and ties together the Rockefellers, communism, fascism, corporatism, the United Nations and the Obama White House together in a grand conspiracy. If this were in a movie, you wouldn't believe it. But this is on national TV, on Fox News, every weeknight. . .
And now, the comment that got me going. . .
Posted by Bill Marvel @ 6:55 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009
An astonishing performance.
History for those who won't bother to read, art appreciation for those who won't bother to look.
I don't know anything about Beck's ACORN reportage, because I don't watch him. And this performance doesn't give me any reason to start. But if his history of "Rockefeller" -- he doesn't say whether he means the old man or Junior, or even that he knows the difference -- the Progressive movement, Fascism, Leninism, and recent art and architecture are any indication, I wouldn't trust him to honestly report on the contents of his shirt pocket.
This sounds like an essay test written at the last minute by a dim but superficially glib student who's been sleeping all semester.
Source: Dallas Morning News
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