David Horowitz: The Left’s Campaign To Destroy Glenn Beck
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David Horowitz writes that the Left’s massive campaign to destroy Glenn Beck is because he, along with Rush Limbaugh, is the most eloquent, fearless and effective warrior standing between Barack Obama and a collectivist state:
The politics of personal destruction is what the left does best, and in many ways it is all the left does. “Purge” — as in defame and then dispose of your political enemies — is a term that leftists invented in the 1930s when Joseph Stalin staged show trials of his political enemies, defamed and demonized them, and then buried them. Witch-hunts are a leftist specialty — identify your political enemy, freeze him, and isolate him by painting him as a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, nutcase — whatever will work to banish him from the society of decent human beings and silence him. This is what the left is now trying to do to Glenn Beck, with its usual arsenal of malicious distortion, misrepresentation and made up “facts.”The new cover story in TIME portrays Beck as a Mad Man. (You want to see a Mad Man? Watch Keith Olbermann). A feature in today’s Salon portrays Beck as a Mormon nut job. How’s that for religious tolerance! (And by the way, the two or three sentences about me are inventions of the writer, as the interview he links shows, if you bother to read it.) As for Olbermann, he does a Beck lynching every night (and a Bachmann lynching, and a Coulter lynching, and a Limbaugh lynching. Even Jonah Goldberg has made “Worst Person in the World” four times). What we are witnessing is a political mob; its agenda is the destruction of anyone brazen enough to stand in its path and say “no” to its assault on Americans’ freedom . (More)
Whether you like Beck or hate him, you have to admit that he, along with Limbaugh, has indeed been effective in bringing the agenda and associations of Barack Obama and his fellow far-Left statists to the forefront - and getting people paying attention to their collectivist agenda. In my mind, however, there is a notable difference between Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Beck is a bit of a drama queen (he annoys the hell out of me with his silliness) and concentrates on exposing the statists and their agenda - and does a good job of it. Limbaugh, on the other hand, is more deliberate and generally offers solutions to the problems he brings to his listener’s attention.
