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Thomas Frank’s Glenn Beck Ignorance
Thomas Frank has an odious piece in the Wall Street Journal today slamming Glenn Beck as an ignorant “panic peddling host”. He attacks Beck for his red phone hotline to the White House and for bringing attention to the long list of radicals in the Obama administration.
Thomas doesn’t see any radical in The White House — he only sees a nutty TV host.
Here’s what Thomas says about frequent Beck target Robert McChesney:
On Monday I wrote to an old friend, Robert McChesney, a professor of communications at the University of Illinois who has been a frequent target of Mr. Beck in recent weeks for his left-wing views and also for co-founding Free Press, an advocacy group on media policy. Did Mr. McChesney get a chance to respond on the red phone or any other way? No. "He never asked me or Free Press to call the red phone," Mr. McChesney wrote me.
What he didn’t mention about his “old friend” is that Robert McChesney is the former editor and current board member of the Marxist magazine Monthly Review. I think being associated with a publication that has a 50 year history of supporting Communism and Communist regimes qualifies as radical. I don’t think I have any Communist friends — but I could be wrong.
It’s also amusing that Thomas refers to Free Press — the organization McChesney co-founded — as simply an “advocacy group on media policy”. What he left out was that “Free Press” (a laughable name) is a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and been supportive of his media crackdown in Venezuela.
Again, sounds pretty damn radical to me.
Thomas Frank would like to gloss over the big picture Beck paints on his show, but he simply can’t.
The current administration is the most radical in American history. The people the president has surrounded himself with are the most radical in American history.
It’s only thanks to Glenn Beck that the American people are aware of the extremists who are trying to remake our country.
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