February 05, 2011 11:40 am ET by Media Matters staff
As Media Matters has documented, Glenn Beck has offered wild speculation and conspiracy theories in response to the protests in Egypt.
In The Weekly Standard, editor and Fox News contributor William Kristol criticizes Beck for his "hysteria" and attacks other conservatives for being "so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the Democrats."
From Kristol's column:
Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end . . .
But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.
He's marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.
Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the Democrats.
Rather, it's a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.
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Glen Beck, the King of the corporate shills and whores
As Media Matters has documented, Glenn Beck has offered wild speculation and conspiracy theories in response to the protests in Egypt.
In The Weekly Standard, editor and Fox News contributor William Kristol criticizes Beck for his "hysteria" and attacks other conservatives for being "so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the Democrats."
From Kristol's column:
Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end . . .
But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.
Beck as Moses seems to be way over the top
Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the Democrats.
Rather, it's a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.
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