The other day, I was searching the Internet for a list of former sponsors who refuse to sponsor Glenn Beck's show on Fox anymore after he accused President Obama of being racist and hating white people. I used the Google engine and did get a result, though an unexpected one. It appears that, two years ago, Mr. Beck was under attack by some parties for a statement he had apparently made about supporters of Republican representative and then-presidential candidate Ron Paul. It seems that ol' Glenn had branded these good folks with the epithet "terrorists"! Some of those objecting to his comment called for --you guessed it--sponsors to withdraw their support from his show.
Back in 2007, Ron Paul was a political headache for conservative Republicans, as the Texas representative was opposed to the Iraqi war as well as being a libertarian on social issues and opposed to many of the big-government policies going on in the Republican Bush administration. But he was supported by many who harbored deep-seated anxiety about big government. Nowadays, of course, it is this anxiety that Beck is trying to draw upon in his verbal attacks against a Democratic president and congress. But back then, people expressing these views were supposedly "terrorists".
The fact that conservative Wal*Mart, of all companies, has withdrawn its sponsorship of Beck's program, should give a lie to accusations that the political left got to him through his sponsors. After all, since when has Wal*Mart ever cared about what the political left was saying about it?
It appears to me that Glenn Beck puts his finger up in the air to determine wherever the political wind happens to be blowing from and then derives from that his whole notion of who the good guys and who the bad guys are. And the bad guys he deals with through "ist" epithets like "racist" and "terrorist". So I've coined a new word to counter-accuse Beck: He's an "istist"!
Too bad; I think Glenn Beck missed his true calling in life. He should have been an art critic. I can hear him now: This painter is a (shudder) cubist; that one is (wince) an impressionist! And, hey folks, that loser artist over there is (hiss) an expressionist!
Ist, ist, ist.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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I think if you'll dig a little, Wal-mart never actually put ads on his show.
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