OozeBeckistan

Of all the frothy wingnuts on all the TVs on the planet, if anyone had asked me which would swan-dive off the deep end if a black dude with the middle name “Hussein” ever became president, my money would have been on Glenn Beck. Sure, there are lots of zany wingnut media figures out there, but Beck has always had this special, unhinged quality about him as well as the pin-wheeling, beady eyes of the true believer.

Looks like my bet is paying off. There’s growing evidence that Beck is nuttier than a squirrel turd and getting nuttier by the day. He started off long ago by converting to the Mormon Church as an adult. Sorry, but that’s fucking crazy. Then, he made this whiny-ass, stream of suicidal consciousness video in response to the agony of having a fucking hemorrhoid removed from his ass.



(An aside: What is it with these wingnut pantywaists who talk tough and then display the spine of a spongy orange Circus Peanut the minute the going gets rough? They’re all like, “Yeehaw, let’s go kill the mooslims!” to others and then conveniently forget to join the military themselves. They’re all “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps!” and “No pain, no gain!” until they themselves face any hurt or inconvenience, and then they turn into puling toddlers. Give birth to a child and then come talk to me about pain, Hemorrhoid Boy...)

Anyway, now that he’s ensconced over at Fox News, Beck has a new project that has the loony leaking out of every orifice – the 9/12 Project:



I love the PATRIOT ACT-like contrivance of the “9 Principles” and “12 Virtues,” which just so happen to combine to evoke the date Beck tearfully wants us to relive on an endless Groundhog Day loop: 9/12/01. Wanting to stay in a state of fear, shock and grief forever and ever is itself a big old hunk of burning crazy, though not a significant departure from post-9/11 GOP strategy. But let’s examine the “9 Principles,” shall we?

9 Principles
1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
3. ….

Oh fuck it, that’s as far as I can go with this shit. Beck clearly has no idea what democracy means or what the value of the First Amendment is. He’s proposing a rebirth of the John Birch Society, and this is hardly a surprise considering the current world-historical economic and social turmoil, which always sends the fringe-types howling out of their bunkers, clutching their skulls against imaginary thought-rays. Only this time, we have a network that caters to this particularly brand of crazy. Stay tuned.

[Cross-posted at Rumproast]