10-25-2009, 09:49 PM
The difference between a loudmouth and a madman is an important one. The right generally has a more impressive stable of blowhards, but they certainly have no monopoly.
Glenn Beck, on the other hand, is a complete nutcase. The kinds of paranoid delusions he is pushing are simply off the charts - back to the 1950s, the worst of the anti-communist overreaction, except without even the existence of a Soviet Union to make it even slightly sane. To find people of his "caliber" on the left, you'd have to go to the crazies, people who don't get airtime at all.
-Jester
Glenn Beck, on the other hand, is a complete nutcase. The kinds of paranoid delusions he is pushing are simply off the charts - back to the 1950s, the worst of the anti-communist overreaction, except without even the existence of a Soviet Union to make it even slightly sane. To find people of his "caliber" on the left, you'd have to go to the crazies, people who don't get airtime at all.
-Jester