You know, if someone had told me there was a guy on Fox News saying things like this, I would have thought they were exaggerating. But no -- look at the video Mark Shea posts.
Stephen Colbert ought to just quit right now. You can't parody this stuff.
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I would suggest people actually read up on fascism. Much of what Karth describes is not actually part and parcel of a fascist government, but rather an authoritarian or totalitarian state. Even fascism should probably be viewed as non-monolithic in that Nazism is a specific subset, ie fascism in Italy was different than Germany or the the other countries that adopted fascism.
Fascist is most commonly now used as an pejorative term with no understanding of what it means. You can take selected activities by Wilson and also "prove" he was a Communist.
Steve
Jonah Goldberg is not a crackpot. He's a hack. There is a big difference. His work is deliberately slanted and partisian because that is what keeps him relevant and keeps the money flowing his way. He's like a romance novelist of politics. He writes what people want to believe, no matter how inaccurate or impossible it really is.
I laugh at Beck's hyperbole, and sometimes he goes off on weird tangents. At the same time, he's one of the few people I've seen who consistently asks the right questions and looks in the right places.
Also, look at the crackpot policies still coming from Bernanke, Geithner and Obama. If doing the same thing and expecting a different result is insane, then the whole power structure is insane. Glenn Beck is trying to make sense of wildly contradictory (Obama said Americans need to save more, but his policies are the exact opposite) and destined to fail (print money, give it to bankrupt companies) plans. Beck is prone to hyperbole so he sees a sinister plot. I just see hubris that will fail in the most epic collapse in American history since the North burned down the South.
From a recent Beck interview:
Mr. Beck says he believes every word he says on his TV show, and the radio show that he still hosts from 9 a.m. to noon each weekday. [ ]
At the same time, though, he says he is an entertainer. Im a rodeo clown, he said in an interview, adding with a coy smile, It takes great skill. [ ]
He added later: I say on the air all time, if you take what I say as gospel, youre an idiot.
Like I needed any more evidence that "Z" is afraid of the truth ...
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