Progressives have known that Glenn Beck is a clown since we first saw him prancing around his blackboard with chalk in hand, but right wingers are now noticing his infamous clown act too.
Is it because he’s running out of sponsors? His recent off the wall theory of the Republican party being too progressive might have done the trick.
However, they weren’t upset when Beck said, McCain is “a weird progressive, like Theodore Roosevelt” and said definitively, “I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.”
Even Rush Limbaugh has joined in saying, “I don’t know how you can say…that the Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats. It would never occur to me to say that. I don’t know what the objective would be.”
I’m not trying to say we told you so, BUT WE DID! I’m not terribly fond of Republicans being called too Progressive anymore than they are. On that note, buh bye Glenn Beck! The clock is a tickin’ and they don’t seem to want you anymore than we do.
In fact, this is looking like your going away party.
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One of the most prominent voices to jump into the fray is popular right-wing radio host and author Mark Levin, who went on Facebook yesterday to say:
I have no idea what philosophy Glenn Beck is promoting. And neither does he. It’s incoherent. One day it’s populist, the next it’s libertarian bordering on anarchy, next it’s conservative but not really, etc. And to what end? I believe he has announced that he is no longer going to endorse candidates because our problems are bigger than politics. Well, of course, our problems are not easily dissected into categories, but to reject politics is to reject the manner in which we try to organize ourselves. [..]
Finally, Beck is fond of congratulating himself for being the only or the first host to criticize George Bush’s spending. This is demonstrably false. … And as someone who fought liberal Republicans in the trenches when campaigning for Reagan in 1976 and 1980, I don’t need lectures from Beck, who was nowhere to be found, about big-spending Republicans.
On his radio show yesterday, Levin added, “Decide what you are. A circus clown, self-identified. Or a thoughtful and wise person. It’s hard to be both. You can’t wear the clown nose and not wear the clown nose at the same time.” He also told Beck to “stop dividing” conservatives at a time when there is unprecedented “unity” in the movement.
