The Entertainer

Had the privilege to listen to Glen Beck yesterday.  He was stating how he really believed in Michele Bachman, "she get it" as he says.  Of course a man like Glen Beck will seeMichele Bachman as someone who gets it, she is like him.  Say anything to get yourself headlines and make some cash.  Like Madonna, Howard Stern, Sarah Palin, and Dr. Savage Weiner, being outrageous pays.  Michele has that mantra down - I am a average Joe like you -, you can trust me.  Blaming things on the Socialist these days is money in the bank.

Glen had some good points for his gullible callers.  The one caller was speaking about how Michele Bachman was distorting the Constitution and our forefathers were not accepting of women and African Americans or at the time slaves.  Glen pointed out that the writers of the Constitution needed to do this otherwise the South would have a greater proportion of voters and perhaps slavery might never be eliminated.  Sounds good but hard for people to understand and true it took another 100 years for any significant change in the Southern states.  Once he managed to get the caller to hang up in disgust, it became the typical Glen Beck Obnoxious Hour.  Beck and his two other buddies spent another twenty minutes berating the guy and yes linking him to all liberal people and of course the Socialists.

The Blame Game

So the rhetoric just will not stop.  First some kid decides that it is time to make a statement and bring a Glock automatic gun to a public meeting and attempt to kill Congresswoman, Gabrille Giffords.  In his insanity ended up killing nine other people and wounding many others.  Next, some journalists and the sheriff on the scene start blaming conservative talk show people for creating a world of hatred for everything not conservative and the show begins.  Here is where we come, Conservative talk radio goes on the offensive.  Within two days everyone is declaring that the liberal media is on the attack and they are no way to blame.  Of course they are not to blame, their first amendment rights allow them to say what ever they want whenever they want and the consequences are other peoples problem.

Sean Hannity even started telling people that this kid has a copy of Mien Kanf and the communist manifesto, covering all his bases so no one will be able to link this kid to being a conservative of any kind.  He did aim for one of Sarah Palin's cross hair congressional districts and not some conservative district.  The number of conservative districts far out number the number of democratic districts so if the shooting was completely random the chances of a conservative being targeted would be higher but statistics usually are useless in these matters when we are dealing with crazy people.

My only point is the hateful conservative rhetoric has been around since Bill Clinton's time, it is the conservative radio way.  Their message is clear, if you are not conservative, you are not allowed a voice in this country, it is only logical, conservative means intolerant.  Sean Hannity always talks about how liberals are just the same with their hate speech but I only remember liberals making fun of President Bush's C average.