Guardian: Jon Stewart is 'mad as hell' and taking fight back to Glenn Beck

[arenean]

From the 'Guardian' (UK):

Jon Stewart is 'mad as hell' and taking fight back to Glenn Beck

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1. This line made me laugh:

Beck, who has made a name for himself with ever more elaborate conspiracy theories about the Democrats and President Obama sketched out nightly on a blackboard to Fox News audiences, is now the brightest star in a powerful universe of ultra-conservative TV and radio presenters who wield considerable influence over American politics.

[Inuca]

2. I think it should have made you cry

especially the last part.

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4. It would if I believed it

which I don't

[Kolesar]

3. Interesting view from outside of America

"Glenn Beck is doing something completely different. He doesn't just do partisan anti-Democratic talking points in the traditional sense. He's really grabbed on to something much more paranoid and much more dangerous, warning people against the government. It's not that Obama is too liberal or that his tax cuts are too small or it's not that he should be more hawkish overseas. It's really that he's trying to destroy America and that the reason he ran to be president is that he wanted to destroy the constitution, he wants to take away all your liberties and he wants the government to take over all aspects of daily life." He added: "Beck and Limbaugh and the Republican noise machine have whipped up the base in to a frenzy and it's driving the enthusiasm gap we're hearing about. "I think they've clearly had an impact among those 20 or 30% of hardcore Obama haters and the base of the Republican party."