Glenn Beck's 100 Year Reich... er, Plan

[BurtWorm]

:puke:

He could be a self-aware fraud. That's the best case scenario. Otherwise he's a self-deluded little Hitler.

This is from Think Progress:


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/22/beck-100-year-plan/


Glenn Beck Has A ‘Plan’ To Sell Books With March On Washington On The Anniversary Of MLK Speech

Yesterday, while promoting his latest book at “a festive campaign-style rally” in The Villages in Florida, Fox News host Glenn Beck announced that he was crafting “a 100 year plan” that will be “radical” and will “restore our nation to the maximum freedoms we were supposed to have been protecting.” In his speech, which Media Matters captured on video, Beck told his followers, “we need to start thinking like the Chinese“:

BECK: I’ve done a lot of reading on history in the last few years and I was amazed to find that what we’re experiencing now is really a ticking time bomb that they designed about 100 years ago, beginning in the progressive movement. And they thought, “you know what, if we just do this and this and this and this, over time if we do it in both the Republican and Democratic parties, we will have our socialist utopia.” Well, I say again, two can play at that game. I am drafting plans now to bring us back to an America that our founders would understand. … We need to start thinking like the Chinese. I’m developing a 100 year plan for America. A 100 year plan. We will plant this idea and it will sprout roots.

Watch it:

At the rally and in a letter on his website, Beck said that he planned to organize a series of conventions in seven regions of the country, where his supporters can go to learn about “self-reliance, community organizing, the economy and how to be a political force in your own neighborhood and country.” The conventions will culminate in a new book by Beck called The Plan and a march on Washington to launch it:

- All of the above will culminate in The Plan, a book that will provide specific policies, principles and, most importantly, action steps that each of us can take to play a role in this Refounding.

- On August 28, 2010, I ask you, your family and neighbors to join me at the feet of Abraham Lincoln on the National Mall for the unveiling of The Plan and the birthday of a new national movement to restore our great country.

Hot Air’s Allahpundit notes that the date of Beck’s DC event “happens to be the anniversary of the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr. “Eschewing the title of ‘leader’ is thus a curious display of modesty from a guy who thinks his book launch is worthy of a modern-day March on Washington with him in the MLK role,” writes Allahpundit.

But not everyone thinks Beck is just elaborately promoting his next book. “He might just be trying to sell books, but there are much simpler ways to sell books,” Media Matters’ Ari Rabin-Havt told the New York Times, adding that “Beck sounded more like a presidential candidate than a pundit.”

[bridgit]

1. I say encourage Beck to run, he'll be the first to crack on national TV...

[Andy823]

2. So lets see

Beck is going to become a "community" organizer, and during the elections the right painted president Obama as a "community" organizer and turned it into a bad word, a demeaning job. So will they turn on Beck the same way, or will just see a whole lot of that good old right wing "hypocrisy"?

Beck is trying to do just like Palin, and cash in on the crazies on the right. As long as the nuts are buying their books, as long as insanity rules the right wing radicals, they will both continue to rake in the bucks, and insight those who listen to them do things that could lead to violence. The only good thing is that they will divide the republican party next year and that might help the democrats.

[orwell]

7. 100 year plan...

...isn't that modeled after the Chinese?

Re-education conventions?

Sounds like a commie pinko to me!

[Initech]

3. Beck's master plan?

[OHdem10]

4. Never underestimate a Demagogue. Democratic Activists, Beware

you are much more informed than the average American. Whereas
you see through Beck, Millions and millions may not. You
have a serious responsibilty here.

IMO, he is much more interested in Movement Politics than
a one-time run at the Presidency.

[BurtWorm]

6. The question is, how serious is he?

He's a shock jock at heart--meaning a prankster. Is this another of his pranks? Or has he fallen for himself in a big way--in which case, I agree, he could be dangerous. Not as "presidential material," but, as you say, as the face of an extreme right-wing nativist white-power movement.

[classysassy]

5. Dear Mr Beck

" have you no shame,sir?."To have your crew of racist shitbags march on Washington,on that day is indeed shameful,heres hoping the people of DC meet you and yous slime with a counter protest that will send you running for cover to protect your cowardly ass.