In Egypt Protests, Beck Sees ... A New Islamic Caliphate And Communist Revolution?

[Joanne98]

On his Fox News show on Monday, Glenn Beck unleashed a torrent of wild speculation about the consequences of the protests in Egypt. Beck described a world remade by a shift in global power:

BECK: I believe that I can make a case in the end that there are three powers that you will see really emerge. One, a Muslim caliphate that controls the Mideast and parts of Europe. Two, China, that will control Asia, the southern half of Africa, part of the Middle East, Australia, maybe New Zealand, and God only knows what else. And Russia, which will control all of the old former Soviet Union bloc, plus maybe the Netherlands. I'm not really sure. But their strong arm is coming. That leaves us and South America. What happens to us?

That's right: China may control New Zealand, and Russia may control the Netherlands.

Later, Beck proceeded under the assumption that there are connections between recent protests in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Beck designated these countries -- which included France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Italy, among others -- as being "on fire." Pretty much every country that has seen a protest of any kind in the past couple of years, in fact.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102010001

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[groovedaddy]

1. I respect his analysis about as much as I respect his view of history - not at all. n.t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. A Communist Islamic caliphate?

Riiiight....

[denverbill]

14. Seems to have forgotten the whole 'opiate of the masses' view of religion

[SpiralHawk]

3. Wow - the RepubliCorp propaganda pimps are shoveling deep deep deep

That is some tremendous pile of ideological horseshit, only an overpaid chickenhawk RepubliSymp like Beck could fabricate & fulminate at this level of sTinKolA.

[luvspeas]

4. "a Muslim caliphate"?...

as opposed to what? a Christian one? what an asshat.:dunce:

[dipsydoodle]

5. That's mainly due to the fact

he's a nut job.

And not so much of the "us" - Latin America don't exactly owe the US any favours.

[Dorian Gray]

6. Of course he does. n/t

[peekaloo]

7. King Truthuncommon

one big ol' scarab rolling his ball of dung and using it as a crystal ball.

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. Beck went on to explain...

that America will probably end up being ruled by gay, NAZI, marxist pirates who will invade through Montana after sacking most of Canada. The women on The View will someday lead a vast army of Christian midgets whose uniform will include the mark of the devil and whose main weapon will be catapults firing only black spotted goats filled with explosives and fake fingernails for shrapnel.

FOX does more insanity before breakfast than most people do all day!

[JCMach1]

9. this is a huge paradigm shifting revolution...

the most important since Iran's in 1979. There is a good chance it will touch off rebellions similar to the rebellions of 1848 in Europe.

[DCKit]

10. That's EXACTLY what some crackhead I met said!!!!

And if you can't trust a crackhead.... well, there's always Glenn Beck.

[JHB]

11. It's all the work of the Uruk-hai...

...a secret society founded in the ancient city-state of Uruk under Gilgamesh.
Everything is going according to their ancient plan!


What? That makes as much sense as anything coming from the great canyon (empty space between thick rock walls) of beck's head.

[AsahinaKimi]

12. And guess what Glenn?? Any day now the

BORG cube will arrive...


"Resistance is futile.."

[KansDem]

13. I can't decide if Beck and his ilk have become either delusional or irrelevant.

Perhaps both.

But one thing for certain: the events in Egypt has only magnified the pathetic existence of FOX and its wannbees...

[ladjf]

15. Boo! Hey Beck, no one with any sense pays attention to you.

[Modern_Matthew]

16. Behind EVERY controversial media figure...

is more than one wallet dictating what they say.

[jwirr]

17. Actually there is a book that kind of hints at that future in a liberal way.

Emmanuel Todd wrote "After the Empire: The breakdown of the American Order". He sees a reunification of regional powers instead of US Empire. They are somewhat similar to beck's guess. It is nothing more than common sense that countries in the same area would pull together in self defense and economy. I am sure beck made it sound sinister but I was actually comforted by the Todd book.