{"id":5200,"date":"2007-10-23T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T22:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2007-10-23T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T22:48:55","slug":"did-glenn-beck-say-malibu-liberals-deserve-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"Did CNN’s Rightwing Nutcase Glenn Beck Say Malibu Liberals Hate America, So Deserve Wild Fires?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

On his radio gabfest yesterday, CNN’s resident rightwing crackpot Glenn Beck implied that <\/a> because residents of Malibu “hate America,” they were therefore unluckily suffering the loss of their homes to wildfires:<\/p>\n

I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire [sic] today.<\/div>\n

Leaving aside the fact that there isn’t a “forest” within miles of Malibu, just seconds before that outrageous, though half-baked, assertion, Beck made a statement that contradicted what he was about to say:<\/p>\n

[We’re] all one America, that just because I disagree with you doesn’t mean you hate America, and I love America. We all love America. We just disagree on how we should function…<\/div>\n

He then contradicted himself in the same sentence a second time, saying he was not referring to Democrats but to nefarious people (liberals? terrorists?) who pretend to be Democrats: <\/p>\n

There are a few people that hate America. But I don’t think the Democrats are those. I think there are those posing as Democrats that are like that.<\/div>\n

Huh?…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It’s always dicey trying to parse logic from the ravings of an unbalanced mind, but since the fires being reported in the national news yesterday were mostly in the Malibu area, it appears that Beck’s “America haters” are Hollywood liberals who live in Malibu.<\/p>\n

Or maybe he was referring to Muslim terrorists who are hiding out in Malibu pretending to be Democrats. (If so, they are rapidly burning through Osama bin Ladin’s fortune.)<\/p>\n

Ironically, while the wildfires on Sunday did significant damage to the tiny but wealthy and politically liberal beachfront enclave of Malibu, the widespread and horrendous destruction that is going on now<\/a> is in the politically conservative areas of inland Los Angeles County, coastal Orange County and throughout northern San Diego County, where around 300,000 people have been evacuated.<\/p>\n

This recalls TV preacher and diamond-mine owner Pat Robertson’s prophesy<\/a> in 1998 that God would destroy Orlando, Fla., with a hurricane because Disney allowed a gay group to host activities in its theme park. Instead, God smote Robertson by hurling Hurricane Bonnie directly at his headquarters in Virginia Beach that August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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