{"id":7059,"date":"2009-04-10T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2009-11-11T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:08:27","slug":"video-glenn-beck-adds-metaphorical-fuel-to-his-own-imaginary-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7059","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Glenn Beck Adds Metaphorical &#8216;Fuel&#8217; to His Own Imaginary Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. He&#8217;s not crazy at all. <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/countyfair\/200904090036?f=cf_clips\">Glenn Beck pours metaphorical &#8220;gasoline&#8221;<\/a> on &#8220;himself,&#8221; his viewers, and his imagined newly-tyrannical America, and his own, and his viewers&#8217;, rapidly accelerating, self-perpetuated sense of victim-hood. When he\/they eventually &#8212; and it shouldn&#8217;t be long at this rate &#8212; actually light the match and blow themselves\/us up, feel free to point back to this item, when we&#8217;re told &#8220;who could have predicted it?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"320\" height=\"260\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg%3Fflv%3Dhttp:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/04\/09\/beck-20090409-gas.flv\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mediaplayer316.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/cfg%3Fflv%3Dhttp:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/video\/2009\/04\/09\/beck-20090409-gas.flv\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Beck&#8217;s daily hour on governmentally subsidized cable TV, and three hours daily on our <i>publicly owned<\/i> radio waves, is a tremendously responsible use government welfare, and reflects brilliantly on our Founding Fathers&#8217; guarantee to one single industry &#8212; and one single industry only (the press) &#8212; in our U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a very responsible use of that singular Constitutional dispensation, Glenn. Keep up the bad work.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nBTW<\/em>, in case you missed it on Wednesday, Jon Stewart &#8212; an actually <i>responsible<\/i> steward of public largess &#8212; spoke directly and brilliantly to the crazies like Beck and Hannity and O&#8217;Reilly and Levin and Bachmann <i>et al<\/i>, by informing them (since they don&#8217;t seem to know):  &#8220;I think you might be confusing <i>tyranny<\/i> with <i>losing<\/i>&#8230;that&#8217;s not tyranny, that&#8217;s democracy&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That video &#8212; actually worth watching <i>and<\/i> taking notes &#8212; follows below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/216.87.173.33\/fvp\/flvplayer.swf\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"image=http:\/\/216.87.173.33\/media\/2009\/0904\/com_tds_fox_baracknaphobia_090407a.jpg&amp;file=http:\/\/216.87.173.33\/media\/2009\/0904\/com_tds_fox_baracknaphobia_090407a.flv&amp;logo=http:\/\/www.rawprint.com\/fvp\/rsvidlogo04.png&amp;link=http:\/\/www.rawstory.com&amp;autostart=false&amp;lightcolor=0x557722&amp;backcolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xCCCCCC&amp;showicons=false\" width=\"320\" height=\"253\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. He&#8217;s not crazy at all. Glenn Beck pours metaphorical &#8220;gasoline&#8221; on &#8220;himself,&#8221; his viewers, and his imagined newly-tyrannical America, and his own, and his viewers&#8217;, rapidly accelerating, self-perpetuated sense of victim-hood. When he\/they eventually &#8212; and it shouldn&#8217;t be long at this rate &#8212; actually light the match and blow themselves\/us up, feel free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,289,308,188,439,300,78],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-central","category-glenn-beck","category-jon-stewart","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-michele-bachmann","category-republicans","category-sean-hannity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}