Over the last couple of months a really smart guy, James Rucker, put a web site together to bring the Forces of the Civil to bear on one, Glenn Beck. The man got tired of the racist rants being put forth by Glenn Beck and did something about it. ColorOfChange.Org asked web surfers to lend their names to a list after reading a call to arms about Glenn Beck. Travel the link and lend your name too, if you like. As a result of this movement a number of big ticket sponsors have left the Beck echo chamber and the main stream media has double clutched.
Unfortunately Time Magazine has done a complete cover package with Glenn Beck sticking his tongue out at the rest of us. Time has, in the name of The Almighty Dollar, undone what Mr. Rucker has set to do by giving Glenn Beck this forum. This is the beginning of a rehab job for Beck. Time Magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this “person”. Yes, the cover of Time, as they like to tell all of us who will listen, is for really important people or subjects. This gives Beck credence where he should be reviled. (I guess this is where I can say Time has had Hitler, not only on the cover a number of times, but as Man-of-the-Year 1938.) Beck is controversial and confrontational for the same reasons as Jerry Springer and Nancy Grace, to make a buck.
Note EU-Digest: Instead of crying about injustice from the right the left needs to apply the same tactics. Has anyone forgotten that in most western democracies we have freedom of speech. The right is using it to perfection while the left needs a refresher course. Moaning about it won't work.
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