Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and
balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host
Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.” In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides
the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he’s the
patriot or the tyrant, he’s definitely full of manure.
The wildly popular Fox News host with three million daily viewers
perfectly captures the vitriol of our time and the fact-free state
of our political culture. The secret to his success is his
willingness to traffic in the fringe conspiracies and Internet
hearsay that others wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: death
panels, government health insurance for dogs, FEMA concen?tration
camps, an Obama security force like Hitler’s SS.
But Beck, who is, according to a recent Gallup poll, admired by
more Americans than the Pope, has nothing in his background that
identifies him as an ideologue, giving rise to the speculation that
his right-wing shtick is just that—the act of a brilliant showman,
known for both his over-the-top daily out?rages and for weeping on
the air.
Milbank describes, with lacerating wit, just how the former shock
jock without a college degree has managed to become the most
recognizable leader of antigovernment conservatives and exposes him
as the guy who is single-handedly giving patri?otism a bad
name.
關於作者：
DANA MILBANK is a syndicated columnist with
the Washington Post and a prize-winning White House
reporter. He has written three books, including the national
bestseller Homo Politicus. He lives in Washington with his
wife and daughter.
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