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The Fox News political pundit Glenn Beck has no real experience in political science but plenty as an entertainer and overall clown. His blatant biased and racist rants as the brown-nosed front man for Rupert Murdock’s television broadcast for ultra-conservative news is an abuse of the Forth Estate.

When Glenn Beck began his career it was as an entertainer. Beginning as a DJ for a local radio station he spent his formative years honing his craft as a broadcast personality. Personality is what Mr. Beck still relies on although his particular persona is one that shifts with whom ever it is that pays him.

When he worked for CNN he had video taped his show from his couch in his home after painfully recovering from stint in the hospital. His views on the state of our health care system at that time were not kind and he called for reform. If you think perhaps that episode was merely the drugged out musing of a disgruntled patient think again as Beck continued to rally the cry for health care reform in this country on his next in studio show. Giving the entire show to the issue, Glenn Beck railed against America’s health care system dishing out several vicious verbal blows and decrying how pathetic our nation’s doctors and insurance companies attitude and practices are toward the “average Joe”.

Then Glenn Beck abruptly left CNN and gleefully jumped into bed with Mr. Murdock and the cast and crew of a news network whose slogan of providing a broadcast that is “Fair and Balanced” is the antithesis of that statement. Lies, slander and manipulation of the facts are the norm for Fox and Glenn Beck is their errant cheerleader. Utilizing his polished skills as radio talk show host, Beck will shift gears from somber, concerned neighbor to rallying patriotic zealot to paranoid fear mongering doom say-er. One moment he’s a wild-eyed clown condescendingly eschewing current White House policies of which he has neither a real understanding of nor has he any true desire to comprehend and the next he’s a tearful almost blathering mess, lovesick for a country ideal that never existed except in the eyes of the prejudiced and the hearts of a cold hearted corporate megalomaniac – i.e. Rupert Murdock.

His is a voice of his puppet master from Down Under who is hell bent on creating an America where the divide between the rich and the poor is wider than that of most third world countries and deeper than the black hole of the economy our previous Republican administration left us with.  The generations Americans that grew up with broadcast news networks in the vain of Murrow, Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, have become awash with pundits like Beck who pose as newsmen but are anything but or about the news.

Where as Cronkite used to report the news as facts in evidence, Fox News has personalities like Glenn Beck, Hannity and O’Reilly that purport to present the events of the day as actually news when in fact it is merely the regurgitated opinion of their Australian overlord. The crime is in the showcasing of these ridiculous excuses for journalists as “real” news hounds and not the prostituted embodiment of a figurehead with the liver-spotted fist of their media kingpin shoved up their proverbial rectums.

American Patriotism is a phrase to be used when describing a person that believes and lives by the creed of the Constitution and the sacraments of the Bill of Rights. These documents show how much in direct contrast Glenn Beck and his cohorts at Fox News are with the real Americans in this country that value a land of Democratic rule. Where all peoples are created equal and are treated as such not just by the law but by the agents of the Forth Estate that was established to watch dog over corruption and illegal act ivies by those elected into power.  It’s a sad day when the a news network positions themselves as an instigator of news rather than a reporter of it.

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