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In reply to the discussion: Why Gold Would Be Useless in an Economic Apocalypse [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...every hour.
I used to listen when he was on the radio, just for the entertainment value. I remember him urging people to be vigilant--because some "Middle Eastern looking people" were spotted riding school busses. According to Beck, they were riding along the actual bus routes, and Beck insisted that this was because they were plotting to take over our children's school busses and kill kids.
I had kids in elementary school and it was really scary. He droned on about this for days, insisting that an Al Queda attack on our school busses was imminent. He passed himself off as the only guy who was willing to tell the truth.
Of course, this freak out (along with his other freak-outs) proved untrue and ridiculous.
I don't know how these listeners put up with being emotionally manipulated into a fear-based fetal position by this dry-drunk lunatic.
Beck's show is now online and on BlazeTV--how own Web show. I think this is strategic. No one but his devout, ignorant sheep listeners hear his lunacy. His charlatan nonsense is kept out of the public realm and it is never examined. He gets away with brainwashing these people with no one to shine a light on how crazy he is. Perfect. They're like a bunch of rats, feeding on their own feces--with no one to tell them that they don't have to ingest this ridiculous crap every day.