Say Anything Blog

It’s been obvious for a while that the skyrocketing popularity of Glenn Beck has been causing the far left to start twitching with anxiety. After all, until recently they’ve had a corner on the market when it comes to rabble rousing and now that someone on the right has shown himself to be as good at it - perhaps even better - than they are, they don’t like it one little bit.

Their reaction? The usual, of course. Do everything they can to discredit him, from mockery to ourtright attack, the ultimate weapon (and usually the weapon of last resort) being to slap the “racist” label on anyone with whom they don’t agree - and who they can’t beat in any other way. That’s their MO and is to be expected. This, however is a new and lower level of wallowing in filth in order to make a point, even for them.

A writer over at Salon.com, one Alexander Zaitchik, decided to see just how much Beck is empowering the racists in this country (that is, the white racists) so here’s what he did by way of research:

I decided to reach out to Don Black, the avowed white nationalist who runs the Web site Stormfront.org, the country’s leading “Discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival.” But Black hung up on me. I next tried to get in touch with David Duke, the former gubernatorial candidate and current head of the European American Unity and Rights Organization. Duke, too, had little interest in talking to me, likely because of my past association with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the activities of white supremacist groups.

Unable to get through to the highest-profile spokesmen of the racist grass roots, I took a page from the other side and trawled their Web sites for insight. I scanned Davidduke.com and Stormfront.org to see what they had to say, if anything, about Beck. Admittedly, this method is not scientific, and certainly folks on the left don’t like it when righties cherry-pick an extreme comment from Daily Kos or the Huffington Post and pretend the whole site can be summed up by such extremism.

Emphasis mine.

So….this guy decides that somehow the people at those two white supremicist websites - I won’t link them but the article at Salon did, so if you feel like bathing in sewage, be my guest - opinions of Glenn Beck are somehow a call to rise up in racial rebellion? That’s sort of like depending on the opinions of the morons who lead the New Black Panther Party as a barometer of how all black people really feel.

Our intrepid Salon journalist quoted one white supremicist who calls himself “PowerCommander” and another who has chosen the mighty handle of “Thor357” (both names, by the way, make me think of the kind of guy who would use handles like “StudDude” or “Bronco10Inch” on adult dating sites), both of whom praised Beck and are therefore worthy of a degree of credibility. The article quotes others as well, including one that calls itself “WhiteManMarchesOn88” Now, there’s a real intellect worthy of quoting, yes, sir.

Sort of feeding on the bottom there, don’t you think?

Somebody should clue the left in that the “racist” tactic is losing credibility fast, and that quoting morons who probably think that the Neo-Nazis in The Blues Brothers were the good guys doesn’t really do much to bolster their case. In fact, it leaves the odor of sewage hanging over every argument they use it in.

Smells like desperation, doesn’t it?