Hired propagandist
and corporate media shill, Glenn Beck, had Jonathan Sandys,
great-grandson of Winston Churchill, and the neocon and former
Marxist David Horowitz on his show to attack Ron Paul, or more
accurately the “fringe elements” that support Paul.
Horowitz, typically mired in the 1960s, completely mischaracterizes
the underlying dynamic of the movement, drawing anachronous
comparisons between antiwar radicals of the so-called “New Left”
back in the day with Muslims and the diversified antiwar movement of
today. Horowitz, with his Marxist conditioning, insists on lumping
these two elements together and for obvious reasons — demonizing
Paul supporters becomes an easier, albeit intellectually lazy and
disingenuous effort.
Beck fine tuned Horowitz’s mischaracterization. “Let me take it back
the other way, David,” he averred, “it’s not just the Left this
time, it’s also the Right. Ron Paul’s supporters are also on the
Right.” Horowitz agreed and specifically attacked Lew Rockwell,
declaring the Libertarians as “indistinguishable from the
anti-American Left these days” and insisting they are “totally in
bed with the Islamo-fascists,” in other words they are terrorists.
Jonathan Sandys lamented the loss of “traditional values,” that is
to say it is no longer quite so easy to bamboozle the public and
march them off to war, as our rulers are accustomed.
Beck concluded his segment by declaring the “Ron Paul Revolution” is
“meant as a catchy slogan, but I fear some of his fringe supporters
are taking the word ‘revolution’ to literally,” sort of like the
founders took the word literally and acted upon it. Beck and his
corporate handlers are concerned because, indeed, the Ron Paul
Revolution is far more than a simple slogan and Paul supporters
fully intend to clean out the corporate infested whorehouse in the
District of Criminals and return America to a nation based on
constitutional principles.
“As the Ron Paul movement grew, it was inevitable that the neocons
would turn from demeaning to smearing,” writes
Lew Rockwell on the LRC blog.
“One clownish and sinister example was Glenn Beck’s CNN show last
night.”
Beck actually
said that the US military may have to be used against the
growing threat of domestic terrorism: Ron Paul donors. Why?
Because there is a “rising tide of disenfranchisement” (sic) and
Ron’s volunteers raised $4.3 million in one day “to commemorate
Guy Fawkes” in a “money bomb.” Of course, no American knows
anything about the English Catholic rebel of four centuries ago.
The donors were referencing the movie and graphic novel, V for
Vendetta.
Then Beck says he [is] a libertarian in his heart and it’s OK to
raise money anyway you want, so long as you are not “blowing
people up.” This from a guy who advocates blowing people up
every day, so long as they’re Arabs.
Then comes a plummy Brit who I think is one of Bertie Wooster’s
friends from the Drones Club. Then Beck gets to the real point:
we are a right-wing peace movement. And being for peace means
you want to kill people, whereas being for war means you want
peace, if I may distill the agitprop.
It should be
obvious by now that there is indeed a concerted effort to go after
the “fringe element,” that is to say patriotic Americans who want to
put an end to endless neocon wars advocated by the likes of
washed-up Marxists and former Trotskyites—or as the patriotic
American, Paul Craig Roberts, calls them, “the Jacobins in the Bush
administration”—and return America to a constitutional republic.
In the weeks ahead, we should expect more such scurrilous attacks.
