Gazelle Chicks

My husband has been telling me, for quite a while now, that I need to listen to Glenn Beck. “The guy’s a genius,” he says. So, lately, when I get a chance, I catch him on the radio as I drive into work. I was enthralled by what he was saying this morning and I wanted to share.

Excerpt from Glenn Beck, 1st hour, January 14, 2008:

…I’ve been curious on this one thing and it is a way for me to be able to afford the research that would have to go into it. And one of those books was on — I said, what was it, about six months ago I don’t believe that the communist party ever went away. I don’t believe that Russia actually collapsed. I think they all went in hiding. I don’t think that after we had the situation with McCarthy that those communists just went away. We just stopped looking for them. What happened to all of them? Where did they all go?

And so what I’ve wanted to do is fund the research to be able to track them. How did it happen? When did it start? When did it come here? How did it go underground? Part of the reason why I wanted to do it is because Amity Shlaes’ book called The Forgotten Man. It shows some of the beginning, the Progressive movement that Hillary Clinton is talking about. “Well, I like to consider myself a modern early 20th century Progressive.”

Remember what we first looked that up on the air? What is an early 20th century Progressive? That should spook the living bat crap out of you. What a early Progressive was is a fascist. They were the ones — and really it is exactly, I mean word for word, the kind of fascist that you always call George W. Bush. All the people on the left always say, “Oh, George W. Bush is a fascist, he’s Hitler, he’s Mussolini.” Why? Why do they say that? Because he wants to impose — this is what they believe. I don’t believe it to be true. He wants to impose a set of morals on other people. Well, what the hell is “You can’t have transfats, you can’t smoke, you can’t do this, you can’t do that.” That’s fascism. That’s what it is. It’s fascism with a smiley face, and we are much closer to fascism, and you know it in your gut.

You know it to be true because look at the debate on global warming. You cannot have a debate on global warming. “Science is solved.” Just like eugenics was solved. “The science was solved. The scientists all agree. It’s all peer reviewed.” And so what happens? They shut down all debate. Well, that’s what happens with fascism.

And so Jonah Goldberg where the book Liberal Fascism and quite frankly I hope to have him on in the next couple of days, on television tonight. I’m so sick and tired of him in it, in the first 20 pages, saying “I am not calling Democrats Nazis, I’m not saying that liberals are all Mussolini.” He says it like 500 times because somebody is going to take this book out of context. But I am telling you, America, if you are a listener of this program, this is a must-read. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. Absolute must-read.

It takes you from the beginning where he says, really fascism didn’t start with Mussolini. It was here in America already with Woodrow Wilson and he explains how it all comes together. And really it’s not a dry read. It’s really not. He explained how it all came together here in the United States, how it went over to Mussolini and how the liberal left here in America loved Mussolini, how George Bernard Shaw and these Hollywood elites, they went over there and they fell all over themselves with Mussolini, how they just thought he was the greatest, how the New York Times wrote “This is the future.” It is fascism before fascism was a bad word. “It is fascism and it is the future government.” And they talked about in the New York Times how that this was the future and how democracy was over.