Glenn Beck: The Making Of America’s Benito Mussolini

Forget Bill O’Reilly. Forget Sean Hannity. Those two clowns have not evolved.

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If you want to be scared, watch the self-professed “mad prophet of the airwaves,” Glenn Back, on Fox News channel. He will make you scared of your government, your neighbors and your friends. If you are very gullible, he will even make you scared of yourself.

His show is good entertainment. The only problem is that he does not promote it as such. In his head, his show is "the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment." Jon Steward said of Glenn Beck, "Finally, a guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking."

Here is a typical show. Glenn builds on his hatred of the government, suggesting that the government is coming to run your life. He talks about how the government forced the CEO of Bank of America to buy Merrily Lynch. He links it up to all his angst with President Obama’s administration and drop hints about the socialism that is creeping up everywhere in America. What he will not say in the whole production is that the government that threatened to fire the CEO of Bank of America was the Republican government of President Bush.

Here is another example. He begins to talk about the white supremacist who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in D.C by bringing up Rev. Wright, Obama’s former pastor. He quotes what Rev. Wright said about Obama not wanting to talk to him because of the Jews around him who would not let him. Then he quotes the white supremacist who blabbed over Jews controlling everything, including Obama, who he said they propped up. Glenn’s special guest now jumps in to say that Obama’s former pastor is more dangerous, though he isn’t going about shooting people.

Glenn Beck’s strategy is simple- when you withhold some information, you can make anyone afraid of anything. By focusing on the thigh of a lamb, you can make a viewer think it is a tiger. The other thing you do to confuse people is to throw together things that may not be related.

Glenn Beck is very good at using Neo-Machiavellian appeal to emotion to influence viewers and get them worked up over matters that may not be what they seem. He makes good reference of common sense, using it as synonymous with his stripped out dialectics and polemics. Beck’s bitter anti-government outbursts, supported by a strong desire for direct actions, like the Tea Party, were tricks Benito Mussolini used to gain influence in Italy while working as a journalist.

Should the U.S economy tank and a terrorist attacks the mainland, Glenn Beck could be elected president of the United States in 2012. Like Mussolini did, he is using an emotional appeal to nationalist sentiments to convert the fear of socialism into full-blown fascism.

It has happened before. And it could happen again.

Watching Glenn, many things become clear. Like Mussolini used to say, Glenn has dagger between his teeth, a bomb in his hand and an infinite scorn in his heart. He believes that "speeches made to people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war." Listening to Glenn, you feel that he prefers "fifty thousand rifles to five million votes." Glenn is not kidding. His demeanor is such that says, “If I advance; follow me! if I retreat; kill me! if I die; avenge me.” When you watch him once, you see immediately that he wants three things from you- “Believe, obey, and fight.”

Benito Mussolini has reincarnated in Glenn Beck. You just wait.