I heard the dude on the radio the other day. He's gone far beyond politics, he's preaching religion in a club koo koo type way. I mean I would love to go back to the Constitution and all that but Beck is certifiably nuts.
Beck's rants about the liberal-socialist agenda to steal true history is painfully ironic coming from a member of the LDS church whose leaders have made such a concerted effort to hide it's true history from it's own members.
I always thought it was amusing to listen to Ezra Taft Bensen and Cleon Skousen talk about the evils of communism when the church itself was communist. The Law of Consecration is communism and the church tried to live it. I guess the church doesn't like communism if they aren't in control of it.
I'm hopeful that will gain it a wider audience because the extremism is all there and well-documented, but it is developed slowly...
We who watched the lunacy of Skousen, the Freeman Institute, and all the rest of the nutter crowd back then are probably quicker to anger and would like to see real slasher stuff more quickly (and heck, I was a Republican back then). I for one, cheer every time Beck makes an appearance on Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" list...
So Skousen's followers "placed burning crosses on the Mayor's [J. Bracken Lee] lawn." . And in the late 1970's, an LDS Church president "issued a national order banning announcements about his organizations."
Well, that LDS leader would've been Spencer W. Kimball, and I know for a fact he was living across the street from Brack Lee when he was church president... I'm not certain where he was living during the cross burning episode, but I suspect he was influenced by it.