Glenn Beck's words reveal his views on whether government is good or evil depend strictly on which party holds the White House.
Glenn Beck on June 28, 2006 (George W. Bush in the White House):
BECK: Everybody always thinks if you're in the press, you just -- you have to believe that the government is evil, don't you think? I think that's the first thing in Journalism 101 they teach you -- the government is evil and you must take them down at all costs. Or, how is it that they all have that attitude? That's what I'd like to know. That's, you know -- that's the number-one thing on the declaration of principles that I would like to see The New York Times print. Because, you know, we're always saying, "Aw, they don't understand us." Well, I don't understand them. I don't know who these people are.
How can you be fighting for the same things that Al Qaeda wants, you know? Can you imagine -- can you imagine The New York Times coming out and saying "Hey, the ovens aren't so bad," back in World War II? Can you imagine that? I don't know; sure, there are some Jews in there, but I bet they might make some good pizzas in there too. What are you -- what? The New York Times is just -- I don't get it. I don't understand it. Except that I really truly believe that they believe that we're a bad nation, or at least our government is bad and has always been bad. "You know, we've been passing out those smallpox blankets to Indians."
Glenn Beck rails on the New York Times because they dared to
expose a Bush administration program designed to monitor international financial transactions. He
compared this to condoning the genocide committed by the Nazis against the Jews during the Holocaust.
Give the Bush administration harsh treatment in the press? This makes the NYT akin to Nazi sympathizers, according to Beck. (And when the NYT writes about Benghazi...?)
Beck said:
I think that's the first thing in Journalism 101 they teach you -- the government is evil and you must take them down at all costs. Or, how is it that they all have that attitude?
How dare they attack the government as evil!!!!!!!
Glenn Beck is a liar and an unprincipled demagogue.