You may have seen this video from a Glenn Beck 9/12 get-together:
Some conservatives are a bit shocked at the guy at the microphone getting loud approbation for crazy conspiracy theories. John Cole has the rundown:
Dan Riehl states that the guy talking is a “fairly obvious nutcase gets up in an open mic forum and makes some outlandish claims.”
Oh really? What I heard was pretty standard fare for mainstream Republicanism. Here is a transcript, starting at 2:20:
This is a 50 year plan that is coming into culmination right now. This is not something that just happened with Obama. George Soros is the money man behind Barack Obama. I say, and I know it, I’m in the marketing business...
The only thing missing was a little ACORN love, and this rant from an “obvious nutcase” is fundamentally no different from ANY afternoon at the National Review’s Corner. Nothing he said is any different from anything you would hear on an O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck show. Nothing he said was fundamentally any different from anything you would hear at the McCain/Palin rallies last fall. You had a Vice Presidential candidate saying the current President didn’t like America and palled around with terrorists. You spent months peddling nonsense about Obama not putting his hand over his heart or being sworn in on a Koran or not being an American citizen. This week, you had the former chief strategist for Bush, a former Republican Senator, and a Washington Post columnist all basically questioning the loyalty of the President. This guy’s fault isn’t just that he is a nutcase- his problem is he just believed the bullshit pushed through the right-wing email lists.
And even then, the problem isn’t one nutcase. The problem is that you are whittled down to nothing but the bitter rump, and you are discovering that not only does the camera add ten pounds, but it also adds a heap of crazy. When you play back the nonsense you have been spewing for the past couple of years, you don’t like what you see. I guess you have something in common with the rest of the country.
"The problem is that you are whittled down to nothing but the bitter rump, and you are discovering that not only does the camera add ten pounds, but it also adds a heap of crazy." That has got to be one of the best lines written on any blog in 2009. And John is right, we're going to be treated to lots more of this kind of nonsense/fun from the teabagging parties planned this week.
As the craziest of the crazy burn up the YouTubes, expect conservatives to claim infiltration by ACORN and other such nonsense, but our side simply can't fake this sort of crazy. And we certainly can't fake the adoring crowds applauding enthusiastically at this sort of crazy.