People are beginning to pay attention to this administration and the direction it is attemting to drive us in.

In the following article by John Reiniers, who is obviously NOT a fan of Glenn Beck, admits to the powerful influence that Beck has had in exposing the dark side of this administration.

Shocking revelations... on video... exposed by Beck... for all to see... all the while a complicit media tries vainly to keep it's collective head stuck in the sand. Only problem with one's head stuck in the sand is that it exposes the throat to a swift and final end... which we see happening right in front of our eyes... the rapid demise of the MSM as we USED to know it.

John Reiniers in the Tampa Bay Online

Over the top but on the mark

If you can get by the histrionics and theatrics, talk jock Glenn Beck does a nice job of weaving together what might appear to be disparate scenarios, but when viewed as a whole, leave you with the nagging feeling that Obama and his team are much further left than his campaign rhetoric led us to believe. I can only take so much of Beck, and catch his show only because he comes on when I'm working out on the treadmill or elliptical, and bored to death. He is as far to the right as MoveOn.org is too far to the left. (If either moved another inch they'd fall over.) Yet, now I find myself watching him for breaking news! That sounds like a bad joke.

He may give the Fox news channel a bad name in liberal circles, but he is the only one who seems to be breaking new ground revealing the socialist tinge to Obama's inner circle. The journalists on Fox then pick up his storyline, usually followed last by the mainstream media which will couch his "propaganda" in disparaging language. ("raving crazy," "the new lying lunatic skunk at Fox.")

I had written about Obama numerous times before the election saying that he was a closet socialist. His early ties to taxpayer funded ACORN (authoritarian socialists) as a leadership trainer - even before Harvard Law School - were troubling, but I thought after the election the Democratic leadership would nudge him to the middle; particularly after he made some respectable early cabinet appointments. Then came the czars.

It did seem bizarre to me that he would appoint Van Jones - an avowed communist - as a czar. I shrugged it off because of their early friendship, until Beck's staff uncovered recent revealing videos of Van Jones, such as, "I met...really radical communists and anarchists, and it was like this is what I need to be a part of,.. and "by August I was a communist." Then other strange videos started popping up, such as Ron Bloom, manufacturing czar, another Harvard grad from the United Steelworkers Union: "We all know that the free market is nonsense...We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun..." And like Obama, Bloom had connections to the Democratic Socialists of America, which is decidedly more socialist than democratic. ("Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production. Our immediate task is to limit the capitalist class's prerogatives in the workplace.") As a child Bloom was indoctrinated in Habonim, "a progressive Labor Zionist youth movement that emphasizes...socialism and social justice." Bloom explains: "That's part of what I try to do in my work life...That's one of the things that made me want to work for Obama."

And the list goes on with Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, former Congresswoman from California, who got 60 percent of her PAC donations from the Association of Trial Lawyers, the Teamsters, and the Service Employees International Union. (SEIU). Beck rails against Obama's love affair with the SEIU. ("Your agenda has been my agenda in the United States Senate.") She has sent representatives to meetings sponsored by the Socialist International, and to a major Communist Party USA event.

And then Anita Dunn, Obama's communication director, who called Fox the "communications arm of the Republican party." Beck's investigators then uncovered a video of Dunn addressing a high school graduation exercise telling these kids that Chinese dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong is one of her "favorite political philosophers." She later tried to explain her comments away, but after all, she is Obama's communications guru, and should do a better job than this.

The list of odd ball far left liberal czars and advisors seems endless.

Beck really became a rock star when he released all those shocking videos of ACORN trained cadre in four cities endorsing prostitution, tax fraud, and sex slavery by illegal immigrant minors. These videos were so despicable that even the mainstream media finally had to report the story, and the Democratic Congress was compelled cut off their funding. (As it is, ACORN is also under investigation in 14 states for voter registration fraud.)

This story was so big that it was reported in the People's Daily Online, euphemistically known as China Daily USA, which referred to ACORN as a "U.S. Anti-poverty group in trouble over tips for prostitution," and in "850 neighborhood chapters in 100 cities across the U.S...Argentina, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Canada." Good grief. This is a Chinese newspaper.

And all because of Beck.

Even Britain's guardian.co.uk got into the act saying that "Barack Obama's press chief" will not "legitimize" Fox News "as a news organization. No favours, no interviews, no recognition. The fantastically rabid Mr. Fox is the enemy."

And all because of Beck.

There is a lot more to this story, and it has a Michael Moore feel to it. A "mockumentary" on Beck - given his weirdness, his past, and his right-wing Christian background - could be more of a box office hit with Democrats than "Sicko" or "Capitalism: A Love Story." But how do you finesse all those revealing videos? They are the truth. Everybody wants to be on camera. There are no more invisible secrets.

Daniel Borstin, brilliant American historian and twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress, observed in his Guide to pseudo-events in America, that "Truth" has been displaced by "believability" as the test of the statements which dominate our lives." This reflection is but another slant to Mark Twain's observation that "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities."

"Truth isn't."

Thanks John Reiniers for honestly paying attention... and reporting what you have seen in fair and balanced journalism.

The craft is still alive... and it is a breath of fresh air... but of course to the power brokers that would manipulate and dominate the least able... true journalism is a curse.

xtnyoda, shalomed

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