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And over there was Glenn Beck, dousing a staffer in pretend gasoline before hovering a match over the pleading young man’s head—conveniently, Beck’s horror show was passed off as a metaphor for the way Barack Obama was going to incinerate America, instead of what it actually was: a gruesome theater spectacle that belonged not on a news network, but in an old-timey street revival.From a new piece on the rise of the Angry White Man. Down with those guys.
Fox News gets credit for perfecting this particular brand of madness, but they certainly didn’t monopolize it. Eventually, the spittle-flicking caterwauling entered and corroded each of the top cable news networks.