In the same item that trashes CNN’s Piers Morgan, Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott has a few choice words for Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck.
“Incoherence isn’t a bug in Beck’s software program, it’s the primary directive,” he quips.
Like radio god Rush Limbaugh, Beck combines the roles of pedagogue and demagogue into a single luncheon meat, slathered in blather. But where Limbaugh stays on track in the radio studio, taking a single theme and pounding it flat, Beck is a grab-bag collage artist of half-baked ideas and lore, grafting bits of history and chunks of speculation into a clanking Frankenstein monster with Barack Obama’s face sewn onto Karl Marx’s head and one arm raised in permanent Nazi salute—“liberal Fascism” as an evil action figure.
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Wolcott also bashes Beck’s FNC colleague Sarah Palin, writing:
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a “Restoring Honor” revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
It looks like Wolcott is not a big fan of cable news.