The NYT’s Frank the Crank Smears Glenn Beck and Maintains the Quality of Journalism at the Old Gray Lady

Abstract: Frank Rich of the New York Times dutifully attacks Glenn Beck with smear tactics and compares his uniqueness against the commonly accepted set of right-wing attributes of conservatives with the proper disdain. Pulling names from deep in populist history, The Crank attacks Beck by forcing a mystical phony association with fringe loonies and populists of older times and attempts to show that Beck’s comments give license to the far right to start up their crusade against our government with violence.  Rich name-drops much in this unorganized propaganda piece and achieves little that a churlish dog could criticize or even return to after a brief sickness. He utilizes the ‘Unspoken Words Theorem’ so aptly invented by Maureen Dowd in recent times to adjoin a little convenient leftist history and slanted translations between the written or spoken lines to distort the original meaning.  Glenn Beck is gaining popularity and has much to say that interests real Americans thus people like Frank Rich need to hurry to the Smear Machine and pull their levers to tear him down. This is Macacaism in full pomp, foam and glory and we can all be a little proud of Frank Rich’s valiant-but-meager efforts as he does his best to save what is left of liberalism. He is a great liberal.

The New Y0rk Times is a slick propaganda machine that stands in the very front ranks of political warfare. They form a phalanx against decency and truth. They have a long history of attacking anything decent or American in value and nature with venom and spite disguised as concern or analysis.  They are anti-capitalist, anti-American (if you limit the definition of this word to include white males) and have an unblemished record of supporting dictators and others who have challenged capitalism and lost. Capitalism is the juggernaut that can be ridden like a giant war horse that sweeps the ignoranti from its path.  Capitalism has crushed all enemies to date and the left is understandably fearful. The NYT is locked in a timeless losing battle with natural market forces that offer success to those who will work and play the American game.  The opposite, of course, is true for those who follow the drug addicts, perverts, sleaze artists and mooning adherents to the warped views of this paper. They are going to lose and Glenn Beck is pointing out the ways how.

Their most prestigious journalist and political disinformation specialist for this paper  was Walter Duranty[1] who in 1932 wrote 13 articles for the NYT on the Soviets and their gulags and murders and was awarded  the distinguished honor of the Pulitzer Prize. He was actually at or near the events [or knew the precise details] of what is known in Ukrainian history as Holodomor (Ukrainian: ?????????; translation: death by starvation)[2] and dismissed the horrors in his writings and denied their existence.[3]  His work, although manufactured lies, was politically correct before the term became fashionable and any suspicions about Walter from his editors on facts and details were quashed because he printed what the far left wanted to read. They still do.  Rich still does. The New York Times contends, in some defensive mode which I do not fully understand, that it does not have the award at this time[4] and the Pulitzer Prize Board has twice declined to retract this prize.[5]  There is some logical error here. We cannot be sure on what side of this issue the NYT sits, but politically the outcome is obvious. The most the NYT can say about their best and most famous lying and propaganda mongering journalist is that his work was partially discredited and the NYT “…has been publicly acknowledging his failures.”[6]

In second place ranks Jayson Blair.[7][8] Blair, accused of ‘errors’ in his reporting, wrote 600 articles for the Times.[9] Blair was a creation from a "star system" [read affirmative action program] run by executive editor Howell Raines. What was important to Raines, it seems, was the political position of any article and not the content. Although Blair embarrassed the paper and was forced to resign, the philosophy that the political stance of any piece is more important than the stark  truth is embedded in some titanium obelisk impervious to change and has become the governing  fiducial of this paper. This obelisk shines down upon the Times’ staff as a political guide and as a reminder what must be done to continue employment with this organization.

Keeping with this hallowed tradition, we submit for today’s studies in propaganda and smear tactics the instant work of Frank the Crank. [10] Frank Rich is well known for his supernatural ability to crank out sophomoric and dogmatic far-left literary brats with sausage-machine tedium even when they apply to nothing in particular. He can sometimes identify a pratfall, even when it happens to a Clinton.[11] He is the hyperessayest[12] of macacaism. [13] His strongest literary strength is the use of negative evidence as he doesn’t have to defend elements of nonexistence.  He can spread the caca of macacaism around with a broad brush and bring tears to the eyes of True Believers who adore his works.  Inciting to racism is his sworn duty and personal honor and he excels in this art.

Frank begins our saga with predictable opening remarks:

“IF only it were just about the color of his skin.”[14]-- Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day By Frank Rich Op-Ed Columnist [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

I usually reproduce long quotes from sources in my blogs so as to avoid the accusation that I took something out of context. This is the opening paragraph in full and has no intrinsic denotation until you realize that, as paraphrasing The Old Red Lady taught us,[15] you must read what is not written to get the message--but look deeper:  [“But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!”]. Properly constructed, an essay based on negative evidence and circular logic is unassailable.  One has only to look backward and stroke the latent cords of racism and hate to interject the necessary missing words into Beck’s comments and then to condemn him for speaking them.  That is slick. This is the new Stuff-and-React propaganda process invented by the left: Just put in what you think he said and that becomes fact. Then dump on him.

That is fair under New York Times standards as we know from the Dowdy Dowd. The Crank’s opening salvo has a great deal not said that projects volumes about Glenn Beck.  We now search for substance in this article, vainly, to see just what Beck has done to upset the NYT other than being a white male, a conservative and an American. What we will find is the hysterical and racist images of a journalist set to paper by a person far past his prime and helplessly stressed with an insoluble conundrum.

The Crank cranks on:

“With all due respect to Jimmy Carter,[16] the racist component of Obama-hatred has been undeniable since the summer of 2008, when Sarah Palin rallied all-white mobs to the defense of the “real America.”-- Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day By Frank Rich

Do we have any evidence that Palin recruited “all-white mobs” to attack somebody?  Anybody read hatred of Palin in this or other articles by the NYT?? No, this is standard smear tacticism by the Times.[17] When Joe Wilson called to Obama that “you lie!” the response from Rich is:

“It’s not good for the country that a lawmaker can’t control his anger at Barack Obama. It gives permission to crazy people.”-- Frank Rich

I think Obama lied too and would have done the same as Joe Wilson and excused myself with an essay on civil disobedience at the podium in the House. Somehow, we are to be muzzled when we point out that Obama has no past, has no accomplishments and has done nothing for the economy other than advocate massive spending and thus massive debt from which we probably cannot recover. He is a liar. [18] I don’t like him.  He is a cultured stooge and lackey of Jeremiah Wright of 20 long years standing. I don’t trust him for that. Here is the implication that some white legislator, paying attention to the color of Barrack’s skin and ignoring that fact that he is half white—although this is never mentioned—gives comfort and encouragement to loonies or goon squads to do harm by questioning his veracity.  I call this disease cryptomisoxeny[19]. Thus, it appears that the thus afflicted Rich is conjuring a conspiracy theory with all the usual spangles and tinsel to warn us that hoards of howling racists will soon rise up in some holy libertarian race war and demolish the presidency.  Thorazine.

More and in detail as Rich outlines the attributes of this new threat:

“Time put Beck on its cover this week. Man of the Year may not be far behind. Beck is not, as many liberals assume, merely the latest incarnation of Rush Limbaugh. He is something different. That’s why he is gaining on his antecedents — and gaining traction in the country’s angrier precincts.

Though Beck’s daily Fox News show is in the sleepy slot of 5 p.m., his ratings are increasingly neck and neck with the prime-time tag team of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, and he has beaten them in the prized 25-to-54 demographic. It’s not just because he is younger (45). This self-described “rodeo clown,” who wells up with tears for dramatic effect, doesn’t come across as cranky or pompous, like Limbaugh and O’Reilly. A fervent Mormon convert and proselytizer, he is untainted by association with the old Dobson-Robertson-Reed religious right. Unlike Limbaugh, he bonds with his fallible listeners by openly and repeatedly owning up to his own mistakes, including his history of drug and alcohol abuse. Unlike Hannity, he is not a Republican apparatchik.”--Frank Rich

And this analysis is correct in all ways and a refreshing example of the existence of some ethical limits—however slight--to Jaysonian License[20] to perturb the truth at the NYT.  But, do we detect some anti Mormon bias here? Can Frank be a bigot? Does he drink? Is he pompous? Has he taken drugs?

Frank quotes Beck:

“Americans “know that SOMETHING JUST DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT,” he writes, “but they don’t know how to describe it or, more importantly, how to stop it.” This is right-wing populism in the classic American style, as inchoate and paranoid as that hawked by Father Coughlin during the Great Depression and George Wallace in the late 1960s. ”-- Frank Rich

Coughlin was a leading anti-Communist during the Depression thus the mechanical hatred and spite emanating from the stilted script here.[21] Here the association with FDR and Huey Long gets complicated but the thrust of this article is all about the new alarming evils of populism and that is what Frank is glubbering about.

I also think that SOMETHING JUST DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT when we are spending ourselves into the financial grave yard and are supposed to blindly support groups like ACORN.  I think Obama’s associations with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and others make him an ideological racist[22][23], a liar[24] and a Marxian advocate or stooge.[25] That is something advanced from merely stating that Barack has ‘lied.’ He is a consummate liar.

Frank sputters on until his truss is too sticky to continue:

“Beck has notoriously defamed Obama as a “racist,” but the race card is just one in his deck. His ideology, if it can be called that, mixes idolatrous Ayn Rand libertarianism with bumper-sticker slogans about “freedom,” self-help homilies and lunatic conspiracy theories.”-- Frank Rich

The word freedom here is the most accusative of all Becks’ comments in leftist terms. Freedom means freedom from taxes and demigods like Obama and the now subservient Clintons who somehow escaped jail.

“Unlike liberal critics of capitalist inequities, of course, Beck and his claque are driven by an over-the-top detestation of government.”-- Frank Rich

Note the connection between detestation of government and liberalism that would consume all we have USSR style.  I detest liberalism and can give this process no good words given its performance since FDR and corruption from people like Gore, Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, Carter, Farrakhan, Rangel, Geithner, Schumer, Barney Frank and Cold Cash Jefferson that make liberalism what it is today. I detest all of these social parasites.

Obama is a reverse racist, and ideological racist, a Marxist, a socialist and an anti-capitalist who can make speeches but deliver nothing except debt and despair. His approval ratings are plummeting hence the frenzied damage control antics by little squeakers like Frank.

In a final futile utterance, Frank reverses Glenn Beck’s warnings about Timothy McVeigh: [26]

“Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic terrorism in the form of a new Timothy McVeigh. On this, one fears he knows whereof he speaks. For all our nation’s unfinished business on race, racism is not Obama’s biggest challenge during our unfinished Great Recession. He — and our political system — are being seriously tested by a rage that is no less real for being shouted by a demagogue from Fox and a backbencher from South Carolina.”-- Frank Rich

Yes, the test is on. Frank’s Cranklings are sour and reflexive and are obvious distortions of Beck’s original thoughts and comments. The need here is to stir up the violent factions of the left like the New Black Panthers or LaRaza or revive the old SDS and indirectly back their Islamo-Fascists allies that did so much good for Obama when he protested against President Bush. The left needs urging to go to the streets as they did in the 60s. He has nothing better than to place the reverse race card in an attempt to encourage this outcome as he is so adept at doing. He might be successful in some inner cities.

Beck’s popularity and presence is hacking away much residual faith in Obama and his wild-spending Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters and, yes, Americans know that something is indeed wrong.  We expect the worst of propaganda and smear tactics from the Walter Duranty Papers and today Frank Rich has given us more than an average dose. Frank condemns liberalism with his own words and insinuations.

Great work Glenn!!

rycK

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