If you follow the Colbert Report/Daily Show or read the Christian Century, you’re aware of the Glenn Beck (Fox News) screed from March 2nd 2010: “I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church website. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social/Economic justice, they are code words 9ideas espoused by Nazis and Communists). Now, am I telling people to leave their church? Yes.”
Bread for the World, Jim Wallis (Sojourners) and other progressive Christians have renounced Glenn for his comments. He’s made numerous outrageous claims before and after this example. His past nonsensical tirades and rants have been fodder for a number of commentaries. He has elicited a backlash from progressive Christians for such diatribes. Now, as he has announced his resignation in 2011, it appears that his own colleagues at Fox are glad to disassociate themselves from Glenn. Falling ratings and advertisers still must not have been enough for Ruppert Murdoch to be rid of Glenn, as he still thrives in his time slot.
Glenn appears to have succumbed to his hyper rants and daily dire predictions that have little or no basis in fact (what he has purported as truths have been refuted time and again). While facts presented by other Fox News personalities have often been refuted by truth, Glenn had taken the step of presenting himself as a prophet – and in my opinion with a Messianic complex. Glenn will still preside on talk radio so his followers need not despair.
That’s the Word!
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