Shifting Accountability

This spin is so preposterous it almost borders on clinical psychosis.



So it's not the Tea Baggers fault that there is racism, vandalism, death threats, and homophobia - it's the Obama administration?

Let me see if I can follow Beck's "logic".

Once again using the tried and true conservative tactic of "these people are RADICALS" and the widely discredited "Obama and Ayers were the best of friends" - coupled with a healthy dose of Beck's newfound love for Jesus and Biblical scripture - we are literally seeing accountability removed from the Tea Bagger realm. Following Beck's thesis to it's end, if there is an act of violence perpetrated by anyone on the Right, they aren't the ones to blame, it's the Democrats.

It's all an elaborate plot, you see. It's what "they" - The Man - want the Tea Baggers to do. It's all so clear now. Please.

This may be a bit far reaching, but I'm getting the sense that Beck is realizing that his inflammatory rhetoric and fear mongering are catching up to him. The only problem is that he's got a show on a network that demands ratings success over fact-based analysis. It's like when a person lies. Most times they will create a bigger lie to cover up for all the little lies they told. This keeps spiralling outward until the lies are so big and preposterous that it all eventually comes crashing down on the person. Beck is dangerously close to that end. The unfortunate part is that he's not going to be the only person damanged from his lies and distortions. Someone is going to get hurt. And I can guarantee it won't be the Obama administration holding the weapon.