When Glenn Beck Attacks!

[DearAbby]

The Fox News host defends his Egypt conspiracy theory, claiming Muslims can't handle democracy—and lashing out at me.

By David Corn

On Tuesday night, Fox's Grandmaster Conspiracy Mash-Up Artist known as Glenn Beck took a swipe at me. It wasn't for the article I had posted earlier that day noting that Beck's bizarre conspiracy theorizing—claiming that the Egyptian uprising had been manufactured by Islamic extremists and "uber-leftists" in cahoots to create chaos that will lead to a worldwide caliphate and a communist new world order—was placing him on a collision course with Fox News and non-nutty conservatives. Instead, Beck was ticked off by something I had said last week on MSNBC's The Last Word. His attack, though largely inconsequential, illustrates Beck's methodology: Ignore facts and assail straw targets. Perhaps more seriously—if that can be said about Beck—this part of Beck's soliloquy showed that when it comes to promoting democracy abroad, he's a flip-flopper, willing to take whatever stance serves his conspiracy du jour.

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