An open letter to Glenn Beck in response to his column "Is American History Repeating?".

I have written this as an open letter to Mr. Beck. Feel free to comment, and to write more letters to this man. His e-mail is: glennbeck@foxnews.com

Dear Mr. Beck,

I read with alarm and dismay your commentary from March 11th, entitled "Is American History Repeating?".

Have you no shame, sir? The nonsensical irresponsible blather that you publish and broadcast is dangerous and hateful. In this article you compare and contrast Jesus Christ and Adolph Hitler. I quote, in context,

"Take Jesus and Adolf Hitler: One's good, one's evil. They had one thing in common: When there was fear and hunger, they said I'll save you, follow me. When you are hungry and afraid it's not always easy to see the difference between good and evil."

There is no common ground between Jesus and Hitler. There is only difference, the same difference that exists between Jesus and yourself. It is not only that Jesus is good (that was your implication, was it not?) and Hitler and yourself are evil. The difference is embedded in two very important truths which apparently you do not understand. First, Jesus said 'Follow me" to everyone, not only those who were afraid and starving, and did not condemn by innuendo, lies, and the odd ad hominem attack those that did not follow him. Second, he was followed not only by the fearful and hungry, but by many others as well. And he was not followed by the hateful and powerful, the intentionally deceitful and misleading, and the powerful who have always fed on the poor and lowly, the weak and the meek.

In your horrible little column you write of the 9/12 Project that "You are the only thing stopping health care from destroying America."

Is health care destroying America? What on earth are you talking about? Isn’t that precisely President Obama’s point; that is, if we do not fix the broken health care system in this country it will bankrupt the country. And if health care is destroying America, then why shouldn't we overhaul and repair it?

The economic nonsense you filled the rest of your column with is ridiculous. The New Deal did help many people who were in trouble. It was not a bad idea...it was a good idea. It was the only idea. And it was the spending and the investing by the government that did get us back on the road to prosperity, particularly the spending in preparation for WWII. Not because spending on war was more productive than domestic spending, but because the size of the spending was so large.

But I do not want to argue these points with you. There would be no point, because the truth means nothing to you. You say your mantra is "The Truth has No Agenda". Perhaps. But you clearly have an agenda and the truth has nothing to do with it. You are a contemptible liar.

Many of my friends, at least those who hold you in contempt, also believe you are just a merely a two-bit hustler, or a blathering weepy buffoon who helps the left in general by demonstrating just how contemptible and ridiculous and out-of-touch your extreme conservative point of view is.

I do not agree with them. You are dangerous. Your point of view is dangerous. And you must be held accountable for your lies. I have started a facebook group named “Can you tell the difference between Glenn Beck and Joseph Goebbles? I can’t.”

 

I hope we do our part to expose you for who you are and the evil you represent.

Sincerely,

Richard C. Krueger, Jr., MD, Ph.D.

March 13, 2010