Glenn Beck isn't as much of a Fundie as I thought, according to Mark Lilla:
The night before the “Restoring Honor” rally Beck held an event called “Divine Destiny” at the Kennedy Center for a mainly handpicked audience of ministers and churchgoers. ... Beck echoed many of the ideas found in Willard Cleon Skousen’s Mormon political catechism, The Five Thousand Year Leap, and in the dubious historical research of David Barton, an influential, self-taught evangelical minister who was on stage with Beck during the event. But when Barton, who runs a Christian nationalist organization called WallBuilders, repeated his group’s dogma that “most of our presidents and founding fathers thought of this as a Christian nation,” Beck objected, took the mike, and stated flatly that “one thing that cannot happen: religion and politics must not mix…. That’s what happened in the Weimar Republic.” Barton backed off.
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You can't sneak up on the Zionist Lobby and beat its policy. As far as I know, Beck is not hammering away at its decisive grip on Mideast policy and pivotal if not exclusive responsibility for the Islamophobic aggression across the Moslem world. Rather he's calling Israel our friend and Foxman's letting him off any temporary hooks.
Rather he's calling Israel our friend and Foxman's letting him off any temporary hooks.
I don't expect anything better from Foxman. :-(
Foxman had his hands full defending Kissinger's remarks the other day.
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