OK. It's just too rich to pass on.
Here's Keith Olbermann over the weekend, blogging his fury over
Glenn Beck's well-within the bounds revelations of Van Jones
public record, much of which was delivered to Beck courtesy of
Jones' quite public statements and actions. This excerpt (they
are all over the place) has been taken from the
website of our TAS colleague Robert Stacy McCain.
Here is Keith, the spittle practically visible on the computer
screen:
Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and
Roger Ailes. Tuesday we will expand this to the television
audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads,
tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the
chief of his TV enablers, Ailes…
Does this sound a tad familiar if you are a movie fan? Let's rack
up this little riff from The Untouchables, the classic
1987 re-make of the old TV series based on the legendary G-Man
Eliot Ness and his adventures with Chicago gangster Al Capone
during the Roaring Twenties and early 1930s. In the film, Kevin
Costner played Ness, with Robert DeNiro doing an outstanding turn
as Capone, getting the notorious gangster's bullying nature and
taste for violence down pat. Here is Olbermann on Beck…uh, sorry,
I meant Capone on Ness…
"I want you to get this f… where he breathes! I want you to
find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his
family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go
there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS
ASHES!"
What this sentiment betrays, as happens when a hard-core leftist
lets the public mask slips, is that their authoritarian nature
relentlessly propels them towards the personal destruction of
their ideological opponents. Van Jones took himself down with a
series of wildly nutty on-the- record remarks and actions. Beck
never touched the guy's personal life -- was he a drunk? A cheat?
A drug addict? In short: don't know and don't care. Mr. Jones
private life is his own. His public record is not, and Beck
concentrated his fire there. He continues to do his incredible
research into the public record of others in the Obama
administration, asking the American people in this 21st century
communications web for help in this regard.
Olbermann, on the other hand, responds as above. Also, there is
one notable difference between Jones and Beck. Jones was a
government official, Glenn Beck is private citizen. Which means
Olbermann has decided to threaten a private citizen for his
actions in looking into the public record of a public official.
In a word?
Typical.
