Tiresomely predictable

One of our newspaper's tiresomely predictable leftist writers did the predictable this week; he penned a hit piece in response to the huge turnout at the Glen Beck rally. It was not easy since it so popular and interesting in that even most of the liberal media reported that it was generally non-political. One writer noted, "One striking feature of Saturday's rally was how deeply religious and ecumenical it was." Nevertheless, Libertarian Beck is so threatening to the left, because he promotes smaller government, lower taxes, free trade, and freedom from bureaucrats that Liberals need to spring to the attack. Our Leftie titles his column, "Beck's popularity is a concern," His tortured analysis of Beck embodies the usual Liberal demagoguery: Scour the Internet for a few extremist writer quotes about Beck - protecting himself on the distinct possibility that quoted facts are actually lies. Then, our boy spews out the tried and true class hatred weapon by saying, "Beck is a millionaire, getting rich off foolish and gullible Americans who are scared their country is being taken over by commies or fascist or the Trilateral Commission or that scary Negro in the White House." This last statement betrays an underlying element of the liberal nature - they are elitists who believe they are smarter than the average bone-headed American citizen.