Glenn Beck Admits He Was Wrong

"If this is what the Right is feeding on to educate itself, it's going to be out in the wilderness, gashing itself with sharp rocks and babbling numbers for a very long time," says the sadly, but not unexpectedly, misguided Mark Shea of the above clip — Talk Radio Dementia on the Right. "The guy's nuts," wrongly says Mr. Shea, mockingly adding, "This is what passes for serious discourse on the Right these days? Oy!"

I, too, am a bit suspicious of Mr. Beck's recent conversion and of his network, which for years shilled for the previous régime, but this statement from the video seems sincere, and it is undoubtedly true:

Our government is not marching down the road to communism or socialism... but now they're marching us to a brand of non-violent fascism. We have to empower ourselves, we have to read, we have to learn, we have to study it ourselves, and then we have to stand up, not with a gun, but with our voices, our minds, our hearts, together, left and right, the people who said, 'Fascism if coming under Bush,' and the people who are saying, 'Fascism is coming under Obama;' you're both right! Fascism is coming... I think we've been on this road since Teddy Roosevelt.