Fox news unintentionally makes Beck look like an idiot

I preface this by saying that, to be fair, I think that in the midst of his fear mongering hysteria, Beck actually did make a couple of valid points.  But the irony of having Fox’s own commentators belie Beck’s theories is just too funny not to link to.

From Media Matters, with all the sources not just cited, but embedded or hyperlinked.

After Beck’s Show Aired, Fox News’ Prime Time Demolished His Egypt Theory

February 12, 2011 12:36 am ET by Sean Easter

In the weeks since civil unrest began in Egypt, Glenn Beck has peddled bizarre theories and doomsaying about a coming worldwide caliphate and/or communist revolution that will supposedly begin with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Beck’s narrative became so riddled with holes and distortions, the only way to approach it was to demand more proof. Beck tied Egypt to everything and everyone from Code Pink to Van Jones and the Brazilian constitution. His prop chalkboard implied that Turkey, a NATO ally of the United States, is a “dictator we’ve made friends with.” Even conservative media figures criticized Beck. Bill Kristol said Beck was “marginalizing himself” when he “rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left.” John Fund said on Reliable Sources that Beck spoke in “apocalyptic conspiracy terms about America becoming an Islamic state.”

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