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WATCH Glenn Beck Compare Bill Nye to Clergy Who Tried to Silence Galileo (Video)by Nick Goroff |
It would seem as though Glenn Beck's short-lived intellectual clarity
has come to an end. Just days after lamenting the divisive and
hyperbolic nonsense which defined the conservative pundit's time at Fox
News, Beck has apparently reverted to supplementing factual reality with
bombastic nonsense, when during his program on The Blaze, Beck likened
science advocate Bill Nye's insistence on keeping creationism out of schools and science classes to the Catholic Church's suppression of Galileo.
Saying
that Nye would be on the "wrong side of history," Beck used the
scientists words during a portion of his show, in which he took to
glumly berating Governor Andrew Cuomo
and Arnie Duncan for their positions on everything from the role of
ideology in society, to the promotion of common core educational
standards, using such to paint the three men as oppressors of
conservative thought.
Characterizing
progressive and science based criticisms of what are often rhetorical
or religiously based schools of thought as a form of victimization, Beck
renewed the common theme of playing the victim card, popular among
conservative commentators and personalities who find themselves on the
"wrong side" of issues.
Though
lacking the puppets, dead fish of prop telephones that have largely
served to define his career as a broadcast personality, Beck's delivery
of his ideological diatribe was notable subdued compared to his
generally, more animated persona.
And
while his tone and even some of his messaging has changed, this clip
could be seen as honest evidence that in the house of Glenn Beck's mind,
while the window treatments may be different, the layout remains much
the same, imagining a world where facts come second to rhetoric and
reality is but another liberal lie, seeking to destroy America.
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