Hugh Hewitt is such a dipshit. His first pass answer is to equate someone saying "Workers of the world unite" to Glenn Beck saying "[the Obama Administration] is leading you to a place to be slaughtered!"

What the fuck is wrong with conservatives that they think those two are within miles of one another, and do they really expect people to be so programmed as to swallow that uncritically?

Am I overestimating the sanity of people?

It's hard to comment on something as shallow as Hewitt's line of reasoning here.

He made a blanket statement that Olbermann didn't know what he was talking about, but couldn't provide one example to support that claim.

And, as always, he claims America and Americans for himself and his political view alone.

Beck and Hannity and O'Reilly talk to "real Americans" according to Hewitt, implying that Olbermann and Maddow are talking to "unreal Americans" I guess.

The right wing talking heads know with certainty that they can make almost any ludicrous claim that they want and they'll never be called on it. It's another example of their "It's true because I said it's true" mentality.

beck appeals to the inherent paranoia of those who are un-educated or ill-educated.
i posted a few months ago how rhetoric kills.
beck appeals to those who are angry,scared and dont understand the why's or what's and what beck offers is not news,nor any form of journalism.he does not offer context and repeatedly has been caught blatanly lying and making things up all for the specific purpose to incite his viewers,who are already angry and upset.
lest we forget the man who consumed almost exclusively neo-con and right wing propaganda i.e:beck,hannity and linbaugh and walked into a unitarian church and opened fore on innocents.

in the political spectrum conservative ideology has its place just as progressive ideology does.both are needed for a myriad of reasons but what we get in beck and hannity, and limbaugh for that matter, has little or nothing to do with a "conservative" ideology but far more to do with pushing a narrative to further a political party.
it is almost verbatim the very definition of propaganda.
hugh hewitt reveals himself to be a tool in just such a propaganda machine as he tries...poorly..to explain away beck and his rhetoric.if anybody actually took the time to pay attention to what has been going on you would find that both parties have abandoned their core principles in order to serve their corporate masters.
while the democrats give lip service to their progressive netroots base while enacting policy that serves the corporate elite.the republicans use inflammatory language to incite anger and distrust and use such banal terms such as :family values,fiscal conservative,christian nation.all terms used to fire up the base but when you take a look at their own policies you see a very different narrative.

in my opinion.the people who are becoming angry and frustrated.progressive and teabagger alike are ill-served by the likes of glenn beck.for while they have reason to be angry and frustrated they are no more closer to understanding WHY pr WHAT they are angry about,because the corporate media has utterly failed to inform properly its own viewers which has left these people vulnerable to the predatory antics of such douchebags as beck,hannity and even mr perfect hair hugh hewitt.
they should not be making million dollar contracts but be ran out of town in a cloud of shame.