Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Glenn Beck's would-be assassin prepared for straitjacket

Posted by David Martin on Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM

click to enlarge Glenn Beck thinks Casey Brezik is an assassin.
  • Glenn Beck thinks Casey Brezik is an assassin.

Casey Brezik, the lunatic accused of stabbing a community college dean last fall, is one step closer to having his mental illness formally recognized by the state. "Time is limited," Brezik announced on Monday, after a Jackson County judge ruled that he was incompetent to stand trial.


Brezik is clearly sick, but that didn't stop professional wing nut Glenn Beck from wanting to attach a more enthralling narrative to the attack, which occurred on a day that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was planning to visit the Penn Valley campus of Metropolitan Community College. "He had a political agenda," Beck stated on his radio show in January in an attempt to find meaning in the lack of media coverage of the incident.


Beck shared the Brezik story with his listeners a few weeks after the shooting rampage in Tucson. Beck suggested that the media largely ignored the Penn Valley stabbing -- police believe that Brezik intended to cut Nixon -- because the suspect was an "anti-Christian, anti-capitalist leftist."

While acknowledging that Brezik is a "kook," Beck argued that the throat slashing

deserved more news coverage. "There's no way that it happened," the host said, mocking the inattention to the story.

Beck picked up on the stabbing from rightbloggers. Kansas City-based crackpot Jack Cashill had argued that the Penn Valley story didn't have legs because "even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier."

Cashill allowed that Brezik "is something of a whack job" before diagnosing the young man with "Sudden Jihadi Syndrome," a malaria spread by progressives.


The point of these complaints, of course, is that after the Tucson shooting, the right received heaps of criticism for its "lock and load" rhetoric, while the Penn Valley attack remained a local story.

It's true that lefties with Twitter and Facebook accounts were quick to splatter blood on Sarah Palin in the immediate hours after the rampage in Arizona. But it's a little unclear how the media failed. Were news outlets supposed to hang back and let the AP cover a supermarket shooting that left six dead and a member of Congress in critical condition? Or does every 22-year-old schizophrenic who gets throat-cutting instructions from the voices in his head deserve the notoriety of Jared Lee Loughner?
 

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Ahhh...Glenn Beck again… Still out there on the fringe giving conspiracy blowjobs to anyone willing to pull down their pants and look the other way. Where does this idiot get the material he presents??? He is too stupid to come up with this stuff on his own. It is clearly obvious that he is simply a mocking bird for someone else’s twisted views. Let’s get real here…this fool never went to college, knows nothing about US History, World History, World Religions, God, The US Constitution or Economics. And along that uneducated lineage of personal failures in radio and everything else in his life…the mormon cult made this idiot. That is the only way he got to where he is in broadcast history as he has absolutely no journalistic integrity and he is nothing more than a half educated dry mormon alcoholic. Those are his only qualifications for anything in this life and his personal views that he broadcasts are probably not even his own. If he ever had to get a real job or was forced to live up to a standard of personal integrity, he would fail miserably. This self important racist climbed in bed with Satan a very long time ago as lies, half truths, fear and hate are his only products that he has for sale and he is making big money off of impressionable people who love being told what to think. His show on Fox is just further evidence that Fox News viewers are the most gullible and misinformed people on the planet.

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Posted by Agent of Truth on 03/04/2011 at 8:22 AM

David, if you weary of silly "crackpot" accusations and racist insinuations, how about a debate on the subject of your choice at the venue of your choice. Jack.

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Posted by Jackcashill on 03/03/2011 at 2:39 PM

Wow, looks like that dude has some serious issues lol.

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Posted by TungoWungo on 03/03/2011 at 9:41 AM
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