Here's where you get the TeaBagger Cult and the audience for Beckistan. Beck borrows his paranoia targets from Lyndon LaRouche.
Glenn Beck aims his go-galt schtick at the Federal Reserve System. This time out he uses and recommends the LaRouchians' Secrets of the Federal Reserve.
MediaMatters Matt Gertz hits it out of the park:
Beck-promoted book pins creation of Fed on conspiracy of Jewish bankers
I've been doing research on connections of TeaBagger Cult projects and the LaRouchians. This piece catches the Beck-LaRouche lovefest right at the top. Specifics below the fold :::
Gertz gets it 100% that Beck is jumping the shark for mad claims. Beck's viewers are led into fake-facts and Communal Delusions again and again. Beckistan is getting to look more and more like the operation of a cult.
For decades Lyndon LaRouche has been mining for converts among the mentally disordered. There's no shortage of paranoids. This demographic is estimated in the low single-digits range, depending how tightly the condition is defined.
Same core target audience. Paranoids. Here's typical strategic placement for paranoid baiting:
The Rothschilds are only one of a web of New World Order-type groups that Secrets of the Fed portrays as central to how the Fed was established and retains power, including the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergers.
The Anti-Defamation League writes of such conspiracies in an article on the Bilderbergers:
Various far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, however, charge that the group is a shadowy force seeking to control world events, exerting allegedly dominating powers of international influence to promote a "new world order" under their control. The extremists claim that Presidential candidates of both major U.S. political parties are controlled by the Bilderberg group; among those often mentioned in such conspiracy-oriented propaganda are David Rockefeller, the Clintons and Henry Kissinger. Other Bilderberg leaders are said to be members of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations -- groups which themselves are often central players in far-right conspiracy theories of secret efforts at domination of the world's political and financial institutions and the press. Such charges about the Bilderberg group were a regular feature in The Spotlight, the recently-defunct weekly tabloid of the far-right, anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby.
Beck recommended this book enthusiastically. It claims specifically that local business leaders have:
"...set up regional councils, on orders from New York, of such groups as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, and other instruments of control devised by their masters...."
The book falls totally in line with LaRouche:
LaRouche tells us that on February 5, 1891, a secret association known as the Round Table Group was formed in London by Cecil Rhodes, his banker, Lord Rothschild, the Rothschild in-law, Lord Rosebery, and Lord Curzon. He states that in the United States the Round Table was represented by the Morgan group
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And:
Although the Rothschild plan does not match any single political or economic movement since it was enunciated in 1773, vital parts of it can be discerned in all political revolution since that date. LaRouche points out that the Round Tables sponsored Fabian Socialism in England, while backing the Nazi regime through a Round Table member in Germany, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, and that they used the Nazi Government throughout World War II through Round Table member Admiral Canaris, while Allen Dulles ran a collaborating intelligence operation in Switzerland for the Allies.
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Beck is recruiting for the TeaBagger Cult. At least that is his intent.
The book runs more to recruiting for the LaRouchians.
Beck's primary resource for his rants is work from charismatic Mormon paranoids Skousen and Quigley. The core of it, the central fantasy-fact, as cited by Gertz:
...there actually exists a relatively small but powerful group which has succeeded in acquiring a choke-hold on the affairs of practically the entire human race....
A cult is a cult is a cult is a cult....
Beck is a younger LaRouche. Nothing much different apart from Beck's 20 years on the air as a shock-jock DJ.
Otherwise, the same guy.