Neoconservative columnist Bill Kristol called out conservatives, and in particular, Glenn Beck, for fear-mongering about the unrest in Egypt, saying that “when Glenn Beck 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,” he’s “marginalizing himself.”As MediaMatters has documented, Glenn Beck has been on a conspiracy theory rampage since the protests broke out, characterizing them as a plot by everyone from the “Socialist Communists,” to the “Marxist Communists,” the “uber-left,” “the Anarchists,” “the radicals,” and, of course, the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=115016