Glenn Beck is a far-right raving lunatic "talk show personality" who seems to think that Khomeini banned 12ver Shi'ism (the official religion of Iran) and repeats the usual BS about how Ahmadinejad wants to speed up the apocalypse. The usual scaremongering -- like that Iran is planning to deploy an device over the US that causes EMP waves which will knock out all electronic communications. What he doesn't know is that such a device is called a nuclear bomb, and if the Iranians could (and wanted to) launch nuclear bombs over the US, the resulting EMP wave would hardly be their biggest concern.
It is easy to dismiss these sorts of people -- Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, G Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, etc -- as blowhards that appeal to trailer trash, but there is a long history of this sort of thing, and they are just the publicly visible members of vast network of rightwing ignoramuses who take over the airwaves and appeal to the most basic hatemongering fascistic tendencies in the American psyche. Together, they form an echo chamber that reverberates with the latest "truth" created through repetition -- that Obama wants to kill your grandmother, that Muslims are out to conquer the world, etc. The Israelis have made a point of grooming relations with these sorts of people even though their blatant anti-semitism is only barely hidden. (WHich goes to show how cynically the pro-Israeli lobby uses the "anti-semite" label.)
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