I guess it works — making outrageous comments — because we’re still writing about him. Glenn Beck, that is.
Seems that like the rest of us, Beck was deeply disturbed at the slaughter of teenagers on Norway’s Utoya Island. However, what disturbed him wasn’t what disturbed everyone else. His initial take was to be taken aback by the very existence of a Labor Party youth camp, where the 68 murder victims were gunned down.
On his nationally syndicated radio show, Beck declaimed: “There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics? Disturbing.”
Actually, there are responses in addition to instant incredulity and utter outrage. Among them: You want a politicized kids’ camp? How about Tampa Liberty School, the 5-day gathering for 40 children, ages 8 to12, at a private Temple Terrace Christian school? It’s put on by the 912 Project, which is affiliated with the Tea Party national movement, which is arguably no less political nor ideological than Norway’s Labor Party. Its instruction includes Revolutionary War history, Founding Fathers’ principles, some free enterprise examples and a guy in a wig and a jabot.