Southpark, Glenn Beck and the USA
For those who don`t know me, I`m one of the earliest european bloggers (3rd, behind France and Belgium, by the way), and one of the few who is still blogging "in the name of the Ron Paul Revolution" (http://bavaria-for-ron-paul.blogspot.com/). I really got to know the USA from march 2007 on, when I followed the movement from the beginning. Most Americans I somehow know more deeply (so not the "celebs") are more or less "Paulites". To me, seen from Germany, the rest is "fringe" and I`m pretty confident that one day the ordinary American will wake up to that and remind his own and the people of the world what the original reason for its founding was: to be the one nation which truly has freedom as its moto. Not some kind of ideology or religion, no expansionary nationalism and no BIG OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT!
Actually, it`s quite a long time since America has lived up to its own model. I`m from Statist-Horror-Freak-Show-History Germany - so I am not going to judge and set a date for that, don`t get me wrong...It`s been gradual. Americans had to be cooked slowly for decades.
A couple of days ago, I watched southpark, my favorite TV-Show on the internet, as they ridiculed Glenn Beck by letting Cartman playing him. I would not call myself a conservative. Neither would I call myself a "liberal" (in the orwellian american sense). I`m just a german libertarian (ultra-fringe) watching things in the USA, where so many more people seem to care for liberty than in all of Europe combined.
Glenn Beck is a radical, yes. But he is of the kind of radical I love Americans for. They`re the only meaningfull lot oft them on earth: radical freedom lovers.
I just watched the 40 min. of the Glenn Beck Show that Karl Denninger linked to (don`t miss Part 4):
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1640-MUST-WATCH-...
This guy is a media hero





















That was a good show yesterday
Hopefully he keeps getting more libertarian and drops his conservatism.
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"Anyone who calls me a conservative gets a punch in the nose." - Frank Chodorov