Beck is not a follower of McCarthy. He worships Cleon Skousen!
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/25903/
Glenn Beck
You've probably heard the saying, "Show me your friends and I will show you your future."
(There is a lot of truth in Beck's quote. Also a lot of truth in the quote below also.)
"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends." S. Weir Mitchell
Like many people who watched Beck pontificate on the supposed Rockefeller commie artwork, it left me wondering about his sanity. I recently read a jaw dropping article, that explained Beck's commie Rockefeller comments. That article was about Cleon Skousen.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/print.html
Paul Skousen, Skousen's son, endorsed the outlines of the tale to Salon by e-mail, without giving dates: "As I understand it, Glenn Beck was given a copy of FYL by a friend in Canada. When Beck read it, suddenly the effusive and disembodied principles of freedom that he had been trying to dig up and put together all came together and he could make sense of them. He was so excited about the clarity it brought that he began mentioning it on his show."
Sept. 24, 2007.....Beck interviewed conservative pundit David Horowitz on his radio program. He asked him, "Have you ever read any Skousen? Have you read -- do you remember 'The Naked Communist'? I went back and reread that, it was printed in the 1950s. I reread that recently.
On his Dec. 18, 2008, radio show, one month before Obama took office, Beck introduced his audience to the idea of a "September twelfth person." "The 5,000 Year Leap' is the first part of that. Because it will help you understand American free enterprise Make that dedication of becoming a Sept. 12 person and I will help you do it next year."
Skousen had authored more than a dozen books and pamphlets on the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy. It is a body of work that does much to explain Glenn Beck's bizarre conspiratorial mash-up of recent months, which decries a new darkness at noon and finds strange symbols carefully coded in the retired lobby art of Rockefeller Center.
California approved the official use of another of his books, the 1982 history text "The Making of America." Besides bursting with factual errors, Skousen's book characterized African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. Quoting the historian Fred Albert Shannon, "The Making of America" explained that "[slave] gangs in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains."
(Cleon has a unique and vile view on slavery!)
Skousen laid low for much of the '60s. But he reemerged at the end of the decade peddling a new and improved conspiracy that merged left with right: the global capitalist mega-plot of the "dynastic rich." Families like the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Skousen now believed, used left forces -- from Ho Chi Minh to the American civil rights movement -- to serve their own power.
In "The Naked Communist," Skousen had argued that the communists wanted power for their own reasons. In "The Naked Capitalist," Skousen argued that those reasons were really the reasons of the dynastic rich, who used front groups to do their dirty work and hide their tracks.
----Becks ravings about commie art at Rockefeller Center, now make sense.----
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1389
Glenn Beck Has Seen Things You People Wouldn't Believe
"I'm trying to show you the things that seem to be hidden but they're not. They are out in plain sight. Those with eyes will not see and those with ears will not hear. You're awake. You need to see the things that are hidden in plain sight." GLENN BECK
Beck begins his unveiling with a denouncement of a relief at the entrance to Rockefeller Center. The work shows two men on either side of the doors. Beck tells us that one is holding a hammer, and the other a sickle. Ergo communism! It's right there in plain sight. Except that the first man is actually holding a shovel according to the historians curating the Center's artwork. The figures were meant to represent the strength of America's industry and agriculture,
Beck focuses on a bas relief carving by Italian American sculptor Attilio Piccirilli called Youth Leading Industry. Beck's interpretation of this work centers on his theory that the artist, and thus the work, were avowedly fascist. Beck asserts that a strong male figure in the piece is Mussolini. ...... In the real world, Mussolini was a bitter foe of Stalin and vice versa. And the artwork itself is simply heralding a young, creative, and prosperous America. Another subversive concept in Beck's mind.
Turning to a more conventional subject matter for art, Beck finds fault with a biblical representation of the verse regarding turning swords into plowshares. I'm not even sure what Beck's complaint is here, but he's upset about something. Perhaps it just has to do with the fact that there is another swords/plowshares sculpture on the grounds of the United Nations.
(I found that one more than a bit odd. I didn't think of commies, but thought of Five Star General, Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/speeches/19450612%20guildhall.htm
Moreover, when this truth has permeated to the remotest hamlet and heart of all peoples, then indeed may we beat our swords into plowshares and all nations can enjoy the fruitfulness of the earth.)
Beck provides his striking analysis is a painting by renowned Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Beck is concerned by the presence of people like Stalin and Lenin in the artwork. The funny thing about this hypothesis is that the painting Beck is reviewing doesn't exist at Rockefeller Center. Beck is reviewing a version of the painting that Rockefeller rejected because of his objection to the very iconography that Beck is pointing out. Rockefeller had commissioned a work from a draft that did not contain those elements. Yet Beck still blames him for the piece he had thrown out.
For Glenn Beck to set himself up as an art critic/historian is funnier than anything Monty Python ever thought up. While his interpretations lack any knowledge of the subject, they are jam-packed with paranoid fantasies that would make David Berkowitz' dog shudder. (lol)
(Now I get it. The paranoid fantasies are coming from Cleon! Beck is merely a vessel for Cleon Skousen. Cleon died in 2006 but Beck has ressurected him.)
http://ernie1241.googlepages.com/skousen
SKOUSEN..rev 09/17/09
FBI Special Agent -- W. CLEON SKOUSEN
His Suspect Credentials as an "Expert" on Communism
W. CLEON SKOUSEN
The Mythology Surrounding His FBI Career rev. 09/17/09
(August 1960, Mayor Lee, about Cleon)
The man is also a master of half-truths. In at least three instances I have proved him to be a liar before the City Commissioners and the newspaper reporters. To me, he is a very dangerous man because he preaches one thing, practices another, does not tell the truth, and cannot be relied upon. He also was one of the greatest spenders of public funds of anyone who ever served in any capacity in Salt Lake City government. [HQ 67-69602, #286; 8/8/60 letter from J. Bracken Lee to Mrs. Elizabeth Laine, Arcadia CA]
J. Edgar Hoover received numerous inquiries about Skousen's description of himself. His replies declared that: For your information, Mr. Skousen did not have the title 'Administrative Assistant' while in the FBI and In response to your inquiry, I wish to advise that there is no such position in the FBI entitled Administrative Assistant to the Director.
(His qualifications are based on a FBI position that didn't exist! Complete fraud.)
The John Birch Society inflated Skousen's credentials even further. The January 1968 issue of the John Birch Society Bulletin, page 1, described Skousen as "for many years a top aide to J. Edgar Hoover".
During my debates with JBS members and sympathizers, some have even claimed that Skousen was "third in command" inside the FBI or that he was an "Assistant Director"--- both of which are falsehoods.
(3rd in command. lol Wow. That is one BIG fish story. His importance just keeps growing at an exponential rate!)
In answer to a question concerning when he performed the research for his book, Skousen replied that "most of my research on the theory and early history of Communism was done while I was in the FBI from 1935 to 1951." [W. Cleon Skousen, My Reply To Dr. Richard D. Poll and His Critique of The Naked Communist, Ensign Publishing Co., Salt Lake City, page 2].
There are several problems with this Skousen answer.
-First, from October 1935 to June 1940, Skousen was not yet a Special Agent. He was busy with training classes and he served in administrative capacities such as writing training manuals, conducting applicant interviews, conducting tours, supervising Mail Room and Communication Section employees, etc.
-Second, as seen in the summary for Associate Director Tolson, when the Bureau checked, it could find no records to indicate that he did any research on communism
-Third, when the Bureau checked its records, it found that between 1941 and 1946 Skousen had limited exposure to internal security matters and from 1947 until his retirement in 1951 there were no abstracts under his name for internal security or espionage classifications
-Last, none of his performance evaluations state that he did any research into communism or that he participated in investigations pertaining to communist matters
(Organzing FRONT groups. JBS is the John Birch Society)
At the beginning of my analysis, I referred to Skousen's "analytic shallowness". This is an excellent example. In the JBS Blue Book, which is the transcript of Welch's remarks to the founding meeting of the JBS in December 1958, Welch explicitly mentions in the chapter "And So Let's Act" that:
"We would organize fronts----- little fronts, big fronts, temporary fronts, permanent fronts, all kinds of fronts..... The most effective fronts, on either side, are ad hoc committees, aimed to accomplish, or at least publicize, one particular purpose." [JBS Blue Book, page 86].
1959, the JBS operated its front group, "Committee Against Summit Entanglements" aka CASE, to protest the proposed visit of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S.
The JBS also initiated the Movement to Impeach Earl Warren (aka Committee to Impeach Earl Warren) and, in later years, a slew of other front groups such as: Support Your Local Police, Truth About Civil Turmoil (TACT), To Restore American Independence Now (TRAIN), Movement to Restore Decency (MOTOREDE)--- to name just a few.
It strains credulity that Skousen was not aware, in 1963, of this JBS interest, from its inception, in creation and use of front organizations.
In March 1971, J. Edgar Hoover saw a copy of Skousen's article in Law and Order magazine.
The resulting 4/19/71 memo in reply to Hoover's inquiry is 11-pages and is [FBI HQ file 94-47468, serial #98.
Article claims 'dynastic rich' (inheritors of wealth) subsidizing 'force of violent revolution' to help rich take over country for 'good' of humanity. Skousen's claim that Karl Marx turned to 'democratic socialism' as means to seize power not substantiated.
Skousen claim that wealthy class financed Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 not supported by research......Skousen's reference to 'left-wing collectivists' seeking Federal constitutional convention is unsubstantiated.
"Skousen is accurate in claiming that several writers, including historian Dr. Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, have produced studies purporting to document a network of wealthy persons which wields considerable influence in business and financial circles, government, and the mass communications media."
Skousen asserts that when Karl Marx's 'dream' of violent revolution was largely rejected after 1848, Marx turned to support of 'democratic socialism' as a means of taking political and economic power. Research, however, fails to show that Marx ever renounced the violence of the class struggle and the proletarian revolution. Skousen also claims that Marx considered reformist tactics the best method to take over the United States and England. But he fails to specify a source in Marx's writings, and research fails to verify Skousen's statement.
Furthermore, Marx was highly critical of 'reformist' tactics, such as seeking improvements through legislation and strongly held that society could only be improved by violent destruction of the capitalist state."
Allegations that Jacob Schiff and other Jewish investment bankers helped to finance the Communist revolution in Russia have appeared in the past. In 1959, at the Director's instructions, such an allegation against Jacob Schiff was checked out in a review of the hearings conducted in December 1918 by a Subcommittee of the Committee of the Judiciary, United States Senate.........
The hearings absolved Kuhn, Loeb and Company of alleged pro-German sympathies and failed to bring out any information indicating that Jacob Schiff helped to finance the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. [3] [100-407194-6].
[2] The reason why the FBI could not locate any article about Jacob Schiff in the NY newspaper which Skousen cited (Gary Allen cites the exact same paper and alleged quotation on page 69 of his book) is because the "quote" does not appear in a news article. Instead, it appears in the paper's society gossip column captioned "Smart Set" which was written by several unknown persons who wrote under the pseudonym "Cholly Knickerbocker". This is the quality of evidence which Gary Allen and Cleon Skousen think is compelling for their assertions!
(Cholly Knickerbocker makes Curveball look quite reputable.)
(After reading Skousen's chosen viewpoints on Blacks, I feel downright sick to my stomach.)
http://www.mhrn.org/newsarchive/598orr.html
Skousen has been heavily criticized for his view of slavery as a beneficial institution for blacks. A chapter on slavery in his book, The Making of America, consists primarily of a long quote from an article that refers to slaves as "pickaninnies," and argues that slavery was a "blessing to both races." The article speaks of slaves as mere commodities in an economic system and states that "slave owners were the worst victims of the system." According to the article, slave owners were essentially benevolent and well-meaning toward slaves who were unable to care for themselves.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-07/news/mn-1727_1
Probe Ordered in State Panel's Sale of 'Racist' Book
By CARL INGRAM, Times Staff Writer
February 07, 1987
SACRAMENTO---- Gov. George Deukmejian on Friday ordered an inquiry into how and why his appointees to the state Bicentennial Commission approved the sale of a textbook that characterized black children as "pickaninnies" and American slave owners as the "worst victims" of slavery.
The governor acted within two hours after state Sen. Gary K. Hart (D-Santa Barbara) called a press conference to demand that the three Deukmejian appointees be fired for endorsing what the legislator termed a "racist and bigoted" text published by the ultraconservative National Center for Constitutional Studies.
Hart was joined in his appeal to Deukmejian by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco), whose great-great-grandmother was a slave.
"It is outrageous that any group carrying the state's official blessing could associate itself with literature so blatantly racist, not to mention simply inaccurate," Brown said in a statement.
He said 215 copies were sold for $24.95 a copy, and the commission netted $2,145..
In one chapter of "The Making of America," slavery is discussed briefly by the author, W. Cleon Skousen,
nine pages in which Skousen quotes material written by the late professor Fred Albert Shannon. In this, Shannon contends, among other things, that "the slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken. If the owner got ahead of the gang, they all would shirk behind his back."
At another point, Shannon writes: "If pickaninnies ran naked, it was generally from choice, and when the white boys had to put on shoes and go away to school, they were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates." He asserts also that "numerous observers" agreed that "brutality was no more common in the black belt than among free labor elsewhere and that the slave owners were the worst victims of the system."
Further, Shannon writes: "The gangs (of slaves) in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains."
Skousen was reported by his secretary to be unavailable for comment Friday. She said Skousen, as a college student in 1934, read the Shannon text and decided to include it in his "The Making of America."
Skousen denied that his book cast any racial aspersions. He said the word "pickaninnies" is "used as the blacks themselves used it. It was a colloquial term with no deprecatory implication." He said the word was not used in the material he himself wrote.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/print.html
(Mark would later say that between commercials, Beck told him that a friend had sent him "Leap" and that the book "changed his life.") A week later, Beck issued his famously maudlin announcement introducing the 912 Project. The teary-eyed performance was accompanied by a clarion call for all 912ers to buy " Leap.
"I beg you to read this book filled with words of wisdom which I can only describe as divinely inspired," wrote Beck in his introduction to a recent edition.
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