5 Feet of Fury

What? No ‘Lonesome Roads’ references when they’d actually be appropriate?

From my new post at David Horowitz’s NewsReal blog:

When they aren’t comparing him to Howard Beale of Network, Media Matters (a.k.a. the George Soros Steno Pool) and other left-leaning pundits love calling Glenn Beck a real life Lonesome Roads.

Roads is the lead character of the recently revived film A Face in the Crowd (1957). Like Network, A Face in the Crowd is about the power the mainstream media presumably wields over the masses, and the making (and unmaking) of a broadcasting demagogue.

Usually typecast as the lovable innocent backwoods boy, Andy Griffith shocked viewers with his portrayal of Roads, an amoral drifter with a gift for gab, boundless ambition and no redeeming qualities. (…)

Now, Griffith is shocking some folks again, many years later: he’s become a shill for Obamacare...

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