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If the Glenn Beck rally has been the success it is claimed, that is the worst news, for the American right, for America, and for the world, that anyone could conceive. Beck is a creature of Rupert Murdoch, and anyone who looks at Murdoch knows that he is corruption incarnate and personified. A thrice-married libertine who managed somehow to worm his way into a Papal knighthood while his newspapers persecuted the Church, a tax fraud who manages to pay less than one per cent of his British income in tax thanks to a monumental structure of tax-haven corporations, an enemy of competition and free trade whose purpose in every industry he enters is monopoly, a brute who sells his newspapers on nothing but sex and thuggery, this man was born to poison everything he touched.

To deal with him is to be compromised. Ask Brent Bozell III (who however has been growing depressingly silent on the monster of late) which of the four TV networks is most outrageously committed to obscenity, moral looseness in every area, exaggerated violence and showy, narcissistic sex; and then ask all the conservative pundits and personalities, beginning with Sarah Palin herself, how they can keep a straight face preaching the benefits of Judeo-Christian culture and family values knowing that an hour or two later the same network would be broadcasting "Family guy" or some obscene "reality" show. Debbie Schlussel may be a self-righteous harpy notable mostly for her failures, but in opposing him, everyone who works for him, and everything he stands for, she is doing righteous work; and someone has to.

When Dr.Martin Luther King called together the famous rally which Beck imitated, he had spent more than a decade building up the civil rights movement and his own position in it; he had risked his life (which he was one day soon to lose) in its service, and had acquired such stature that almost every notable black personality in America, beginning with Louis Armstrong and Mahalia Jackson, was willing and glad to stand by his side. Who is Glenn Beck? What has he done to give him the moral authority to imitate Dr.King, to call out a political movement in the nation's capital, to claim to speak in the name of God and the constitution? Nothing. He is there because he has been promoted by Murdoch's bloodsucking, liberticidal organization; and the hand that moves him is the hand of the international crook from down under. This is the take-over of the conservative movement by the media colossus that pays no taxes, that teaches (and pratices) sexual looseness and mental brutality, that has nothing but a negative, acidic, destructive impact on society. God help us.

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AFTER she broke through in the Sun. And BECAUSE she had broken through in the Sun. And her stardom and the reason why all those eleven-year-olds admired her was all to do with her tits. The same poll, as I recall, placed "page three girl" among the top three career ambitions for pre-pubertal girls. As for Thatcher, I, like the majority of people in Britain, hated her from the word go. Principled? Only if destruction and immorality are a principle. She never saw an abortion she did not like. She abolished the London County Council because she did not like its politics, exposing the capital of the country to the nonsense of being administerd by 33 squabbling councils. She deindustrialized the country and did so quite deliberately. (Compare and contrast Germany.) She began the infernal cycle of fake consumption-led growth financed by house price inflation, for which we are only now beginning to pay. (Compare and contrast Italy, where not a single bank has gone bust, because Italians still rent their houses instead of buying them at inflated prices that they will never in their lives be able to repay.) She let loose the unproductive speculators of the City, removing every serious control over them; and the result could be seen even in her own government. I remember going through a few years' worth of back issues of Private Eye, and finding that the period had seen an average of one major bankruptcy with criminal features every four months. We are not talking peanuts here, we are talking about the likes of BCCI, Robert Maxwell, Polly Peck International, Blue Arrow, etc etc etc. The Thatcher government was a disaster, and the bill will be paid for generations.