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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-x6MP4-ZrA<\/p>\n

Glenn Beck yesterday — and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

Frye in one of the late notebooks:<\/p>\n

What is important about free speech in a democracy is not only that everyone has the right to express an opinion, however ill considered, but that fools should have full liberty to speak so that they can be recognized as fools.\u00a0 (CW 3, 410)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Full mooner” is the term emerging from the mainstream punditocracy to describe the increasingly unhinged Glenn Beck, whose rants are more and more like watching Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/em><\/a>; jaw-droppingly awful but also inadvertantly hilarious.\u00a0 It’s got to be the most licit approximation there is to being high on shrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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