It isn’t just foreign words like madrassa or Obama or oligarhy (sic) that scare Glenn Beck fans, oh no. English words frighten them too.
For example, there’s “acorn” — a perfectly harmless object that, pronounced in a breathless question, can be turned into Obama’s secret army to take over the country oh noes!
In a post worthy of nomination to the Glenn Beck Writing Hall of Fame, Jenkin’s Ear demolishes this canard:
- The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?
Where did it do that? I just searched the text of the bill, and ACORN was not listed. There are a number of places where someone who is not versed in how bills are written could terribly misunderstand something, but nothing that seriously means that.
Fact: this is not a question, but a lie phrased as a question. It’s akin to someone hypothetically asking the question: How does Glenn Beck kidnapping and feeding homeless people to his secret lizard army benefit society?
