Even as I’ve researched Beck’s sources, it seems to me that he’s been sounding more and more like Jack Van Impe. Take this latest slice of his radio show, as recorded by Media Matters:
Greece is “collapsing,” Beck claims, because a “communist invisible committee” has a “foothold” in the country. But there’s been a communist party in Greece since 1918. Beck also refers to Greek riots that began in 2008, and fizzled in January 2009, as if they were ongoing today.
The point here is not so much that Beck is making shit up as he goes, but that he’s imitating a particular style of nonsense-peddling. Jack Van Impe has been peddling this same crap for two decades:
