Glenn Beck Plans A Libertarian Disneyland

In case you've been wondering what Glenn Beck has been up to, if you think getting booted from Fox News has chastened him in any way or put a chink in his megalomania, it's time to reconsider. It seems that Beck's plans are bigger than ever. Earlier this week, he revealed plans for some kind of super duper libertarian utopia/theme park. And guess what? It's one big monument to Beck's philosophy - and, presumably, to the lining of his pockets.

I wrote about this in more depth on Crooks and Liars this week, but here's an excerpt:

Glenn Beck wants to be the libertarian Walt Disney. And he has decided to build himself some kind of libertarian-utopia theme park called Independence, USA where, for a price, you can live out Beck’s dream of America The Way It Should Be: Grow your own food, your own energy and your own media. Plus, there’s a giant phallic symbol of a structure that Beck says represents “man reaching up to find God’s knowledge.”

Beck's grandiosity also includes some kind of vision of alternate education and a deprogramming for kids already in school. Plus there's his "baby," i.e. "my national archives," where "We will keep the things and the ideas and the books and the papers that tell the truth.”

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It seems unlikely that such a project could ever get off the ground and, even if it did, be any kind of sustainable. But how many people will get soaked for donations along the way?

Read the rest of my post and watch the full video here.

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commented 2013-01-20 11:26:40 -0500 · Flag

@doors 17. With Becktard, you get two for the price of one. He is a complete sleazeball like Jim Bakker and can cry copiously on cue like Tammy Fay.

commented 2013-01-20 08:44:00 -0500 · Flag

When I first heard about this it reminded me so much of Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker and their Heritage USA theme park when Bakker kept $3.4 million in bonuses for himself and a $279,000 payoff for the silence of Jessica Hahn with the money raised from their viewers.

commented 2013-01-20 08:23:00 -0500 · Flag

There’s just so many things that could be said about this ass-clown and his followers that I’m not even gonna try.
Comedy gold, I tells ya!

commented 2013-01-20 04:42:03 -0500 · Flag

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commented 2013-01-20 04:18:07 -0500 · Flag

Would be curious to know how they’d generate their own energy. Put the kids in a large version of those wheels they use for gerbils in need of exercise?

The “grow my (aka Beck’s) own food” side is easy: ticket buyers get a hoe on entry and have to hand it back in on exiting 12 hours later. The ticket is good for two meals (slave food) and all the creek water they can drink from drums at the end of each row. Backpain medication available for a price.

PS: Once flipped through a huge book (>800 pages) on how much better the slaves ate than their masters, especially the ladies. Made sense when I remembered my auntie complaining that my uncle spent more on food for the dairy cows and draft horses than he did for the family.

commented 2013-01-20 02:21:32 -0500 · Flag

Well, I’m guessing that only the most die-hard “liberatarians” will want to spend any time inside this (true) Fantasyland. Just imagine the joys of eating food that has NOT been FDA-approved or ~~inspected. Rides that aren’t inspected for safety nor are they subject to routine maintenance~~-only when the ride’s actually broken down will anyone do any work on them. Everyone entering the park will be required to sign a contract relieving the park and its ownership of any liability for a personal injury that may be incurred while enjoying the park’s facilities.

commented 2013-01-20 01:45:07 -0500 · Flag

Conspiracyland? Rambleworld? New Jonestown? Words seriously fail me here.

commented 2013-01-19 22:02:13 -0500 · Flag

Beckerville?

commented 2013-01-19 21:49:18 -0500 · Flag

lol @ glenn beck

commented 2013-01-19 19:41:51 -0500 · Flag

Glenn Beck Plans A Libertarian Disneyland

I think I saw the plans for it here:

http://www.politicususa.com/gun-nuts-build-2000-acre-citadel-idahos-american-redoubt.html

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commented 2013-01-19 19:36:01 -0500 · Flag

Another opportunity for Becktard the Grifter to shear his faithful sheep of their life savings. Overpriced gold just doesn’t generate the profit margins it used to.