Todd Gregory and Terry Krepel incredulously ask, How can Glenn Beck now be alleging that the State Department is complicit in the worldwide MOOZLEM conspiracy?
Perhaps most unbelievable: The State Department under the Bush administration was "in bed" with the "radical Islamists, communists, and socialists" who are working together against Israel and capitalism, and to overthrow stability. Why? Because the State Department under Bush helped start the Alliance for Youth Movements.
Oh man! That's totally crazy go nuts! I wonder where you'd get an idea like that? Maybe from National Review columnist Andy McCarthy:
Islamists were sent on State Department junkets and recruited to indoctrinate our agents and our armed forces in Islamic sensitivity. The State Department became transparently pro-Palestinian and pro-sharia — even helping establish sharia's centrality to the new constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Clinton and Bush administrations regarded Islamist regimes like Saudi Arabia and Yemen as “strong allies” of the U.S. Clinton and Bush sought the holy grail of a grand deal with Iran, all the time overlooking or rationalizing the mullahs’ killing of Americans.
McCarthy's right that Islamist governments are among U.S. allies, but the idea that reflects an internal desire within the U.S. government to promote a "pro-Sharia" agenda rather than an inability to dictate what other governments do or the cultural contexts in which they exist, well that's just...McCarthyism.
Last week National Review Editor Rich Lowry seconded Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol's criticism of Beck's "wild theorizing" about connections between radical Islamists and the American left, but the fact is that Lowry publishes the same quality and kind of lunacy in National Review every week. At least McCarthy has the intellectual honesty to appear on Beck's show rather than distance himself.
This basically means one of two things: Either these guys don't read their own magazines, or they're perfectly comfortable printing paranoid nonsense about American liberals and Islam if it fits with their political agenda. The only real difference between Beck, Kristol, and Lowry is that the latter two let the mask slip more often.
