living that they still occupy space even when they re gone. mort? we were friends for 40 years. and besides, you know, losing a dear friend of us all, we have really lost a national treasure. i mean, he was the most brilliant commentator of our time. i think he is up there with walter littman and dorothy thompson and bill buckley and maybe even george orwell. he used to joke that his training as a psychiatrist was good preparation for covering american politics, which is getting crazier and more toxic by the day. he is the one who coinsd bush derangement syndrome. you know, the tendency of liberals to not give george w. bush credit for anything. and i think he got donald trump just right. you know, governed by id. reckless. worse than narcissist. in one of his last columns,
in a rush. i think that explains a lot of who he was in general, too. he drove that wheelchair in that news room the same way he drove the van on the highway. he did. i can attest to that. it was dangerous to be in between charles and a ballgame. that s true. i would just say that there is absolutely nothing overrated about charles. some might have thought him overrated. one person in particular. as was i listening to these comments. i was trying to think of someone who was a newspaper columnist who was more influential in his time than in our entire history than charles. you might say walter littman but really, charles was the newspaper columnist of the last quarter century or more in the pages of the washington post twice a week. you had to read charles to be part of the here in washington. i would just likes a so much agree with everyone who has said what was really
answer. you got it? all progressives from margaret sangers, wanted to reduce the number of indesirables, meaning minority. walter littman who thought we could breed a smarter voter through u genics, and teddy roosevelt talked about this, african-americans, quote, were a perfectly stupid race that never rise to a very high plane. you take those guys at the againing of the century and go all the way to today. al gore, what are you if you don t believe in global warming, i mean, besides right, you re a holocaust denier, unless you agree with them and their solutions you ll be destroyed and with global warming, what did they do, if they can t nudge you into it, if they can t propaganda you into it, scare you into it, they take your choices away. you probably know that we are not going to have incandescent light bulbs in the united states in 2012, i hate
and the people will figure it out and clean up the mess. the government is the problem. which one? which one, america? which one do you choose? because i have to tell you, it can only be one or the other. one side wants a baby sitter and take away the possibility of bad choices and the other side is maximum freedom. if you don t believe me, one side wants to take away your choices to make bad choices, well, then you ve got to stick around. do you want somebody to make the decisions for you? or do you want to be held accountable for your own actions, accepting the responsibility and having the right to pursue happiness the way you see it? the nation is being redefined. knowing why and knowing what s going on is more critical than ever before. the news will only give you a little bit. and let me give you perspective that they won t. tonight, you choose. let s go. hello america, lady love, the glo globe. glenn beck s sex tape and the mystery woman behind it. there s nothing like