We tend to take whatever Glenn Beck says with a massive boulder of salt. For example, he once said he learned taxes were bad from reading library books… and failed to realize said evil tax dollars had paid for the books he was reading.
But lest we digress, let’s continue to the point.
Beck was previously a fan of U.K. neo-proggers Muse, who won a best rock album Grammy Award for 2009′s The Resistance on Sunday night. He’s previously said Muse “get it” and called them a “libertarian” band. He must have missed the part where Matt Bellamy rails against people like Beck in his lyrics, but anyway…
Muse performed at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, and during their performance, screens behind them showed Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall’s motorcade being attacked during student protests against raising tuition fees in London, England in November.
On his The Glenn Beck Program radio show yesterday, Beck pointed out that Muse’s lyrics to “Uprising” are “powerful” and insinuated they’re about paranoia and government control.
Of course, Beck read into the random images during Muse’s performance a wee bit and appears to no longer be a fan of the group, saying the images were “basically a call for revolution by this group.”
Oh noes!!!
But wait — I thought this was a band who “get it.” I’m a bit confused about why he suddenly “woke up” and realized Muse weren’t a Tea Party band, but anyway…
“Now, you have to remember these are Europeans and they have been degraded for a very long time — really, since the beginning of time they have had very few glimpses of real freedom. Even after England won the second world war, they didn’t go into freedom; that’s where the road to serfdom came from because Winston Churchill and many others all said, ‘Wait, what are you doing? We’re going in the wrong direction.’ It didn’t go to freedom; it went to the road to serfdom.”
Beck should probably immediately go to a dictionary and look “serf” up. He should also go to those libraries he enjoys and take out a book on medieval history that his tax dollars paid for. There’s a lot about serfdom in those types of books.
“There are those who are calling for revolution, and they are everywhere,” he continued. “They are the Muslim extremists, they are the Communist revolutionaries, they are the anarchists, and then you have the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement isn’t calling for revolution… it’s calling for restoration.”
This type of “restoration”?
He then went on to say that the Tea Party movement doesn’t have “anarchists” in it, either. Okay, fine, that’s actually right — it just has racists.
“Revolution doesn’t make anything better,” he finished, “as I believe we will see in Egypt in the end.”
Damn those Egyptians and their pursuit of real democracy and freedom! Don’t they realize that only Americans deserve to be free?
The one thing we can all take comfort here is at least Beck doesn’t like Muse anymore. I felt extremely uncomfortable listening to their music for a while there because of him…
You can see Muse calling for “revolution” here:
March 25 Santiago, Chile @ Estadio Nacional
March 30, April 2-3 Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Estadio Unico De La Plata
April 9-10, 13 Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Estadio Morumbi
- Muse — The Resistance Tour: Live From Seattle
- Muse — “Resistance”
- Muse Announce More Canadian, U.S. Tour Dates
- Glenn Beck’s Muse “Retraction” Apparently Just A Joke
- Conservative Pundit Glenn Beck Loves Muse, Muse Don’t Love Him
