The masses are asses. We know this. But the level of ignorance displayed by the attendees at the “Restoring Honor” rally is shocking even by contemporary standards. It is quite clear that Glenn Beck is a master propagandist with a chilling and Svengali-like power over the lemmings of the New Right. Full Story »
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the ... More »
This opinion piece has no journalistic merit. The author is full of hatred of people who are more intelligent than him, such as Glenn Beck, and that is the sole motivation apparent in this piece. He claerly has not read anything by Beck and did not attend the Restoring Honor rally. If he had read even one of Beck's books ....
This article basically just says that Glen Beck fans are stupid and fleshes this out by quoting the Wikipedia article on the Dunning-Kruger effect. The embedded video from NewLeftMedia raises questions about race and the timing of the "Restoring Honor" rally, but the article doesn't try to address that.
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