Your Moment of Glenn: Meghan McCain Is ‘A Useful Idiot’

I think, if you listened very closely, today’s show was supposed family values hour on Glenn Beck. Alas, the value part was mostly lost in translation and what came out instead was some weird variation of the last five minutes of a Scooby Doo episode: “You meddling kids!” Except that in Beck’s version, the “children of our future” may be secret Maoists or would be if they weren’t so stupid. Says Beck:

“Let’s be honest, kids are pretty stupid…Lenin had a phrase for people like these, they were called ‘useful idiots.’ I think a lot of our twenty-somethings are becoming useful idiots. One of those ‘useful idiots’ seems to be Meghan McCain.”

You’ll have to watch the video for Beck’s, actually sort of offensive impression of McCain (like, as if!), who I happen to think is a reasonably intelligent addition to the conservative chattering-sphere. For that matter, I have to wonder which twenty-somethings Beck has been spending time with of late that had led him to hold such a negative impression them (for what it’s worth, I happen to be continually amazed by the intelligence of the twenty-somethings currently in our office).

Anyway, the point of this whole, old cranky man diatribe, is that Glenn Beck is concerned that progressives are “hijacking” the youth of America! What has him up in arms specifically is this video from October of 2008 (Beck fails to note the time frame), which encouraged kids to talk to their parents about voting for Barack Obama, or explaining to their parents why they feel it’s important. You meddling kids! According to Beck, the message of the video is that “Mom and Dad are stupid, they believe in that crazy Constitution stuff.” Basically, Obama is trying to indoctrinate your children! AND. He’s disobeying a Commandment. Yowzer. Perhaps fitting he’s still in La La land. Video below.