A few weeks ago, Glenn Beck floated the idea of launching a temporary church for the express purpose of exploiting a Republican National Committee loophole that allows churches to host "discussion forums" with Republican presidential candidates since the RNC was refusing to allow his network to host any sort of official GOP debate.
As Beck made clear at the time, he didn't want to invite Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Donald Trump or any of the other candidates whom he dismisses as "progressives" to participate in his debate because he despises them and has repeatedly and openly attacked them on air. In fact, Beck despises the Republican Party as a whole and has, for years, been urging his audience to "defund the GOP" and refuse to give the party even one dime of support in an effort to break its back and destroy it.
Now, in the wake of the RNC's decision to cancel an upcoming debate that was to be hosted by NBC after its candidates performed miserably at a CNBC debate last month, Beck is demonstrating his trademark consistency and integrity by sending a letter to the RNC begging to be allowed to host this debate on his own network instead:
We’d like to make our audience your audience, by hosting the ninth scheduled debate on February 26th. We are prepared to produce a new kind of debate, in both substance and distribution. In fact, this will be the first truly cross-platform, digitally engaged debate in the history of American politics, and one that we are confident will reach one of the largest blocks of conservative voters in history.
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By selecting TheBlaze TV to produce this debate, you honor and recognize the value of a critical voting bloc. And you need to know that we are committed to a fair and honorable production that will make every candidate, the party and our voters proud. But most important, at the end of our debate, voters will know not just where our candidates stand, but why, and how they intend to accomplish their goals.
We both know that the time for theatrics and hyperbole is over. These are serious days full of both promise and peril. My audience and I urge the Republican National Committee to make the February 26th debate meaningful, thoughtful, and responsive to the issues of not just conservative America, but to all Americans. Placing this debate on TheBlaze TV will fulfill that promise.
Aside from the insanity of allowing an avowed enemy of the GOP and a significant number of the current Republican candidates to host an official Republican debate, we cannot even begin to imagine what a debate hosted by a unhinged conspiracy theorist like Beck would even look like.
Would candidates be asked what they would do to stop that sociopath and dictator President Obama from fomenting revolution in order to round up conservatives and stick them in internment camps? Or about Beck's concerns that Obama is trying to start a race-based civil war and has been seeking to confiscate weapons in order to re-impose slavery and eventually start killing American citizens?
Would they be asked to go on record vowing to stop revolutionaries from pulling people from their cars and executing them in the streets and from secretly murdering Beck himself in the middle of the night?
Will they be expected to comment on Beck's belief that this nation is "the stink on the crap pile" and that it is has now become a badge of "eternal dishonor" to be an American because our society has gone completely insane and become a danger to the entire world?
Would they have to weigh in on his theory that the missing Malaysian airplane had been hijacked for use in a terrorist attack against America, his warning that immigrants crossing the southern border would lead to an Israeli/Palestinian-type of conflict in the U.S, or his conviction that a measles outbreak was nothing but a "hoax" designed to increase government control?
Would they be asked if they share Beck's conviction that Common Core is the "biggest story in American history" because it is an evil plot to turn school children into cogs living under a police state?
Will they be asked what they think about the Associated Press having raped Bill Cosby, or about how the Ebola outbreak caused race riots all over the nation, or how the government engaged in a massive cover-up of the truth about the Boston Marathon bombing?
On the other hand, can the RNC risk stiffing Beck when he is a prophet who has been sent by God, especially at a time when America has become engaged in full-fledged demon worship and our days are numbered because society has gone insane and been engulfed in darkness?
In retrospect, perhaps a GOP debate led by Beck is exactly what this nation needs, given that his audience, after all, is the modern day civil rights movement and consists of the very people forseen by God and the Founding Fathers who would one day rise up and save this nation.
