Happy Hour Vid: Glenn Beck's Theory About Russian Spies and U.S. Decline

John Hudson 14 Views Jun 29, 2010

On Tuesday morning the gang at Fox and Friends tackled the timely subject of 11 Russian spies getting arrested by the FBI. Now if you've been reading the Wire, you have a reasonable understanding of the risks posed by these spies. If you've been watching Fox and Friend, the analysis takes its audience to a somewhat different place:



The best aspect of this video is the unvarnished certainty with which Glenn Beck expresses his opinion. As co-host Steve Doocy introduces the topic, it's almost as if Beck had known about the Russian spies' whereabouts for months. "What did I say? ...Yep. This is the small story, I'm telling you," Beck begins:

I've heard from the Special Forces...those people who we send in when a regime is about to topple and help push it, they're here....We have operatives from all over the world, because we're easy game. We're weak.

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