Ah, this is a beautiful thing. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (our cover story), facing each other on Fox this week, the Statue of Liberty looming in the background. About halfway through the clip, Glenn Beck leans across to Palin and searches for a personal connection:
You and I both were, I think, the number one and number two Halloween costumes of the year.
He carried on:
Did you know that? We both have been nailed on Saturday Night Live as being stupid. We are also both just recently voted on the Most Admired list of people in the world. We both have been on the cover of major magazines in the last year. We’re both probably top five Most Hated People in America.
It’s one way to bond. But this interview, if you watch it, is really the most amazing example of vague paranoia. They talk for the first ten minutes in the most part about “trust”, the fact that there’s no one you can trust, the moment they both realised that they could trust ANYONE AROUND THEM. I think they use the word trust approximately 48 times in the space of ten seconds.
Then there’s the “system”. Don’t, for God’s sake, get them started on the “system”. Can you survive out of the “system”, wonders Beck. “The system is broken,” responds Palin. Not only that:
The system creates disenchantment with the people looking at the political system saying we don’t like that.
The people! I nearly forgot about the people. Beck and Palin seem to have a hotline to the people. The people, all of them, seem to like exactly what they like and hate exactly what they hate. Why do they bother having elections when you could just ask these two?
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