Hadley Freeman: How Can I Resist Such a Renegade Mad Max Figure?
This weekend, I temporarily moved back to America because Fox News told me to or, to be specific, Fox News’s Glenn Beck told me to. For those of you who have never encountered Beck, allow me to bring a little rain into your lives. He is one of the stars of Fox News, thanks partly to his fondness for using phrases such as “you are not alone” and “we surround them” on his weekday news talk show, mixing the cheesy simplicity of a Michael Jackson ballad with a creepy cult leader sensibility to find favor among a certain American audience. Beck recently gave a hint as to who this audience might be when he felt the need to remind them that it wasn’t the done thing “to turn violent”, even though they might think it “a good idea”. Despite having accused President Obama of possessing “a deep-seated hatred of white people” and being “a racist” which one might think would contravene Beck’s much-vaunted “patriotism” he remains employed by Fox News. Of course, seeing as the channel seems to have co
