Glenn Beck Says Obama Is A Satan Worshipper

Right-wing demagogue, Glenn Beck, was in fine form recently, when he suggested that President Obama is attempting to push Network Neutrality as a means of censorship:

Nate Anderson, Glenn Beck’s war on the FCC (and Satan worshippers)

“We are dealing with people who think they should rebel until they get their little kingdom like Satan did,” said Beck. “You know what? Thanks, Mr. President, but I think we’re going to keep the Internet the way it is right now. You know—or at least until people who are worshipping Satan, you know, aren’t in office.”

The mechanism by which net neutrality will silence Beck and those like him remains murky, but the matter is clearly of great concern.

“The FCC also says they are marching forward, marching with a boot on your throat to— announcing plans to make Internet companies a public utility,” he said. “Net neutrality—the court shot that one down, but they are going to make it a public utility now.”

Or again: “So now, the president wants to regulate the Internet, to help control all the misinformation out there. He is going to do it with net neutrality. Well, the court said no… So, now what they’re doing is the FCC is just going to—they’re going to make it a public utility. The Internet. Where are you, America, without the Internet?”

The Tea Baggers are adamant that anything that is unregulated should remain so, and any attempts by the US government to regulate anything should be blocked. Even when the Feds have the authority under our laws to manage and regulate communications for the public good.

(Meanwhile, I have witnessed an echo of this sentiment — leaving aside the satanism — in the recent discussion about treating Facebook as a communications ‘utility’. More to follow on that, I bet.)