Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck ostensibly stand for freedom and extension of human rights but the facts reveal a different result.

A current case in point surrounds recent events in Egypt.  To lovers of democracy throughout the world the confluence of events, brought about through a coalescing of freedom lovers in Egypt seeking to bring an end to a three decade dictatorial regime noted for suppression of basic rights and rigged elections, was an example of grassroots democracy in action.

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck immediately sounded sirens of discontent to their loyal patrons.  Limbaugh was alarmed that the demonstrators were leftists and included a number of feminists.  

What is a leftist to Limbaugh?  Based on his alarmist messages to a core audience that has made him a multimillionaire, anyone to the left of the Limbaugh-Beck-Fox News axis constitutes a dangerous leftist threat.  

Glenn Beck has recently extolled a message of promise and hope to his legions, which he proclaims number 30 million strong.

On a recent broadcast Beck revealed the 30 million number and concluded that they constituted the wave of the future.  The Tea Party drumbeat should be one of future optimism.  Beck optimistically asserts that his viewing audience constitutes 10 percent of the American population.  

With such a strong building block, Beck sees these 30 million as a catalyst.  Such a large number of followers serve as a dynamic ripple effect that will ultimately make America a nation representing is viewpoint.  Beck believes it will be just a question of time before spokespersons such as Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell will be in the majority and directing national policies.

Rush Limbaugh has long subscribed to this view.  His regular audience figure has also been said to constitute 30 million listeners.  It should be remembered what happened when Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele recently referred to Limbaugh as "an entertainer."  

Is Glenn Beck trying to play the race card for the benefit of his followers while being coy?

Is it mere coincidence that Beck selected the Lincoln Memorial, the venue Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. chose for his 1963 "I have a dream" speech?  The date of August 28 also happens to fall on the forty-seventh anniversary of that historic speech.

Are these both coincidences, as Beck insists, or an insidious way to play to the more radical elements of the right wing fringes?  Anticipating possible trouble, Beck has requested that no signs be brought to his rally.

We recall what happened at the huge Tea Party tax protest rally in Washington.  Congressman John Lewis, a former aide to Martin Luther King, remarked that the reception he and another African American congressman received while seeking to enter the Capitol Building was reminiscent of the South in the sixties, when racists sought to snuff out civil rights efforts by Dr. King.

Glenn Beck has always been desperate for two things -- attention and ratings.  And he learned early in his career that nothing works as quickly nor as well with the media as personal insults, public humiliation and character assassination.

The hypocrisy goes on and on and on when it comes to right wing Fox propaganda zealots Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

With so much focus being registered on ACORN by Rupert Murdoch's dynamic duo it should be asked:  How many deaths have been caused by ACORN?  How much federal funding has ACORN received?  How about directing those same questions regarding Blackwater, Halliburton, and Kellogg, Brown, and Root?

Eric Burns, president of Media Matters, on September 24 delivered a release revealing the results of that organization's effort to uncover answers to those foregoing questions.  The results speak volumes.  

On Beck and Hannity's programs combined ACORN was mentioned 1,502 times between May 8, 2006 and September 18, 2009.  As Eric Burns noted, "Remember that ACORN has not been charged with any wrongdoing.  Not only that, but the organization has been awarded just $53 million in federal funding over the past 15 years -- an average of $3.5 million per year."