Jeff Poor has apparently read Glenn Beck’s mind, and he declares it to be filled with only the purest of intent.
Responding in a Sept. 11 post to Alex Pareene’s item on 9/11 at Gawker that calls “a hate-and-expletive-filled anti-President George W. Bush, anti-conservative and anti-Glenn Beck attack,” Poor takes issue with criticism of Beck’s 9/12 Project and Pareene’s assertion that “On 9/12, people in New York (and DC) did not feel as ‘great’ as Glenn Beck. … They felt scared and confused and depressed. Many of them were drunk. And only an idiot or an actual terrorist would want to always feel like it was 9/12/01.”:
Pareene and other left-wing critics of Beck’s 9-12 Project have totally misunderstood Beck’s intent. It’s not to create euphoria, but as the Web site explains, it “is designed to bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001” and overcome political divides.
How does Poor know what “Beck’s intent” is for the 9/12 Project? He doesn’t. Indeed, given that most of us who remember 9/11 remember the accompanying fear and uncertainty of the days immediately following it, for Beck to want to “bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001” must logically include bringing back that same sense of fear — which, it can be argued, has nothing to do with overcoming political divides but, rather, exacerbating them.
Nevertheless, without any actual knowledge of “Beck’s intent,” Poor has declared it to be only the purest.