Conservative pundit and fashion entrepreneur Glenn Beck went a little further than usual on his radio show on Thursday during a rant, ominously hinting at his own demise.
After describing recent unrest in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri as a “set up” for a federal takeover of local police forces, Beck said that people need to rise up and stop it rather than rely on leaders like “sheep.”
As usual, he proceeded with a vivid historical analogy.
“If you look back at history, what happens to people who have voices and can cobble together people and be a leader?” he asked, citing the regimes of Nazi Germany and the Ottoman Empire during the mass killings of Armenians.
He said that such murderous, authoritarian regimes would kill off any leader, heroes or writers that could lead people to fight back, so that “there is nothing left but sheep and no shepherds.”
“Anyone that people would rally around and follow, they were killed, day one,” he said. “They just disappear, or they’re killed.”
Beck then pivoted to his own show.
“There are 10 million people that listen to this show. They cannot kill 10 million people in one night. You were born for a reason, and you’re listening to this show for a reason,” Beck said, urging listeners to read the words of Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
“Prepare for a time when voices like mine or others are no longer heard and yours is the only voice,” Beck said.
After that, Beck sat in silence for a moment.
“I can’t believe I just said all of that,” he said.
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