Glenn Beck closed out his radio broadcast today by attacking Marco Rubio using a clip from the Frank Capra film “State of the Union” in which a once-idealistic presidential candidate played by Spencer Tracy admits to having sold out his principles for power and denounces his own campaign.
Beck said that while he once had great admiration for Rubio, he no longer does because Rubio “doesn’t care about the truth” and has seemingly lost his soul in the process of running for president.
“What this guy is accusing himself of doing is exactly what Marco Rubio has done,” Beck said in introducing the clip of Tracy’s climatic speech.
After playing the clip, Beck — a vocal Ted Cruz endorser and campaign surrogate — went on another of his self-righteous rants about how he refuses to wallow in the “cesspool” of American politics.
“When I came out and I said I’m sorry for anything I’ve ever done to divide this country,” Beck began screaming, “I’m sorry, I tired to do my best, I didn’t mean to, but I tried to warn people about what was coming. I tried to warn people in 1999 about Osama bin Laden, I tried to warn people in 2006 about the banking crash, I tried to warn people in 2010 about the caliphate. Nobody would listen and I’m warning you now!”
Beck fumed that while he has apologized for playing a role in dividing the nation, no politician or member of the media would follow suit and admit their own culpability, but that doesn’t matter because he still believes in the ideals represented by Frank Capra’s movies.
“I don’t want to live in a country and I don’t want to live in a time when they can’t exist, when I can’t believe that they’re out there,” he bellowed. “When I can’t believe that the guy we’re going to elect president of the United States actually has some courage and actually has some integrity! Maybe I’ll go down as the biggest fool ever, but I’d rather die with hope that there’s some common decency in this world than be a part of the cesspool that we seem to embrace.”
