Eleven months ago, Glenn Beck launched a crusade against right-wing anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist for supposedly being a frontman for the Muslim Brotherhood, announcing that he was so concerned about Norquist’s nefarious influence on the conservative movement that he might cancel his lifetime membership to the NRA is Norquist was re-elected to the organization’s board of directors.
The NRA was so alarmed by Beck’s threat that the organization promised that it would launch an ethics investigation into Norquist that would be “fully transparent” and that the findings would be “posted on the web.” The following month, Norquist was re-elected to the board but then “voluntarily suspended his Board activities pending the outcome of the investigation.”
That was nearly a year ago and the NRA has yet to release the results of its investigation.
But Beck is not giving up and announced on last Friday’s radio program that an effort to recall Norquist from the NRA board is underway and that he is urging his listeners to cast their ballots accordingly.
“If you’re a NRA member,” Beck said, “you’re going to be getting a ballot in the mail, I think it’s in the magazine, and it’s a recall ballot for Grover Norquist. They had to do it the right way, they had to go through, so many people wrote in and one guy started this ballot and said, ‘As a member, I can start a recall,’ and so there’s a recall ballot to get Grover Norquist off the board of the NRA and that guy is very dangerous and needs to be removed from the NRA. So when you get your ballot, if you’re a NRA member, make sure you vote ‘yes’ on the recall of Grover Norquist from the board; yes, you want him removed from the board of directors of the NRA.”
“Enough infiltration,” he continued. “I love his flat tax ideas, but his idea of what a good Muslim is and his connections to really, really dangerous people in the Islamacist side is frightening and it needs to end and his influence needs to be dramatically reduced, at least in conservative circles.”
We wonder if Beck will invest the same amount of energy into removing his “good friend” Ted Nugent from the NRA board after his recent string of anti-Semitic statements.
