As everyone knows, Glenn Beck is a reasonable and rational man who is not at all prone to hyperbole or wholesale emotional breakdowns, which is why it was so surprising to learn that he did not very much like President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night, calling it “horrific from start to finish” and declaring that it is the speech that future historians will look back upon as the moment Obama seized control and declared himself to be a dictator.
“Over and over again,” Beck said, “looking us in the eye, he said he would use his executive power to get his way. He bragged about it!” As such, Beck urged his audience to note this day in their diaries so that future generations will know the true history, which is that “this was the State of the Union where our president declared he would become America’s first dictator”:
