Wake up! Before it's too late.

I blame the media for the rise of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party. They're crazy people. With crazy ideas. And tons and tons of misinformation. But still, the media gives these loonies their say. Because they're entertaining. I suppose that's why we have pundits on TV shouting at each other. They get good ratings. People like to watch idiots. So-called reality shows. We want to be entertained. Amused. This morning's St. Paul Pioneer Press, the newspaper that employed me as a writer for 29 years, had a lead story with the headline 'In D.C. rally, Beck invokes God, King.' Just what Beck wants. Lots of publicity for his weird ideas. He's just as crazy as Adolph Hitler. But give crazy people the spotlight, and they'll use it to enlist other 'crazies.' Hitler did it to perfection. There's nothing stopping Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh from doing the same thing. The crazies took over Germany for a generation. Why not America? Believe me, we're on a glide path to destruction. To an America run by the inmates of the asylum. Crazy people. The Germans have been considered among the best educated people in the world. Same for Americans. But that doesn't stop educated societies from going crazy. The media have already been lured into the trap. We no longer have a fair and open-minded media. No longer a free and responsible press. We're going to hell. Being led by pied pipers like Glenn Beck. It's time to wake up, fellow Americans. Before it's too late. --Jim Broede