Glenn Beck Finds "Communist" Art At NBC Headquarters At Rockefeller Center (VIDEO)

If you thought Glenn Beck's conspiracy theories couldn't get any more bizarre, you obviously don't watch that much Glenn Beck.

This time Beck is taking shots at the titan of American capitalism, John Rockefeller, accusing him of having been a secret communist. Beck knows this to be true because he has discovered all sorts of "communist" and "fascist" art on NBC headquarters at Rockefeller Center, as well as on land behind the United Nations that was donated by Rockefeller.

Trying to discern Beck's ultimate point from this is difficult but I believe it's something like: Rockefeller was an early American progressive, which actually means he was a communist, and they have connections to the fascists. And we know this because Rockefeller left clues to his true legacy with these communist art pieces which are hidden in plain sight, and since we have people in our own time who call themselves progressives they must actually be communists (possibly fascists?).

If this is bewildering to you, don't worry; it means you don't see conspiracies lurking behind around street corner. Also, Beck's icing on the communist cake is that the Rockefeller Foundation honored Beck's latest target, Obama adviser Van Jones. Got it?

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Comments

[Luv2Purple]

Hmmmm....glen beck sees things that ONLY glen beck knows and understands......sounds like a PARANOID DELUSIONAL person to me. Let's see....george bush jr heard God speaking to him....and beck sees things that aren't there.

[chillspike]

I wouldn't say "only Glen Beck". I'm sure the late and disgraced Joe McCarthy would see the same things

[jwald1]

Reminds me of the Taliban bombing the centuries old Buddha statues in Afghanistan.

[FormerReaganite]

Beck might discover the resemblance between Jim Cramer and Vladmir Lenin...
Does this mean (A) Cramer is a communist? or (B) Lenin was actually a capitalist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladmir_Lenin

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838459/

[zandermanster]

Glenn Beck, you're an idiot. Do you really believe that "communist" art in Rockerfeller center means Rockerfeller was a communist. And, FYI, Rockerfeller was just the opposite of a Progressive.

Also, did you know that Fox Headquarters is in Rockerfeller center? Are you really going to call NBC communist because there's communist art in the very place you're standing? For all we know, Fox could be communist ALSO, right?

Beck, do you really have anything better to do than search for subliminal propaganda in art. You might as well call childrens' textbooks communist, because I know that the entire Democratic party could care less about what you think.

[FormerReaganite]

Fox News does, in fact, act just like banana republic dictators and infamous despots of the 20th century, in the manner in which they spread lies, innuendo, misinformation, and one-sided partisan propaganda. Who is acting like communists here?

[onechord]

the above video of beck also ranked pretty high on this huffpost feature:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/05/bizarre-animal-behavior-a_n_270638.html?slidenumber=0#slide_image

[HGS111]

Please everyone ... buy more newspapers ... don't let the newpapers go down the drain because you have the internet or cable TV. These are highly corruptible news source for you to rely on. Once the message is narrowed down to a single source the more likely it will be for us to become a slave to it. GOT IT ?

[JDJQP]

Corruption is not limited by the form of media presented; and any logical and informed citizen does not rely on only one source of information.

The Newspaper and Paper Industry are products of a time long gone; and none too soon. Digital media is the most efficient form of mass distribution of news in the present day.

[blindsquirrell]

My my, the great unwashed now become art critics without considerations for the foreign artists that were commissioned for these works and how they reflected into their art the common European socialist themes of the day.

[bobm0001]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

The sad part of all of this is that there are gullible viewers on Fox who actually believe this tripe. That Beck, with his shallow understanding of history, is encouraged to spout this nonsense borders on criminal. It is a tribute to our constitutionally-protected free speech that he hasn't been locked up.

[JDJQP]

Both. Laugh at G.B. and cry for the poor saps who take his word as gospel.

[jer9848]

Is that Tom Hanks? :P I think I saw this movie.

[Garybot]

Was it the one w/Meg Ryan and they floated on their luggage?

[jer9848]

hmmm maybe.lol

[azcamp]

This man is ignorant!

Only Glenn Beck would see so many political messages in art. Most of us see the beauty of the workmanship and the creativity of the artist. I wonder if he has visited Rome and seen political messages in the great paintings and sculptures or if he sees something sinister in the works of the Renaissance.

We need to make sure our children get art education in school. How embarrassing for us that school children in other countries can understand the role of the creative arts in society while American adults learn art history from someone like Glenn Beck.

[ladybug7]

Unfortunately, art has been cut out of most public school budgets for years. They will have to get it in college.

[solopico]

"Only Glenn Beck would see so many political messages in art."

You have shown who is the ign0rant one with such a statement. Art is FULL of political messaging.

[JDJQP]

Well, some pieces of art have been created to promote certain political views, this is true.

But, simply because one is in possession of a piece of art does not mean they support the view presented.Thats' like saying eveyone who owns a piece of Nazi memorabilia are Nazi's themselves.

PFFFFT!

[sorrowen]

Im afraid your ignorant so ummm who's that way again. But then again everybody else is wrong but you in think that defines ignorant know it all and i don't like those kind of people.

[MED1025]

I wonder if he's ever visited the Coit Tower?

[sorryaboutit]

A clown?
Oh you mean that clown from Stephen King^s "IT".
S ickening
C onartist
A rtless
R ageing
Y elling

[ydouask]

"Mommy, that clown is soooooooooo scary!"

[dxz]

Obama is coming to get you (Paranoid Delusion); Obama is Adolf Hitler (Delusional Misidentification); Smiling one minute and crying the next (Labile Mood); Seeing what nobody has not seen on the Rockefeller building (Delusional Misinterpretation / Delusional Perception); In any other civilized country, this guy should be receiving treatment. But rather, Fox is using him as a parody to make money. No wonder the advertisers are bailing out. Despite this, his viewership will keep rising not because people agree with him, but because of the unfortunate caricature he has now been reduced to. He should not be near any microphone or camera where he is consistently doing damages to harmonious dialogue among the people.

[Don Greenwood]

When Beck was on radio, I thought he was an intellectual nitwit (an oxymoron), seeing him on TV has only convinced me that he is a nitwit. Keeping a radio show on the air is easy compared to keeping a TV shows ratings. Look at this delusional and unstable individual, it works for the ratings like crashes at a NASCAR race, it's why the fans go there in the first place...

[Garybot]

But you said "keeping a radio show on the air is easy, compared to keeping a TV show's ratings.

That must mean Beck is pretty smart - considering that his ratings keep climbing and climbing.

Just thought I'd help you make your point.

[Swift2]

His ratings are rising because he's always got the deluded True Believers like yourself, Garybot. There's a lot of you around.

Read books about the building of Rockefeller Center. In fact, it was that Marxist (Republican) Nelson Rockefeller who encouraged this kind of '30s Progressive Art Deco. It was very popular at the time. That's the way the billionaire family tried to change its image, after being the authors of the Ludlow Massacre, where dozens of men, women and children were machine-gunned by the Pinkerton guards hired by the old man. The sons were more liberal. The "meaning" of these statues is simply that the workers of the city and country, the hammer and sickle, build the wealth. This is self-evident, no?

There was a bit of controversy later when they hired the great muralist Diego Rivera to do a grand mural of the 20th century. Rivera WAS a Marxist. He made a mural that praised Lenin and the growth of the Communist party. THAT was painted over on Nelson Rockefeller's orders. See? Hammer is worker, sickle is farmer. Real work is the source or our wealth. That was a message that the '30s understood. Lenin=great? That was a communist message, and it was destroyed. Get the difference?

Of course, you probably can't tell the difference between Obama and Hitler.