I’m on the mailing list for Conservative Action Alerts.  They swing  between wildly misinformed to wildly misinforming.  This came in today:

Obama’s Global Gun Grab

ALERT: The UN and the Obama regime are conspiring to pass the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate and/or ban YOUR FIREARMS RIGHTS. Obama nominated gun hater and former Seattle Mayor, Greg Nickels as an alertnative representative to the UN. Obama has nominated Nickels to swifty carry out his plans for world wide gun control. If Obama and his anti-gun cult members have their way, the treaty could become international law as soon as 2012. The globalist gun ban agenda wants to disarm the world one gun at a time! Take action NOW to protect YOUR RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS!

Select Here – STOP the UN Arms Trade Treaty
Fax All 100 Senators At Their Home State Offices!

The Fate Of Your Guns Lies In The Hand Of A Liberal Gun-Grabber

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Of course no matter if nothing of the sort happens they will claim what they claim, truth be damned.

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Then, for added dangerous zaniness, here is a Washington Post report on Glen Beck:

Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, is an amateur historian. Very amateur.

One day, he rhetorically asked his Fox News viewers: “Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s?” A good question — because “we” purchased Alaska in 1867. Another day, he gave his version of European history: “We have the Age of Enlightenment, 1620 to 1871, uh, 1781. This was a time when people said, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute, we can think out of the box.’ This is coming out of the Dark Ages.” That was thinking outside of the box, because the Dark Ages ended in about 1000 AD, six centuries earlier than Beck claimed.

Beck has created an online “Beck University” to spread his unique views of the past and has hosted “Founders’ Fridays” on his television show, devoted to rewriting the nation’s early history as that of a fundamentalist state.

When the subject turns, as it usually does, to President Obama, Beck again sees lessons from history. In particular, he has seized upon two individuals who he believes provide excellent historical parallels to the 44th commander in chief: Woodrow Wilson and Adolf Hitler.

Washington Post

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