Say this for Glenn Beck, he works fast. Less than 48 hours after we launched our campaign to let businesses say that the US Chamber of Commerce didn't represent them, Beck hit back. A true friend of Chamber (here's a picture of him, broadcasting from their roof; certainly worth the $10,000 he donated from his $32 million earnings), he put little old 350.org up on his board Friday night next to a hammer and sickle. We were part of a communistic conspiracy that also included the Apollo Alliance, not to mention the Service Employees International Union.
In some sense, I guess, this pleased us. Right back to J. Edgar Hoover and his attacks on Martin Luther King, 'communist' has always been the epithet of choice for any organizers who've shown signs of being effective. (The Tea Party is obviously chagrined that actual working people in Wisconsin are upstaging them). In some other way, it's just sad: confronted with the hard choices posed by physics and chemistry, Beck (like too many others) tries to figure out some spectral ghost to blame.
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