Willard Cleon Skousen: The Man Who Changed Glenn Beck's Life

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/

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Willard Cleon Skousen was born in 1913 to American parents in a small Mormon frontier town in Alberta, Canada. When he was 10 his family moved to California, where he remained until he shipped off to England and Ireland for Mormon missionary work. In 1935, after graduating from a California junior college, the 23-year-old Skousen moved to Washington, where he worked briefly for a New Deal farm agency. He then began a 15-year career with the FBI, also earning a law degree from George Washington University in 1940. His posts at the FBI were largely administrative and clerical in nature, first in Washington and later in Kansas.

[Liberty Star]

I thought he was a Catholic, he's Mormon?

Not that religion of a pundit matters.

[LibertyEagle]

Ron Paul has said that he often refers to one of Skousen's books on the Constitution.

The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution

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http://www.amazon.com/Making-America-Substance-Meaning-Constitution/dp/0880800178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253379933&sr=8-1

His comment is why I bought this book.

[Cowlesy]

First off, I have the 5,000 Year Leap, or as they denote it, "FYL" in my bookcase, but have not read it yet.

That Salon article had a lot of interesting points in it, but like the author points out about Skousen, this author also makes some pretty outrageous claims. Obviously the article is meant to be critical of Beck and Skousen. The first thing is he says the March was "upto 75,000" people. He claims it was extremely partisan, and all conspiracy theorists. He says most of Skousen's claims are fake, he's dangerously close to nazism, and that the colonial slaves were happy. He takes some potshots at Christianity, the Founders and then actually points out that Skousen in the 50's worried about liberals and intellectuals taking over the education system skewing everything that is learned.

Well..........have they not done that? I think the author needs to watch Tucker Carlson's report on the textbook publishers.

Then, he claims that charge that the "elite push their agendas using front organizations" is silly --- oh really? I mean who would want to push an agenda using money....hmm Mr. Soros?

At the end of the article, you see the true motivation for the column. The author is writing a book about Glenn Beck to be published next spring.

[Ozwest]

Why do simple philosophies such as Ron Paul's get hijacked by those who derive a sense of superiority based on the belief that they are members of an all-knowing elite group?

No wonder America is stuffed!