I do hope that most of Beck’s more thoughtful critics can at least agree that whatever their problems with him may be, Bette Midler is an idiot:

“I don’t think he’s funny even a little bit,” Midler said. “I’ve never had a laugh from Glenn Beck. In fact, I find him terrifying. I find him terrifying. He’s like an old school demagogue, and it’s really frightening.”
What did Midler compare Beck to? She likened the popular Fox News host to the instigators of the Rwandan civil war, which was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide where an estimated 800,000 to 1 million lost their lives.
“If you look around at the rest of the world and what this kind of behavior has done, like in Rwanda, where the demagogues got on the radio and fomented all that hate between the Tutsis and the Hutus and the devastation that happened from that, I mean, it’s terrifying,” Midler said.
According to Midler, that’s a possibility in the United States.
“And that could happen, you know, you could turn on a dime,” Midler warned. “That could happen here.”

What I find interesting about this sort of asininity is not the animosity toward the person in question — be he Beck or Limbaugh or whomever. That’s to be expected. What I find interesting, and grotesque, is the assumption that millions of Americans can be easily duped into murdering their fellow Americans.