Brendan Nyhan

Glenn Beck’s strange visual aids

Combining conspiracy theorizing with 1980s board games, Glenn Beck used Connect Four (!) on his show yesterday to illustrate his claims about radicals in the Obama administration:

Beck, who has a penchant for bizarre visual aids, previously boiled a fake frog on his show:

Other visual aids have included wild chalkboard scrawls and arboreal metaphors of supposed left-wing conspiracies:

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Personally, I welcome this move toward using classic board games. Maybe Beck can analyze Obama’s naval strategy using Battleship? Counter-insurgency tactics using Stratego? The possibilities are endless…