Glenn Beck 2001: Rep. Rangel and other people "we'd like to beat to death with a shovel"
September 01, 2009 12:56 pm ET by Karl Frisch
Can someone please explain how in the world this guy is on television?
That's a very good question Jed. Lest we forget the "most trusted name in news" gave Beck his first show (under its Headline News banner). Fox News apparently loved his special brand of crazy enough to snatch Beck away before his contract had even expired.
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Just amazing...I'm speechless.
This dangerous nut case needs to be exposed.
It's all they have, Major Tom. Primitive, animal instincts to violence come up pretty quick when you don't have any ideas.
This isn't the sort of hyperbole people use when they jokingly tell a friend "I'm gonna kill you if you don't invite me to your party!"
I used to listen to bits of Laura Ingraham's radio show driving to work. She had a regular thing where she played some conservative spouting talking points at a liberal, or phony Fox Liberal (usually on a Fox show, or other phony setting where real debate was replaced by right wing screeching).
As the wingnut was delivering what were normally debunked points or ad hominem attacks, Ingraham played these cartoonish punching sound effects. There wasn't any analysis of what was said, bu the audience got the message that the conservative was "beating up" their opponent from the video game audio.
Anybody remember that conservative comedy movie that came out a while back? Anybody? OK, it was probably only at theaters for a couple of days,due to the natural animosity between conservatism and comedy, but I did see the trailer. It seemed to be about 90% made up of people punching an actor playing Michael Moore.
That's about it for conservative thinking. Scream "communist" and "race card" a few times, then fantasize about violence from your basement when you realize you don't have anything substantial to say.
Not the Midnight Cowboy's finest hour that's for sure.
ahh..another rush talking point. can you provide any proof that Obama has read anything that alinski wrote? from what i hear coming from the right it sounds like more of you guys have read him than liberals.
He was a community and labor organizer who had a great influence on people like Barack Obama and Cesar Chavez. According to Time magazine, Alinsky’s most famous tactic was "picking a target, freezing it, personalizing it and polarizing it."
Sounds like the GOP has seized on Alinsky's tactics far more than the Left has. But then the Right has always projected their actions upon their opponents. If you want to know what a Republican is guilty of, just look at what they accuse the Democrats of doing.
How are June, Wally and Theodore?
Beck's (and your) communists under the bed fears and conspiracy theories are so early sixties. Grow the flock up and turn off the TV. You're worshiping a millionaire alcoholic and drug addict who seems to be an end stage syphilitic.
He and his followers throw these names around, like socialist, Marxist and racist and it's clear they don't understand the words. It's all about the sound bite anyway.
A very good question indeed. I'm starting to think this violent moron is on Fox News primarily to make its other shows and commentators seem more mainstream.
The more outrageous the comments, the more people tune in to listen to the train wreck.
Besides, he is an entertainer. Just like Fox News is really an entertainment network(?). It doesn't have to be based in fact if we are just informing the public of our opinion.
"I want to beat Dems to death with a shovel!"
Glenn Beck, after 9/11:
"Pray for peace. Pray for protection on all. Pray for our republic. Pray for more time!"
This jackass would most certainly be institutionalized if it weren't for the terrorists.
When a questions is asked and the white will not answer that question or better yet answers it with another questions does that not like they are ducking the question or are afraid of answering it??
Does that sound fair he owns millions of dollars of real estate and god only know what else and he cheats on the taxes he says we all MUST pay?!?!?
Granted beating him with a shovel is a bit harsh but we have had enough of the hypocrisy with our elected officials and it is time THEY FOLLOW THE RULE THEY MAKE FOR US.
have you lost your mind. beck is PROVEN wrong almost daily on this web site alone.
Just "telling it like it is."
Jerk.
Not to worry on that score. It is fishergirl, after all. Every sentence she's ever typed here was either a false statement or an idiotic question.
Do you all really think Beck wants to kill Rangel? In all seriousness. You put Beck and Rangel in a room alone together and you actually believe he would kill the Congressman?
What part of "we'd like to beat to death" are you struggling with?
No--of course not-he might ask him how to underpay your taxes by $2 million dollars and not get audited or arrested.
And who ever said they wished Orin Hatch's grandchildren would die of aids?
Well, with the Old Testament God you did... But the New Testament God was more liberal.
Next, how about a cite regarding Orin Hatch's grandchildren because it's hard to believe that someone would say something like that? Are you sure she didn't just ask rhetorically how Orin Hatch would feel if one of his grandchildren contracted AIDS?
fishergirlusmc: Her name his [sic] Nina Vandehovel.
Well, I was curious enough to do a quick Google search, because I had no idea who this undoubtedly influential liberal was that could have said something so callous. Sure enough, there's no one of that name. There were two entries for Vanderhovel, but neither of those was named Nina.
I'm calling your bluff, fishergirlusmentalcase--I say Nina Vandehovel doesn't exist. If there's someone with a somewhat similar name who actually made this repugnant statement, and has any kind of influence over other liberals, I will gladly leave these boards forever. Of course, I would ask that you do the same if you can't prove your case. Are you up to the challenge?
However to talk and encourage Racist Violence, much less violence generally to a demographic that has in the distant and recent past resulted in the worst sort of Violence and actual people killed, then there are laws against that and "just kidding" is not a defence.
Can you show us an equivalent from the left of someone in the media saying they'd like to kill, say Boehner with a shovel? I doubt that you can, because it doesn't happen.
Letterman apologized for his bad joke about Bristol Palin, and the thing is, he's a comedian, he's not a media news person such as Beck, and doesn't work for a news organization.
Kathleen Harris DOES look like Cruella de Ville, only she's crazier.
I seem to remember LOTS of republicans making fun of Paula Jones' looks as in, "Hey how come Bill can't cavort with a hot chick?!? LOL, hahaha".
Thing is, conservatives tend to do these personal attacks a lot more, listen to Levin's show, and that's about all he does do. He makes up a little snide nickname for everyone.
Humor is funny, talking about killing anyone with a shovel = not funny.
ya know when that one guy shot up a class full of legal immigrants trying to learn english and how he was an avid watcher of beck's show and he believed when beck railed about how the government was coming to take away his guns? beck was being hyperbolic then right?
so what is going to happen if someone actually does that to charles rangel and beats him to death with a shovel? are you going to still defend beck then? what happens if he said the same about preisdent obama? and someone does it? what then.
Then maybe we could attend a class where someone could explain to us how, in English, sentences begin with capital letters.
In 2004 when folks at a Bush rally were wearing anti-Bush shirts and an employee was fired for having a Kerry sticker on her car there was hell to pay. Cable host threatens it's oh never mind.