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Beck: "Not 'useful'? Progressives want you dead"

January 19, 2010 4:40 pm ET by Media Matters staff

Posted to Beck's website on January 19, 2010:

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    • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 4:42 pm ET)
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      Oh jeez. Here we go again.
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    • Author by foghornleghorn (January 19, 2010 4:45 pm ET)
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      If you don't treat them like nincompoops...

      Nincompoops? Are you serious, Mr. Blech?

      And I didn't know that G. B. Shaw was a "cold-blooded killer".
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    • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 4:53 pm ET)
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      Did you read the snippet of the article above. Glenn is going to show us the history of the USSR that progressives don't want you to see! Because, you know, we all know how great and wonderful the old Soviet Union was after all.

      Notice this little part from his story about Shaw:

      ""I don't really have a problem with these people. I don't want to kill people." But I mean, some of them just aren't useful. They have to die."

      Notice, the part where he says Shaw said some people have to die, isn't in quotes, which means, Beck just made it up.

      We did it he's the president of the Ukraine.


      Umm, Glenn, it's not the Ukraine, it's just Ukraine. Common mistake though.

      An executive came to me on well, last night and said, Glenn, I watched the first fifteen minutes of this show three times, and I think I have to go back and watch it again. I learned something new each time I watched it. I watched it three times in a row to be able to digest it.


      It's funny here too that he "quotes" an executive, but doesn't actually attribute a quote to said executive, which means, he probably made that up as well.

      They will ask you, I promise you, they will ask you what the person who has their master's in history who is fact checking this every step of the way, she said to me last week, I'm really angry. And when I asked why, she said, because I have my master's in history and I didn't learn any of this, and I want to know why.


      Based on Beck's previous fact checking, it's likely that the person he mentions who has their masters degree in history doesn't actually have a masters degree in anything. And, I'd also like to suggest that if there is a person with a masters degree working on this show, and it actually is in history, when you GET a masters degree in history, you normally study one small specific section of history, say, for instance, Classical Greek Civilization. You don't study ALL history.

      It's film that you've never seen before. Your children or grandchildren will never, ever wear a Che T shirt ever again.


      I've heard him say this before, and to this day, I've never actually SEEN anyone with a Che t-shirt on anywhere, and I've lived in some pretty liberal places.

      But what will really last with you is, my gosh, if I didn't know this about our enemies, what haven't they taught us about us. This is the progressive education that you have received. This is the beginning of the antidote for that. Make a choice because once your eyes are opened, you can't close them again.


      Well, Glenn, you're talking about Che. He's pretty well dead. Marx? Dead. USSR? Dead. What enemies are you actually talking about here? Cuba? Glenn, you make fun of a progressive education, how would you know? When you were a teenager, by your own admission, you were more concerned about being on the radio than school and you barely graduated high school, and then you never GOT a higher education, so how do you know, or not know what they're teaching out there? You don't. You're a dolt.
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      • Author by bintx (January 19, 2010 4:56 pm ET)
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        He couldn't let Alex Jones over on Prison Planet one up him
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        • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 5:04 pm ET)
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          I like how he compares Shaw to Gore in one fell swoop, as if they're even remotely the same. And hasn't Shaw been dead for, well, quite some time? Guy has been dead for almost 60 years, and yet, Beck seems to think that progressives take their marching orders from Shaw? Ridiculous.

          I'm pretty sure that Shaw didn't influence much in the way of politics during his time on Earth.
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        • Author by DellDolly (January 20, 2010 1:03 am ET)
             
          Boy, that Alex Jones guy is a real wacko. He's scary crazy.
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      • Author by Publius39 (January 19, 2010 4:57 pm ET)
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        That's great analysis, but we all know that his followers don't have the critical thinking skills to go through such a process, that's why they watch Beck.
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        • Author by mtgramza (January 19, 2010 8:59 pm ET)
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          Really? I know several engineers at work that are avid tea-baggers but actually they are incredibly intelligent. It's frustrating, but I must admit it.
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          • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 9:16 pm ET)
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            Folks can be smart on one thing, and be completely stupid on another. Just because someone is smart, doesn't mean they have good common sense.
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            • Author by DellDolly (January 20, 2010 1:08 am ET)
                 
              I know some engineers who are great engineers yet are crappy critical thinkers, who have almost no common sense, and who have some of the worst social skills of anyone I've ever met!

              I think many of them got some of the genes for Asperger's Syndrome or Autism - not enough that they're incredibly disabled, but enough so that they can't see the forest for the trees in many cases.
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    • Author by Publius39 (January 19, 2010 4:54 pm ET)
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      At least the Conservatives are environmentally sound, they recycle every attack they come up with to reduce consumption.;)
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    • Author by bintx (January 19, 2010 4:57 pm ET)
         
      Do a quick google with "George Bernard Shaw Murder." Beck's been googling.
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    • Author by New Frontier (January 19, 2010 5:00 pm ET)
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      Progressives don't want the history of the Soviet Union really understood, it's buried.
      Shhhhhh... don't anyone tell Glenn that we hid it in a wooden crate right next to the Ark of the Covenant.
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      • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 5:05 pm ET)
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        I ask, why don't progressives want this known? We don't care to have the history of the USSR hidden, because we never said it was a good thing, not even remotely. I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone in my ultra liberal circle of friends who are pining the days away waiting for the USSR to return so we can move there.
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        • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (January 19, 2010 5:12 pm ET)
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          Now come on Magnolia, everyone knows that the progressives in this country are all triple secret sleeper agents from the old USSR, just waiting for the signal to come across our secret decoder rings. Once we get the secret signal from our decoder rings we will jump into action and destroy the United States from within.

          I thought everyone knew this.

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          • Author by magnolialover (January 19, 2010 5:14 pm ET)
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            You're right, I forgot about that. I think my ring is starting to buzz now.
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            • Author by John Paradox (January 19, 2010 5:54 pm ET)
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              In brightest day, in darkest night,
              no evil...

              whoops, wrong ring!
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        • Author by New Frontier (January 19, 2010 5:28 pm ET)
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          I ask, why don't progressives want this known?
          Good question. All I know is we did a lousy job burying the secret history if a numbnuts doofus like Glenn Beck could find it.
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          • Author by The_Cat (January 19, 2010 5:45 pm ET)
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            I reckon that's what we get fer spray paintin' a giant X over top of it after we was done buryin' it, New Frontier. ;) Some idjit comes along and just digs 'er up.
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      • Author by bintx (January 19, 2010 5:19 pm ET)
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        I don't know about "progressives," but I learned about the history of the Soviet Union in junior high and high school. Wonder where Beck was during World History class?
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    • Author by kfraz43 (January 19, 2010 5:11 pm ET)
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      Is he trying to provide cover for the Texas folks who want the school curriculum mangled with "vindication" for McCarthy? There HAS to be a reason for this...
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      • Author by bintx (January 19, 2010 5:21 pm ET)
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        It's on all the conspiracy theory folks' web pages for the past few weeks, I think Beck just read it on Alex Jones' site and decided he'd missed the wagon when it rolled by. He's playing catchup.
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (January 19, 2010 7:18 pm ET)
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      You know, if it wasn't for the fact that some people will actually believe this crap, it would be funny. (sigh)
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 19, 2010 7:46 pm ET)
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      Beck: "Not 'useful'? Progressives want you dead"

      [http://hoox.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/no-brain.JPG]

      It's just not there for him! It just isn't!

      SMH!
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    • Author by shaggles (January 20, 2010 1:57 pm ET)
         
      I thought progressives wanted to redistribute wealth to lazy, no-good layabouts? Now they want them dead?
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