Beck Enters Full-Fledged Mad Max Mode
March 22, 2011 4:50 pm ET by Ned Resnikoff
Earlier today, Glenn Beck's website The Blaze posted an audio file purported to depict former SEIU employee Stephen Lerner speaking to a small crowd at a left-wing convention in New York City. In the clip, the man The Blaze identifies as Lerner suggests that citizens and community organizing groups exert pressure on the financial system through a campaign of strikes and civil disobedience.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Beck blows the import of the clip way out of proportion. But what's truly remarkable is that Beck responds to that supposedly dangerous rhetoric with full-throated apocalyptic panic:
BECK: They will force the banks -- according to this plan outlined, you will see it at TheBlaze.com -- they will force the banks to refinance all of the state loans, all of the county. And the banks will not be able to do it. And he says that's the plan, to bring them to the edge of financial collapse. Because if we can cause enough chaos, if we can bring them to the edge of financial collapse, we can collapse the system and we can cause another financial crisis. Now who in their right mind thinks another financial crisis is a good thing? And who thinks this government is going to be able to survive?
There are anarchists, there are communists, there are even people who claim to be patriots. "I want anarchy, well take it down." I'm telling you, millions will die all around the world. Mark my words: the United States of America goes down, and millions will die. If this country goes down, you better grab on to your neighbor, you better grab on to your Bible, you better grab on to your gun, you better grab on to everything and everybody that you love. Forget your stuff, and you better congregate together and stay together and get on your knees. Because I've got news for you: chaos is what will rule this country. Either that or an iron fist.
It's as if Beck doesn't hear the words coming out of his own mouth. Calling for strikes and civil disobedience is tantamount to "economic terrorism," but threatening that the United States government will collapse, predicting that "millions will die," and urging your listeners to prepare to "grab on to your gun" is indicative of a level-headed, well-reasoned assessment of the situation?
Enough is enough.
No one has the right to conspire against our nation. This Lerner is a moron. i understand that Lerner is very tight with the DOJ. If that's the case, is the DOJ aware of this guy? If they are then we're in a lot of trouble.
What does that mean?
Reminding them whose money they're sitting on doesn't sound like a bad idea. They clearly haven't gotten the message yet.
Let me get this straight. Banks would collapse under the strain of hundreds of thousands of defaultings on mortgages, and you think that wouldn't affect regular peoples money?
Regardless of its true or not, I'm just pointing out your logic has a flaw. If banks collapse, who will lend loans, and other financial matters? With loss of available credit, many businessess would face extreme hardships, and the economy would collapse.
Keywords are key.
Right now, homeowners are collapsing under the strain of foreclosed homes that they haven't eve defaulted on, some haven't even missed a payment. They aren't lending because their risky lending of late put a lot of people in financial ruin.
Clearly they have not yet gotten the message.
Do anyof you geniuses remember what happended the last time the banks/stock markets collapsed...? Apparently not...
The Federal Gov't BAILED THEM OUT WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS! To clarify--Government does NOT create wealth...It only confiscates it from YOU.
So while you brilliant marxists "remind" the bank whose money "they're sitting on," your leftist government brethren will be confiscating more money out of YOUR POCKET to prevent the banks' failure yet again.
Get it yet...? You clearly haven't gotten the message about ECONOMIC REALITY.
As for Glenn Beck: He's one of the few humans making a shred of sense these days--His track record for identifying what's about to happen is impossible to dispute--It's purely empirical at this point. If you're all too jaded/moronic/damaged/unethical to understand what he's explaining then you're of no use to anyone.
Drop the bong, take a class on economics and quit hanging out with the losers on this site--This ridiculous pseudo-proletariat gig is a dead end.
Joke of the day!
Why don't you explain your hero, Beck's ideas on Egypt. Who were all of these players and how were they actively involved with each other? How did they cause the overthrow of Egypt? What should we have done differently? And, how is their Muslim Caliphate taking over Europe? These are the simple questions that any reasonable, thinking human being would ask someone who makes the same ridiculous statements as Beck. I am sorry you are neither reasonable nor thinking.
As for Egypt: Here are a couple of "concerning" setbacks to the well-reasoned, gadget-clad's neat-o effort to bring democracy:
GlobeTribune Reports: "As Egypt looks to its future without Hosni Mubarak, a leader with a considerable following is emerging. Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a leader with disturbing parallels to Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini...Like Khomeini, who fled to Paris during the rule of the Shah, Qaradawi fled to Qatar. Khomeinei maintained a following in Iran with taped sermons that were smuggled into the country. Qaradawi’s reach into Egypt was by satellite television, where he became known as a sort of “dear Abby” of the Muslim world along as a scholar of Islamic law.
Qaradawi’s speech last Friday in Tahrir Square was attended by a million people. His followers, the Muslim Brotherhood, clearly were directing the show. Anyone attending the rally with a different view of Egypt’s future was in for a rude awakening. Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Dish quoted John Hinderaker as follows.
One of the western media’s favorite Egyptian rebels is Google executive Wael Ghonim...Ghonim was present on Friday and intended to address the crowd, but he was barred from the platform by al-Qaradawi’s security. He left the stage in distress, 'his face hidden by an Egyptian flag...'"
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Google News:
"CAIRO — Islamists hurled stones and shoes at Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace laureate and a secular contender for Egypt's presidency, as he tried to vote Saturday in a referendum on constitutional amendments.
"We don't want you," the mob shouted, throwing stones, shoes and water at the former UN nuclear watchdog chief as he turned up at a Cairo polling station, five weeks after president Hosni Mubarak was ousted by mass protests.
ElBaradei beat a retreat to his car and left without voting ...
Muqattam is close to the scene of recent deadly clashes between Egypt's Christian Copt community and Muslims."
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Seems like you brain-children should spend a little more time keeping up with reality and a little less time playing World of Warcraft.
As for Egypt: Here are a couple of "concerning" setbacks to the well-reasoned, gadget-clad's neat-o effort to bring democracy:
GlobeTribune Reports: "As Egypt looks to its future without Hosni Mubarak, a leader with a considerable following is emerging. Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a leader with disturbing parallels to Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini...Like Khomeini, who fled to Paris during the rule of the Shah, Qaradawi fled to Qatar. Khomeinei maintained a following in Iran with taped sermons that were smuggled into the country. Qaradawi’s reach into Egypt was by satellite television, where he became known as a sort of “dear Abby” of the Muslim world along as a scholar of Islamic law.
Qaradawi’s speech last Friday in Tahrir Square was attended by a million people. His followers, the Muslim Brotherhood, clearly were directing the show. Anyone attending the rally with a different view of Egypt’s future was in for a rude awakening. Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Dish quoted John Hinderaker as follows.
One of the western media’s favorite Egyptian rebels is Google executive Wael Ghonim...Ghonim was present on Friday and intended to address the crowd, but he was barred from the platform by al-Qaradawi’s security. He left the stage in distress, 'his face hidden by an Egyptian flag...'"
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Google News:
"CAIRO — Islamists hurled stones and shoes at Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace laureate and a secular contender for Egypt's presidency, as he tried to vote Saturday in a referendum on constitutional amendments.
"We don't want you," the mob shouted, throwing stones, shoes and water at the former UN nuclear watchdog chief as he turned up at a Cairo polling station, five weeks after president Hosni Mubarak was ousted by mass protests.
ElBaradei beat a retreat to his car and left without voting ...
Muqattam is close to the scene of recent deadly clashes between Egypt's Christian Copt community and Muslims."
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Seems like you brain-children should spend a little more time keeping up with reality and a little less time playing World of Warcraft.
Wouldn't your bible and gun and everything you love be "stuff?" Oh wait, he almost always contradicts what he just said in the following sentance. Silly me.
listen
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912100019
Come on...who says Beck is fear mongering?
I think I'll go for a walk...
This article is focused on Beck's words but not "Stephen Lerner's" words?
Did Stephen Lerner not explicitly lay out a plan to disrupt and harm the financial intuitions of America?
Yet the article writer and the posters ignore that at their own peril?
Don’t you all have a savings and retirement funds vested within the financial institutions? Would a Dow Jones collapse and a chaotic reaction from the people not be harmful to most of us?
Why are you burying your heads in the sand over ideology while some (Stephen Lerner) are trying to harm us all in the name of chaos?
Wake up people before it is too late.
But is anyone of you disturbed by Lerner's desire to cause a 2nd economic crash? Have a little intellectual honesty. Do you really believe that this kind of economic chaos can take place without hurting the poor and the middle class the most?
Even Lerner knows his tactics are repugnant to America's sense of fair play. Why else would he seek to conceal the roles of union organizer's. I don't dislike socialsts. I dislike socialsts who are ashamed of themselves and their devious tactics.
August 23, 2006 6:54 pm ET
Beck, Carlson noted that apocalyptic August 22 predictions were wrong; Beck still foresees a "world war of biblical proportions"
Having previously floated August 22 as the possible date of Armageddon, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck and MSNBC host Tucker Carlson admitted on the August 22 editions of their respective programs that the date had not, in fact, brought about the end of days. But the lack of apocalyptic events on August 22 didn't stop Beck from warning, "I have been throwing a lot of scarier scenarios your way lately, and some of them may or may not come to fruition. But if they do ... we are going to be experiencing the joys of vaporization."
On the August 9 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Beck had declared that August 22 "is the day that Israel might be wiped off the map, leading to all-out Armageddon," and "could be the day that agnostics get down on one knee and start to pray, 'Sweet Jesus, are you coming today?' " Responding to a viewer email critical of his coverage of the issue, Beck declared on the August 22 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck: "I wasn't predicting Armageddon today.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200608230009
Here we are 4 1/2 years later and Beck STILL has not done his homework on the subject.
He uses all the right buzzwords but it is most obviuos that he has no real clue what "The End of Days", "Armegeddon", "The Apocolypse" "The AntiChrist", etc etc actually truly mean or even where they are located at within the Bible!
For Beck it is all just another way to run his scam and sell his product---the product being Glenn Beck himself.
There's ALREADY a Beck lookalike in the MAD MAX films- it's Toady, the chubby little guy who acts as The Lord Humungous' fawning announcer, warning people how bad it'll be for them if they don't do EXACTLY what his Powerful Australian Boss wants them to do.
In his one attempt to act on his own, he accidently cuts his own fingers off by trying to catch a boomerang.
Did anyone listen to the tape! Why was he, Lerner, worried about police in the room?
Or is it that MediaMatters doesn't condone this plot they don't believe it was Lerner.
Our U.S. Constitution and more specifically our current, in place, form of Government is the oldest of all the still active Governments in the World today. I wonder how much longer it will last the way people are trying to tear her apart.
If MM believes the audio is not Lerner or is in some way doctored then why not do some investigative reporting and uncover who is behind that?
As for slamming Beck for what he believes the results could be if Lerner's plan is successful, why not report on how the plan can not be successful or how the results would not be as dire as Beck thinks it could be. Beck gave his opinion of what the results would be, he was not reporting anything as fact. So how does this MM article uncover lies being reported as fact by the Conservative media???
On another thread - it's so hard to keep track - someone presents himself as an attorney and another as a professor. The old credential tactic. The attorney's long-winded stupefy-them-with-your-mumbo-jumbo posts are still getting shredded, while I can't remember who lectured the prof on his painfully bad grammar. If they think we're that dimwitted it's because they don't know how it is not to be.
It's interesting, but it must mean that MMfA is getting into the right-wing echo chamber more and more--which is a good thing. If MMfA was as off base in their assessments as the trolls would like you to believe, they wouldn't talk about the site.
As for what Beck thinks the result of the plan being successful, I never said I agreed or disagreed. I would simply like MM to present their views instead of just bashing Beck. There is no value to simply reading articles bashing someone they don't agree with. Instead providing their point of view and explaining why they think differently is what I want to read about.