Beck: Bush alone fighting "World War III," while Gore worries that "[t]he ice is starting to melt in Greenland"
On his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck proclaimed that recent violence in the Middle East and India are evidence that "we've got World War III to fight," and also warned of "the impending apocalypse." Beck added that President Bush is facing the threat "by himself," while former Vice President Al Gore is more concerned with the fact that "[t]he ice is starting to melt in Greenland."
On the July 12 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck cited recent violence in the Middle East and India as evidence that "we've got World War III to fight," while also warning of "the impending apocalypse." After Beck compared the current situation to "1938, World War II," former CIA case officer Robert Baer agreed that "[t]his is like Hitler taking over Czechoslovakia." Beck added that President Bush is facing the threat "by himself," while former Vice President Al Gore is more concerned with the fact that "[t]he ice is starting to melt in Greenland."
Sticking with his World War II analogy, Beck said: "Hollywood, clean your ears out and listen up. You are the first in line for the gas chambers if they ever win. You're the one who are producing a lot of the trash that's spilling out into their cave that's hacking them off." Beck and Baer finished the segment by listing countries and putting them in the category of "friend, foe, or ally." Both agreed that Belgium is a foe and Beck said: "I mean, they're putting something addictive in their waffles, I believe."
From the July 12 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: Hey, everybody. Hurry up; we've got World War III to fight. Yes, it is the end of days. Isn't it?
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Here's what I do know about World War III and the impending apocalypse. One, we can't coexist with people who want to blow up trains and subways and bring down buildings. If somebody has a death wish, not really the best negotiating partner.
I also know that whether you like it or not, this is a religious war. Radical Muslims want to wipe everybody else off the face of the earth. And let me tell you something: Hollywood, clean your ears out and listen up. You are the first in line for the gas chambers if they ever win. You're the one who are producing a lot of the trash that's spilling out into their cave that's hacking them off.
Also, I know that people don't want to believe the worst. That's why more people aren't on the bandwagon. People are in denial. They don't want to think that we're facing something horrible. They want it to go away so we can all get back to our lives.
But listen to me, it is bad. And it's not just us. It's the whole Western way of life that is in trouble. That's why we need to get on that World War III bandwagon.
Now, here's what I don't know. I don't know if there are enough world leaders out there that actually have a spine anymore. Where are the real leaders? Not a lot of people are leading. That's not a real good place to be. Where's Churchill? Where's -- where's FDR?
You know -- I know we have, I know we have George Bush. He's doing it by himself. I mean, Tony Blair is doing good, too, but is that enough?
I also don't know what it's going to take to get people to wake up. My gosh, we were wide awake after 9-11. We've all gone back to sleep. We almost lost World War II because of apathy and denial. Please, let's not let it happen again.
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BECK: Would you agree with me that World War III -- that we're here?
BAER: Oh, we've already, we've already started it.
BECK: Yeah, well I think we're 1938, World War II. It hasn't, it hasn't really hit yet where people are like, "Oh I get it, we've got to fight." Would you agree?
BAER: This is like Hitler taking over Czechoslovakia. That's the stage we're at right now.
BECK: Right, right. OK. Do you believe -- please say yes -- do you believe it can be avoided?
BAER: No, we're going into a war. We have to brace ourself. It's coming.
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BECK: Right. Here's the thing. Here's the thing that I think people don't really understand. If you go -- can show, bring the map of World War II -- I'm sorry, World War III. The theatres of war. This is a map of the entire world of every place that has been hit since 9-11 by a terrorist activity. You can see there in red. And unfortunately, too many people will look at this -- for instance, Al Gore would look at this map and say, "Oh, yeah, I see that's what happening here. The ice is starting to melt in Greenland." I mean, they just don't get it, do they?
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BECK: I've got only a minute here. Can you bring up the -- let's go friend, foe or ally. France. Friend, foe, or ally? I say they're foe.
BAER: Ally, sort of. Ally.
BECK: Oh, come on.
BAER: No. They're scared. They're scared. No, Glenn, they're scared.
BECK: England. You know what? England is a friend and an ally, wouldn't you say?
BAER: Absolutely. Friend and ally.
BECK: Russia? Friend or ally? Or foe?
BAER: Foe.
BECK: Yeah, I agree with you. India? Just an ally?
BAER: An ally of sorts.
BECK: Yeah, I think so, too. Saudi Arabia?
BAER: Saudi Arabia is a foe.
BECK: I agree with you. China? Foe.
BAER: Foe, absolutely. They're arming these guys.
BECK: Belgium? Clearly foe.
BAER: Foe.
BECK: I mean, they're putting something addictive in their waffles, I believe. Turkey?
BAER: Turkey's a foe.
BECK: I agree with you.
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that you, as a patriotic American, will leave your cushy studio and join right up to go to the front lines, right?
Right?
I'm sure he's taking out his army men at home and playing war, cause you know war is just so damn COOL!
"we need to get on that World War III bandwagon"
Some of these rightwingers would probably choose the al-Qaeda side if only they could speak arabic. They seem to have the same bloodthirst and macho ideals.
And yet another thing we have in common with Nazi Germany.
The Iraq invasion has set a new pecendent for the rest of the world with regard to grounds for armed invasion. The world is a far more dangerous and unfriendly place today and we have the Bush Administration to thank for it.
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"Hollywood, clean your ears out and listen up. You are the first in line for the gas chambers if they ever win. "
I assume he means the Religious Right, correct?
I meant to add this:
Because I thought Hollywood was, according to Beck & Co, on the terrorist side? No? Now they're the first target for them?
I'm getting confused here.
It's really confusing. First, Bush is fighting WWIII, but we are not at war, we won, back on May 1, 2003, but then, no, it's WWIII, and you liberals, who ALL support the terrorists, will be first in line to be gassed by the terrorists you support because they hate our freedom, so just shut up and do what the President wants and give up your freedom so the terrorists don't take it away.
Did I get that right?
I think what he is trying to say is that since Hollywood is mainly "Jewish" in the Republican's mind, and that because "the terrorist" hate the Jews, if they win will gas them as the Nazis did in WWII.
But don't terrorist hate our way of life. Our culture and Hollywood movies.
are we playing risk here?
That's the first thing I thought too.
9/11 is equivalent to Nazi Germany storming across eastern Europe. Nineteen religious fanatics flying somebody else's airplanes is exactly the same as the Luftwaffe. Proportionality, people.
Good point. But I say be very afraid of this "War on Terror=World War II/III" meme. That really scares me. I think the pundits and Bush sycophants are going to start trotting out World War II parallells with alarming frequency as November nears.
I've been accused of tinfoil-hat thinking for saying this, but it's my belief that in 2008, the twisted logic of "War on Terror=World War II redux" will be used as an excuse to allow Bush to run for a third term, or worse, pre-empt the election entirely.
We had been bombing Iraq weekly for ten straight years, turning the Persian Gulf into a US military base for fifteen and funding Isreali opression of Palestinians for thirty years, all prior to 9/11.
THe WTC attack was an effect of an agressive and belligerent US foreign policy, not the cause thereof. It was a response to all the dead and wounded the US was creating in the Middle East for the last thirty years.
The New Luftwaffe has stars on it's wings and bombs homes, weddings, civilians, and entire cities.
They're just testing one more excuse as to why Bush is losing in Iraq.
I really get the idea that Beck would be standing beside Osama ushering "Hollywood" into those gas chambers.
Osama; 'Who's next?'
Beck; 'Let's get Clooney - he's been asking for it'
How is this guy still on the air?
Switzerland Friend or Foe ?
I can just see the mouse in his brain running the treadmill
Freedonia Friend or Foe
Is Groucho Marx trying to get WMD's
Tomania Friend or Foe
Adenoid Hynk cruel to barbers and jews
BECK: Would you agree with me that World War III -- that we're already here?
BAER: Oh we've already, we've already started it.
NO SH*T, SHERLOCK . . . THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T PREEMPTIVELY INVADE OTHER NATIONS
If the fruit loops have gone missing in your kitchen, I think we just found two of them. Sad part is the koolaid drinkers and Bushcovites out there buy this steaming crap. What sorry times we live in.
And the NeoCons have sold us to them lock, stock, and barrel. Shame on Bush Co. and Beck for supporting him, if he believes his own rhetoric. Which I doubt, no one except his loyal listeners could be so ill informed on just about everything.
So every got-dang product I buy at Wal-Mart was manufactured by an enemy of America? Why does Wal-Mart hate America so much?
When are they going to dump him?
Note to CNN - Could you please cancel Beck already?
I think he is so desperate for approval and attention he will say anything.
When do we get to see some numbers on his viewship? Some of the Cons on this site love to push out numbers on viewship and equate them with truth and quality... What's the problem, no numbers on Beck yet?
CNN Executives Susan Grant, Mitch Gelman, and David Payne knew exactly what they were getting before Beck was hired, if for no other reason, than MMFA told CNN. To keep Beck on the payroll takes more than greed for ratings and bucks because it is immoral to keep his hate spewing on the air, especially if you disagree with it. My best guess is that Becks rantings serves other interests of these executives.
I hate feeling obligated to respond to such drivel, devoid of clear analysis. Never mind Beck that a study commissioned by the DOD in 2004 concluded that climate change is a greater threat than terrorism, or that the new British Defense Minister said the same thing earlier this year. I guess that means Blair and Britain are just a bunch of liberal kooks.
I agree that there are several international crises that demand U.S. attention. From the corpse-strewn streets of Baghdad to Iran's uranium-enrichment plants, from Israel's escalating conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon to North Korean missile launch pads, the White House faces developments that appear to be getting worse for U.S. interests.
Virtually every president faces a plethora of global crises, sometimes simultaneously. What's new is that the United States' ability to influence events has shrunk, largely because U.S. troops and treasure remain mired in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Iraq war has diminished foreign confidence in American leadership, according to foreign policy experts and some U.S. officials.
This is what Beck precisely fails to realize! The U.S. has undermined its own ability to deal with current crises due to its disastrous Iraq invasion.
Al-Qaeda has neither the ability nor the desire to overthrow the U.S. government. Their ambitions are purely regional, involving the elimination of the corrupt and ruthless royal ruling regime in Saudi Arabia and Mubarrak and Egypt. Therein lies the bulk of their greivances with the U.S. Bin Laden and Zawahiri do not concern themselves with American culture when they lay out the fututre strategy of Al-Qaeda, detestable as it may be to them.
Beck is SO ignorant when it comes to foreign policy!
"Al-Qaeda has neither the ability nor the desire to overthrow the U.S. government."
Whaaaaat...? Don't you know that saying that means that you are also saying that our brave men and women in the armed forces aren't REALLY fighting and dying for our freedom in Iraq, but for the freedom of a bunch of towelheads... you surely must hate America... have you forgotten 9/11?!
Seriously, this administration has done a great job of convincing people that the Iraq war has a connection to American security, when the simple fact is that it only concerns the US economy (which isn't unimportant either... but try and sell a war on that), even though the terrorists don't have an agenda or even a chance in hell of overthrowing the US government, and "taking away our freedom".
You say Beck doesn't have a clue on foreign policy. You're right - but unfortunately, he's not the only one!
You could probably count on one hand the number of cons with any clue on foreign poicy. Certainly, no one in the White House has any grip on how the rest of the world works, nor do they care!
We're a bully, throwing our weight around the schoolyard. Eventually, the rest of the weaklings will gang up on us. I hope it never comes to that, but don't be surprised if it does!
Save our country - Vote the bastards out!
I don't think Beck even believes much of what he says. He is a master at pushing the neo-con agenda. I believe he is in it for the money.
With all due respect to the deceased of 9-11 and their families and those that have been killed and lost limbs in Iraq, in 1944, 30,000 people died everyday. Everyday, day after day. The Soviets lost 11,000,000 soldiers and 7,000,000 civilians.
Beck is ignorant.
Ok, it's official, he a MORON!!!!!!!
Happy Thoughts;
Dan Grady
Glenn Beck devise the military and diplomatic strategy for WWIII?
Would he do any better than Bush in keeping our allies from dropping out in the coming conflict?
I could've sworn Beck sounded pretty sarcastic the first 10 seconds or so. It's almost like he realized what he was saying for a moment there.
Why exactly do they have troops right now in Afghanistan? This guy is just a garden variety idiot
Glenn Beck is a man of true achievement, & its time somebody here gave the man his damned due. Everytime that I've thought that he couldn't say anything stupider or lamer than he has in the past, he manages to reimpress me. He is committed to excellence in asininity. He is a dumbf*ck's dumbf*ck. He is the Robert Deniro of cable talk show morons.
Hey, YOU try being that consistantly stupid sometime.
Easier said than done.
..was that Bush alone is STARTING World War III.
Bush fighting WWIII alone? Man, that certainly doesn't honor the troops. IF it's WWIII, then what of the women that have lost their lives? The men that have lost their eyes, limbs, and genitals? If Bush is fighting WWIII alone, what were those soldiers doing? What are they doing still?
We can be certain of so few things, but this one is clear: when Bush had a chance to fight his generation's war, he hid behind the skirt of his privilege. He hid in the haze of cocaine. He fled the Guard when it was time to pee into a cup. Beck portrays Bush as a brave man. If bravery is sending other folks children off to die, then Bush is brave.
"We can’t coexist with people who want to blow up trains and subways and bring down buildings." Um, which country has blown up more buildings in the last 5 years? The US or Al-Qaeda? Who has killed more innocent people? The US or Al-Qaeda? Look into it Beck.
"This is a religious war…" Oh really? You mean it has nothing to do with oil and the fact that the presence of US troops in the Middle East where we are not wanted or the propping up of oppressive puppet dictatorships? You mean it just comes down to Muslims wanting to kill cause their god told them to? Duh… OK!
"Hollywood, clean your ears out…" Go Beck Go! Learn them Hollywood folk! Them with all their Star Warses and Spidermans and Deuce Bigalows. We’re begging for another 9-11! God, every time they show one of these movies in Iraq and Afghanistan, you know in one of their surround sound THX CAVES complete with flavored popcorn and that awesome trivia you can watch before the show starts, well, them radicals is getting riled up! What movies do you think Beck meant? Was it Fahrenheit 9-11? An Inconvenient Truth? United 93? The Passion of the Christ? Hmmm, according to Beck this is a holy war so he must be talking about The Passion and United. Actually, using Beck's logic the best way not to hack them off would be to only produce movies that are Al-Qaeda approved. It’s Beck who has something in his ears (and nothing in-between).
"It’s the whole Western way of life that’s in trouble." Um, no, it’s the whole Western way of life that’s the CAUSE of this trouble.
"I know we have George Bush. He’s doing it by himself…." Yip, Hitler was doing it by himself for the first few years too.
"We were wide-awake after 9-11. We’ve all gone back to sleep…" What Beck really means is, “America, why did you wake up? Why are you asking questions? Why don’t you believe our lies anymore? Why aren’t you blindly following Bush into more pre-emptive illegal wars? Sleep damn you!!!”
I will say I love how Beck cannot look at the camera for more than a few seconds at a time. He’s jumpy, cagey, shifty, and obviously doesn’t believe a word he is saying. My favorite moment of the show comes near the end when he says, “I only got a minute here.” and then looks at his watch! WTF?!
CNN is reaching out to the mentally-deficient viewer.
Yes, they are making the US less safe and yes they are pissing off more and more peoples, but isn't that what they want. A constant state of war.
Divide and Conquer!
Create unrest in the middle and in an odd sort of way you are in control.
I'm sure you understand what i'm saying, most of you have probably read 1984...
I think we underestimate the leaders we hate so much. They aren't fools and they aren't dumb, they are cunning manipulators. They aren't exactly geniuses all of the time but they know don't even need too. This arrogance is the weakness we should exploit.
I should point out that Bush is a fool tough... He simply is the puppet for the people with the real power behind him. So no I don't hate Bush at all, I pitty him. If that man ever "wakes up", he will probably throw himself off of his wonderfull white balcony... I seriously doubt he will wake though.
Peace! from Canada
Bush alone instigating World War III.
SCREAM, then VOMIT!!!! This is not mine, written by a friend, but it's so fantastic I have to post it:
"Dear Editor,
I suspect that you don’t often get a letter complaining about a cartoon – but McKee’s cartoon in today’s Press shows a degree of ignorance and bias which I find offensive and difficult to pass off with some such remark as “Oh, well – I guess he doesn’t know any better.” The fact is, a political cartoon should have some relevance to fact, and the spectacle of the Democratic Donkey (in a tout’s suit yet!) advising the Iwo Jima flag raisers to “RETREAT!” is not only crassly pejorative, but historically inaccurate.
World War II was fought during the Administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman, two Democrats, who not only had Democratic Congresses, but the backing of most Republicans as well. What opposition to the war that there was, was Republican. In fact, my right-wing son-in-law used to rag me with the canard that “Democrats are the War Party. Republicans know better.” (Funny –he hasn’t said anything like that lately.)
Facts: Japan attacked us. Iraq not only did NOT attack us, but was, thanks to our treatment, largely flat on its back, incapable of attacking anyone. Iwo Jima was a hard-fought victory, symbolized by the flag raising. We have nothing comparable in our treatment of Iraq or Iraqis. We committed the nation to a victorious war; millions of people went to work in war-related industries in the 1940’s. Now? Any war-related industries have been out-sourced, and machine tool related jobs on which the economy of the country depends have been similarly sent to foreign sources. We were committed to victory then; and we succeeded. Had the current Administration shown the same degree of commitment to victory, we’d already be out of there. The war was won and peace was in the offing, with honor to both sides. What happened? Greed. Contracts to the friends of the Administration were more important than pacifying the country, so a successful team was fired and the country put in the hands of a bunch of clowns who would need ground-approach radar and two GPS fixes to tie their own shoelaces!
We spent a lot of money on World War II, it is true; but we were combating two major powers with worldwide ambitions whose hegemony extended over a major portion of the globe. We stand to spend a lot more in subduing a pipsqueak nation which had no grand territorial ambitions in the first place, but whose citizens resent being occupied, and given the way we have been treating them, don’t mind dying if they can take a few of us with them. You CAN make successful war on a nation; you can NOT make successful war on a people. I thought Viet Nam had taught us that, but evidently not.
Even a large number of sensible Republicans recognize that this war may very well be the breaking of us as a sovereign nation, and are thinking of ways to get out of it – of course they don’t dare say so where they can be heard, because the war powers still hold the political purse strings.
But – the word is not “RETREAT!” The word is “EXTRICATE!” We never did belong there, and the best way out is the quickest way possible. Now that the war has achieved its desired objective, ($70.00 a barrel oil), there is no more reason for us to be there. The problem is that there is no convenient exit strategy. Again I refer you to Viet Nam. The way to get out is to GET OUT. Abandon the eight billion dollar embassy and leave. It will be cheaper in the long run. Congressman Murtha and friends are absolutely correct, and McKee is a partisan idiot."
The American mainline media, through spokesmen such as Beck and Baer, are certainly advancing the elitist, neo-empirical philosophy of Leo Strauss, whose influence on the Bush administration is pervasive. Check it out. Google "Bush and the influence of Leo Strauss" and be prepared to have your jaw drop. Strauss, like Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Rove, Bush, and Bolton, advance the money-making notion that "War is Peace," that the citizens deserve to know only what the administration wishes them to know, and that what's good for America is good for the world. Yes, we're in 1938, but we are taking Germany's role, not Hollywood, the liberal cause, or Al Gore.
Aha! This Beck guy is one of those who got into LeHaye's books on Armageddon and ultra-nationalist American fantasies of massacres on a biblical scale.
Those "End of Days" books are big sellers, quite popular on the fanatical Republican scene. And it all about the US massacring Iraqis and liberals for Jesus's return. A sick twisted Revelations fantasy of brutal unmerciful warfare against any who oppose the Second Coming....with the ultraviolent psychopathic Crusaders as the heros, of course.
They really really really want to make those books come true. It's like the newest chapter of Revelations, it's almost gospel to these nuts. They are quite insane.
if war breaks out, which it won't because israel is not stupid enough to bomb syria, then more damage could be done at home, exponentially, than anything we could hope to accomplish in the middle east.
with the economy staging a skittish comeback, homeowners racked by interest only loans, a middle class already burdoned with rising oil prices, little job security, and a tax code that's criminal we would only find ourselves back in depression.
bush absolutely wants us to go to war. it may ensure a victory in the mid-terms, it boosts war contracts, and indirectly validates his insane assertions all along.