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Beck warns that U.S. "about to be" like Indian caste system "unless the people stand up"

June 26, 2009 11:20 am ET

From the June 26 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by shaggles (June 26, 2009 11:25 am ET)
         
      The audio stalled at about 14 seconds for me. I was actually interested in this because I cannot for the life of me figure out how Beck was going to get to the Indian caste system.
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      • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (June 26, 2009 11:37 am ET)
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        Don't worry, ole Glennie just took his normal leap into insanity. Well maybe I should word it as, Beck just stayed in his insanity
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      • Author by snoopy (June 26, 2009 11:49 am ET)
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        It's simple. Obama is "importing" macadamia nuts. Now as you know, macadamia nuts come from Australia and New Caledonia. But unfortunately, Macadamia sounds like Macedonia hence the confusion on the caller's part. As you know, Macedonia is in the Yugoslavian peninsula. It was conquered by Rome so it was a contributor to what we know as modern day democracy. Unfortunately for them, they were eventually conquered by the Turks and after 5 centuries, christianity and Islam would become the dividing religions of the region. They were the gateway to the starting of WW1, and a hotbed of insurgency for WW2 and beyond. And so, my friend, it's quite clear - because Obama is him, and you are you, him importing Macadamia nuts from Australia will cause social unrest in macedonia which is perfectly reminiscent of the indian caste system.

        Was that clear?
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        • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 26, 2009 12:19 pm ET)
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          No. Hilarious. But I'm still not seein' it. :) LOL.
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        • Author by solon (June 26, 2009 1:31 pm ET)
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          Classic Snoop. I am just glad I wasnt drinking my coffee when I read it
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        • Author by historygeek001 (June 26, 2009 1:55 pm ET)
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          Brilliant!
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        • Author by Bronwyn (June 27, 2009 6:00 pm ET)
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          Perfectly clear! Only and idiot would not get it (sorry Eddie). LOL
          Wish someone would deliver it to clown Beck, would love to watch him trying to wrap his head around it.
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    • Author by snoopy (June 26, 2009 11:34 am ET)
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      OT, but it didn't even take 24 hours for the very same republicans who would smear and defile MJ's lifestyle to use his death as a political tool to exploit their cause...
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    • Author by Max Credits (June 26, 2009 11:38 am ET)
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      The caller was criticizing the White House for getting "imported" macadamia nuts from Hawaii, rather than getting good old fashioned hot dogs and hamburgers from the USA???
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    • Author by The_Cat (June 26, 2009 11:43 am ET)
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      I'm not sure if the audio needed fixing, but it worked all right when I played it. The idea that America was headed towards a caste system similar to India's was mentioned by the caller, and Beck agreed that it was coming very soon. The caller also seemed very upset by the Whitehouse's decision to -import- macadamia nuts. She is perhaps unaware that they are cultivated in Hawaii, or perhaps unaware that Hawaii is a state.

      Either way, they both manage to ignore the fact that America is a two-caste system: the Haves, and the Havenots. We used to have a middle class, but most of those jobs were shipped overseas in the last 40 years so the Haves could have a little more, by the conservatives who run big business.

      I'm including a link to a piece of video from the barbecue, and you can decide for yourself if it is the extravagant, wasteful, offensive and grotesque spectacle Beck and the caller think it was:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu97EuxGAms
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      • Author by juliajayne1 (June 26, 2009 12:22 pm ET)
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        I watched the video. And while I didn't see the actual food or decor of the event, it didn't seem untoward or grotesque or anything like what these idiots are describing.

        I wonder if they eat bananas? I mean they are most likely imported from some scary tropical destination. I hope they never eat grapes from Chile or avocados from Mexico. Ooooh.

        Oh, I like the way she say's "Maybe I'm just a stupid conservative" and then goes on to prove her point. Sheesh!
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      • Author by Leftym0m79 (June 26, 2009 12:47 pm ET)
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        Oddly enough those jobs were outsourced to India by the haves so that they could have more.
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      • Author by gs425 (June 26, 2009 2:20 pm ET)
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        you see though...with our current 'caste' system as you put it, EVERYONE has the chance to get out and make something of themselves. With the government taking contol of Health, Energy, Financial industries there will be NO body getting out of your 'caste' system.
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        • Author by Brabantio (June 26, 2009 3:44 pm ET)
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          Interesting conclusion. What specific aspect do you identify as the cause for such a stark difference? I'm not seeing what allows people to excel based on their merits in one scenario but not the other.
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      • Author by seahawks123 (June 26, 2009 3:38 pm ET)
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        America is a two-caste system: the Haves, and the Havenots
        You are absolutely correct. The middle-class has been targeted for elimination by the cons and they've made quite of bit headway in the last 25 years.
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    • Author by harley (June 26, 2009 11:51 am ET)
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      Anyone else recall over the last 8 years that the teabaggers claimed libruls and Dems were the "party of doom and gloom"?
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      • Author by mk3872 (June 26, 2009 11:55 am ET)
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        Yes and it would be very very nice for the DNC and Dem leaders to grow a pair and make the same loud vociferous claims against the righties and also about the obstructionism where they filibuster EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION!
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      • Author by shaggles (June 26, 2009 12:10 pm ET)
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        Yes. I do. I also remember that the so called "doom and gloom" was generally claimed to mean they hated America.
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    • Author by oldboy26 (June 26, 2009 11:52 am ET)
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      are u freaking kidding me??? this is a perfect example of the intellectual capacity of listeners to folks like Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity etc....Last time I checked Hawaii is one of the states in the United States of America and she's talking about "importing" like it was some foreign country?? i think these people should be shipped off to a secluded island in the middle of the pacific and left to live out their alternate reality fantasies because ppl with these level of intellectual curiosity are responsible for the rot in american educational consciousness...
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      • Author by foghornleghorn (June 26, 2009 1:33 pm ET)
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        I actually listened to Glennie for a few minutes today. He was boasting about his book sales. He said that 1.1 million copies have been printed, and 275K have been sold.

        Then, no more than a minute later, he said that sales are so good that stores are having problems keeping them in stock.

        So he advocated people giving their "highlighted and dog-eared" copies to others.

        What a collossal idiot.
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    • Author by magnolialover (June 26, 2009 11:56 am ET)
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      Hold on a minute.

      If we're heading toward socialism, wouldn't an Indian caste system be almost exactly the opposite of that?

      Which is it Glenn? Are we heading towards socialism and wealth re-distribution, or are we going to have a caste system (which we sort of do already)?
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      • Author by solon (June 26, 2009 1:36 pm ET)
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        True but fortunatly for the rightwing while spewing their delusional fantasies they are not constrained by any attempt to actually make SENSE. They have been trained to just beleive what they are told so they naturally assume that others will just believe what they tell them without all that pesky THINKING whether or not it makes sense thing. It should be extended to them out of courtesy that if they say it then it must be true. It would be rude to point out it has the logical consistancy of Dalian nightmare.
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (June 26, 2009 2:04 pm ET)
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        Aryan invaders came to India/Pakistan, and stomped the native population. The caste system was developed by them to prevent intermarrying with the native population, and to keep them from any politcal power.
        So Glenn, name the players in your analogy and how indeed a comparison can be supported.
        Or is it just another scary word, to feed fear into your, uh viewers.
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    • Author by newzhound (June 26, 2009 11:57 am ET)
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      Well, Mr. Beck is clearly one of the "untouchables."
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    • Author by mk3872 (June 26, 2009 11:58 am ET)
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      I think this would be an AWESOME theme for the tea baggers. They should rally and storm the capitol in DC shouting: "Hell no, we don't want no stinkin Shudras and Brahmins!"
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    • Author by pete592 (June 26, 2009 12:14 pm ET)
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      Stop wetting your pants, Glenn. Happily shipping American jobs to India may fall under the definition of "international trade" to conservative morons like you, but it doesn't mean that we'll get their way of life in return.
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    • Author by JonPaul (June 26, 2009 12:20 pm ET)
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      What's so upsetting about this statement? We DO live in a world with two Americas, the affluent and the poor, and just because a right-wing reactionary host is the one to point it out doesn't make it any less valid. We ought to be angry because of the disparity of incomes, and it IS reminiscent of a caste system.
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      • Author by snoopy (June 26, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
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        Yup, a rightwinger two party system - the masters (them) and the slaves (us)...
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    • Author by blueline99 (June 26, 2009 1:03 pm ET)
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      Yes, you are a dumb conservative.
      How is Obama asking us to tighten our belts?

      The republicans are bankrupt.
      They are so out of ideas that they are using the criticism against them now on President Obama.

      The republicans are bankrupt
      They are such the contrarian that President Obama can't throw a Father's day barbecue without some lame criticism because in the conservative world, unless it's hot dogs and baseball, it's not American. Forget the fact that he celebrated Father's day with his family unlike other "would be" Presidential candidates.

      The republicans are bankrupt
      They are trying to stop cap and trade the only way they know how? Not on it's merits... not on the philosophy... but on scare tactics, trying to scare people in to thinking it's going to cost $2,000/household when that's a lie. For the poorest 20% it will save them money (not a lot, but it's still a saving) I was thinking that since they basically agree with the bill, except for the high cost, maybe we can get Glenn Beck to agree that CO2 is a green house gas and Global Warming is real!!!
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    • Author by TJ_rex (June 26, 2009 1:10 pm ET)
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      The Indian caste system? Isn't that where we were headed under his buddy Bush?
      Shame GB, you need to turn the page and see that we are taking our country back from despots and liars like you!
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      • Author by Conchobhar (June 26, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
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        Exactly, Rex.
        I've mentioned this before on this site, but it may bear repeating: a few years ago the British news weekly magazine, The Economist, which had initially supported the "Toxic Texan," as they called Dubya (for his environmental policies in Texas), turned on him for, among other things, his tax policies which were "creating a European style class system." I vividly remember reading it on the air in a radio show I do. It was a brilliantly written piece, and Bill Moyers picked up the most powerful paragraph and quoted it in his book, On Democracy.
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    • Author by TJ_rex (June 26, 2009 1:16 pm ET)
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      I think there's a special place in hell for people like Beck. I'm not sure if it's a dry heat but I don't think it will matter.
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    • Author by coldteablues19577325 (June 26, 2009 1:24 pm ET)
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      Ooohhhhhhh, and how about pineapple? We 'import' it from that foreign nation too don't we? Sheesh!! Stupid/dumb conservative fer sure!
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 26, 2009 1:29 pm ET)
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        Thanks to these idiots and their "free trade" policies, just about every single thing we buy is imported - mostly from China. And yets I keep hearing (from these same idiots) how importnat it is that we don't upset trade with the chinese. So yeah... stop those evil imports. (And boycott GM while you're at it.) Idiots.
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    • Author by Bad News (June 26, 2009 1:30 pm ET)
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      America needs protection from Glen Beck.


      Mr. News
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (June 26, 2009 2:14 pm ET)
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        Doeses of MMfa have been show to be effective with 80% of the population!
        Finding it is becoming easier for that population.
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    • Author by nerzog (June 26, 2009 2:14 pm ET)
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      I saw a documentary last night on how Hot Dogs and Bologna are made... I think I'd go for the Macadamias myself.

      Besides, when did Macadamia Nuts become "exotic"? I buy mine at Target.
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      • Author by juliajayne1 (June 26, 2009 4:01 pm ET)
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        Oh you must shop in that elite section of the store where they sell arugula and brown mustard too. Posh!
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    • Author by latanza (June 27, 2009 10:03 am ET)
         
      Before the President, that is exactly what America was modeled like. It is the way Beck would have it. When did you begin to speak for the President and I would love to hear your observation of the Indian cast system and knowledge of the reasoning behind it. What is the history of it? Do the Indians have a problem with it? Does it work for there society?
      Let's GO!
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