Beck: "The health care bill is reparations. It's the beginning of reparations."
July 22, 2009 11:42 am ET
From the July 22 edition of the Glenn Beck Program:
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POOR, UNEMPLOYED BLACK PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE HEALTHCARE, YOU EMPTY-HEADED BAFFOON! IT'S CALLED MEDICAID!!!
THE PEOPLE THAT WILL BENEIFT FROM HC REFORM WILL BE THOSE HARD-WORKING BLUE-COLLAR WHITE FOLKS THAT WORK FOR SMALL COMPANIES, OR IN LOW-PAYING SEVRICE JOBS, THAT WORK HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY TO QUALIFY FOR MEDICAID!!!
(I sincerely hope that no one will take my black/white dichotomy there seriously. It's just amazes me when their logic doesn't even jive with their stereotypes!)
(Again - before anyone gets any racial misconceptions here, I do realize that there are in fact many black entrepreneurs. I'm just framing the issue in a way that a moron like Beck can understand.)
(Although doing so almost makes me feel dirty.)
Do you suppose Beck and Hannity are not real people, after all, just holograms and programmed robots? Might as well be.
For the quarter ended June 30, UnitedHealth [based in Minnetonka, MN] said net earnings were $859 million -- a 154.9 percent increase from $337 million a year earlier, when earnings were dragged down by big lawsuit settlement costs.
Earnings per share jumped to 73 cents from 27 cents a year earlier. Analysts had forecast 70 cents. Quarterly revenue was up slightly, to $21.7 billion from $20.3 billion.
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That's not even good enough for my 5 & 7 year old autistic sons.
And in any case, both of them still usually make a hell of a lot more sense that Glenn Beck! (see: www.myspace.com/on_the_spectrum <- shameless self promotion, but hey: AT LEAST I'M TRYING!) ;)
I was just saying that despite my child's diagnosed and doumented cognitive impairments, they are still expected to do the best work they can, and follow all the rules. If they act out, in school or at home, for example, their are consequences, and saying 'they're trying' doesn't cut it, autism or not.
Much in the same way, I'm not going to let Mr. Beck's cognitive shortcomings (in his case plain old-fashined stupidity) excuse his utter on-air incompetence and intellectual dishonesty. (On a good day! THIS is just illogical nonsense!) If Mr. Beck is going to justify his exsistance on the airways, (and he's NOT, but hypothetically) 'trying' just ain't gonna cut it. I just can't see how anyone else can be stupid enough to take this bozo seriously. At what point does even a conservative wake up and realize, 'This guy just ain't a good spokesman for us!'?
Back to the boys. I commend you for not letting your sons use their cognitive impairments as an excuse. We have made it clear to our boys, that regardless of the extra struggle & hardships they may endure, it is no excuse for not being the very best they can be. It has been a lot of hard work, tears and expense but worth every bit of it. Eddie, they turned nine in May and now more often than not people seem genuinely shocked, when they learn of their disabilities. Academically they are behind other 9 year olds. At times they still have difficulty adjusting to new surroundings, other than that, you have to be around them a long time before you detect some thing different going on. In a few areas the are advanced. They are also delightful and a blessing. My heart goes out to my son. He has not been one day without a job. Yet their lifestyle is so restricted because of health care. Their mother works none stop for their advancement and can not even get health care. It takes all they have to keep the boys covered.
Your last paragraph is so right on. It fits perfectly for Limbugh, Hannity, Savage and their ilk. I do not know how anyone can take them serious either. They do though. It seems that if a person listens to one of them, they listen and revere all of them. I do not get it. They are filled with such ugliness and hate. A lot like I feel for them ha.
I have a theory that most of the opposition to Obama from the right, no matter what they say is racial, they are afraid (pardon the expression) of the black guy in charge. They are afraid the whities are going to loose the country to the black mob. I have heard it implied a million times. This is the only possible explanation for Beck's topic here.
You know when one of their guys slips up and gets a little more overt like this, they skip right by that MMFA item.
Sort of like the recent items about the murder of Dr. Tiller. All of the usual nutters suggesting their right wing heroes are just entertainment, and whining about free speech, got mysteriously "very busy" and weren't able to post when the predictable rsults came to pass.
They can't afford to be caught cheering it on, but they sure as hell don't want to stop the show.
The Spelling Champ
Although the second one with the uber-manly wingnuts is a pretty good little bit of fantasy too.
The GOP is really playing to the racist, angry base more than ever.I realize the vast majority of conservatives are keyboard-mashing cowards who are harmless aside from their votes, but doesn't it seem like more and more of the propaganda seems to be aimed at riling up the furthest fringes of these good Christian Real Americans®?
I think you two have nailed it. The wingnuts are all about throwing a rock and hiding their hand; they pretend that, say, the birthers have legitmate concerns rather than just admitting that they hate Obama and will do everything they can do to rile up other wingnuts to an equal fervor. They lie about their motivations, they lie about their claims, and they lie about Obama, but they have enough of a sense of shame that they don't want to admit that they're lying. This, in my opinion, makes them even worse. They don't even have the integrity to admit their own bigotry. Disgusting and cowardly, all in one.
I'm pretty sure he's actually talking about Obama's 2001 interview with WBEZ -- an interview that was found and replayed ad nauseum last year. WBEZ is the NPR affiliate in Chicago, and I wouldn't exactly call it "minority" (except perhaps in terms of ratings share).
AA= hating white, so black and Latino's can take there jobs
acorn= poor blacks
housing bubble pops= acorn + poor blacks= fanny & Freddie mac
first black president= non-citizen + Muslim + commie socialist community organizer= Scary black man.
Welcome to post racial America!!!!!!!
Since the day that the GOP media machine discovered that Obama had been one.
Mr. Beck is not about what he says he is! He is a racist. He is for crushing the poor people of this country under the iron boot of conservative fascism. I don't care... (pretending to call of mic for a nonexistent audio clip to support this) He's said, at least once, about white people: They should be in charge. And he's a Republican. You know, last November, members of my local Republican party knocked on my door to encourage me to VOTE! They're community organizers, and they're... -none- of them are about that. They want your children and your money!