Referring to Obama's designation of 9-11 as a national day of service, Beck rants about "the rape of a sacred memory"
August 26, 2009 1:07 pm ET
From the August 26 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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I've searched and searched, but can't find any reference to anything like that. Being no kind of history student, I'm not surprised at my ignorance, but I am curious how it relates to Beck's latest drama.
It may not be it but I'm sure Glum Beck wouldn't approve of a committee like that.
"I'm just picking this out of thin air"
so like he said he's just gonna make something up
http://www.livescience.com/health/090825-obese-brain.html
And Bush's designation of 9-11 as "Patriot Day" was . . . ??
My view? We can't continue these anniversaries where we relive our terror of that day and exploit it to rekindle unfounded fears of the future forever.
Senator Schumer says, "We can take a tragic day in our nation's history and turn it into a force for good."
What's horrible about that?
perhaps you should go back and review the pictures of our citizens jumping to their deaths rather than burning to death or the people running down the streets in panic. I live in NY and we will never forget nor should we our country being attacked on 9-11. I'm sure if anyone related to you was a victum you would be singing a different song.
Exploited fear you say? Were you in NY that day? You should have seen our citizens running for their lives when Air Force One flew so very close to the buildings a few months ago. 8 years later and here in NY we cannot and will not forget.
The reality is that to my children and my children's children, 9/11 will be mostly meaningless. They will understand the social and political impact, but wont be able to personally relate to it. A "day of remembrance" will be wasted on them. A day of service might help the nation grow stronger after the injury of 9/11.
Please explain your disagreement? We could shrink back and become fearful, or use the horror that was that day as a force for good. What is your problem with that?
Nobody, repeat, nobody is saying to forget about what happened that day.
Again, since you didn't respond to the original question, and just got reactionary, what indeed would be wrong with using a national tragedy and turning it into a force for good for our entire country?
The answer is, nothing is wrong with that.
I have sympathy for you if you were in New York at the time, but you forget that this event shook the WORLD. Please don't assume that just because I wasn't there doesn't mean that the news didn't hit me just as hard. I cried on that day, just as I'm sure you did. I attended a candlelight vigil at my university. I remember televised footage of a group of both democrats and republicans standing at the capitol, singing Amazing Grace, and that memory still brings tears to my eyes. Please don't confuse me for someone who treats the event lightly just because I don't think we should keep using September the 11th every year as a day of rekindling fear and sorrow.
My girlfriend at that time flew out of Logan on the morning of 9/11. She came in the door as I was leaving for work, watching the first WTC building burn on the Today Show.
fisher, all that anger and passion for 9/11. Yet, your hero Becky has stated he hates 9/11 families.
Krusty is funnier and has more integrity.
And Krusty makes a tasty hamburger
We could be like Ann Falter and talk about how much the 9/11 widows enjoyed the deaths of their husbands. Personally, I don't find that approach very constructive.
We could be like Glenn Beck and hate the 9/11 families. Not much there, either.
We could follow the example of Abraham Lincoln. How long was it after the Battle of Gettysburg that he went there to speak at the dedication of the cemetery? Not very many months, at all.
President Lincoln spoke about healing a divided nation while remembering the sacrifice of those who fought to preserve it.
President Obama is working to find ways we, as Americans, can come together and work together to get the needed job done. If 9/11 becomes a day to do that, and that day becomes a week, and then a month, and then a year of working together, that sacrifice will not have been in vain.
Another fire in New York that should never be forgotten.
Let me join the legions saying on this board that we will never forget 9/11 and that we can honor the victims and heroes of that horrible day without exploiting fear. What better way than to turn this day into a force for good for our country?
And to answer your question - yes, I was in New York on that day.
What's Beck afraid of? We'll all learn to help each other out and forget to hate Muslims?
I wonder what he meant by that? I thought Beck was an adamant supporter of Israel. But here he is seemingly playing to the "jewish cabal" crowd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories#Jewish_and_Israeli_involvement
"Poet" Amri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones) wrote a poem claiming this. He is a big favourite among left-wing poets. He was a 9/11 "troofer".
Strangely this theory pushed by the "progressive" media did not get as much attention as the so-called "birthers" do today from the mainstream media. I wonder why.
So whos raping the memory of 9/11?
Although the anniversary of 9/11 intentionally will not be a federal holiday or day off from work, the intent is to encourage businesses, individuals, and organizations to voluntarily engage in various forms of community service in remembrance of the events of September 11. The legislation authorizes the Corporation for National and Community Service to make grants and other assistance available to nonprofits and other groups. The Corporation for National and Community Service is the organization which manages federal national service programs. The Corporation engages four million Americans in result-driven service each year, including 75,000 AmeriCorps members, 492,000 Senior Corps volunteers, 1.1 million Learn and Serve America students, and 2.2 million additional community volunteers mobilized and managed through the agency’s programs.
Senator Ted Kennedy, for whom the legislation was named, died late in the evening of August 25, 2009. He had been battling brain cancer for over a year. His lifetime of service was honored by President Obama earlier this month by awarding Senator Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Today, President Obama described Senator Kennedy as “the greatest United States senator of our time.”
August 26, 1:39 PMLegal News ExaminerWilliam Pfeifer, Jr.
I think what little Glenny would like would be for us to have anti-Muslim rallies with flag waving and chest beating thongs of "patriots" goose-stepping down Main Street. Then they could listen to fear laden speeches by demogogues like himself warning of imminent destruction unless we start attacking more Muslim countries and cracking down on civil liberties here to prevent the big bad terrorists from using such things as "freedom of speech" and "freedom to assemble" to promote their cause. Yes that is what would make Beck swoon.
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The only person I know that has "raped a sacred memory" of 9/11 is:
Wait for it:
"A noun a verb and 9/11" Giuliani. The possible wannabe next Gov. of New York..
Now excuse me Glenn ..ck while I go toss up my lunch into the toilet bowl.
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You'll still be free to hate minorities, Beck.
The conference call comes almost 6 months AFTER the bill was signed into law, and is made up of groups who, horror of horrors, organize people for community service-type events. Exactly the kind of people you would want to discuss organizing service events with. Anyone who has ever been on a telephone conference knows you can't get everyone in at once, or it becomes chaos. You also wouldn't talk to groups that wouldn't necessarily get along at the same time. Who knows how many of these teleconferences have actually gone on and how many groups have participated.
Beck is trying really hard to pump up his ratings and make something happen. He skates a very fine line when admonishes listeners to "arm themselves..." leaving in a VERY pregnant pause before adding something about "the best weapon, truth." Which, coming from Beck, is pretty funny.
I respect Beck's right to spew this vile, false rhetoric, but our country is paying a dear price for it.