Beck details the "attacks against" him, asks a psychiatrist how the "average person" can "prepare" to deal with them
August 28, 2009 7:34 pm ET
From the August 28 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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I don't guess there happens to be a list of the names that Beck has called people on the other side of that white board, is there?
Beck the hypocrite is playing the victim card. Puhleeez.
Why not go in for a consultation? Couldn't hurt?
The bad news is he's getting it from Mr. Clean.
Makes me think of "what goes around comes around." and "He sure can dish it out but he can't take it."
Hard to even count the contradictions in this show, yes I watched the whole show. Beck is headed for the mental ward.
So, I guess, in spite of all his other myriad problems, it looks like he's not delusional.
"traitors', "scumbags", etc. But now that he is getting a taste of his own medicine he is in victim mode. (Poor baby. My heart bleeds.)
I don't know who this crazy doctor is but he told Glenn exactly what he wanted to hear. "It's like telling an alcoholic he has a problem Glenn. He is going to call you all kinds of names." Ahh yes, Glenny is telling us the truth and we can't bear it so we call the poor little guy names. What an egotistical twit!
Perhaps her next book should be part II, and feature Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
Personally, I think Glenny should be examined and diagnosed by Dr. Bill Frist; we're well aware of Frist's ability to make someone look better than they are.
And, an added bonus: he wouldn't even have to be in the same studio!
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
If you understood history at all, and i mean the most basic understanding of history, you would understand the concept of propaganda, (beyond your most likely narrow view of it just means lying).
Propaganda is an immensely productive or destructive tool, depending on how it's used and who's using it; for your sake I'll use the analogy of a gun. A gun in a soldiers trained hands can be productive if used properly for the right purposes (such as defending your country) or destructive, such as a gun in a child's hands. Your assignment Mr. Beck, is to research the word "propaganda". Now, Mr. Beck, don't just look up the definition, research the ways in which it has been used historically and politically, specifically during the 20th century, (that's the years that start with a 19 in the front).
For your sake, Mr. Beck, I'll make it even more simple...
Glenn (that's you) is the child in this analogy and your show is the gun in this analogy, and the victim in this analogy (you know, the one who gets hurt from the child wielding a gun) is this country!!! Get it?
You're way over your head. This tool called cable television "news" isn't a playground for you to run around on and pretend your Batman; it's real life sir! There are people out there that take this stuff very, very seriously.
I'll provide you with ways to learn real history in a later post. Stay tuned Mr. Beck.
Typical liberal - trying to take away our children's second amendement rights :)
Now come to bed, it's late. Here's some warm milk and your blankie.
Personally don't really care for Beck's style or personality but do think he is asking some good questions the same way he questioned Bush's stupid polices. So quit the ad hominem and refute the issues with facts!
Thank you.
Oh, Petey -- Obama is not the first US president to use czars, nor the first to spend lots of $$'s.
I hope you complained as much when Bush used czars or spent $12 billion/month in Iraq.
As TXJoe said, our responses are to what Glenn is presenting in the above clip -- there's no shortage of times we have responded to other subjects . . .
His questions are all front loaded to lead his viewers to the conclusions he wishes them to reach. "Is Obama a fascist who wishes to destroy America? Is he colluding with our enemies or is there (smirk) an 'innocent' explanation? Hey, just asking the question."
There are many posts here on Media Matters and other sites, which disprove the misinformation Glenn deals out with. Just because people responded to what the topic is about not his points, which has been disproven many times, does not make him right.
How about using facts, logical inference, respect for others (not name calling or labeling), respect for truth. You have no honor--You've already lost it.
Glenn Beck is truly a sad and pathetic individual.. It's sad to see a grown man behave this way and what is worse is that so many people eat it right up with a spoon! That's just scary!!
Sort of makes my head spin !
Did Beck/Fox News get permission to play the Beetles song "Revolution" at the end of his show yesterday? Between the Michael Jackson Estate, Sony Music Group and Sir Paul McCartney himself I would think they would not want the song associated with HATEFUL Beck and a call to Tea Baggin, Birther, anti healthcare protest.
In the bizarro Wide World of Fox, we should pray that Jesus defeats heath care reform legislation to protect them that has against them that ain't got.
To them, Martin Luther King was a conservative, so it stands to reason that if the writer of "Revolution" were alive today, he'd be a big supporter of Glenn Beck, all of our current wars and would speak up in defense of our "heroes", the torturers.
These slugs just love to put words into a dead guys mouth.
Back to the real world, I'll borrow a line from Lennon.
How do you sleep at night, Glenn?
Hell, that's nothin' . . . on these very boards, someone related how Sean Hannity recently started off his radio show by playing CSNY's "Ohio" -- one of the best-known Vietnam War protest songs of all time, repackaged by the wingnuts for tea party use.
Wingnuts: anyone who protests against the gov't is an anti-American radical . . . unless its US doing it.
Ugh, now that's just wrong.
At any rate, I would wager that the spike in Beck's ratings this past week were nothing more than temporary, resulting from the overblown hype and the flack over the evacuation of his sponsors. I doubt if Beck will have cause to boast about ratings again after this dies down...unless, of course, he has that nervous breakdown on the air, in which case he'll hype that, too.
(This Psych's business must be in the tank to take this gig or it will be shortly. Hey, maybe this explains Beck if this guy is his shrink.)
As a psychiatrist, I'm trained to look at facts and say what fits and what doesn't, what's a theory that can hold water as to someone's personality and nature. You have someone who sat in a church with a pastor who called white people the devil, whose wife has not been proud of this country in her adult life until quite recently, who calls a Cambridge police sergeant stupid without knowing the facts, and whose friends are community organizers with questionable pasts.
And so, you add all that up, and say, look --
BECK: Questionable pasts?
ABLOW: -- there's more than an apology necessary here. This is a question of introspection. The president needs to look at himself and say, "Do I have prejudice that I wasn't even aware of, perhaps, toward white people?"
Do you feel a pastor calling for Obama's death and quick trip to hell equally disturbed. What of all the evangelical ministers equating liberalism with the devil. By all means offer proof that Ms Obama hates the country that elected her husband president. I believe he called the act stupid not the man. Oh yeah those dangerous community organizers, gotta watch them and their friends.
Docter (if thats what you are) cure thyself.
The next paragraph were actually Ablow's words. Jsrut was just neglectful in putting Ablow's name at the beginning before continuing with the quote.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270045 This is the clip.
Again, I would like to point out that Jsrut is just quoting Ablow there, as is indicated when he says '... on Beck's TV show:'
Jsrut is not claiming to be a doctor, and while he may have flubbed on quoting Ablow properly, shame on all of you who gave a knee jerk thumbs down to him for his post.
Doing a simple search on Glenn Beck and then looking at the clip of his show from 7/27/2009 confirmed this for me.
There's one important difference, though: I have yet to hear/see Keith Olbermann
- simulate pouring gasoline on someone on-camera
- start crying [literally] when talking about how much he "loves his country"
- misspell the word "oligarchy"
- claim Obama is a "racist" who "has problems with white people"
By the way, I believe it's both the attitude to conserve and the attitude to progress that makes our country such a shining example to the rest of the world. Checks and balances. One sides restraint of the other sides ambitions forces us to work hard (politically speaking) for what we want. The system works best when the facts are made clear and the people have as much of the truth as is possibly available to them. The system becomes frustrated when the facts are intentionally twisted to accommodate someones specific ideology or by powerful special interests.
Oh, side note to Mr. Beck, we don't need you to do our thinking for us, just present us with the facts, the American people are surprisingly smart and capable and able to make sound decisions when they're working with the truth.
Also I would like to clarify that I find Olbermanns delivery embarrassing. His reporting and commentary is usually correct.
I do not think you can caompare Beck to Olbermann because Beck creates his own news whereas Olbermann does not. (In my opinion)
They always like to bring Olbermann in the context of how he has fewer viewers than O'Reilly, Hannity, and Bleck -- thinking that ratings = content . . .
Why are we trapped with such a national media as we have today?
It does matter.
Well . . . it's good to see Becky finally admitting that he's a below-average person . . .
Glenn is right about one matter which he brought up in the tirade; we cannot take away his honor. This is for he has no honor. He is going to be disappointed when he returns to his heavenly father without his honor and also without doing what I supposed to do. He does not love his fellow man and that is what his heavenly father wants us to do.
He's far from the only one, too. Folks on MSNBC get insulted a lot, as well (David Shuster, for one, pointed out on Twitter that people were threatening him, but he chose to laugh at how poorly spelled these threats were). But I thought you'd prefer to keep it within your own channel, so running to Shep would be the best thing for you.
http://www.rileymartin.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tE-6TM7HTY
Take a long, hard look at your actions and words, Beck. The ridicule you're receiving is not occuring in a vacuum. Failure to understand this is a sure sign of a lack of self-awareness. You are responsible for your words and actions, the blame lies with yourself and no one else.
Lets take a time machine back when little Glenn was a second grader.
....Mommy the kids at school were calling me bad names
"Oh! Glenn why don't you take out your construction paper and write down with that new big pencil what they were calling you"?
Glenn, you know some day you'll lead this country
"I will"
"Yes, and do you know why, because you'll be the fact man"
Mom "what's a fact?"
I don't know for sure Glenn, some four letter word you need to use a lot if you want others to follow you".
. . . probably the best three years of his life.
"so how does the average person prepare to go into battle with people who have never done anything but cry racist, witch, whatever it is ?"
I thought that Beck's calling President Obama a racist is what landed him into hot water. . .
Is he actually admitting that he can dish it out over and over and over, but he can't take it?
When you shoot bullets, expect return fire, dude!
Once upon a time, the conservatives in this country were actual CONSERVATIVES.
They've been supplanted by rabid neoconservatives, or, as I like to call them, neoKKKons . . . these neoKKKons advocate a military solution to every foreign policy issue, put winning elections above all else, denigrate anyone who does not agree with them as a "communist" or "socialist", and rely on rightwing hate radio and TV screamers to articulate their message . . .