A year ago, Beck called for a bailout bigger than $700 billion; now claims he "[h]ated" Bush for starting bailouts
From the September 22, 2008, edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck and the September 21 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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BECK: [W]e are in the middle of an all-out financial emergency, and emergencies have a way of really testing people.
In normal times, under normal circumstances, if you tune in to me, you know me as somebody who would tell the federal government exactly where to take their bailout plans and shove it right up their you-know-what. But these are anything but normal times.
I thought about it an awful lot this weekend, and while it takes me -- it takes everything in me to say this, I think the bailout is the right thing do.
The "Real Story" is: The $700 billion that you're hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it.
Of course you did, Beck. I was before Nov. 3, 2008
I just don't see the blatant hypocrisy I expected in this clip.
Nice one, MMfA!
That Glenn Beck advocated and defended the concept of bailouts as necessary to save the country then and is now trying to claim that he never did so, claimed to hate Bush for starting the bailouts, and is now saying that bailouts are wrong and Obama is to blame??
Yes... Glenn is either clinically insane or is back off the wagon!!
Oh... and Glenn claims to have the archives to prove he went after Bush... I want to hear or see them!!!
Can someone please find even one link to ANY video or audio that proves that Becky did exactly this (during the Bush regimes time being in office!)
Just one link!
This was great reporting on behalf of MMfA.
To bad MMfA has an archive of their own.
But, of course, now Glenn Beck thinks Acorn is to blame for the levees not being properly built and maintained. So that the flood would destroy their headquarters and cover up all their corruption. And he can't figure out why anyone in the media won't ask Obama about why acorn let the levees fail in New Orleans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypq-llFx_4w
I hated Bush after his first term, but, I believed all of the Democrats, and Republicans alike, when they ALL said thats what we needed. If he looked at the situation, and said, "I would normally tell the Congress to shove a bailout up their ass" obviously tells me that he wasn't didn't like the idea to begin with...
However, he believed the liars in office, and he believed other certain Democrats and Republicans, when they said, it wouldn't be enough. I hated the idea the Gov. doing any kind of "Bail out"... But I trusted the people in office. Just like most Americans! We should have let those companies fall!
I'm not going to hold this against the guy, because I hated the idea of bailouts, and I hated the President for pushing it down our throats, especially when I found out how little accountability there would be! This post is small minded, and pretty hateful! Lets focus on things that are important, and not someones past mistakes, and that most of us here made, regarding the same exact issue!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8viQ_DhS4
I love it when people say, we should have just let these companies failed, failing to realize that if more of the larger banks and companies failed, it would have pulled the entire world economy into the crapper.
In the world of Glenn Beck, only Glenn Beck is allowed to change his position.
My theory is that Glenn Beck was just hanging around waiting for a Democratic president. He had his war plan drawn up years ago. He knew there was a huge market for his nonsense. That he would become extremely wealthy by doing so. He found the writings of Skousen and studied, and waited. And waited.
He believes absolutely none of the crap he spews on a nightly basis. He just knows there's a huge market of very lazy people who will like you and support you if you: 1.) Believe we are a Christian nation 2.) Love the constitution 3.) Hate liberals (and bonus points if they are blacks).
From what I can tell, he's completely hijacked the Ron Paul movement, which was actually fairly reasonable and made up of folks who were pretty smart (my impression of it, anyway), and has commercialized it for the masses.
He is now a "Libertarian" and says he criticizes both parties equally. And his audience really, truly believes this.
It's the most insane thing I've ever seen.
C-R-A-Z-Y.
Beck says ... yikes ... Obama's better for the country than McCain would have been!!
"I know how this story ends" - a famous saying from none other than Cleon Skousen.
HLN was wise to stop with the Dobbs re-airs. Better news yet, Joy Behar Show will debut next Tuesday. So expect Fox and the GOP to bash Behar and/or HLN.
If he was still on HLN, he would've been canned for the Obama = racist statement.
Next for HLN: Get Grace off the channel.
I'm not sure what the problem is with these things being publicly discussed as long as the information is accurate. Like the Anthony case, who's fault is it that Casey Anthony did so many things that make her look guilty? Everyone knows that the prosecution has to make its case in court, but that doesn't preclude someone from advocating for victims as she does so forcefully.
Watch how much he's flipped and flopped.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6C6E6ayh4U
Fox is obviously propaganda. Anyone capable of independent thought is aware of that. Why, though? Most answers can be had if one just follows the money.
Beck is really just a rodeo clown. He's distracting from the real issue. He's simply reading lines. Who's approving those lines, though?
Follow the money. What would someone like Ailes stand to gain? Or Murdoch? Someone has a vision and part of that vision is to wage all out war on Obama. Or is it healthcare reform? Whatever their target - they stand to gain a lot of money from it.
He who controls the present, controls the past
He who controls the past, controls the future.
Now b4 yall go crazy saying I love Beck and stuff. I agreed with him strictly when it came to economic things. He no longer covers that on Fox so I stopped watching him and he has kinda gone off the deep end on issues.
Well first you have to listen to what he said. The reason the bailout must be bigger is b/c the toxic assets that are floating around are worth more than $700 billion, saying the value could be triple that. The plane analogy that he used means that the money is like gas to keep the plane in the air.
By only supplying $700 billion of gas it will not stay in the air long enough i.e. the gas tank is not full. In order to fill it up it would need triple that amount.
Also I guarantee that if you look for commentary after that date you will find him NOT agreeing with Bush on the bailouts.
And and one last thing...every thought he might have changed his mind between then and now? Bush was the 1st to get the ball rolling on these bailouts and now the ball just keeps rolling
Compare that sort of bailout - which he apparently was for - to the current "stimulus" bailouts that don't do anything to correct poor government policies.
But what do I know, I'm not Beck. Why don't you all e-mail him and call into his show and ask the man himself?
"But what do I know, I'm not Beck. Why don't you all e-mail him and call into his show and ask the man himself?"
You don't have to be Beck. Contrary to the positions you ascribe to him, Beck now claims that he was outraged at the Bush's Bailouts. This despite the fact at the time of the Bush Bailouts, he not only supported them, but thought they were far too small.
Beck lied, ok?
See my post above with the link to the CSPAN video.
If he viewed the bailout as a necessity at the time, he could say now that he was wrong or he didn't like how it was administered, etc., but to say he "hated Bush" for the bailouts is an out and out lie. This is not a policy question here.
A year ago, he wanted a bigger bailout, now he claims he hated the bailouts originally. He can't have it both ways here.
Why doesn't he just admit, if he thinks the bailouts failed, that he was wrong?
First off, Obama never flipped-flopped on single payer. Not one major dem candidate was ever for single payer. He did however flip-flop on mandates. In fact, I can think of quite a few more reverses Obama has made.
This doesn't change the fact that Glenn Beck is a huckster who knows his viewers wont care if they're being lied to about his past positions. Nor will it protect you from having to read the truth about his past positions when you visit Media Matters.
BTW, you do realize that your post sounds like my children did when they were small and they'd say, "but, but, but, but, Momma, HE did it first." Grow up and use your brain. Quite letting these hate talkers tell you what your opinion should be.