Beck: "Nobel Peace Prize should be turned down by Barack Obama and given ... to the Tea Party goers and the 9-12 Project"
October 09, 2009 11:25 am ET
From the October 9 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Glenn Beck Program:
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Hm -- a bunch of unhinged wingnuts bringing guns to Town Hall meetings . . .
Sounds like NPP material to me!!
(old joke)
BUT
Glenn Beck wants it handed over to the 9-12 Project and the Tea Partiers? And who led them? Glenn Beck. Odds he will ever win a Nobel Peace Prize due to his own efforts? Zero.
Glenn, listen closely. If it is a popularity contest, then it was awarded fairly. Follow along if you can. For President Obama's inauguration, over 2 million Americans turned out. For your 9-12 Tea Party Protest, same town, just a few months later and in much more pleasant weather, around 70,000 people turned out. Even by your own twisted logic, Mr. Beck, this award should've gone to Obama! I suspect you've quite trying. Or thinking. Or both.
It's humorous that they cling to the 2 million myth of attendees at the 9-12 Tea Bag Party, or their lies about health coverage reform. It's also not surprising that they were seeking some younger faces, but sad that they duped school kids into it.
When and where did this take place, by the way? I'm interested to see if there is any coverage of it at all.
I was pretty sure his head would have exploded when he heard about the Peace Prize.
give it to the teabaggers? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Which ones? the ones who brought guns to Presidential town halls? The ones who had signs that said "Obama must die"? The ones that called Obama Hitler, Mao, and Stalin?
And he thinks the teabaggers stopped Obama? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
secretly with the Nobel Committee to lobby the Nobel reps to award the Peace Prize to the President.
Get on this Glenn.
Unlike Beck, who seems to be throwing some sort of tantrum, and thinking the Nobel Prize should be awarded to a few thousand old, frightened bigots , manipulated by corporate interests, and determined to ignore democracy and get their way through lying and fear-mongering.
Yeah, that's always been a good road to peace.
It may be early in Obama's presidency, but he has already significantly changed the nightmarish landscape of America's foreign policy. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize first off, because HE ISN'T GEORGE W BUSH! HE ISN'T DARTH CHENEY! He represents a break from their imperialistic presumptions. His great accomplishment thus far has simply been that he has ended an era in which the US... under neocon control... had adopted a policy of bullying and intimidating the international community into doing our bidding. He ended an era in which the world's last great superpower had engaged in a policy of aggression... in the form of threats, and even military invasions... against those who refused to do our bidding. He has returned the international community to a footing of diplomacy and negotiated settlements to disputes, rather than the application of mayhem and ruthless violence. He has made conflict resolution the goal, rather than bristling intimidation. He has made it easier for nations to talk to each other, because they now know that the US will aid and support them in their efforts.
In other words, Obama, by reinventing American foreign policy, has made international peace a much more achievable goal.
And that more than justifies his selection as Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
I'll agree with you that the prize is deserved for the shift in world view demonstrated by Obama as opposed to the last administration (or the GOP / status quo in general),and I realize that some of the people involved in selecting the recipients may have more inside information about foreign policy and the mood of international relations than we civilians do, so I'm sure the award could be based on improvements we don't even know about.
I still would have liked to see (and I'm not dismissing how huge these messes are, or how many other issues there are to deal with) some more progress in streamlining a couple of ongoing wars, and dealing with corrupt mercenaries and their enablers in the last administration.
A peace prize would have seemed more appropriate, to me, if it came after Obama was able to make at least a few changes in course from the despicable dirty deeds of the Bush years, much of which is still going on.
Iran. In case you forgot, he gave a speech in Cairo that basically spelled out the US policy in the region which, in my opinion, gave Iranians the incentive to protest their recent election which was, by all accounts, not a landslide.
Hm, that could be why Iran is allowing weapons inspectors in next week . . .
"Iran hasn't dismantled their nuclear capability"
"Iran hasn't entered into any accords"
Wow, kydem -- you must get tired pushing those goalposts . . .
Obama didn't lobby for nor expect this award. The Committee felt that Obama met THEIR criteria for promoting peace. If you have a problem with THEIR decision, bellyache to THEM. Your hatred for Mr. Obama is just drippppppping in your post. I didn't support Obama, didn't think he was the best choice, but he was MUCH better than the other guy and his ornament. However, the unwarranted hatred for this man is out of control. He's been president for 8 1/2 months . . . it's going to take YEARS to clean up the mess left by the previous administration. It would have taken McCain YEARS to clean it up. It would have taken ANYBODY YEARS to clean it up.
Yes, you seem to have a very rational dislike for Obama, based entirely on Obama's "policies" that don't really exist, except in right wing propaganda.
You seem to know extremely little about geo-politics or politics in general.
If you start asking for details about their rational reasons,they may realize there ain't any there, and they may be forced to confront some uncomfortable and inconvenient truths about themselves, and this could bring up some awkward questions.
Like, for example, " Why do I really hate Barack Obama?".
*to paraphrase Bill Mahr
" where some of its most radical and disaffected groups are the source of terrorism for the entire world" Just who do you think I was referring it with this statement? Yes, I am aware of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, I have been for years, since the take-over in Afghanistan and the African embassay bombings, when did you hear about them? I don't drink Koolaid, and I find the use of the term deeply offensive, as a whole group of people died because they were blinded by the religious paranoia of a megalomaniac (Glenn Beck, anyone?) President Bush alienated even moderate Muslims by confusing them with the extremists, and making Islam a target of hatred for the actions of a few. We will NEVER have any power to deal with the Taliban and Al Qaeda if we make enemies of mainstream Islam, rejection and suppression of this group must come from Islam itself. Muslims have to feel that they are not under attack and their religious freedom are not threatened before they can begin taking back their sons and daughters from the extreme that martyrs them for political gain. You can't reach out to them if you talk about a "crusade"-the way of the cross. The Middle East still simmers and occasionally boils over when this travesty of history is invoked. For many in the Middle East, the Crusades are recent history, and if you use this term, you will continue to strike anger and fear into their world, creating more martyrs and enemies, not less.
As for Bush confusing moderate Muslims, I respectfully disagree with you. I think he went out of his way to clarify that extremists were our enemies.
Yes, let's -- and while we're at it, let's discuss whether or not Obama had anything to DO with creating either the Taliban or Al-Qaeda . . .
The political/ethnic disagreements of which, began at EXACTLY 12:20 PM EST on January 20, 2009 . . .
Um, Ok.
Maybe it's when Obama said "America is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam." You think maybe??
And, as an aside, the word is Qaeda--not "Quaeda".
Of course, the Wahhabis are also the ultra puritanical sect that most despises Western freedom and libralism, and seeks, through their financial and moral support of al Qaeda, to topple us.
It meant about the same . . .
Well thats kinda new>>>>>>>>> they would have given it to you and your 9-12 project.
however they usually dont give it to cowards and no body's as your self.
but thanks for trying.
"Unless real and deep-rooted change is made in American policy toward recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people I would think such a prize would be useless" --- Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas prime minister
Why does Beck want the terrorists to win?
But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women, and all Americans, want to build -- a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents. And I know that throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes. And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action -- a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.
"Congratulations, Mr. President"
Show your audience you have a little self-respect and respect for OUR government, a government that allows a self-professed 'clown' to live the lifestyle of a king!!
Yep, the Nobel committee really loves that random kind of spontaneous inhumanity and 100-percent-pure hatred for others.
LMAO all on the floor!