Beck calls his audience "zombies," O'Reilly dismisses Beck's flu vaccine conspiracies: "That's nuts"
October 09, 2009 5:44 pm ET
From the October 8 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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Previously:
It's pack mentality. I don't know how, but I can sense it.
He just threw his fanbase under the bus.
I used to feel sorry for his fan base. Until I realized they want to be the way they are.
Wow. Right on cue, to show us what the "zombies" do to defend their leaders. Fakeliberal, if you were doing satire you would be hilarious. Colbert has nothing on you and Stark.
And, Mikehuck, I LOVE your post. The zombies have arrived! LOL!
This is like what they do on "Fox and Friends" every morning. Yes, Beck called his audience "zombies" but he was being facetious. He was actually mocking those who call his audience dummies, rubes, zombies or whatever. I can't stand Glenn Beck or anything that comes from his fevered mind, but a head line that announces something that didn't happen the way it's being portrayed is best left to Fox. What the hell?
They're coming to get you, Barbara.
The same three or four jump in here any time the subject of racism is not ignored, always protesting wayyyy too much.
Faily should really worry less about scolding you and your foolish pals about foolishly sinking your foolish ship, it should really spend less time opining about who deserves shame, and who is a disgrace in its faily eyes, and maybe focus on a more important subject;
Why does Faillib need to jump in as the crazy defender of the right wing, and their well documented racism, every time that racism is mentioned?
The same three or four jump in here any time the subject of racism is not ignored, always protesting wayyyy too much.(Me)
There you go, fairliberal. Kernal Slanders has told you what you need to do and how to do it.(puppy)
Really, puppy? What you saw there was Me and Snoopy giving unsolicited advice to Faily? You didn't notice her name -calling, defensive outbursts, phony concern or playing the "Race Card" card?
And you still pretend to believe people who notice racism are the real racists? Do you realize this is only a slightly polished version of "I know you are, but what am I?"
I really don't have any interest in telling any of you pinheads what to do, I just wonder how long you can continue to jump to the defense of racists at every opportunity, while trying to convince everybody that you have no interest in defending racism.
Sometimes it's good to take a step or two back, and take a look at yourself. You might be able to see what everybody else sees. Or not, depending on how comfortable you are with things as you imagine them.
Good luck.
Hey genius, who was it that brought race into this discussion. Answer that honestly and then get back to me. Race was not an issue inthis discussion until your good pal snoopy brought in into the thread. End of story. And neither you nor snoopy can show one instance of me making racist comments, ever.
So why not point out how race got into this discussion? Go ahead maybe you can shut me up and prove me wrong. Go ahead do it. The fact is snoopy has a list of his favorite bigotries that he like s to justify to himself by calling others racists. And fools like you defend him. Shame on you too.
I believe Snoopy was the first poster to mention race here.That wasn't so hard.I'm not sure how that's going to shut you up or prove you wrong, and I have no idea what "bigotries" you think Snoop is "justifying" by mentioning race.
I'm not sure why you're getting so angry, and calling people fools, and deciding who should be shamed. If you feel comfortable about yourself, and you really don't think your racism is that big a problem, or that you're not racist at all, the mere mention of racism shouldn't upset you like this.
Why do you think your comfort level drops so much when racism is talked about openly? Why do you think a few of you need to come out swinging every time race is mentioned, trying desperately to convince everybody that there is no racism anywhere? Doesn't that seem odd to you?
Now you are a liar too and you cannot back up anything you say. I am still waiting for you to support anything you say about me. Put up or shut up. But of course you won't do either.
Haitian-creole "zonbi" which means a person who is brought back to life without speech or free will.
so Beck's "zombie-heads" like Limbo's "ditto-heads" now have an identity worthy of a T-shirt.
maybe Beck's crack research team can look up the meaning of "teabagging"
He has a history of racially-provocative actions. Of course he denies his racism.
"A Monkey, Obama. Is there a difference?" was a sign he posted in 2008. Yet another asked if Michael Jackson was acquitted because he was not guilty or if it's because he was black.
Some people actually do think that we should have a return to our constitutional federated republic that our founders bestowed to us. Some of us actually do think that classical liberalism is the only political philosophy compatible with human freedom. Some of us actually do think that modern liberalism is statist and anti-individual to the core. Some of us do think this heavily centralized Leviathan in D.C. spells hardship for the American people. Why the incessant low brow race baiting from the left?
That there are racists out there that hate the president for that reason alone doesn't justify lumping the majority of his critics in the same pot. This period of time represents the greatest shift towards socialism since the New Deal. This would get massive resistance from large swaths of the public regardless of who occupied the Oval Office. Some of you are as absurd to me as those that you would accuse of being race motivated.
Thank you for posting your comment. Unfortunately, it's identical to about a hundred others submitted here over the past year or so.If you don't get a lot of responses, don't take it personally, it's just that most of the substance of your post has been done before, and it's not very interesting anymore.
P.S. Please don't let anyone here stop the return to your Constitution but remember to use the entire document, not just the parts that please you and your philosophy. It is has more than 5 Amendments.
Actually, what I see are a bunch of racist signs at teabagger rallies, racist e-mails from state reps and their staff, calls for racial cleansing via immigration and now one call for a return to slavery coming from the extreme right of the republican party. You ever heard the term "the squeeky wheel gets the grease"? Your squeeky wheel is that base who has pretty much taken over the party.
You know why I use terms like reichwinger? Because all conservatives aren't racists. My fight is strictly with the racists and fascists and fundies who are out to create a white run one party system. Conservatives like Oscar, T-bone slickens, Jeter and yourself don't fall under the mat like fl, pov and puppies who relish the reichwing lifestyle. Now, if you want to keep voting in that block only to let them take over and redefine the entire conservative block, that's your business. But rest assured we won't let you forget that they are defining you, and not in a good way. In the end, the only people who can stop it are conservatives. Time for you to make a decision: stand up to the racists and fascists and fundies who hijacked your party even if it means 40 years out of power to rebuild a stronger conservative based party, or keep letting them tell you who to vote for while they try to drag your entire party down with them?
Yeah, thanks, we can always use a few more concern trolls around here, pecst1.
NOT!
O'Reilly was correct, Beck does have influence, and because Beck can't/won't commit to moving away from the dark side on the flu vaccine debate, he won't say whether or not he is going to get the vaccine.
Beck laughed, and tried to make a joke, and tried to imply that his audience isn't made up of zombies. Thinking people know that there are lots of figurative zombies that follow Beck. And that's why he won't lead them to the vaccine by saying that he's getting one. He wants to continue to foment distrust of the Obama Administration, who is encouraging the use of the vaccine right now. It's yet another sign of Obama Derangement Syndrome.
There's no legit argument against getting it if you don't have a medical or religious argument against it. That's not saying that everyone must get vaccinated, but there's no real good argument to support someone who won't. The govt is providing this vaccine for free - your medical provider might charge for the injection and the worker to do it, but local free clinics should provide that service at no cost in most communities eventually.
Well done!
And who says investigative reporting is dead?
Then Papa Bear remembers that the Rodeo Clown's ratings are on the wax, and he quickly adds;
"You were right about ACORN and Van Jones !"
BilldO's been around the block, he ain't gonna let Beck walk away with the lunatic zombie audience, at least not without a crazy fight.
I compare Beck to a professional wrestling match. Did you ever attend one? I don't mean watch it on TV, I mean put you butt in a seat surrounded by wrestling fans.
I attended one of these as a 12-13 year old expecting to be entertained. Instead it scared the bejeebus out of me because the 5,000 other people there knew it was real to the point that quite a few pulled up their folding chairs and started heaving them at the wrestlers. It was obvious from the looks on the faces of the wrestlers and security guys that it had stopped being good fun and was life threatening.
Beck hasn't realized he needs an exit, and his ego is such that I don't think he's willing to take his millions and fade into obscurity.
The odd part is that you have Beck, a so-called journalist acting out his political fantasies and he is applauded by the right. But when a so-called actor makes a so-called journalistic remark about politics, they are chastized by the right and told to stay with their day job. Maybe this is why some people feel that Beck is a dangerous phony, playing with the lives of some of the zombies that follow him.
Looks like Beck has created a character akin to ALICE COOPER...
In the early 90's Vince McMahon was forced to admit for tax purposes that his "Professional Wrestling" was really not a sport but just entertainment. Wouldn't it be a great idea if the same principle applied to Fox News. They should be forced to publicly announce that they are (as they always have been) strictly an entertainment channel. The word "news" should be taken out of their network's name. This way there will be no confusion.
It might be a start.
Sure, no vaccine is perfectly safe, and for some people, the flu vaccine is not advised. But for most people, getting the vaccine is much safer than getting the flu itself. The worst side effect of the flu shot is getting Guillian-Barre Syndrome(GBS), but that happens about really rarely - literally about 1 in million. Compare that to the side effects of getting the flu. In bad years about 60 million Americans get the flu, and about 36,000 die on average each year. If 60 million people get the flu vaccine instead of getting the flu, about 60 of them will get GBS.
There's good reason to make it mandatory for healthcare workers in hospitals to get the vaccine - if they do, they can't transmit it to patients. It's the transmission to others that's the biggest reason to encourage vaccination.
Right now, in New Jersey and NYC, they aren't having too many cases. They believe that's because a lot of people (relatively a lot) were exposed to the virus last spring, when NYC had a lot of cases. It's called "herd immunity", and it helps reduce the spread of the disease. But it came at a cost - how many people died in the NYC area last spring who would be alive today if they'd just gotten the vaccine instead of getting the virus?
I say this in support of my Minnesota friends, whose Golden Gophers are among that nation's oldest college football traditions.
I don't know if Democrats were the more "faith-based", lockstep party a half century ago, but it's pretty obvious who that applies to now.It's like making a doctor joke that pokes fun at their use of bloodletting and leeches.
BTW, one of the right wing radio hosts uses that in his show intro (Larry Elder, I believe), so you're not alone in going back that far to find Republican-style up-to-date humor.
But that's not true. Even on the show he did earlier this week on the topic, when he had people from both sides of the argument, the pro-vaccine person whipped the butt of the guy on the anti-vaccine side.
For this site of all places to accuse anybody else of being a brain dead follower amuses me. This site leads you people where they want you to go and feeds you collectivist drones your daily half hour of hate.
Cheers!
I think anybody who can't see the (unintentional) humor in Beck mocking the idea that his audience are zombies should probably not be lecturing others about their sense of humor.
Maybe if you weren't seething with hate at seeing your heroes exposed, this stuff wouldn't go over your head.
Oh, and I don't hate Beck at all. I just think that what he is doing for MONEY is dangerous.
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