Beck vows that Anita Dunn will "have to go away" after "what we show you tonight"
October 19, 2009 10:38 am ET
From the October 19 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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I think I've got it!
I mean, I was under the impression that Van Jones wasn't nixed so much as that he resigned. I mean, if there were media figures like Beck running targeted smear campaigns against me trying to portray me as left of Marx I might do the same as well. That's the sort of intimidation that's gotten people killed in the past.
Seems just a LITTLE different now that you've put it in that context.
Sorry for the false alarm folks.
Beck picks the darker-colored rocks. That's probably just a coincidence.
All Beck did was expose Dunn's own words, which of course were "I want to have to go away!"
Van Jones quit because he thought it best. Not because of his 'controversial beliefs'. He didn't have controversial beliefs.
"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future," Jones' statement said.
"I hold here in my hand the names of 13 members of the State Department who are believed to have been associated with known Communists or members of Communist front organizations."
At long last sir, have you no sense of decency?
Short answer.....No
....and no ethics, no professionalism, and apparently, given the lack of intervention by Rupert Murdoch, nobody willing or even interested in calling a halt to his increasingly vile antics.
At long last Mr. Murdoch....have you no sense of decency?
Same here, lWilk, I can't believe there are people buying into this, even if they're a small far right fringe.What's more disappointing is that these screechmonkeys seem to have a disproportionate effect, actually influencing decisions such as Van Jones.
The same people who were so quiet for eight years of GWBush (although they all insist they were screeching about him )and his real, substantive offenses, are suddenly outraged about ACORN , Dunn, and whatever else they're told to be scared of.
I realize the Obama administration needs to make pragmatic decisions sometimes to avoid distractions and try to clean up the mess they were handed, but at some point they've got to say "Enough". The people who think Dunn needs to go for mentioning Mao hated Obama when he was nominated, hated him more when he was elected, and nothing is going to shut their crazy gobs up.
Beck and his sheep are irrelevant to the country as far as any reality, and to appease them at all feeds into their delusion that they're anything but a loud, confused, reactionary minority that is quickly dying off.
That seems pretty contradictory. I'm not sure if you're really falling for this propaganda, or if you just like promoting it.
This is about frightened wingnuts, some hate democrats, some hate black people, some hate anybody who reads, some are actually unable to separate a comment about Mao's philosophy from his atrocities. I have no idea if you're in one of these groups, all of these groups, or if you're just one of those genetic Republicans who reflexively wants to destroy anything that's not a republican.
But thanks for comparing my stuff to Crumb's. I'm a big fan, and if I have to be accused of ripping off somebody, I'm ok with R.
I can see why you idolize Beck and his cohorts. Your rant above is as full with as much hate as we see on Beck's shows. And I can guarantee that if some crazy lunatic spent all his time looking into your past, he could find something distasteful as well. Republicans need to quit complaining about democrats and Obama unless they can come up with some sane solutions to the problems they created during the past 8 years.
So, the full story doesn't support your portrait of the woman, so of course you fail to inform others of the contradictory information that debunks your portrait of her.
"Is Dunn a truther too?" Maybe, but there is a birth certificate floating around with Ann Dunn's name on it. It was a live birth - in Bejing!
He sure did. I would've thought the Cass Sunstein thing would've brought him back to earth, or sanity, but I guess not . . .
btw.. you know who else was a fan of Mao? George W. Bush. Just saying.
The White House is right to target Fox, since Fox targets the White House. It's insanity not to fight back against these people.
Is he gonna reveal that she prank-calls women to mock them for miscarrying?
Or that her personal hero was a fan of slavery?
Or that she accused a sitting Congressman of being a spy for the terrorists just because he was a Muslim?
Or that she lied about her mother's death for cheap sympathy?
Or that she implied that the worst part of another Oklahoma City bombing would be that it'd make her personally look bad?
Or that she said the president was a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people"and 70 seconds later said "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people"?
Or that she unapologetically desecrated an American flag?
Or that she's a fat-faced alcoholic con artist whose name is Glenn Beck?
I can't WAIT!
If what Becky shows his lemmings tonight doesn't make Dunn go away, he'll go away . .
Fair, no?
(((crickets)))
When Beck plays his clips (over and over and over) he gives "context" in the form of misleading diagrams, photos, unsubstantiated innuendo, out-of-context linkages, and venomous denunciations, as per Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who is one of the heroes to the Malkin/Limbaugh crowd.
Yes, Grover Norquist did have a photo of Lenin in his office. Does this make him a Leninist?
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/07/grover_norquist.html
Beck is now fixated on the neo-"Patriot" Oathkeepers movement -- a new generation of Timothy McVeighs-in-waiting, at least in part.
Beck thinks our President is a racist who hates white people and/or White Culture. He thinks the Obama administration's goal is to overthrow and subvert the Constitution, turning the U.S. into a Marxist/Communist state after taking away "our" guns.
For this, he has a very large following. God Bless America.
As goofy as Glen Beck is, he's managed to find an audience impressionable and ignorant enough to believe him when he tells them what he does is journalism.
Of course Beck didn't really say "Dunn will have to go away". That's just a "claim".
1. It was pretty clear in the video that her comments were meant ironically. Especially since they elicited laughter from the audience and Dunn laughed along with them.
2. As I pointed out on the other thread, Socrates is pretty generally regarded as a great philosophical mind. He also pursued sexual relationships with teenage boys. If I say that Socrates is "one of my favorite philosophers", does that mean that I also condone adults having sex with teenage boys? Obviously not.
3. If I say that Hitler is one of my favorite historical subjects, does this mean I condone Hitler's slaughter of millions? Again, obviously not. You can find someone fascinating and interesting to study, while still believing that they are evil.
I don't believe that Beck is an idiot. I think he knows full well what he is doing. I can't imagine that he's not conscious of the fact that he's twisting people's words and misrepresenting people's beliefs, because all he cares about is taking down anyone and everyone that has anything to do with Obama's administration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/caught-on-tape-obama-advi_b_325782.html
What makes you think he's going to break that pattern with Anita Dunn when he's already distorted what she's said? He has not show 'their own words' in a fair way. He's distorted evidence. He's outright lied at times and at other times he's ignored to present contradictory evidence that debunks his assertions.
He 'can't' represent a contrary opinion because he lies, distorts and misleads about factual info.
He COULD oppose the political philosophy, and that would be fine. But it's not fine to do it with lies and omissions and deceitful portrayals.
I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.
For about the fifth time today, everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts! It's really that simple.
He's going to make it look like Anita is talking about how they "controlled the media".
But still, I really don't understand why this is so scandalous. I mean, isn't getting your message out correctly and using the media to your advantage, part of running a successful campaign?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/caught-on-tape-obama-advi_b_325782.html
Of course, the typical Beck fan will never understand this strategy and it will make them go absolutely nuts.
And Beck will certainly not air the part where she says "we had Obama do tons of live stuff so that the press couldn't manipulate it."
The best way to explain it to a Beck head in terms they can understand is tie it back to church. Would they want the mainstream media of any kind taking sound bytes from their own church and presenting it to the nation with no oversight from the church itself? Any "news" organization could make any church look pretty insane if they picked a few selective sound-bytes. Or, would a Beck head prefer that the country actually go to the church itself and get the message they are trying to deliver?
Even better - would a Beck head want to learn about Beck from a media source, or from Beck himself? By accusing Obama of manipulating the press, Beck is implicating himself of doing the same thing. What a moron. He's gotten so blind with ego that he's walking right into their trap.