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In conspiracy-laden attack on EIF service project, Beck says "It's almost like we're living in Mao's China right now"

October 19, 2009 6:44 pm ET

From the October 19 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

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    • Author by worrierking (October 19, 2009 6:55 pm ET)
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      "It's almost like we're living in Mao's China right now".

      Wait until we throw your ass in the FEMA Camp Glenda. It'll be JUST like it.

      I still don't understand how anyone can buy into this nonsense that he's selling.
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    • Author by Origen305 (October 19, 2009 7:01 pm ET)
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      Odd how ‘volunteering’ came out number one as the common denominator amongst a sample of people who self-rated themselves the ‘happiest’ according to an Oxford University research project. Google (oxford university happiness research volunteering) for references.
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    • Author by Amy (October 19, 2009 7:03 pm ET)
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      Beck thinks that a program like George H.W. Bush's Thousands Points of Light is akin to Maoist China?

      How totally strange.

      The Democracy Corps study makes it clear that there is a group that follows Beck that has all the characteristics of a cult -- doom is on the horizon, only those in touch with special knowledge know it, and there are a few leaders, Beck among them, who can inform the masses.
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    • Author by michaelr (October 19, 2009 7:09 pm ET)
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      The danger here (for Beck) is that even the dumbest of his audience should be able to clearly see that he is just making up any excuse to demonize Obama
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      • Author by christopher howard (October 19, 2009 8:03 pm ET)
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        You underestimate the stupidity of Beck's audience if you think that this will slow them down one iota. If we were in Mao's China, as Beck claims, he would be in a re-education camp right now. But, no, his followers won't work that one out for themselves.
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    • Author by Lane (October 19, 2009 7:16 pm ET)
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      Wow.

      Only Beck can turn helping out in your community into some sort of evil conspiracy plot to overthrow capitalism.
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      • Author by magnolialover (October 19, 2009 7:20 pm ET)
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        True enough.

        Don't volunteer, that's how "they" get YOU!

        Beck is amazingly paranoid, makes me think he's smoking way too much weed again, because believe me, I've had friends in the past who smoked a lot, and they were paranoid as all get out. Maybe Beck is just stoned doing his show? It's not as if he doesn't have a history of that, and he's exhibiting the behavioral traits of someone who is whacked out of his gourd on the Mary-Jane.
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        • Author by John Paradox (October 19, 2009 9:19 pm ET)
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          Dood, smoking marijuana doesn't make you paranoid
          [scritch... puff, toke, toke,toke]
          What was I talking about? Who are you people? Why are you reading this post?

          /humor
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      • Author by dimes (October 19, 2009 8:40 pm ET)
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        Beck is complaining about the 60 shows that are highlighting volunteerism this week?

        Given how much airtime he just devoted to it, make that 61.
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    • Author by slowtyper (October 19, 2009 7:23 pm ET)
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      beck is just trying to get the Nobel prize for hyperbole..

      has it occurred to anyone yet that it's probably time for him to go back to rehab..?
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    • Author by phredicles (October 19, 2009 7:37 pm ET)
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      Just curious, has Bleck ever travelled outside the country? I mean, I could ask if he's done any serious reading on places like China, but I think we all know the answer to that. So I'm wondering the guy has actually laid eyes on the world beyond his own little bubble. He doesn't sound like a person with much perspective on things (and yes, I am looking for a polite way of saying he sounds both ignorant and stupid).
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (October 19, 2009 7:44 pm ET)
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        That's the impression I get from a lot of right wingers I meet. Even if they've traveled, it's with a tour group, and their vacation stories seem to revolve around all of the things foreigners do wrong.

        I'd be surprised to find out Beck has ever been curious enough to learn much about Mao's China if he thinks he's there now. He's probably still trying to work up the courage to walk into the exotic confines of a Panda Express.
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      • Author by pete592 (October 19, 2009 7:50 pm ET)
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        I'd be really surprised if he has been outside America aside from ritzy, exotic vacation spots.

        Right-wing professional liars like Beck love to talk ***t about places they've never been, enemies of America they've never fought, people they've never met, and cultures they've never experienced, all from the insulated safety of their news desks.
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        • Author by Bronwyn (October 20, 2009 9:52 am ET)
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          Beck is so concerned about The Obama administration, brainwashing our children, yet he is totally brainwashed into believing that the United States is "The best country in the world" without ever having experienced life in any other country. When any one points out a fault in the US, or where we could improve it, he thinks we hate our country and should leave it.

          Ever notice how Beck and his ilk, always refer to our country, the US, as America? Like it is the only America? They forget that there is Middle America and South America. I laugh when they say illegal immigrants from Mexico aren't American.
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      • Author by epkklk851 (October 20, 2009 8:26 am ET)
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        I would say no. Having lived overseas for a long time, you can't really travel amongst other peoples and not be changed and your world expanded. I am not even so sure he has gone to even exotic, ritzy places, I wonder if he has a passport? He is a provincal and a bumpkin.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (October 19, 2009 7:41 pm ET)
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      I would love to see Beck in a monochome military uniform doing the duck . That would be an E-ticket
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    • Author by mistersnrub (October 19, 2009 8:24 pm ET)
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      Yes, the President is rounding up intellectuals and sending them to work in slave labor camps. We are almost living in Mao's China. Almost.

      Woops, I must have drifted off. I was dreaming that Sarah Palin was president.
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (October 19, 2009 9:05 pm ET)
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      Gee Glenn, why not do some research and I think you will find out that most charities, etc are ALWAYS looking for more volunteers, since they never seem to have enough.

      Of course, if you did that, you couldn't continue to spread the bullsh** that you do spread.

      It is sad that there are so many people out there who just don't understand that you are full of it and really don't care about them or their ideals, no matter how screwed up they may be, because you are only in this for the money.
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    • Author by pasteve (October 19, 2009 9:30 pm ET)
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      Just like the whole communism, Nazism, fascism conflation that went on previously, this guy speaks from a position of ignorance, and either doesn't understand what he's babbling about or knows his audience doesn't, so doesn't care.

      If this were Mao's China. Beck would be one of the "100 blossoms" now trying to grow crops in Death Valley.
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      • Author by soze169880 (October 19, 2009 10:05 pm ET)
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        Okay, Beck doing any physical labor that isn't off a mirror just makes this WAY too hypothetical for me.
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    • Author by srtsilver4 (October 19, 2009 9:36 pm ET)
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      Volunteering is BAD Glenn? What would your “strong” LDS faith say about that? EIF is promoting a good cause and only your dimwitted followers could believe this nonsensical, moronic crap you are putting out!

      Maybe the drugs fried you brain, at least the part that control logic.
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    • Author by pauldbrown (October 19, 2009 9:59 pm ET)
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      This man is a frightening human being. How can something as basic as helping people be a problem. Beck is a moron...an overpaid moron at that. To quote a line from the 'Alien' movie series..."have I Q's dropped sharply while I was away?"
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    • Author by eastcoast (October 19, 2009 10:02 pm ET)
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      Beck is one very sick person. They have a clip of the first lady speaking and a little box in the corner of beck making childish faces. The other day he had a live audience of doctors.
      If there were any real doctors there then at least one of them would have got a straight jacket out of his bag and put it on beck, and brought him to a mental health facility where he belongs.
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    • Author by Frankeee (October 19, 2009 10:18 pm ET)
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      Seriously dude.....I go to a Jesuit high school, I'm non theistic btw fyi, and we are required to do 60 hours of community service before graduation. It is a great thing and makes us more caring and open and loving. Since when is being your brother's keeper a bad thing? Since when is helping your fellow man, American for you, isolationist pig, a bad thing, or seditious? We offer summer service trips to places like Camden New Jersey, poor Indian reservations on the border, and the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. If ol glen had any idea the kind of commitment and strength that takes to go there for two weeks and see how they live, he would need to have no conscience to continue his hatred of community service. helping others is a good thing. But wait we can't have that now can we, b/c it would make the other side look good and make the country better....mmmm....That wouldn't exactly mean Obama failed so its bad. Disgusting swine....
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    • Author by bewildered (October 20, 2009 4:02 am ET)
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      OMG... Beck has gone completely loopy.

      Denigrating volunteerism is a new low.

      Didn't Michelle Obama mention that Fox was participating?

      It seems Beck is truly alone on this one.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (October 20, 2009 8:24 am ET)
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      I saw this live, it really just turned my stomach. Why does Glenn have to be so mean and contemptuous? What is wrong with volunteering and helping people? Why is volunteering un-American? I grew up hearing JFK's famous words "ask not what your country can do for you..." I was taught that serving one's country was a high honor and accomplishment. Silly, liberal me, I guess it was Communism/Fascism/Socialism in disguise. I guess I should be plotting against my country and trying to undermine the government, that is a much better thing to do. And all that stuff I have been hearing at Mass, from my priest, I guess he is a bad man, too and telling us to do evil things by caring for our fellow man.
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      • Author by Bronwyn (October 20, 2009 9:43 am ET)
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        Because it is only Okay, when you are volunteering for the LDS Church and calling it "missionary work". Where they go into the most impoverished nations and convert them to Mormons. Regardless how poor these new converts are, they are still expected to in turn, give ten percent of all their income, back to the Mormon Church. This will bring them their reward later. The Mormon Church ignores the fact that Jesus put an end to commanding followers to pay tithing, Luke 11:42. Jesus also pointed out several times, that people paying their tithing, were acting like it brought them a free pass to sin. Also that tithing was intended to help the poor etc. not used to build gaudy temples.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (October 20, 2009 10:38 am ET)
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          Hey Robyn, good to see you! Funny you should mention gaudy temples, the Washington, D.C. temple is visible from one of the highways, at some point, it is framed by a railroad overpass, and someone painted "Surrender Dorothy" on the overpass, "above" the temple. It has been painted over, but you could still see the lettering. It does sort of look like the "Emerald City." Glenn converted as an adult, so he never had to go on a Mission to a foreign country. They probably encourage him to keep spreading the word by shilling for Skousen's book and spouting the Church line. From my own experiences with Mormons, I would say that Jesus would not really recognize his message in many of their teachings. Jesus was pretty radical, and he did believe in helping the poor and reaching out to the outcasts of society with love and forgiveness. Glenn's is not a loving message.
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          • Author by Bronwyn (October 21, 2009 2:09 am ET)
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            I would say that Jesus would not really recognize his message in many of their teachings.
            Ep., When one points out, their obvious contradictions of Jesus teachings, their explanation is always the same. "The Bible is only accurate, as far as it has been translated accurately." So they get to pick and choose what has been translated accurately. Ignoring that the Bible states..This book is complete in it's self....anyone adding or taking away from it are disgusting in God's eyes. Rev.22:18-20 and all scripture is inspired by god...2Tim.3:16
            The Mormons never question if their Book Of Mormon is translated correctly and it always trumps the Bible, when there is a contradiction.
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    • Author by New Frontier (October 20, 2009 9:09 am ET)
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      It's as tho there's this chubby guy with his name plastered everywhere in big, RED letters, preaching to the masses daily, and attracting a cult of personality. He sits in judgment, persecuting people, answerable to no one, closed to differing views, answering his own questions. He authors a book of quotations that his followers must read, and he demands that the President of the U.S. bend to his wishes, and to call him on his RED phone.

      Come to think of it, Glenn is right: it IS sort of like Mao's China.
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    • Author by FranDavey (October 20, 2009 10:59 am ET)
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      Following the torturous labyrinth that is Glenn Beck's thought process is a tedious experience. Yes America being a volunteer does not make you a good citizen. Because you know, repairing an elderly lady's front porch is pure Communism unless you're a church group (and BTW, "citizen" is a Communist concept - everyone knows that!).

      I can't believe I managed to watch that whole thing. Beck makes my skin crawl. He gives sarcasm a really bad name.
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