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Beck jumps into NY-23 race, says GOP candidate is "not a Republican," asks if "conservatives will stand for principles"

October 21, 2009 10:15 am ET

From the October 21 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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- by Dmacalypse (October 21, 2009 10:22 am ET)
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  I thought Becky wasn't a Con/Rep? I wonder if he would say the same of a moderate Dem who wasn't liberal enough? Hmmmmm.......Where ever the $ takes you I guess...
  
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  - by themidnightreview.com (October 21, 2009 10:43 am ET)
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    I was thinking the same way. I like the mention of ACORN too...
    
    Apparently this is a huge conspiracy to just get more Democrats into office. What exactly does Glenn Beck want?
    
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    - by liberalXtian (October 21, 2009 9:34 pm ET)
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      I live in NY-23, and I have had a great laugh over some pundits' attempt to link the Republican candidate to ACORN. The closest Acorn office is 100 miles away and I know Ms. Scozzafava (the Republican candidate) would not accept any help from them. She knows it would be political suicide. I guess ACORN is one of the reflexive attacks on anyone they oppose.
      
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      - by themidnightreview.com (October 22, 2009 10:22 am ET)
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        I am not familiar with the candidates but I hope that Ms. Scozzafava is an authentic conservative, and not one who panders to these crazies...
        
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  - by achorn316 (October 21, 2009 1:39 pm ET)
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    Hes a con. In both senses of the word.
    
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- by raine315 (October 21, 2009 10:34 am ET)
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  My local news broadcast last night profiled the conservative candidate and oh boy- what a whack a doo he is! The fella is anti-EVERYTHING but pro the usual conservative talking points. He is every Tea Bagger, Palin supporter and Fox News fan all rolled into one person. He penned a guest entry on Michelle Malkin's blog the other day- his name is Hoffman.
  
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  - by raine315 (October 21, 2009 10:54 am ET)
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    here is the video (local coverage) of Whack a Doo Hoffman:
    
    http://tinyurl.com/ylhqfsc
    
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- by Major Tom (October 21, 2009 10:40 am ET)
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  Remember it's not about liberals or conservatives, it's about "american values"
  
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  - by Dmacalypse (October 21, 2009 11:08 am ET)
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    Only if........sarcasm at it's finest. Why is it that all conservative idiology is supposedly synonymous with "American Values", but liberal idiology will without a doubt, "destroy America as we know it"? At what point did their ideals corner the market on the values of America?
    
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    - by shaggles (October 21, 2009 12:06 pm ET)
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      When the FCC regs were loosened allowing Rubert Murdoch and a handful of others to corner the media market.
      
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- by epkklk851 (October 21, 2009 10:43 am ET)
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  Rachel talked about this race. It looks like a Democrat might well be elected in this district for the first time since 1864, I am rolling on the floor! Unfortunately, it looks like we are going to have that Regent University sockpuppet McDonnell elected in Virginia!
  
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  - by dexteritas0071418 (October 21, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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    You can cling to that one item, but when the NCAAP founder SUPPORTS McDonnell over Deeeeeeeds, you know you're on the losing side.
    
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    - by Craig (October 21, 2009 12:33 pm ET)
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      Yes, a majority Virginians have seemingly had a enough of the competent governance provided by the Democrats, and want a return to the bad old days. Are memories really that short?
      
      I don't know if Deeds would be the next Warner or Kaine, but I'm afraid McDonnell will be the next Gilmore.
      
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      - by dexteritas0071418 (October 21, 2009 12:43 pm ET)
        
        I was ok with Warner and Kaine, but their faulty budget projections are a big reason so many people lost their jobs with VA in the past 2 years.
        
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        by epkklk851 (October 21, 2009 2:56 pm ET)
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        I was here for the end of Warner, and voted him into the Senate, and I voted for Kaine, but I didn't follow Virginia politics until I moved here. I have no idea what it was like before 2004. I think the budget problems were bad for everybody. They made predictions on real estate revenue projections and when the market crashed, so did the budgets. Fairfax county homes lost about 40% of their value, that really cuts into a county budget.
        
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  - by dexteritas0071418 (October 21, 2009 11:10 am ET)
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    And, to add, it's nice that we have someone's college transcripts and writings, right?
    
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    - by epkklk851 (October 21, 2009 11:45 am ET)
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      I have to admit that McDonnell is a Catholic, that's bad enough. Did you mean the NAACP? They may have endorsed him, but my understanding is that Deeds leads with Black voters. I am not a Deeds fan, I was out of town during the primary, had I voted, it would have been for someone else. I am, on an ever more increasing level, a yellow dog Democrat.
      
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      - by dexteritas0071418 (October 21, 2009 12:10 pm ET)
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        "I have to admit that McDonnell is a Catholic, that's bad enough.."
        
        Yikes, did you really just say that?
        
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        by epkklk851 (October 21, 2009 12:17 pm ET)
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        Yes, the man is a fellow Catholic, too bad he gave up on Catholic Social Justice and embraced Pat Robterson's holier than thou Protestant agenda without leaving the Church. The problem with his thesis, is that as a member of the Legislature, he has tried to introduce numerous ideas from it into law. The Virginia diocese only recently admitted girls as altar servers, and that is on a parish by parish basis. In California, they had girls serving nearly 20 years ago.
        
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        by dexteritas0071418 (October 21, 2009 12:22 pm ET)
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        Ok, I thought you were being a bigot, since you didn't note that you were a fellow catholic originally...please excuse my shock as there are other posters who would denigrate believers.
        
        If you take what he's tried to implement in law as argument against him, that's fine, but he's also passed laws and resolutions that are very pro-women.
        
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        by epkklk851 (October 21, 2009 12:34 pm ET)
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        Sorry, but I have never made any bones about being a Catholic, a fairly conservative one, at that. I presumed that you or anyone else would know that about me. I have been chided more than a few times by some of the atheists on the site, but that's okay. Faith is a hard thing for a non-believer to understand. But I have to say that it is people like Pat Robertson and his followers that have made me refuse to identify myself as a "Christian." I will say that I am Catholic, and I will say I believe that Jesus is the Messiah, but I almost never use the word Christian outside of my parish church. Consider the aversion retaliation for having been told I wasn't Christian by these people and the desire to distance myself from them, too. I also consider Regent's a brainwash academy for the wingnuts.
        
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    - by bintx (October 21, 2009 12:14 pm ET)
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      Actually, no. College transcripts are not necessary for public office.
      
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      - by epkklk851 (October 21, 2009 12:18 pm ET)
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        No they aren't and sometimes it is damaging to have them out there. I would not care about his transcripts if he hadn't tried to make the thesis that he earned with them into law.
        
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- by IRONY 101 (October 21, 2009 11:36 am ET)
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  Do any of these people realize what a joke the Republican Party is? You have moderate Republicans; you have Libertarian Republicans; you have Evangelical Republicans; you have basic conservative Republicans; you have far right wing conservative Republicans; and you have far, far, ultra-right wing extremist conservative Republicans. Am I missing anyone? But rather than being a "big tent" party which embraces everyone, each faction questions the ideological purity of the other. And all the factions would like to purge the party of some of the others. I don't see how the Republican Party will not splinter into another far right wing party.
  
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  - by raine315 (October 21, 2009 11:40 am ET)
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    You left out the new fractions within the party:
    The In The Closet Gay Republicans
    and the Meghan McCain Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Republicans
    
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  - by mr.swifty (October 21, 2009 11:04 pm ET)
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    You forgot the Log Cabin Republicans, who aren't even allowed near the "big tent". Has there ever been an organized group who worked so hard against their own interests while being alienated and openly discriminated against by their peers?
    
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- by Dmacalypse (October 21, 2009 11:44 am ET)
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  Why is it that all conservative idiology is supposedly synonymous with "American Values", but liberal idiology will without a doubt, "destroy America as we know it"? At what point did their ideals corner the market on the values of America?
  
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  - by The New Pilgrims (October 21, 2009 12:03 pm ET)
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    At what point did their ideals corner the market on the values of America?
    
    Answer: September 12, 2001. For the Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity crowd, 9-12-01 is the gift that keeps on giving:
    
    Liberals and Dems hate America? Check.
    
    Glenn Beck's raid on his fans' bank accounts (more commonly referred to as the 9-12 Project)? Check.
    
    Toy versions of Glenn Beck with a string-activated voice function that screams "GET OFF OF MY RADIO!" and cries on command? In stores by Christmas.
    
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- by shaggles (October 21, 2009 12:02 pm ET)
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  If he's the GOP candidate I'm pretty sure that means he's a Republican. What happened to that big tent the Party is always talking about?
  
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- by New Frontier (October 21, 2009 12:21 pm ET)
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  You know you're about to get some of Glenn Beck's insightful, penetrating, thorougly-researched commentary here, because he starts this out by saying: "What is this guy's name?? I'm sorry-I don't pay attention to local elections."
  
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- by noneyabidnis (October 21, 2009 12:27 pm ET)
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  I'll just leave this right here...
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFVuveaxY3U
  
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  - by congero6189599 (October 21, 2009 1:40 pm ET)
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    That was too funny! :-)
    
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- by noneyabidnis (October 21, 2009 1:58 pm ET)
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  "While Beck espouses an affinity for what he views as the Texas mindset, he has unhappy memories of his stint in Houston at KRBE when it was known as Power 104. He worked morning drive at the station , doing the voiceover for a character he called “Clydie Clyde.”
  “It was the worst time in my broadcasting career, and I wish people would stop bringing it up,” he said. “It’s the most embarrassing thing I ever did on radio. If I could make everybody forget about my time in Houston, it would be good.
  “I was probably at my most arrogant. I thought I could do no wrong. It was tough to beat my arrogance and lack of intelligence and talent at the time. ‘I’m invincible. Look at me.’ It was garbage.”"
  
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  - by bintx (October 21, 2009 2:07 pm ET)
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    There is NOTHING about Beck that even closely resembles a "Texas mindset."
    
    Did he say anything in the article about his hijinks in Arizona where he called the wife of a former "best" friend following her miscarriage and taunted her about it on air. Why? For RATINGS, of course!
    
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