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Beck claims Obama "can't [even] trust" people who stand "behind you because you've promised to shoot all the enemies in the head"

October 23, 2009 12:51 pm ET

From the October 23 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by Conchobhar (October 23, 2009 1:05 pm ET)
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      My respects and sympathies (seriously) to the MMFA volunteer, or intern, or whoever had to listen to and record this drech and drivel. You really tried to avoid taking it out of context, but there was no context, only disconnected verbiage.

      This clip may become prime evidence at an involuntary commitment hearing.
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    • Author by shaggles (October 23, 2009 1:12 pm ET)
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      Wow. President Obama promised to shoot all his enemies in the head? This is big news.
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      • Author by usp (October 23, 2009 1:28 pm ET)
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        i'm calling bill o'reilly. he needs to get the body language expert on this claim right away
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (October 23, 2009 1:23 pm ET)
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      Beck claims Obama "can't [even] trust" people who stand "behind you because you've promised to shoot all the enemies in the head"
      How in the world is Obama going to shoot anyone in the head if they're standing behind him? Does he mean that Obama can't stand behind anyone?

      Is Beck speaking the English language? I think he is, but the definitions of the words in his vocabulary don't match the definitions of those mine.
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      • Author by neon desert (October 23, 2009 1:44 pm ET)
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        Oh, he's speaking English, and the words are okay, it's just that they're not organized into any kind of coherent structure so as to convey a meaning or idea of any sort. I've come to recognize this as the latest craze (and I don't use that word frivolously) in right-wing media. All the cool kids are doing it. It's a way of retaining plausible deniability by infusing ambiguous context in your speech so that you can always claim your words were taken out of it.
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    • Author by noneyabidnis (October 23, 2009 3:00 pm ET)
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      Beck treats this all as if though he's a regular morning DJ and the white house is a cross town rival. It's pretty sick, really.
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    • Author by Lizinbklyn (October 23, 2009 3:21 pm ET)
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      Jeez, Becky is supposed to be SOBER now?

      Imagine sitting next to stooopid in a bar after he got sloshed . .

      Whadda irrelevant, nonsensical jerk!
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    • Author by noneyabidnis (October 23, 2009 3:50 pm ET)
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      Seems like Beck & Co. are following a playbook already written by far right wing critics of Lincoln.

      "What unites the right-wing and left-wing attacks on Lincoln, of course, is that they deny that Lincoln respected the law and that he was concerned with the welfare of all. The right-wing school — made up largely of Southerners and some libertarians — holds that Lincoln was a self-serving tyrant who rode roughshod over civil liberties, such as the right to habeas corpus. Lincoln is also accused of greatly expanding the size of the federal government. Some libertarians even charge — and this is not intended as a compliment — that Lincoln was the true founder of the welfare state. His right-wing critics say that despite his show of humility, Lincoln was a megalomaniacal man who was willing to destroy half the country to serve his Caesarian ambitions. In an influential essay, the late Melvin E. Bradford, an outspoken conservative, excoriated Lincoln as a moral fanatic who, determined to enforce his Manichaean vision — one that sees a cosmic struggle between good and evil — on the country as a whole, ended up corrupting American politics and thus left a ‘lasting and terrible impact on the nation’s destiny.’"

      http://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-tyrant-hypocrite-or-consummate-statesman.htm

      What's particularly interesting is that the RNC does everything it can to cast itself as "the party of Lincoln". Though, the truth is, the inmates are now running the asylum in the RNC... the same inmates that hate everything Lincoln was about.

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      • Author by Conchobhar (October 23, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
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        Get this Lincoln quote into common knowledge and the Repugs will deny they ever heard of him.

        "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.
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        • Author by SoloPocono (October 24, 2009 3:51 am ET)
             
          WOW!! Thanks Noney and Concho-some great info!! Have ya'll seen how he spun Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"? Beck has read JUST enough right-wing history books, (you know, the "opposite" of the "revisionist history" that our children and grandchildren are taught), to make him dangerous. While I myself am ADD-(and under some major medical care right now. My kidney is on the fritz-that's how I'm SO "lucky" to be able to watch Faux Nooz each day. It's all the nurses,a dn local patients watch around here-a nightmare..), I can remember enough bits and pieces from History books, and have copies of all the "Founders Documents" on my iPod, to know that King Beck's "tactics" aren't new. He's been, or is being, well-coached on this style of "projection", belittling, and praising-similar to Stockholm Syndrome. I'm just dumbfounded at the level of induced ignorance-as well as the "natural" ignorance of course. No matter WHAT you say or show to his "Zombies"-it's impossible to get through to them. And I'm just afraid that at LEAST one-probably many-of his zombies will be incited enough to take bat and pistol in hand one day soon. :(
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    • Author by Leporello (October 23, 2009 4:37 pm ET)
         
      The President can't trust people who stand behind Me? And who are 'the enemies'? Termites? Fleas? Copyright infringers? Double-parkers? People with annoying laughs? This makes my brain hurt!
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (October 23, 2009 5:10 pm ET)
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      BECK,HANNITY, LEVIN, LIMBAUGH, and the rest of the RIGHT WING TALKERS all ned to be thrown in a rubber room with the key thrown away.
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    • Author by rikntx (October 23, 2009 5:37 pm ET)
         
      Does this man have so much as a nodding acquaintence with reality...or sanity?
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    • Author by blesscurse (October 23, 2009 6:12 pm ET)
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      Glenn Beck - still in the morning zoo.
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    • Author by Jen7 (October 23, 2009 7:30 pm ET)
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      Why is he using such violent metaphors? He does this all the time. It sounds to me like he's sending his audience a veiled message. And not a good one.
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      • Author by SoloPocono (October 24, 2009 3:52 am ET)
           
        He IS, and NO, it's NOT good. While it appears subtle/veiled to some-others will see and hear every word literally.....
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