Beck conspiracy theory: U.S. government to seize land through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to back new currency
October 28, 2009 5:59 pm ET
From the October 28 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
Beck also suggests the Chinese government will help the U.S. government control its population in exchange for a stake in our natural resources.
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BOO HA HA GLENN!!!!!
In all seriousness, I don't get how this could be viewed as anything other than satire... From MY perspective for satire to be effective one would attempt to present the scenario as "serious"... I have (on occasion) listened to Beck on the radio. I don't particularly like hie style. To me he rambles sorta like Randi Rhodes(sp)?
I did find your comment about a Ben & Jerry's flavor rather funny. I am an old man that lives in Black Forest Colorado where we are currently getting our second foot of snow...
*NOTE* this is an attempt at humor:
If any of you know Al Gore could you have him circle his G3 (gulfstream model 3 "private jet") around Black Forest so WE can enjoy some of that "global warming"!
Here's the thing, trollintrollforest... even IF Beck was "kidding" (in which case it's not funny, just stupid and bizarre), a lot of people take his words pretty seriously.
Mostly, people here get berated for promoting lies and/or debunked talking points.
Also, usually a satirist is known to be a satirist. Al Franken is/was a satirist. Glenn Beck is not a satirist.
Secondly, many people who are powerful have private jets. Attacking Gore because he uses one is pretty darn outrageous, considering.
Humor has to be based in reality. There's no reality in your "joke". On top of that, the intent of the person saying something is relevant. You weren't trying to joke. You were smearing Al Gore. You're a liar when you say that you were trying to joke.
That's terrible. I'm looking over some of the comments in this thread, and yes, you've been the target of some pretty harsh name-calling. Here, look at what this person wrote:
Oh wait a second -- that was how YOU began this conversation. If you had written, "Come on, this is obvious satire" you still would have seen replies in disagreement, but the tone of the conversation would have been far different from the tone you yourself set.
There's a reason your point of view wasn't taken seriously: you didn't present it seriously. You presented it as a rude attack. (Or perhaps you were merely being satirical, yes?)
These lowlifes spout nonsense to their minions each day and whenever they get called on their bullschit, someone always comes along to tell us, that this particular statement was satire.
If it truly is a humor/satire show then they should label it as such instead of pulling it out and hiding behind it every time Beck goes off on these fantasy rants of his.
Aren't you making a plan??? I'm planning to protect the crowded Polar Bear, which is in danger of being shot in the a$$ after the Russians begin their planet-protecting regime in the next 5-8 years. Or was it the Chinese?
Anyway, it's not unreasonable to think that Mr. Beck's latest conspiracy theory is satire, mostly because he's spouted off stuff like this before. FEMA camps. H1N1 vaccine is killing people. And so on.
Are you seriously calling Obama the second coming of Jimmy Carter? That's an amazing leap you're taking there, since a vast majority of the country believe that Obama is doing a pretty good job out there currently.
Well, Jimmy did spend more time trying to negotiate peace than he did spend trying to wage war. So, I suppose you could make a comparison.
That's worth the Nobel Prize if anything is. You should use the google. Search Nobel Prize. Read how they award the peace prize.
Thanks.
He fully fit the standards of the prize committee.
Yup, that is the formula for an award winning show.
It is good to see Glenn still has it all.
And there is a difference between reading history, and learning from it.
This one is a doosy, even for Mr. Beck.
Randy
Beck's paranoid poop is starting to peeter out. He knows the whole jig is about up.
Brought him a nice pile though.
I think he talks to himself in the mirror everyday to get new ideas to put on TV.
I vote it my favorite image for Beckytoons
He must be just oh so smart. Don't worry Glenn, you are wrong about this... so wrong...
By the way Beck, stop showing your ignorance by talking about the debt as something that needs to be paid back over one generation. It's called revolving debt and it can be turned over for hundreds of years as long as the world views the US government favorably. Yes we need to get debt under control but to do anything about it right now would result in further unemployment increases and would throw us back into recession. This is simple economics. It's the lessons we should have learned from the Great Depression when they tightened monetary policy as we were coming out of the initial recession trying to balance the budget, and their actions threw us into the Great Depression. I'm sick of Beck trying to talk like he's a scholar on any subject. The guy literally knows NOTHING, but he does have thousands of conspiracy theories.