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Beck warns of a "beatdown thugocracy.  If you want to learn the future, you learn about SEIU"

November 16, 2009 4:19 pm ET

From the November 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck flogging Breitbart's SEIU beating conspiracy theory, claims SEIU members "issued" "beat downs"

Breitbart fabricates smear that SEIU's Stern is "sending SEIU goons" to "beat up innocent Americans"

Breitbart's BigGovernment making up more stuff about SEIU assault case

BigGovernment now claiming massive law enforcement cover-up in minor, third-degree SEIU assault case

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    • Author by mikelartist (November 16, 2009 4:26 pm ET)
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      What ever happened to that moron that claimed he was beaten by "SEIU thugs" at the health care protest and it turned out he didn't have healthcare insurance himself (he was "between jobs") so he solicited donations to wingnuts and teabaggers to pay for his medical bills.

      Another loudmouth deadbeat too dense to know what is good for him.

      Pointing and laughing at winguts is fun.
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      • Author by liberalXtian (November 16, 2009 4:42 pm ET)
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        I guess he did not hear all the teabaggers yelling that they shouldn't pay for someone else's medical care.
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        • Author by christopher howard (November 16, 2009 4:52 pm ET)
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          Yes, that was a guy named Kenneth Gladney. As far as I've been able to find, the case has gone nowhere.

          Funny how the right was all over that very minor scuffle, but somehow thought the cold-blooded police murder of Amadou Diallo was perfectly understandable (I particularly remember the reprehensible Sean Hannity declaring the shooting as justified).
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      • Author by Samurai Cowboy (November 16, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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        He is from a suburb of St. Louis, MO. and there has not been a peep out of him since SEIU thugs beat him down outside a Town Hall meeting this past summer. He is a Black republican who does in fact have lots of cash. He is an After Birther, tea bagging Cheneyite and Palinista.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 4:51 pm ET)
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          Yes, but the guy who ended up on the ground is actually an SEIU member, and the police took him to the emergency room. Supposedly, Gaffney was lying about being hurt. He was on his feet the whole time.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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      Hey Glenn, I'll take my chances with the good union members than the self-righteous, Bible-thumping Teabaggers any day! The Town Hall that I went to, the SEIU man was a big teddy bear of a guy who was very soft spoken and well mannered. The Teabaggers were angry and nasty or nuts. My father was a proud Teamster and that helped pay for my college education and I was a proud member of the FEA-Federal Education Association and the NEA-National Education Association. And boy, can I think of someone who needs a referral to the Principal's Office!
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    • Author by shaggles (November 16, 2009 5:25 pm ET)
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      Who is getting these beat downs by these thugs Becky is always raving about? I haven't seen any evidence of anything of the sort happening.
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      • Author by soze169880 (November 16, 2009 5:29 pm ET)
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        The last encounter Beck had with any SEIU members was when their nurses treated him for appendicitis. Apparently "gratitude" isn't one of his 69 values or whatever.
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    • Author by Handyman (November 16, 2009 5:43 pm ET)
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      Sounds like some more of your "Skousen end of the World Phrophecies" coming out Glenn.

      Let's shed a little light on your more than slightly tweeked rational.

      1. Were the folks that showed up at President Obama's rally in Phoenix Arizona packing assault weapons SEIU Goons or some of your loyal Tea Party Grassroot followers?
      2. Farmers represented by the Farm Bureau and various Farmers Unions get subsidies that amount to nearly 200 billion a year - by using your logic these are also goons due to the fact that they also have representatives in Government. In fact, nearly every town in the Midwest has a USDA Extension Office, do we also need to shut these down?
      3. Wasn't those tax breaks of GW Bush for the industry and the wealthiest of our country justified by promised reinvestment of those monies and to help the offset the cost of worker benefit programs? You don't think some of those monies could have accidentally ended up in one of those off-shore accounts that the treasury is now investigating do you?
      4. I wonder what kind of benefit program Halibuton or Black Water provides for their employees?

      Come on Glenn, give your John Birch Conspiracy Theories a Break, don't forget us Progressives are an unstable bunch.
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    • Author by progressiveright (November 16, 2009 5:45 pm ET)
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      Management used force first and more often in strikes ans still does. They get away with this under the GOP because the GOP hate labor. This is the true thugocracy not an Union.
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