Olbermann highlights Beck's history of extreme rhetoric, dubs him "Fearmonger-In-Chief"
November 20, 2009 11:48 am ET
From the November 19 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
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This report will not attract as much negative attention as the previous FBI report attracted, because the ADL is a private organization, but it should be paid close attention to.
Here is a link to the full report which contains sublinks that look at groups like the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers.
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/rage-grows-in-America/default.asp
We are in a very dangerous time here. People who should be hiding in the shadows and speaking in whispers are being covered as if they had valid points and beliefs. These groups are not united around one person or principle, but if someone should come up who is capable of uniting them with a consistent message, we could loose our country. Hitler was a fringe candidate with a small cadre of followers, but he rose on appealing to populist ideas and general distrust and disillusionments. He got into office and then used the power of the office to create something that the people didn't originally intend. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen quickly. The price of Freedom is vigilence. We need to be vigilent.
Your comment prompts an observation: Beck and his ilk love Israel, but hate Jews.
Similarly, they love America, but hate Americans.
Quite honestly, this behavior reminds me of autism, of people who have an inability to actually connect with other humans in any kind of meaningful way.
How tolerant of you.
Beck is wrong to think that Obama is racist, but it's perfectly fine for you to say that he hates Jews with absolutely NO proof of that?
Let's see, I may be uncomforable around Packers fans, but that doesn't mean I hate them (though I do hate the Packers!).
Now, can we discuss the issue? When did he say that about Jews? And even if he did (which I doubt) that does NOT mean that he hates Jews.
I happen to be Jewish and think you're way off base with this one. When Beck tries to co-opt our holidays for his own purposes, it seems like (at the very least) he has disdain for my religion. I don't know Beck personally, and I have never spoken to the man (thankfully), so all I have to go on is what he says on either TV or the radio. He is disrespectful to the Jewish faith, and has shown to have to tolerance or idea what Judaism is all about. You can keep him; we don't want him.
http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/200909210024
My God, all the man said was that people should fast and pray for the Republic! Are people really suggesting that that was somehow hateful to Jews?!
By the way, I notice you did not comment on my thoughts regarding your analogy... Care to discuss your Packers fan comment?
I'm not Jewish, though I've read the OT. Is it against the rules of Yom Kippur to pray for the country?
I did reply to you about my analogy, my friend. It is below, and right now it says it was posted 58 minutes ago, so I'm not lying.
I'm not Jewish, though I've read the OT. Is it against the rules of Yom Kippur to pray for the country?
I did reply to you about my analogy, my friend. It is below, and right now it says it was posted 58 minutes ago, so I'm not lying.
I'm not Jewish, though I've read the OT. Is it against the rules of Yom Kippur to pray for the country?
I did reply to you about my analogy, my friend. It is below, and right now it says it was posted 58 minutes ago, so I'm not lying.
I'm not Jewish, though I've read the OT. Is it against the rules of Yom Kippur to pray for the country?
I did reply to you about my analogy, my friend. It is below, and right now it says it was posted 58 minutes ago, so I'm not lying.
"THIS IS OUR DAY TO PRAY AND FAST, NOT YOURS, SO YOU CAN'T PRAY AND FAST TODAY OR EVEN SUGGEST IT!"
He asked for people to pray: FOR OUR COUNTRY!
If praying for OUR country is somehow insulting, then all is already lost.
That would have been disrespectful. BUT, that is NOT how Beck said it. He simply ASKED for people to pray for our country.
Bro, if that is "offensive" to you, perhaps you need to pray to God, my God and your God, the God of Abraham, for some understanding.
Don't you think it should take some EVIDENCE to say pointedly that someone HATES a group of people?
You seem to be rational, so can you explain what you mean by Beck "co-opting" Jewish holidays?
It was sad enough watching you twist yourself into a pretzel trying to explain to us what it is that Obama hates about white people and white culture. Now football fans of a certain team and Jewish people are similar. Wow.
Now I guess you can write me off as hating Jewish people.
I love this quote. I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They've always been great with me even tho I'm not the most religious person. I've met a few Jewish people that were questionable and not very "jewishy"... but back to the quote.. Ummm don't all religions preach they're the "chosen ones"? I thought the Jews were the chosen ones? Didn't the jews kill Jesus?
For MSNBC viewers(part-time),don't you think a network that spends %50 of their programs talking trash about another network or the American people(the ones that have different views than MSNBC) might be a little off base?
k1dork, I don't think you can argue with liberals. You can present all the facts you want, but they don't operate on facts. These are the same people that claim to be compassionate, but will belittle and tear someone's character down with lies and half truths, just for having a different opinion than theirs.
Bad liberals ='( no no no!
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
BECK: When they're done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, "first they came for the Jews, and I wasn't Jewish." When you have a question, and you believe that something should be asked, they're a -- totally fine with you right now; they have no problem with you.
When they're done with Fox and talk radio, do you really think they're going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? Do you really think that a man who has never had to stand against tough questions and has as much power as he does -- do you really believe after he takes out the number one news network, do you really think that this man is then not going to turn on you? That you and your little organization is going to cause him any hesitation at all not to take you out?
If you believe that, you should open up a history book, because you've missed the point of many brutal dictators. You missed the point on how they always start.
You know, the poem with the line "Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew."
Perhaps you should go back to accusing me of thinking you are an Uncle Tom. At least that got funny eventually.
Yeah, he's got a problem with Jews.
How in God's name is saying that on a day of fasting and prayer that people should fast and pray for the Republic a bad thing?
He didn't compare Fox News to Jews and the Holocaust. He quoted a freaking poem.
And with the Joe Liebermann thing, his reasoning was that a Jewish president in the age of terror would stoke the fires of radical Islam. I understand what he means. That doesn't mean he hates Jews.
Would you consider that 'pre-empting' Christmas? If so, why is 'pre-empting' Yom Kippur okay?
Clearly, he was making the comparison. You may want to look up the word "compare". It apparently does not mean what you think it does.
I am sure you do. That is what is truly so very sad.
What's infantile is how Beck and the like literally LIE TO THE FACES OF AMERICANS WHOM THEY CLAIM THEY SUPPORT in order to further their political agendas.