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Beck: Obama "in more danger" from the left than the right because "these people were raised, do whatever it takes"

February 01, 2010 2:00 pm ET

From the February 1 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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- by achorn316 (February 01, 2010 2:03 pm ET)
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  Beck is trying to politicize, in advance, the assassination of Barack Obama.
  
  Wow.
  
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  - by Dradeeus (February 01, 2010 3:57 pm ET)
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    That's his angle. Keep saying "If there was going to be a new Hitler, wouldn't you DO something about it? Wink, wink?"
    
    And then if something did happen, go, "Oh, I knew it. That white 40-year-old evangelical NRA member was a liberal. They're dangerous, you know."
    
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- by DAWUSS (February 01, 2010 2:03 pm ET)
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  Creating his "Exhibit A" in the event that something were to happen to Obama and people cite him, Rush, and others.
  
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- by IRONY 101 (February 01, 2010 2:05 pm ET)
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  So Van Jones is going to kill Barack Obama, Glenn...?
  
  BTW, Glenn, James O'Keefe is a disciple of Saul Alinsky. Are moderate Republican in danger from O'Keefe?
  
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- by gg (February 01, 2010 2:08 pm ET)
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  In one short segment Beck undid all the spinning Ailes did yesterday on ABC. Roger needs to keep his pet monkey on a shorter leash.
  
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- by epkklk851 (February 01, 2010 2:11 pm ET)
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  The President is in danger from ELF, Greenpeace, and Saul Alinsky? Van Jones wasn't a danger to the President, He is a brash young man, but he decided to resign rather than put up with your harrassment, that isn't very dangerous (well, he did back that boycott of your sponsors, but that only hurt your boss' pocketbook.) Saul Alinsky is dead, he's been dead for nearly 40 years. ELF is as extreme as a lot of your fans, with about as much access to power. And Greenpeace? They have been the victim of violence on any number of occasions, I don't think anyone has accused them of trying to harm anyone.
  
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- by raddave43 (February 01, 2010 2:12 pm ET)
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  the Uber Uber left? Glenn you have been planting the seeds of assassination in your listeners heads for months, now you are trying to say that if it happens, it is the "uber uber left" that does it???
  
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  - by IRONY 101 (February 01, 2010 2:22 pm ET)
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    Of course, if a neo-Nazi, skinhead takes a shot at Barack Obama, Beck will demonstrate for his audience that neo-Nazi skinheads are actually PROGRESSIVES!
    
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    - by raddave43 (February 01, 2010 2:49 pm ET)
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      and part of the uber, uber, ultra uber left?
      
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      - by christopher howard (February 01, 2010 3:40 pm ET)
        
        "ELF is as extreme as a lot of your fans, with about as much access to power."
        
        Also, ELF has never killed anyone.
        
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        by usp (February 01, 2010 4:35 pm ET)
        
        with fancy glasses and a chalkboard- glenn is so old school!
        
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- by clearstate (February 01, 2010 2:14 pm ET)
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  Yeah, I remember Fox saying that O'Keefe was a "radical progressive". So, the right better watch out. They better hope that their bodyguards love them.
  
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- by IRONY 101 (February 01, 2010 2:17 pm ET)
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  This is the part I don't get... In remarks such as these Beck often includes something of a disclaimer to the effect that he prays the Secret Service is protecting Barack Obama from these threats from the left. If Barack Obama is a threat to the continuing existence of the United States of America, as Beck often contends; and if Obama is intentionally bringing down the USA, as Beck also contends; and if Beck loves the USA as much as he says he does; why would he hope that such an enemy of the USA would be protected from harm and thus allowed to bring down Beck's beloved country?
  
  The protection of Barack Obama from harm is definitely not the message I'm getting here from Beck.
  
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  - by macfolk (February 02, 2010 6:39 am ET)
    
    That is because you haven't been openly listening. You are clouded by your own preconceived notions. Mr. Beck would not like to see any harm come to President Obama because he believes Obama is a precious life even if he intensely disagrees with his stances and policies. Not only that, Mr. Beck clearly knows that to have a tragedy befall America like the assassination of the first darker skinned president would be disastrous for the state of this country. Being a Libertarian, I assume he would like to see people freely choose for themselves whether they want President Obama to continue to act on our behalf.
    
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- by shaggles (February 01, 2010 2:20 pm ET)
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  Yeah the left in this country is so ruthless and bent on inflicting their ideas on everyone else that we had universal healthcare decades before the rest of the industrialized world. Oh wait...
  
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- by Samurai Cowboy (February 01, 2010 2:22 pm ET)
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  Beck is a Drunk, a Drug Dddict, is Pyschotic, Paranoid, Scgizophrenic, and Delusional. Yet Murdoch keeps him. I do not knw why. He is not a cash cow like O"Reilly because most of Becks advertisers have left him.
  
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- by The New Pilgrims (February 01, 2010 2:25 pm ET)
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  I love how "do whatever it takes" is a good and honorable trait when talking about the Tea Party Activists, etc. (remember "we will surround you" and "We didn't bring our guns. This time.)
  
  But the same trait can quickly pivot into nothing less than political assassination in the context of the Evil Anti-American Uber Lefties.
  
  Glenn Beck: Master propagandist at work.
  
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  - by Porkeater (February 01, 2010 3:33 pm ET)
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    I'd hate to say Beck is good at anything, so i would prefer this:
    
    Glenn Beck: master baiter at work
    
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  - by michaelr (February 01, 2010 3:33 pm ET)
    
    but is he really master? These are such simplistic strategies.
    
    it wont be long until Beck is chiding the Obama administration into calling his red phone with questions like:
    
    "Mr President, have you stopped raping children yet!?"
    
    "Hmm, he hasn't answered yet. He is probably still doing it. I guess he wont answer until he stops."
    
    "I am not a journalist, but I do practice journalism."
    
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- by Bongo Fury (February 01, 2010 2:26 pm ET)
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  America Uber Alles.Sieg Freud Glen Klink.
  
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  - by raddave43 (February 01, 2010 2:50 pm ET)
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    Isn't he more like SGT Schultz?
    
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    - by Bongo Fury (February 01, 2010 3:29 pm ET)
      
      Schultz is good because of the cowardice,but Klink struts and frets his hour while accomplishing nothing(Beck).Burkhalter(Rush) always puts Klink in his place.
      
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    - by mjh (February 01, 2010 4:02 pm ET)
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      "I know nothing!!" -- Yep, sounds like Becky . . .
      
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- by worrierking (February 01, 2010 2:27 pm ET)
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  Let's talk about the way we were raised Glenn. Were you raised to be an alcoholic drug fiend?
  
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- by roland (February 01, 2010 2:52 pm ET)
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  I'm confused...is the left a bunch of tree-hugging peaceniks or a dangerous mob bent on getting its way by any means possible. Somehow the scenario keeps shifting depending on which is most convenient at any given moment.
  
  Besides, doesn't his side have all the guns?
  
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- by skippersmom (February 01, 2010 2:53 pm ET)
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  The daily dose of Republicans transferring their own motives and mode of operation to their enemy. Start keeping track of all their allegations about Democrats and you'll soon come up with a descriptive list of every evil they've ever perpetrated or wish they could. Think about Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. No wonder Republicans are so paranoid and frightened all the time.
  
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- by bintx (February 01, 2010 3:09 pm ET)
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  Seriously? So, O'Keefe, who committed a felony in the name of "investigative journalism" is "from the left"? Really? I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya! [sarcasm]
  
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- by Boxer1979 (February 01, 2010 3:25 pm ET)
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  Beck: Obama "in more danger" from the left than the right because "these people were raised, do whatever it takes"
  
  *In a singing mode*
  
  PRO-JEC-TIOOOOOON!
  
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- by pilotx (February 01, 2010 3:34 pm ET)
  
  And we will force everyone to join a union, drink clean water, breathe clean air, convert their homes to solar, drive a hybrid and take universal health care. Like it or not!!!!!!!!! The right will never know what hit em.
  
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  - by raddave43 (February 01, 2010 4:01 pm ET)
    
    If they don't it's off to the FEMA death camps with them.
    
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- by donwelty (February 01, 2010 4:05 pm ET)
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  I am amazed how Beck can spew such a wide variety of crap for 4 hours a day (3 radio, 1 TV). How do they do it? I'm just amazed at his creativity.
  
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- by mjh (February 01, 2010 4:10 pm ET)
  
  Beck: Obama "in more danger" from the left than the right because "these people were raised, do whatever it takes"
  
  Glenda, are you telling us that the death threats posted on the foxnation.com are coming from lefties??
  
  Didn't know that many lefties posted there . . .
  
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