Beck: "Our government looks at the American people as the bad guy"
February 20, 2010 7:00 pm ET
From Glenn Beck's February 20 CPAC speech:
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Totally off topic. Just a little advice. You would be wise to set your W-4 exemptions to a level that left you with $0 in refunds on your taxes or even owing a small amount. Your employer has been taking money out of your checks all year. When you get a refund, you are just getting back money you already paid. If you set your W-4s correctly, then less is taken out all year, and you can save that money and make interest on it. In your current situation, you are giving your money to the government for them to make interest on it and then they give some of it back to you. Your letting them make money on your money interest free.
Fun fact: Glenn Beck is physically incapable of lying.
You really don't see a danger in this kind of behavior?
I don't see how YOU have the talent to read into Glenn Beck's mind to know how HE thinks . . .
Anyway, I don't have to read into the minds of Beck's viewers... I am surrounded by them. I have dinner with them. I work with them. I spend holidays with them. They are in my family, amongst my friends, and are my neighbors. I have met them in passing, spoken with them on MANY occasions, and offered my home and hospitality to them. You might even say that I myself am a Glenn Beck viewer.
Most of them watch him like they would watch Jerry Springer. They don't take him litteraly and they get a bit of a perverse reaction from watching him. I believe that you fall into this category. Then there are others who watch him and try to speak like him. They say the same things, repeat the same lines, but ultimately and in the face of a real substantive discussion they are proven everytime to be woefully ignorant of the facts and usually respond with, "you need to watch Glenn Beck."
But, then there are a few, and I say with all sincerity, that scare me. People I know who seem to be angry... at something. Doesn't seem like they know really what they are angry about. They are just angry. And this anger manifests itself at such a level of hyperbolic nonsense that trying to reason with them is next to impossible. You add Glenn Beck to this mix and rationality is all but forgotten. They feed on the things he tells them. They devour it. He gives their rage focus and direction. He gives them something to be angry about.
When I say that there is a danger in this kind of thing, I am refering to the level of hyperbole from which Glenn Beck speaks. You once quoted Beck saying, "mean what you say." Why should his audience not take him at his word. From experience, I can tell you that there are people out there who do.
You shouldn't have to "identify aspects of truth." He is on a News channel, and that network has a responsibility for accurate reporting. I don't have a problem with opinion programming. I have a problem with opinion programming masquerading as a news program.
I don't see it as anything different than an editorial page in the newspaper. They do not appear, to me, to be passing his show off as a news program. It is called "The Glenn Beck Show." It is not surprising that it is comprised of his viewpoints and opinions.
Your statement has two problems. One, it assumes you know why I watch the show, and two it suffers from a kind of elitism or high-browed arrogance. Truth is not the monopoly of academics or intellectualism. It can be found in simple writings and sensationalistic shows. A critical intellect can be a tool in an academic environment as well as in your average cinema. I watch both MSNBC shows and FNC shows. I find the polarized view points give me an idea of the misconceptions on both sides of various debates. If I want to speak with people, I will probably encounter people who watch either network. Having zones of commonality is helpful when interacting.
he hopes he is wrong and is proven a fool.
Glenn, hopes he is wrong and is proven a fool just after a Nut Case is in the News! That the Nut maybe one of Beck's People!
I watch Glenn, even after my Doctor warned me of his Show!
Glenn ,speaks of Freedom and returning to the days of the Consitution.
Glenn, informs us of who and what threating our American way of life!
People Kill People.. not Talking Heads !
Well in American history, when the American people put the wrong person in political office that person is for an Oligarchy type of governance in which the lower and middle class are ignored. Which in the course of history it has happened alot! That was the meaning of doing progressive actions to change the situation at those particular periods of time Becky! The same Progressive movement you bash has did things to make this country better. We are far from stopping though. Race, gender, class, and sexual preference is still on the table to be fought for the benefit of the majority who have common sense. Since the minority believe your BS rhetoric!
As opposed to me, Glenda -- who just looks at YOU as the bad guy . . .
Please. Give US a name. Just one name of any person in the people's government in USA who see the American people as the bad guy. Please.
Who? What is the name of any person working in government of USA, Who? Speak the name or shut up.
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