Beck: the "end of the progressive road" is "Nazis or communists" or white supremacists
March 01, 2010 6:14 pm ET
From the March 1 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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Ironic, isn't it?
If you haven't seen it, I HIGHLY recommend the movie Amazing Grace.
And just to throw this out there, I believe abortion is along the same lines as slavery, killing the most defenseless human beings sounds as barbaric as owning slaves to me. I'm sure I'll hear about that opinion. I just get tired of people picking and choosing what is worthy of protection. Unborn babies and African Americans both deserve protection under the Constitution, the "all men are created equal" part!
but sleep well at night knowing that in your endless defense of beck that you somehow hope that if this would come to pass you think you will be a lucky survivor and be saved personally by glen beck. you wont. he doesn't care about you. wake up
Our country has some of the most restrictive policies regarding polution and the environment. Some of those policies are necessary, I would argue some are not. NO one is saying destroy the Grand Canyon for cryin out loud, quit being so dramatic. But, for instance, keeping farmers from receiving water they need to take care of their crops all because some smelt may die is rediculous. What about all those people out of work with families to provide for, where is the sympathy for them? I care more about people than a smelt, I'm sorry if that upsets you.
And whether Glenn Beck cares about me personally or not makes no difference to me. I never put someone in a "God-like" position the way many of you have put Obama. Glenn has a opinion show on TV, he states his opinions, backs it up with documentation and shares it with the audience. Its as simple as that.
And thank you, I will sleep well tonight.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe collapsing the population of a feeder fish could help destroy an environment? There are several fish populations that are near collapse from over fishing. If the fish population dies out, other bigger fish will not be available. The environment is a fragile thing and sometimes it needs to be aggressively protected. I spent ten years living in Korea. I saw the effects of limited regulation and unregulated capitalism. Bridges and department stores collapsed, the subway blew up, hundreds died because a subway driver feld a burning car and took his key with him. The rivers and lakes were polluted and the streets and the air were filthy. I lived in Seoul for 18 months, the atmosphere of the city ate the silverplating off of a kiddish cup that I owned. I knew people who experienced temporary blindness from drinking Soju and a young soldier was sent home because he contracted HIV from getting a tatoo. I came back to the States with a GREAT appreciation for regulation.
The Founding Fathers were PROGRESSIVES. The crap that Glenn Beck shovels has NO BASIS in reality, caseye. NONE. He is an uneducated, semi-illiterate Zoo Radio DJ with a good gig.
Try reading and turn this man OFF. He's lying to you for ratings.
And I'd say your education is "lacking"!
That's not history, caseye, that's the lunatic rantings of a man who had a very, very tenuous grasp on reality. You truly are uneducated.
You are the nastiest bunch of people I have ever seen with all the personal attacks. But I quess this website brings it out in you.
All I have to say to you and especially to jed up there is grow up and quit acting like a bunch of spoilded bullies on the playground. Honestly, what a sad display by the liberals of this country. If you have another point of view provide it with respect to the other person, I have done that each time I've commented. You call names and insult me.
One book I'd recommend is "The Miracle at Philadelphia" (I'm blanking on the author's name right now). But it's about the constitutional convention. It can be dense at times, but at times it almost reads as a novel. It gives you a good sense of how diverse the founders were. They were not monolithic. They were incredibly free thinking and impossible to pin down. No one can say the founding fathers were conservative or liberal or anything like that because they did not fit a mold, and they certainly didn't force themselves to conform to labels.
I slam Glenn Beck because his dishonest, uneducated rantings fuel the stupidity [deliberate ignorance] of people like you.
Being self-educated is fine as long as you have the intelligence to understand the difference between reality and fantasy. It appears that you and Beck don't have that.
[for the record, my father has an 8th grade education. Even in his current state of mild dementia, he's better educated, more intelligent and more informed than Beck OR you.]
So, if you must attack me with personal slams, its your freedom to do so, but provide me with real debate, not a definition!
Again, read the definition of "progressive," caseye. The Founders WERE progressives. If they were not, they would have accepted the status quo, and we would still be under British rule. I gave you debate, caseye, you just don't understand. That's not my problem, it's yours. You are believing Beck's made up definition of "progressivism". Contrary to Beck's lies, progressivism is about reform, about making life BETTER. One can be a conservative and still have a progressive spirit. Turn off Fox.
Why do you keep listening to and following people who have you saying things that are not true about your own country's history?
Do you know the origin of the word National Socialist Workers Party? If you did, you'd stop calling Hitler and progressives socialists.
That's the facts!
That's why it is impossible to do anything but insult you, caseye. You are quoting lunacy, not fact.
He is a nutjob!
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/strange-kkk-on-a-ferris-wheel-photo/
Whatever you say, Father Kooklin.
FOX News is taking advantage of a mentally unbalanced person.
Faux News is OWNED by a mentally unbalanced person.
Whatever happened to ethics in journalism? Not that Blech is a journalist, but still. I'm all for freedom of speech but these yahoos should be held accountable for the misdirected hatred that they spew.
Maybe it's comedy and no one knows the punchline?
Still there are a few bright spots.
For all of his volume, his audience represents maybe 1% of the population.
It's been reported that the majority of usums is getting their news off the internet these days.
Why do I feel like Beck was a big Pablo Escobar fan? I mean besides the obvious.
Talking about "attacks on democracy" why doesn't Beck rant and rave about Citizens United v. FEC? I could invent 100 webs of conspiracy right off the top of my head...and I'd be willing to bet that mine would be closer to the truth than Beck's.
But no. It's progressives, and diversity, and multiculturalism, and Unions, and ACORN, and "illegals", and Nazism, and Communism, and Socialism, and Van Jones, and Mao, and Hitler, and Stalin, and ESPECIALLY OBAMA!
Everyone's just picking on the poor wittle corwpewations.
Trouble is that Glenn doesn't comprehend that he's flinging it into a whirling fan aimed at him.
Randy
"Stop the Insanity!"
Nevermind. We're dealing with Beckie Boy here.
Propaganda like this, coming from the Right, is poisoning our politics. And please... don't tell me that "both sides do it"; there is no comparison.
Sure, the Left has its haters and extremists, but they don't have anything approaching the prominence that Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity have. The leading voices on the Left tend to be wonks, like Rachel Maddow and Thom Hartmann. Keith Olbermann's tone may be harsh, but he just points out the nonsense coming from the other side... he doesn't make up sh*t like the Troglodytes do.
On the flip side, who are the "wonkish" prominent conservatives on FOX or Talk Radio? Rush Limbaugh? Glenn Beck? Sean Hannity? Are you kidding? Karl Rove, maybe... but he has no credibility.
They don't understand what they're talking about. They love to talk about the "subtle" progressive indoctrination going on in society.
And how do they discuss it? With overt indoctrination using black boards, pompous a$$hats writing with chalk and making ridiculous links between cartoons of commies and cartoons of liberals.
This country still has to be progressive, to make better for all people. Since the beginning of this country, progressive beliefs have strived to make this country better, but to have the elite fight back. We still have a lot to do people! Nutjobs like Becky are puppets for the elite!
By the way, Hitler hated the commies. He thought and hoped that the west would see the truth, and help him fight the commies. Commies are far left, the Facist are the far right. That's how I perceive it.
Did the Germans save us from becoming Nazi's?
Learn your history: This doesn't sound like Beck was a friend of Hitler.
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Ludwig Beck , 1880-1944, German general, leader of resistance to Hitler.
A highly cultivated career soldier, he served on the general staff during World War I and by 1933 had become in effect head of the army general staff. He opposed Hitler's plans for aggression and his attempts to destroy the independence of the army.
In 1938 he resigned in protest against the planned attack on Czechoslovakia. With Carl F. Goerdeler he thereafter conspired to overthrow the regime. Their efforts were repeatedly frustrated until July 20, 1944, when a bomb was placed in Hitler's conference room. Hitler escaped. Beck was arrested and shot.
Isn't it weird how you never see glenn beck and a minority in the same picture... maybe they're the same person. Really Beck how vinegary were those words connoting white supremacy as bad?
How do the rest of you all deal with the anger envoked by this man? All I do anymore is shake my head and grind my teeth...kinda hurts after a while.