Beck: "We are sitting around and we are watching the systematic destruction of everything we hold dear by thugs"
March 08, 2010 10:49 am ET
From the March 8 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks The Glenn Beck Program:
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I know there are because I know a few of them myself.
He's no performer. He's an inciter. Oh yeah, he's just some rodeo clown. Right. Come on.
If he's an entertainer, he should be somewhere else, right?
Bintx, your links to studies of the authoritarian mindset are spot-on.
William Butler Yeats might have predicting Beck, Limbaugh and their ilk when, almost a century ago, he wrote this:
The Leaders Of The Crowd
THEY must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose fantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath, as though
The abounding gutter had been Helicon
Or calumny a song. How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no Solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
William Butler Yeats
What's really stupid here though is Beck needing to resort to using "thugs" to describe his political foes. I'm just sick of the name-calling.
Beck uses Patterson as his prime example then kind of generalizes. Typical Beck.
I get thumbs down from Libs & Cons both. I can't win ;-)
But I don't take it too personally.
Just noticed the time...lunch calls!!
Shag, I like to say I'm the fairest & most reasonable poster here...but I know many would disagree ;-)
Hey that might earn me a few thumbs downs as a matter of fact. Ha!
I have been gone in the outback for 10 days. First day back and Beck is STILL pedaling this doomsday crap.
He is just like the mentally ill drunkards on street corners with "THE END IS NEAR" placards.
He is mentally ill genetically, he is a self-admitted drunk, and he really does think the end is near.
What a sad sack.
BORING!
Breathtakingly hypocritical.
So, read the article and seek help. You aren't a conservative, just an RWA.
Right!! Can you believe how utterly shameless this guy (jensee) is???
"Calling you everything but the kitchen sink"??
This was bintx's reply to your first post, verbatim:
"Please read this [link] . . . and get help. You aren't a conservative and neither is Beck. You and others like you ARE the problem. You really need help."
What names did she call you?
Read the article. It's you and it's not conservatism. Oh, and I didn't write the article . . . nor did I create the psychological profile. I just posted one of many, many links to this psychological phenomenon. Must have hit you pretty hard to see yourself in an article about a psychological anomaly. Calling someone "stupid" who exhibits the attributes of a "stupid" person [being deliberately ignorant (unread, unlearned, uninformed)] is not name calling. It's stating fact.
Oh, I am a girl, I rarely scream, and my intellect is far superior to that which you have exhibited here. I'm also extremely sane.
Jensee McDensee.
How is that for name calling?
What a coincidence -- I get the same feeling when I hear a wingnut refer to the President as "Barry Hussein" . . .
Also, the only person I'm seeing who is exhibiting hysteria is you.
Rights don't come from ANYWHERE, meathead. That's why they're RIGHTS.
Whoop, so much for "rights come from God, not the government"
Here's the thing: you ever notice the only people who make this argument are the people who already have all of these things? Well, except "education" obviously.
[quote]No right to a house, a job, or any other things the Liberal establishment wants to guarantee and make us pay for. If[/quote
You get all this from a healthcare bill that doesn't even include a public option?
Sooooo freedom of speech is a myth?
Who, as we all know, are icky and have cooties.
Why, because they escaped from your basement and went home to their actual families? Ah, well, there's always Teh Internets.
And thank you for accusing everyone else of name-calling and immaturity and then going straight to "Ah bet you're on yer period" in lieu of an actual argument.
I don't agree with this idea, I think the kids who naturally like school, and those whom have parents who make education a priority are those who work harder no matter if education is classified as a right or a privilege.
By going back to the moment you pressed the power button on your computer -- and doing something else instead.
Wow. We're just learning more and more about you everyday! It's not like you needed to give us another reason to not take you seriously...but that's certainly what misogyny does.
That's right -- bring back those Jim Crow laws!! /snark/
Well, its evident you didn't avail yourself of any . . .
I stoped paying attention after this. The Declaration of Independence and the constitution, despite what you may think, are not the same document!
* I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
;)
-If you think the War on Drugs is a "progressive" idea, you are, in the words of Ed Helms, literally too stupid to insult.
-I notice you left out the success of child labor laws, the women's suffrage movement, improvement of workplace conditions, regulation of meat production, the civil rights movement, and the push to end destruction of the ozone layer, either because you don't know about them or because you wish they hadn't happened.
Lastly, you say "Progressivism as[sic] not done anything it set out to do". Whew! That's a relief, since your god Glenn Beck tells me they've set out to put white Christians in concentration camps. I think you may have misread the talking points, Densee.
Jimmy Carter campaigned on the decriminalization of marijuana and ending federal criminal penalties of up to 1 oz.
Which one are you calling "progressive"?
Public schools have always been run by the government.
You're posting talking points, Jensee.
Or, better yet, you can donate it to MMFA.
Did you read the articles, Jensee? If not, you should. You need help.
As for great Americans, I know many. You wouldn't recognize their names, though. One of the greatest Americans and greatest men I ever knew died a couple of weeks ago. He was kind, gentle and soft-spoken. He was a teacher, a humorist, a Christian, a father, a husband, a grandfather, a singer, a preacher and a friend. He would have told you to get help for your unfounded paranoia and hatred of those you deem "different."
Great Americans don't have to be known to all and they sure as heck don't have to be hate talk radio/Fox personalities or politicians.
You aren't a conservative if you believe that Beck is.
Meanwhile...Glenn Beck is accumulating more money than you will likely see in 20 lifetimes.
Glenn's 4 children will have to earn their own way! This could only mean that Glenn has found away to take it with him!
P.S.
The President is at a Town Hall-- CNN and MSNBC are covering him. Fox has the President streaming on their WEB site.. not on the Tube..
Another fine example of FAIR AND BALANCE Mews when it comes to coverage of President Obama!
Then remember that time that Beck shared how he was able to get his education? And he said he got educated through use of the public library?
Remember how public libraries are a product of the progressive movement in America?
I think that pretty much sums up Glenn Beck--his entire existence is opposition. He claims to have values and beliefe. He doesn't--all he has is opposition. He claims to have respect for the ideas of the founding fathers, then makes it his cause to "tear down" the separation of church and state--a separation the founders worked hard to secure. He claims that progressives are evil and destroying the country, and then reveals that he was only able to educate himself through the use of a progressive institution--the public library.
The great irony is that Barack Obama is really and truly the greatest thing to ever happen to Glenn Beck. Beck wouldn't be the atr he is without Obama. Because Beck doesn't have ideals or principles. He has opposition, and that is all.
Public libraries are a PRODUCT of the progressive movement in America. Public libraries would not have come into existence without progressives. Thus, Beck wouldn't have been allowed the opportunity to educate himself without the existence of [gasp] progressives!
Beck:
Gay marriage will make the universe collapse:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/sex/139988/glenn_beck:_'gay_marriage_will_make_the_universe_collapse'/
Conspiracy theory about gay marriage:
http://foxattacks.com/blog/?p=1264
Want more?
Inform yourself, Jansee. Oh, and a hint . . . you're not going to get correct information from Beck. He is an uneducated clod who is using your paranoia and fear to fill his pockets.
I'm not trying to intimidate you, I simply stated fact. You are uninformed. I addressed your false statement with facts.
It appears that you are paranoid.
Where do you think the tax cuts for the top 1% went? They sure didn't go toward creating jobs. Why did they deserve such a reduction?
Are you aware that the top 1% in this country own 90+% of the wealth, the highest divide since the robber baron days in the early 1900's?
Ever.
Clinton left office with a projected surplus. Obama's been in office for 1 year.
Bush's tax cuts and two wars were OFF BUDGET. You know what that means? They weren't even paid for. They were borrowed.
So your grand-children are going to be paying for years and years just so Bush's rich buddies and Cheney's war profiteer cronies could get richer. Obama and Clinton have NOTHING to do with it.
Exagerrate much? Nope, I just go back to Clinton's policies that resulted in economic success. And Obama isn't even going that far.
For the last time, Obama is NOT turning this country into a "commie utopia". He's really not. Believe me.
Your hatred for the debt should be directed at Bush and his cronies, not Obama, who's only trying to fix the mess left on his doorstep.
Bull. The last Democrat you supported was George Wallace.
I told you those two articles described you to a TEE. Paranoia, thy name is Jensee.
FYI Wallace wasn't from Mississippi. He was fron Alabama.
Right now all you have is a bunch of folks who are beholden to and give loyalty to their political club. These folks are not representing me at the moment, they are representing their clubs. I don't vote for parties at all. In the past, I've voted exclusively for Republicans for president, but then, in 2000, they nominated someone I knew to be incompetent and non-conservative. I couldn't vote for him then or after he had begun to destroy our economy with his cuts in revenue which were made at the same time as he was requesting and receiving [in several cases by the dread reconciliation process] outrageous spending. I held my nose and voted for someone I really didn't care for in both years. In 2008, I had no candidate. I would have supported a unity ticket, but I really felt as if none of the candidates who were running were what we needed. When the Republicans nominated McCain, my choice in 2000, I thought I could possibly vote for him if he chose a competent running mate, like Romney or someone. He didn't. He chose an airhead who he had talked with for only 10 minutes before choosing her. Did I like Obama? Not particularly, but, again, given the option, I voted for what I deemed to be the lesser of two evils. So far, Obama has proven himself to be very moderate. You wouldn't know that because the only information you hear is stuff like Beck, which is NOT TRUE. Beck is telling Christians to stop going to churches which teach social justice. I have been a Christian all my life and I'm not sure I know of a real Christian church which does NOT teach social justice. It's kind of a given . . . Christ taught social justice.
Herman Munster? Kerry is a war hero. Bush went AWOL.
The problem is your vote DOES make a difference, especially when there are untold masses of ignorant people out there who think like you.
To allude that Bush was any kind of executive is laughable. His position in Texas was more like the Queen of England. Ribbon cuttings, baseball games, cocktail parties, signing death warrants. That's about it.
Sure does:
They aren;t anti-government - i know. They are just anti-government when there is a democrat in the oval office. The GOP was all about spending trillions and expanding government and breaking constitutional law infringing on our rights when bush was in the office.
Well, when you're sitting there looking around the studios at Fox, I'm sure that's what comes to mind.
Good gracious, Glenda -- an intelligent, well-educated black man got elected president, is all.
OK, well, to a wingnut neoKKKon like you, I suppose that IS the "destruction of everything you hold dear" . . .