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Beck "hacked off" by RNC memo, claims America is looking for "someone that is not going to play on our fears"

March 08, 2010 11:30 am ET

From the March 8 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck says of Palin's "death panel" claims: "I believe it to be true"

Hawking Goldline, Beck fearmongers about Greece crisis: "What's happening in Europe is coming our way"

Beck declares his intent "to go after anyone who is for big government, because it leads to either fascism or communism"

Beck: Radicals on left and right coming to round up Beck, O'Reilly, Huffington, Olbermann and "shoot us in the streets"

Beck's "shocking" and "disturbing" documentary caps month of suggesting progressives are prone to violence

Beck claims Obama's jobs summit is really about "transforming our society" to create "a global order"

New low: Beck and right-wing media minions fearmongering about kids to attack progressives

Beck's paranoia continues: "What they have to do is break my legs. What they have to do is silence me"

O'Reilly to Beck: "I'm not a fearmonger like you"

Beck says "the Germans" during Hitler's rise "were an awful lot like we are now"

Beck's Red Scare: Sotomayor appointment more evidence of a Marxist "hostile takeover" of the U.S.A.

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (March 08, 2010 11:35 am ET)
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      This one is way to easy. Glenn Beck said,"___________________" (just fill in the blank)
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (March 08, 2010 11:36 am ET)
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      Won't this defeat the purpose of Glen Beck's show.Is this Glen Beck stepping down from his leadership position in the republican party,and among so-called conservatives.
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      • Author by aj.physics (March 08, 2010 3:31 pm ET)
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        I think he is worried that they are going to start beating him in ratings.
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    • Author by bintx (March 08, 2010 11:37 am ET)
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      Wow, are you resigning from hate talk radio AND Fox? Seriously, Glenn?
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    • Author by epkklk851 (March 08, 2010 11:39 am ET)
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      Ah geez, if you don't want to be accused of fearmongering, Glennie, just quit playing to people's fears! Oh, I get it, you aren't fear mongering, you're just proclaiming the coming future, like Cassandra, so it isn't fearmongering. I love how he equated the two upcoming biographies on him to be attempts to destroy him. It sounds awfully like a pre-emptive strike to me. Don't read them, he has a boring life, and anything that isn't boring is just an attempt to attack his character. Hey, I had no idea that anyone was writing a book about Glennie until he mentioned it.
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      • Author by bintx (March 08, 2010 11:42 am ET)
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        Those biographies are going to expose Beck for the fraud that he is.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (March 08, 2010 11:47 am ET)
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          Quite probably, which is why he is trashing them before they even come out. He knows that he doesn't play well. He has to keep the focus on the Great and Terrible Oz, so they will ignore the idiot behind the current creating the illusion. (Trouble with this analogy, he isn't a well-intentioned, though bumbling entertainer, he's a poisonous malcontent bent on throwing his power around and he doesn't care who gets hurt.)
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          • Author by IRONY 101 (March 08, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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            There is indeed something dark and disturbing about Beck...just watch the constantly changing tone and demeanor he displays on his show. Aside from the evil stuff that comes out of his mouth...
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            • Author by achrispage6992 (March 08, 2010 3:30 pm ET)
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              It's not just that, even though what you write is completely true IMO. I'm somewhat torn on Glenn Beck. On one hand I see him as simply this narcissistic maniacal mouthpiece who in the grand scheme of things just doesn't matter. Less than 1%of the population watch his show. He does have a larger following on radio but honestly I think those people are not just Beck devotees but rather right wing ideologues who listen to the stations whole line-up each day. I'm thinking Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh share a lot of the same listeners. so really, Beck is quite unimportant or at least not as important as he believes and wants his audience to believe.

              On the other hand, he seems to be to be a very dangerous individual. I think that there are striking similiarities between Glenn Beck and Adolph Hitler. There I said it. I don't mean that Beck wants to kill 6 million people or that he is a sociopathic megalomaniac bent on world domination. But, if you look closely you will see a similiarity in the communication styles between the two. Both illuminate themselves as a lone voice in the wilderness. They both wish to appear as the bringer of bad tidings while being the potential savior at the same time. Hitler made this conspiratorial argument with tentacles everywhere about the Jewish people having this goal of destroying the way things should be and destroying the way things WERE. Has anyone actually sat and listened to Glenn Beck's mind numbing indictment of the Progressive movement? I mean, my God! Progressives in Glenn Becks eyes are no better than jews were in Hitler's.

              Pay attention to Glenn Beck sometime. Listen to how he gives these forebodings of impending doom. Listen to how he characterizes himself as the only one who is telling the truth, the only one who is willing to stand up and be a voice of reason. Good ol' Glenn. I'm sure in a time of crisis he would "reluctantly" assume the mantle of leadership. Does anyone actually believe that this narcissist man doesn't look at himself in the mirror each day and fantasize about being some supreme potentate or something to that effect. It's just obvious to me.
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          • Author by dogbreath (March 08, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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            I love that analogy of the Great and Terrible Oz. It is so appropriate.
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            • Author by cugagcmu805031 (March 08, 2010 12:21 pm ET)
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              "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," is what the Great Oz said while manipulating all of the dials and knobs to scare Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion.

              I agree with you, dogbreath. Glennie pushes fear and conspiracy theories on radio and teevee. The fear-mongerer-in-chief is now trying to speak out against the RNC for doing the same thing he does.
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              • Author by epkklk851 (March 08, 2010 12:59 pm ET)
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                Well, of course, the RNC is cribbing his action and he's annoyed.
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      • Author by bintx (March 08, 2010 11:45 am ET)
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        Just read that Dana Milbank is releasing a Beck bio called "Tears of a Clown."
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      • Author by bintx (March 08, 2010 11:46 am ET)
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        and the guy who wrote the Salon.com expose of this lying jerk, has cone coming out called "Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck & the Triumph of Ignorance."
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        • Author by dogbreath (March 08, 2010 11:53 am ET)
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          When are they coming out?
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        • Author by epkklk851 (March 08, 2010 12:03 pm ET)
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          I checked this out and came across a Michael Calderone column about the books. In the reader comments, someone says that Beckie's viewers can't be ignoramuses because they send any book he mentions to the top of the charts the next day! He recommends crackpot authors, and even resurrects some of their screeds and turns them into big sellers. Which he then says must be right since they are best sellers, his whole quantity equals quality argument. And that is exactly why Glennie is scary. He's just an evil man selling some line to an audience, but he has figured out how to indoctrinate and launch his followers at targets he selects.
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    • Author by shaggles (March 08, 2010 11:47 am ET)
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      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Beck said what?
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    • Author by cst (March 08, 2010 11:54 am ET)
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      The scary thing is, I'm starting to think he believes himself.
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    • Author by pete592 (March 08, 2010 12:01 pm ET)
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      Oh, good grief. It is YOU who does not get it, Becky. The RNC is simply targeting YOUR AUDIENCE, YOU DOLT!!
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      • Author by mescal (March 08, 2010 10:36 pm ET)
           
        Yeah, but doughboy doesn't want the competition for their dollars,
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    • Author by fishgirl26 (March 08, 2010 12:04 pm ET)
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      HA! That's his schtick and he doesn't want anyone else using it.
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      • Author by dimes (March 08, 2010 4:23 pm ET)
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        I think he was perfectly content to have others use the same M.O. until it became public.

        Now he wants to distance himself from suggestions in a document that describe his act to a T.
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    • Author by ojnabieoot (March 08, 2010 12:11 pm ET)
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      Yeah! Those shameful GOP are trying to play on America's fears, while a black radical fascist peacenik progressive dictator is threatening to destroy everything we hold dear! Good on you, Glenn Beck, for your honest, reasoned reporting on why Obama's centre-left pramatic social democratic philosophies are going to ruin America! We don't want to have the same quality of life as Canadians, or Swedes, or Austrians!
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    • Author by soze169880 (March 08, 2010 12:53 pm ET)
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      You sure he didn't say he was RIPPED off by the RNC memo?
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    • Author by Don Quixote (March 08, 2010 1:01 pm ET)
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      Beck's rhetoric deconstructs itself. Makes the job of media critics like MM, HP and DK quite easy. Just hire one guy to put clips on the website. Is any commentary really necessary?
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    • Author by EmacsRazor (March 08, 2010 1:13 pm ET)
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      So the memo really, really hacks him off but he doesn't even know if he was in it?

      Did he even read it?

      He "obviously" didn't pay that much attention to it.

      "basically play on their fears, I was in this powerpoint wasn't I? (Hmm.. Were you? I didn't know that? I'm not sure),
      That's why I obviously didn't really follow it that much cause it was like, cause it was, you know, had me in it,
      and me at the chalk board, and I was just like, blah, blah, blah." -- Glenn Beck

      He is an example of how to play to people's fears!

      These two are so shady I can't believe that anyone believes anything that comes out of their mouths.
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    • Author by raddave43 (March 08, 2010 1:14 pm ET)
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      So America sholdn't be looking to Beck then.
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    • Author by christopher howard (March 08, 2010 1:19 pm ET)
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      Playing on people's fears? They're stealing my act!
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    • Author by nerzog (March 08, 2010 1:42 pm ET)
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      [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/8194/810928-lmao_super.jpg]
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    • Author by overmars jr. (March 08, 2010 5:14 pm ET)
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      Heh. Then why are you so highly paid, Bedwet Becky?
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      • Author by John Paradox (March 08, 2010 5:24 pm ET)
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        Side note: just want to let you know I used some definitions you posted in a thread some time ago in my 'dittonary', with acknowledgements.
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    • Author by tiredofit10 (March 08, 2010 5:38 pm ET)
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      Say what?????
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    • Author by tiredofit10 (March 08, 2010 5:45 pm ET)
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      You know Beck sounds really teed off about it. Is he bi-polar? doesn't he realize that is what he does?
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