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Beck: "You cannot lie to the American people for very long unless you're really good"

March 10, 2010 11:11 am ET

From the March 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by marco21 (March 10, 2010 11:13 am ET)
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      Glenn is proof that's not true. Easy to lie to your audience when they're fricking stupid.
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      • Author by umYeah (March 10, 2010 1:33 pm ET)
           
        Aren't we just so articulate and well spoken? do you know anyone that listens to his program? What are you basing that observation on? I mean seriously just go on what he says or what you are told to think about him. If you want to get some credibility for being a decent indicator of the rights misinformation then perhaps you should avoid the term "fricking stupid", just not particularly scholarly is all
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (March 10, 2010 11:13 am ET)
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      You're the best, Glenn...
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    • Author by Old55 (March 10, 2010 11:15 am ET)
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      And you, Hannity, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly are among the best at it. Politically, most Americans are pretty clueless, so it's actually quite easy to lie to them. This brings to mind the expression politicians always use: "The American people are smarter than that". No, they're not.
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      • Author by poproxx77 (March 11, 2010 4:43 pm ET)
           
        I know, they voted for Obama right. Idiots. Hahaha out of your own mouth too.
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    • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (March 10, 2010 11:15 am ET)
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      Dude is bragging about just how stupid his audience is.
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      • Author by manndan (March 10, 2010 11:58 am ET)
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        Keith Olbermann's sobriquet of Lonesome Rhoads for Beck is dead on.
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    • Author by congero6189599 (March 10, 2010 11:18 am ET)
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      I believe thats the closest to a confession we are going to get.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (March 10, 2010 11:19 am ET)
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      Dirtbags hang themselves every time!

      You aren't earnest or honest, you are not forthright. You, sir, are a dirtbag. Yes, Massa seems to be a dirtbag, too, but he played you. He may have hung himself by his own petard, but so have you.

      "You cannot lie to the American people for very long unless you're really good" Massa is a bad liar, but even the best will eventually get caught. And that is the day I am waiting for, the day your Beckerheads catch on to you. Bye Bye.
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    • Author by cindermaker (March 10, 2010 11:20 am ET)
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      I've known about Eric Massa for a while now, well not his exploits but I was fully aware of his politics and when I watched this off and on while my (conservative) parents were watching it, I had heard Limbaugh earlier today when he said that Massa was a liberal kook, and such like.

      I love how the fact that Glenn has turned his back on this guy and not because of his sexual exploits or misbehavior.

      But he's now attacking him or seemingly so over the fact that he is a full-fledged progressive and doesn't take money from all those big corporate interests that Glenn and Limbaugh love so much.

      My comments aren't usually this long winded but I saw this Massa thing coming from miles and miles away.
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    • Author by lookoutoftheyard2251 (March 10, 2010 11:21 am ET)
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      Yes, but you can fool some of the people all of the time, and I daresay you've made quite a cozy career doing just that.
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    • Author by Dem02020 (March 10, 2010 11:26 am ET)
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      WHOA, stop the presses and check yourselves!

      Why are these guys, beck etc, so upset about what Massa said?

      STOP and THINK, what did he say that beck is so dismissive and angry about?

      Truly, I don't know, but now truly I want to know!

      Again, STOP and check yourself, and listen to all of this with a better and suspicious and skeptical ear...

      Why is beck so against Massa now, what did Massa say that was such a "lie" and why did malkin and limbaugh know ahead of time to not jump on the Massa bandwagon?

      Isn't Massa a disgraced Congressional Democrat?

      Didn't he fire parting shots at the Obama administration?

      Yes to both... then that means he's GOLD to people like beck, right?

      Then why are they distancing themselves from the guy (Massa) in such harsh words and in such a heated manner?

      STOP and THINK, and if anybody has any kind of text link to what Massa said, complete and in it's entirety, on beck's show last night, then I'd appreciate you mentioning it here, thanks.

      Because I believe that Massa may have spoken about campaign reform, in such a manner that both malkin and limbaugh would say "see, we told you not to give this guy any platform", and in a way that has beck now saying "whoa, I wish I hadn't given that guy any opportunity, because look what he said!"

      STOP and THINK, before you agree with beck about Massa.
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      • Author by Dem02020 (March 10, 2010 11:53 am ET)
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        This is from a TIME online article, that also wants to draw us away from anything relevant Massa may have said, but the article is honest enough to include this...

        "And to make things worse, when Massa turned from discussing his own woes to the machinations of Washington, he offered ideas that have no place in Fox News's tightly regulated framework. Massa suggested that Beck and other Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill. Beck, who has called such proposals "a huge mistake," put his hand over his mouth, as if he were holding back an upset stomach."

        I would have liked MMFA to have offered that little exchange, maybe under a title like...

        "Beck Feigns Disgust At Campaign Finance Reform, Calls It "Huge Mistake""


        the machinations of Washington

        Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill.

        That's more important right now, and a much sharper citation of a real and real important political issue, and of the ignoring of it by beck and the rest of the media, than any of the lurid and strange fascination with Massa that everyone seems so easily distracted into.
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      • Author by bintx (March 10, 2010 12:02 pm ET)
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        Beck is wrong about Massa. There were some things that Massa said which were true and Beck kept trying to talk over those statements.
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        • Author by Dem02020 (March 10, 2010 12:46 pm ET)
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          Yep, and I didn't see the interview or anything that Massa said in it, but if you say that beck kept trying to talk over him (and especially if you're referring to talk about campaign finance reform), then I believe you because it makes perfect sense, and because that's an issue that no one in the media (beck especially) wants to talk about.

          And I don't want to be misunderstood, it's the issue of campaign finance reform I'm interested in and am talking about, and I care nothing about this Massa guy, but his talk about that issue is what's behind beck's backpedaling right now, I believe.

          Again, I can't be distracted into any defense or even talk about Massa, because it's the issue he broached on beck's show, that's everything, and that's why malkin and limbaugh and kristol didn't want to go anywhere near Massa, despite his being on the surface a dream to their kind, namely that he's a disgraced Congressional Democrat, and a critic of the Obama administration at that.
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    • Author by nerzog (March 10, 2010 11:27 am ET)
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      Blimpy Limbaugh has been doing it for 20 years... I guess he does have a talent, after all.
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    • Author by bintx (March 10, 2010 11:51 am ET)
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      No, you cannot lie to the American people for a long period of time unless you're "good." You can lie to a very, very small segment forever if you tell them the things they want to hear and the things that they fear. The overwhelming balance of Americans think you're a lying, uneducated, unintelligent SOB.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (March 10, 2010 1:15 pm ET)
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        As Pappy Maverick taught his boys, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, and those are pretty good odds."

        The recent poll funded by DailyKos identified just who's that "some of the people" demographic these days.
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    • Author by brodiman (March 10, 2010 1:00 pm ET)
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      Americans are a stupid people by and large - we'll pretty much believe whatever we're told. And so people like Beck are empowered. He's just a highly paid representative of all the fears and suspicions based not on all the evil our government can do (700 billion plus for the military, a pittance for education) but fear of its potential for good.
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (March 10, 2010 1:33 pm ET)
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      George W. Bush, Cheney, and Company were very good at lying to the American people for a very long time. Those of us who knew they were lying were demonized and ostracized because of people like Becky Boy. Lying is an area in which Becky Boy actually does have expertise.
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    • Author by LagalLeft (March 10, 2010 2:16 pm ET)
         
      Glen...make up your mind. Day before Massa was your new hero. Today you want to slap him. Now you'll have to look inside your own head for more crazy conspiracy theories. I almost admire Massa for that.
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    • Author by billcnc (March 10, 2010 3:17 pm ET)
         
      Beck is REALLLY GOOD, ... he's been lying for a LOOONNNGGG time!
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    • Author by aj.physics (March 10, 2010 6:56 pm ET)
         
      I love how he has stated that he wasted an hour last night, now he has complained that he wasted an hour, while wasting more time. Now after wasting so much time apparently it's apparently no longer wasted time.
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    • Author by ProgLib (March 11, 2010 7:05 am ET)
         
      Bush did for 8 years, and you didn't complain. Why would you care now, all of a sudden?

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