Beck listened to "This Land Is Your Land" and it all "just clicked"

OH MY GOD...IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1940!!! ;>)

Boundless ignorance.

the only clicking you hear in your head is a bunch of relays going off between your ears.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Woodie Guthrie.

Socialist.

That's All I have to say.

Oh my Gawd . . . during the Great Depression. The Conspiracy, the conspiracy. Run for your lives!

As usual, Beck doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. The original version of the song was written in 1940, but wasn't recorded until 1944. He wrote it in response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America."

The verses that Beck is referring to were added to the original verses . . . Gutherie made up extra verses, some political, all the time. The original lyrics don't include Beck's verses.

I sang this song in choir at school . . . we stopped singing where the original lyrics stopped.

The song is about freedom Becky, of course you wouldn't understand it!

As legend has it, Guthrie wrote the song in response to the hugely popular Irving Berlin song, "God Bless America." He was so tired of hearing the song on the radio and the blatant jingoism it promoted. Guthrie had seen much of America by this time, had experienced the Dust Bowl exodus of the 1930s and the racism and classism that followed emigrant workers and the blue collar working boys around, as they searched for work during the Great Depression.

With all of that in mind, Woody Guthrie wrote a new song of patriotism, with the refrain line, "God blessed America for me."

Guthrie was tired of folks like Beck and his ilk when he wrote the song.

I'm speechless.

I have always loved that song, even though, like bintx, my school stopped with the first couple of original verses. I also cry every time I hear "If I Had a Hammer" and I taught my Brownie troop "America the Beautiful". When my daughter's were in pre-school, they had to learn that Jingoistic piece of trash, "Proud to Be an American". I told them it was okay to sing at the graduation ceremony, but that I never wanted to hear them sing it again, and I taught them "This Land is Your Land." When the Government major turned 18, she joined the ACLU, at midnight on her birthday.

Glennie, don't start messing with Woody Guthrie unless you want Springsteen to show up and kick your a$$.

Okay...I think it's safe to say that Woody Guthrie would have been against the government restricting fishing rights. Glenn Beck is against the resriction of fishing right...same as Woody Guthrie. Therefore, Glenn Beck is a Communist...right?

What is Beck's point, it's just a song.

What is his point? Are there millions of people marching and singing this song all demanding an abolition of property?

C O C A I N E... nuff said.

If we follow Glenn down the path he's leading his faithful followers, he'll eventually get to experience the anger and frustration that Woody saw and tried to convey in the extra lyrics to this song. He's worked them into a frenzy and has them agitating against their own economic interests and in favor of his.

When it comes right down to it, which side of that fence will most Americans be on? There'll be Beck and lardass in their gated communities and angry, hungry Americans on the other side tearing down those gates.

I've always wished that "This Land is your Land" would become our national anthem. I'm not fond of the one we're stuck with.

I agree with Kurt Vonnegut's description of it as "gibberish sprinkled with question marks".

Beck is a sick man. I don't watch his show because why waste five hours of my life every week when I can see his silliness in clips like this on MM? I think he liked Andy Griffith because there wasn't one person of color on that show and poor Becky thought the world, specifically America, would forever be that way. What a clueless, backwards thinking clown.

You know what else was written in 1940? "You are my sunshine". Rat commie bastards and their sunshine!!!!

Beck might like the song "F*** the FCC" by Steve Earle.

Notice how sometimes, the Stupid from this moron is so vast and deep, even the knee-jerk Glenn fanatics won't come out of their holes to defend him?

the click he hear in his head was the door locking behind him when he got on the CRAZY TRAIN

The pinko Liberal Woody Guthrie wrote that song is response to God Bless America. Do your homework, Glenda!!

Is there a more dangerous, crazy cartoon than this guy? I don't think so.

Point being (as should be obvious to the most casual observer) that Obama is a socialist-communist-fascist-Nazi-Maoist-extremist-liberal-progressive-terrorist-Kenyan-terrorist enemy of the state.

Any questions?

Really, he is that desperate for conspiracy theory material? A 70 year old protest song is all he has? Just end that 'show' already!

Oh you big jerk, go read the Grapes of Wrath and quit grasping at straws to ruin the country.

Beck listened to "This Land Is Your Land" and it all "just clicked"

I am thinking that we should support reincarnation right now tonight and slip Glen a shot of drank' or perhaps a nice pint or so of heroin.

I don't get it, was the year 1940 supposed to carry some kind of alternative meaning for the song?

In Beck's view, this land was made for Wall Street.

Finally figured out the "just clicked" comment, the song is a killer with castinet backup.

Woody influenced millions of people with his words, music, and deeds. He served his nation with distinction during World War II. And Beck?

I just had the best mental picture of Woody Guthrie grabbing his guitar by the neck and clubbing Glenn Beck with it.

'If you ain't got the do re mi, boys. If you ain't got the do re mi, why you better go back to beautiful Texas. Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennesseeeee...."