Beck: "We are living in 1984"
July 28, 2010 12:41 pm ET
From the July 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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Your real problem is that you're insane, Glenn...
In 1949 Orwell was approached by a friend, Celia Kirwan, who had just started working for a Foreign Office unit, the Information Research Department, which had been set up by the Labour government to publish pro-democratic and anti-communist propaganda. He gave her a list of 37 writers and artists he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings. The list, not published until 2003, consists mainly of journalists (among them the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin) but also includes the actors Michael Redgrave and Charlie Chaplin. Orwell's motives for handing over the list are unclear, but the most likely explanantion is the simplest: that he was helping out a friend in a cause - anti-Stalinism - that both supported. There is no indication that Orwell ever abandoned the democratic socialism that he consistently promoted in his later writings - or that he believed the writers he named should be suppressed. Orwell's list was also accurate: the people on it had all at one time or another made pro-Soviet or pro-communist public pronouncements.
Then there was a con man predicting that The Rapture would happen in 1988... nothing.
The Republicans predicted economic Armageddon if Bill Clinton's tax hikes on the wealthy were passed... nope.
Y2K....yawn.
I feel pretty sure that nothing supernatural will happen in 2012, just as I'm fairly certain that Beck's predictions of impending Marxist Catastrophe will turn out to be bullsh*t... like everything else he says.
Ahh yes, 1984 - the year Beck's brain grew its last new cells.
Must be a real bummer going through a 26-year blackout.
that's a lyric somewhere . . .
We'll devote next week to working on 3+3.
Of course, that still doesn't prove he's read the book.
We got Glenn Beck, Steve Doocy, Paris Hilton, and snookie...or pookie...or whatever that idiot from Jersey Shore is called to inspire our culture now!
/sarcasm
Plus, Donald Trump's Omarosa: The Ultimate Merger looks promising, as well.
Gag.
Chris Christie?
p.s., Glenn, your demographic is more interested in about 1954.
Pres Obama said he'd give us "accountability" and the most "open" government ever. This is another example of him doing the opposite.
President Obama's administration is building all of this framework and it really ought to scare you to death....because when the shoe is on the other foot and a Republican is in office, it will all still be in place. I guess at that point you'll start crying about "big brother" and "cronies in the White House" and you know what, I'll join you then too. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, no matter who is in office.
Way down on page ten, second point from the bottom of the page.
This section protects private information submitted to the SEC in a couple ways from being released to the public.
Liar, fear monger, and all arround poopyhead. Take a bow.
That is pretty much exactly what I said. Keeping PUBLIC information that was available threough the "Freedom of Information Act" secret.
Welcome to the creation of the "ruling class" and merger of government cronies with crooked capitalists that are willing to play for pay.
Poopyhead!
Obama said that this bill would 'increase transparency'. If that is so, why is the SEC now denying "freedom of Information Act" requests and citing this bill as the reason why?
Tell us your name, home address and phone number and include a recent picture or else you're a great big hypocrite and also Hitler also.
•March 2009 – FOIA was used to discover that the SEC had investigated Madoff and R. Allen Stanford, but failed to follow through on prosecution in time to save investors.
•2009 – FOIA was used to get records showing that the Fed knew AIG execs would get their bonuses under the bailout legislation proposed by Congress.
•SEC whistleblower Gary Aguirre forced the SEC to release documents through FOIA requests that showed he was correct in accusing the agency of interfering in an investigation of Pequot Asset Management — and allowed him to get a settlement for wrongful termination.
Either way, you should cite your sources.
Because I don't.
Apparenly you are more than happy to let the government decide who can ask for what. I hope you'll trust the next administration in the same way that you apparently trust this one! Because the framework is now in place for them to use it for "cronie capitalism" too!