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Beck declares a "season for awakening" and begs Americans to "do the hard things" and let "the system" "come down"

August 12, 2010 10:53 am ET

From the August 12 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck's latest cancer analogy: "We're gonna die" if America doesn't take his "radical treatment"

Beck again promotes idea that "the system has to be reset" and adds: "The rest of the world is going to go into slavery"

Beck calls a depression necessary to reset the system, which needs to be taken down and rebuilt

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    • Author by mata ruach (August 12, 2010 11:01 am ET)
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      This is the season to wake up and get poisonous fools like Beck off the air , and held up to the ridicule they so richly deserve. Reaganism is dying , and good riddance to this fool's potion that is trickle down economics. People that think know they are being sold a bill of goods. Enjoy obscurity Beck.
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    • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 11:02 am ET)
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      Okay, Beck needs to re-read history . . . the Roaring 20s led to and ended in The Great Depression. This man is an evil, uneducated, dishonest con-man who cares nothing about anything but filling his bank account. He disgusts me.
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      • Author by MaineiacMan (August 12, 2010 11:10 am ET)
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        In a free market economy there are rises and falls, booms and recessions. The great depression lasted longer and was made 'greater' by a government that tried stimulus after stimulus and expansive spending. You know it as "The New Deal". Our current government is extending the "Great Recession" by doing the same thing.

        There was a recession in the early 1920's that you dont typically hear about. Why? Because Calvin Coolidge got America out of it rather quickly by reducing taxes and spending. That is what led to the "Roaring 20's".

        You're welcome.
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        • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 11:14 am ET)
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          For what? Nothing I said was incorrect. MM.

          You're welcome.
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        • Author by DAWUSS (August 12, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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          If the New Deal prolonged the Depression, then I guess you should be thanking Adolf Hitler for getting us out of it by starting WWII.
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          • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 1:29 pm ET)
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            Or thanking FDR for provoking Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?
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            • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 2:37 pm ET)
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              Not true . . . but then most of what you post isn't true. From the American perspective, Japan was not provoked in the least. From the Japanese perspective, the freezing of Japanese assets was provocation. If you use this logic, then the embargoes on Iraq, Libya, etc., would also be provocation from their perspective.

              Nice repetition of false talking points, though. You do it well.
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              • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 6:10 pm ET)
                   
                Different situations, or is that too much for your narrow mind to process?
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        • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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          BTW, thanks for outing yourself. Evil uneducated, dishonest, and STUPID con-man. Sheesh!
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        • Author by New Frontier (August 12, 2010 11:20 am ET)
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          Your low opinion of FDR's New Deal is just that and only that.
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        • Author by timesthree (August 12, 2010 11:23 am ET)
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          MaineiacMan must have studied history at Beck U.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (August 12, 2010 11:24 am ET)
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          That short recession in the early 20s was the result of retooling after the war, we had another one in the mid-40s, too. Coolidges tax cuts led to overproduction and gaming the unregulated stock market to make a quick buck. That led to a crash of the stock market and the Great Depression. Depressions were fairly common in U.S. history until FDR regulated the financial markets after the beginning of the Great Depression. We have had recessions but not Depressions, but this recession can be blamed on the repeal of Glass Stegal and the corporate reward culture created by the Republicans over the last 30 years.
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          • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 1:25 pm ET)
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            but this recession can be blamed on the repeal of Glass Stegal and the corporate reward culture created by the Republicans over the last 30 years.

            How do you figure that when the reps were only held a majority in congress for 12 years of the last 30?
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        • Author by nerzog (August 12, 2010 12:01 pm ET)
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          Hey, SimilacMan... it was government spending, otherwise known as WWII, that pulled us out of the Depression.

          You're welcome.
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          • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 1:18 pm ET)
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            You may want to tell your friends that, since they believe it was the New Deal that did it.
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          • Author by MaineiacMan (August 12, 2010 1:52 pm ET)
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            aHHH....So it wasnt the "New Deal", gotcha.

            In that case, it looks like all of that Govt. spending Obama and the Dem. Congress keeps pushing through isnt going to work. As for the other part of your theory, why isnt the war in Afghanistan pulling us out of the "great recession"? Oh wait, that isnt a war. Didnt it get renamed from the "war on terror" to the "oversees contingency operation"?
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            • Author by MaineiacMan (August 12, 2010 1:58 pm ET)
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              I almost forgot, we are in the middle of the "summer of recovery" so I guess that Nerzog was right and the Afghanistan war is pulling us out of this recession. Thats great!
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          • Author by MaineiacMan (August 12, 2010 1:52 pm ET)
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            aHHH....So it wasnt the "New Deal", gotcha.

            In that case, it looks like all of that Govt. spending Obama and the Dem. Congress keeps pushing through isnt going to work. As for the other part of your theory, why isnt the war in Afghanistan pulling us out of the "great recession"? Oh wait, that isnt a war. Didnt it get renamed from the "war on terror" to the "oversees contingency operation"?
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            • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 2:40 pm ET)
                 
              Technically and Constitutionally, neither of the military actions in Iraq nor Afghanistan are "wars." No war has ever been declared by Congress in either case.


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            • Author by magnolialover (August 12, 2010 4:38 pm ET)
                 
              Actually, if you look at the companies who produce war materiel and or services, Iraq and Afghanistan have been VERY good for those companies (Gov contractors for example). The military industrial complex has grown quite well because of the military actions in the middle east. I should know. That's the industry I work in now.
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            • Author by New Frontier (August 12, 2010 5:47 pm ET)
                 
              As for the other part of your theory, why isnt the war in Afghanistan pulling us out of the "great recession"? Oh wait, that isnt a war.
              It's not a theory. WWII is in no way comparable in size and scope to Afghanistan. And bintx is correct: no war was ever declared. Other than that, you're spot-on, dimwit.
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              • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 6:13 pm ET)
                   
                That's right, it was only a "war" when Bush was in office.
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                • Author by New Frontier (August 12, 2010 8:40 pm ET)
                     
                  No, it's never been a declared war, as I already stated. But feel free to post contrary evidence.
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    • Author by timesthree (August 12, 2010 11:05 am ET)
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      Beck, if you are hemoraging, please take aspirin, lots of aspirin.
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    • Author by timesthree (August 12, 2010 11:06 am ET)
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      Beck, if you are hemoraging, please take aspirin, lots of aspirin.
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    • Author by pete592 (August 12, 2010 11:11 am ET)
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      This hearkens back to Beck's "Titanic" metaphor.

      Once again, we have a first-class passenger preaching to the huddled masses in steerage. When the iceberg strikes and the list becomes noticeable, Beck's luxury yacht will quickly and quietly pull along side and pick him up, while his loyal subjects get to fight over the lifeboats with everyone else.
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    • Author by New Frontier (August 12, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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      The LAST thing Beck wants for the country is prosperity (except the $32 million he made last year for himself, of course). Then he'd have nothing to b!tch about every, single freaking day.
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    • Author by nerzog (August 12, 2010 11:18 am ET)
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      Here's Nostradumbass, sitting on a pile of money, telling his witless followers to let the economy collapse.

      "Don't worry", he says..."I'll be fine."
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      • Author by epkklk851 (August 12, 2010 11:25 am ET)
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        Yep, it's always all about what's right for Glennie. He has his, and he doesn't care about anybody else.
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    • Author by Brian Griffith (August 12, 2010 11:38 am ET)
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      But wait, I thought those dirty liberals that follow Cloward and Piven wanted to "collapse the system."

      This makes no sense! Tell me what to think, Glenn!
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      • Author by RiffRabbit (August 12, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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        Yeah, he's sounding pretty Marxist right now. Reform won't work, apparently, so we need revolution.
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    • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 12:23 pm ET)
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      and only the strong will survive?
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      • Author by congero6189599 (August 12, 2010 12:56 pm ET)
           
        doughpoo irrelevant as usual.
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      • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 12:59 pm ET)
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        Looks like you may be in trouble.
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        • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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          In trouble? Not me.
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          • Author by bintx (August 12, 2010 2:42 pm ET)
               
            Yep . . . dumb a** followers/groupies usually don't fair very well in survival of the fittest endeavors. They are the ones who always get killed off first in movies. They're too stupid to say no.
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      • Author by Johaely (August 12, 2010 1:51 pm ET)
           
        Yeah, lets return to the era of Social Darwinism. Thing weren't that bad back then, right?
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    • Author by magnolialover (August 12, 2010 2:15 pm ET)
         
      Yes Glenn. Let the system collapse because there is someone in the White House you don't like. How to be a great American apparently in the mindset of the conservatives (like Beck) is to completely destroy the country. Good thinking.
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      • Author by doughpro1604643 (August 12, 2010 6:17 pm ET)
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        If BO is as great as you all think he is, then he will save the country. Isn't that what he promised everybody?
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        • Author by New Frontier (August 12, 2010 8:45 pm ET)
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          I do recall Obama saying it has taken a while to get into this mess (thanks to Bush and 8 years of Republican incompetence), and will take some time to get out of it.

          You guys had 8 years, and you drove the country over a cliff. Now you b!tch because Obama hasn't towed the car out in less than two. Could you be any more moronic?
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