Beck: Obama Is "Not With The Terrorists, I'm Not Saying That, But He Is Sympathetic To Their Cause"
From the March 17 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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Previously:
Beck Sees Evidence For His Grand Conspiracy Theory Everywhere
Beck: "The Country Will Not Survive A Second Term" Of President Obama
GLENN BECK: The Japanese government has no plans to expand the 12 mile evacuation zone. Meanwhile, we're loading up all of the diplomats from the State Department and getting out of there. Also something that I'm going to do tonight, I'm going to give the speech that the President should give in the Oval Office that he hasn't, and I don't know why. Our donations are way, way down for Japan. I don't see Hollywood mobilizing. So, we will. The speech from my Oval Office, tonight. It's amazing what's going on, and I don't really understand why yet I haven't figured it out yet.
There's another story that is very disturbing. And this just came in, it's an alert from the Wall Street Journal. The Obama Administration is seeking an United Nations security resolution that would authorize a wide range of possible military strikes against the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. It is aimed at preventing them from overrunning the rebels and civilians in the country's east. In discussions with other Security Council members, the Obama administration is making the case that a no-fly zone is not enough. It would be insufficient to save the rebel capital in Eastern Libya. So the U.S. is seeking a broad UN authorization for strikes aimed at holding back Libyan ground and air forces with the aim of protecting the rebel capital and avoiding a humanitarian crisis there. Military operations could include a no-fly zone but wouldn't be limited to that.
Holy cow. What does this mean? You know we've been saying that - where is the President on Libya? Tonight, I lay out the case, and it's not a smoking gun, and it's not an open and shut case, but it is something that I haven't found the right people yet, or the right evidence to link it all together, but I can feel it, that there's something wrong with this Libyan thing. We were talking about it this morning, Pat. That the time to have a no-fly zone is not now.
PAT GRAY: Yeah, right at the beginning. Right at the beginning. Seriously, I mean, it's progressed way too far just to do a no-fly zone.
BECK: Now it's going to be a civil war. Now, now, this would be - think of this America, this would be the third country that America has ground forces or air forces or sea, that is in battle and engaged in a Muslim country. That's insanity.
GRAY: Mmhmm.
BECK: And the time to support the rebels was at the very beginning when the momentum was there. There's no momentum now. The momentum is the other way. I'm not saying we don't do something to protect these people, but I'll tell you, it's very disturbing to me that our military could be engaged in yet another war in the Middle East.
GRAY: I think if you would have done this at the beginning, you would have been far less likely to have any kind of confrontation. You remember 1989 when we had that little run-in with the MiGs, the Libyan MiGs? And our -
BECK: - our guys
GRAY: Our F-14 tomcats took 'em down.
BECK: Yeah.
GRAY: And there was not a peep out of Libya for the next 20 years. Libya didn't make a sound. Well -
BECK: Yeah. [unintelligible]
GRAY: I mean, they had the couple terrorist activities. But, for the most part, Moammar Gadhafi was pretty quiet after that point.
BECK: Oh yeah. We were bombing his tent.
GRAY: Yeah.
BECK: There's no - there's, I mean, now, this is the problem with this president, it's the same thing. Look at his pattern, the BP oil spill. This is the thing that bothers me. And it's always patterns. The BP oil spill - we all know he used that to his advantage - never let a good crisis go to waste. And so what did he do? He wasn't there - he was engaged, of course he talked about it, but he wasn't engaged. Until it started getting out of control, and all of us were saying, where is the government?
GRAY: Mmhmm.
BECK: Where is the president on this? And he was strangely absent.
GRAY: Hasn't it been like that with every crisis -
BECK: Everything. Every crisis.
GRAY: The Fort Hood - the Fort Hood shooting. He wasn't really out front with that, and that was, you know, 13 U.S. soldiers being killed on their base. And then when he finally did make the statement, he comes out and talks about the - the Indian medicine man first -
BECK: Right. OK.
GRAY: - for two minutes before he even got around to the mention.
BECK: But here is - here is the point on that. I believe that's because he just sees us as the oppressor nation. He just sees us as a nation who is and has oppressed the Native Americans and, and the Muslim communities around the world. And so he's - he's - he's not with the terrorists, I'm not saying that, but he is sympathetic to their cause, which slows people down. You know what I mean?
GRAY: Mm.
BECK: You agree with that or disagree with that?
GRAY: Well, I don't know if sympathetic to the cause is the right -
BECK: Sym -
GRAY: - phrase.
BECK: Sym - oh, uh - wait a minute, I'm not saying that he's sympathetic with people blowing people up.
GRAY: Yeah.
BECK: I'm saying -
GRAY: I just wanted to make sure -
BECK: Yeah, yeah.
GRAY: - that people know that you're not saying that.
BECK: He's sympathetic, he's sympathetic [unintelligible]
GRAY: Well I think he sympathizes that America has done some bad things -
BECK: Yeah.
GRAY: And, and so - [unintelligible]
BECK: The Palestinian plight.
GRAY: Yes.
BECK: The Palestinian plight - only like 23 percent of Americans agree with the Palestinians. But he is, I believe, he's probably one of the 23 percent.
GRAY: Well, his pastor said it best, didn't he, when he said America's chickens have come home to roost.
BECK: Yes.
GRAY: Maybe he has a little of that sentiment -
BECK: Yes.
GRAY: - I don't know.
BECK: Yes, yes. I'm not saying that he's in league with the terrorists, I'm not saying that he agrees with bombings like that. But he is slower to react because he is a guy who is sympathetic to something that most Americans are not. We don't - he has said it himself over and over, I'm tired of Muslim-Americans being rounded up in the middle of the night. That's never happened. And if it has, show it to me, Mr. President because I will be with you on that. I agree with you that that shouldn't happen. So show me the evidence, and I will stand with you.
But what's disturbing about the BP oil crisis is it worked to his favor, it worked to his advantage by leaving it go for a while and not capping it, he had to have a massive disaster to be able to do what he did. Now is this what's happening in Libya? Because the time for that, I mean, even France is leading this. Nobody, is - and the people are crying out, America. And everybody knows we're the only one that can do it. We have the carriers right there. I've been on the aircraft carriers in the fifth fleet - 90 miles off the coast of Libya. We have them. We can do it. But the time to do it was when we had momentum and now, what're we gonna - we have more troops going someplace? The possibility of it? We're going to engage people with our military? What're - what - we're going to get involved in another war? What are you, out of your mind? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense.
And here's the other thing that I just want to share with those who think that the workers of the world can unite. What is happening in the world right now is exactly what happened in the 1920s and early 1930s in Europe, and it is the communists, and the socialists, and the Marxists that believe in one global order, and they believe that if the workers will unite - I mean, the people who took out the permit for the unions for the American Dream Act in Washington D.C., they say it clearly on their own website, the International Socialist Organization, that they believe that only the workers uniting will actually cause the revolution to happen.
Well here's where they go wrong. If you look at what's happening in Japan right now and you look at the spike of the yen, that is because people love their country and they are selling their stuff, and they are getting out of gold or whatever it is, and they are buying their own dollar, their yen, and they are going to invest it in their own country. When the whole world melts down, when America begins to fall on real hard times - and I mean, I - I hope I'm discredited on this, but I believe it's coming. And when we fall on real hard times, they will say workers of the world unite, and they will unite all of the workers, but at some point the unions - the union workers will say, wait a minute, how are you going to balance the world, you're giving our jobs to India, or Mexico, or whatever. And people become nationalists, that's what's happening in Japan. There's no - I'm not saying it's communist or anything else, I'm just talking about the yen - they're becoming nationalists. We did it after 9/11. We protect our own countries.
And that's what the Soviet Union, that's where Lenin and Marx and Stalin all went wrong - is they think they can unite the whole world with the workers. But the first step where it starts to go wrong is people start to protect themselves and their own communities that they understand as communities. And the world does not accept this global order, it doesn't, and when things get better in India or jobs go to India instead of here, they will not listen to a socialist saying, "workers of the world, unite" what they will listen to is a national socialist, somebody who says take care of America first, workers, you're already unionized, you're already together right? It's them that is the problem, and they become national socialists, not international socialists. International socialism will not work, and it will turn the world to national socialism, which is the Nazi regime.
I don't know how people don't understand the logic of this, but it is true, and it happens the same way every time, and governments, and they, the, governments, or the people, that the radicals, they use the youth - which is happening, and they also use giant corporations. And they get giant corporations, some of them willingly, and some of them just acquiesce because they say, I'll just get, 'cause they'll let me survive, and I'll be part of the survivors. You do not want to be part of those survivors, because in the end, they do not survive, because they always end the same way, always. Whether it's Mao, Stalin, Hitler, or Mussolini, they always end the same way.
Oh that's right, some Star Wars EU material (I forget which [may have been Star Wars Galaxies], but I know Darth Vader was the one who gave that line)
Either way, someone's insane and someone MAY be malicious. No one's a very nice person in that group. And its monsters like Beck who encourage it.
I remarked last night about the HCR debates. That woman who was bawling as she proclaimed with 100% honesty (in her mind) that she thought america was somehow gone.
These people have been told their entire lives that they are complete idiots who cant understand simple cause and effect, cant differentiate between right and wrong, and cant understand why you shouldnt push someone down and take his things.
And so hops along Mr. Beck. And he starts praising them, slobbering over them, calling them geniuses, calling himself a moron. Until they believed it. Now all he need do is whisper "Liberal" and his cadre turns feral, with Beck on their shoulders.
Beck's been imprinting since befoer it was a word.
Beck, you are not slick, nor are you smart. You just know you can get away with inciting people on Fox News.
Like, what on earth does he mean by this:
"But what's disturbing about the BP oil crisis is it worked to his favor, it worked to his advantage by leaving it go for a while and not capping it"...
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But. Limbaugh's getting close again. Because after a party cheers on the deaths of innocents as somehow a karmic response of pearl harbor (They do, and they dont seem to understand what we did with atomic bombs in response...Which was, in a simple ratio, way more effective.)
This party just stupifies me. I cant imagine they feel any love inside them, any true positive inside them. So much hate, so much anger, so much self-righteous blindness. How could anyone, anywhere stand up to THAT for hours a day? Its impossible without giong insane.
I feel so sorry for them. everyone needs someone that can comfort them now and then, when its really bad...And I am very much certain that none of these awful people on the right do.
Pity them. Its the most they deserve.
They'll hear you saying that Obama is "sympathetic" to the causes of the terrorists. They will assume that Obama, therefore, wants the same thing as the terrorists. After that, they'll just go out and say what you initially did not say--they'll declare the President as a terrorist.
You, however, will recoil and defend yourself by saying you never said that, which is inherently true on the surface. However, you planted the seeds of disdain.
That's how Beck does it, folks. He doesn't say it, but he also doesn't deny it. When everyone gets up-in-arms about the atmosphere, he can wipe his hands and say, "See? No blood."
What happened to the snakes that St. Patrick drove out of Ireland?
They swam over here and became right wing pundits.
Where does one start with this statement?
By calling Beck an idiot. I tried to think of a more civil way of putting it, no dice.
Decoder ring now availalable at all Dollar General stores. Tin hat not included.
Glenn, as a near-anarchist you sound more synmpathetic to terrorism than anyone.
Now he says "I was wrong ,he isn't a racist ,he just embraces Liberation ideology( There are are all of those victims in history!)and he see's oppression everywhere." Of course Native Americans disappeared on their own after giving their land away and Africans were on a Peace Corp mission to help a developing country with its Southern agriculture..Those World WarII camps for the Japanese were for recreation I guess.
So now he won't call the President a terrorist,but says he's just sympathetic to their cause!!!!Lets ask Peter King to explain that too.!!!Or maybe G. Gordon Liddy!!
Beck is ever the lying hypocrite!
God, these people are idiots.
Idiot.
Here's something else. I don't agree with the terrorists behind 9/11, but they have given reasons for their hatred of America. Now, if I deny their reasons and insist that it's something else, it won't get me anywhere. I acknowledge it, I accept it, and I plan for it to have future consequences. Refusing to acknowledge them will not stop them and it won't de-escalate the situation, it will just make things worse. I have these same attitudes towards the Teacons. They are entitled to their opinions, I will respect their expressing those opinions but I will not acquiesce or change to their side.
I think a few Democrats have grown a spine and moved beyond that, but the Binary thinking Teabaggers and NeoCons never will.
Which is far far away from the truth.
They also don't want to know what causes terrorism against our country, or other countries, it's very binary thinking.
Just like say, Christian Militia groups in the US are far far far right wing, so are radical Islamic groups.
Glenn, why don't you just run for President so you can save the country? I'm sure you'll have a lot more time on your hands after December.
"sympathetic: having similar disposition and tastes"
Sorry, All-Knowing, All Seeing Prophet-for-Profit Beck, this isn't plausible deniability, it's perceivable stupidity.
What a boob.
I guess that goes both ways, as in "I don't think Beck ever raped and murdered a young girl in 1991, but I think he's sympathetic to criminals that do so."
See how nicely that works?
Like hell you aren't.
Remember during the campaign McCain had to correct his supporters :
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/McCain_calls_Obama_decent_person_is_booed.html
This is the same line being played to. They know their audience.
How many times this week has Beck said something, but not said it?
It's a bit like listening to a schizophrenic with the brain of a three year old explain string theory.
They will of course come up with an example of some comment somewhere on a left wing website saying that Bush was a terrorist, but they can't come up with a media source saying such things.
Exactly. Most likely some truther crank nobody's ever heard of.
"[CIA agent John] Rizzo seems bitter that he and other CIA officials have been criticized for authorizing harsh interrogations under Bush, and yet there has been little outcry over the faster pace of lethal operations under Obama. (From 2004 to 2008, Bush authorized 42 drone strikes, according to the New America Foundation. The number has more than quadrupled under President Obama — to 180 at last count.)
"The detainees, by and large, survived, Rizzo observes; today, high-level terrorism suspects often do not."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-obamas-predator-drone-killing-machine-2011-2#ixzz1GshqiPzn
Love his comment about being on an aircraft carrier 90 miles off a combat area. The only combat area Beckypoo would be near would be a zone promoting right wing hatred, this POS would leave a stain in his pants if he even heard a combat jet's after burners kick in or was within 50 miles of an artilery round being fired.
I'm not say, but you know, it's like, like umh, Becky poo is a coward who enjoys calling out people while flying on his battle star gallectica.
About the only truthful thing Beckerhead said was he didn't know how people don't understand the logic of his rantings. That I can understand because I have never understood how anyone could understand his inane hate filled ramblings.
has taken up engaging in mental exercises of fantasy wherein he is the POTUS, knows exactly what the POTUS should do on the Libyan situation and now engages in actually preparing entire speeches to address the people of the nation!!
In President Beck fantasy land, President Obama has not spoken enough, has not reacted quickly enough, has not taken enough swift, numerous and heavy actions
and
President Glennis knows exactly why!
In Glennis mind, President Obama is in sympathetic collusion with the terrorist enemy and is aiding and abetting them!
As for his declarations about being omnipotent about knowing the mind & heart of President Obama, well, Glennis has been doing that all along, so that is nothing new.
However, he has just ratcheted up to the next level of his public smear campaign against President Obama.
The Huckster laid the groundwork for Beck last week when he did his best to demonize President Obama with
his own Hucksterized pack of lies about Obama and also claiming his own omnipotence on knowing the mind & heart of President Obama.
Little does Glennis know that he just crossed the line, the point of no return.
He can try to walk this one back, and he might just do that later today or tomorrow, but, there is no walking back
his clear statements saying that the President Of The United States "is sympathetic to the cause of.. terrorists".
Glennis statements are very clear--The President of the United States, our Commander in Chief-- "is sympathetic to the cause of... terrorists" -- the terrorists who have attacked numerous nations and killed thousands upon thousands of people of all nations across the globe and who attacked the USA and the World, on U.S. soil, on 9/11.
AND,.. in Glennis mind ----BECAUSE the POTUS is "sympathetic to their cause" President Obama is using his office to help the terrorists by being "slower to react" and "slowing things down" on dealing with the Libyan situation and all of the social/political uprisings taking place in the Middle Eastern and African nations
He just accused President Obama of engaging in acts of treason...
Of colluding with, and, aiding and abetting the terrorist enemies of the USA and the enemies of all of our allies & friend nations.
Good luck trying to walk that one back Glennis!
That´s his ultimate role, besides all the other roles he plays.
He acts as he was the better President. The one who his viewers and listeners can trust. The one they desire to follow in contrast to the real President they despise.
A constantly repeating [url= http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/02/understanding-beck.html]pattern of giving and taking.
Take away the credibility of the President, give the audience a better solution.
I feel as though America should not have to interfere in the Libyan crisis. There are U.N. resolutions in place to allow a country to solve its own problems thats why Bush had to make up the lie for W.M.D.s so he can invade Iraq for his oil lust. To interject in every problem in the World would not only make America look imperialistic like that in the early 1900s but America would lose its respect it just recently earned and maybe break our banks.
The middle east is starting to throw off the shackles of monarchy, despotism, and fundamentalism. It's almost necessary that they do it themselves in order to make this a true triumph of common people over entrenched and abusive power. It breaks my heart to think we could help those who seek freedom with missiles and marines, but knowing that for this revolution to truly endure, it may have to be done by the will and strength of those who seek freedom alone. I'm torn over what actions should and should not be taken. This is not an easy situation to deal with, and Glenn Beck is probably the least qualified pundit in America to be attempting to make these decisions with any kind of authority. Glenn beck appears to take the position that whatever the President decides will be wrong. No good can come from using your platform to merely advance the politics of personal destruction.
I hope for a positive outcome for the middle eastern nations where the people are rising up against tyranny. I hope for as little bloodshed and violence as possible though I am not so foolish as to think that some may be inevitable. I hope for wisdom in the hearts of American politicians in deciding what actions should or should not be taken. I know I alone am not wise enough to have the answers to these tumultuous, but still hopeful times.
I am not so foolish as to -deny- that some may be inevitable.
Thanks.
The right wing mentality today rejects the very concept of humility. Humility requires little more then the ability to examine one's self honestly and to admit one's limits and weaknesses. How can a person accurately examine themselves when they're constantly being directed toward outward anger and mistrust?
When one embraces scapegoating as a method of vindication, it requires that one embraces an inflated view of one's self. The right winger becomes the noble persecuted victim. The "other" is blamed for all the failings in society and conversely the "self" is elevated to a station of false impunity.
This is what allows a lot of the cognitive dissonance I think. A sense of righteousness by virtue of identity rather then words and deeds. Merely claiming to be a Christian is enough, and acting in a manner that embraces the gospel becomes unimportant. By the same measure, patriotism merely becomes a matter of superficial affiliation.
You have cut through the noise to the heart of these matters.
Much appreciated insights.
I always look forward to your input here.
really great post, man. kudos.
I just heard you say that the President of The United States was a terrorist sympathizer. You also went on the record as saying that he was a racist. While I can forgive you for the second point (don't get me wrong - it was assinine and uncalled for, but it was a critque of the man's personal bias, not his ability to fulfill his elected post) this is inexcusable.
To even suggest that our elected President would be sympathetic to the aims of organizations dedicated to the illegitimate expression of grievances against established governments is irresponsible at best and seditious at worst. What is even more disturbing is that you say this not from a postion of research, questioning, and understanding. Your position is merely as a mouthpiece of powers dedicated to undermining and delegitimizing our lawfully elected president. Disgusting.
Mr Beck, to put it simply, you are a dirtbag. Please get out our America.
Just think back to when the colonists were breaking away from Great Britian!They the colonists, were the 2nd group of terrorists after the American Indians, in North America!
i mean, seriously.
Fill in the blank and you have his general message pretty much every day. "Trust me. I'm not a real journalist that does any 'investigating.' I'm like you. I just BELIEVE. And it's something you liberal elites just don't get. But America does. Real America."
"I believe Barack Obama has a deep=seated hatred of white people or the white culture"
Care to explain that? Care to explain what he (Beck) means by "the white culture"?
"I believe Barack Obama has a deep=seated hatred of white people or the white culture"
Care to explain that? Care to explain what he (Beck) means by "the white culture"?
Bull. The Yen is going up relatively to the US-Dollar because Japan is selling US Treasury bonds in order to generate money to help their disaster stricken economy. So the Treasury bonds fell and with it the US-Dollar fell.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110311-714061.html and http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/usa-geithner-treasuries-idUSWEN959720110315 as well as countless other sources.
Signed,
The Troll