Citing new G.I. Joe movie, Glenn Beck warned of a possible "one-world-government nightmare"
SUMMARY: Citing films such as Happy Feet, Superman Returns, and the forthcoming G.I. Joe, Glenn Beck stated, "I believe some are trying to indoctrinate our kids into hating their own country, turning us into some one-world-government nightmare; hating America, turning it into a dirty word." He later added, "We must preserve our symbols of national pride and power, be they a flag, a cross, characters like Superman or G.I. Joe."
During the October 30 "The Point" segment of his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck denounced the forthcoming Paramount Pictures movie G.I. Joe, claiming that the character G.I. Joe -- based on the popular toy from Hasbro -- "has now been discharged from the American military, and Hollywood now has him answering to some bullcrap international force like the U.N. We all know that the U.N. is a toothless bunch of pansies. They don't deserve somebody like Joe, even the little plastic version." He later asserted: "I believe some are trying to indoctrinate our kids into hating their own country, turning us into some one-world-government nightmare; hating America, turning it into a dirty word."
Beck referred to the producers of G.I. Joe as "butchers" and said that in the film, "G.I. Joe" stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity." He asked: "What? When did entities stand for anything but evil? I'm just saying." He later stated: "We must preserve our symbols of national pride and power, be they a flag, a cross, characters like Superman or G.I. Joe."
The Internet Movie Database page for G.I. Joe, which is still in production, contains this plot outline: "A European-based military unit known as Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity (G.I.J.O.E.), a hi-tech, international force of special operatives, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer."
Beck introduced the segment by asserting:
We're being attacked someplace else in the cover of night and if we lose this battle, we lose it all. Here's "The Point" tonight. G.I. Joe is the latest casualty in the war against the American way and I know, I know, Glenn, it's just a toy, a little hunk of plastic, a cartoon. I know. And that makes it easy to dismiss this. But I believe that would be a huge mistake.
Beck also aired a clip from Happy Feet, an animated film about a dancing Emperor penguin, which Beck previously described as an "animated version of An Inconvenient Truth," as Media Matters for America has documented. While showing the Happy Feet clip, Beck stated: "You remember that penguin cartoon? I love that. Look at this clip in the end. Who saves the penguin in the end? Oh, yes. You're about to see it. It's the United Nations. Wow. Believing the United Nations could save anyone takes more imagination than believing penguins can tap dance."
Additionally, Beck criticized the 2006 film Superman Returns, and aired a video clip of Perry White -- editor of the newspaper that Clark Kent, Superman's alter ego, works for -- asking if Superman still stands for "truth, justice, all that stuff." Beck asked: "All that stuff? All that stuff? What the hell happened to 'the American way'?" He continued: "Put aside for a second that they hacked apart one of the greatest taglines in popular culture. I believe there's more to this. I believe some are trying to indoctrinate our kids into hating their own country, turning us into some one-world-government nightmare; hating America, turning it into a dirty word. How will our kids ever have the courage to stand up to their college professors if they've been raised to think that there's something wrong with the American way or the American way never existed?"
From the October 30 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: Well, hello, America. I know I'm beating a dead horse, but this horse has just got to get up, because our nation is under attack. It is being taken from us in the cover of darkness. There are American hostage crisises [sic] going on right now, worse than the American hostage crisis we experienced in 1979, and it is happening at our border. I'll have more on that, coming up in just a second.
But first, there's something else. We're being attacked someplace else in the cover of night, and if we lose this battle, we lose it all. Here's "The Point" tonight. G.I. Joe is the latest casualty in the war against the American way, and I know, I know, Glenn, it's just a toy, a little hunk of plastic, a cartoon. I know. And that makes it easy to dismiss this. But I believe that would be a huge mistake.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that G.I. Joe was a real guy and he is something more, as well. He's -- he is a symbol, and when you attack a symbol, you strike a blow against everything it represents. And here's how I got there.
Let me start with Happy Feet. You remember that penguin cartoon? I love that. Look at this clip in the end. Who saves the penguin in the end? Oh, yes. You're about to see it. It's the United Nations. Wow.
Believing the United Nations could save anyone takes more imagination than believing penguins can tap dance.
But wait, there's more. Look at this clip from the last Superman movie.
PERRY WHITE [video clip from Superman Returns]: Health -- has he gained weight? What's he been eating? Business -- how is this going to affect the stock market? Long term? Short term? Politics -- does he still stand for truth, justice, all that stuff?
BECK: All that stuff? All that stuff? What the hell happened to "the American way"?
Put aside for a second that they hacked apart one of the greatest taglines in popular culture. I believe there's more to this. I believe some are trying to indoctrinate our kids into hating their own country, turning us into some one-world-government nightmare; hating America, turning it into a dirty word. How will our kids ever have the courage to stand up to their college professors if they've been raised to think that there's something wrong with the American way or the American way never existed?
Now, let me go back to that little hunk of plastic we call G.I. Joe. He's been known as a real American hero. For kids my -- you know, when I was a kid, G.I. Joe was it.
Now there's a new movie from the butchers over at Paramount. They're trying to change all that. For starters, he's no longer Government Issue Joe. G.I. Joe used to stand for that. Now it stands for -- and I'm not kidding you -- Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity.
What? When did entities stand for anything but evil? I'm just saying.
Poor Joe has now been discharged from the American military, and Hollywood now has him answering to some bullcrap international force like the U.N. We all know that the U.N. is a toothless bunch of pansies. They don't deserve somebody like Joe, even the little plastic version.
So tonight, here's what you need to know, America. When we kill our icons, when we destroy those icons, we destroy everything they stand for. Our heroes of fiction, cartoon and otherwise, represent what we can be, our very best. It's an ideal, one worth striving for and should be revered.
America has always been a divinely inspired nation. The red, white, and blue has liberated more people on this planet from tyranny than anyone else in the history of God's green earth. We must preserve our symbols of national pride and power, be they a flag, a cross, characters like Superman or G.I. Joe. Parents, don't let this slip away. We've got to teach our children to respect the values that this nation is founded on.
And whether it's the promise of Ronald Reagan's shiny city -- shining city on the hill or a Metropolis kept safe by Superman, we must never let our children lose sight of the nobility in truth, justice, and the American way.
How appropriate that Beck throws out this latest fear fest on Holloween.
Easy Beck, they just want to sell movie tickets in Europe too.
Adding:
Again, the movie producers want global appeal for this movie. There is a global marketplace now, one that did not exist at the inception of Superman and the original GI Joe. Glenn, you love you some unrestricted outsourcing, trade, etc; the new GI Joe movie is a product of this. Times are changing buddy and you helped it as much as the next guy.
"We must preserve our symbols of national pride and power, be they a flag, a cross, characters like Superman or G.I. Joe."
Since when is a cross a symbol of national pride and power in America. To my recollection the only American entity that used the cross as a symbol of pride and power was the KKK.
Superman was not American. Think about it-- he was an illegal immigrant.
LOL. Actually he's and illegal alien achor baby.
So much for Herr Beck's suggestion that
Especially when designed to appeal to the crudest and basest of emotions as tend to xenophobic jingoism, one which sees America=The World, and vice versa.
En 'n Ander Ding:
Seems as if the aforementioned casus belli is the kind of thing which Die Bransoner Muzikschaukultur loves promoting to a mostly poor, undereducated and easily-influenced audience. The kind with an easily-manipulated patriotism as can easily be appealed to "if and when required in the interest of national unity."
Mensch ;-)
Do you have a problem with national pride and symbols to represent them?
If not, why shouldn't the G.I. Joe be a part of our national pride? BTW MMFA forgot to include the story of the G.I. Joe in their article. http://www.glennbeck.com/news/10302007b.shtml
Short version: WWII; one guy vs. oodles of Japanese. US holds the fort.
For G.I. Joe to be portrayed as anything other than American is simply...unamerican (for lack of a better word)
Glenn, G.I. Joe is absolutely all-American. But his curriculum vitae needs updating, Joe resigned from the U.S.Army a few years back. He is presently employed by the private security contractor Blackwater and is headquarted on the outskirts of Baghdad. Fortunately, Joe has been granted immunity by the State Department.
Interesting...
Crikey, is this buffoon still on the air?
Does Beck not realize that the 'government issue' part of G.I. Joe was originated as a sarcastic term, that made fun of the soldier's plight?
To make 'G.I. Joe" a symbol of America is a put-down. These guys don't get irony, do they?
"These guys don't get irony, do they?"
I'll bet they don't get laid either.
What kind of a dork comes up with the goofy stuff that Beck does? A G.I. Joe movie is going to indoctrinate a child into a "one world governnemnt" mindset? The Harry Potter character, Dumbledore, is going to indoctrinate kids into the "gay agenda"? Do these guys have real lives...?
Beck is the Dan Quayle of the talking pinheads.
I hear that al qaeda opps I meant Cobra is building a weather machine and if G.I. Joe doesn't go into Iran when the weather Machine is in Syria then they won't stop Cobra. Oh didn't you hear Cobra opps al qaeda started the CA wildfires according to fox? Darn that crazy weather Machine of theirs.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/fox-news-al-qaeda-is-causing-the-ca-wildires
Transcript:
That's a good point. It wasn't hollywood who changed G.I. Joe, it was hasbro who transformed the traditional joe into the Joe vs. Cobra line. But Beck doesn't attack businesses, does he?
Actually, he stated on his radio show that day that he was going to boycott Hasbro products.
BTW, GIJoe was a marine. Know the history and you will understand the gripe. But that might be too much to ask from this anti-American website.
I do not know, could Beck have been joking?
Beck is an embarrassment to the United States of America (and if he was ‘joking’ then he is an embarrassment to the pursuit and execution of comedy.).
"...could Beck have been joking?"
And what's the other possibility again? Lunacy?
Really tough choice... ;>)
He wasn't joking. Like all right-wing guys who've never served, he thinks soldiers are where it's at. He was serious about comparing GI Joe to Superman.
Although-- since when was Superman American? Wasn't he from Krypton-- hey, he was an illegal immigrant, too!!
LOL, Irony! Good post.
No... but, he is showing off his pea-brain. This guy is king of the buffoons.
Was it even remotly funny?
I love that retort, actually... My Dad used to use it all the time - following one of his many, routine, callous remarks... "Come on! You have no sense of humor!"
A classic foil for hurtful remarks.
Does GI Joe (GO JOE!) have a don't ask, don't tell policy...you know, like Hogwarts?
I think it's a pretty obvious sign of the irrelevance of people like Beck and O'Reilly that they get so worked up over fictional characters. Then again, it makes sense that a chickenhawk neocon like Beck would care more about fictional military figures than real ones.
I don't think the new joes have sex because their clothes are painted on.
Will no one deliver us from this man's stupidity? I can hardly wait for his synapses to fry trying to rationalize who'd win a fight between Superman and Captain America.
sadly unless they go IMUS they seem to be there for good. It still amazes me with what these pundits can get away with. Think about how they attack KO on countdown. If he said one little thing like Beck has they would be screaming for his head. BTW, I love countdown watch it every night that I can.
Is G.I. Joe even popular anymore? My son could care less about it. With him it's either Power Rangers, Transformers or anything that's Disney/Pixar. For the most part, war toys based on anything close to real world just doesn't really interest him, except for his P-51 Mustang, because he loves the attack scene from Empire of the Sun.
You're probably right. I think the WWII war toys are actually more popular with adult collectors like myself. They even issued a commemorative GI Joe a few years ago that looked like the first one. I bought one, of course, because I hate myself for not keeping the originals. They'd be worth big bucks now.
I have heard and read some silly things out of Becks mouth before but this one is at the top of the list for just plain "SILLY".
I agree. Beck is foaming at the mouth with this idiotic paranoia. It is the kind of black helicopter ramblings you heard during childhood from your best friend's crazy bug-eyed uncle.
Glenn Beck is just batsh*t crazy. No way around that.
Beck makes me long for the good old days:
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Where is Colonel Roy Campbell?
This is a topic that would be right up his alley.
After all the colonel was our bravest and most decorated fictional, conservative poster.
Old fictional soldiers never die, King, they just change their name.
Or, for that matter, Colonel Blimp?
Or Dad's Army, for that matter?
Or--to make it interesting--Captain Percy Foulenough, D.T.
Echo chamber? What echo chamber??
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Interesting article. It's important to note that the movie is based on the second incarnation of G.I. Joe, which is the smaller "Joe vs. Cobra" series, the nationality of which was always vague. These were more of a crime-fighting/mercenary force...not American combat soldiers like the original.
Sounds like Beck is barking up the wrong tree....again.
Hey Joe! You got gum?
I think I found the truth in the story though.
Wow. Believing the United Nations could save anyone takes more imagination than believing penguins can tap dance."
Yeah, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the peace-keeping forces, and other humanitaritan relief probably didn't actually save anybody over the last 60 years.
What a maroon. Glenn, why do you hate humanity?
Yeah, the Oil for Food program, their impotency in the recent Myanmar tragedies.......wonderful.
The rightwing looooves this inane talking point. The UN does not HAVE an enforcement arm. They were set up NOT to have one so they could not work against the interests of the great powers. WE are supposed to provide the enforcement arm. When the UN cant do something its because the Great powers decline to provide the enforcement. It would be like telling the police they cant arrest anyone only call on the military to do arrests then complaining when THEY DONT ARREST PEOPLE
Give me a break. What has the UN done about North Korea and Iran's nucleur blackmail proliferation? Or the sanctions against Saddam? Or Darfur? Or other peacekeeping efforts in Africa?
Failure and corruption, and ineptness - that is your sainted UN.
The U.N. has had some sucess bringing democracy to over a half a dozen countries and is still trying to do this in many other countries.
Thats better than our record, we're more into helping dictators maintain their positions and helping create new ones. Also more legitimate and of more duribility than our (selfish) efforts supposedly to create new democracies.
Can you READ Tommy? The UN was specifically set up NOT TO HAVE AN ENFORCEMENT ARM. That was left to the great powers to provide in each case. They were MEANT not to be able to take action on their own. If you want to criticise them for NOT doing anything you have to support giving them the POWER to do something. When THEY have a standing military force to enforce their will THEN you can criticise them for NOT doing so. As long as they are dependent on the great powers to do the enforcement its silly to blame THEM for not enforcing anything.
I did not claim perfection. On whole, they have probably done more rather than less good in the world.
In determining the righteousness of nation on nation warfare - absent imminent threat - I welcome the opinion of the UN. Further, the IAEA seems to have a better handle on proliferation than our intelligence services.
So what say you Tommy, Reform or Abolish? And if the latter who should carry out the interventions you call for?
It's better than nothing. Although it's called the United Nations, it is still a giant beauracracy staffed by silly humans. Humans, some of the worst people I have met were humans. Just because an institution is less than perfect does not mean it cannot accomplish great things or improve.
All we need is Michelle Malkin weighing in and we'll have a full-fledged right wing firestorm.
You forgot Ann Coulter trying to say something stupid as well in order to sell her book. Plus Bill O'Rielly I'm sure can find something gay from it. Maybe he later finds out that one of the creaters is against the don't ask don't tell and created a butch woman soldier as a way to sell gay into the lives of our kids.
Michelle Malkin is presently in the "time-out" corner for being petulant and throwing a tantrum. Naughty girl...maybe she needs a spanking. You listening, Billo? ;>)
Malkin has been thrown under the bus by Fox.
She's left/been fired from her job as fill-in host/guest on The Factor.
Yep...but I'm sure Billo may allow Michelle back after she's been properly "disciplined". She's been a very bad girl.
She needs a couple of whacks with the ol Falafel...
JFC!
What the hell was it that Glenn sniffed and/or inhaled and/or injected and/or swallowed in the past?
Not only does he have the characteristic intermittent body twitches, his flashbacks seem to come in bursts right in the middle of his sentences.
Why does CNN keep torturing us with this blatherer?
Sounds like Beck is giving Paramount and their crappy movie some free publicity. Name recognition is everything and this is a good example of PR.Beck must be getting a kickback from Paramount...
When I was a kid John Wayne and patriotic movies were popular. Why then am I a liberal? Why wasn't I indoctrinated?
"America has always been a divinely inspired nation."
Yeah, right. Manifest Destiny and all that crap.
I heard this rant first hand last night. What an idiot this guy is. I had one of the original G.I. Joes and, guess what? It didn't inspire any great feelings of patriotism in my tiny little 8-year-old mind. I liked it because he had all kinds of neat miniature weapons, helmets and uniforms. I thought it was really "swell". I liked the German and Japanese version just as much. In fact, their stuff was even more cool.
I thought it was scandalous when they replaced his plastic hair with that stupid fuzz. Then they made him an "adventurer" who captured animals instead of killing people. This was all....what...thirty-five years ago? Then, sometime later, they changed it to Joe vs. Cobra and made them really small. Of course, by then, I was in college and could care less.
This is just typical conservative hand-wringing and demagoguery. It happened when Elvis shook his hips...it happened when the Beatles arrived with their "long" hair. It happened when comic books became popular and when video games were invented.
Every time something changes, some Neanderthal putz like Beck hyperventilates and whines about how the current generation is doomed.
Nerzog, don't take the Neanderthal vote too lightly.
That's great! I think the Republicans have found their new campaign theme..."Yes, but Ugg will smash our enemies!"
It reminds me of a great cartoon I saw many years ago. It showed three cavemen and a dead T-Rex. The dinosaur was labeled "U.S.S.R." One of the cavemen was poking it with a spear. The second was looking at the third caveman. He said "Big lizard no fun anymore...let's get Ugg...him gay!"
Nerzog that's my favorite political cartoon ever! From 92 I think.So prescient for the next decade and a half of American politics...
Did'nt SNL have a caveman lawyer skit a few times? Yes indeedy, unfrozen caveman lawyer
Nice update on a reliably funny premise though.
I find all this jingoistic xenophobic snobbery puzzling. The war fought by the original GI Joe was a truly international effort. While the United States did the heavy lifting in the Pacific and in Europe...the war might have ended differently if the Soviet Union hadn't devoured Hitler's army. Dang...why does history have to be so...multicultural?
"We all know that the U.N. is a toothless bunch of pansies."
"The red, white, and blue has liberated more people on this planet from tyranny than anyone else in the history of God's green earth."
What a tool... How much do they pay these people to spout this bull----?
*vomit*
I remember the weekend Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out. Beck spent most of the show talking about the new maple syrup filled breakfast sandwiches that were out, and how he loved them, and the rest was spent trashing Pirates of The Caribbean.
He said he hadn't seen the movie, and didn't plan too because he wasn't going to wacth a movie based on a Disney ride. He ranted on and on about the stupid movie and the Disney ride, yet he hadn't seen it. Not long after this, he trashed another wildly popular children's movie he claimed he hadn't seen. The guy is a real piece of work.
I'm glad you brought up the trashing Disney ride episode. That was when I realized that Beck is completely out of touch with reality. I have many fond memories of the ride, both as a guest and as an employee of the kingdom. If it was such a bad ride, why did disney land have to remodel the whole area to accomodate the lines of millions of patrons willing to wait an hour or more to ride, AGAIN! Crikey, it was one of the most popular tourist attractions in the US all on it's own! I got to know several of the tour guides that took the Japanese tourists around the western US, the Pirates was more important to them than Las Vegas.
"We must preserve our symbols of national pride and power, be they a flag, a cross, characters like Superman or G.I. Joe."
I think our symbols can take care of themselves thank you very much.
Why is it a party that doesn't want to preserve endangered species is so concerned about protecting endangered children's' toys?
My kids can't look at a penguin without crying. Columbia Pictures have ruined would could have a been a precious childhood moment. Happy Feet is little more than Socialist propaganda. Where's Superman when you need him?
Now, look what they've done to GI Joe. I break out in a rash just thinking about GI Joe wearing a gun-powder blue helmet. I might just have a seizure.
As for The Beaver (aka Glenn Beck) well he's all apple pie. From divorce to alcoholism to embracing Christian values then denigrating anything...not him. Thats our Beaver. A "thinker" and a complete idiot...and America, that's all you really need to know.
"From divorce to alcoholism to embracing Christian values then denigrating anything...not him."
Yep...a genuine American.
...and God bless Superman.
I remenber that toy coming out and thinking,"A doll for boy's? Is he going to have a uniform for tea with Barbi?" It confused me. I couldn't think of any reason to play with a doll. It was the kind thing Beck would be shrieking about today as a further effeminization of the american boy. Now its a traditional symbol of national pride, go figure.
Beck doesn't know diddly about G.I. Joe. G.I. Joe was an American fighting force, but they were very multi-ethnic and had warriors from all over the world. It only makes sense to adapt it to make them an international force. I mean, for Christ's sake...one of their main guys (Snake-Eyes) was a ninja! Granted...he was a caucasian, mute ninja...but still, as far as I know the U.S. Military doesn't train ninjas. For that matter, they don't train women for combat but G.I. Joe had several combat oriented female members (Jinx, Scarlett, Lady Jane, Covergirl). So, if they are planning to make the thing reasonable, it would almost have to be a multi-national force. But fear not, Mr. Beck...rest assured that the main characters, the tough heros, will be Americans. Duke will almost have to be an American, otherwise it doesn't make any sense for him to be named after THE Duke. Leatherneck would have to be a U.S. Marine, and Flint's entire image is based on being a Green Beret (though they could substitute a British SAS officer, I suppose).
Also...Mr. Beck...Superman was an illegal immigrant.
I don't know, maybe there is something to this--Glenn Beck's next door neighbor was on Rush the other day and he said he knows when Glenn is home because all these black helicopters are hovering around the house. And, he said, they all have Clinton 08 bumper stickers on them. Yeah, check it out-he's gonna be on Hannity's show Friday
"What the hell was it that Glenn sniffed and/or inhaled and/or injected and/or swallowed in the past?"
again, for those that missed it, mr. beck is an alcoholic (recovering, or so he claims), this explains the lack of functioning brain cells, he killed them all.
he wasn't all that bright to begin with, and the loss of millions of cells clearly didn't help matters. the frightening thing is, people actually listen to him, as more than a sad caricature of an actual functioning human being.
I strongly suspect that in Beck's state of arrested adolescent development he may still harbor fantasies of being...
Faster than a speeding bullet;
More powerful than a locomotive;
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
But in reality he probably has trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time. He's not even Clark Kent.
"What has the UN done about North Korea and Iran's nucleur blackmail proliferation? "
I'm a little unclear on what you mean by this Tommy. Iran has nuclear weapons? And they are proliferating? Or is it the blackmail threat that is proliferating? (to be honest, I'm not sure how that would work) And really, can you blackmail with the threat of something you don't have?
Halloween is over and Iran is the Neocon boogeyman. Let's grow up.
Glen Beck is quickly becoming an embarrassment even to his fellow dumbf*cks. His I.Q. intersected with his age YEARS ago. Even Bill Frist is ready at this point to declare him officially brain-dead, after having seen this latest video.
That' a good one.
Beck is gonna be really teed off when he finds out that Superman's "and the American Way" was changed as far back as the 70s in the cartoon show "Superfriends."
Opening monologue:
"Gathered together from the cosmic reaches of the universe! Here in this great Hall of Justice, are the most powerful forces of good ever assembled! Superman! Batman and Robin! Wonder Woman! Aquaman! And the Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna with their space monkey Gleek! Dedicated to truth, justice and peace for all mankind!"
I've been a comic book aficionado since the 1960s and the "American Way" tagline has only very intermittently been a part of his persona for decades (though I loved the 1950s TV series that helped immortalize the phrase, starring George Reeves and Phyllis Coates). GIJoe has, of course, changed many times over the decades and his "Americanism" has waxed and waned.
The more serious side of this story may have to do with the projection of what has been called "soft power," or America's ability to project a positive image of itself through its cultural exports from jazz, to rock, its comics and its movies. A hero who stands for "truth, justice and the American way" was attractive to a world that had recently been helped against fascist tyranny by the US after WWII, but it may ring a tad hollow when trumpeted by a country that is seemingly following the Ledeen Doctrine.
I hate to say it, but at first I actally agreed with him... "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" ??! I'm sorry. That's just wrong. :) But (as usual) it doesn't take long for [Beck] to venture into the truly absurd. (And if I had any doubts, there were thoroughly dispelled by everyone's excellent posts!)
The CROSS as a symbol of american power... LOL... Jesus would be so proud!
And I love the comment about "unrestricted outsourcing, trade, etc... " Wonderfully ironic point!
Symbolism over substance. The Right's stock-and-trade. Don't forget to wear your armbands!!!
Can someone check the GI Joe box and see if he's now made in China? Since the Bushies are all about outsourcing you'll probably find that Joe is now a third world mercenary working for Blackwater. Your tax dollars will continue to pay his salary, however, at least indirectly.
Why is it these rightwing kooks always critisize exactly what THEY support?
Isn't that the goal of these Koo-Koos to turn America into a one-party nightmare of liars and thieves esentially making taxpaying Americans into slaves?
SAVE DEMOCRACY, VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT!!
I'm not the least supprised that he would reach back to the body of work he is most familiar with, COMIC BOOKS!!
We just witnessed a 50 year old man's visit to his sixth grade inner child that he never grew out of! Governed by impulse that believes flabergast is evidence of the truth until the time comes to move on from any consequences, that is for others!
Happy Thoughts;
I can't believe that most of the comments here are attacking Glenn Beck. The US should have pulled out of the UN years ago! Now, they are taking "a real American Hero" and turning him into a UN Task Force. Ridiculous. I'm behind Glenn on this one. It's right under your noses, but you fail to see it, because you don't want to.
You need to get a kung-foo grip on yourself.
; )
Actually we fail to see it because we have several functioning brain cells and havent been given the pavlovian conditioning you hiveminders have to get all slobbery with outrage when the proper cues are given.
To further help out Mr. Beck's cause, doesn't "G.I." stand for "General Infantry"?
I thought it stood for Government Issue
Beck bitches about Perry White saying "truth, justice, and all that stuff" as an Anti-American smear ...
As I remember it, Superman was supposed to save the World ... not just America ... not fighting for "the American Way" ...
Likely, the movie makers probably couldn't afford to rent the rights to "The American Way" from the copyright holders, the Republican party ...
international force like the U.NAmerica has always been a divinely inspired nation. The red, white, and blue has liberated more people on this planet from tyranny than anyone else in the history of God's green earth.Opening monologue:"Gathered together from the cosmic reaches of the universe! Here in this great Hall of Justice, are the most powerful forces of good ever assembled! Superman! Batman and Robin! Wonder Woman! Aquaman! And the Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna with their space monkey Gleek! Dedicated to truth, justice and peace for all mankind!"
SIGH.....
Sadley, there is an answer to all this. See, Glenn is a christian, and christains, most of them anyway, (and glenn most assuredly, I have heard him talk about this before) beleive that in the End of Days, there will be a ONE WORLD RELIGION AND A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. This is what strikes the most fear into them even though they long for Armageddon to commence.
So, anything to do with the UN, or an international, or a global group scares them and they find any way they can to dismiss it or tear it down.
Peace for all mankind? Caused by an international bunch....not gonna happen in glenns view, cuz why, well the bible tells him so.
All that aside....what a maroon!
READ THIS PEOPLE!!!
Excellent post.
Hits it right on the head. This is EXACTLY where all the anti-UN republican talking points come from.
(And they wonder why we want the seperation of church and state!)
Beck just made Stephen Colbert's job all the more difficult.
I hate to inform this jingoistic idiot that superman was a Canadian invention. But no, that would just be insulting this wonderful nation that "liberated more people from tyranny than anyone else in history on God's green earth" by killing most of its Native Americans and becoming the home of slavery.
That's going a little far - only Shuster was Candaian. Credit where it's due: Siegel was American, as is/was DC Comics - the firm that brought their creation to the masses.
And yes, Glen Beck is still an idiot.
I saw him yammering on about this. I thought two things: 1, movies are made for a global audience who don't have to accept Beck's definition of American hegemony, and 2, see number 1.
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