Beck's "shocking" and "disturbing" documentary caps month of suggesting progressives are prone to violence
In recent weeks Glenn Beck has promoted a documentary special titled "Revolutionary Holocaust" that he says shows "really disturbing and shocking stuff," purportedly to show "the dirty little secret" that progressives helped cause "some of the most horrifying outcomes in history." Beck's documentary comes at the end of a month-long campaign during which he has used violent rhetoric suggesting that progressives pose a physical danger to President Obama and "you."
Beck promotes special that shows "the dirty little secret" that progressives caused "some of the most horrifying outcomes in history"
Beck promises that upcoming "documentary" on the "unseen history of Marxism, progressivism and communism" will show what "progressives don't want you to know." On his Fox News show, Beck has promoted his January 22 special, "Revolutionary Holocaust," stating on January 21: "It is really, really disturbing and shocking stuff on a multiple of levels. Most of America is going to be stunned for what they see tomorrow night, because they're going to see history that they have never even heard of. History that -- I mean, honest to goodness, you will see film footage of things that you didn't even think existed. Why? Well, you haven't seen it because progressives don't want you to know about it." Beck continued:
BECK: It is history that is not being taught in classrooms in America. But tomorrow night, you're going to see it -- the true, unseen history of Marxism, progressivism, and communism. You gonna see what Michael Moore's beloved Cuba really is, at least the way only the people who are lucky enough to live through Castro's regime remember. You're going to see Che. I love this guy. He's not really the happy-go-lucky kid who rode around on his motorcycle like Hollywood tells us he is. His real exploits will make even the more granola hippie lose their Che shirt. We also have footage from the Soviet Union that has been buried in the vaults of the KGB.
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Well, you see, the dirty little secret that communists, Marxists, and progressives don't want you to know is their system has never ever worked.
And not only has it never worked, it has led to some of the most horrifying outcomes in history. You think that guy -- you think that guy was the only one that did it? And you think this guy is from the right? Oh, yeah, really?
Make sure you tune in tomorrow. People wouldn't support Mao and they wouldn't be wearing a Mao hat if they knew they were endorsing somebody who killed tens of millions of people. That's Anita Dunn -- she said, you know, "One of the great philosophers that I think of most is Mao."
She knows who he is, but most Americans don't, because progressives tend to breeze past that little speed bump in history. I told you back in December that this program is going to change. Tomorrow is the first real step in that direction.
You see, progressives knew 100 years ago you can't win a battle against our Founding Fathers. Progressives had to change the course of history by changing history itself. If you can convince people that killers are cool, and get them to wear a t-shirt, you'll win their hearts and minds.
"Progressive hunter" Beck's violence-laden campaign suggesting that progressives pose a danger to Obama and "you"
Beck: Obama "is in danger from the left" because he "has surrounded himself with extraordinarily dangerous people." During an interview with Sarah Palin on his radio show, Beck claimed that he makes "a pretty good compelling case" that President Obama "is in danger from the left because the left is the only one with a real history of violence." Beck further stated that Obama "has surrounded himself with extraordinarily dangerous people that actually do believe that power comes from the barrel of a gun." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 1/21/2010]
Beck suggests Obama in danger from his advisers: "Dear God, protect our president." Discussing former White House adviser Van Jones, Beck asked, "Do you think it's safe to have an individual like that around the president of the United States? Are you comfortable with that?" Beck concluded: "Please pray for our Secret Service, make sure that they do their job. Dear God, protect our president." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 1/21/2010]
Beck: Progressive civil war "could become dangerous": "Let me show you why the president is in danger." Beck stated of Sen.-elect Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts special election: "[It's] going to trigger a revolution or a civil war in the Democratic Party. It's progressives versus Democrats. It's blue versus gray. And this is a war that I think could become dangerous -- hopefully not." Beck further asserted that "the republic is in danger" and stated that "the president is in danger" from "revolutionaries" such as former White House communications director Anita Dunn and SEIU president Andy Stern. [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 1/20/2010]
Beck: "Pray that the Secret Service care for" Obama. After stating that he "hope[s] to God that we never ever have to have an actual battle," Beck discussed a "verbal battle" between "the progressive, uber-revolutionary left" and "those who believe in the republic," and commented, "Watch the uber-left. Pray that Obama moves to the center. If he does, pray that the Secret Service care for that man." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 1/20/2010]
Beck's website: "Progressives want you dead." On his website, Beck posted the headline: "Not 'useful'? Progressives want you dead"
Beck: Progressives "started a hundred-year time bomb, they planted it in the early 1900s." Purporting to discuss the history of progressivism, Beck claimed: "I saw their influence. I saw what they set up. They started a hundred-year time bomb, they planted it in the early 1900s." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 1/7/2010]
Beck: "To the day I die, I am going to be a progressive hunter." Telling his audience that they "are going to learn so much on Friday," Beck compared himself to "Israeli Nazi hunters" and commented "I'm going to find these big progressives and to the day I die I'm going to be a progressive hunter." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 1/20/2010]
Beck: Progressives "are sucking the blood out of the republic" and are "gonna start getting more and more violent." On his Fox News show, Beck stated that "the progressive movement is sucking the blood out of the republic" and that their "playbook" is to "lie, cheat, steal." On his radio show, Beck warned that progressive "vampires" have a "taste of blood" and are "gonna start getting more and more violent."
Beck: "Grab a torch." Asserting that politicians are addicted to spending, Beck stated: "When do we ever run those who are bankrupting our country and literally stealing our children's future out of town? Grab a torch." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 1/6/2010]
Beck has long history of violent rhetoric
Beck compares Fox News to Jews during the Holocaust, other news organizations to silent bystanders. On his October 13, 2009, radio show, Beck said: "When they're done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something. The old, 'first they came for the Jews, and I wasn't Jewish.' When you have a question, and you believe that something should be asked, they're a -- totally fine with you right now; they have no problem with you. When they're done with Fox and talk radio, do you really think they're going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? Do you really think that a man who has never had to stand against tough questions and has as much power as he does -- do you really believe after he takes out the number one news network, do you really think that this man is then not going to turn on you? That you and your little organization is going to cause him any hesitation at all not to take you out?"
Beck: "Just pray for protection, please." On his radio show, Beck told his listeners he is "fighting for you and ... your children" and asked them to "pray" for "safety" and "protection." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 9/8/2009]
Beck: "I fear a Reichstag moment, a -- God forbid -- another 9-11, something that will turn this machine on." During an interview with Newsmax.com in which he discussed opposition to Obama's Federal Communication Commission policies, Beck said: "I fear an event. I fear a Reichstag moment, a -- God forbid -- another 9-11, something that will turn this machine on, and power will be seized and voices will be silenced. God help us all.''
Beck: "[Y]ou will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun" and "before I acquiesce and be silent." Beck warned "ACORN, GE, Obama, SEIU" were "awakening a sleeping giant, and I have nothing to do with it," adding:
BECK: America is waking up. You know the American Revolution took place with 12 percent of the population? Twelve. Are you telling me there is not 30 percent of this population that you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I let somebody into my house to tell me how to raise my children; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I acquiesce and be silent. [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/31/2009]
Beck: "This game is for keeps"; "[Y]ou can shoot me in the head ... but there will be 10 others that line up." Asking his audience to "pray for protection," Beck claimed that "the most powerful people on the planet on the left" were "not going to go away easy" because "[t]his game is for keeps. This is who controls the United States of America and its destiny." He went on to state, "Just pray for protection, please." Beck subsequently stated:
BECK: You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never -- you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land. Period. And no matter what you want to call it, it is a totalitarian state that you're headed towards. [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/8/2009]
Beck pours gasoline on "average American," asks, "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?" Beck claimed to be imitating Obama while pouring liquid from a gasoline can -- which he later stated was water -- on an "average American." Beck said during his demonstration: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We didn't vote to lose the republic." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 4/9/2009]
Beck: "There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America": "God help us in an emergency." Beck stated that "there is a revolution, and they think they can get away with it quietly." Beck further claimed, "At this point, gang, I'm not sure, they may be able to because they are so far ahead of us. They know what they're dealing against; most of America does not yet. Most of America doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America, and the way it is done, it has been done through the -- the guise of an election, but they lied to us the entire time." He also said, "And they're gonna say, 'we did it democratically,' and they are going to grab power every way they can. And God help us in an emergency." [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/31/2009]
Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires, suggests "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." Beck aired a graphic portraying Obama and Democrats as vampires and said, "The government is full of vampires, and they are trying to suck the lifeblood out of the economy." Beck then suggested "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 3/30/2009]
No one here has shown what Beck has said to be untrue or shown any conection between conservatism and the evil that Hitler brought. "Liberals believe people are generally good and we should use government to help everyone". Really, well I don't want your help and it looks like the voters in MA don't want it either.
GOOD DAY
Capm
He says expanded government leads to these things but as we all know that's false. The democratic governments in all those places were dissolved and replaced with dictatorships. Dictators want the people to follow their brand of morality or face severe consequences. That's a conservative mindset (conservatives in this country want to replace the Construction with the Bible and force people to follow their brand of morality or else). Also, police powers and prison populations tend to expand during republican administrations. As more prisons are being built, republicans need to increase the power of law enforcement agencies and institute Draconian legislation in order to fill prison cells.
Finally, what all these dictators have in common is their paranoia - everyone and everything is out to get them and they must suppress. Conservatives see boogie men everywhere and are stacking up their guns to, I guess, kill those who they think are a threat.
Mr Beck, which side of the policical discourse is violent?
So it is the message, it always is.
That would be Vince to you ... "gotta love his nuts" ... oh yeah that's that mini food processor thingie he also hawks. :-) LMFAO!!!
The 'Slap Chop'? Sounds like what someone should do with Beckie.
What legislation was it that got rammed down peoples throat, I forgot?
"But ramming legislation down people's throat doesn't work."
Nobody is doing such a thing.. and that line is nothing more then a Fox Talking point. Anyone with a Brain can see that Fox Does nothing for its "Fans" but Brainwash with catchphrases, Repeating, Over and over till you fools believe it.
The MAJORITY of AMERICANS ( As with MOST PEOPLE ) Want Health care..
I am so saddened by how easy the uneducated seem to believe anything they are told.. and are able to have others who are so apathetic they follow anything.. follow right along,
Is the US Doomed? Dear god what is happening?
I have not posted in a couple months.. Just been in Shock. Just Shock..
I listen To Rush and Watch Fox.. ( Please Note I am an Anarchist ) And can't understand how other don't see what MONSTERS they are.. Beck is WRONG ALWAYS! Rush IS EVIL! FOX IS Damaging the U.S.
TeaBaggers Are FOOLS and Being Educated is NOT a Bad thing OR being Elite!
I have NOTHING but Explatives to say past here so will stop now..
I love MM. Thank you all for your Post.. And you Rightwing *&#^% Need to OPEN YOUR EYES!! Get Educated.. STUDY History.. Beck can Quote ANYTHING he wants from the Founding Fathers.. He is interpreting it incorrectly! WAKE UP!!!
Oh, and if you're saying that the hate talkers have a "conservative" message . . . nah, not so much. The only "message" they have is "listen to me and boost my ratings so that I can make more money." They don't HAVE messages, they just kind of make it up as they go.
Yes, it is terribly said, indeed.
Now what this really tells us is there are 20 million people who are most likely certifiable or, at the very least, in desperate need of some type of psychiatric help.
As for Air America, most progressives don't live vicariously through a whack job like Beck and therefore actually have a life and are rational productive members of their communities. So, if your point is a business went off the air and is filing for chapter 7 like thousands of others and that somehow we will be lost without them then I would say you are sadly mistaken.
But now that the Democrats are in control, the same tools making hay about a small fry shoot off his mouth regularly use violence-laden analogies targeting Democrats, and this is on TV, not a random internet post.
Randy
I still support Obama and that's all there is to it.
In a normal world that would anger conservatives.
Somewhere, someone must have done a study. They must have determined that, for psychological reasons, some people don't require a counter-argument. All they need is the proper tone of voice, and repeated assertions about the 'evil' of 'they' or what 'they' are 'doing'. So long as the proper code words are sprinkled into the patter, they will simply accept the assertions as fact, especially when the assertions tend to reinforce their world view. Excited by the possibilities this offered, Glenn Beck could then be offered as the final proof of concept. Now the researchers are just trying to see how far they can go.
Absolutely... It the same as when he says, "I don't want to believe this, but..." or "I'm not saying he's racist, but this guy is racist."?????
Please don't be violent... but take your guns, grab a torch... yadda yadda yadda
I saw Mr. Beck's special. He didn't compare classical liberalism to fascism -- that's absurd. He was comparing modern liberalism with other collectivist ideologies and pointing out the obvious familial resemblances. Do you think that Mr. Goldberg is the first to write about this? There have been many such books with bland titles and bland cover jackets that only get read by academics making many of the same observations. I remember a quote from Hitler praising Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal. Those of you interested in proving me wrong are welcome to google New Deal and Hitler. You'll eventually come across the quote. Of course Adolph and Benito supported the New Deal from across the pond; the New Deal was in keeping with their collectivist philosophies.
Breathtakingly ignorant.
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Actually, no. Completely wrong. Go take an economics class and actually learn what communism means. Then check a dictionary about collectivism
He does? He has been dead for 33 years now.
Who wants to take away the guns, Conservatives or Progressives?
Unless you count the brotosaurus howitzers, tactical nukes, satellite lasers, adamantium jacketed hollow point tank killers, and other ridiculously overpowered weapons some conservatives like to hunt with that give progressives pause. (yes I'm being a little sarcastic)
Nice try though.
Though I am anti-gun. Most people cite safety as why they would have a gun, but this safety wouldn't be so much an issue if others didn't have guns. The logic is messed, because it's saying by letting everyone have weapons, the country would be safer (sort of like MAD) than if no one had guns. Someone is bound to break the stalemate.
Nazism as a whole was a reaction to social movements that were happening at the time such as socialism and communism. Don't forget that the Nazi's perverted Darwinism largely in the same way modern conservatives do today to argue against social welfare - the idea of capitalism being the "survival of the fittest".
Boing......NOTHING!!!
What I find shocking is all the hateful, personal, attacks the left produces when they can't win an arguement. Well, tht explains the bye bye to Air Anti-America
His Skousen inspired paranoid delusions of seeing commies everywhere would be cute if he wasn't so dangerous.
Is the man being disingenious or trying a little satire?
It seems as if everyone on this site knows more of Beck's inner thoughts than Beck himself. You guys are experts on Beck, aren't 'cha?
The nut case is constantly equating the president's administration with some of the most brutal regimes in history. Some of his gun toting nut case followers may attempt to stop such an administration so yes he wants the president assassinated.
I watched with my dad the other night. He's a conservative libertarian (although he tends to be more socially liberal--pro-gay marriage and stuff like that). We have a lot of fun arguing about politics. But anyways, while we were watching my dad turned to me and goes (direct quote), "That man would have you believe it's time to get your gun".
And by all accounts, the first progressive seemed to know a thing or two about violently repressing free thought during his time in office...
Speaking truth to/about progressive with a shout out to the millions of people that progressivism/socialism/communism has literally loved to death in the 1900's!
To your second comment, rights usually get thrown under the bus in times of war. Have you already forgotten the Bush era?
Also, you fail to mention that the author of this article is name Joseph Stromberg and he is the JoAnn B. Rothbard Historian in Residence at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is of German heritage and this fact probably made him skew his article to portray those "helpless" Germans in a more sympathetic light.
However a lot of bad apples amongst conservatives have been demonstrated on a regular basis.
In the end, however, not everyone from either side are good or bad people. They have different views, but that does not mean they can fit exactly on a linear scale.
Not necessarily exclusive. How about A Beautiful Mind?
Med Mat seems to be making this Beck fellow a national hero/villain/phenom. Why cover every word he says, don't you think he get enough coverage. If telling the truth was important our Presidents would never speak in front of a camera, ever.
http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/glenn-becks-documentary-on-the-collectivists-marxists-socialists-progressives-communists-fascists-national-socialists-progressive-radical-socialists-of-the-democratic-and-republican-parties/
The documentary lumps together communists, nazis and progressives.
Although the information is disturbing, it is available from other historical sources. Beck says Nazis and Communists in Russia and other places were nasty people who killed off a lot of their own citizens. But that's history not news. There were people in America who spoke highly of Nazis and Communists--Hitler, stalin, Mao, Che Guevara--So what? Dictators, no matter what you label them apparently suffer from the same paranoia and nastiness toward people.
What Stalin and Hitler said were similar. So what? They had the same methods. So what? There were prominent Americans that lauded them. So What? All that shows is that nasty people in charge are nasty people and that Some Americans over the years have been misinformed and have spoken highly of these nasty people in power--that will still continue.
Beck labels and says that Communists and Nazis are similar. Any idiot can come to that conclusion. Beck shows Reagon as saying that government is the problem--and says that is the conservative, right wing approach--implying that non right wingers advocate government and by implication methods of totalitarian dictatorships.
If Beck had any brains, he would conclude that all dictatorships are similar, that labels are unimportant, and that it is the methods and not the labels that we should look at for historical perspective. What about the dictatorships in Saudia Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, for example, are similar.
He will not conclude that these governments lie and ignore what we call civil rights. He will also not conclude that far right and far left governments often use the same repressive techniques. He will certainly not conclude that his methods of lying, fear mongering, paranoia, name calling are more like the tactis of repressive regimes than any tactics of the Obama administration. He will not also conclude that his ideology is in any way similar to those repressive regimes, as his supposed documentary points out.
"Set the record straight," indeed.
Dippy Beck's dippy source, Jonah Goldberg, doesn't cite nor reference (in his laughable screed) even one Italian source nor one German source. How can anyone even make the claim with a straight face that they are attempting an historical explanation of fascism without consulting the primary sources from those countries where fascism was the ruling order?
Fascism was an ultra-nationalist, uber-patriotic, militaristic (and wildly enthusiastic for unprovoked 'preemptive' wars), violently repressive of dissent, violently hostile to diversity (of all kinds) to the point of openly denying the inherent worth and dignity of all humans (a canonical truth for all Liberals), and were violently disdainful of intellectualism, learning, and the arts. Who is it in this country that sounds more like this than the Reich Wing?
It is Reich Wingers who burn books, murder gays, murder liberals (in their churches, no less), murder doctors who refuse to follow their peculiar religion's nonsense, murder outspoken civil rights leaders (and workers), murder liberal radio hosts (Alan Berg), and it was Reich Wingers who cheered on the launch of an unprovoked 'preemptive' war based on lies and cheered on the widespread torture and murder-by-torture of innocents just because they were scary-brown-and-hairy and reject the divinity of Jesus.
Just this short list shows Fascists to be more akin to the Reich Wing than anything on the political Left.
2. A lot of conservatives were advocating that we drop nukes on the Middle East? How many is "a lot"? Who are these supposed conservatives? Can you find quotes? Even if you do find one weirdo who claims to be a conservative, is that really enough to characterize the entire movement?
If you think Bush was a conservative you need to research conservatism more. Bush was no conservative.
Ugh. Really? That's your greatest argument in proving Bush governed as a conservative?
Unfortunately, he governed like Reagan, with predictably disastrous results. It was only when it became too hard to defend Bush without looking like a complete fool that righties started saying that Bush wasn't really a conservative.
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He didn't know how to spell it.
Other conservatives would disagree with you. Bush remains relatively popular with conservatives and very popular with Republican conservatives. Social conservatives, neoconservatives, big business conservatives, and country club conservatives all got pretty much everything they wanted from Bush.
The big complaint is the fiscal irreponsibility, which, judging by recent history is a feature of conservative presidencies, not a bug. Remember, when a conservative is president, deficits don't matter.
Reinhard
Support the War! Raise Taxes!
Our best strategy is to keep the vision of people like Bernard Shaw secret until the police state grid is fully in place and Americans are fully impoverished. Only when there is no escape can this great new society arise.
We are all complicated individuals and we are rarely all one way. I don't like Ford's political ideas, but he invented manufacturing on a large scale--and his methods were improved. Lindberg is an American hero. G. B. Shaw was a great English writer. I have become more sensitive to a lot of groups. It is said that under Mussolini, the trains ran on time--one positive aspect of the regime.
I abhor Beck's current positions, but maybe he's nice to his dog.
What was the soviet genocide becky talks about? Is he referring to the gulag or the purges? I really dont think anyone is trying to hard to hide the atrocities committed by stalin. I mean it is all over US history books. I have never, ever heard anyone say that stalin was a good leader or made the USSR better in some way.
Becky thinks that someone is hiding info about the USSR nearly 20 years later? One, why would they? Two, no one actually respects any of the soviet leaders enough to conceal the truth if an atrocity was committed? And three, there is a tremendous amount of info out there on how bad the soviet union was. Unfortunately, it was a totalitarian dictatorship that has nothing to do with liberalism or progressivism in america. Just look at a source as readily accessible as wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag describing everything from conditions of the work camps to the number of people deported and exiled, to the influence and each period in which it played a role in the USSR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge discusses the sweeping purges enacted by stalin. This article also has tremendous detail.
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism, wikipedia goes so far as to say stalinism is ALMOST NEVER used in a positive light. And was more like red fascism than socialism or communism.
What does beck know after his high school social studies classes that the pHDs in history and life-long academics of history dont know...
1. You can't spell. I know it's the web, but if you can't spell and use capitalization correctly, you are automatically dismissed. Get it together, please!
2. You quote Wikipedia incessantly. Don't you know that Wikipedia articles about historical figures are distorted by "facts" from both the fanboys and the detractors of such figures? Just look up Che Guevara for an example.
3. You somehow think a PhD or academic in history is an "expert". Puhleeze. Nobody in academia has ever experienced real life in the countries they study. Try to sell a heart monitor to India. Try to sell steel to Japan. Try to sell Google to China. Try to sell Fords to Russia. Academics don't know a thing about the history of these nations. They simply regurgitate. I'd rather listen to a salesman in a pub than an academic at a university...I'll learn a helluva lot more.
Oh, wait. He did. Automatically dismissed.
Kind of depends upon you point of view doesn't it?
Am concerned about your definition of Progressive! Progressive doesn't mean change from the status quo rather it is a belief that government should control everything. Progressive term was abandoned in favor of the term Liberal somewhere in the late 20's - 30's.
Believe that if you use the "Government control everything" definition you can link Tryanny, as total government control, to the Progressive ideals of the early 20th century.
So what is your definition of Progressive?
Here is one to look at:
"Progressives looked beyond the world they lived in to advocate for a new economic order, something different from either capitalism or communism. In bold, confident terms, Progressivism argued that an activist government should exercise economic sovereignty and engage in economic planning, and regulate, nationalize, or abolish the great industrial corporations of the day."
Quote from another source and best summarizes what is available.
Kind of sounds like the way Presidents and Congresses have and are acting. And I hope you don't describe yourself as this type of Progressive.
Kids, don’t try this at home – its moronic but here goes anyway:
Beck is a Mormon, right? Mormons have a past of racial discrimination against African Americans. Hitler also discriminated against racial groups. Also many Mormons are conservative republicans. The modern conservative republican movement traces back to Nixon’s “southern strategy” which allied with disaffected Whites who resisted civil rights. Woodrow Wilson resisted civil rights… Remember Wilson = Hitler/Stalin…
This might be a fun game but it belongs in the sand box. I certainly don't think this way because its distorted, hateful and disfunctional.
Progressives tend to see a government role in society, so do totalitarians, authoritarians, petty authoritarians, police, entrepreneurs, teachers, social workers, pastors etc…
It must be a lonely world to think you are surrounded by violent commie fascist progressives. Everywhere you go... surrounded...
You only serve one purpose-to keep sites like media matters alive. They, just like Fox News feed the fires of national division.
The most obvious shortcoming of mankind is that he will always seek out an enemy to justify his existence.
How morally bankrupt is that...
Go do something that honestly benefits your nieghbor instead of calling them names.
Our military, political and economic system systematically enslaved blacks, committed genocide on American Indians, killed millions in the Philippines, killed millions in Vietnam, killed over 250,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, supported corrupt drug cartel dictatorships throughout Latin America that committed mass killings on the populous and brought drugs into the U.S., continue to support corrupt regimes throughout the middle east, Asia, and Africa that continue to suppress the populous, and killed thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the real history of the United States of America that is hidden or glossed over in our history books. Progressives are the ones who understand this history and want to change our future.
And I also don't see anyone else debunking ridiculous Hollywood types getting national coverage in their Che shirts. You know, the Michael Moores and musicians of our country who are getting face time with our kids teaching them how great Castro's Cuba is? Where's the outrage on that?
Same goes for Rush "I got a Jew friend" Limbaugh.
Reinhard
Do you know for who? The article conveniently left out the fact Beck said please pray for the president and the secret service. Fact is there are violent, radical leftist extremists (Bill Ayers among others) and he claimed if Obama became more centrist he risks upsetting them.
Yes, Glenn did suggest that progressives are prone to violence. This article however says nothing to try and disprove that, and in fact lists a number of quotes supporting it! Does someone want to point out any actual conservative misinformation here? I can't find any, all I see are a bunch of (if I am to believe the article) controversial but entirely true quotes (if mischaracterized and taken out of context) by Glenn Beck!
Those "dirty hippies" the "right-wing" used to lampoon all the time? They were supposedly "left-wing" and they were anti-war. They were a fairly large movement too
Not to mention most of the progressive movements of recent times are anti-violence. How is that prone?
A little violence never hurt anyone, did it Marge?
Reinhard
So easy a caveman can do it.