Hypocrisy: Beck says progressives resort to name-calling, shouting, and accusations of racism
During an event for their Bold Fresh Tour, portions of which aired during the January 25 edition of Fox & Friends, Bill O'Reilly asked Glenn Beck why progressives "want to hurt us," and Beck replied: "If you can't win the argument, you have to shout them down, you have to call them racist, you have to call them names. You have to do whatever it is you have to do." In fact, Beck himself has a history of calling people, including President Obama, "racist," shouting at those who disagree with him, and resorting to calling progressives names like "evil," socialists, communists, and Marxists.
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Beck says those "against" him "can't win the argument," so they resort to shouting, race-baiting, name-calling
From the Bold Fresh Tour, aired on the January 25 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
O'REILLY: Why do you think there's a level of hatred against you and against me that there is? I mean, look, I was kidding about Bill Maher before. I don't hate Bill Maher. I like --
BECK: I don't either.
O'REILLY: I mean, he's not my kind of guy, but I don't want to hurt him. I don't, you know -- I'll make fun of him. But these people want to hurt us. They want to hurt us. Why do you think that is?
BECK: I think because that's the only way you can win the argument. Look, I mean --
O'REILLY: But they can't win the argument.
BECK: No, I know that. So what do you do? It is -- I mean, it's why Woodrow Wilson put thousands of Americans behind bars. If you can't win the argument, you have to shout them down, you have to call them racist, you have to call them names. You have to do whatever it is you have to do. If that doesn't work, the revolutionary way is as Robert Creamer -- as I pointed out on the show. Here's a guy who went to prison for embezzlement -- has designed the progressive blueprint that Obama is using. David Axelrod says that. In a newspaper article when I expose him, he says that we must do whatever we have to do, whatever it takes, to shut him down. Well, what do you think that means?
O'REILLY: Yeah. No, OK, I think that's a good answer. There's no other reason for it -- other than jealousy.
Beck has called both Obama and Sotomayor "racist"
Beck called Obama a "racist." After a week of race-baiting in July 2009, Beck said during an appearance on Fox & Friends that Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." After being reminded that Obama has numerous white staffers, Beck contradicted himself, stating, "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem," before going on to state, "This guy is, I believe, a racist." Beck later said on his radio show that he "stands by" his comments that Obama is a "racist," adding, "I deem him a racist by his own standard, the standard of the left."
Beck called Sotomayor a "racist." Beck has also called Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor a "racist" on at least three separate occasions.
Beck routinely stoops to name-calling
Beck routinely calls progressives names like Marxists, "vampires," and communists. Beck has repeatedly smeared progressives and Democratic leaders with his long history of calling them communists and Marxists; for example, on his radio show, Beck concluded, "I do believe that Barack Obama is a socialist" who "has Marxist tendencies." Beck has also portrayed progressives as "vampires" who can only be stopped by "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers," and obsessively compared Democrats in Washington to Nazis and fascists and "the early days of Adolf Hitler." He wondered, "Is this where we're headed?" while showing images of Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin; decoded the secret language of Marxists; and compared the government to "heroin pushers" who were "using smiley faced fascism to grow the nanny state."
Beck in 2010: More of the same name-calling. This month alone, Beck has said that Ted Kennedy lived a "long and evil life," said the progressive movement is "evil," compared it to Italian fascism, and compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "Fire Marshal Bill" before asking whether she "had more plastic surgery." Beck has also suggested that Obama is a "slave master" and compared him to Hugo Chavez; said progressives and liberals are anti-Israel and "anti-Jew, in many ways"; and again compared progressives to "vampires" who have a "taste of blood" and are "gonna start getting more and more violent."
Beck's own book is called Arguing with Idiots. In his 2009 book, Arguing with Idiots, Beck purports to engage in an ongoing debate with an "idiot" who supports positions with which Beck disagrees.
Beck once shouted down a caller who disagreed with him, called her a "pinhead"
Beck "lose[s]" his "mind;" screams at caller: "Get off my phone you little pinhead!" On the July 15, 2009, edition of Beck's nationally syndicated radio show, Beck ranted at a caller who disagreed with his position on universal health care. After the caller asked him, "What would you do to change this health care system for the better?" Beck screamed, "Get off my phone. Get off my phone, you little pinhead. ... I'm going to lose my mind today."
Get a job on Fox, for example.
You know... where it's considerd "journalism" to "shout them down," "call them names," cry about reverse-racism, etc...
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He's also called us "Vampires" but I can't imagine he even sees himself when HE looks in the mirror!
God, if you read the whole context, he's talking about how the progressives try to win arguments, not the way conservatives should do it. Anyone that has ever listened to him knows that so much of what he says is sarcasm, and many times he is describing how the other side, the progressive/liberal side works. I can tell by comments made here and by the cherry picking of Glenn's comments above that these folks don't listen and don't have a since of humor.
And it doesn't appear that you can "tell" anything.
Watch David Horowitz get shouted down...again. There are 100 more videos just like it on YouTube.
We like DEBATE, we like FREE SPEECH, what we don't like is a news organizatiopn broadcasting demonstrably false propaganda and shouting people down. And yeah... we don't like to see a whole bunch of people protesting about things they don't even understand, and can't even articulate, armed with that same misinformation.
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Projection is all you people are any good at!
And you can't be serious about "FREE SPEECH" if you align yourself with MMfA where the ultimate goal is the silencing of those with whom it disagrees. That is censorship.
More hate spews out of left wing blogs, cable and talk shows than on any conservative talk show. Keith Olbermann is a good place to start. I would guess that you have never watched O'Reilly, or Hannity or listened to Rush.
Seriously, get with the times. Michael Moore isn't the name you use, apropos of nothing, to get wingnuts to foam at the mouth; it's "ACORN" or "Reverend Wright".
Perfect description of Fox and hate talk radio. "Pinhead," "dweeb," "gnats," . . . . those are some of O'Reilly's favorites. Just ask Fairliberal . . . she repeats his words verbatim.
Marc Steyn is a progressive?
I know you can see that.
You can wish the site would do all sorts of things. Think they'll stay with the mission statement though.
WTF knows ? Beck and his fans communicate in half-baked sentence fragments, and seem completely unable to see the idiocy of their "arguments", no matter how clearly it's pointed out.
And they'll see my use of the word "idiocy" above as "name calling", but Beck's ridiculous use of Nazi and socialist as "analysis". There's just something wired wrong in the wingnut brain.
For example, there are several threads over the past few days related to Beck's crockumentary trying to equate liberals and Nazis. Right below these items are comment threads with a lot of good logic and reasoning explaining why Beck's premise is ridiculous.
There are also some beck fans, using feelings and confusion, trying and failing to support Beck's wacky ideas.
So where does the Beck fan wind up today ? On an item about some brand new, clearly hypocritical remarks by Beck, demanding to know why the "message" that is already chopped up and put in the dumpster is not being addressed here.
I think the idea is just to be as much of an idiot as humanly possible. Eventually, somebody is going to call them an idiot, then they can pretend that there's nothing but name-calling coming from the other side.
Beck's program was completely revisionist, dishonest and factually incorrect. The fact that you don't see that is frightening and very, very sad for our country. The fact that you believe that this uneducated, dishonest ZOO RADIO DJ has a CLUE about what he's talking about is very frightening and very, very sad for our country.
BTW, did Beck's program have anything about the neo-conservative movement in his program? No? Why not? His fellow Fox entertainers, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, are adherents to the neo-conservative movement which was formerly known as "neo-classical liberalism" and which is based upon the teachings of Leon Trotsky, a Marxist. Why is it that Fox has these Trotskyites on their network? Does that mean that Fox is a MARXIST network???????? Why does Beck allow himself to be in close proximity with a bunch of MARXISTS??????? Does that mean that Beck is a MARXIST, too????
Beck is an uneducated, narcissistic, lunatic tool.
I'll repeat, this man is an uneducated, dishonest, narcissistic tool, and he is very, very dangerous. Even more dangerous are folks like you who believe his dishonest, factually/historically incorrect revisionist history that he has gleaned from the rantings of a man that the FBI AND the Mormon Church thought was a total NUTJOB.
What is more sad is you think your a conservative, when really your just a sad lonely liberal trying to be what your not.
Oh, and I'm not lonely at all, in fact, I have a very, very full and happy life. You, sir, if you believe that Glen Beck is a) a conservative, b) sane and c) truthful in his comments, you are not a conservative. You are simply a Fox/hate talk radio groupie.
Did you have a chance to answer my questions regarding the neo-conservative/Trotskyite/Marxists who are regulars on Fox? Do some research on neo-conservatism . . . if you agree with those folks, you are most ASSUREDLY not a "conservative."
Bi, how many times must we tell you, we base our own opinions by listening to many individuals, reading and doing research. What is sad around here is that you and many others think MMFA gives you the truth. Not the case.
FYI, Fox has many individuals on their show, and yes Since Obama has been on the channel, your correct some Marxist have been on, Bush is a Neo Conservative much like McCain. Based on my choices in past elections, would Take Bush over Kerry and Gore and McCain over Obama.
In simple terms I like Beck for his views on smaller government, he is correct on these cases and the past Adminstartions. He was not a big Bush Fan cause of his spending and open boarders. I do not like the federal government getting into my daily life and the health care bill would have done just that more then any past bill. Before you all yell and scream about all the other big government areas and did I complin then YES. If I could vote for a President that would come in and start tearing all of these programs down, re-evlauate any that offer true care or help to those that are unable, and start pulling our support to any country that does not support us, pull ALL of our troops home from foreign land (do it slow, not over night) and get back to the Constitution.
Wow, Dude. Wow.
(markbfoot)
You're doing it wrong.
...and then discarding anything that does not advance our agenda.
Also the source of 0 (zero)
You just proved my point, you can't read. I said that Beck has "gleaned" his false crap from the "rantings of a man, Skousen, that the FBI AND the Morman Church thought was a total NUTJOB. Learn to read and comprehend, bub.
The Marxists I am speaking of who have regular spots on Fox are William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. McCain is not a neo-conservative and neither is Bush. Bush really doesn't give a flip one way or the other. He would have preferred to be the Commissioner of Baseball. I'll repeat, you have absolutely no concept of the "isms" Beck is spewing about.
Neo - (used as a combining form) recent or new
Conservative - 1. A person who has conservative ideas or opinions.
Bush and McCain wanted to bring all folks into the Conservative movement, Big Tent. Sorry, that would be the New Idea of a Conservative.
I am old school, less government, less spending. Bush & McCain were not. Hence Neo-Conservative.
Bush and McCain are not neo-conservatives as that ideological term is defined.
I imagine other entries, like;
Stupid (adj.) Somebody what am stupid.
So, no, I would not like to call that about Webster. Whatever that means.
Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer are not Marxist if that is the case then Obama is a pure Communist. If you are going to make things up, so can I.
“(Skousen) was years ahead of his time,” Beck wrote. “And our founders were thousands of years ahead of their time. My hope is that all Americans young and old will spend time with this book to understand why we are who we are. The words of our Founding Fathers have a way of reaching across any political divide.”
If you can read this, you will understand.
One more time, the neo-conservative movement, of which William Kristol's father, Irving, is considered the "Godfather," is a political ideology based upon the teachings of Leon Trotsky, a MARXIST. It was formerly known as "neo-classical liberalism." William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld, Steve Forbes, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Gary Bauer [and many others] were all members of the NEO-CONSERVATIVE think tank known as Project for the New American Century. As adherents to a political/social ideology based upon the teachings of Leon Trotsky, a MARXIST, they are, by extension, MARXISTS.
Do your research.
Malcom X
Martin Luther King
Well, the FBI must be right.
RESEARCH, mark, before you BELIEVE.
Chi - Cold Blood Murder
The Chairman - Cold Blood Murder
Hitler - Cold Blood Murder
All of the folks about also think that the government knows best for you, if you disagree with them, DEAD.
Also, the show was about Progressives, not Neo-Conservative movement. You are more then welcome to make your own.
Unbelievable. You actually ARE one of the dangerous folks who listens to Beck and believes him WITHOUT QUESTION. Scary, buddy, really, really scary.
So on the Christmas Tree at the White House there was not a Ornament with Chairman Chao picture?
The Former Director of Communications did not say she follows the teaching of Chao? I give her kudos for Sister Theresa
The list goes on, but would be happy to inform you of all of Obama circle that believe the same. I hope Obama is not listening to them, much like his past preacher he had for 20 years, not listening but just sitting there looking good.
The ornament, which was not selected by nor added by the President, was created by a local community group and had a decoupaged copy of Andy Warhol's silkscreen of Mao on it. If you knew anything about the silkscreen, it was making FUN of Mao. It was one of EIGHT HUNDRED ornaments sent out to local community groups. The Obamas didn't even KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM, mark.
As for the other comment, if you actually READ what was actually SAID, you would have seen that the comment made by the communications director was said IN JEST.
Try READING!
And yes, people who are so ignorant that they believe the rantings of an uneducated, zoo radio DJ who has said that he is a "borderline schizophrenic" scare the beegies out of me. You're dangerous.
Oh, you mean that a replica of a silkscreen of Mao, made by Andy Warhol, was on an ornament.
A piece of art done by Warhol that made fun of Mao?
An ornament that was an homage to Warhol's works of art in a museum? It wasn't celebrating Mao at all. It was celebrating a local point of interest, a museum that has some of Warhol's works in it. It was one of the many replicas of artworks included on that ornament.
So, Warhol mocks Mao, and that mocking silkscreen of Mao gets replicated on an ornament and sent to the White House to be put on one of 37(?) trees in the White House, and somehow in your twisted brain it means that Obama reveres Mao?
It's MAO, you idiot. And it was Andy Warhol's portrait of him, where he's wearing ROUGE. Is that how you express admiration of people? By having an openly gay artist emasculate them?
No, she didn't. And again, I really can't believe you think his name was "Chao".
Oh, and if Beck left out the neo-conservative movement, he left out a whole crew of Trotskyite/Marxists who advocated the cold blooded murder of many, many thousands of innocent Iraqis. Those folks have regular seats on your propaganda network of choice, Fox.
Nice try, but, once again, you are showing your ignorance. Try reading and turn off Fox and hate talk radio. They do not represent conservatism and they do not represent truth.
Progressive
Adjective
1. Favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools".
2. Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action).
3. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases.
4. Gradually advancing in extent.
5. Advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"
Each one of those leaders felt that they knew what was best for the common man (much like you right now) and they were wrong and millions died from it.
They did not start out as Dictators, they were able to sell a bill of goods to folks, get them to follow them over time felt they were the smartest person in the room. (hmm sounds like you also) If you did not agree with them DEAD. Simple.
I think people are idiots who ACT like idiots. I think people who pretend to have knowledge of something that they quite clearly do not are ignorant. I think someone who may or may not have graduated from high school pretending that he has knowledge of the crap he is spewing when he does not is uneducated.
I think someone who supports the unadulterated and very, very dangerous BULL that Beck spews day in and day out WITHOUT QUESTION is both ignorant [unread] and very, very dangerous. He is also NOT a conservative.
BTW, I'm "Ms. Look Down my Nose on ignoramuses like you."
I know, we are idiots, we do not have your degrees or education. I will let Microsoft Chairman know he is a idiot as well.
Yes and since we do not watch MSNBS, CNN, ABC News, 20/20, NPR and related shows, we must be clueless.
Oh well, you win, you are smarter then all of us. Ms Dictator, what should we do, we follow just you now. I am sure if we do not follow you, you will just Kill us like your hero's of Mao Tse-Tung, Castro, Che Guevara, Hitler, Stalin. I coward, I do not want to die.
I don't watch much cable opinion programming, don't watch ABC News, 20/20 or "related shows," whatever that means. I occasionally listen to our local Christian University's programing on NPR . . . which is, I might add, associated with the Independent churches of Christ, which is the uber-conservative church I attended for many years before my divorce. They don't look too favorably on divorced women, so I changed churches.
I'm not smarter than "all of you," mark, but I READ and I don't sit around listening to an UNEDUCATED man wax philosophical on subjects of which he knows NOTHING and BELIEVE him.
None of the folks you mentioned above are my heroes, in fact, I don't know anyone who considers those folks heroes. If you don't want to die, you might want to re-think your listening habits. See, you are convinced that, because I don't believe that Beck is a conservative, I'm a "liberal" or a "progressive." Beck has declared war on "progressives." What are you going to do when one of Beck's deranged followers decides that, because you don't believe what they believe 100%, that you, too, are a progressive or a liberal? Do you see the danger in Beck's uneducated and uninformed rantings? I'd suggest that you re-read the poem that Beck quotes incorrectly.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out.--Martin Niemoller, January 6, 1946.
If you think NPR is something to watch, then yes, there may be an issue worth addressing with a professional.
All kidding aside, I have no reason to believe you're not a perfectly intelligent person. But you seem to be avoiding facts actively in this discussion. For example, you said that the information in Beck's show was fact. I've shown you that Beck falsely attributed quotes to Marx and Engels, and falsely claimed that the title of his documentary comes from "a line from Karl Marx."
Doesn't it concern you that Beck didn't, can't, or won't verify his claims about the title of his own documentary? If he and his staff didn't even bother to fact-check the title of the special, don't you think that other errors just possibly might be in the show?
Actually, I've had many disagreements with bintx, and have never felt that she was treating me as if I was dumb. Do you think a little personal accountability on your part might be in order here ?
That is, do you think it's possible that you're being treated as dumb because of your unquestioning acceptance of Beck's asinine theories, or your inability to communicate coherently ?
Or is it more comforting to tell yourself there's some sinister, unwarranted reason that people treat you as if you're "dumb" ?
Liberals have trait A.
Conclusion: Liberals are fascists.
Logical fallacy. Argument FAIL.
Obama has a dog
Conclusion: Obama loves Hitler
Beck's popularity is "Idiocracy" come to life. It is indeed frightening that a man that uninformed and intellectually reckless could have a platform to influence millions of people.
–adjective
1. favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters: a progressive mayor.
2. making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community.
3. characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
4. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
5. going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
6. noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.
7. of or pertaining to progressive education: progressive schools.
8. Grammar. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.
9. Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
–noun
10. a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, esp. in political matters.
11. (initial capital letter) a member of a Progressive party.
12. Grammar. a. the progressive aspect.
b. a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it.
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Perhaps we can raffle him off to a third world country--oh wait. America is becoming a third world country.
See article in (paleoconservative?)magazine, the American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/issue/2010/jan/01/
markbfoot can't read
you're making fun of people who can't read.
Hey, I'm Glen Beck !
BTW, how did mbf know you were making fun of him ?
In other words, he seems sincerely unaware that such information is publicly available. He obviously holds the out-of-date but not uncommon view that "FBI files" are only procured by the most powerful politician or the most determined burglar—or an inside leak. IE the ways they are procured on TV. (Not many TV shows us the Freedom of Information Act to get them).
I don't mean this unkindly, but he is ignorant,and as such hold ignorant (uneducated) views, and has probably been made to feel ignorant all his life by people like you, ie people who found his proclamations unsupportable and ignorant and dangerous (which they are).
So when someone like Beck comes along who validates his worldview—and to an uneducated, ignorant mind Beck is assumed to be 'educated' just be dint of being 1) on TV 2) in 'news' and 3) using facts [hard to find facts which means he's got connections!] that support HIS worldview. No wonder so many of the same type of people like him. Beck is a salve to the ignorant ego which the world has been slapping like a red-headed step child since middle-school:
Beck validates their ignorance which, frankly, in their ignorance they don't know how to fix. They think it has to do with 'schooling' and literally don't know enough to know how to know what they don't know.
I give him credit for FINALLY acknowledging his misinterpretation re: 'Beck must also be...' comebacks. Observe, however, what finally motivated him to read more carefully: NOT reasoned arguments and facts, but raw DERISION from the group when his pseudo-intellectualism' got too much to bear.
Note also that once the group stopped trying to 'reason' with him and used common sense logic fallacy examples to mock him (as opposed to merely mocking him)he never came back at you.
Beck is a 'cult' leader and you know how those are made. Logic, reason, etc have little impact in such cases. Cognitive dissonance is required for a change in belief, and, well, in these cases (well-focused and specific) derision seems to do the trick.
I know these things because I am a friend of McGyver, and he gave me Beck's FBI files.
Baloney. There's no evidence that any of the claims in the show were even superficially fact checked. Take this, for example: Beck attributes this quote to Marx in his show:
Now, first of all, it's the People's Paper, and you can read what Marx published on April 16th, 1853 here. No, really, have a look through and see if you can find anything about classes and races and giving way to new ways of life. Beck is just plain wrong on this.
The next quote Beck attributes to Marx is this:
That's weird, isn't it? I mean, why not quote the original source rather than another author's quotation? The article Beck is citing is "In the Interests of Civilization": Marxist Views of Race and Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Diane Paul, and on the author does provide this quote... but attributes it to something Engels wrote in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in a piece called "Der Magyarische Kampf" (The Magyar Fight or the Magyar Struggle) on January 13, 1849. You can also read that here. And again, you will find no trace of the word "holocaust". What he says is, "All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm."
This is not a call for genocide -- this is a prediction that most nations will not last in a world communist revolution.
Beck is simply wrong.
I don't think so. Maybe you're thinking of another bald, heavyset, African-American character actor, Charles Dutton, who did time for manslaughter.
The Chairman - Cold Blood Murder
No, Sinatra never made his bones.
The Chairman - (Mao Tse-Tung) FYI, I think Sinatra was with the mob, so never know.
OMG!!!1! Frank Sinatra was a murderer???
Regardless of how many of Beck's charges are refuted, he'll have twenty more tomorrow.
In the real world, the person making the accusations usually has to back them up. And not by connecting imaginary dots on a blackboard, but with facts.
I'm just asking...
Despite what Beck has been claiming lately progressive is not a pejorative. I never really use the term myself (I'm sticking with liberal) but it's ridiculous to lump progressive in with socialist, communist, Marxist, etc. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with any of those things.
And if YOU have a college education, they should demand your diploma back, since you didn't retain any understanding of the idea of "null hypothesis" or "burden of proof." You can't prove you're NOT something. (How does one rpove they're "not a sicialist" exactly? It can't be done!) That's not up to MMFA to do. The onus is on Beck to make the case, with FACTUAL, OBJECTIVE information. MMFA does not "try to discredit" Beck. They've shown, countless times now, how he's used false statement, made-up "facts", mis-quotes and extrememly questionable interpretations or revisionist history, to make his case.
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I, for one, would LOVE to see any of these clowns (or you) make the case that either of these things, "progressive" in particular, are in fact bad things.
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Get out of your Neo-McCarthy, Jingoistic mode of thinking, and try ACTUALLY thinking for a change. Beck's an idiot. You should really pick a better role model.
Both are guilty!
And then, he did..... :-)
Basically, it's "we are only kidding around and teasing when we call names and make fun of people". Nothing but school yard bully.
So it is OK for YOU to "make fun" of someone? Check.
These people? They?
Who are "these people?" Who are "they?"
How have "they" said "they" want to "hurt" you?
Do "They" want to shoot you with "their" second-amendment-approved guns? Do "they" want to hurt your feelings? Do "they" want to burn you with a cigarette?
GEEZ, Louise! What grade-A insubstantial claptrap!
KEEP ON ROARING INTO THE ECHO CHAMBER, GUYS!
He projects his beliefs and personality onto others and talks them down, completely oblivious to the fact that what he is saying PERFECTLY describes himself.
It's a common way for an extremely narcissistic person to critique himself while not taking the blame for the negatives.
He frequently blames others for the way things are and believes people have "ganged up" against him and those with similar beliefs.
If you don't believe me, just go over the adjectives and phrases he uses to negatively describe others. You'll quickly realize that all those things he negatively criticizes, are "attributes" he displays quite prominently.
It's almost to the point where it's getting hard to hold this guy accountable for what he says, he seems so...ill....and it's a sad thing, really.
He's PROGRESSIVELY getting more and more extreme, in my sole opinion...
Projection.
I would like to introduce you to Mr. Kettle.
I think you both have a lot in common.
Beck is a big fan of the novel "Liberal Fascism". He now quotes it as fact. Beck is a Bircher.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/arts/18liberal.html
Damn it, he was hilarious in 'Waiting'.
Loud and dangerous. Joseph McCarthy R Wisconsin was so much the same as these two who would make the most noise about what they thought would channel hatred at their enemy. Allowed to continue on a vengeance distorting and destroying with that hatred.
No other Senator got as much attention during that era. He was a Right Wing zealot whose witch hunting destroyed may lives as he profited from the glamor.
I see no difference here.
"Fair and Balance"?
They are the news
1. He jumps from one subject to another. Most other commentators at least stand a subject for a number of minutes--Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow-- to name a few. Beck goes from one idea to the next and there is a little coherence between them.
2. He usually talks in vague generalities without mentioning specific details over defining his terms. He does not define "communist," "fascist," or "progressive." He just uses these terms to describe people, mostly Democrats, without much they would lose their delay specifically that allows them to apply those labels to them.
3. He uses emotion as support for his arguments, crying on stage and say in a shaky voice as if he is deeply disturbed "I love my country." By doing so he lies that something terrible is happening in America will collapse fairly quickly.
4. He argues from a general perspective, mentioning a few facts. He said that Pres. Obama was a "racist". . . "with a deep-seated hatred for white culture." There are no facts, no actions of the president by which a normal person can determine whether Beck's opinion of Obama in any way reflects an opinion that a reasonable American would conclude.
In other words, if Beck was a student in my writing class, he would not do very well because he cannot support he says with facts, argues in a generalities, lacks coherence from moment to moment.
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This, coming from Beck is hilarious.Sir, you & your whole damned network of propagandists are a bad joke.