Beck and Malkin decry media 'whitewashing' union 'thuggery'. Then Beck worries about someone doing 'something stupid'
By David Neiwert Tuesday Aug 11, 2009 3:00pm
Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin were all worked up yesterday on Beck's Fox News show about the media's treatment of the town-hall protests. They agreed that the media were ignoring all the "union thuggery" caused by rank-and-file health-care-reform supporters from the SEIU who were showing up at the town halls to counter the right's angry mobs:
Malkin: I think there's a purposeful whitewashing, and a narrative that somehow these unions represent blue-collar workers. That has never been the case. They have never represented the best interest of their dues-paying, card-carrying members. It's always been about enriching and enhancing and aggrandizing the management.
And people need to know what they're up against. You need to know your enemy. The SEIU is 1.8 million members strong. And the dues that they have coerced and squeezed from those members have been poured into Democrats' coffers. Andy Stern, who is the radical social worker turned union heavy, bragged that $80 million of SEIU union dues went to the Democrats in independent expenditures, and a huge chunk of that, of course, directly into Obama's campaign treasury.
Right. Because, of course, Malkin's corporate friends in Republicanland would do so much more to protect the interests of working-class people than unions would.
Malkin's claim that unions have "never" been about helping working-class people is of course grotesquely ahistorical, but fairly typical of corporate shills like Malkin. Indeed, if anyone's doing whitewashing, it's Malkin, who like Beck has airbrushed out of their realities the facts about progressives and unions and the central role they have played in creating the great American middle class upon which these two parasites feast.
But most hilarious is the charge that it's the unions who have introduced violence into this scenario, when in fact the entire tone of these protests from the right has been ugly and violent. The presence of SEIU regulars is essentially in response to the threats fomented by the right. After all, it isn't SEIU members who are calling up teabaggers and threatening them with gun violence -- it's the other way around.
This is underscored by the strange coda that Beck gives at the end of the segment:
Beck: You know, um, I have to tell you I think the clock is ticking, gang. I think everybody needs to back away -- not from your passions, not from what you believe in. You believe in health care, you keep going. You believe it's wrong, you keep going.
But we need to be very, very careful. I fear for the future. Somebody's going to do something stupid and it will change the Republic -- [snaps] -- overnight.
One can only assume that he's referencing his previous plea to his audience not to indulge in acts of violence. And as we can see, he has real reason to be concerned.
But just whose side is it with the propensity for violence and thuggery, Glenn and Michelle?
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that they don't have clue as to what would happen to them if something happens to President Obama.
it wouldn't be pretty.
his 'non-violent' request after he's spent an hour inciting violence, will clear him of any connection when someone is murdered at a Town Hall. He is really stupid. But think of the ratings!
Obama was getting about 30 death threats a week before these two and limpbow begin their screech and factless inflamatory verbiage> Now it is 30 per day..some would believe it is racist --appears so with these people and the rest but Amendment 1, you know---they have to hide it!!
Drawn and quartered would be mild! It would be mild to what will be the beck, malkin, and limpbow fate! And well served!
FOOLS AND LIARS but serve a purpose ---no one likes people who lie to them on a life and death issue like these 'reporters'! Hate is not news to the repubs...they got us here on the economy, bank bailouts and deregulation of finance industry, corporate interests, and Insurance Co!!!
Now republicans want us to believe they are concerned about us..After 14 of the past 16 years in power, why did the repub's not introduce ONE healthcare bill for the people! NOT one by repub's!!!
Talk about screwing seniors.
Ronnie you are so correct. This country would come apart and I am prepared. Are you?
if any of us would be prepared if the country came apart. Guns and MREs only go so far.
Now I'm not a doctor but, look at Michie's eyes. What are the signs of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? Could it just be Brain Damage?
You know, if I tell them not to do something, then they will do it. He's a simpleton who thinks he's clever. Malkin? Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
Do Malkin's eyes ever not look bugged out? She just wears the insane right on her face, kind of like Michelle Bachmann.
..is chock full o' crazy
Isn't it great??
Everyone can see what a wacko she is.
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Nightmare material.
goat.
and what a nice complement to Beck's insane eyes. Did Faux Noise get these two out of a high security crazy institution?
Look at her . . . her eyes . . .
*runs screaming*
now madness and death will follow. the only cure is a mind meld with Spock.
I think the torrent of illogic that would result from a mind meld with Mal-function and Beck would even cause Spock to go insane.
And that picture of Maklin---ewww! Those eyes remind me of someone deranged--like Charles Manson.
malkin's eyes bug out all the time
because in her family, instead of binding
her feet as is her family's custom,
her family bound her head..........lol
but evidently not tight enough.
malkin is filipino.
Ethnic slurs should by confined to silence.
its not about color nor should it be .
Still I would not touch her with a broken rope .
I have said this before but it bears repeating. Conservatives are better than liberals in society. This is how the Beltway sees it so this is what gets rammed down our throats all the time. The MSM loves conservatives & hates liberals because conservatives make better TV & also because they supposedly live better lives than liberals do. Glenn Beck & Michelle Malkin are king & queen pundits of the world & they would love nothing more than to have Sarah Palin become queen of this country...or President.
wet dreams. Most of the conservatives I know are rubes, hicks and poorly educated. I'm not sure who's buying that crap. It's all about controlling the money and they control the money by controlling the stupid.
The SEIU represents the worst nightmare of corporate America--that they might have to pay their maids, gardeners, fast food and retail workers, all service help--a living wage proportionate to their actual productivity. Multinationals really do yank their profits out of the pockets of the poor--check the insurance benefits and wages for front line workers at McLDL's, the MegaMarts, and the Mini-Marts.
What the conservatives actually are doing is controlling the economy to keep the underclasses fighting with each other in fear that the status quo will deteriorate further. Or haven't you noticed that the stock market is recovering nicely, but employment (and corresponding wages and homeowner equities) are stagnant and falling?
He is asking someone to do "something" by saying the opposite.
The lemming world is bass ackward -
the old "wink, wink...nudge, nudge". Righty wingnuts understand those signals...just like all good sheeple.
stifled by the sponsors who are leaving his show in droves. Keep it up people. Keep telling their sponsors you won't buy. The Big Money Men don't want to be associated with this brand of crazy.
Gone are Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson and now Geico. Really. So simple, a caveman can do it.
I read that those sponsers dropped him. About time.
2nd paragraph. it's 5 actually.
Which one of these two is crazier?
It would be interesting to see a SPECT image scan of both their brains - it would be quite revealing I think.
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They have SPECT microscopic image scans?
probably just a brain stem and little else.
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with the election of Obama:
the batshit racist
and their pent-up rage is being fueled by the Becks and the Limbaughs and Republcians. But once one of them blows up another building or takes a shot at a prominent Democrat they will feign shock and disgust. They are real psychopaths.
More like mental midgets have been awakened.
...afterwards, we could take a nice stroll through the park. Then perhaps she could taste some of my special dessert. What a nice lady.
we have bears, wolves, and mountain lions. I wish Malkin and Beck would both visit here. We would like to have them for dinner.
Unions never did anything for American workers???? Eight hour day & 40 hour work week? Paid vacations? Pension plans & medical insurance? Minimum wage? Occupational safety laws?
Name one fucking thing that conservatives or corporations have ever done for workers except kill them, maim them, and mercilessly exploit them.
I wonder if people who work on tv like beck have a union.
Actors Guild maybe. It is theatre after all.
the FOX Theatre Of The Depraved
probably do belong to AFTRA and having worked on one of the benefit accounts I can tell you that they have VERY good benefits and boy do they like to use them.
I think hes represented by FART Feckheads And Rightwing Trolls. They only take 2 bananas a month from Becks salary bunch as dues.
im always thinking the same thing...that these ppl are just realty tv type actors...i think they do a good job of sounding nutty and getting their base/book buyers riled up...but really do u think they believe anything they spew out??? i dont think so. i think its all for their audience and ratings...they really cant be that off...can they?
but that would make them whores. I'm always appalled when people tell me that Rush is an entertainer. I always ask them if making fun of people with debilitating conditions (M.J. Fox) is funny? What if someone made fun of their addled/demented mother or father. This shit is not funny and it's not entertaining unless you're one sick F@#$.
I often wonder if their folks behind the camera and behind the scenes are union members.
ur right...im sure the the crew is part of a union...too funny u'd think of that.
father......They wouldn't care, as long as they get paid handsomely for it. In the land of the conservative wingnut haters, Cash is King!
It's worth noting that when Johnson & Johnson was run by a member of the Johnson family it was very good to its employees. In fact, Johnson Jr. set forth rules that protected the workers and considered them and product quality over and above investor interests.
If only there had been more of them, and if only we had that today.
alot of comments to your questions , i wonder why .
did i read some where in your postings that you are from MT ?
The guy with the gun in New Hampshire said on Hardball that his gun was loaded and if everyone there today was carrying a loaded gun it would have been a safter place.
I hope to hell nothing awful happens at one of these events. I don't care what Beck says now, he has already verbally opened Pandora's box and his attempt to shut it are at the very most, feeble.
this guy was all show and no go , I could of taken this guy out at a 1000 yds , you have to know he was zeroed in , its not those that carry openly rather those that are not seen one should worry about .
... Mrs. Projection, meet Mr. Beck.
Beck should do all his shows into a mirror. If Republicanism is an illness, maybe it will cure him.
Okay, this may be a bit whacky, but I swear, Malkin hates herself for not being born White, male, and with a silver spoon in her mouth. I've never seen anyone work so hard to suck up to rich old white men.
But really, is it any surprise that they blame the unions? Conservatives hate them because unions cost them money by forcing them to treat their employees as (somewhat) human. Employee rights are down in the tank right now because of Bush et al. Still, they won't be happy until they eliminate the unions.
Just wait, there is a nasty fight coming. They want to pick one, but these fat cats and their mouth pieces didn't learn from history what happens when the commoner has enough of the abuses heaped on them by the wealthy elite. Can you say "French Revolution?" I knew you could.
She once spoke in FAVOR of the Asian internment camps.
How does anybody, no matter how stupid, take her seriously?
She once spoke in FAVOR of the Asian internment camps.
Amazing, isn't it. This is the primary reason I say she is a self-hating bitch.
Hell. she wrote a BOOK, “In Defense of Internment.” From her site:
I would love to sit here and call Mrs Malkin names for that hateful hate-filled shit, the way she and her goofy little yes man minionions call people from the left, but really, they just use it against us, in a way that implies they would never call a disagreer names.
"Facts are stupid things"
And the anti-intellectual counter-culture ended years ago.
he meant, "Fact is, I'm a stupid thing."
where Japanense and spent ww2 in the camps , after the war they were our baby sitters , susie and julie would give us rice with sugar and milk , Mr. and Mrs Nagamoto and their family were the kindest people i have ever known .
They are just town hall meetings about insurance. the children will tire soon. they already are getting tired. they told us what they think, and they made sure we all know what they think. that will be enough for almost all of them. [not all of them]
Now they will start picking bits of the plan up - soon they will be all in favor of it and they will take claim for it as their idea.
TOTALLY! You are right. That WILL be the endgame, especially for Republican politicians. At some point, when all is said and done and their whining winds down, they won't be able to resist trying to jump to the front of the parade, trying to elbow Dems and Obama alike to the side. "oh, look what we did! We were responsible for this, that, the other, no thanks to the Dems! Feh! Pooey!"
Oh, man...they will be incorrigible!
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 16:27 — American Populist
Can you say "French Revolution?" I knew you could.
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We give them bad service with attitude when they come to eat?
Just remember to order the clean food.
lets not forget it was " st ronnie the buffoon " that busted the air traffic controllers union , repuncks on your knees , lower your heads , ready swords , procede , case closed period
For awhile I thought folks were intentionally freeze-framing her on moments where she looked crazy - I now realize that it is not possible to have a non-crazy-eyed picture of her.
Not just scary - CRAZY SCARY!
"eye jobs".....maybe she's actually 70 or 80!
Google ads is tossing up 2 ads to get Ann Coulter columns for free!
I'm scarred for life!
AGH!!!
they would have to pay me millions and provide brain cleansing.
There IS a God!
Then Beck worries about someone doing 'something stupid'
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Oops...too late...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkUIg7lqQ1Q
I didn't get a chance to see this eposode of "Insanity," can you tell me if they mentioned this:
I think that this was before they even went to one Town Hall meeting.
Isn't it enough for grimalkin that the world is laughing at her latest book?
Irony is not her strong suit.
WITH her. It's an ego thing.
I contacted ever local union I could find in town and made them aware (some already were) of the town hall meeting our wonderful congresscritter, Randy Neugabuer is going to have.
He may not have such a good time there. Also, my mom got an email today from one of her right wingers about another town hall Randy is going to have, but only his supporters were notified. I will notify the rest.
You're lucky they even perform for you!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06...
Beck and Malkin are moron
he looking all smug & she, well just bat-sh*t crazy.
I think Beck is just trying to cover his sorry a**. Of course he wants something to erupt from one or many of his dumb followers...but he can now point to (count em) 'two times' that he told them 'not to do anything'.
I heard that Geico has pulled their ads from his show now too...keep it coming...target Fox & Beck where their hearts are...their wallets.
I understand that Roger Ailes previous job was as an orderly at Bellvue Mental Hospital
She looks like a fetal alcohol baby
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I think that sums it up.
That exactly sums it up.
Heh. What more does the comment engine want? 'Pretty Please with Sugar on Top.'?
Sargento and GEICO have pulled their ads from Beck's loonie tune program.
Now the UPS Store and Credit Report dot com should be next.
BOOYAH!!!
When Beck's sponsors see or hear about the show he did today, they should all grab their money and run.
...that Glenn and Michelle mated and spawned the PERFECT CONSERVATIVE FRUITCAKE!
Think about what their kids would be like....
'The Bad Seed'...
I imagine their offspring would be Dick Morris
I gagged just a little
:p
Gross.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorn
IMHO.
is his idiosycratic way of wishing it will happen!
Unions have never done anything for the workers? Really Michelle? Really?
The next thing she is going to spout is that internment camps were a good attitude adjustment for Japanese-Americans.
Malkin is hack in search of book sales, she's like the female Coulter
All part of the whole liberal/communist/radical social worker agenda, I suppose, to kill old people and fetuses.
Saw that quote "Somebody's going to do something stupid and it will change the Republic -- [snaps]" and thought, "So Beck's finally snapped, huh? Wonder how they could tell?"
I got a great visual of Beck stopping mid-sentence with a SNAP sound, stupid grin at half mast, eyes bugging out, and he just keels over foaming and spends the rest of his life eating his meals through a straw and painting with poo.
Ooo, that's mean of me. I have hard time wishing that upon even my worst enemies.
arent these public air waves, i guess fox news isnt broadcast in the air, but isnt there a point where you are just totally failing your contract with society and you get your fucking dumb ass shut off and band?
I'd be interested in who owns the actual physical cables, that cable news get broadcast, so not only can we boycott them, but sic this guy on 'em:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiEHAJpGYo0&fe...
The cables are most likely owned by the local cable provider.
Its kind of sticky issue but I would like to see the cables be built and owned by the public. It similar to how the airwaves used to be treated but unfortunately airwaves are being treated like cables.
That's kind of what I was thinking, like Verizon.
But do they own the cables, or rent them, and can they be traced further up?
Afterall, don't they use something like eminent domain of the local government just to lay the cables?
Verizon owns phone wires, and now wireless communications, too. For phones. You guys are kidding, right?
Go here: http://www.essortment.com/articles/owns-cable...
No rules exist any more. Fairness doctrine, etc.
If only a law could be passed allowing the breakup of cable package deals, that if you want to drop one offered channel, you can, and replace it with another.
That way the public could express themselves through the marketplace, without having to drop entire packages or entire companies if you're in an area lucky enough to have more than one.
Malkin - ever notice she always looks like she was just victimized by 'the anal intruder'.
Hay, leave Coulter out of this!
...shirts are union management? I suppose they could be rank-and-file members who have been ordered to show up by management (or, what, have their families tortured and murdered?), but that seems about as likely as Malkin suddenly ceasing to be a vile, racist big-mouthed hypocrite.
On second thought, the former is unlikely, the latter impossible.
Beck is trying so hard to set himself up as the visionary who saw it coming and warned us all. He needs to spend more time at his AA meetings.
until people are loaded onto buses, taken to camps and exterminated in ovens it's hardly appropriate to keep referencing "brown shirts." the nazis were not harassing and terrorizing shop owners and rounding up jews to give them low cost health care! stop comparing fascists to social democrats.
these a-holes are really good at childish hyperbole and bullshit. stop comparing socialism in america to stalinist russia, nazi germany, and maoist ch-(huh, repugs never mention china, i wonder why). Social programs in America resemble socialist programs in similar societies in Europe and ideally Scandinavian countries.
This morning on the radio in Chicago Mancow called it "commie healthcare" wow! Cold War over yet? Someone dig up McCarthy.
I don't know, I'm not sure after the weekend if Americans are buying this stuff from the right anymore. We need to stop picking at scabs, I think the pendulum is swinging back onto our side. Really, no matter what these guys are going to complain, lie, they can't help it. They spurred their listeners to go out and raise hell, but in the end they opened their big fat mouths and made fools of themselves.
The nutters are out in full force, call the white shirts and tell to bring a truck load of the stripped shirts with the extra long sleeves that tie in the back. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_go_...
There is not a full deck of cards between these two.
Damn that was fast.
They're good, real good. And quick too! Yep, real good and quick. Gotta like that.
My kung fu was good but theirs was better.
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 20:24 — sixandseveneights
Damn that was fast.
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That's what their wives say.
Ah yes, more "droppings" of wisdom from the inversely proportional crowd.
These ultra conservative, right wingnut minorities are really disturbing. How could any person who is a minority support the modern freaking republican party? Good grief.
Where did this Malkin freak come from anyway , who the hell is she ? She needs to lay off the crack , her eye balls are about to pop out of their sockets .
This is a huge set up ... the right wing is hoping to ignite a huge riot at one of these meetings and blame it on the unions ... From Glen Beck's own mouth we get the nod and wink that it's about to happen ... there evil people working as hard as they can to bring down the whole country. They want violence and destruction because then they can blame it on Obama ... these are white people mostly middle aged men who have decided to go for broke ... they can't handle the fact that we have a black president .... Just once I would like to see these sick FOX people get what they deserve.
When you put these two together the crazy starts whirling around and in about 15 seconds you get a tornado of crazy slamming into everything. Lies layered with more lies topped off with and extra big helping of insanity. LOL it would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
republicanism is a mental illness!
Didn't grimalkin's ma ever tell her if she keeps making faces, they'll set that way?
I would have thought the ugly ***** Malkin, would be beaming proud of the town hall disruptions, that make the Right Wing look like the uneducated thugs they truely are.
Isn't whitewashing racist?
They start a fight...then when they get hit back...they go running off to Mommy..."ohhh...Billy hit meeee!! Waaaah!"
Jerkoffs.
Why do Malkin's screen shots always look like she just passed gas?
Glen Beck isn't calling for restraint. He's hoping for violence; he's baiting for violence. There is something very wrong with this person and he twists and mocks everything he says so that he doesn't exactly say "kill, kill, kill" (except for Nancy Pelosi) but he is fomenting these on the edge people just the same.
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