Beck, corporate shill proclaim climate bill a 'watermelon': Thin layer of green on the outside, 'Communist red' inside
By David Neiwert Saturday Jun 27, 2009 8:00am
Glenn Beck and his leadoff guest yesterday, Phil Kerpen of the corporate-front global-warming-denier outfit Americans for Prosperity (the same folks who brought you the Tea Parties, were not happy at all with the then-imminent passage in the House of a major component of President Obama's climate-change plan.
So they indulged in some sour watermelon:
Beck: You like watermelon?
Kerpen: I love watermelon.
Beck: I think this is a watermelon bill.
[Begins slicing open melon.]
Kerpsen: I think you're exactly right. This bill is green on the outside -- the thinnest green on the outside, and on the inside, it's deep Communist red.
And, you know, Gorbachev actually runs an environmental group now. I don't know if everyone knows that. But this bill has only the thin sheen of environmentalism. Greenpeace said it will do nothing to help pollution. Even the EPA says it might increase greenhouse gas emissions.
This is just an excuse for central planning, central control of our economy.
The spirit of Joe McCarthy and the John Birch Society lives on. Kind of like those bad old zombie movies.
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I noticed that Michele "Black Helicopter" Bachmann was on Beck's show this past week.
Question: Who's crazier, Beck or Bachmann? I think we need to conduct a poll.
Wow. I'd be hard put to answer that one.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, unless they have really bad doctors looking after them.
I honestly do not think Beck believes a word he says. Beck knows there is a huge portion of the American population that is clueless and all they care about is shouting U.S.A., U.S.A., over and over. They will never change no matter what facts you slap them in the face with. Thinking that the U.S.A. can do no wrong and anyone even who even wants to look at the reality is treasonous. On the other hand Bachmann believes every thing he says. Being pro corporation and pro Republican is a religious experience for Bachmann.
the watermelons are taking over the world.
Oh the irony.
From proclaim plagiarist er writer Elizabeth Hasselbeck "My picnic with the Douchenozzles" now in paperback.
They're the new flouridation. They hold Beck's precious bodily fluids.
Hey Glen. Remember "American Pie"?
"Your Commie has no regard for human life, not even of his own. For this reason men, I want to impress upon you the need for extreme watchfulness. The enemy may come individually, or in strength. He may even appear in the form of our own troops. But however we must stop him."
General Jack D. Ripper, "Dr. Strangelove", 1964
We all know what happened to that watermelon after the show, no need to speculate.
;)
"No fruit were harmed in the making of this program."
That Beck just didn't hurt himself.
Killing fruit isn't 'harming it?' Fox just can't get anything right.
'share and enjoy is their motto'
Go stick your head in a pig.
;)
Remember the Re-Thug nut-job Horsley confessed to Alan Colmes that he "did" a mule? Didn't he also say in his rant that "a watermelon might do" also?
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Rip out that vine!
He likes central economic and social planning if it is "corporately" directed.
Green Peace said it didn't go far enough! So , I know this might shock you, but Glenn Beck as miss lead you!
Did he recycle it for the show, he looks awfully proud/possessive of it...
Maybe he has sex with it.
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It must be laced with vodka
Glenn Peck needs to WEAR that watermelon.
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Insert it into his tailpipe.
Glenn Beck always makes the most stupid, inane analogies. And ever notice how he pays little or no attention to his guests, just sits there making stupid clown faces for the camera? He is a dip shit of the highest order.
http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2008/01/...
Did you see the You Tube video? Fucking hilarious.
that wild grin and stare smile.
he had hemorrhoid surgery?
HE THEN IS "A PERFECT ASSHOLE."
but then I always knew that.
Is and has a perfect asshole.
... always telling other people to "toughen up" and "pull themselves by the bootstraps"... but when they get as much as a splinter in their pinky finger, watch out because here comes the bitching and moaning. The world must take notice because they have been inconvenienced in the most trivial of ways.
Their lack of anything resembling human compassion or deference towards others sort of points that many of these people may be extreme cases of narcissistic personality disorder.
A few days ago, Beck was on O'Reilly's show. He pulled out Barbie dolls and started playing with them to make some stupid point.
this unveiled racist analogy. "Peel off the skin and there's real meat underneath" just wouldn't for for them, I guess. I think of my own father, glued faithfully to the uni-channel tv set, eating this crap up. And while you and I see it for what it is (thank god we don't have smell-o-vision in our homes), the Faux Faithful think that they're really watching a "news channel."
Exactly what I thought.
The thinness here is not the watermelon skin, but the racist overtones.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the show's editing sessions. I wonder how they came up with watermelon. What next, as Geazer asks, "fried chicken".
Why don't these fuckers just stop with the dog whistle bidness and just call it the "Climate Bill from the N***er in the White House"?
To complete the racist undertone (OVERTONE) he should have thrown in some fried chicken. We all know them black folk love some watermellon and fried chicken. I'm pretty sure that's in the Encyclopedia.
crispy on the outside, tender on the inside...whatever that means...
This man is being broadcast around the world.
This is the face of American broadcast journalism.
BillO and Hannity are past history, Beck is the future.
...this would be the ass of broadcast journalism, and no matter what language you translate it to it's still shit coming out of his mouth.
Beck would have made a fabulous wingman for Joe McCarthy back in the 50's
Too bad, that watermelon is smarter than Beck.
such a joke. He's the Gallagher or the Carrot Top of wingnuttery.
Last night a watermelon and previously Barbie dolls, a gutted salmon, a gallon of gas (water), charts, chalkboards, etc.
Sad thing for Beck is that the comedians make more sense than he does.
Beck is into fearmongering. His theatrics are perceived as very informative to his moronic base. He uses symbols they can identify with, and shows how the fabric of our society is being torn to shreds by whichever group of the month he disagrees with (or is paid to).
He's not as stupid as we may assume, and lots of people agree (or think they agree) with these bizarre and dangerous opinions he expresses.
As Heath Ledger so finely displayed, there are funny clowns, and some clowns not so much. We should remember that as we watch this guy from a safe distance. Someone really let this clown out of the box.
That watermelon half would make a nice helmet Glenn when you're sitting in your bunker.Giggling.Like an idiot.
Just because this clown is against something and, as always, wastes time presenting nonsensical/emotional arguments, does not make it a good idea.
Obama has done a good job of catering to corporations so far (e.g. FISA, expanding war in Afghanistan, same no oversight contractors in Iraq, health care, etc.) how is this bill any good?
The 'climate bill' is a SHAM!
please read .....THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again
By MATT TAIBBI
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Well, you might say, who cares? If cap-and-trade succeeds, won't we all be saved from the catastrophe of global warming? Maybe - but cap-and-trade, as envisioned by Goldman, is really just a carbon tax structured so that private interests collect the revenues. Instead of simply imposing a fixed government levy on carbon pollution and forcing unclean energy producers to pay for the mess they make, cap-and trade will allow a small tribe of greedy-as-hell Wall Street swine to turn yet another commodities market into a private tax-collection scheme. This is worse than the bailout: It allows the bank to seize taxpayer money before it's even collected."
"It's not always easy to accept the reality of what we now routinely allow these people to get away with; but this is it. This is the world we live in now. And in this world, some of us have to play by the rules, while others get a note from the principal excusing them from homework till the end of time, plus 10 billion free dollars in a paper bag to buy lunch."
There no such thing as a free lunch.
I provide the story link...and Presto! the article is at the top of CL's page!
good work C&L!
Hey crybaby Beck! Using your logic "red state" republicans are commies! I do believe it. In my book: Red is Dead. True is Blue....This blue-green watermellon is for you....Beck.....Watch my next show Pecker-Beck! The red is for you! You commie, sell-out, drunk, crybaby on oxycodin! That's red too!
Gallagher
and red on the inside. Beck must be a commie.
the big bad communistic democrats what to take public ownership of everything in our lives mumbo jumbo.................while the scumbag repulicans want to own everything in the "private sector" and abuse their government power to get rich off it..............but thats capitalism and makes this country great........FUCK OFF
first of all as far as beck is concerned or any idiot try to push some BS analogy on the airwaves, if you have to use moronistic props to get your idea across, then that just shows you dont have any facts to rely on.............oooooooooooooh lookit the scary watermelon
and moronistic is way more moronic than "moronic"
next step....moronicistic
....I pity anyone who is dumber than he. What a f*ckin' idiot. I used to think limpballs was the biggest idiot...but this turd brain has got him beat hands down!!
Fox is broadcast around the world so many people think he's the best we have to offer.
since day one. Which humans are people and which are property, which land belongs to the US and which land does not, etc. Was communism invented in 2009, or only fake outrage against it?
... that the watermelon is not russian or communist. It is Mexican: Red, White and Green with the seeds arranged to form the eagle.
They will stream across the border and beat him up for claiming it's communist.
If beck accidentally swallows a seed, does it make him gay?
And the black seeds of the watermelon represent Ken and Barbie and Glenn growing feathers and flying to Uranus to live in a magic cloud with pink rainbows!
Roger Ailes has been waiting months to work a watermelon reference into the Obama discussion. An actual watermelon was a tad overdone.
you have a cartoon character in your mind that has nothing to do with how we actually are.
pull up a chair. have a coke. let's talk. breathe the same AIR as us, man. work with us. people get things done when they work together. you and Glenn and his his droogs have decided that WE are the root of every problem.
well, look. I'm sorry that whole "permanent Republican majority" thing didn't work out, I really am. you guys can either sit down with us - put our heads together and, as you say, clean up the mess or you can keep hating our guts.
wtf happened to your party, man? I was raised Repub and they had Democrats for friends. either work with us or build a consensus to change the laws you don't like. quite treating us like traitors because you don't like laws on the books or the consensus WE are building.
the plan seems to be to make the base go nuts. what's the point of that? T.V. clowns talking about pouring gas on america and cutting open communist watermelons? wtf? don't you see how crazy that stuff is?
Did you actually TYPE this?
"in this case Conservatives, will clean up the mess."
You probably BELIEVE it too.
NO WONDER Americans finally can't STAND you America fucking traitors.
Tax-cuts. [smiles everyone!]
Deregulated family values have left me adrift.
You just described yourself and the GOP to a T.
And I'll bet you still think Boosh did a heck of a job. Don't you?
yawwwnnnn
This really must sting you so bad to have to go through registration so you can fill your Pampers out here. It obviously shows you know you are in the wrong and have no other recourse than crybaby antics. It's pathetic and so are you.
Be gone troll, before someone drops a house on you.
Not to get graphic, but you Fox viewers remind me of little baby birds in the nest. Except overhead is Rush, Beck, etc. with their ass cheeks spread open above your greedy, willing, little mouths waiting for the excrement to flow in.
Really? The only motherfuckers I see complaining all the time are conservatives - women don't know their place, homosexuality is ruining our country, rich people will get their taxes raised, liberals are trying to silence religion. A lot of projecting going on in this post. Wingnuts are the whiny bitches, not us.
Glenn likes to say he's a Rodeo Clown. He's not. Rodeo Clowns are BRAVE. He's just a clown.
I made that point the other day. Rodeo clowns serve a purpose. Glenda is a circus clown and all they do is scare the shit out of children.
Real communist watermelons are sweet and only 8 cents a pound off the back of a truck in Beijing. Ate 'em all last week while there. The seedless ones here are like the GOP, devoid of taste. Pithy, though. And too expensive--like health insurance.
Really? The man who was friend to Reagan and brought Parastroyka (sp?) to Russia, is a Communist?
Also, by what I like to call, the McCarthy Property, if Gorbachev is a Communist and Ronald Reagan considered Gorbachev a friend, does that not make Reagan a Communist?
Beck all too often represents a movement that is just and right, to which he and his are actually the antithesis. As a silent patriot or whatever they claim, he is drowning the voice of reason and logic with half-truths. The communist thing is rhetoric in it's purest form, but he has a good point. Though I think he's a complete idiot, I share the sentiment of being deceived by this bill.
Cap & trade is apart of this larger control scheme that exists to contribute to the corporate welfare state. Many possibilities are not only dumbed down in this bill and its mandates, but many excellent technologies are completely left out of the equation.
In the first place, building codes and liabilities are not for the federal government to control. This bill is rife with bad practices as well has provisions that put a lot of power towards the top of both government and companies. Safety and labor fairness are addressed, but with heavy misdirection. We need to change the current building practices, but we need to do it from down here on the ground.
Secondly, to give banks precedence over idle properties in a way that makes it more viable to demolish existing structure is far from the sustainable option. Period.
Third, the feds get dominion over puddles and rain drops and T. Boone Pickens owns the flood-basins that your ponds are stealing water from... [and he's about to sue everyone that collects their own water]
Finally, why would we want to pay for technologies that will slow the progress of newer trends. Rather then paying for unproven clean-coal, why not utilize off-line facilities as test beds for hydrogen turbine systems. Rather then providing contracts to The Shaw Group for 1970's nuke systems, why not support nuclear pilot programs that address waste in completely different ways.
I don't want climate cops telling me to reduce my energy consumption or smart-grid meters watching my every move. Sure, efficiency is a must, but it won't happen through agendas and mandates. I don't want to design new buildings with electric plug-in hybrid connects. Batteries are a waste and we can overcome our energy problem without them. Under this bill, we get more of the same under a new name.
Cap & trade is system that kills diversity and competition in the marketplace because to focus on carbon emissions is like focusing on the interest rates within the derivatives market.
Climate change is such a big deal, that it's no wonder corporations want a new tax base for more project-based bail-outs. If these people actually had to change their practices, wouldn't there be Tea-baggers telling them about it on the lawns of every power-plant & public-works project in America? [Corruption won't go away with this bill!]
And when I see that "Government agencies that oversee thousands of small water suppliers in California don't have to order the companies to notify their customers when their water is contaminated, the state Supreme Court has ruled," I find that privatization and centralized power is a recipe for disaster.
We too often sell ourselves short to the vested interests of money, while giving away our power. Cap & trade is a prime example. For the love of God or whatever, I wish this bill were a bit more RED.
Then maybe we could trust the project managers who will contract these changes.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
All one has to do is go to Greenpeace's website or read and one will find out why they oppose the Bill: good old sweet faced sweet pea corpro-thug capitalism championed by industry lobbyists weakened it. Every time this piece of junk bats his eyelashes and get's all coy with his head on his hands I want to(Edited,SM)
Beck would love to be placed on the field with Greenpeace. Maybe we can get him on our side after all.
didnt rush limbaugh say that a few years ago?
im pretty sure in the early 90s limbaugh said 'Environmentalism is like a watermelon, green on the outside and red on the inside.'
course, beck is confident that his listeners are too stupid to get the communism reference, so he fills in the blanks. good for him.
...then Glenn Beck leads the Republiclown Party.
His show resembles kindergarten level Show and Tell with Glenn playing the ADHD kid who can't shut up and is always vying for attention by doing idiotic things.
In the movie, there's a political commercial that James Woods sees on TV where a watermelon is used by a politician to portray a rival as being Communist. It's based on a real event in El Salvador in the 80s.
"On 25 March 1984, Roberto d'Aubuisson campaigned for the Salvadoran presidency, using the internal-enemies-threat analogy: he likened the Christian Democratic Party to a watermelon that he chopped chopped in half with a machete — "(Christian) Green on the outside, but (Communist) Red on the inside"."
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/592118
...is that Glenn Beck fits a physical stereotype. He actually looks like the big, fat dumbass that he really is.
[sigh]
I guess it wouldn't be a stereotype unless someone fit it.
right wing talking head videos on this site, but after this clip I went back through the Glen Beck clips to see what's up with this guy.
If you watch this guy on a regular basis, you are willingly insulting yourself. It's like he's talking to a room full of 1st graders! How incredibly insulting! How could you not see a man that resorts to props and puppet shows (to explain some of the most interesting and complex subjects on the planet) as insulting your intelligence?
The lowest common denominator has become THE demographic to snag in America.
Glen Beck is proof.
They're creepin' e'er closer to showing Obama with watermelon, fried chicken and tap dancing...
Of course, here in Texas we'd call that lunch
Except the tapdancing
It be square.
beck, along with billo, hannity, and all of the other moronic conservative commentators have these wonderful bully pulpits that they could use to have a meaningful debate on energy issues. they could discuss upgrading the transmission grid infrastructure, fusion research, alternative energy research, exsiting energy supply efficiency improvement options, energy demand vs. climate constraints, and many more serious relevant topics.
but no.
what do we get instead?
we get a cretin leering into a camera sticking a watermelon into the lens in a thinly veiled reminder that the "watermelon loving darkie" in the oval office is a stinking commie.
Imbecile.
But that's a form of retardation, and insults all the retarded.
...when you say, "But that's a form of retardation, and insults all the retarded.", if you apply that thought to beck's show and it's targeted demographic of the 23%ers, i'd say that the thought's pretty accurate...and appropriate...
A thin layer of stupidity wraping a soft underbelly of cowardice.
republicanism is a mental illness!
I think Beck is the GOP Mister Rogers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Relati...
Esperanto (the language) was targeted by many of the dictators of Europe in the last century. The common meme was "Esperantists are green on the outside, and red on the inside." Green is the color of Esperanto, and the symbol is a green star.
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