Well, I just got to spend ten blissfully Glenn-Beck-free days in China, which is probably the only place one can safely escape his wingnuttery these days. It's quite a different world there, and certainly nothing like what Beck himself frequently depicts it as (more on that later).
And what better way to reacclimate myself to the USA than to turn on Fox the afternoon of my return and watch yet another of Beck's patented eliminationist attacks on progressives -- followed the next night by yet another?
Ah, some things never change, do they?
On Monday, Beck continued his current theme that "progressives are a disease" by ripping into the effort to push health-care reform through Congress. He again warned that America was being destroyed from within by progressives:
Beck: I was, way back then, I said that America could never be destroyed from the outside. I remember the day that I said it because it was September 11th, and people were freaking out, and I was on my radio program and I said, militarily there is no equal, don't worry, if the world tries to attack us, and we've decided we're not going to bother with smart bombs, we'd control the world in a heartbeat, but that's not who we are.
Don't worry. The only way to destroy America is to rot it from the inside -- collapse our system from the inside. It's got to be one of us that brings us to our knees.
When I said that, I was trying to give hope to people. But I didn't have the full truth, because little did I know that there were people, our own countrymen, who are already here who are on the inside who actually want to do that -- bring our country to its knees. That's insanity.
... Progressives -- progressives are the ones that say you've got to rot America from the inside. You have to be inside in order to bring her down. It has been the plan the whole time. Make progress -- baby steps. Well, progress from where to what? From the Constitution to a democracy. We're not a democracy.
So now that it's happening, why is America surprised? They've been clear for a hundred years. Radical progressives are infecting America! By deceiving unsuspecting people on their true intentions!
A little later, he used the disease metaphor again to describe health-care reform:
Beck: What they're about to pass is not a tumor. Because the doctor can come over here and say, 'Yeah, there's a tumor here, and we've got to go in and cut this out.' I don't know if you can cut this tumor out. Maybe not. But you can try. But what they're about to pass is a bloodstream disease. It will be injected into our system and it will be incurable.
Then on yesterday's show, he continued (h/t Media Matters) to attack the health-care reform effort:
Beck: I think they're gonna pass this thing. They are gonna do whatever it takes to pass this, and they're not going to go the traditional way, they are gonna go the way of snakes and cockroaches. They're gonna crawl out in the cover of darkness, and they're going to pass this, make it happen one way or another.
In case anyone needs reminding, here's how I explained the nature of eliminationism in my last book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right:
What motivates this kind of talk and behavior is called eliminationism: a politics and a culture that shuns dialogue and the democratic exchange of ideas in favor of the pursuit of outright elimination of the opposing side, either through suppression, exile, and ejection, or extermination.
Rhetorically, eliminationism takes on certain distinctive shapes. It always depicts its opposition as beyond the pale, the embodiment of evil itself, unfit for participation in their vision of society, and thus worthy of elimination. It often further depicts its designated Enemy as vermin (especially rats and cockroaches) or diseases, and disease-like cancers on the body politic. A close corollary—but not as nakedly eliminationist—are claims that opponents are traitors or criminals and that they pose a threat to our national security.
Eliminationism is often voiced as crude "jokes," a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.
Beck, of course, has a long history of using such rhetoric to attack progressives:
It's almost enough to make you want to go live in China, isn't it?
It will be injected into our system and it will be incurable.
Maybe you'll be the first to get it, Becky.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
beck seriously needs an oral enema
sooooo disturbing!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Just ordered it from amazon.Reading the comments(enigma is a right-wing machine)gets pretty lively.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
He could almost be talking about the religious right and their trek into our government over the past ever so many years.
He's been talking a lot this week about "charity". I recall last Sept 11 when the president called for a day of volunteering, beck railed against people working for free. Nice bit of charity on his mind back then.
I wonder if Beck and his writers (if he has any) just sit around and try to come up with the vilest words possible to get his message across. Roaches, snakes, incurable infections.....
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I wonder if Beck and his writers (if he has any) just sit around and try to come up with the vilest words possible to get his message across. Roaches, snakes, incurable infections.....
Yes.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Does the ICC panel that handled the operators of the Rwandan radio station that broadcast similar things have any openings in their schedule?
..how is being sure everyone has health care or access to it a bad thing? Because it wasn't a republican't idea? Why is it considered Progressive when all it is, is the right thing to do for Americans?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Doing anything for the poor or least among us only encourages them to reproduce. Hmmmm - I guess that snark can't also apply to LGBT - now I confused myself!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Progressive is a synonym for "the right thing to do". Conservatives just prefer the "wrong thing to do" most of the time...
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
"Don't worry. The only way to destroy America is to rot it from the inside -- collapse our system from the inside. It's got to be one of us that brings us to our knees."
Which is exactly what the rethuglicans set out to do with their tax cuts.
right in the front line of battle. If they can't collapse our system from the inside, nobody can.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Exactly, and Beck is surely hastening the process along with his show.
Paranoia will destroy him.
We must all have Hep-P (for progresssive)
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
He's complaining because democrats are acting like republicans?
Beck's got it half right: America is rotting from within, but starting from Bush's regime and with the Right. That is, eroding Consitutional protections, Torture as the official Policy, de-regulation of the financials and the resulting economic fiasco, super growth the of National Debt and so on. What the hell happened to us? If Healthcare spending is $1 Trillion for 10 years, it's a pittance compared to the Military's expected minimum budget of $10 Trillion over the same period. Band-aids over Bomb! At least the band-aids do something useful, which can't be said for arms programs to fight the Soviets. Beck gets under my skin like some horrible tropical parasite, but this site always seems to provide some relief:
http://www.dantesdunktank.com/game/play/88cd8...
It allows me to dunk a Limbaugh/Beck creature in a tank of hot oil, then see them head to one of five Circles of Hell. Highly recommended!
"but starting from
Bush'sReagan's regime and with the Right":)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Ronny Ray Gun and the Mental Minority shoved the discourse into right wing nut land.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
I did something similar in my copy of Disgaea 2, I made three Prinnies named Rush, Glenn, and Hannity. In Disgaea, the prinnie squad are a bunch of cowardly penguin creatures that were the souls of humans who had sinned in life, they are forced to work off their sins as prinnies usually in the service of a demon lord, if you pick them up and throw them, they explode.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Where's the episode of Family Guy where Stewie gets sucked into the TV by the "TV People" when you really need it...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Beck is the new HIV.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
If it is possible to insult a virus . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I defy anyone to listen to one of Beck's shows and follow his train of thought from the beginning of the show until the end. I'm not talking about his subject matter, but instead just the way he goes from one subject to the next.
I often wonder if he's challenged or if he purposely does his ramblings to keep his audience confused but focused on his anger and rhetoric rather than any semblance of facts.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I imagine it is all scripted. I read somewhere recently that he practices his crying jags.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
to make the tears come. What a charlatan.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
and then cut up what they write and paste it together at random? Because that's what it sounds like.
it has a ring to it!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
The problem Beck has is that he made many millions by being outrageous. To continue to make more millions he has to be more outrageous every day. That is difficult. After a while he would have to begin to consume himself. I think that has already started.
Mmmmmmmmm..........
That's what's freaking this little turd out. Then, they'll pass the "anti-trust" act stopping the insurance industry again. And, using the overly used Republican Reconcilliation act to do it. Perfect Karma! We're gonna see Becks head explode. I love it. "THEY ARE ABOUT TO PASS THE FIRST, AMERICAN HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM ACT". Perfect! And we can overthrow the demonic christian religions at the same time and put a Mesanic Religion in it's place.
Key words: Because I think they're gonna pass this thing. You see it in the barrage of anti ads, in the increase of trolls on the blogs, in the ever more strident screeching of Beck and his cohorts. They are terrified because they know that once it passes it will only get better. People will realize over the next few months and years that they are better off and as Kristol said 17 years ago, it will benefit the left for a long time.
..for Beck and his ilk to be banned from the airwaves & forbidden access to even a manual typewriter to keep them from dispensing their junk on the rest of the world.
And no "1st Amendment" arguments either...
Whenever I hear someone spouting vicious outrageous hyperbole, I always listen for one word:
"Cockroaches".
Because that's the word the Nazi's used to describe the Jews.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
I'm sure beck's Hitler youth are listening for it as well.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The word that Radio Rwanda used to characterize the Tutsi.
Unfortunately, he's such a perverse little freak,he'd probably like that.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
did they?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Oh, and welcome back, David. Heather has been doing a great job, in your absence, keeping us up to date on the crazies on our airwaves.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Heather RAWKS!
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
and they're going to pass this, make it happen one way or another.
Oh, you mean like Dubya did with the Medicare Part D act?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Didn't they hold the vote open for an additional 3 hours until they got enough votes from their party to pass the reconciliation?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And I believe they put some sort of threat to one of the members who had a son running for a political position.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
They kept the voting open until midnight and Tom Delay offered $100k to the one with the son.
The SOB's are shameless.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
as well as twisted arms resulted....along with one congresscritter being threatened that his son, who was running for office, would not be successful unless he voted for the bill. No pressure, whatsoever.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
If progressive(ness) is a virus I really hope some food worker has the good sense to infect Glenn.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I am so afraid that these people are winning and my grandchildren will live in that world they will create. A world where there is an uber rich class, a merchant class, a lucky skilled class and a population of about 60% of adults in the working poor class. Two and in most cases one paycheck away from homelessness. Continueing real unemployment at about 20 - 25 percent. The crime rate very high and steady with more and stricker and longer sentenceing as the answer. The national budget for the military and for prisons continueing to rise. It is a world where it wasn't that long ago I thought we had a good chance to avoid. At one time maybe 40 years ago I just assumed that when all of the crazy old people died off the world would be so much better off. I didn't know that they keep making new ones.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Sometimes it takes 100 years for them to fall.
.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
? At least they have shirtless Vladimar Putin to distract them.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X1FxAMOHJmY/R9XK3lD...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Have you noticed that 99% of what the wingnuts say is projection. They are the enemy within, so they accuse progressives of their sins. Sadly, it's very effective with the uneducated and the unwashed. Beck, et al., need to be confronted with their mirror image BS.
"mirror image"
But the undead have no reflection . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Actually there's no reference to that until Bram Stoker pulled it out of his ass for Dracula.
However, he may've seen that featured in a reference book on demons.
The main thing about mirrors and vampire legends, is that when someone dies you cover or remove mirrors and all animals. If the body is reflected in the mirror, or a cat leaps over the body, or a bird flies over it, the dead will become a vampire.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...Precious Bodily Fluids!!
Where's General Ripper when we need him?
That reminds me, P.O.P. did you ever see Dr. Strangelove???
No, not yet. But I will. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
ROFL! I recall growing up and watching Hobo Kelly on the television and, of course, Red Skelton playing the hobo clown.
Today's idiot is a rightarded domestic terrorist simp that eggs on his fellow America-hating rightard loons, doing so with unintended humor to the point where this right wing domestic loon far exceeds the entertainment value of, say, a Limbaugh or a Coulter clown.
I remember Hobo Kelly too.
Some of the loons don't understand that the Colbert Report is satire and think Steve Colbert is pretending to be liberal to make fun of the liberals.
Sometimes their stoopid is too funny.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Reverse psychology , accuse the other side of doing what they are indeed doing . The attack on this country , this democracy , is from his side not ours , we in fact are the defenders . This weasel is a fascist . Long story short , Hitler and the Nazi party gained power much due to the fact they convinced people that the commies were taking over , they too used fear tactics .Beck may be insane but he knows exactly what he is doing in this regard , they all do . It is a right wing / Republican plot and that is no joke .This health care bill ,crap that it is , scares the hell out of these people , they are losing ground on this one if it passes .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
when Beck rants that "we are not a democracy"? Has there been any blowback or comment at all from the repubes?
of Education--Here's one of their recent changes to the history books to be used in schools in Texas and around the country:
The Board struck the word “democratic” from the description of the U.S. government, instead terming it a “constitutional republic.”
In addition to that, they REMOVED Thomas Jefferson from the books and substituted John Calvin, a FRENCH theologist.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I've been reading the Federalist Papers and Madison tends to call us a Republic and sees Democracy as being in a limited region.
However, from his description of the Republic it's clear he's describing indirect Democracy through representation. Remember, not all representatives are voted by the people. Until the XVII Amendment in 1913 the Senate was appointed by State legislatures, however, even there, the state legislatures were voted in by those with the franchise.
It's more clear from Madison description that a Republic is a conglomerate of states working together for the common fealty and felicity. The Declaration of Independence and the Preamble of the Constitution makes it clear though that power comes from the people, the so called "Demos." So the former is structural organization the latter the power and the authority.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Taking it further they gave the House more power than the Senate. The Senate had advise and consent powers and the ability to hear impeachments, but all revenue bills originate in the House as well as impeachment charges, and the House is organized by District not the State, and always had the popular vote.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Tonight Beck has his lacy panties on fire about the health bill. Of course he uses all the republican talking points but now they are so weak that it makes him look even more like an idiot. He railed on Dennis for a while. He even used some language he could have gotten right off the comments thread about Dennis earlier today.
I almost always comb and brush my dog when Glenn comes on. Something about the pleasantness of doing that takes away the stink of Beck's words and show.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
some of your dog's hair when Beck says something especially egregious?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Jeebus, is anyone (even The World's Biggest CLOWN) really that stupid?
A heartbeat? The world? I guess we're just stretching things out in Afghanistan and Iraq because we're bored. Or maybe the world that Glenn (The World's Biggest CLOWN) thinks we'd "control" "in a heartbeat" is the one we rendered a radioactive cinder by nuking everyone and everything.
Control the world in a heartbeat. What an ass. I know Beck is that stupid, but he never ceases to amaze even as he does the same thing over and over and over again. I've got to admit, Beck won his title The World's Biggest CLOWN fair and square -- he really is unrivaled.
We have always have loony haters in our society, but they never had a TV network like Fox.
This is not my father's America
is just a new way to say blah blah blah.
Beck goes on tonight to express his sympathy for Obama and his childhood. His Marxist father and his Marxist mother abandoned him and left him with his Communist grandparents. Is it any wonder that the President is a Marxist?
Then he skips merrily over to the subject of socialized medicine and asked why do you think they call it socialized medicine in Canada.
According to Glenn, if this bill passes life as we know it will end for all times....or something like that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
we get two tickets to Costa Rica and send one to Glenn and one to El Rushbo....They'll make a lovely traveling pair and they'll escape the holocaust that is healthcare.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
"Progressives -- progressives are the ones that say you've got to rot America from the inside."
Oh do tell Glenn.
Who?Who says that?Besides you?
You Nazi bastard.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Watch out progressives! Beck is calling you fascosocialists or sociofascists or what ever phonied up argument the faux opposition is using this week.
Beck and his dozens of astro-turfed supporters have another shiny object. What can it be?
As long as it distracts us fucking r****** from the fact that "the little prick" and rest of the so called Progressive Caucus have caved on their fundraising pledge for meaningful heal care reform. As long as it distracts from crushing progressive defeats on everything from declaring Canadian drugs unsafe for re-importation to HCR written by the insurance industry to banking reform written by Golman Sachs to basic human rights protecting against torture and imprisonment without cause.
Sure, Beck and minions (slightly fewer than the crowd at the Olympic curling finals) are the problem for progressives.
Didn't Beck support the escalation of the War in Afghanistan and the renewal of The Patriot Act?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I appreciate C&L posting these maddening clips, but with all due respect, I do not need to continuously watch CRAP come out of an asshole, to KNOW it is an asshole. But I understand there may be a straggler who is not familiar with Beck.
... His MO seem to be creeping eerily even closer to that of the original Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Hope your trip was enlightening.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Yeah, used 200 TIMES by Republicans.
ES&D,Glen.
Where have I heard that before? Oh yes, that occurred frequently in the antisemitic sections of speeches given by another well-known eliminationist, Adolph Hitler.
Exactly true . I have received flak for mentioning the Nazis and Beck in the same sentence but their methodology is identical , in fact the entire right wing / Republican methodology in regards to propagandizing ( and more ) is identical to that of Goebbels . I swear the right have studied his playbook and adopted it . Think I'm over board ? Just do some reading on how Hitler came to such power and how they manipulated the people .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Should put this fool on a plane , ship him out of the country , drop him over Taliban territory ( a parachute would probably be best in this scenario ) and have a nice day ! Is nice to dream , reality sucks .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BuwB0w0DKI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
mebbe they can make sure hes on the same plane as the bears...
http://www.military.com/news/article/could-ai...
he certainly seems to qualify as one of the folk writing in.....(i.e. batshit insane).
Glen Beck's name it spells Big steaming pile of bat shit crazy? Interesting, huh?
Geek Cnnbl (Cannibal)
Glenn Lee Beck = Neck Bell Gene
Knob-cleaning genny.
Beck wouldn't know a progressive if one kicked him in the nards. First, I'd love to know these "progressives" in the Republican party. Second, I'd like to know who these progressive Democrats are? RIP Paul Welstone.
nothing else needs to be said. he is a sick, twisted individual who shouldn't be on the air.
I agree with half of what becky said, the only real threat to the country is from within, I just dissagree with where the threat is coming from.
It's almost amazing that a man who is always complaining about so-called nazi tactics is himself relying on the same sort of rhetorical jew-baiting (progressive baiting)that Hitler used to such great effect in turning Germans against their jewish neighbors.
And yet if you pointed out his Hitler-like tactics he'd hem and haw and accuse you of missquoting him or taking him out of context and you would be the awful person for daring to make such a comparison (despite the fact that he is daily making the same comparisons and worse).
Trying to debate this guy would be like getting in a pissing contest with a skunk as they say, but his lies and fascist tactics must be confronted.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
You got it .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
the only threat to the country comes from within? He did? Well, then. Does this mean beck thinks all those other fearmongers on his network who are obsessed with immigrants and terr'ists are full of shit? Do they know he feels that way? This is very confusing! Who's gone off script, beck or the others?
Oh wait! It's Wednesday. On Wednesdays the threat comes from within. On Mondays and Thursdays the threat comes from immigrants. On Tuesdays and Saturdays, it's the ter'rists. Fridays are a mixed bag, and Sunday is the day of the lord. I forget.
Conservatism is a mental disorder.
*
11th, and people were freaking out."
Yeah that's because YOUR GUY GEORBE BUSH DROPPED THE BALL ON TERRORISM! You stupid turd. It's not progressives who are destroying America, it's conservative morons like you! You morons nearly sent us into another great depression both under Reagan and Bush 43!
Destroy America from the inside...
You're doing a GOOD job of it, BECK!!
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