A Beckean Slip: Confusing the president with bin Laden, while touting theory that Obama is a Marxist
By David Neiwert Wednesday Oct 28, 2009 10:02am
Glenn Beck was trying real hard yesterday to convince people that his running theory -- that Barack Obama is secretly a Marxist who intends to radically transform America into a communist state -- just might be right.
He compared his theory to the early stages of the Monica-baiting of Clinton in 1998, when everyone was in denial -- because, you see, he thinks eventually he'll be proven right. OK, whatever.
Then he blurted this out:
Beck: I mean, at this point, you have to try to not pay attention. I mean, you have to be working to miss the pattern here. There's so much anti-free-market rhetoric from Obama and his top officials, you'd either have to either be living in a cave in Afghanistan next to Obama, and you can't hear anything that Ob -- uh, Osama is saying because of the goats going, ah-ah-ah, or you're so deeply in love with Obama that you can't detect a single flaw in him.
This is what we'll call a Beckean Slip: An apparent slip of the tongue that is most likely intentional, and at the bare minimum clearly exposes the desire to confuse the public.
It isn't the first time Beck has slipped and mixed up Osama bin Laden's name with President Obama's. And it certainly won't be the last.
However, it does tend to undermine Beck's subsequent claim to having this high-level, all-seeing mind that is "right" about a whole host of things (that he's actually been wrong about). Indeed, it reveals a confused mind incapable of clearly distinguishing between the president of the United States and a cave-dwelling terrorist.
Beck also adds that "I could be wrong" but "I haven't been before"? Um, yeah, except for the dozens of times he actually has been wrong. (Remember when he was predicting that Americans would eventually go for McCain at the polls? That prediction turned out well, didn't it?)
Clearly, his fans are hoping that he'll be proven right, because then they'll be justified in subsequently mounting a violent assault on the White House or something. But with a mind like Beck's concocting the theories, you might have better luck putting a bagful of cats in a roomful of word processors and hoping that Shakespeare's collected sonnets somehow emerge.
All of which raises a question that Glenn Beck should ask himself: What if you're wrong?
Because then, all you have done is smear a boatload of innocent and decent people, dragged their names through the mud, and ruined their careers.
But hey, that doesn't matter, because Glenn Beck is all about values, right? Like the value of his new mansion in Connecticut ... those are the values that matter to Glenn Beck.
Basic decency? Not so much.
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Why do you point by point argue with a moron who will say the most outlandish crap just to get noticed?
It only serves to validate the idiot
philosophy, to answer your question.
They don't call it "Crooks and Liars" for nothing. Sorta like Media Matters but more fun.
It's called "Crooks and Liars" not Mona Lisa and Madhatters.
Never mind a consummate insane clown... he seems to fit quite rightly the mission statement for this website IMHO.
That's what this website is for. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Between Beck, ORLY, Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, etc etc etc...wouldnt that count as a posse of some kind?
Then we're in a LOT of trouble...
informed citizenry could not be manipulated with this drivel. Blame substandard education. Awarding high school diplomas to people who cannot read. I could go on...and on, and on.
... I advice you not to tune in Michael Wiener (Savage). You'll lose your faith in this country faster than Paris Hilton drops her knickers...
Satan torment her for eternity, adored Michael Savage. I have come to the conclusion that she was not really my mother.
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her arrival in Hell.
wow you are on a roll dude.......wiener........knickers......martini. it's not even noon yet.
... it's been a good day: Journal article accepted, two patents went through, and I actually agreed strongly with a couple of points made by Obama.
I frankly believe the best thing we can do is to be more positive and laugh out loud at the faces of these idiots. They literally need to be laughed out of town...
You know the ones where any Republican politician caught cheating, breaking the law, etc is "accidentally" identified as a Democrat?
It's like an emotionally challenged and mentally unstable 12 year old bratty schizophrenic.
doesn't he?
He doesn't look any older than 8 to me. All that baby fat still clinging to his clammy cheeks.
Don't you want to just keep poking him with a sharp stick?
but combined with his f*cking attitude, I swear to god I have this odd urge to just punch his mug.
And I am quite the mellow guy otherwise, but seriously, there is something about Beck's face... if I were to ever met him, I don't think I could help my right hand fist from landing squarely in his nose.
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He is always right - far, far right.
Trouble is, what he says is never correct...
And that's different from the other far righters in what way?
I love it. Great characterization.
Because then, all you have done is smear a boatload of innocent and decent people, dragged their names through the mud, and ruined their careers.
Yeah, but that's his JOB. Didn't you get the memo?
I thought he was talking about Karl Rove.
Or Joe McCarthy
Or Ken Starr. Who ruined the lives and careers of decent people in a partisan witch hunt to take down a twice democratically elected democratic president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJMO7cmhHo
and the beat goes on. this is the same nonsense 'deeply in love with obama that you can't detect a single flaw in him'. this is more DIME STORE psychology for the extreme right/independent crowd to deny the BUSH legacy. how dare you say anything about BUSH .........obama isn't perfect either. the RIGHT builds up
obama with larger than life linguisitcs so even MOUTH breathers can tear him done with greatest of ease.
they RIGHT DENIES and doesn't understand how thankful we are that mcLIAR/palin aren't in the white house. they don't see or understand the damage that BUSH has done to this country.
Bush Co. did? Or how deep into denial? This deserves some serious study, I think.
Notice how the Right fetishizes Saint Ronnie? That man could do no wrong, yet he pretty much paved the way for the destruction of this country.
Is there a national award for obfuscation? If there is, I nominate Glenn Beck for that award. The guy rambles more than a drunken monkey. You never know where he's going or how he's gonna get there and no one knows where he ends up.
Damn, I wish we could get the number for that red phone that I doubt is even plugged in. If there is such a number I wish we could get it from the white house.
The test of your theory is to ask a tea bagger exactly what it is that Beck says that they agree with, and why.
Most don't have a clear idea at all. It's all smoke and mirrors against a backdrop of cacaphony.
whatever it is the message he is trying to convene.
They will most likely say the president is a marxist, communist, socialist who is trying to ruin our country with his marxist, communist, socialist black friends.
... there somewhere.
I think that was last week. Glenn has moved on now to the little perceived really dangerous big worded stuff. I did however forget the Mao lovers.
yeah, i forget which headliner pointed out that glenny was reading from pravda the other day. I think that makes him a russian mole. or gerbil.
Nah, he's not a mole or a gerbil just your run of the mill batshit crazy loon.
are Menshevik or Bolshevik, and why, after indoctrinating the kiddos and stealing their land he made their mommies and daddies Tsars.
He made their mommies and daddies tsars as sort of a consolation present. It was the least he could do after he made the children say Mmm Mmm and they weren't eating Champbell's soup at the time.
with China? What a bunch of hypocrites.
Tea Baggers swear by Beck. They're also upset over bailouts and obscene bonuses, they think Wall Street is a bunch of crooks, blah blah blah. And then they drink the Obama is anti-free market koolaid. Don't
they see the basic contradictions in their own positions?
Probably not. Such ignorance is a requirement of Beckophiles.
beck is the dopamine fix for haters. he communicates in their language/cadence. he represents their CULTURE CLUB they hate people they perceive hate them. he does his over paid part of divide and conquer nonsense. of course some will say we are part of it, that may be true. i'd like to think we're aware of it. people can be foolish because of the inability to think contrarian and to accept fault.
what if Beck was really Osama bin Laden in a really bad Halloween disguise? I mean, what if I'm right?!!!
Have you ever been right about something before? If so, chances are really good you are right about this. That's rationale according to Gourd Head Beck.
is really Hugo Chavez. How about that?!
But what if you're right? What is he is even though there is no possible way? If you were ever right about anything we have to allow that you could be right about this, even though it's impossible.
God made a rock so heavy, He Himself couldn't lift it?
Is that a trick question?
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Led Zepplin
Is that a trick answer?
Henry Kissinger, the Pope and a hippie are on a plane going down over the ocean. There are only two parachutes. Since there are three of them and two parachutes, who do they give the extra one two?
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To the guy who didn't get one of the other two?
the beginning of The Island Of Doctor Moreau
have money, and they want to keep it for themselves. So they like having a cheerleader like Beck and Fox in general on their side. These are the people that really offend me.
"Facts don't matter, values do."
Brainwash, rinse, repeat.
Like I said on another topic, these guys like Beck love stupid people because they can use them so easily. Limbaugh said just the other day that it is all about the money. That is what matters to them even after they have much more than they could spend in 5 lifetimes. Limbaugh knows he can say it because he knows that the stupid people who listen to him are to stupid to let it matter to them. When you add in "crazy" to the equation you get Beck.
Hey Beck fans,
Ol' Glenn and Clydie Clyde are LAUGHING at YOU!
The problem with a roomful of cats and pc's producing Shakespeares sonnets is in its marked similarities to William Paley's teleological argument for Argument From Design, although obviously this is meant as an absurdity.
A room full of dogs would whip that sonnet out in no time at all. Forget the monkeys and cats, dogs rule.
Dogs don't have the independence of mind required. They'd be typing "when's dinner when's dinner when's dinner" all day long.
I know it won't happen...but seriously WHAT IF IT DOES?!?
If it does, we'll all have boo-boos.
our heads in the clouds yet again.
Our whole bodies would be in the clouds as we floated around with our angle wings and our little harps. Funny thing is, I don't even know how to play a harp. Okay, most of us wouldn't be angles, but what if we were?
slider. And you would not be an angle either. Maybe a Saxon.
LOL, and now I can't edit it. Pay backs are hell, I know that now. See that's why I won't be an angel, I can't even spell it right. I'm sure god takes off points for typos.
Osama...whoopsee! I mean "Obama" ...soooooooooorry...would have a lot of 'splainin to do.
... how it is all just a ploy by Big Roofing.
so true!
psst. do you work for big roofing?
There is no "f" in Big RooPhing.
This is Glenn Beck's best attempt at an argument?! "Okay, we all know I'm a batshit looney-toons making stuff up for the benefit of ratings...but what if I'm NOT?" (cue in classic DUH-DUH-DUHHHHHH music)
The obvious answer is, "If that's the case, then down is up, turds taste like chicken fried steak, the Cubs will repeat the World Series, and a retarded drunkard who couldn't even cut it as a morning zoo talk-monkey can miraculously develop some sort of political acumen." Sure, that's logical.
you're right! and by golly, I think you're right.
"Hey, would you please repeat that meme about me raping and killing a girl in 1990?" Every day he repeats this spiel, he gives its creators more and more material.
That having been said, I know it's general knowledge that that whole thing's an Internet hoax...BUT WHAT IF IT'S TRUE?
raped a girl in 1990.
Not that I think it is true, but....
Interesting, isn't it?
Glenn Beck a rapist and a murderer?
(There I used the question form so I can enjoy the same plausible deniability FOX News abuses).
Ya.
hey, inquiring minds want to know.
sheesh.
but WHAT IF?!? WHAT IF HE DID??? HE CERTAINLY HAS THE CAPABILITY...er..well, I also heard he was castrated a year prior to his rape allegations. I think the FBI should look into this and call for a pre-emptive arrest of Serial Eunich Rapist Glenn Beck
one bit of truth that really bothers Beck, and I post it on every single GD Beck thread, is that his little narcissistic self really really hates to be reminded of his disastrous stint in Texas. ratings in the dumper.
That's what matters to him and hurts him the most.
But I like fighting fire with fire. Not that it works on cult members, but on the rest of the people living in reality.
... the clearer it becomes that indeed his mum took the easy way out when she realized what her vagina had spewed into this world.
Do tell. With details.
I'll try to find the link. a three parter. I think it was salon.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/...
from the link above.
According to Beck, his mom offed herself. Okay he wouldn't use those crass words, but I would. And before anyone gets upset, two of my uncles did the same thing.
I'm sorry to hear that about your uncles.
s43, of course it's a sad story about GB's mom's suicide. but he used that fact for his own gain and/or added details that were not substantiated by other family members. never mentioned until he made crap up on the air. he's sick.
No need to be sorry, it was their choice and if you knew their wives, you would probably better understand the choice they made.
I know there is question about what really happened to his mom, but since I don't know much about it, I opted not to go there.
what happened to his mom.
Imagine, just for a second, your vagina had dropped a turd like Gleen Beck. It would make carrying on living rather hard. I can't say I blame Mrs. Beck for taking the easy way out.
This f*cking clown just never stops.
I swear, I want to live long enough, and I'll make it my life ambition to go around the country and pee on these idiots' graves.
It will make me feel as though I have the last word on these idiots.
Every congressional and gubernatorial Democrat in the country should run this nugbag's clips in their moderate swing districts in 2010. Beck like Boss Limbaugh could be one of the best things to happen to the Democrats and their prospects for solidifying their hold on congress and governorships in the next election.
Traitor Joe's top 15 betrayals
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/top-...
forgets that Obama wouldn't have the slimmest chance of holding any elected office in most of Europe because... get ready... he's too conservative! Nations like Italy, France, UK, Sweden, that rank much higher than the US in quality of life indexes.
Can you imagine if Glenn Beck was just batshit crazy? Would that matter with regard to all the swill that spews outta his mouth on a daily basis...that's what we should get Glenn to answer.
really? if?
Would it matter even if he wasn't insane? no. If he were sane it wouldn't make any difference to the damage he's doing.
Isn't batshit useful for something, like fertilizer?
1990 truth.org
Has it ever occurred to Beck that regulation is the only thing that will SAVE capitalism? What a simple minded GOON.
has been in for a while but this moronic, disjointed, non-rational, narcissistic rant puts this vitriolic, self-loathing adolescent in the same club with his spiritual mentor, Sen. Joe McCarthy. The similarities are stunning. The depressing part is that such a labeling hasn't been pasted to his forehead by the duped and complicit MSM. Beyond comprehension to me.
betweenbeck and mccarthy
n/t
Like Minded
I think medically speaking Beck may be a schizophrenic wrapped in a psychopath. something like that. A fake within a fake within a fake.
Beck has become a bore.
If you've got a kid who cries because he knows he'll get attention, after a while you've got to learn to ignore the crying.
Beck. Jail. Now.
persecuting Bush & co. for murder in a new movie
http://www.indiegogo.com/bush
I'm afraid he's confusing Karl Marx with Groucho Marx.
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