The Eyes of Glenn Beck Are Upon You
By David Neiwert Wednesday Feb 04, 2009 10:00am
It's the eyes! The eyes!
I'm not sure what Fox News thought it was getting when it hired Glenn Beck away from CNN, but what they're getting is one serious train wreck of some of the most gobsmackingly weird and embarrassingly maudlin on-air performances in major-network history. Considering that we're talking about Fox here, that's saying something.
On Monday for one of his monologue segments Beck had the camera zoom in on his eyes so people could see them, while another camera kept his headshot in view. It was obvious what they were trying to achieve: Look into his eyes and see his earnest sincerity and you know he's a guy just like you and me and isn't that swell and make you feel better, and doesn't he make sense even when he talks complete lunacy?
Or something like that.
Me, I saw a glassy-eyed fanatic. And I expect a lot of people did. One viewer wrote in to say it looked "creepy" -- and so Beck confessed Tuesday (in the closing segment of the above video) that these shots were his idea. And he goes on to explain why: It's because, gwarsh, we all just need to look each other in the eye.
Which is, of course, as phony as can possibly be, because Glenn Beck isn't looking into anyone's eye when he stares into that camera. He's just pretending to himself that he is. Sort of like how he pretends to himself he can connect with people through their TV sets.
It's all just too weird for me. The crying thing was bad enough, but this kind of stuff is downright creepy indeed.
Oh, and for good measure, he cried again for us yesterday too:
I'm no psychiatrist, but I definitely want to stand on the other side of the elevator from that guy.
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Don't taxidermists use glass eyes?
..Glenn Beck has always creeped me out. Not trying to be funny or cute or anything, but his eyes have no light in them. They are cold and dead and reptilian.
but I play one on TV. Isn't that good enough?
Glenn Beck Leading Lizard of the Reptile Nation
Next up, Beck sobbing "I have sinnnnnnedddd".
on the crying video download links.
But that might be a very good thing . . thanks!
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
is this the first "news" and opinion show that should have a parental warning notice attached to it?
but I'm not sure how it should read. I threw up in my mouth . . more than a little bit!
May cause diarhhea and nausea?
The only qualification to be an anchor on Fox"News" is to be certifiable?
He's not looking into my eyes, he's looking over my shoulder! Makes me want to turn around and see who he's looking at!
Like the ranting psychopath wiping my windshield and looking at the gnome on my shoulder instead of into my eyes. Is he asking me for a dollar, or does he want to eat the gnome? Eat the gnome Glenn and leave me alone,,,, when the light changes I'm flooring it!
Exactly. The whole premise falls flat because in that camera angle his eyes aren't looking at the camera! So, we're not looking him in the eye at all!
As for the crying jags, on the first one I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because he was talking about his disabled daughter. Fair enough, people can lose it sometimes on air. Now, I just think its an act.
What is with this guy Beck??? I only saw him a few times when he was on CNN, and I couldn't stand him then. He's gotten worse.
David, how in the world do you ever watch this guy? I downloaded the video but could only step through it, in about 3 or 4 clicks. Appeared to me as if those eyes were in 2/3s of the clip.
What is wrong with this guy? What is wrong with Fox? What is wrong with the people who like this guy????
I'm going crazy. I need to see a shrink because every time I see Beck's head, I just want to get stinking drunk!
I'm doing the Lord's work, General. It's like when I reviewed Liberal Fascism -- it's all so you don't have to.
Looks like he was going for a "24" vibe.
What a schmuck.
The guy Beck freaks me out.
I'm a socialist and far on the right on most issues. On immigration however, I am fervently anti-illegal-immigration. For me it's a National Sovereignty and a Law issue. We have to make decision in a calm and intelligent manner, write the result - laws - and the abide by them. If the law is wrong, and it happens, then change the law. But as we've seen with the last administration, when you start to pick and choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore, you get social breakdown.
All that said! Glenn Beck. The guy freak me out. If you know the story of People's Temple and Jim Jones, People's Temple actually had very honorable objectives. But their "leader" was losing it and was manifesting massive paranoi. He was brain-washing is followers on a daily basis about the threat of an invasion of U.S. forces into their compound in Guyana. They were so scared that when he gave the command, most (not all - some were forced) committed mass suicide.
Michele Malkin and Glenn Beck are fear-mongering psychopaths and remind me of Jim Jones. Remember that Beck has been talking about complete government breakdown on the border and north of the border, U.S., inhabitants taking the situation into their own hands and complete chaos.
Now I believe fervently as well in Free Speech. But SOMEBODY has got to call this guy, Glenn Beck, out. There is a subset of the U.S. population that is stuipd enough to follow the hysteria that Beck is prostelizying and start shooting on the board and that is the last thing we need right now.
a far right socialist...
fascinating....
I think that was National Socialist German Workers party.
Harsh but hilarious!
scary
Man, you guys are quick to jump anyone that steps out of your image of the world!!
I meant to type:
"I'm a socialist and far on the left on most issues."
Well, at least my error stimulated some grey matter out in cyber-space.
You stoopid LIBRUL!!!
;)
Oh, so now you're a commie?
Socialism |= Communism.
BTW. I'm American and live in France. I know what socialism is. America should try it (and I'm not talking about giving money to CEO's of banks and failed Investment Brokerage Houses).
I know. I was joking. As someone who has been called a commie, pinko, ****** and so much more while marching against the invasion of Iraq, against the invasion of Afghanistan and in support of gay rights... I now consider being called those things to be a sense of pride (even if I am none of them).
Sorry if I wasn't clear about it being a joke when I posted it.
I understand completely and there is no need to apologize. I use a lot of sarcasm when I post too. Sometimes too much. We say things that are so sarcastic then when we read them, they read exactly like what we are struggling against. Sarcasm is always best across from the other person and with two beers on the table (or coffees for our not-alcohol consuming friends)..
Maybe to keep us straight (so to speak), we can refer to stage left and stage right.
No..I think he's an alien! ; 0 )
no?
do the math....
all liberals = leftists
illegal aliens = leftists
thus, all liberals = illegal aliens.
The world according to wingnuts. It's in the GOP plank...look it up.
ah, gotcha
although i am not sure "pro" illegal immigration is how i would portray the left's position...
LOL. Sorry..kidding.
But, the fact is...the right wing does...they parse the left's position on things thusly...
Pro-abortion means anti-life
Pro Immigration amnesty means pro illegal immigration.
Here's my take on that. Take it for what it's worth.
Many (not all) on the left believe that we need to save the world (I'm for that) and one way to do that is to let anyone in that can get over and on to the U.S. side of the border, legally or illegally (I’m not for that).
Many (not all - mostly corporatists) on the right love that they can get as many low-wage illegals into the country because they can pay them near-slave-level wages and they know that they won't unionize because they are afraid of being deported – it’s called exploitation.
I..., believe that we should have an immigration policy that protects American nationals and resident aliens and allows foreigners to migrate to the U.S. in numbers that allows all workers in the U.S., from the CEO all the way down to the grape picker and house cleaner to 1 - have a roof over their head and food on the table, 2 - get a good education for their children, and 3 - get health care for basically close to nothing. As long as anyone can run across the border into the U.S., we will never see this because their will always be lower-wage workers dragging down the salaries of low-end workers and an excessive load on social services.
The right (corporate America) “claim” they are free market capitalists but that is BS – they are Fascists. The U.S. should have unions everywhere but the right doesn’t want that because unions would make it difficult for them to pick off workers one at a time and lay them off, allowing the corporations to pick up an illegal for half the price or, in the case of low-skill labor, export the U.S. job to a low-cost, low-social-justice foreign nation in the case of high-tech workers.
The right (corporate America) is pro-immigration and anti-union. The righty dorks on TV act like they are anti-immigration but trust me, their benefactors are pro-illegal-immigration.
The U.S. needs to be anti-illegal-immigration and pro-union.
Give it up on the anti-illegal immigration thing. It's called a wedge issue designed to arouse your passions rather than your brain. Try using your brain. I wonder if you care to provide specifics where your views diverge from Beck, Malkin, Rush, O'Lielly or Hannity?
Do you read the posts before you reply?
I think Thomas laid it out perfectly. I couldn't have stated it any clearer had I tried.
What do you think is inaccurate?
though I believe it lacks a global perspective.
I take it you don't agree people should obey the law?
These eyes cry every night for you, america
These arms long to hold you again
The hurtin’s on me yeah,
But I will never be free no my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me yeah and you broke it, you broke it. Oh, no.
These eyes watched you bring my world to an end.
This heart could not accept and pretend.
The hurtin’s on me yeah,
But I will never be free no no no.
You took the vow with me yeah.
You spoke it, you spoke it, babe.
These eyes are cryin’
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they’re never gonna see another one like I had with you, america
These eyes are cryin’
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they’re never gonna see another one like I had with you, america
These eyes are cryin’
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they’re never gonna see another one like I had with you, america
Man, man, your Ayn is Rand
Our "news" is shown on your T.V.
I am the eyes of Glenn-us Beck-us
All your base belong to me.
a little more. Beck asks why people are screaming at the TV....I'm screaming because this idiot is on it. I'm screaming because people actually like the guy. I'm screaming because he probably gets paid millions for his absurdity.
Are there any psychiatrists out there who can diagnose what is wrong with the guy???
They can't hear him through all that dang screaming.
It's like when the Beatles were touring.
Awww... life's gettin' pretty tough for the rich white guy isn't it Beck? Our economy is in the crapper 'cause all them dirty-types took our jobs and pimped their cribs by scamming the banks out of money. And now, when things are gettin' bad how does America goes and elects a dirty-skinned president... and he's not even from money! And, I mean, even your own party has one of them dirty-types headin' up it's committee.
Don't worry man, I'm with you. I'm in tears every day too, just longing to look into the eyes of a white brother like you... to have someone to hold on to in these rough times... to comfort me and make it all better.
Let it all out Beck... let it all out.
Beck is a whacko.
I prefer a whackadoodle.
I'm a Yankee Wackadoodle
I'm right and white as right can be
I'm a real live cousin of my uncle Sam
Born on the day of victory
I've got a wackadoodle sweetheart
He's my sweety through and through
Wackadoodle went to London just to ride ponies
Now my eyes are looking over you.
When I look into his eyes, I see a sad man that is not sure of himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdjqE6bCE_M
She's from Kennet, Missouri, just south of Cape Girardeau, birth place of Rush the Pig Limpballs.
Wonder how the bootheel of Missouri could produce two people on such totally opposite ends of the political spectrum?
Yeah, that song is for the GB's of the world.....George Bush Junior and Senior, and Glenn Beck!
mightyyyy nice in that vid.
Saw her in concert a few years ago in Chicago, Auditorium Theater...great show.
He's not the mayor of Crazytown...he's the freakin' founder!!
Beck had an eye opening experience... but seems his blinders aare now back on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI
Scary thought, but I wonder what Glenn Beck does for fun.
He cries on home video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI
well...he and his invisible friends sit in the machine gun nest on top of his house watching out for invisible terrorists coming over the horizon.
Personally, I'm glad Beck has this gig with FOX. I mean...imagine...he could have been a postal worker.
LOL (Apologies to postal workers)
After more torture of myself, I'm wondering if Beck ain't so bad after all. He said something like "now is the time for service." Sounds like he is saying what Obama said.
He also said that we don't look each other in the eyes any more. Didn't McCain have a problem with looking at Obama in the eyes during the debates?
I've seen the light! It's Beck's eyes!!! I've been converted!!!!!
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This guy's show belongs on a time slot between "The Jerry Springer Show" and "Cheaters."
he belongs ON jerry springer.
He's just damned strange!
I wouldn't get on elevator with him and if I was already on it and he got on, I would quickly get the hell off.
me of the junior high school bullies who were the tallest or biggest guys for their age. They peaked in 7th grade. I think Beck's brain was cryogenically frozen on his 12th birthday but his body kept growing. Sadly, I know adults who I once considered intelligent who actually like this doofus.
He just reminds me a guy who everyone would avoid because there's just something about him that gives you the creeps. Like his mind might be thinking things you wouldn't want to know about.
are now bringing us these truncated clips from the cable shows, I no longer watch very much of these "news" programs. CNN lost me when they hired Tucker Carlson, gave Bob "The CIA Outing Traitor" Novak a kissy-face sendoff. But the last straw was hiring Beck. Buh-Bye CNN.
We turned our off over 15 years ago. Never regretted it - never missed it.
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He's the guy that stalks you because you were nice enough once to him and he took it as a sign that you were meant to be together. And then when you olitely rejected him, it made him mad but not mad enough to be done with you -- made enough that it only made him want to PROVE to you more that you were his destiny and if you would only see things the way he saw them you would live happily ever after in his fantasyland.
Yeppers, that's the guy!
Bingo! Went to a dance with him one time along with some friends and decided he was "different". He used to follow me home from school and stand across the street just looking at my house. One day my dad had to go out and talk to him to make it stop. LegallyBlonde, did you and I know the same guy? Sounds like it.
that's just not right.
The two of you need to leave me alone. ;0)
The guy I was talking about was named Joe. I guess today I could call him Joe the Stalker.
I think these nutjobs are a dime a dozen. btw, my stalker was Dennis and I didn't realize how bad he was until the day he showed me all the photographs he took unbeknownst to me...
Oh yeah, he sounds like a keeper (snark)
Yeah, I guess there are enough of that kind for every town to have a few.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZDMkhPE4wA
He is so fanatically obsessed with you because he is actually sexually confused and is shamed into hiding it by his fanatical upbringing and thus forces his false persona into the world with the same fanatical energy that can't be stopped no matter how much reality gets in the way.
(Had two friends like that in high school who would stalk my female friends. Made for some interesting experiences).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eja-popojUo
I think it's a good thing that Blenn Beck went to FOX NEWS. I don't know about you, but Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity together makes for an easier monitoring of Fascist-Americans. I suspect that Beck, O'Reilly and Hannity must have interesting sleep-overs. And Fox News calls it itself Fair and Balanced.
To think of this troika as Fair and Balanced gives a whole new meaning to those words. Or maybe it's sarcasm? Could be!!
Hey Fox News, I don't thing those words mean what you think they mean.
Queer and Unbalanced
LOL wow... Nothing like putting an emotionally unstable whack job on TV and allowing him a national megaphone.
Go Fox News! LOL
Nothing like putting an emotionally unstable whack job on TV and allowing him a national megaphone.
There's already one on radio. But, let's stop picking on Rush.
...is the polar opposite of sick fucks like Beck, O'Reilly, Malkin, Coulter, Savage, etc.
Who on the left is the equivalent to these anti-American, hate profiteers?
just complete this freak show. Shave his eyebrows, or give him a mohawk. Hell, prop him up in the corner with a Hannibal Lecter suit on.
What would possess anybody to watch this clown? I thought he was an oddball idiot on CNN, but now? Wowzers. Talk about a cross between Dr. Phil's show and Jerry Springer!
Rupert Pupkin. That's who Glenn Beck reminds me of.
Bingo!
I never watch Fox. Seeing these tidbits on C&L is more than enough proof of why not to.
Didn't Beck already have a breakdown after having his wisdom teeth removed last year?
yeah...he stopped hearing the voices and couldn't stand the loneliness.
Did anybody else notice that the caller said the only place he gets his news is Rush and Beck but then goes on to talk about how uninformed he is??? But Beck doesn't even notice that the caller is basically saying his show is some bullsh*t
hit me too. I guess that since the caller is asking and answering his own questions, Beck is irrelevant. Really irrelevant.
I could see Beck snatching someone's kids and taking them on a rollercoaster ride and then putting their pet rabbit in a pot of boiling water.
I was doing some work on an elderly lady's house across the street, she watches Fox news all day. I had to listen to this douche bag whine about the Mexicans coming to destroy us while he shed his crocodile tears. I assume this because I was just listening. I really wanted to tell her she was a fool for listening to this crap but held my tongue. Why can't a nice liberal atheist like me have forward thinking neighbors. They're all wingnuts.
but...parsing facts, reading, being up on current events...that's hard.
absorbing whatever nutcase viewpoints come across your tube on an hourly basis...that's easy.
I think Fox news is some sort of political religion for some people. They just sit back and believe what they are told without question.
Probably thinking about his botched ass surgery.
The standards at Faux News have always been very low - but my god - they had to be trolling the floor of the Mississippi to find this bottom-feeder.
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If by "the floor of the Mississippi" you're referring to CNN, then you are correct.
go for the eyes."
probably one of the best moments from the Baldur's Gate series.
You don't mess with Boo, the space hamster.
to replace Beck on TV. More entertaining, same substance.
Seperated at birth http://youtube.com/watch?v=YGoYOSomKLw
Lil rushie.
but I play one on teevee. .. sheesh. And that "finally on a network that follows up " or whatever, that was priceless. ugh.
he has as much qualifications to be a journalist as someone who stayed at a Holiday Inn the night before
What he passes as Journalism, my professor would have flunked him (and that would be very hard to do.)
My IQ dropped 20 pts watching that clip.
who walked up to the camera and "prophesied", stirring the masses into action and finally was "martyred" for the sake of ratings
His death live on television wouldn't be for the ratings of his show, but rather the rest of FUX Newbs would milk the death for all its worth.
It'll be akin to dancing around the town or city with his corpse for several weeks as the body decays and falls apart.
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muuust....fiiiight....urrrge...toooo...maaaake...snaaaarky...sexxxxual...refffferennnnce...
Two dried up raisins in his marble sack?
Without the cookies
this post cracked me up.
This guy seriously needs help. There's medications for that..
Oh, and if he's already on something... he needs to try something else.
He's what an old friend of mine from Chicago would call a "pig eyed sack of shit."
May the Eyes of Glen Beck Meet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQG4h2qt7E
OMG - this dude is in-sane. I don't think I'd want him within 500 yards of my kids. What a nutjob!
Hell. I'll wait for the next elevator, or take the stairs.
I think it was a macaque. I tried to run, but its aim was true. Took me all day to wash the shit off my favorite golf shirt.
Incoherent, tearful ramblings with the general theme, "be afraid." After eight years of this crap, do we really need to keep returning to the same part of the jungle, only to dodge shit thrown by the same macaque?
Political commentary ala Rupert Murdoch. Enjoy!
Colbert has an excellent rant out about thinking from the gut. The very idea that you can determine the truth by staring into the eyes may work in poker, but it's a piece of shit when it comes to science and fact. Sorry, smart people really DO understand the truth better than stupid people. It's not equal. There is equal opportunity for stupid people to get smart if they so wish. This Beck guy is CREEPY.
YOU'RE just a guy who has gone deeply over the edge, dude.
He makes the John Birch Society of the days of my youth look sane by comparison. Last summer, he was ranting about Chechnyan rebels coming here and taking over American schools and killing our kids. Now it's this.
Hey, Glenn? There's a good reason no one is paying attention to this "story." Can you guess what it is?
Poopface-(he he-funny screen name!) I checked out that Christmas Sweater clip. I am now a little creeped out about it. I mean, what is with this guy and focusing on his eyes?! He obviously has a problem. I just remembered that clip(s?) of him when he was recovering from hemmoroid surgery(?) and how he focused the camera on his face. Weird. He is an incredibly narcissistic, and arrogant person. He needs some help with his "issues."
Propose legalizing drugs instead of being an authoritarian wimp.
What is up with making fun of people for their emotions? This is really starting to sicken me. Well, again. First you make fun of him for being emotional about his own developmentally disabled child. Now, you poke at him for caring about a person's life!?!? I'm sorry, but that's just not human. You need to stop this crap and apologize for it. Everything else is open game. I agree with all the other points. The guy's a whacko-nut-job and I cringe at just about every word that escapes his mouth. But, leave his sentimentality and emotions alone. I would hope that being liberal or conservative would not be a part of such an equation. I would hope that you yourself would have strong feelings about such things - the very things that you are making fun of. This is sick. There's no other way to describe it. I love this site. I really do. But this kind of stuff goes way over the line and it's been more and more frequent. Stick to the important stuff PLEASE. And if you're going to be so crass and uncaring, maybe you shouldn't let people know about that part. It's sickening.
emotions are a crutial part of the human condition. if we could all be a bit more empathic, the world would be a better place.
with Beck's bizarre behavior isn't about his displays of emotion. It's ridiculing someone who is: 1. Horribly ill-informed. 2. Ridiculously overpaid in light of #1. 3. Incredibly juvenile in his assessment of current events. (see #1 again). 4. Probably faking his emotional reactions. 5. Is mentally unstable.
the world's already a better place. you've reinforced your urge not to watch beck.
We aren't making fun of him for displaying emotions. We're making fun of him for oddly using those emotions -- not to mention his children -- as TV props designed to draw ratings. It's deeply cynical -- especially the extent to which he proclaims his sincerity.
As Emerson put it, "The louder he talked of his virtue, the faster we counted our spoons."
If that's the case, then you would be making fun of him prostrating those. But, you're not. It's the actual tears that are being assaulted here. During his interview with Palin, there was actually legitimate reasoning for that subject to have been brought up. For this, it is again connected to the topic at hand. His points may be idiotic. He may or may not being using his emotions or even just acting. The point is, you don't know. Make fun of what he's saying about it, not that he gets emotional about it. I am completely pro-choice, but I don't make fun of someone against it if they cry over the matter. I would attack their reasoning behind it. It's a serious matter, whatever your views are.
Read the post. It's about how phony Beck's "sincerity" is.
GBeck is sick. He wants immigrants dead, palestinians dead, muslims in general dead, most criminals should prolly die too, anyone who is not american can be tortured, US soldiers should be immune against any rules of war... the list is endless. And then he starts to wobble about kids lost in ganjaland, puppies and most important of all... the vision of how good the world would be if only people would do as he says.
The guy has a messiahsyndrom. I bet you that he cries when he masturbates too.
You negated what I said...how? I agree. He is sick. I believe that would have been implied in the "The guy's a whacko-nut-job and I cringe at just about every word that escapes his mouth" statement in my comment - if you read it. He may well cry when he masturbates. Who knows? But, you know what? I wouldn't make fun of him for it. His emotions are his emotions.
bush's piggy little eyes.
I am sure that if I took some screenies of this guy, added some p4unny p4rases, I could compete with the lolcat websites!
That's nice. Now I can watch CNN again instead of surfing past it real fast to avoid the risk of nausea.
Yeah, Glenn. Kind of like THIS awkward silence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpe2fapREA
Ouch!
If this prick ever looks into my eyes he will run for his fucking life, and he had better. CEO,citizens,eyes,open(angry red ones)
Can't we boycott his advertisers?
How do you get these clowns off of tv and radio?
their ratings are all fraudulent.
nobody listens to these clowns.
Don't listen. Its all about the benjamins. If he had no listeners, he'd have no advertisers. No advertisers no revenue. No revenue no show. But I'm sure that's not why left wing radio failed
that sounds great, but in reality it hasn't worked too well. The right is more than willing to prop up 3rd rate hacks as loss leaders to get their agenda across. Think Michael Medved, Michael Smerconish, Mark Levin, and the whole D-list of right wing talkers. They have no problem with loss-leaders. Perfect example is the Fox Business Channel. Lousy ratings, lots of infomercials yet it continues.
I wonder when Lou Dobbs is going to break Beck's legs for working on his side of the street.
Aren't his pupils unusually dilated under intense TV lighting?
Just asking.
Seriously.
Rush is just a codependent pig packing on the pounds trying to fill that vast emptiness that is his heart but,
Is it just me or is Glenn's forehead getting bigger and.. Taller?
I'm just saying...
...and he just takes the propaganda network one step lower than it already was. I know, many of us thought that not possible, but it was.
I almost am amused by this goof ball, again, if it wasn't for the fact that so many brain dead idiots are persuaded by his lunacy.
I like it when Glenn gets all worked up and emotional to the point of tears when he's trying to sell you dog food, teddy bears and inflatable mattresses.
Hey Lonesome Rhodes...
Don't give up now...!!
It's of my opinion, he seems too be troubled by his thought(s) as they are held and or furnished? The conflict seems to be brought about by the mingling of (The natural vs. super-natural) beliefs he projects?
Amended: Snip - Seeing and Believing
"But this does not mean that faith and science are compatible, except in the trivial sense that both attitudes can be simultaneously embraced by a single human mind."
http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=1e...
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]
"Ya know, people say I'm really kinda hoakey because I believe in that Norman Rockwell America."
-Reason number 426 that people think you're hoakey.
-No argument. Norman Rockwell's America: white, silent, and two-dimensional.
"It's just our turn to serve, and most of us do it without a uniform."
-Damned right. Chickenhawks bloviating about the culture wars are serving America very well. And all those "support the troops" bumper stickers are doing more to protect the country than any dumbasses in uniform.
"About time we pledged to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
-Footnote: "fortunes" doesn't actually mean MONEY in the form of paying your fair share of taxes.
"We surround the weasels."
-Only because you like to shove furry animals up your butt, Glenn.
But my personal favorite:
"Our grandparents stood up and fought. They fought against Socialism and Communism."
-Conveniently leaving out Fascism or any other form of right-wing extremism. Never bite the hand that feeds you.
fascism isn't right wing. Hitler was a fascist and a socialist. Right wing means zero government (anarchy) left wing means 100% government (fascism, communism, monarchies, socialism and other dictatorships)
http://jph3.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/grid.gif
Just for reference... :-)
This is completely ignorant, or is using a set of definitions from Planet Wacky.
"right wing means zero government"? Then I guess all those anti-abortion types, agitating for goveernment prohibition, are "left wing"?
I've studied fascism in the flesh, not as a theory, for many years, and can assure you it is a right-wing phenomenon -- right wing being roughly defined as "conservative authoritarian".
More here and here on fascism, if you like.
I myself am puzzled by all the labels and there meanings. I see them as individuals before I would label someone and in my opinion labels can change like the wind...
And if your speaking to me? I got that pic from a Google search and selected it for the most part due to the pixels/size.
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Ok, I get it! It's Fox New's version of that "just horrible" daily, Jon Stewart's obviously too influential News show.
So seekers of hearty guffaws: Get tuned in to "The Nightly Comedy Hour, with Glenn Beck".
Anyone seen "Waiting for Guffman", CORKY!!? And can anyone say Glenn "in the closet" Beck?
These clips are priceless! He is so gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And way funnier than he probably thinks he is supposed to be.
Should Fox axe him, or turn him into their "Daily Show"? Hell, I'd tune in just to watch him cry!
When you have nothing to say of any relevence, do some stupid shit. Fox is a insane asylum, and the patients are running it.
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