Glenn Beck: Health-care reform is just like the 9/11 attacks. And my followers are standing up before it hits
By David Neiwert Tuesday Nov 03, 2009 12:00pm
Glenn Beck must have been feeling the pressure from Virginia Foxx yesterday in the Absurd Wingnuttery Championships. So, after Foxx compared the liberal health-care reform package working its way through Congress to terrorism, Beck went on his Fox News show and compared the package to the 9/11 attacks:
Beck: On 9/11, we experienced a feeling we had never had before -- when the buildings and our markets and the economy came falling down around our ears, we realized -- 'Oh my gosh. Our country isn't unsinkable.'
We came, on that day, to the understanding that this Republic is fragile. Here we are now, a decade later. I'm on the air again, warning you that our government cannot sustain our massive spending. The system will collapse if we continue down this progressive path.
Ten years ago, I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden and his wacky, crazy threats to kill Americans in New York. And no one would have been willing to stand in line two hours while some security officers made grandma take her shoes off. No one would have done it.
But don't you see -- while the government is still not willing to do these things, today, America is different. America has changed. Washington, we're not going to let you get away with it anymore.
Look, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Conservatives are awake. 912ers are willing to do the hard things. We know what this means. We're taking time out of our busy lives, taking time away from their families, they're attending town-hall meetings -- you think they wanna do that? They are calling their representatives -- how many times do we have to be yelled at by your people in Washington? to work against the enactment of health care reform.
They are reading 2,000-page health-care bills on the weekend. They 912ers are willing to stand in line and take our shoes off before the plane actually hits the tower.
Glenn Beck has a long history of exploiting the 9/11 tragedy for the sake of ratings and rantings. (Who could forget his encomium to the widows? "It took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families.")
Indeed, you could make the case that his current stellar rise was built on such exploitation. Beck was a nobody until he started making incendiary remarks about Muslims on air and attacking liberals for their insufficient patriotism after 9/11 and cheerleading the Iraq invasion as a post-9/11 necessity. It's what made him famous in the first place.
And now he's springboarding from that to leading an open revolt against the liberal policies Americans just voted to implement, throwing a tantrum because no one believes in disproven and discredited conservative dogma anymore. No one, that is, except Glenn Beck and his hapless followers.
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my followers are standing up before it hits
Is this the part where the flying monkeys spring from his ass?
They can't afford the ass surgery.
it's like this guy is broadcasting from a padded cell.
invoke some kind of 9/11 corollary ...
... and can that idiot Beckster just go away.?
Don'tcha mean a Godwin coronary?
is usually sufficient unless I've had the Comida Compuesto con Frijoles Especiales de la Casa.
I'll play ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W52PP3lYlUs&fe...
It's mind boggling why the Dems, having a chance to prove to conservatives once and for all that they can do something positive for the country like creating a health care system that will benefit them (and everyone else), f*ck this up! It's a shame. It's as if the majority in Congress did it on purpose -- instead of creating a system that everyone would love 2 or 4 years from now (including conservatives, even Glenn Beck would be forced to like it), they create this piece of legislative garbage that they know is a sub-solution, we know it ain't gonna work, everyone knows it's a bailout of the health insurance industry that will not solve the problem of skyrocketing costs and definitely will not be "universal." So instead of doing something for the common good, they do something to guarantee another bloodbath in 2010, 2012, 2014, as if this continuous conflict completed them in some sick way that only the DC elites and Congresspeople are able to understand. Seriously, 60 seats in Senate and this is the best the Democrats can offer? Amazing! That reminds me of some psychiatrist who once said that 20% of all the members of both chambers of Congress show clear signs of psychopathy. If that's the case, excluding people like Dennis, Russ, Alan and a few others, you can take 5 picks and there's a good chance one of them will be a psycho. I'm sorry, but I'm running out of other explanations and for the record, I consider Glenn Beck to be normal.
I was with you right up to the end but then you lost me. I'm going to have to spend quite a bit of time on that last sentence trying to decipher its hidden meaning.
"The system will collapse if we continue down this progressive path."
Because it's not about spending; otherwise, he'd speak out against the massive costs of unjustified war, or against massive tax breaks for the wealthy. He exploits the victims of 9/11 because he doesn't like something.
That he states, "'Oh my gosh. Our country isn't unsinkable.'" just disgusts me. Look you little weenie (how I wish he were reading this), you are an absolute idiot to equate the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to health care reform. That you trivialize that horror by comparing it to health care reform makes you one of the most despicable carbon based life forms on the planet.
No, actually it's 10 times as worse
That's how many die every year due to lack of or inadequate health insurance.
..I was going to say 'mind' but 'pulled out of his ass' is better. Had he considered the 45000 people and if he was a human being, perhaps he wouldn't have made such a stupid statement.
That's right. My friend from Oregon told me her doctor prescribes a prescription toothpaste that she pays $7.00 a tube for, plus of course, the doctor's payment.
All Americans should be allowed to buy the same toothpaste over the counter for $2.50. We get it in Europe and it's available in Canada (BioRepair and Arm & Hammer Enamel Care). These products remineralize the teeth. That means you don't have to go for a dental cleaning twice a year. Arm & Hammer is an American brand but this company won't sell to Americans. Isn't that pathetic? Oh they DO have something similar (Arm & Hammer Dental Care) but with this product, you still have to get your teeth cleaned twice a year. Arm & Hammer only sells the good stuff to countries that have socialized medicine. Again, THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
You should also be allowed to buy Retin A over the counter but you can only buy Retinol products that don't work because they are simply put, cosmetics. We wouldn't want to put the plastic surgeons out of work, now would we?
most likely, buying said toothpaste from overseas would be a Federal offense on par with transporting heroin. We are so fucked.
It's really sad that Americans can't help themselves because they're controlled by the AMA and the FDA. If you were privy to all the good products out that that REALLY work, you would never go to see one of those quacks again. A professional teeth cleaning? Ridiculous. Why should one need a machine to clean his teeth? Swine flu shot? No thanks. Any wonder H1N1 is really spreading now? How many Americans have already been inoculated?
doubt that the vaccine is safe? Or even effective?
The guy is a human vulture. He will feed on anything no matter how bizarre or sickening it is, just to fill his wallet and feed his insane ego.
Rupert Murdoch.
Why teh Hell doesn't President Obama use his extraordinary and illegal "Executive Powers" to at least sic the IRS onto Murdoch?
I wonder if either CNN or Faux News made Glenn undergo a psych evaluation before bringing him to their networks? Is he a certifable nut job or is it just for show to make money? Sometimes I go back and forth on that. I can't believe that there are people that actually hang on his every word and call him their mentor, ie. Doug Hoffman.
..ratings, profits and taking cheap shots at the current administration. I'm waiting for the day, one of the statements made by the cretin will backfire and his "9/12"-ers realize he's spouting anti-American sentiments. tick-tick-tick..
"...We're taking time out of our busy lives, taking time away from their families, they're attending town-hall meetings -- you think they wanna do that?"
Yes, yes I do think they want to do that. I think a lot of the Beckerheads are looking for a confrontation and want to be pissed at someone for their messed up lives. Why not let Glenda tell them who to be mad at? It doesn't require a lot of effort unless you are really trying to understand him.
was the failure of many people to accept responsibility for their actions? Those chickens have come home to roost. The wing nuts are those people. They need someone to blame for their own failures. Beck justifies their beliefs.
So there's a presidential daily briefing that says "Bin Laden determined to reform health care in US"?
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you've covered your ass for this thread.
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beck serves no purpose except to give meaning to people's HATE for others not like them. he keeps certain people in a heightened/hateful state as a distraction. otherwise, these same people may realize they need health care insurance cost reform also.
For Neiwert...
http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/write...
There wasn't any French gobbledygook from France in this post.
It's actually kind of funny that people take this loon seriously.
Until one of them does something tragic
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Yeah or passes out drunk cleaning his gun and accidently shoots his teevee and whoever else is in the trailer.
or his nutsack.
I thought hammers came in sacks, not nuts. Nuts come in droves to tea bagging parties.
one sack. Usually grown in pairs. Hammers preferably come in bags. Sacks will do. Sacks are sufficient for shit.
I know, I made a mistake. Nuts come in buses to tea bagging parties, not droves.
Seems like a waste of sacks if you put only one nut in each. When a pair is grown, does one then buy two sacks? I would ask Beck about this but it seems he doesn't bag his nuts and instead shows them on video during his program.
Some of the 'teabagger' people are complete loons, but some of them seem to be sincere about their concerns.
Bradblog has a 2-part video of his trip to a rally (Teabagger Express), and some of the people he talks to appear to have led astray by hate speech, fearmongering, and listening to Beck, they do not appear to be raving loons.
Again I say, that I suspect that even if Beck spent his whole show confessing his dishonesty, some people would still think he was honest.
He wants 9/11 back.
Oh, and as for that unaffordable future that progressives are pushing, I imagine that Mr. Beck is also calling for the cancellation of our Middle Eastern campaigns due to the inability to afford them...right?
Beck should listen to Larry Wilkerson's speech from The Real News posted here the other day.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
Wonder what day it will be when Beck says that "Washington DC must be stopped at all costs"
Because on the wingnut picthfork-o-meter, we are getting near the red portion.
Beck has been using Sarah Palin's name along with his own in sentences. He's trying to make it seem like he and Sarah are a team whose only goal is to protect America from Obama. I just know he pictures himself and Palin standing up for America as they campaign together for some ticket in 2012.
Beck: On 9/11, we experienced a feeling we had never had before...
it was called fear - which could be exploited - of course Beck misses that period - it created his niche.
9/11 turned the people exemplified by Beck into a bunch of knee jerk, fearful and irrational pussies - and now I got to take my shoes off at the airport to CBA (Cover Bush's Ass) for bushco's f@ckups...
One of his best efforts so far was last week when he devoted his whole show to showing that global warming is a hoax. His guest was so fu*king insane that it made John Bolton, his other guest, sound sane. Whoever booked his crazy guest must have been getting even with Beck for something, because the whole thing was a bust. I promise, not one tea bagger had a clue about what the man said, other than there is no such thing as global warming.
I will give him one thing, he seems to be an expert at coming to false conclusions. Lucky for him his fans are not critical thinkers.
"Lucky for him his fans are not thinkers."
Fix'd
Thank you. I guess expecting them to be critical thinkers was going over the edge a bit.
political shot?
Maybe what we should do is make sure we prevent Glenn Beck from raping and killing another innocent girl he allegedly did in 1990. I haven't heard him deny it, so who is to tell us if he won't strike again?
Because their manufacturing companies are the real winners if we don't get REAL health care in this country.
but I'll bet they're funding Rupert.
They use 9/11 to defend the indefensible. Nothing is too low for a Republican.
they just has to have a democrat doing it
they use 9/11 for everything
my followers are standing up before it hits
Yes...and they have opposable thumbs too!
Please explain to me why Beck still has a shred of credibility left after it came out on video that the way he get's himself to seem wracked with patriotic emotion is to rub Vick's VapoRub under his eyes?
Is it simply a case of not enough people having seen this disgusting video?Shouldn't his fans be,I don't know,a "tad" concerned or put off by this stinky revelation?
I hope that that's the only stinky revelation we become aware of.
Apparently it won't make a bit of difference to his numb skulled fan base.HELLO? TESTING??The man rubs VAPORUB under his eyes fergodsake!
realize that was staged as a shoot to promo his hideous Time cover ...?
He was being all edgy and cool playing with his 'image'
Tey could have just used a stock photo of some slimy garden slug ...
In order to make himself really cry he thinks about something truly horrible to him, like maybe him having to tell the truth for a living ...
...or being deflowered on his wedding nite.
No,I didn't realize that-being prepared at this stage to believe anything about Beck and his pals.The fact that he thinks about "truly horrible" stuff however is equally weird and telling.
Apparently he's incapable of having an honest emotion which I'm sure you'll recognize,is well within the province of your standard psychopathic behavior.
...on what would make him cry on cue, since the idea of him actually telling the truth on his 'show' would probably never enter his teeny reptilian brain-pan.
and there is quite a bit of psychopathic behaviour in my province (Nova Scotia) BA-DOOM-PAH! .... but not even in the same universe as Der Beckster and Fox "news" ...
and raped in 1990.
I didn't say that he did it, I am just saying that he has not denied it... and he cries a lot. And we all know who also cry a lot: people with guilty consciences after they kill and rape an innocent girl in the early 90s.
that was a long time ago ...I almost forgot,
has he EVER denied it? ...(its been 19 years!)
In fact some people say, he and Ted Bundy have never been seen in teh same room together ...hmmmm
Glenn Beck EXPOSED - Crying On Cue Using Vicks under His Eyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g
i guess becky fans somehow blame obama for this? not sure how... but i am sure they do.
beck seems more like a secret weapon of the dems than any sort of fauxservative warrior. tim kaine should thank the broadcasting gods that beck works everyday to reduce the mainstream appeal of conservatism.
becky speak: America has changed. Washington, we're not going to let you get away with it anymore.
WashPost, Oct 20: sizable majorities back two key and controversial provisions: both the so-called public option and a new mandate that would require all Americans to carry health insurance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
the more beck (and palin) takes "control" of the GOP and conservative bowel movement, the less the GOP will be able to compete nationally.
of course, there are dangers in beck's style of hate speech and fear mongering. but, for now, it is working in the dems' favor.
Bush getting up to clear some brush, Cheney getting up to shoot his buddy in the face, or the hijackers getting up to crash the planes?
How about Glenn (and his jockstrap brigade) sit down and shut the ___ up.
is being ramrodded through via scare tactics, wouldn't it be more apt for beck to compare this to george bush's
social security reform
and terry schaivo bed rally
that is, if you believe it is being pushed through on scare tactics...
invasion of Iraq?
Why reforming health care is like crucifying Jesus all over again.....
I wonder if Glenn asks himself every day, "who would Jesus attack?"
It's Who Would Jesus Ambush.
They don't strike me as the kind that would enter combat honorably.
good point, there is no honor with the right. i would then submit that it should be: Who Would Jesus' Drone Bomb, While Jesus Sits Safely In Kansas Sipping From His Big Gulp
LOL! don't know whether to laugh or puke.
Who Would the Holy Spirit Drone Bomb, While Jesus Sits Safely in Kansas Sipping From His Sonic Route 44.
Big gulps are for winnies.
*Sonic no way advocates the use of the Holy Spirit in drone bombing.
Wouldn't that particular Jesus be popping the top on some semi cold cheap beer?
If he's Baptist or Mormon, No.
If he's Methodist (not on Sundays). If he's Catholic (definitely).
*Sonic no way advocates the use of the Holy Spirit in drone bombing.
**that is, unless Sonic stands to gain market share against its dreaded competitors (i'm looking at you circle k). then, if so, boooooooooooombs!
Love the disclaimer.
Hurray for dry wit!
Beck is the only one with the courage to say what other nonthinking people are thinking.
Perfect! You win a pony for that comment.
n/t
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When the boogie man is all you have in your arsenal, I guess that's what you use in a fight.
I'm still not sure what Beck's goal might be. He pisses on both parties off and on. He seems to say he has the answers but he never clearly explains the problem. At times I think he wants to go back to the time of the founding fathers and start the country all over again. I sure as hell don't want to go back there with him and why anyone else would is beyond me. A revolution today wouldn't look exactly the way it did back then.
His whole motivation and agenda for his show is set each day by whichever voice in his head is screaming the loudest.
I don't think he has any goal, other than making money, getting attention, and feeling some sort of bizarre self-aggrandizement. He strikes me as a crazy narcissist.
Laugh of the day. Karl Rove is on some show on Fox and he called the democrats' tactics in one of the voting states today, "sleazy". I guess he would know the meaning of that word since he invented it.
That Karl delights in saying stuff like that,fully cognizant of the shameless hypocrisy with which he operates when opening his yap.
that they need special mirrors.
Are they like the ones we put on our shoes anytime we were around Catholic school girls?
The only reason Glendora and the 9-12'ers have to take their boots off for is that none of them can count to twenty without doing so.
Californication on Showtime, fly fishing, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karen Carpenter, and lead. Get it? I said something non-sensical, just like Glenn Beck, so it must be true!
and pygmies! Don't forget pygmies! Liberal pygmies! Gay liberal pygmies...intermarrying!!
I mean, what a nattering lunatic!
What really strikes me as funny is that Beck is actually saying almost nothing. He's a babbling idiot, but his fans think they are learning something when they listen to his crap. No wonder they are upset and confused: imagine having your head filled with nonsense and trying to make it fit with reality. It is clearly a very upsetting state of being.
some teenagers who attend public schools.
would happen if Beck promised his 9/12ers seventy-two virgins?
With seventy two headaches?
Is anybody still listening to this fruitcake?
The stupid bill has already been bought and paid for by the insurance industry. What's he complaining about?
If you want to make a 9/11 comparison, try comparing the 40,000 Americans dying every year because they don't have UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTHCARE to the two-thousand and some who died on 9/11. Or the 40 million who will now be FORCED to buy private insurance.
He doesn't know, nor does he really seem to care, what's happening in this country. He's a big fat phony who's selling his country down the river for a comfortable salary. Something the conservatives do know a thing or two about.
The wingnuts have completed their long thirty year project of dumbing down the base of the GOP. They allowed the fruitcakes, KKK, and religious rightwing taliban into the party and employed a fake propaganda network to deliver completely fraud alternatives to reality and now they are shrinking their base to include only the knuckle dragging troglodytes. They are winning the race to the bottom.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_...
Given The Onion's proven prophetic track record... LOL
Many of the rightwing nutcases claim to be "Christian". Yet, they don't realize scripture. For example, take Isaiah 5:20:
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
Beck (who is a Mormon and any self respecting Rightwing Christian would have called him a "heretic") is promoting good (healthcare) as evil (terrorism) and evil (denying healthcare to make exhorbitant profits) as good (freedom?)
If you run across any of those alleged "Christians", feel free to use Isaiah 5:20.
for many of them to refer to themselves as "Christians" at all, knowing full well (if they read the New Testament) that Jesus was a Liberal.
Well that explains everything. Obviously his magic underwear is three sizes too small.
I've never considered Beck a Christian because he talks about it far too much. Those who feel they constantly have to remind others of their Christianity seldom know their Scripture.
Bush should have been honest and just told us all what they were gonna do to us .
" Ok.. heres what were gonna do. Were gonna ship all your jobs overseas after we let the bankers sell you fraudulent mortgages. Then were gonna start not 1 but 2 bullshit wars to benefit our friends and you all can pay for that too. We hope to back your kids into financial corners so they will have little choice but to join the military and fight our bullshit illegal wars for us.Then we will let the banks rape your 401ks and then we can bail them out and your all gonna pay for that too.Then we are gonna make you think your all gonna get decent health care before we fuck yous again and make you buy overpriced useless insurance from our bribers and friends. Then we will continue to strip you of your Constitutional rights and freedoms and start a bullshit flu pandemic to further our agenda there. But trust us.. your really gonna enjoy being sick and homeless."
Ya "...because that's the order of things. And no Democracy is going to ever change that. Get used to it - it's the way things are supposed to work - we know it must be true because we're rich, and you are... why you are just poor people. You haven't been rewarded so you must all be Chumps. you don't have as much so you don't matter as much."
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Further proof the Anti American right wing terrorist party is in full swing.
Any questions?
... how, when describing the horror of 9/11, Beck makes sure to mention our "markets and economy" being attacked? I had thought normal, sympathetic human beings were more focused on the hideous loss of innocent life, and the disgust at realizing that people were killed to satisfy the religous ideals of a bunch of sociopaths.
But no, to Beck, what is really terrible about 9/11, what is TRULY unforgivable, is that the terrorists dared to wound our precious market, our glorious economy.
As though we needed another reason to be disgusted by this fat piece of human garbage.
It is plain to see that Fox (so-called) News is desperate to save face with this MORON they have put millions into. Glen Beck is void of intellect. He depends upon the tabloid sensationalism that he sells to LAZY WELFARE CASES who eat up his "spicy gossip" and further spread disinformation to more LAZY WELFARE CASES who in turn pass it on... using the stupid to gain voter power... actually genius!
It's no wonder this loon has body guards. Disgusting gas bag.
If I walk outside tomorrow morning and my neighbor’s dog has left me an unpleasant steaming pile on my walkway.
I do not feel the need to start a blog or a letter writing campaign or rant incessantly.
It’s just dog poop.
Glen Beck is...as well
Can we please just walk away from this stench
and ignore it? Please?
I know he has some "viewers" - I mean people slow down on highways to watch car wrecks too.
Scrape it off your shoe's and move on - really.
Man, am I tired of these little bitches.
"Oh noes, Amerikkka is over as we know it! We're all going to suffer and die and be buried!"
Suck it up, you pudgy crotch sniffer.
The only good thing Guiliani ever said was after the attacks of September 11, 2001. He said something like, "New York is still here, and it will be here tomorrow. New York City is the greatest city in the world, it's going to be here forever."
Beck will crash and burn soon and take all his uneducated, racist, hate monguerers with him. Meanwhile let the lunaatics help the Dem's win more and more seats as they will.
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Beck doesn't try to advance a real debate about the issues he uses language to really try and scare people into thinking the way that he does. What he doesn't want his viewers to know is that a public option type system is already working for nearly a million citizens in Ohio. And this program is staying in the black. Too good to be true? Not this time! http://cli.gs/z3AtaY/
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