Glenn Beck: 'The progressive movement ... is the cancer' destroying the country
One of the identifying signs of eliminationist rhetoric, some of you may recall, is that it compares its target bloc of people to a disease (and the deadlier the better).
Last night, Glenn Beck did just that for his national audience on Fox News:
Beck: All right, now, if all of this sounds like a government out of control, go back to the progressive movement. It is not what our founders of this country intended. One hundred years of this movement, and the government growing while our rights are shrinking. I've been saying now for awhile, and it really has clicked in my mind, um, that it is the progressive movement, it is the cancer that is inside both parties. It's why you don't feel like there is a choice. It's why John McCain and Barack Obama, you're going, 'You gotta be kidding me, right?'
Yeah, whoda thunk? John McCain was secretly a progressive this whole time!
Later on, at the end of the show, Beck essentially admits he's been fearmongering the whole hour (which is nothing new for this show), but pretends his solution (following kooky constitutional theories to their always bitter end) is actually about being brave in the face of the fear he's whipping up out of whole cloth.
Boy, that is one special talk-show host.
He plagiarizing Jim Adkisson!
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Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
What a friggin' nut.....
It's down to the progressives against the friggin' nuts.
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he's alot more fun when he cries.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
my question is why do you the OP even watch him if he is that bad? As a matter of fact, why is anyone watching him if he spews nothing but lies? He is the third most listened to radio talk show host, behind Rush and Sean...and his ratings on Fox are pretty high also...so, it must be someone is watching right?
I mean the ratings for the other networks are in the tank...so, what's the reasoning behind that?
We get reports on him from paid spies. Duh! We all listen to only socialistic propaganda from Sweden. If you don't know that, then you are not paying attention. Catch up, as the 3rd graders say.
Is that you?
Stupidity.
It really makes ya wonder don't it?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
single digit IQ viewers to start takin out progressives?
Sounds to me, like the CONservative movement is the cancer, and over the past 8 years it has metastasized because of the likes of YOU beck.
It is forever and always - projection. They're true sociopaths.
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no mistake.
Thanks for that link, Trittydi; I've added it to my favorites in my medical file.
Not only do the neo-cons practice projection, but they appear to do it proactively -- before the liberals and progressives even think of it -- accusing us of doing the very things they're doing before we accuse them of doing those things!
I've been trying to learn how to deal with that kind of thinking for several years now, but it's like when I took truck driver training years ago: I did really well on shifting 13 gears and maintaining the rpm's, but when it came to having to back up with a trailer using side-view mirrors, my brain kind of shorted out.
There were too many reverse turnings in there for me to keep track of. You turn the wheel one way to make the trailer turn the other way, but you're looking in a mirror so it's all reversed ...
It's similar to trying to think ahead of what these neo-cons are going to do.
Glenn Beck is a scourge to the nation.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
and the herpes of this country. Not curable and keeps some from functioning as nature intended.
he's a scourge on the PLANET.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Take Stephen Colbert's advice and look inside your own gut?
seein as how his head is constantly up his ass.
HA!
he would be easier to look at.
HA HA!!
Here he is!
What rights exactly have been lost since obama has become president?
For the Right to govern!
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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not Cheney.
The kind of person who could endure this psychopath shouldn't be able to afford cable.
WE started the illegal war with faked intel.
WE tortured.
WE deregulated the financial markets.
WE lied about a recession.
WE were in power when the attacks of 9/11 happened.
WE elevated Sarah Palin to national prominence.
WE are the cancer.
Tax cuts are the cure.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
It is just government intrusion. The answer is total government control of reproduction. Oh, and more guns. Lots more guns. And no unions. Torture, also. And more drilling.
beck you're the cancer in this country with your judgmental/ hateful/dramatic hyperbole. beyond the likes of you please take a closer look at wallStreet/financial elite. take a look at the, at all cost strategy to push economic globilization at a fast pace down the throats' of americans. the cancer is the costly nation building/war(s). the cancer is allowing "cheap labor" into this country and taking advantage of them. the cancer was 8 yrs. of a authoritarian presidency/administration that reduced regulation of the financial industry in the name of the "free market".
As much as Beck's hysteria is misdirected I find myself agreeing with him on one level. We are moving toward a fascist type government which serves it's corporate overlords. But Beck seems to think this was started the moment Obama was sworn in instead of realizing his heroes George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan are the ones responsible for selling America out. Obama's just carrying the torch they passed down to him.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Obama is secretly gay on shrubya and ray gunn?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Obama seems content to continue increasing the number of private contractors we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. The education system is putting more money into military-backed public schools. They continue to shovel money into companies that are "too big to fail". They are more interested in insurer's healthcare needs than ours.
But at least he closed Guantanamo... oh, wait... he didn't? And he's expanded on Bush's executive power grab with Bagram?
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You know what makes me sad? That the "mainstream" political debate in this country has turned so far tot eh right that guys like Beck and Limbaugh are taken seriously but people like Amy Goodman, Simon Johnson and Glenn Greenwald are radicals. That Obama can be called a radical liberal by someone and them not be laughed at troubles me. That Hillary, Pelosi, Reid and the other crop of Democratic leadership is what's considered liberal in this nation right now is scary. Sites like C&L offer invaluable support to true-blue Democrats but the narrative has shifted so far to the right it's hard to see much hope for progressive policy anymore.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
No apologies for Beck. He's a loony.
Instead say "Wow, he's all kinda of crazy. Obama didn't do this, it started with that ass pumpkin, Ronald Reagan."
Consider that term stolen!
. . . or you can be sure there would be more violence, sooner rather than later.
And we should stop going to church since that's where tehy target people.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
No law would have allowed Unitarianism and Lutheranism to be
established as religions.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
beck should learn when to talk and when not to....
especially when he is doing handstands in a honeybucket.
Who listens to crackpots like Glenn Beck? This guy is completely nuts.
It is irresponsible for so called news organizations like Faux Noise to air garbage like Glenn Beck.
I sympathize with the people who have to watch this guy just to point out when Beck is wrong or lying, which is probably 99.99999999999999% of the time.
It's okay to shoot librills cus they're destroying our country because
they hate us for Our freedoms...
You could probly get away with shooting just one.
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Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
The uproar from the Wingnuts if this was aimed at Conservatives?
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
and start spreading them around the net.
I saw one of those signs in a little restaurant/truckstop...
I told them I was a liberal, go ahead and shoot me...
The toothless wonder behind the counter just stared at me all slack jawed, like he never expected to actually SEE a living breathing liberal in his shop...
I WISH I had a camera on me...
see you at all. Kind of eerie to think about, innit?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
and despite the fact that I could easily have whupped that rednecks hindquarters...
I DID breathe a sigh of relief once I made it to NC.
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Expecting a bunch of good old South Carolinians to anger over something so filled with Twentieth Century symbols and snark.
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“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
yeah...I don't think they even recognized the GOP symbol...buncha idjits.
That's what you wear to work, not fight. Unless your're Catholic. Then you wear it to school before you fight, cause we'll beat your papist ass good.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
hate America.
just half the people in it.
at the moment?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Oh I dunno...somewhere around 75 percent.
"we're buying a gun." I really don't give a shit about guns either way, but if those assholes think they are going to take me out because of my political beliefs they better think twice. They don't scare me and I'm much, much smarter than them.
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But they're stickier and smell worse.
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HA!
It's pretty dumb. ;p
Like i've said MANY times on here, I'd rather have guns and not need them, than need them and not have them.
but it's times like these that I can't blame progressives for wanting to arm themselves. I still don't really feel I can bring myself to own one at all, but I won't hold it against anyone else if they feel it's come to this for them...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
We've gone from secret Loyalists, to Nazis, to Commies, to Islamofascists to Progressives?
I better start buying my insurance from the cockney lizard for now on.
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He is a personal friend of Charro and Little Richard.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Uh...never mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cls4QP9s12s
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you understood it was not just my usual typos.
I meant Charro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBLBmdOiYc
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
They said her name was April Lopez I believe? Granted I enjoyed the confusion. ♥-boat, that is! :)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Has anyone ever seen Lil W's birth certificate? I've began to wonder that maybe he was spawned from the loins of Reagan!
at least when locked with Nancy.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
He acts like it's liberals that go nuts in churches and schools and (you know just) roads with big ass guns and tons of ammunition cause they listen to the liberal media. I'm sure I heard Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann calling for the heads of all kinds of people over and over and over again. Suuuurrrrre. What a meathead.
As people like Beck and O'Reilly continue to whip crazies like Scott Roeder into a frenzy, don't they ever worry that there might be someone in the other camp who is just as crazy as Roeder plotting to blow them away? Hey, they like the bible -- don't they know the part about "live by the sword, die by the sword"?
Bonsai writes, "...don't they ever worry that there might be someone in the other camp who is just as crazy as Roeder plotting to blow them away?"
No, I don't think they do think that, because progressives and liberals by definition don't believe in killing people who don't agree with them. We are more into building bridges and consensuses (consensi?).
Well, he might not have been a progressive but Ted Kazynsky surely wasn't a neocon either. I don't think it matters which hemisphere, as long as you have groups of people who are passionate about what they believe, there'll be someone who'll go too far.
But you're right about this. Beck DOESN'T think twice. He'd have had to think once in order to do that.
There is something spreading through both parties, but it's not progressivism (which tends to be egalitarian), but transnationalism (which tends to be elitists). At it's extreme form (generally more so in the republican), it becomes downright fascist.
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You know the problem with this country? Anybody with a pulse & a press agent can get on the airwaves!!! The tiny little Asian girl who does my pedicure has a far more stringent licensing requirement than these asshats who go on TV & Radio. Look, I don't know what the standards should be, but I miss the brilliant William F. Buckley. I never listened to Edward R. Murrow, but I know he ATTEMPTED to be a journalist. Shouldn't a college degree, preferably in Journalism or Political Science, be the bare minimum to comment on complex national issues? Yeah, I love "free speech" and all, but that's for the common man. The national airwaves are NOT free; they are carefully regulated and controlled. I couldn't get on Beck's show, and the FCC prohibits me from starting a competing one.
The only thing worse than this frickin' moron spouting his dis ingenuous rants is that there are 2 million people willing to listen to him. Of course, that's 2 million out of 300 million in the country; I guess every single village needs its idiots.
News should be just the facts, no bias or opinions. FCC can you please do something to earn your salaries?
before making a wild accusation about what comes out of Beck's
brain via his mouth.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Murrow did more than attempt. He was the real deal.
My question is this: what's it going to take for the FCC to step in and finally say, "You know what? Enough. These people are inciting violence. Speech is one thing. Fomenting violence is all well and fine--you just have to be responsible for your actions. We fine you X-amount of dollars."
How about fermenting beer?
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friday.
My eyes are playing tricks on me again.
For a second I thought you were referring to your dating habits.
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YSB...not gonna talk about my roommate..
};)>
... Or that you had a yeast infection.
but I do have a nasty rash on my taint.
I have pics, wanna see? };)>
Ahhh ... another time, perhaps.
whenever you're ready Kate ;)
Every "journalist" on television should have their college degree clearly displayed on the set, just like my accountant, or my doctor, or even my barber has on their wall.
This is what happens when you teach chimps to speak English. Isn't it interesting that the Progressive Movement came into being around the same time that corporations started usurping the power of the people of this country. Surely, lobbying was conceived at that time, too.
Beck is so special...
and not in a good way.
Now Beck's coming after EVERYONE!! or almost everyone.
The re-Thugs have driven absolutely everyone that is not old, white, male and christian from their party - so where do they go?
Many consider themselves to be progressives. So NOW - if you're a woman, a black, an Hispanic, gay or lesbian, an atheist, a Muslim etc. -- chances are, you're a progressive.
They've herded us all into one tent so they can attack us under cover of one word -- progressives.
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I'm a woman, I'm Chicana/Native American/biracial, I'm bisexual, I'm a person with a disability, person joining the UU church, etc.
You're damned right I'm a progressive! ;) I didn't need the GOP's help in getting into the progressive tent, but they cement my decision every time they open their mouths.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Oh, come on, go all the way! Become a witch and have an abortion!
I'm laughing, here. You know I mean this in a GOOD way!
to bits! :|
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Fortunately, they didn't see me inside. I stood still in the shadows until they left. If I weren't such a coward, I would have told them I wasn't interested because I'm a lesbian witch who'd had nine abortions and used all the fetuses (feti?) for stem-cell research. (sigh) But I wasn't brave enough to put them on that way. There were three of them, all very old and nicely dressed...
mess with the old ones...but the one closer to my age, I give them hell for as long as they stand there.
What I would describe as 1 elder and 1 freshman.(ysb beeehave)
Anyhow, I swiftly and courteously informed the duo that I was an atheist... the watchtower that was initially being offered to me as a gift, was suddenly retracted... They did an about face and were on their way. I just think that the honey/vinegar concept my Mom explained to me as a kid, seems to work fairly well. For me anyhow.
Bygones
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Actually the UU provides space for Witches.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Does anybody seriously listen to this ex-junky, ex-alcoholic?
unfortunately
You're giving junkies and alcholics a bad name , lumping them with him.
un told because its bull shit. I've never been this unemployed since 83. Fear and ignorance go hand in hand. I don't really blame Beck , he has grabbed fortune by the golden scrotum. He is making millions feeding bullshit to the ignorant, keeping them misinformed and afraid. Lincoln said you can fool some of the people all the time. He was talking about our 20% conservative crowd. PT Barnum said There is a sucker born every minute and Fox News was born to take advantage of them, a natural fit, Con-man meet dumber and dumbest, dumb and dumbest meet Fox News
Glenn Beck is to conservative insanity as John Belushi was to comedy.
I'm only wondering how long it will take for the authorities to find Glenn passed out in a pile of coke...
This guy is not getting wacky like this without the help of some chemicals...
Actually, and sadly, I'm pretty sure he's clean and sober, which makes him even nuttier.
But if you know where to get your hands on any of the chemicals he's on email me some.
Oh, and Vanity Fair wrote an aritcle about his "Comedy" tour. Not so flattering.
When Glenn Beck speaks...brain cells die.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
... but I only made it through to slightly past the first commercial break. This guy is a total KOOK who is out for nothing but sensationalism and a few token viewers to please the clients who run their commercials on the show. What a LOAD OF CRAP this guy is. What microcosm did he fall out of? Has he NO CLUE as to how this nation got to the state it is in? This didn't just start in the last year there Fuzzy. This nation was BAGGED by the RIGHT WING who for 7 LONG YEARS of super majority rule, ran this nation into the economic grave it now seeks to climb out of. This Glen Beck is not even entertaining ... AT ALL... just an irritation... like a pimple on prom night.
sack of shit trumpeted one more time the lie that Rayguns was responsible for a surge (?) in economic prosperity during the '80s. The truth is that the senile/shill B-actor quadrupled (i.e., 4 X, 400%) the total US debt. Gee, I thought that when governments printed money that was fiscally irresponsible. Silly me.
Oh, and before someone hassles me . . . . . Fuck you, Dick Cheney.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
And didn't Reagan actually RAISE taxes in his second term? I recently saw a documentary describing this taking place and true "conservatives" were pissed off at him and also for Bush Sr. for doing the same thing and breaking his "Read my lips" pledge. The doc. said that's why Bush Jr. was determined not to make the same mistakes and not raise taxes NO MATTER WHAT. Its his base that counts. Fuck anybody else.
was bullied as a child?
Might explain a lot...........
been placed in a basket and left to float downstream only to be found in the reeds.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
he slipped through the sewage treatment plant?
it would not be in his own book. Unless he wanted a good cry.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
if he didn't hire body guards.
has the odor of a 2nd year drop-out seminarian whose anger at his silent god had to be drowned in booze and tranquilizers. The irrational rage continues. Unfortunately, it does so on the publicly-owned airwaves courtesy of an Australian corporatist nihilist.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
I've only smelled seminarians who dropped out in their first year.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
for that?
basic catechism class. So I don't know what "probation" means. If it means what I think it does, no. I was never an altar boy so they didn't try that crap with me
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
But to explain a joke, takes teh funny right on out.
But don't wear the T-shirt.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Tue, 06/09/2009 - 13:08 — Sec_Humanist
has the odor of a 2nd year drop-out seminarian whose anger at his silent god had to be drowned in booze and tranquilizers. The irrational rage continues. Unfortunately, it does so on the publicly-owned airwaves courtesy of an Australian corporatist nihilist.
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The Brady Bunch did it to me.
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dropped as a child...
My answer would be...yes..frequently, and with gusto.
Who's gonna help me drag him to the top of the Space Needle?
Now THAT'S funny stuff!
I would be happy to help!
for a reason, dont ya think?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I would love to see research about all of those people's childhood influences -- I bet there are several common denominators.
I remember reading that Pat Buchanan's father used to make his little son box with him, for example...
severe blows to his head.
I have been building a church. I have talked to a lot of the people that go to the church. I have yet to find one person that thinks bush did a good job.
But I have yet to find one person that thinks fox is anything other then pure bullshit!
Most of them say they will not even watch fox!
I guess that these people are smarter then I thought.
My question is.
Does anyone even watch fox?
The local barber won't even allow it to be show on his TV. He has the channel blocked.
Pretty smart guy.
republicanism is a mental illness!
Always good to hear that kinda stuff.
in the Aleutians.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
So, DavidN -- I haven't gotten your book yet, but I'd be interested in what you think about this illness or disease issue.
Dehumanizing your opponents by calling them a disease is different from actually studying the people who belong to a group or subscribe to a certain way of thinking and seeing disease symptoms in their words, thoughts, and actions, right?
What's the difference between Beck and a sort of cult leader? The weak minded people turn and look to him as their leader. He told his people to attend "tea parties" and they did. What else will they do if he tells them to?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I used to belong to a cult (Eckankar), and I was prime fodder for their recruiting:
* I'd been conditioned in youth to believe what I was told.
* I'd been taught that "bad" emotions such as anger must be suppressed rather than examined and understood and dealt with in a healthy way. (Abusers don't want to let their victims feel anger at being abused.)
* I was sincerely seeking answers to life's questions.
* I wanted to feel I was part of something meaningful.
* And I didn't know how to deeply question other people's motives (which you have to be able to do, or else you can't identify con artists and others who want to use you) or my own motives.
Beck's audience (and O'Reilly's, Hannity's, etc.), if they are fundamentalist Christians, have also been conditioned this way. Thus, they are vulnerable to anyone who provides easy answers for them to cling to and lets them feel some emotions.
Thank you for sharing your story. I think in the case of Beck and the rest, the part of wanting to feel they are a part of something meaningful is paramount. Same with the anti abortion crowd too.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So are not all the organized religions simply well imbedded and entrenched cults?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
becoming an Evangelical for seven years.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
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but it's unfortunate that you didn't get a chance to read some of Bertrand Russell's tracts (among others) on the meaning of life, xtianity, and social justice. A Noble prize winner, no less, and the most influential logician since Aristotle. One more . . . at 92 years of age, he swam 100 metres to shore in some backwater Norwegian fyord after the small plane in which he was a passenger went down. Quite a force, that Bertie. (My apologies if this comes off as a bit pedantic.)
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
Thanks for the tip -- I'll put him on my to-read list. The things of his that I have read are years in my past and I can't remember any of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKY2O4KFmMU
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Can we agree that Beck should henceforth be referred to as a "mental disorder"?
The Glenn Beck syndrome?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
What are the symptoms of the mental disorder known as Beck disease?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Wild mood swings? Crying? Xenophobia? Persecution Complex?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
And showing signs of being dumber than dog shit.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Pathological lying has to be in there somewhere.
No, that would be dehumanizing; that would be eliminationist rhetoric.
But maybe we can say "Beckness" is a mental disorder? David?
"Beckism"?
..it's the
Conservativefor money and power movement that's "destroying the country"...not the other way around..He should be in cell next to Billo..
When 0'Liely and Beck get together it's real boring. They just go "yup" and "uh huh" and "tell me about it".
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Best named a two man circle jerk
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
yeah...but no one is having any fun. Worse, it's not even fun to watch.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I dunno. I'm guessing Beck might like it more than we suspect.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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