Glenn Beck thinks President Obama is going to rule just like Hugo Chavez
Glenn Beck's chalkboard talks are becoming notorious for their ludicrousness, so in most regards, yesterday's was really nothing exceptional. But it was so absurd that it was worth noting, because it's really emblematic of just how far gone Beck really has become.
The point, as you can see, was to claim that President Obama is taking the same path toward dictatorial rule as Hugo Chavez.
No, really.
Because Obama's history is just like Chavez's:
-- Chavez first attempted to come to power through a military coup.
-- Shortly after his election, he called for a constitutional convention that rewrote the Venezuelan Constitution.
-- He survived a short-lived coup in 2002.
-- He has called for an end to presidential term limits.
-- He has shut down opposition press organs.
Beck seems to think that calling out Fox as a propaganda organ is the exact same thing as ordering it to cease operations. Because, you know, any critical rebuttal of Fox's endless war on Obama is exactly the same thing as silencing dissent.
You could say there's a distinct lack of perspective here. Or, as BC's Alan Wolfe put it, Beck "lives in a complete alternative universe."
i'll tell you one thing Beck, it's been a full year of bipartisanship from the democrats as promised but we're not going to listen to the Republican any longer. You hear me Beck? Hahahahah. Hugo Shavez my ass!
When President Obama paddles your behind it's gonna feel like Cheney's torture troopers are calling, but that's just the way you are Beck. that's the way the Republican is. Blame someone else. Impulsive. Irresponsible.
Bipartisanship is dead Beck. Don't confuse loosing the majority with communism Beck! Don't confuse loosing the majority with tyranny Beck!
You are indeed a rodeo clown, and the rodeo is over.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
not only does beck live in an alternate universe,
he lives in an outhouse under the seat,
face up, and mouth wide open.
Who's more the fool? The fool? Or the fool that follows him?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Which commits the greater sin, the liar or the believer?
Hitler never personally killed a jewish person.
But he got people to do it for him. Millions of them. To kill even more millions. Beck is better than Goebbels on steroids.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
you are going to upset a number of posters here by itemizing just those few of Chavez's little peccadilloes. Stand by for a turd storm explaining why he's really just misunderstood.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Your label of "turd storm" stifles any meaningful debate on the topic.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
So if you're so sensitive to let 2 words, simple semantics, stop you from voicing your opinions and retreating from debate how do you ever expect to influence any one over to your side of the fence? Holy Jebus, buck up man the fight is on.
Generally speaking I don't trust anyone making over 150K a year.
could his set BE any cheesier?
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
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"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
These bottom feeders would run their mother around naked if they thought it would boost their ratings a little.
Ignore this turd. He is totally UNdeserving!
Lolo.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Comprende.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Zoom.
BECKGO
Batshit.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I used to feel badly about wishing or even thinking ill of and on people like Glenn Beck.
The fact is, after all these years, it doesn't even bother me anymore.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
and sixteen weeks.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
When one goes through life with their head up their ass it does give them a different perspective.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
his intrhospection.
This explains why he says all this shit. That's all he knows.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
9th Commandment(?) KJV
12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
Latter Day Saints 13 Articles of Faith
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
appearance of Worker's and Sailor's Soviets?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
you might even say that Beck killed the Republican party.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Beck set his mind to wonder the other day when he asked if the President giving the speech tonight would be Obama the politician or Obama the radical progressive. So, no matter what the president says, it will fall into one of the two catagories. If the president says something that makes sense, well, he's just being a politician. If he says anything else, well, he's obviously a radical progressive.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I've seen Carrot-Top perform ...and you sir, are no Carrot-Top.
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I want Beck bustin up some melons. And pears.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Then we would have to hide behind plastic sheeting when we watched him. Isn't it bad enough that we have to wear hazmat suits now?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
You already HAZ that new 3-D Teevee. Evet is gonna come over and you'll never get rid of him. I hear he never brings his own drinks.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I haz no three-dee teevee. I dontz want one either and the last thing I need is evet over here in a bad mood drinking all my YooHoos.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Yogi Berra's favorite beverage.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I coulndt spell it ...
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woulndt? You think if you had messed up we woulndt have a clu?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/286663469...
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/Q/A/r...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
n/t
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why do you even bother to give this idiot webspace.
please focus on what actually matters.
Some of us need a little comic relief and Beck is as little comedy as we can stand.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
plug his book. :)
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Er no, but I will say this:
Yeah, ignoring him has worked out so well.
Grow a pear.
http://www.amazon.com/Eliminationists-Hate-Ra...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Since Mr. Beck is Number 2 on the most popular TV talk circuit charts with a bullet (according to Harris Interactive) and personally spawned (or spewed) the Teabagger folly on FOX, I would say ignorance is not bliss.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
right wing talking points and technique do matter. Maybe ricky will finally learn how to spell "a pear".
A Braised Pear, with a mandarin demi glaze, over chicken. Or as a Vegan sauce. Make it a little hot. Kinda spicy. Throw in some Drambuie.Or, some Grand Marnier. ( I probably screwed up the spelling of that one.) But a good white wine would work. A Chard or a Chenin Blanc. Served with a nice Rice Pilaf. It would work over Duck as well. Maybe a little tarragon, or some cumino. Saffron would definitely work. I used to be a Sous Chef.
I love to get down in the kitchen.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
but I couldn't help but take a swipe at ricky's low hanging fruit.
hanged vs hung. It left me low.
But don't bust my set with your attempt to pare at my credibility on this pear vs. pair issue. I know grown Au Pairs when I hear some.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xd-upEKZYuI/Sc_tgLA...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Had the pear and the glaze, but you got much more in the middle.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/p...
At 13:57
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
can COOK!
;)
There's a subliminal message there. He's advocating Communism.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Compare it to the Crooks and Liars banner below. That is the people's true red.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
It looks radically progressive red to me
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Maroon is a good color for Beck.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I changed the color of the page. It was too bright. All I see is a mellow yellow.
Except of course, the threads. They come in in all their colorful glory.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I will watch and I will have my children watch.
So when they are in history class and the teacher tries to explain why an entire nation collectivley de-humanizes a race of people to a point of extinction, they can see how it began and try to help other students see.
It also shows me which advertisers NOT to patronize.
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Gee, that's too bad.
~
Corruption favors the wealthy.
among us.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Yea, Thanks Earl
yikes.
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audience. Why do you guys . . never mind.
It seems to me there is more democracy in Venezuela than the US.
Chavez submitted a referendum to end term limits, it passed. The US right wing stooge in neighboring Columbia, Alvaro Uribe Velez is doing precisely the same thing.
A Venezuelan referendum to further expand presidential authority failed.
The 2002 Coup attempt was sponsored by the US. We have had an ongoing habit of doing such things going way back, even before Wilson overthrew the Haitian parliament in 1915.
The US has dominated Venezuela since the discovery of oil. It was a Banana Republic with oil.
John Pilger, the War on Democracy here
Obama now claims the right to assassinate US citizens anywhere in the world.
Glenn Greenwald here
As far as Chávez shutting down opposition press, that is not what I understand. Show me links.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
but hardly a turd storm
The Right Wing US press sets about vilifying anyone, anywhere in the world who is not a US Right Wing stooge.
There are now fewer of them in Latin America, much to the benefit of the citizens thereof.
Honduras unfortunately is not one of them. The coup ousted the rightful president, Jose Manuel ZELAYA Rosales, and ran their candidate in a disputed election, who has taken office.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Here you go: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/chv...
and another: http://hoosierinva.blogspot.com/2007/05/slow-....
one more chavez:http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles
/2008/11 19/chavez_threatens_use_of_tanks_to_prevent_protests_over_elections/
The choice of words determines the argument you are making and its success.
Your first two links reference RCTV and the loss of their broadcast license. This was supported by the courts. They are not out of business and are able to transmit over cable.
I don't presume to have all of the facts, but the assertion that the RCTV was complicit in the 2002 coup seems to be widely accepted.
One might reasonably complain about Chávez seeking to revoke their license as being of political retaliation. One could also reasonably complain that he didn't seek legal sanction or prosecution for their substantive anti government actions, that is supporting a coup d'etat. I feel fairly confident that in this country were Fox noise, just by way of example, actually determined to be linked to a failed coup d'etat, that someone would be seeking government sanction. The loss of the broadcast license comes to mind, prosecution comes to mind. The transparency and fairness of the process is the question.
I could be wrong, but there are countries where I am sure there would be sanctions.
Your third link doesn't work.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
try this, you'll have to manually copy and paste though.
cheers
gonzo
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica...
Glenn Beck is now America's favorite newsman on America's most trusted news network.
Life is so depressing these days...
And it's not all bad.
However, some memes are more embedded than others.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
whether Fox and the DLC are in cahoots in order to maintain the illusion of partisan animosity. I mean, Chavez?
caboodle, but getting their kits in cahoots.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
It is a bit more complicated than that. The Chavez gov't simply refused to renew the license-- a completely legal action-- of a station that had openly backed the illegal coup of a few years earlier. Given the open hostility toward the Chavez gov't of all the privately owned media outlets in Venezuela, I'd say that's a pretty tame, patient, and measured response.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN272300882...
Venezuela under Chavez certainly has a lot of problems, but most of the population is arguably better off since his coming to office. Chavez's biggest crime-- one that apparently earns him casual smears from even the left-- is a strident rejection of the latest neoliberal interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine. Maybe if we had the gumption to form our own "Bolivarian circles" and elect genuine (even if flawed) progressives here, we'd be able to get out of Iraq and Central Asia and get single-payer health care.
Glenn Beck.
A gibbering rabid baboon.
Compare and contrast...
One of them makes noises and motions that actually have purpose, the other has a face that is indistinguishable from his hind-quarters.
I would welcome one to a dinner party at my house, the other works for Faux News.
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
It's really quite odd that David Neiwert would use this opportunity to seek out the worst traits in Hugo Chavez as if he somehow agrees with Glenn Beck's premise that Chavez is some horrible tyrant. If I had to choose between Obama or Chavez, I would easily go with Chavez. Hugo Chavez has done so much to help the people of his country (and of other countries) that it would be absurd to use this post to insinuate that Obama somehow embodies more of our progressive values than Chavez.
I urge everyone to learn about what the president of Venezuela has done before we side with Glenn Beck on this issue:
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/places/Ve...
We were perilously close to teeting over the edge and sliding down the slippery slope to Beck fandom. After all, where else you gonna go when that KoolAid wears off. O = W.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
The CIA was behind that failed coup against Chavez, and I think the US Government, under #43, was first to recognize the new, pro-American [business] government.
Bruce C Johnson
Coinnecting the terms "coup" and "CIA" will never get you called around here.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Might want to remember what Chavez and Venezuela are sitting on top of. A virtual ocean of oil.
Also, much is made of Chavez's alleged violent repression against his political opposition. I wonder how people have so easily forgotten the violent repression that is regularly meted out to those with the temerity to publicly protest our centers of power. Does anyone remember 2004? The violence that was served down to protesters at both political parties' conventions? The massive crackdown on the FTAA protesters in Miami? There have been numerous smaller incidents before and after that year, as well.
And the media bullshit surrounding the supposed violence of the protestors and the cops "restraint"...aggh.
Even the black blocs kept behaved until the cops started acting up.
He refused to renew their license due to participation in the 2002 coup against him, and rhetoric that makes Glenn Beck seem almost tame....almost.
Fox has yet to accuse Obama of having a sexual fixation on fidel castro as Venezuela's media has done
Chavez was elected by the poor of Venezuela - the rich there hate him.
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Chavez had the temerity to nationalize USA oil interests there ( how dare he !) -- the revenues have been used to help the poor.
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Chavez has been using some of Venezuela's oil wealth to establish a liberal and local replacement for the rapacious World Bank and International Monetary Fund -- lower interest rates, as well as less egregious ( read none here ) Corporatist-centric sweet-heart deals.
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Chavez has proposed a Euro-based, rather than a USD$ based, oil futures market.
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Chavez has had the temerity to allow Cuban fifth-columnists disguised as doctors, healthcare workers, and teachers to enter Venezuela, in order to help his constituents -- the poor.
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Chavez has had the gall to use Venezuela's oil wealth at discounted prices to assist Western Hemisphere countries like Cuba (and the USA Northeast's winter fuel oil users), all under the guise of being a socially conscious Christian ( what GD nerve).
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It's easy to see why the American NeoCons and NeoLiberals really just hate President Hugo Chavez ...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
for a rebuttal from Peter G.
at that temerity with Cuban fifth columnists BS. Fidel suspended the fifth amendment before even Obambi did.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
...when Chavez uses some of that oil revenue to spend on political adds to defeat conservatives in the US? Court not so Supreme now is it boys?
They had this fat bloated fascist imbecile on at the gym today when I got there.
I pulled the plug on this dipshit the first chance I got, and nobody said a word. Most of the people would watch for a minute, then have a confused look on their face. Kinda like "what the hell is wrong with this asshole?"
I cannot believe our government allows this blatant GOP corporate propaganda outlet to call themselves a NEWS organization.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
HS civics classes should have watching "A Face in the Crowd" as part of the curricula. Especially the melt down.
Then show any (psychotic) episode of Glenn Beck.
As Glenda says, 'compare and contrast.'
As well as no beginning.
...board instead of a teleprompter?
In the republican't war on reality they have just found their commanding general. The Napoleon of Wingnuttia has spoken, the nutbaggers have been given their marching orders; reality has invaded their borders, they fall back. It intrudes upon there long held wingnut beliefs, they fall back. NO MORE! This far no further, the line MUST be drawn here!
Reality must not be allowed to win the day, one of their officials once proclamed that they would be the ones to create new realities for others to study through their acts, that was among the first shots, but reality pushed back hard and kicked them in the nads. But now the nutbaggers and their leaders are prepared to once again "act" and create new realities, to try and club the real reality (and its liberal bias) into submission. There is no way they could get kicked in the nads again.................right?
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
That's right Rascalcat but like Palin , this imbecile too knows how to make money . All Beck , Palin and the like have to do is just be themselves . What's that saying ? Birds of a feather ? Well morons really love their fellow morons . Bush for example is proof of that . Gotta tell a little story here , I have ass backwards relatives in Northern Minnesota , Apostolic Lutherans ,just to give you a clue as to their mentality ... to this day none have TV because that is some how sinful , however Rush Limbaugh on the radio in the milking parlor 24 / 7 is just fine ,( I imagine that Beck is a big hit too ) , anyway one drove with his wife all the way to Fargo to see Bush when he was President , he came back all excited , " he's one of us " ! I was back there at the time and I said "yup , he sure is" , I didn't add the " as dumb as a box of rocks" part but I was sure tempted . Bush , son of one of the wealthier and more powerful men in the world , silver spooned to say the least , never earned or worked for a thing in his life and "he's one of us Nordern Minnesohhhhta dairy farmers " , "a Christian " , wading in the manure pit , working almost 24 / 7 and wondering how they're gonna keep the farm because milk prices are at a record low . LMAO . Too dumb to put it together , they are getting 20 or 30 year low prices for their milk while the processor who buys their milk is making record profits , guess that too was Barney Franks fault . These Neanderthals have been Repug for generations , they are 100 % brainwashed and the Repugs of course can do no wrong .I don't want anything to do with those idiots these days . The moral of the story is that Beck , Limbaugh , Palin and the like have a very secure future .
Paragraphs are your friend, they want to help you.
Solid blocks of poorly punctuated text are harder to wade thru than the sewage that is the topic of discussion.
this guy is making a ton of money off the dumbed down and in america he has a huge amount of dumbed downed to work with.
go visit a mall or a wal mart and talk to the folks about politics and economics and world affairs.
talk to the folks about 9/11 and iraq and afghan
you will walk away with a whole new idea of the mentality of the american people.
this nation has a big dose of self righteousness and arrogance and quite frankly a very hostile view of the world.
go visit a local high school and see what is occuring there in an inner city talk to the students then you will realize that the glen beck's of the world have plenty to work with.
he has a gold mine out there in american land.
wealth can be as harsh of a teacher as poverty. we are living proof of that. we are heading for third world status and the capitalists love it.
in fact they have much to do with getting us there.
is this year's Ann Coulter.
He'll run his course, as has she, and when the novelty wears off, as it did for her, his fans will lose interest and move on to the next exciting America's Got Talent train wreck...
What an insult to Hugo Chavez to compare him to Obama.
I for one was in the "lets give the guy a chance" camp, but after a year of this corporate clown I have arrived at a point where even the sound of Obamas voice pisses me off.
No more speeches Obama... get something done!
This is projection - that is, what Beck would do if he was president. All I can say is that I'm glad Rush and Beck and O'Reilly and Hannity aren't president - let alone Palin.
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