Glenn Beck zeroes in on his latest White House target: Valerie Jarrett UPDATED
By David Neiwert Thursday Oct 01, 2009 10:00am
On his Fox News show last night, Glenn Beck launched his latest campaign to unseat a member of the Obama White House: Valerie Jarrett, one of the president's closest advisers and a close friend of Michelle Obama as well.
Beck in fact devoted over 20 minutes of his opening segment to attacking Jarrett. He not only puts Jarrett at the center of the controversies Beck has managed to stir up and force resignations, but he says Jarrett is the reason the Obamas are flying to Denmark to lobby for Chicago as the host city for the 2016 Olympics.
It's straight out of black-helicoptersville, of course. But this has never stopped Beck in the past. Indeed, it's been the key to his success so far.
Somehow, I don't think Jarrett is going to be as easy to throw under the bus as Van Jones was. Now we may get to see, finally, how this White House responds to these kinds of attacks -- other than rank capitulation.
In the meantime, has anyone noticed yet that all of Beck's targets to date have been black?
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Just like it was coincidence that Beck couldn't explain to Katie Couric the meaning of "white culture":
UPDATE: White House blogger Jesse Lee has posted a factual response pointing out how reality-deprived Beck's attacks are.
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I hope America likes what she has become.
FOIST AGAIN...ya bastages!
don't let it go to yer head L&P, lol!
Methinks Beck may just end up crossin a legal line somewhere, and end up in deeeeeep dookey.
A prominent Mormon being racist? This is the most shocking news I've come across since that one day ended in a "y."
Personally, I think maybe Beck's magic underwear is too tight.
I thought it was his tinfoil hat...
what a fat smirking racist tool.
Shoot that messenger!
How dare you try to trap me with my own indefensible words! I just think someone else should take all the blame! Everything I want! No risk to me!
he's a coward that can't back up his mouth.
"turn over all the rocks" indeed ...
that is one disgusting ... 'person'.
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Becks "WHITE CULTURE" is a Black free zone.
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Burning homes and lynching parties used to be acceptable parts of "white culture".
it goes without saying that deceit is an integral part of that particular 'white culture.'
The guy is straight up crazy.
Beck is the reverse Howard Beel. In the movie Network, Beel fought for the little guy against the corporation...in Beck world....he fights for the corporation against the little guy.
The problem is, the little guy,(Fox average watcher) doesn't have a clue what's really at stake, or that he's being conned. Unfortunately, also, most of them are so scared and uneducated that they will believe anything.
I agree with the above comment..except I think Beck has probably already crossed a legal line with some of his sponsoring of the Teabaggers, and no one is doing a damn thing about it. Or seems to not be doing a damn thing about it.
Couldn't listen to the whole thing. This pathetic excuse of a neocon swine is so lost in his own story, it is just sad. He makes so little sense, except in his own perverted mind. MAKE EVIL! What a sinking joke.
I believe that this clown is no stupid dummy. Many other things, but he knows too well what he is doing and how to milk the feeble minded viewers that actually support this clown. I hate to say he's good at anything, but when you are willing to totally sell all respect and moral fibre, I guess you must trade it for something of value. He IS good at being a clown. He is good at playing to the feeble minded geriatric and red neck crowd that he serves. He has found his "nitch".
Such a sleeze back of worthless shit. I really wish something awful would happen to him besides losing any respect from the sane population.
He knows exactly what he's doing. He didn't just wander in off a street corner. He's a millionaire, paid by billionaires to keep the poor and ignorant misdirected.
Stirred up, angry, and feeling justified in their boiling morass of fear and resentment.
The man is certifiable! Needs a check-up from the neck up! Maybe he should be on Comedy Central (but I wouldn't want to disgrace the cable channel that hosts the 2 best shows on TV--Daily Show & Colbert!). Or, how about a NEW cable channel: "Spot the Loony"?! No shortage of people who could appear on that sort of show!
ashamed of your behavior, Mr. Beck. Then spend the rest of your life and your money trying to make up for it.
May the Fleas of 1000 camels infest your armpits!
May the Bird of Paradise fly up your nose...
May an Elephant caress you with it's toes...
There's more to that, but I can't remember it..
Little Jimmy Dickens:
One fine day as I was a-walkin' down the street
Spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet
Took a penny from my pocket
In his tin cup I did drop it
I heard him say as I made my retreat
CHORUS
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
"May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose"
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
The laundry man is really on his toes
Found a hundred-dollar bill among my clothes
When he called me I came a-runnin'
Gave him back his dime for phonin'
I heard him sayin' as I turned to go
CHORUS
I was way behind one day to catch the train
Taxi driver said "We'll make it just the same"
The speed cop made it with us
And as he wrote out the ticket
I stood by politely a-waitin' for my change
Thanks Michelle!
haunt his lower intestine for the rest of his days.
as it would haunt those around him.
attention seeking narcissistic fool like Mr. Beck.
I think I understand. White culture must mean "greedy rich old white men running everything".
that fact is pointed out he can say "You see, my friends, we cannot criticize this President without being called racists. Now we cannot criticize anyone in his administration without being called racist."
These folk want the conversation to be about race, and they want the sane side to broach the charge.
and I'll say it again: as long as We The People REACT to these pathetic pontificators, we are on their turf, we are playing their game, and we lose.
We would do well to remember the words of George Bernard Shaw:
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
That being said, we need more politicians like Alan Grayson--willing to stand tall, with the courage to speak the truth in the face of the lying liars infesting our M$M and most of DC.
These people have an inexhaustible amount of resources to back them up, and so far there's no penalty for peddling this hate. Bring back the FCC!
Their game is NOT simple! And, our response to it needs to be as ballsy and direct as Grayson's. We The People cannot afford to be in react mode with puerile pontificators like Beck.
He doesn't even understand what he is talking about. Wow
republicanism really is a mental illness!
Now that others are adopting it, you must move on from using it as a mantra to avoid accusations of, dare I say it, republican repetitiveness.
Let me help. Is it an uninsured mental illness? Is it a preexisting condition? Is it an illness of choice, and thus treatable, or one with a genetic basis, thus requiring liberals to exhibit understanding and perhaps come up with more politcally correct nomenclature than the epithet of your choice?
When is this going to stop? When is someone going to put an end to this sick fuck's 15 minutes of fame? The lies, the dishonesty, the righteous indignation...it all has to go. This is not how I was taught our country operates. Truth beyond everything else is what I was taught that we stood for. Not manipulation, not opinion, not some Machiavellian strategy to get one's way at all costs.
This is not the America that I loved prior to 2001. It has become something very unpleasant and ugly, and it is time for us to take it back from people like Glenn Beck.
every single person, when confronted with a Beckism, were to laugh derisively and say, "Beck?!? Are you kidding?!? Bwahahahahahahaha! Talk to me when you've got an unimpeachable source of information."
Jarrett was a lobbyist for the Chicago Olympics. She is also closely tied to real estate interests that would be greatly enriched by condemnation of their real estate to build the Village. This real estate was purchased in large part with ACORN money.
We all know that the Obama Administration does not hire lobbyists, other than Goldman Sachs to supervise the Treasury. Oh, and Valerie.
Good for Glenn Beck for judging people based on their Character.
I'm a census taker. Could you tell me which bridge you live under? Or have trolls moved on up these days?
using his initials here rather than the full name he uses at Baloon Juice. You will know he thinks he is in real tall cotton when you find him commenting at another blog as
B. Oven Bill.
High tone trolls like using the first intial and middle name. Like H. Ross Perot.
I thought maybe the BO stood for BillO or body order. Now that I think about it, it's kinda the same thing, stinky.
are funds from ACORN what you would call "seed money?"
Or are you just pullin made up "facts" out of your ass like you trolls are so apt to do?
Some, although not a majority, believe his work to be so good he is actually masquerading as a troll to make trolls look stupid.
this is only the second time I've had the displeasure of responding to this cad's posts.
Wow...that's pretty deep...
yeah, I'm suuuure that's it, lol!
Like anyone needs to make trolls look any more stupiderer.
Or so I've heard
:P
I like it, too, B.o.B.
I think everyone here would like to know about the time you and your girlfriend almost had a threesome...I'm already familiar with the tale, so I'll keep you in pie mode.
to put food on our family."
..Content O' Character
Figmentarian of Imagination
We're gonna have a fig pie? Never ate one but count me in.
I want some punkin pie dammit!
Balloon Juice Lexicon:
Oh yeah, like I'm going to be able to remember all that. I am pre-programmed to respond to the word "pie" by smiling and holding out my dessert plate.
My belly was grumblin, thinkin about punkin pie...sweet tater pie....
key lime pie....mmmmm....
Thanks Andy K!
I like pie!
Have you seen the movie Michael, where Andie MacDowell sings a song she wrote about pie?
;o}
I like pie!
that fell on Sir Isaac's head. The apple was in the Bible. It is in pies. Figs are in bars and imaginations.
at the bars that I go to...
Oh wait...you said FIGS!
haHA!
Do you get any other exercise besides spastically jumping to unfounded conclusions?
Tha was beautiful, Roooth
Quite beautiful!
that Glenn Beck certainly is a Character! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!! What a nincowpoop! What an ultramaroon!!
Oh, and, you're right there with him, BO Bill, spewing the same insupportable lies.
Fact checking would be a good start in your personal recovery, BO Bill. Good luck with the challenging part--addressing your hate, fears, and resentments will assuredly result in severe cognitive dissonance. You might need a padded room...
Obama isn't letting Ms Jarrett go anywhere. She is a close friend of the family and has been one for a long time. That degrees of seperation he did yesterday was laughable to sane people and probably made perfect sense to insane people.
About time for Rahm to call the dogs and sic them on the chubby white bullshit artist.
when lindsay graham is calling you out.
Did Lindsay call Beck out? When was that? I missed that moment of fun.
The closet?
The only closet beck would be in is the food closet. Okay and maybe the closet where they keep idiots. Not sure what that one is called. Take it, Ricky.
and twist them into accusations that I am accusing these two fine gentlemen of promoting teh Gay Agenda.
Aw Count Chair, my friends. This thread is about race.
Therefore it is the linen closet to which I refer. Whence are kept the sheets.
Sweet! I knew I could count on you. Beck keeps the king size sheets to fit over his bulbous head area.
sweet flower of the Treasure Coast.
He uses the King size so Mrs. Beck will not notice the eye, nose, and mouth holes when he sneaks them back onto the bed.
I doubt Ms Beck has been in the same bed with the mister for a long time now. Just because he is batshit insane doesn't mean the misses is. She would most likely like to sleep in another room when Glenn's dreams cause him to begin to sob and rail in his sleep.
But she would notice the holes when she raises the rails at night so Glenn doesn't fall out of bed and bust his noggin. I didn't accuse her of being insane either. She is sane enough to take care of that meal ticket.
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into the closet - for a little hide the salami.
There's a visual for you - Beck and Lindsay.
Roooth, I hope you have a good lawyer because I may have to sue you for the mental image I now have in my brain. It was not a pre-existing condition. I am mentally doomed, I tell ya.
a Republican. He still won't say if it is a matter of choice.
I had no choice. I was fine until I imagined the picture that roooth painted with her words.
does the salami resemble baby roooth after a dalliance?
How's that for images?
I will now go and be vomitous.
and it will go away.
Ah, the security guys are finishing up their first day of installation. Martini and I are gonna party when they are gone. It's been a long day and we have another long day tomorrow. But once it's over all our candy will be secure. No dooties in the pool either.
So much now for candy bars. Fortunately I was never a Baby Ruth eater. Butter Finger, now that's candy. And yes, I know I'm setting myself up so just leave it alone.
like fig newtons. This is more like Wayne Newton territory.
Or fig newtons of our imagination.
Kind of like Glenn thinks he's a wise man come to save the world from people of dark skin.
because maybe---after he's had enough of Beck's bullshit---we'll see Obama grow a set of balls. Jarrett is here to stay regardless of Beck----Valerie ain't Van!
I believe Obama has his "set". Don't most men? Funny how that word is used to describe a man's strength. I would think there is more to a man than just that.
that to be the case.
I always laugh when someone says someone should "grow a set". It's like they are saying this guy should grow knees or elbows or boobies.
requests for increase testosterone production.
Valerie Jarrett better not DARE quit.
I think this is where the Administration takes beck on, and I bet beck will not be so smug after the fact.
Beck did go after one of the czars who was a white guy, but it only lasted about a day. I guess he didn't get as much traction with that rant so he reverted back to chasing black shadows.
has become accustomed and his ratings thus require.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=dark+sh...
Yeah, he periodically picks on Cass Sunstein. But this is a recurrent theme with Beck.
Beck can't come right out and say all black people are dangerous and bad, so he just points out that all dangerous and bad people happen to be black. Isn't he awesome and clever for doing it that way? What a whiz!
Does he think we don't see through what he's doing? We aren't as stupid as he wishes we were.
Where does Skousen fit into this racial fixation?
http://crooksandliars.com/node/31328
Like this:
on it with hardly any lifting. Thanks.
So Skousen was the original Glenn Beck? What a charmer that guy seems to have been. Did he invent racism? If he didn't, he could have.
I should add: Skousen was an old-line Mormon theologically, since his views were decidedly pre-1978 in nature. This meant he hewed to the view that black people were alternately the sons of Ham (cursed by God for revealing Noah's nakedness in the tent) or the sons of Cain.
The former is what can be found in Mormon scripture. The latter, however, seems to have been the dominant view among LDS Elders prior to 1978. To wit:
I'm sorry maybe I should respect the Mormon religion, but that just sounds like a poor piece of fiction. Noah was naked in a tent? Not only was he naked but Ham told on him? Was this before or after the ark incident? I mean the story at this point sounds like the result of some kids playing Gossip.
That's the cool thing about inventing your religion after everyone else has, you get to make up for any gaps the other religions missed. You can say your religion explains why you don't and shouldn't like black people. You can justify anything you like and back it up with your brand new shiny religion and book of proof.
No, that story is in the Old Testament.
Well I guess that just shows you how much I know about Ham and Noah and such. Thank you David, I have learned something today. I'm just not sure what to do with my new knowledge. Sometimes things strike me funny when they really shouldn't.
Is that why Jews can't eat pork?
I am told.
To me there is nothing Kosher about pickled pigs feet in any religion. Including mine. Which no one follows.
It's the cloven hooves, they have the kosher laws against that. Plus they wallow in mud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jLnrUXJNM
the Old Testament wasn't 'invented' to fill in the 'gaps' of our older religions?
For example, don't you just love how the myth of the Christ is an amalgamation of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythologies? With elements of other precursor religions thrown in for good measure? Or, was it because those rich verbal tapestries were familiar? Inquiring minds want to know?
Oops, mustn't question the primacy of our now dominant 'Christian' mythology!
How soon will I be crucified...?
nothing disrespectful about stating facts IMHO.
meeting the Indian angel with the books he can't seem to put his hands on any more?
Mr. Smith never got around to explain that one...
I have my doubts, but after my Old Testament blunder, who am I to question the fiction of others.
Being raised a Mormon, I wouldn't say their beliefs are any more peculiar than any other religion.
But perhaps they lack they sophistication to argue the nuance like quibbling lawyers.
Y'all remember when n*****s rode in the back of the bus instead of underneath?
riding on the bus when they ran out of room.
That is fucking funny!!!!!
Mine just growls.
HA!
Funny thing is now the back of the bus is where the "cool" kids hang out.
What was it Martin Prince said, "One's proximity to the authority figure has an inverse ratio to the enjoyment factor." (?)
I used to smoke at the back of the bus...
I think it was indeed Martin Prince who said that.
His answer was Palinesque. The GOP have mastered the art, of dancing around questions that point out their hypocracy.
... calling it an "art" is pushing it a bit IMHO :-)
yea well good luck with that one Beck, LOL
There is no "white culture". Likewise there are no black cultures, green cultures, yellow cultures, red cultures or pink cultures.
We have shared heritages and ancestors, but it's more tribal mentality that some have put forth to masquerade as a "culture".
There are normative patterns, however culture sounds too effete for American conservatives, since otherwise they would argue that what we have is a marketplace.
It's where they play the Pat Boone version of Stairway to Heaven in the background.
Of course there is white culture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NbgL6Zh-Rk
"Lying sack of dog shit strikes again."
Hillbilly Heroin.
Every time Americans "turn over all the rocks"? they find vermin like you scurrying around.
BTW this clip,apart from being almost unbearably obnoxious,is a great example of Beck's obvious bi-polar behavior.Here he's at the top of the cycle in "full swagger" -picture on the front of TIME-a few Liberal scalps on his belt-and not gonna fall into any of Couric's "traps".Give it time though and our boy will be back to crawling around on all fours, sniveling like a whipped Curr and asking why we "can't all just get along?".
What a fucking box head.
Sure would love to see SNL do a skit where Beck,Hannity,Rush and Boortz, etc were all black,kinda what Dave Chappelle has done in the past!
Jarrett may be the one person in all of this that Obama would defend to the very end. It may actually force Obama to push back hard against the likes of Beck. Jarrett has been part of Obama's life for a couple of decades and has played a huge part in his success. It is impossible to believe he would not defend her and protect her. There is no one outside of his family closer. This may have been a bad choice by Beck. I think he will defend her as he would a member of his own family.
SInce he's also targeting some assistant deputy in the Dept of Education, adding Jarrett might just lead
to circuit overload in his brain. I'd watch Fox just to see his head melt down....
Someone asked Gibbs about this right-wing targeting campaign at the press briefing today. While he
sort of danced around it, I got the reading that the WH is going to not cave any more to Beck and Friends.
Beck smells blood in the water after Obama (foolishly) threw Van Jones under the bus. Now Beck wants another head for his chopping block. Obama was a fool to think that getting rid of Van Jones would please people like Beck and his ilk. It just emboldens them. Now Beck wants Jarret. After Jarret, it will be someone else.
We'll see if the White House caves again to the Beckites. It worked wonders last time, didn't it
RahmObama?now I am quite certain he is just a checkers player. Except he is trying to get a game going with a pack of jackals also known as the GOP. Hopefully he's realized the whole inter-species handicap by now.
let's hope he gets a clue before the GOP up-ends the entire board...
If these clowns were Black they'd all fall directly into the Michael Steele mode.Skin color has squat to do with being an arsehole.
30 months in Vietnam, encouraged me to vow against violence by my own hand. Glen Beck and his ilk have relieved me of that high moral position. Every time I see that gerbil, I want to throttle him. The framers of the constitution did not know Glen Beck. Otherwise, the most common word found in the BoR would be 'except'.
He's getting close, now... close to what? To attacking the wrong person. Every time he attacks someone and succeeds, he gets a little more puffed up and proud. Soon he'll think he can go after anyone with lies. And there's a tradition that that'll be his downfall. From the Salem Trials (the girls were fine until they went after the leader's wife) to McCarthy (he shouldn't have gone after Murrow), the bigger they are...
I can't wait!
to fall out of the closet soon enough.
This administration has Glenn Beck their de facto personnel director.
Maybe this time they'll grow a backbone.
another chart!
I'm also an idiot savant that can talk a wholotta yang-yang and miscellaneous imbecileries and make it all appealling to idle irate american conservatives, can I have a job there?
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