Glenn Beck's facade starts cracking: How dare they compare me to McCarthy? I compare me to Murrow!
OK, looks like the pressure is finally getting to Glenn Beck. You can't watch this rant, from his show yesterday, without concluding that the big implosion is on its way.
Beck: Does sacred honor even exist in Washington anymore? Because I ratted out a self-avowed Communist in the administration in Van Jones, the same organizations, the same politicians, the same progressive media that are ignoring or standing for ACORN now, have called me Joseph McCarthy. They have such little regard for your intelligence that they don't think you're going to figure out that Joseph McCarthy was a powerful senator! Surrounded by the trappings of power of the United States government. With the power of subpoena and the power of Congress! The guy who stood against that was alone. While everybody else wet their pants and cowered in fear!
You'd think the members of the media might remember his name. It was Edward R. Murrow. And while I am nowhere near an Edward R. Murrow, never claimed to be, let me use the words of, finally, somebody that stood up to the power, and these senators, and said, Senator, have you no shame? Have you no shame?
Indeed, his critics have been making the all-too-accurate comparison to McCarthy, most notably Media Matters, who put together a handy side-by-side comparison that's devastating. Looks like Beck watched it and it made him cry.
Or maybe he saw the tallies from the latest set of advertisers to flee his sinking rat's nest of a show: over 50 percent of his ad dollars have now gone elsewhere. Bet that makes him cry too.
But really, Beck did make at least one accurate statement here: He's no Edward R. Murrow.
Hell, he's not even a Krusty the Klown.
He should pull his sphincter out and up over his head and use it as a condom. He'd be a safe asshole then.
I almost fell out of my chair! Disgusting! Creative! HILARIOUS.
You sick pup!
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
He really is bipolar, like John Stewart said
Kinko the Clown.
A wonderful Dr. Demento hit about Kinko sitting little boys on his lap.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Dear Crooks and Liars:
Remember the derogatory catchphrase "limousine liberal?"
Shouldn't we always refer to Republicans as "banana Republicans?"
I mean who else but "banana Republicans" could be for unlimited executive power, presidential family dynasties (e.g. Duvalier, Bushes), secret renditions to torture chambers, warrantless wire-taps, McCarthyite witch hunts, mercenary armies (Blackwater Inc.), 100-year wars, and the end of habeas corpus along with half the Bill of Rights?
You'd have to want to live in a banana republic.
From now on, I'm referring to them not as "Republicans" but as "banana Republicans."
Forget the elephant on their banners. Here comes the chaquita.
"Banana Republicans." Think about it. It could be the most important new addition to the American political lexicon since ... well, since "truthiness."
Glen R. Beck,
"the Real Beck"
...on Saturday some of the Fringers and Beckians were walking around holding signs supporting McCarthyism and now their Beckster is telling them that he's the wrong guy to model themselves after?
Too many lies in too short a time, it's getting to them all.
Troy Dale West arrested in GA for beating military black woman while calling her a f'n b** b... all while her 7 year old watched.
This is what you reap Mr. Beck. This is the type of Beck viewer who doesn't know up from down but blindly thinks Beck is the 2nd coming.
was racially motivated.
I thought I was (unfortunately) aware of all racial slurs there are out there. But I can't figure out what b** b is.
"black ****** bitch".
Thanks (I think.) Sorry about making you type it.
*
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Why are so many repugs into wetting their pants?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.cromwellburnsinhell.com/wp-content...
Edward R Murrow was a journalist back in the day when journalist had honesty and integrity. You sir are not a journalist and lack integrity.
Beck is more like a Killer Klown.
Ok...there's your opening, ysb.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/22288/the-simpsons-...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1y_YsxANo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The "Media Matters" link in the article is bad. I tried it three times and all it does is reload C&L. So I guess it is, Google, Here I Come!
Wow! Glenn Beck and I actually agree on something:
He's no Edward R. Murrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeyCHLJby-0&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
..you sure as hell aren't Edward R. Murrow. Mr. Murrow made his bones reporting on the London Blitzkreig while the bombs were exploding all around! You don't even show up to your own party!
You're not mccarthy, maybe your that sli..never mind, you're not worth the insults. I don't hate you, I'm apathetic to you.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
"The guy who stood against that was alone?" Is he admiring McCarthy?
Guess we know where Beck would've been during the Salem witch trials. "They were just standing alone against all those evil witches!"
late.
Not that he needs any help burning himself down.
Don't call me McCarthy, but it's OK for all my frothing fans to call Obama Hitler. It's different, see, because Obama really is Hitler.
sure I was a shameless, power-hungry demagogue (GOP) but I wasn't a screaming crying lunatic like this clown-turned-fox-host
Whether or not he survives this exodus of commercial sponsors,one thing is certain-Beck has set the stage for FOX.2
He has managed to fuse the rapturous excess of quasi religious fervor with Limbaugh approved racism hiding behind a facade of pseudo intellectual nonsense.Add a splash of hot pee,milked from the loins of a scared stupid lower middle class white demographic and let 'er rip.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
... never joked about poisoning the Speaker of the House.
... never poured 'gasoline' on someone and pretended to chuck a match.
... did not regularly have sobbing fits on air.
... assiduously researched his FACTS.
... knew the difference between 1.7 million and 70,000.
Oh, and the 'Have you no decency?' question was not Murrow, but Joseph Welch, during the Army-McCarthy Hearings.
Beck seems to like to talk about the history of this country, especially about the time of its founding.
If Beck is such a history buff, how in the hell could have have gotten that quote wrong? That is one of the most famous, best known quotes in U.S. history. He not only got the person who said it wrong; he got the quote itself very wrong.
Beck has no "shame."
someone was going to point that put.
by the time murrow did his expose on mccarthy, he was far from alone
and murrow never used the words "have you no shame"
that was the army's atty
beck is not only an evil fuck...he is a stupid fuck
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Even Alex Jones, the High Priest of the Tinfoil-Hat Society, is now saying Beck is an insane tool.
When that happens, you know you've got issues.
I read THE ELIMINATIONISTS, loved it, but I have to take exception with you on two points. 1), we are dealing with very stupid people. Stupid as in Stoopid. No other words suffice. Not "ignorant" or "misinformed" but just plain old "stoopid."
Secondly, they do not deserve our civility.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
Bought it at Barnes And Noble yesterday. Am about half way through it. Will be lending it to my brother in law soon, who is a fellow traveller.
I would disagree that these people are stupid. I think there is a certain intelligence required to keep track of all the guanomanic (I love that term) conspiracies involved. I think the issue is more of adjustment.
What it comes down to is a group of people not being able to adjust to the massive seachanges in our society. Too much technology, too much information, too much everything. They don't have the capacity to filter and cope with it all so they respond with anger and fear.
Eventually they will die out, but it will take time. In the meantime we need to be vigilant to prevent the rise of fascism. The real stuff not the fakey Liberal Fascism.
Are you sure you don't mean f**king stoopid?
when the phrase they are looking for is willfully, woefully ignorant. They are different. "Stupid" referes to the brains youi were dealt at birth, i.e., Forrest Gump, will fully ignorant is learning no facts other than what you want to here, doing no research, calling the other guy a liar wihtout checking out what he said, i.e., the Big Dick, Cheney.
This loony bastard is truly in a league of his own.
Ouch, that was painful to watch. What's next for Beck? Walking on the water? Double ouch!
/
Corruption favors the wealthy.
... this is where it should go.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Considering he appeals to bitter, jealous, angry, depressed, frightened and resentful people that's no shock.
Old and white.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
crapped bigger than you, Glen.
...go back to drinking...and have that hemorrhoid between his shoulders removed.
Just sayin'....
calling someone "a self-avowed Communist in the administration" sounds spot-on like a charge mccarthy would make.
that is quintessential mccarthyism, glenn. good job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gL3P377BQA
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
:)
It's gonna be a meltdown for the ages...and on tv for all prosperity.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909100022
Corruption favors the wealthy.
like Mussolini. But I'd bet he won't be able to get Amtrak to run on time.
Mussolini's contemperaneous Germans were good at keeping the trains running on time,
It's no problem when you don't have to sweat return trips.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
over the choice of fixing whats in their immediate surroundings or going for that goal of someday living in Malibu.
Self-important crack pot.
tosspot.
Ass Crack
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
douche nozzle
dick weed
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
South Beach dieter?
Nice!
You got me with douche nozzle. lol!
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
Ueber Goof.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Used barf bag.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
One pair sunglasses, black.
One Prophylactic.
One soiled.
One Uncle Buck.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
...throwing a gigantic hissy fit. Oh, wait...that would be an insult to boobs.
I watched that clip because I kinda wanted to see ol' Glen melt down, but--Sweet Jebus. How can people stomach that a$$hat, let alone think he knows what he's talking about? And I think Glenn Beck comparing himself to Murrow just violated the cosmos in some unspeakable way.
I wish you'd stop comparing Beck with Howard Beale. Although crazy, Beale's rants were right on, whereas Beck is just crazy.
... as part of the film Network, was a surprisingly prescient bit of satire that everyone ignored.
But we're there now.
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as repugnant as Joe McCarthy was he, at least, had the delusion that some foreign power was trying to subvert this country. there's no way that Beck believe the utter crap he spews. he does it for money.
... that comes to mind for Glenn Beck.
"This just might do nobody any good."
-- RTNDA Keynote Speech (1958)
Keith has the highest respect for edward Murrow, and the arrogance of Beck to put himself in Murrow's league certainly warrents 'worst person in the world'
The cracked and bleeding minds in his circles that float away from reality all seem to have a few things in common. Belief is first. They don't understand that fact is fact, so they deny it. They believe stuff because you can't prove it. Just because that means it isn't, they don't care. Fiction is king, always has been.
They are doing particularly well with their party leader. Steele believes he is a redneck white man, and uses racist language in his messages. He tells group whitey that he's sure that the this other whitey isn't racist just because he is in the klan. He rebukes people for being upset when his whitey is yelling at the other black man. How many oxy's make up a moron?
CO, or carbon monoxide ... because a room full of it will kill you.
They have all the brains for doing themselves in. And they do fit in a room.
Concervicide?
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
republicide:
Destruction of ones nation in the pursuit of taxpayer dollars without doing anything to actually benefit the taxpayers. Other than jingoistic, feel good, chest pounding sound bites, and slogans.Blatant abuse of power, and no thoughts of consequences to American citizens.
Hasn't been approved yet...but I've got my fingers, toes, and eyes crossed.
blind black guy is a member of the KKK. Steele can at least physically see.
in my life!
my all time favorite dave skit.
do we even talk about this AHat? The sooner we start ignoring this guy, the sooner he goes away.
peace.
rick beagle
Because it's easy. He reads our posts, as does Keith O.
So...if he all continue to pile on...maybe...just maybe...we will be rewarded with a Scanners-like festival of flying entrails and grey matter!!!
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
... at the end of scanners, the good guy ended up in the bad guy's body ...
Passive aggression failed for eight wretched years.
without these jerks to report on. Kind of a bitter irony because I'm sure everyone thought we'd progress above and beyond this kind of bottom dweller crap with all the effort and we wouldn't need this site anymore.
Life would get back to "normal".
There's still PLENTY of right wing asshattery and douchebaggery to cover without becks bizarre behavior to make fun of.
n/t
I hope his insurance includes mental heath care. Those rubber rooms are expensive.
Rubber pants aren't enough?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I almost feel sorry for the guy. I can't stand him, of course, but he's starting to look like shit, maybe he's hitting the drink too hard. He does look like someone who's going to go all Haystacks Calhoun on camera one of these not too distant days...
Well, it will make for great TV.
I had my comment deleted for suggesting such things...
granted, my post was a bit more...crude.
...unless my language was somehow more artful, a quality I don't actively seek.
brutal in my wish that he goes all Haystacks Calhoun...
...how many of us even remember Haystacks Calhoun, and Bruno Sammartino, and...?
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an ACORN in a Haystack, for those that do not, like Serge and lNM, remember Mr. Calhoun, here is a link.
I am rooting for my homeboy Brooks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qbqR8v9NWQ
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Wahoo McDaniels
Greg "The Hammer Valentine
I could go on all day.
We're all dating ourselves. Well, actually I haven't dated anyone in a long time. My wife won't let me. Damn it.
selfish huh?
Man.....showin' yer age! :)
Does even Glenn Beck know what Glenn Beck is talking about anymore?
Murrow attacked McCarthy, a rabid right wing bigot that some modern right wingers still cite as a hero.....
Murrow was very much a liberal in challenging Mccarthy's ultra right wing agenda- Does beck not see this?
wouldn't be able to keep a straight face. Wait a minute...
Beck is such a self loathing man mentally ill man, he is so desperate to be a martyr, he may very well kill himself on the air.....I can see that coming...
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Beck is right. He isn't fit to lick the soles of E.R. Murrow's shoes. I wouldn't be surprised if he takes the same way out as Budd Dwyer did in the '70's.
Beck often "CITES" the title of the 'Le Monde" article that translates to "We are all Americans" as an example of something we should remember about the way the world thought of the United States on 9-12-2001.
That editorial was actually "PUBLISHED" on September 13,2001.
As found at "The Rude Pundit" today Sept 16, 2009
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I managed to miss that thread, thank you for the link.
all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are f***ed until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely. "
- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Damn I miss the good Doctor.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
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hunter said in fear and loathing in las vegas that there is nothing more depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
fits good old glenn to a T.
i don't think ether is one of those things they check for in a drug test.
i edited this twice for typos. seems i can't type wearing my carpal tunnel braces. it also seems to affect my editing skills.
there was someone who could make Alan Keyes look sane by comparison?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Delusion was always glenn's strong suit...he even looks like McCarthy...
Wow! I mean, really, how long are the honcho's at Fox going to let this go on?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
he can always become a wrestler . . . and carry his fans with him.
Class, respect,and subtlety apparently don't fit in with the new American program(ing)
As long as he keeps making them millions of $$$$$$. You see, the honchos at Fox only cares about $$$$$. The have no shame. No morals. The money people at Fox know that none of the shit that they are propagating will ever get on their shoes.
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If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
helping poor people.
They really don't give a rat's ass about acorn. They don't care about healthcare reform, global warming, national policy, economics,etc. None of it.
They just want their country back from the Black man.
Of course, so does the Beckster, if ya know what I mean. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
what did I say wrong?
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
but one cannot discuss ACORN.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Don't talk about Acorn!
acorns, or do they grow in Haystacks?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Good ongoing debate over Acorn there.
on ACORN.
[But his rant wasn't about the video of the workers in the Baltimore ACORN office. This thread isn't going to turn into a thread on that topic. Site Monitor]
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
action as described below in the Chicago Sun Times.
"WASHINGTON--The debate over ACORN continues on cable shows, after the Monday Senate vote to ban federal money to fund programs run by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The Senate vote was overwhelming--83 yes, 7 no and 9 not voting. Illinois Democrats Dick Durbin and Roland Burris both voted no.
Critics of Barack Obama during the presidential campaign tried to attack Obama by attacking ACORN, a community organizing group over how they handled voter registration and Census work. The Senate action came after ACORN got caught up in an undercover video sting--where ACORN employees were seen offering advice to folks posing as a prostitute and a pimp."
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
just one pepsi...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuOmsGXznHU
that the Beckster had a facade. He is spewing his deepest emotions onto the Fux faithful. Showing the world just how much he cares.
Oh, you mean him hiding his racism.....
Not working too well then is it.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
Those with eyes can see...and those with ears can hear.
Certifiably insane.
Has anybody checked into any unsolved serial murders in Beck's neighborhood? Just asking...
"Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" - General Jack D. Ripper
a Hemorrhoid. The resemblance is simply amazing.
It was an attorney from Utah named Welch who confronted Tailgunner Joe McCarthy during a hearing over the loyalty of a young attorney who had been a member of the Lawyers Guild, a suspected commie front group.
And it went like this: (Welch)"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness", begging him not to go on. "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator; you've done enough," he cried, and as McCarthy showed that he was going to go on regardless, Welch added: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
The quote has degenerated over the years to "Have you no shame, senator?' Never uttered.
The good thing for Beck is that his elder-crowd of fans won't remember who said what an hour ago, let alone 60 years ago.
of the 9/12 March showed some fairly young Beck fans. Of course they had trouble remembering the 9 Principals and 12 Disciples, but they vaguely knew Czars had something to do with Russia, which was once communist they also recall.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
... Most of Bech's fans prolly think Joe McCarthy was the cute Beatle...
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
Start watching your back. The dangerous comparison for you is not Joe McCarthy, but Howard Beal. Watch our for hitmen disguised as the pinkos you so despise.
Other than trying to put forth Lies, half Truths and indiscretions how does this Racist Nazi, White Supremacist think he is eve close to Murrow.
Murrow investigated this Moron says what he is told to say and the list goes on. IQ 2 points below his shoe size.
We all know what happened to Howard Beale . . . and all because of low ratings.
Bruce C Johnson
theprediction of Sybil the Soothsayer, myself. Is the former First Dude a craggy middle aged man?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Isn't it interesting that Beck and his ilk come down on ACORN (a minority helping organization) and have nothing to say about the BILLIONS of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ stolen by the Cheney war profiteers in Iraq and Afghanistan? Nary a ward!! Nothing about the way the Bush campaign apparatus stole the election by disenfranchising black voters. Nope, only groups that help minorities do Beck and his ilk run through the gutter.
MO of Fux news and hate radio.
"Don't pay any attention to those crooks in the Bush White House! Look what this liberal said about going to WAR!!!"
The list goes on.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
Fox news talk show host Glenn Beck"s head exploded live on his show.
We are not doing a story on it because no one cares.
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
ya bleedin troll.
I agree
Seeing as how you came in a few minutes behind your biased pal...
Unbiased? I would tell you a few things but I know right now that having an honest debate with you is worthless.
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