Glenn Beck's latest looming apocalypse: Iran
Suggestion for Glenn Beck: Just rename your new Fox News show "The Apocalypse Now! Hour" and spare us the pretense. Because the looming-doom schtick is already getting beyond predictable.
Every night it's a new conspiracy, same as the old conspiracy. (Sometimes Beck promises these stories will "make blood shoot out your eyes." Which makes me mostly want to change the channel.) Last week, for instance, we had several episodes on Mexico's impending collapse. Plus the socialism/communism/fascism thing.
On Monday night, it was Iran. For this, he brought in a fellow believer in the notion that Iran wants to bring about Armageddon, an evangelical author named Joel Rosenberg.
Rosenberg and Beck, in fact, together created some of the most bizarre daytime cable-news TV I've ever seen at CNN's Headline News last year, talking insider-fundie Bible babble about the certain signs Jesus was coming back (see here and here for the prime examples).
This time, the ranting is reserved to a conspiracy theory about that new Iranian satellite and the secret meaning of its name.
But Beck also wants us to delve the Biblical meaning of it all:
If I may -- If you look at the extremist Muslim version of the Mahdi, and then you read the Book of Revelation, he suspiciously looks like the Anti-Christ. Seeing that he's the one that's running a one-world government and executing everyone that disagrees with him from Babylon -- I don't know where I've heard that one before.
Are you scared yet?
Me neither. Considering that I've been hearing about the apocalypse around the corner from the likes of Beck, Rosenberg, and Hal Lindsey since I was a kid.
But keep watching Beck, and after awhile you'll be afraid. Of him.
Porklips Now.
Is he still trying to imitate Keifer Sutherland with the splitscreen eyeball closeups?
(I refuse to even watch the clip ...)
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Is he describing his own derangement there?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
i have said it before, and i repeat now: when your schtick is "shock" you must come to the table everday with increasingly shocking tales of fantasy... however loonie they are.
one must out-do themselves everyday or, obviously, it is no longer shocking.
what part of this don't you understand. why give this as...hole any publicity. no one who has half a mind really cares what he o'smelley, rush or savage have to say. they each have no credibility. please quit high lighting what they have to say. no one cares.
He's coo coo for coco puffs.
I can't believe that people are actually stupid enough to take this asshat seriously. Deep down they have to know what he's doing. No one is that stupid. well.........................almost.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
after receiving "the go-ahead signal" from hollywood, north korea is set to invade the midwest...
this just in: the blood thirsty terrorists released from gitmo have gained access to ICBMs, and are prepared to launch them at america.
The Iranian satellite is secretly designed to control our weather...and will soon unleash pestilence upon us...unless first, we sprinkle lambs blood on our doors.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I'll pass.
If I say how I truly feel about Timothy McViegh's older, crazier brother, my fate will be the same as my friends who got in trouble yesterday.
desperate to make you afraid. why is that? it's like these spineless bitches never heard of nothing to fear but fear itself.
all the people that have been wrong about everything just want you to be afraid. of something. anything.
i wonder why that is?
I make you afraid, pack in the doom and gloom and despair so that your world seems to be a dangerous and confusing place. You don't know what to do, because the issues are complex and enemies are everywhere. You can't trust the media or the liberals, and the immigrants and Muslims are either trying to destroy us or overwhelm us by making babies.
But you can trust me. I am the lone voice of sanity, the guiding light that will expose falsehood and lead you to safety.
It's the cult mentality.
The answer is b/c if they can make u afraid enough, then they can "sell" you the guaranteed solution: religion. And of course the more people who believe in religion, the greater the likelihood is of it being true. /snark/
Why watch this guy? You already know you're not interested. Do something productive instead: volunteer at the shelter, clean up your sidewalk, donate blood. Time and energy spent on these jackals is wasted.
the First Amendment and loathe the Fairness Doctrine. But if anyone has a chance of convincing me otherwise, it's these people.
liberals... are they trying to revive the body of stalin for a rebirth of totalitarian stalinism? startling proof today on the glenn beck show...
...after the commercial break, liberal "scientists" keep Hitler's body in cryogenic freeze. Plans to revive him for an Obama Cabinet post!
Stay tuned.
Now WHAT is wrong with wanting to move to the mountains where you can cuddle with your own snuggle bear?
There's an old saying, "If the mountains won't come to Muhammed, Muhammed will go to the mountains."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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that Megatron is searching for the All Spark with which to turn all electronic devices into his minions. You must also think this!
Get it? No gives a shit about your religious apocalypse, Beck.
Now you have me picturing Glenn Beck yelling "MEGATROOOOON!"
... the 'We report. You decide,' sign at FOX News falling over to reveal 'To punish and enslave,' instead.
Your Megatron is but a false idol!! You will be sneezed like so much snot from the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizire!
Get right with the Nose, Dude.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
We really need to be a little more rational about Iran. I'm glad Obama is willing to engage in diplomacy but I heard Joe Biden (who I greatly respect) make mention of Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program and support of terrorism. C'mon Joe. Neither of those things is supportable. Our own intelligence says that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program and the connection between the Iranian govt and terrorist organizations is questionable at best. THis sort of rhetoric doesn't help any more than the bs coming out of Ahmadinejhad.
is selling the Faux Bush/DLC establishment drivel that America is the good guy.
he will become a GOD after he dies.
It is unfair to expect humility from a GODLING.
That was in my letter requesting excommunication.
I wanted to learn how to be a man, before learning how to be a God.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
would anyone WANT to be a god, is what I want to know. All that administrative work. And the constant flood of complaints - it would drive me nuts.
for starters, you could make people to handle the complaints.
True, but imagine the ruckus every time you opened your window.
It's always "Sorry this or forgive me that or I'M NOT WORTHY! What are you doing now?
I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord.
Well, don't. It's like those miserable psalms; they're so depressing. Now KNOCK IT OFF!
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I always wondered if thr angels and demons have their own unions...
...any thread with this evil psychotic Beck and Coulter(two things with zero redeeming qualities) is almost a set-up....these two bring out the very worst in normally decent people.
Why isn't Glenn Beck as worried about the Christian Biblical prophesiers Jack and Rexella Van Impe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f3aRnkgOWs
I have been watching this couple for more than 20 years. they are pure comedy and relatively harmless. But if those two had nukes, I GUARANTEE you they would have used them.
You've never seen two people more excited about the end of times.
They are more than happy to tell you about it for 49.95.
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Suggestion for C&L: Just rename your website "The Glenn Beck blog" and spare us the pretense. Because blogging about the looming-doom schtick is already getting beyond predictable.
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
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David Neiwert say "Philosophically, we at C&L do not believe that ignoring right-wing lunatics is how you make them go away. We believe in shining a spotlight on them. It's what we do."
Could you instruct me, on how I can contact John? He is the owner right?
I believe my recognition too be unjust and a misguided threat. Considering Dave's, statement and my deleted remark. Thanks for you help. Was I not "shining a spotlight on them."?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
It's true that no one is forcing you to read these posts. But we also like to listen to what our readers think -- and pay attention to subjects they like.
And the reality is that these posts on Beck's lunacy (roughly 1 out of 20 per day) are very popular. They get hundreds of comments, large numbers of links, and a ton of readers. Fact is, people like us to keep track of the crazy crap Beck spews, and they like throwing their shoes at him when he does.
Philosophically, we at C&L do not believe that ignoring right-wing lunatics is how you make them go away. We believe in shining a spotlight on them. It's what we do.
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Please!
Ok my non-glib point is I don't like these kinds of posts in excess, and now that Obama is prez these loonies are going to be looney in overdrive. I also believe strongly that ignoring these types of nuts is dangerous. However, 1. He's on a mainstream cable show. I don't think lack of attention is a problem for Beck, and 2. Given my earlier point about Obama being prez, I'd hate to see C&L, which over the course of the interminable election cycle came to be seen by me as the sanest forum on the web as far as non-sensationalist, even-handed, and sticking to the real issues posts, turn into a clearing house for this kind of insanity, cause you easily could.
Point taken about the ratio of non-Beck/O'Reilly/Limbaugh-being-crazy posts, though.
Bottom line I wasn't complaining to enact change as much it was just to make a point.
Yeah, it's a fine line to walk. We certainly don't want to be all about Beck/O'Reilly/Fox. At some point he'll just become an old story and we'll move on. But he really has hit a new level of lunacy at Fox. Moreover, it's been our observation that the anti-Obama forces are coalescing through the big media channels like Fox and Limbaugh, so we're paying them a certain amount of attention right now -- mostly because I think we'll be sorry if we don't.
But believe me, as the guy whose job it is to review the video and monitor what they say, we're not doing this for fun. Showers every night.
is the best disinfectant. These guys have some pretty dangerous ideas, of course we need to keep an eye on them. It's also helpful just to have a place to vent about these lunatics.
tune in and watch glenn eat a live panda...
if he really wants to impress me and get me to watch...I want to see him swallow it whole!
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Bush 43 is a self described born again Christian. Part of this faith system, as I understand it, is an avowed anticipation of the time when Jesus Christ returns to the Earth and brings about the Last Times/End of Days/Gib Gnab. He never discussed it, and we're far too polite to people to question their fanatical beliefs unless those people have brown skin, but Bush says he's a Born Again Christian, and Born Again Christians are looking forward to Armageddon. If Bush couldn't end the world, I doubt Ahmadinejad has the wherewithal.
Can you imagine Bush 43's administration?
"Congress needs to pass this legislation authorizing Armageddon, or the terrorists win!"
... was his political career. He was a fuck-up in the business world, a drunk whose wife was ready to pack up the girls and leave him, and he went to a Bible meeting.
Whereupon he decided, "Hey, I can accept Christ Jesus as my personal savior, and I get to keep Laura and the girls!"*
That is, his 'born-again' moment was for purely selfish reasons, and not an acknowledgment of his own failures. I don't know many alcoholics (and there's no doubt in my mind that W. is one) who remain sober without working the steps or achieving spiritual or emotional growth.
Yet throughout his two terms as president, Bush remained the same hapless frat boy, smirking and shrugging off his duties. Perhaps the most telling moment is his sitting in stunned silence at the school, possibly realizing that despite all his religious posturing, the bill was coming due big time.
that's why they call it 'born-again', because ya don't know this crap when your first born?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
... it's to imply that you've been re-born at a spiritual level.
The problem is, of course, being born is a messy bit of business. You know, pain, lots of screaming, a little blood. And then you're naked and alone in the world, with a lifetime of learning hard lessons ahead of you.
But I think there's some measure of mistaking 'newborn' for the childlike innocence and willingness to learn that Christ invokes when he tells us to be like children when we approach God.
Thank God that Beck is with Fox News. This way we can keep the loons together in one insane asylum, where we can keep an eye on them, for comedy at least.
How about Hannity and Beck together? Too good to be true. O'Reilly is teetering on the edge of relevance and comedy. These three stooges sure are marking Fox News for what it is---a loony bin.
ALEJCARO
remains his stint in the hospital. It's the only one that I can stand to watch of him.
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.
was given to his rectal surgeon. In it, Beck indicates the location of his newest hemorrhoid.
almost half of America believe this non-sense. The reality based community cannot give an inch to validate this lunacy. There is no "anti-christ' - there is no 'santa claus' there is no easter bunny. We cannot afford to let policy be set based off of childish lies
No Santa Claus? No Easter Bunny? Oh my... my parents have been lying to me all these years.....
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.
Santa Claus is a useful deception in teaching moral values - that you do what is right because you never know who is watching. And, sometimes, you do get unexpected (and sometimes unearned) gifts.
The anti-Christ, on the other hand, can be said to be a flawed construction to validate the existence of a divine entity, i.e. Christ Jesus.
While one can argue that Jesus would teach some of the same values as the Santa Claus charade, we readily accept that Santa is a fiction created by our parents, and we smile at our gullibility. Some even go so far as to say, "I'll never do that to MY children."
But, for some reason, we can't let go of Jesus. Can't even cope with the mere suggestion that any written account of his existence and time among men was the product of a committee with a very secular agenda. Instead, we come up with reasons like the 'anti-Christ' and End of Days scenarios that make no sense: the world goes to hell, endless war, corrupt governments, greed and sin abound ... but the pure of heart are going to get whisked off to Rapture Land on the Magical Mystery Jesus Bus?
The heart of human development has always been our ability to review our scripts and actions, and adjust them accordingly. Belief in the Rapture is a fixed path - you're already doing all you need to do, you can't possibly be wrong, and anyone who disagrees with you will burn in Hell for all eternity.
And it doesn't require that you expend any critical thought.
Ultimately, there would be delicious irony if the only anti-Christ was the monolithic church-state created by evangelicals insistent on having their God-this and God-that, and that that is what Revelation was warning us about, but, like most human interactions with God, we got it wrong.
to Rapture Land on the Magical Mystery Jesus Bus?"
The "pure of heart" are defined by rulering apparatus.
Fixed News keep putting on and stoking these Fox Screws so that even the dumbest of Americans can see how assanine you are. Let it grow to absurdity. Please.
Well, I'm no longer a rider on the "belief in God=belief in Santa Claus" train, but that doesn't mean most of these believers aren't nuts. I swear, when the Anti-Christ does come, he'll be able to rise to power through the "Cry Anti-Christ" syndrome. I mean, for heaven's sake, who HAVEN'T they accused of being the Anti-Christ over the years? Oh look, another one! I'm Christian, but I don't identify at all with the "religious right" in this country; they're a culture, not a religion. I'm so glad their ideas were utterly discreditted with the last president. I'm so sorry we had to learn the hard way...
I think with wistfulness of the very cool nun who taught my seventh- and eighth-grade science classes. She used to go into raptures, practically, talking about the wonders of evolution, and how amazing the universe was. She had us watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos series when it was first aired and write reports on the episodes. She really reinforced my love of science. (But alas, that was way back in the 70's, when Christianity still held a modicum of sanity, and the fundies were still mostly a bunch of backwoods snake-handlers.)
Then I look at the nitwits running around representing Jesus today and wonder how the religion got handed to the paste-eating lunatics. So sad.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Americans are surely aware that Faux Noise gets their moron hate-spewers right from theier favorite mental ward.
Glenn Beck is certifiable. I've caught his show a few times now (I'm a glutton for punishment), and one thing I've noticed is that he doesn't seem to bring on people who disagree with him. It's just an endless choir of Beck spouting one nutty idea after another and scraping the gutter of current political 'thinkers' in order to find people who agree with them.
Whatta ya know. It cannot be serious or real... can it? Maybe the CIA guys just want to get this going so they can come home.
I think becks show is designed to be like that. Differnt... for the ratings. I think that debate under the guise of a news channel is bad. Just report the news without bias or opinion of any kind...damn isn't there some law to that effect. Seriously rename FOX News as FOX debate and then maybe you have a more enforceable right to do that kind of thing.
This guy should get a gig on The Daily Show as their Senior Hair On Fire Correspondent.
Alternately, "Pants."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4jD7ADmLsQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Birds of a feather flock together. "[Beck]He believes it or he's just a politician"...
It's funny when one nut points toward another and call them crazy. :-)
Beck and his buddy aren't even on the same page with regard too their understanding of other peoples sky-daddies. We should be concerned with this. These are unstable individuals!
"two wrongs don't make a right" vs "Two wrongs make a right"
Two wrongs make a right is a logical fallacy that occurs when it is assumed that if one wrong is committed, another wrong will cancel it out.
* Speaker A: President Williams lied in his testimony to Congress. He should not do that.
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* Speaker B: But you are ignoring the fact that President Roberts lied in his Congressional testimony!
Thanks for thread Dave... :-)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Ladies and gentlemen step right up. I present to you the greatest spectacle on earth. Watch as Evangelicals, Muslims and Zionist battle it out in the new show "Battle of the Gods". Witness the lies, feel the fear, bathe in the blood of innocent women and children. The most carnage the craziest insanity, it will keep you on the edge of your seat for all eternity. Who will win? Will there be virgins? Streets of gold? or world domination? Iraq was just a teaser, now it's Iran. The "Mother of All Shows". Stay tuned, and let the killing begin.
the killing and the carnage is a far off, vague concept, and there's never any consequences to be had.
Ignore him.
"If you look at the extremist Muslim version of the Mahdi, and then you read the Book of Revelation..."
Wouldn't that also categorize the Holy Bible as "extreme?"
I know Joel Rosenberg and he's nothing like Joel C. Rosenberg
... the Joel Rosenberg I'm familiar with wrote an enjoyable series about college students who get swept into a fantasy world and become its heroes/guardians.
Scared the crap out of me the first time I heard, "... a new book by author Joel Rosenberg ..." and a bunch of Rapture-Ready nonsense.
Beck and Hannity and all the other Megaphone clients are already laying the groundwork for the public diplomacy offensive that will accompany Israel's "defense" of itself by attacking yet another neighboring country.
The Israeli Ambassador in Australia asks for the media to stop filming after letting slip plans concerning Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cznZs-swR9k
to his and Rush Limbaugh's show every time that I am in the car during the day. (Not because I like them or want to add another listener to their ratings, but to try and keep an eye on what these guys are up to.) Anyways, it seems like every day Beck says crazier shit. It's really gotten bad since he went to Fox. Today he spent almost his whole show with a guest trying to discredit every single thing that FDR did. The stuff that comes out of this guys mouth is just so insanely stupid, and if he had more listeners, it would probably be dangerous as well.
Glenn Beck and microphone = complete imbicile
would say that that is just as true as 2 + 2 = 4.
...when it is clear that he never existed?
Beck and those who follow his line of crap are certifiably mentally ill.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com
Glenn Beck is insane! I can't believe he has his own show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBbVdiqK20&eu...
It's time to Baker Act Glen Beck, that's obvious. Hopefully, he has some kind relative who will do him and the rest of this country a favor and "put him away"....for good and throw away the key.
This guy's become a total psycho.
Two bad he has a mouth, and functions as a human. That means (unfortunately) he has rights. And you can almost bet that someone somewhere is going to defend him. Just making this whole situation even more critical. is that Glenn or the fella in Iran your talking about. It may not even be real I havent seen anything about it in the news.
What the hell has happened to Glen Beck's brain? Or did he ever have one to lose?
Remember when someone described B-Rod as "cuckoo" - well, that's Beck in a nutshell.
Glen Beck's flying over the cuckoo's nest and splattering himself with diahrreic feces mid-flight.
***cuckoo!!!***
*peep*
****cuckoooooo!!!!!
I hate this putz.
These schmucks need to be accountable for the negative and counterproductive horseshit they churn out on a daily and calculated basis.Its more important to stupid here that he generates higher ratings than say,America burns to the ground.
This from the same crowd who kept the "traitor" word handy at all times in case someone mildly disagreed with torture or the way Katrina was utterly mismanaged.
"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
don't be. the stress isn't worth it.
From: http://www.undemocracy.com/generalassembly_63...
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Fortuitously, opportunities are accessible. With the grace of God Almighty, the existing pillars of the oppressive system are crumbling. Great developments in favour of humankind, as well as its true and real rights, are on the way. A golden and brilliant future is awaiting humankind. A global community filled with justice, friendship, brotherhood and welfare is at hand, as I have elaborated -- a community that will tread the path of beauty and love under the rule of the righteous and perfect human being, the one promised by all divine prophets and the one who is the true lover of humankind; a community that will be devoid of all fear, despair and privation. Such a community will soon be ours. The community promised by the great divine prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ and Muhammad is about to materialize.
Let us, hand in hand, expand the thought of resistance to evil and the minority of those who are ill-wishers. Let us support goodness and the majority of people who are good and the embodiment of absolute good that is the Imam of Time, the Promised One who will come accompanied by Jesus Christ, and accordingly design and implement just and humanistic mechanisms for regulating the constructive relationships between nations and Governments.
May the great Almighty deliver the saviour of nations and put an end to the sufferings of humankind and bring forth justice, beauty and love. Let us have a proper share in the establishment of that illuminated and promised divine age.
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It's drivel, but not as unfriendly as GB's guest said. I guess they didn't have time in their TV show to broadcast it.
Role playing revelations wow neato do I get a part. No, darn!
I cannot and will not worship that or follow anyone like that! Guess I got to hell, uhh well in that case gladly.
Maybe that's it. Maybe it's like Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds." It's for pure entertainment purposes.
How Fox gets away with using "News" in its name still baffles me. I've never seen a more egregious case of false advertising.
say in his autobiography that he ran his head through a pencil sharpener back when he was in his thirties? I could have sworn I read that somewhere....
i think an mri will reveal a crayon stuck in his brain (yes, just like homer simpson, uncanny isn't it)
but I feel the need to correct something that you wrote above. "Iran wants to bring about Armageddon."
Well, I have read (I cannot vouch for the accuracy) that the governing Shi'a clique running Iran (i.e. Ahmadinejad and possibly the Ayatollah) do believe in a form of Islam wherein the Mahdi/Madhi (think Elijah or Jesus) will return one day and then there will be a final battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. These Shi'a apparently believe they can precipitate this event by causing chaos, which is actually funny because, despite the perverted, myopic education we get in the West, chaos is actually the purest, most perfect form of ordered liberty. By the way, did you see any similarities between the Shi'a apocalypse and the Christian one?
I'm of the camp (of one?) that sees Beck as consciously mocking his own audience's
credibilitycredulity. Once they slowly come around to see that, he will be moving on.I also have the inside track on this awesome fund that guarantees returns on the north side of whatever's considered really a lot.
Yup.
does NOT go to the top floor. That much is clear...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn6cDaHLaMo&fe...
I love the way he keeps babbling about "crazy people' and "going crazy" and "full-fledged nuts". LOL!
Could Beck be mentally ill?
Sometimes I wonder about these Christian loons....
Ignored,
Do not ask me why I am doing this.
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_time.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
Develop your own feelings I guess but do not challenge mine.
thanks
mistertroy
brookstroy
troy from Montana
So we have American religious fanatics talking about Iranian religious fanatics.
This is what passes as news or informed opinion over at Fox.
Sheesh
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