Kirsten Powers to Glenn Beck: 'I think you sound like coocoo for Cocoa Puffs'
Glenn Beck's Sunday program was fetid little cauldron of wingnuttery featuring Michelle Malkin and that Ayn Rand fan, Stephen Moore. Fortunately, the blonde Fox political analyst, Kirsten Powers, managed to work in the only voice of sanity.
Beck has already gone off whatever rails Fox might have had in mind for him this week, but on Sunday he made a special effort to weave it all together for us: America is doomed because liberals are going to destroy the economy now and Mexico is going to invade us or something.
Beck: Let's say Mexico collapses. All right, now you've got out-of-control Zetas on our border, you've got Texans who are already -- we're missing 70 of them that have been kidnapped on the border, most people -- you don't know, do ya?
Powers: I think you sound like coocoo for Cocoa Puffs.
I mean, what are you talking about? We're going to be invaded by Mexico?
Beck then puffs himself up and condescends to Powers for the rest of the segment, while Malkin swoops in with a sneer or two, and Moore actually sides with Powers.
Well, as we already mentioned, Mexico is indeed having serious problems with the power of drug lords, but it is not on the verge of collapse -- particularly not, as Beck argued earlier in the week, because of the decline in remittances from America (which only constitute about 2% of the Mexican GDP).
Beck may raise some eyebrows over his first few weeks on Fox, but the impending-apocalypse schtick -- which is clearly where he's taking the show -- gets real old real fast. Especially because the people who rely on them constantly have to dream up new looming apocalypses and try to make you forget the last one that didn't pan out. Problem with that is, audiences always remember.
I'm guessing that the Mexican economy is not based on complex financial instruments (i.e. worthless paper). They still grow things and manufacture things . . how quaint.
They grow pot and manufacture meth, both for export to the United states.
a Zetan blogger?
a tariff promoting competitor from Wasilla.
"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
This guy is a major idiot even by Fox's requirements. He sounds like a mental patient. And no, I do not mean to offend mental patients, at least they can't control what they might think or do. Beck knows exactly what he's doing and it's insane that he gets away with it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The Fox Three Amigos (of Bullshit)
Beck, Billo, and Hannity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbrVCETEv8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I like to refer to them as 3 hand jobs!
...to all who can stomach him how hopelssly ignorant he is.
Beck is Timothy McVeigh at middle age without all the dead bodies. Just an angry, crazy ass white man the authorities should keep their eye on.
The skeptical or the one who worships everything "new and sophisticated"?
For my part I stand on the sidelines but listen to everyone without any pre-conceived ideas. I make up my mind based on my personal experiences, which, unfortunately are pretty diverse and from different "worlds" so to speak.
I was born and grew into young adulthood in Ceausescu’s' Romania, from where in my 4th year of hard-won entrance to medical school, I was exiled. My oldest brother was jailed for a personal notebook filled with essay/memoirs he showed to his "best friend" who was a Securitate informant. My other older brother and sister defected to the West, so I was lucky to just have been exiled at a time when Romania was looking for the United State’s “most favored nation” status. My “sanity” and lack of criminality was proven way back then and there, since I was neither jailed nor “disappeared” in a mental institution.
I saw too many communist activists not to recognized one, even if his message is "veiled" in a “superior” Harvard Law School graduate’s lingo.
Marxism and Communism is a reality divorced ideology as much as any serious mental disorder. Subscribers to it are no better than vampire believers and alien abductees.
To not recognize a "socialist" naive, who seeks to "right" history's wrong with drastic social and economic "transformation", where the end justifies any cockamamie means, is naiveté.
Glenn Beck to be demonized is easiest with name calling, by those who could never prove his elaborate deductive mental powers to be nothing more than delusional paranoia.
History may prove (hopefully not) that one was right and the other woefully blindsided by superficial and naive credulity in human "perfection".
remember that ayn rand disliked, some say despised, ronald reagan. the ayn rand of "atlas shrugged" is different from the ayn rand of "the fountainhead", about which the conservatives have little to say. also can i ask that crass food references e.g. cocoa puff, cheetos, kool aid etc. be declined?
What is it so crass about Koolaid for example?
BTW, the fountainhead was about a mentally unstable individual and it may have been a disturbing insight into Rand's psyche (esp. the rape deal), its only merit is that it is not as long (and thus wastes less time) that the craptacular Atlas Wanked.
i'm just tired of hearing that one group or another has drunk the kool aid, it never turns out that they actually did. there's no report of some fringe group tripping (kesey kool aid) or dying (jonestown kool aid) and, frankly, i'm disappointed. i also happen to like a bag of cheetos every now and then.
"the fountainhead" was also about an architect who did not believe in mc mansions, an artist that did not compromise, and a guy who blew up a public building. where does that fit into conservative ideology.
Right. And, oh. I dunno, let's say Superman and Lex Luther are actually real and are battling it out for world domination even as we speak. And... and... let's say aliens from outer space are hovering above us and want to eat our children, but only the little blond ones. Let's say Obama is actually a mutant lizard hidden inside a clever man-suit robotically controlled by liberal moguls in Hollywood out to destroy the Republican party, and Glenn Beck personally.
Let's say anything.
It doesn't matter how idiotic, how stupid, how nonsensical. If it can make us scared, real scared.
Been there, done that. Now we've got a few trillion dollar bill to pay for it.
Let's say... no.
You rule. Period.
NOBODY 2012
V
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
oh, that was the funniest thing that I have read in weeks. You just got a new fan nonny mouse.
The wingnuttia are once again falling back on their only weapon, fear. "If you're not panicking 24/7/365, you're naive and will be killed!"
We've been discovered comrades! Time for a strategic withdrawl to the collective to redefine the Great Five Year Plan(tm)!
I dunno....I don't think us libruls can destroy the economy any more than the repukes have already.
Gotta give them credit - when they wanna wreck the economy for the benefit of their corporate buddies, ain't nuthin' like a little ol' Constitution gonna stop 'em!
I really really hate how you all are so subjective. The financial crisis started under Bush its all his fault. You claim that Beck is ignorant but so are you. Beck and all of you are of the same clothe, you make ignorant idiotic statements that support your own narrow point of view. The only difference is that Beck has the courage to do it on TV and radio whereas you only type a few words.
but it doesn't take courage to go on TV or the radio to talk horseshit. This asshole Beck and his ilk do actual damage by taking advantage of low-information types by scaring the bejeesus out of them regularly. I am American but I live in Europe. After 9/11, (I was still living in America at the time) people were shit-scared and after the anthrax stuff happened (committed by other Americans) you had fools going out stockpiling duct-tape, plastic-sheeting and food. The less said about Y2K the better.
After the attacks on the London Underground and Glasgow Airport, people got on with life as usual. There were a few people wary of getting on tubes, but life generally went on as normal.
I think a lot of people on this board are very well-informed or else they wouldn't be here. Beck and his minions are the equivalent of the people that wear sandwich board that say "THE END IS NIGH" while screaming scripture into a megaphone. I don't know why people even take them seriously, but I want C&L, Media Matters and others who fight for responsible and accurate reporting to keep shining lights on these roaches.
In case you haven't read any history, let me clue you in:
The Republicans have made a cycle of de-regulating and breaking the financial institutions of this country. The did it in the 20s, the 80s and now. Whenever they get enough control they start a new cycle of de-regulation so that their buddies (usually their friends and their relatives) can play pirate in the financial sector. This results in one form or another of crash. Then, for a short amount of time, they pretend that they were all for regulation, while trying to blame the crash on whatever social programs they hate the most.
It really never makes any sense, but then, you have to pay attention to history in order to notice it. If you have the attention span of a gnat, they win. Apparently they would win with you.
Beck is a F**KTARD!
Can anyone else see the ad next to this post, for the International Mexican Dating Site, MexicanCupid.com?
How horrible! We could be invaded by hordes of gorgeous Mexican women and hunky Mexican men! No wonder Beck and Malkin feel so threatened...
Don't see the ad, but if by doing this they mean to take over the US of A, then I'm sure the reupkes will be trumpeting it on TV - telling us it's all a librul plot to create voter fraud and give back the SW to Mexico. Aztlan!
inside these idiots heads. How do they think this stuff up?
http://peanutfreegallery.blogspot.com/2008/08...
The peanut in his skull gets nervous when there are other peanuts around.
see...the government doesnt work
of course, the government was being run by guys who hate the government...so of course they made sure that the government didnt work
as for beck...why is it dems get the label of doom and gloom?
and want to end drug smuggling and the border war? legalize drugs
the end
Conservatives say government doesn't work, and every time they get elected they prove it.
Might be George Carlin(?)
Jerry Garcia? He said as much in a Rolling Stone article sometime ago. I'm on my third joint so I can't remember so well but maybe sometime in the later 80's. Legalize drugs. Many benefits, tax it (revenue) regulation (safer), no more gangs and crime.
That is a gateway drug.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp91TeVXOQ4&fe...
Youtube says your video is no longer available. HOW can I come up with a smartass reply?
Has anyone else noticed that our lingo is starting to closely resemble NEWSPEAK from 1984?
Have you even read that novel? What do you want Youtube to say "We are most terribly sorry but for proprietal or content reasons the video you are trying to watch has been withdrawn from our site until we can further review it. If at such a time we deem that it is suitable and breaches no single area of propriety either in the United States of America, the fifty states therein or any country in the world we might or might not put the video back online. please check again for you video in about fifty years because that is how long to sort through all the videos we have. Sorry for the inconvenience but please enjoy all of our other videos for you viewing pleasure." Newspeak would say "video not available," because newspeak was about the utter efficiency of language. What youtube does is actually a balance between what i just said and what newspeak would have said. Its short, succinct and conveys the message it needs to convey.
So go read the novel again and tell me if it is Newspeak or you are just making an idiotic claim to say "hey look everyone i made a comment. i now only have one training wheel on, i just need intelligence to get the other one off"
Really, eat me.
isn't that far fetched that Mexico is on the verge of collapse. Iceland did. England is within a whisper of being bankrupt. The US after the next 4 year debt spending spree, will be in massive decline, if not unstable. This isn't really that unrealistic.
Beck still sounds like Sylvester the cat off Bugs Bunny though, except not nearly as intelligent...."Pu, pu, pu, put 'em up"
Tis true, Iceland's economy did collapse. And look what happened! Hordes of Icelanders fled their dying country and invaded the US! We've got out-of-control Bjorks massing on our borders! It's...! Its....! OH MY GOD IT'S...!
... not happening, folks. For one thing, what rat in its right mind is going to abandoned a tiny floundering trawler to frantically claw its way onboard the Titanic?
The lesson here isn't oh my god, if this or that country collapses they'll be massing on our borders to pillage our crops and steal our cattle and rape our women. It's everyone is in the same damn leaky boat. Instead of trying to whip up a bogeyman to blame, we really need to start thinking about how to save all our sorry arses, Mexican, Icelandic, British, along with our own.
but the problem with it is politics, and these tv talking buffoon experts won't deal with reality. They'd all rather play, I'm a Rep, you're a Dem, so we can't agree and have to do exact opposites. And after the show, they all go out wining and dining together, and during regular daylight hours, work for the same consulting firms.
it's all just a big dog-n-pony show to get all us poor folk bickering back and forth so that they can get down to robbing us blind while were not paying attention.
LOL, I think that about sums it up.
not telling the whole story.
Mexico is in trouble.
"In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force
and indeed the world, two large and important states bear
consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and
Mexico.
"..."The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the
government, its politicians, police, and judicial infrastructure
are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs
and drug cartels."
Source part of http://www.jfcom.mil/
It's not new, Failed State mentioned last May, and here is a
2007 report.
That assumes that Mexico was a successful state.
Ever since the PRI were kicked out of power the Mexican gov't started to really crack down on corruption.
Mexico is in trouble. That's a fact. Drug wars goin off like gangbusters. That, and the lack of work there due to our financial crisis.
For the last 6 to 8 years Foreign investment in real estate on the coast has exploded. People were buying and building like there was no tomorrow. That's all come to a screeching halt.
From what I hear, drugs are a huge problem. The cartels have set up meth labs all over the Baja penisula. They don't care if it's a gringo or a Mexican who gets fecked up on their product.
But I seriously doubt the Mexican Gov't will collapse . That simply will not happen. Their currency, maybe. But not their gov't. Once the PRI get back in power, this will all quiet down.
After all, that's the Mexican GOP.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Of course I have no crystal ball.
You hear reports from people in the Mexico City area and they are in line with what you think. But, you talk to any from northern Mexico and they get dark. More than the usual cynic stuff.
See my links in a post further below (though one is in spanish but that paper is a good resource). It's the violence. If 20,000 troops and three years hasn't lowered violence, Calderon needs to find another way soon. Drugs, corruption people can live with. Look at us here in the US. But, three years of the drug lords killing all the police and leaving the beheaded corpses in the playground of the local kindergarten. No. That's different.
If I am counting numbers right, the Mexican military lost more soldiers to the drug war in 2008 than the US lost in Iraq in 2008.
About to fail tomorrow, of course not. But if the levels of violence don't start to go down some, it bears watching IMHO. And, using it as an excuse to whip up "fear the brown people" makes me very angry.
That is just plain old bullshit. It's the same old fear mongering. I've been going up and down the Baja peninsula for over 20 years. Every year.
There has been a noticeable increase in the roadblocks
Army roadblocks. It used to be just a couple of GI's standing there and they roust you a little. Nothing severe.
Now, there are small Army camps at these roadblocks.
Tire spike strips, 2 machine gun nests facing each direction. Plus over a dozen gi's with ar15's.
They don't look happy when you pull up.
I will say this tho. They check out the Mexicans more now than they ever have. In particular, the Semi's.
I've seen alot of shady things down there. I do Baja.
Tons of desolate beaches,bays and coves. Perfect for their purpose.
When I cross over the border. I don't stop for about 4-5 hrs.
I never stop near the border. Never have. Never will.
It's too dangerous. Especially now.
I've never been to mainland. So I can't say what's happening there.
But Baja(both Norte and Sur) is hot right now.
Remember when they killed that Presidential candidate in Ensenada. Or the Bishop in Tj?
It's always been trouble near the border.
But this is something different. The Cartels are playing for keeps. The only way to deal with those guys is with military force. And even then, when one dies,two more will pop up.
It's been like that forever down there. People don't know how good they have it here.
It ain't perfect,by any means. But it beats most other places.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
extremely painful to watch. Beck sounds like a 12 year old. Someone needs to medicate Stephen Moore. Awful.
That mug... there is something about his face, I have said this many times... if I saw that douche in real life I wouldn't be able to suppress the need to flick his ears or something. He is the definition of "punch face."
Beck should get the hell off tv and instead write fictional books. He seems to have the imagination for it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'd consider an insult from Michelle Malkin about as coarse a put down as those kids who throw toilet paper in the tree in my front yard at Halloween. She needs to get over herself because she's not that big of a deal.
If I may borrow a line from the late, great Rodney Dangerfield,
"The last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it."
beck is like the male version of sarah palin.
he just rambles on, drifts all over the map
spouting incoherent thoughts.
There have to be some half way sane Republicans who are embarrassed when people like Beck, Malkin and the rest, say this silly stuff and profess to be the voice of the Republican party.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
let me know. I am fond of cataloguing rare and endangered human cultures.
"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
They look like a great big sphincter!
FFFFFFFFFFaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttsssssssssssss!
has a program on Sunday as well?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again....I cannot stand this guy. He is "insane idiot" defined.
And Malkin???? Jeez, cannot stand her, either. I like it when she refers to the "open border elites." WTF. These jokers refer to everyone they do not like as "elites."
Beck says that there is "arrogance" in this country.....he's one arrogant SOB, if you ask me.
That was so incredibly painful to watch.
Beck says 825 and 887 but is corrected by Steve the wall st. dude. He said Beck was wrong, not 850 like Beck said???????
[ASSHOLES] :-p
Amended: Their senior economic writer That explains allot...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Granted, that was hard to watch, the conservatives Viagra Whore parroting whatever she is told, and the switcheroo from the Stimulus package to fear based Hollywood Horror Movie Commercial is well, uniquely Republican, and would be very unprofessional and not tolerated in my experience in a business meeting. I loved the point where 1.6 $billion in weapons a year ago was sent to Mexico, and like who was in charge? Pelosi? Reid? Our new President?, I wonder if they actually caught that themselves. And if we hadn't spent a $trillion or so being Mayor of Baghdad, maybe we would not be in this mess in the first place!
Just legalize drugs and be done with this stupid bullshit.
Like or hate drugs, who the hell still thinks prohibition is achieving anything?
Play the vidcap back from the point where Beck shakes his head....if you turn the sound up real loud, you can actually hear the BB rattle around in his cranium.
I get the feeling that the ever since the trifecta of Obama's win, Hannity's crazy balloon coming untethered from Colmbs' ballast sack, and Beck joining the circus, FauxSnooze has sounded the "ALL ABOARD" call, and the crazy train has pulled out of the station.
http://www.counterpunch.org/ross01152008.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07152008.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/ross10122008.html
The majority of Mexican people do not consider the Calderon government legitimate.
Then consider the fact that the government is losing the war with the drug cartels.
That said, Glenn Beck is a clown, not a journalist.
And I have heard from Mexicans, mostly those in the north of the country that yes ... it IS that bad.
Want to be kidnapped, go to Mexico not Iraq.
What do you call it when you deploy 20,000 troops internally and 4,500 civilians die in terror attacks and reprisal murders for the troop's presence in just one year? Or 5,700 if you count the soldiers.
When the drug lords are powerful enough to buy Interpol? (this link in spanish)
WOW....that was ummmm.....interesting. Beck goes from the Stimulus Bill to Mexico collapsing and heads on pikes, then I had to turn it off. Did they end up blaming Obama for it all?
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
are the Zimmermann telegram conspiracy theorists?
That is what I would like to know.
That is how we got into the mess we are in today.
History is just one damn thing after another.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Stand to watch the sphincter people!
You know, it's nice to keep up on wingnuttery, but here's the bottom line, IMHO.
Like the old Springsteen song....fifty-seven channels and nothing on...it's that simple, it's about livlihood.
I used to get all riled up, and start filling my beautiful mind with toxic thoughts of what I'd like to see happen to these people.
First, it is theatre, all flare, and everyone of them are nothing more than DRAMA QUEENS. My father used to call me a bad actor when I'd get sassy, or just rebel. To this crowd, it's just a schtick.
Nothing they say even gets a blip of emotion across my radar screen. I've grown extremely bored of the entire scene....it's old, stale, and stunningly unproductive.
Now, can we get back to prosecuting the entire bushco???
Does the name SIBEL EDMONDS ring a bell anyone? Anyone know the whereabouts of JOHN ASSCROFT nowadays???
Time to get real.
Why are we talking about Glenn Beck? The guy has a viewing audience of 65 people, 40 of whom are Crooks and Liars people, and ten more are Media Matters people who are just watching to see if he says something coo-coo that they can put on their website.
It's been nearly FIVE MINUTES. Hasn't Rush Limbaugh said something psychotic and offensive yet? Is he sick, or on vacation or something?
Am I hearing this correctly?
After 8 years of zero fiscal accountability under Bush- these ultra right wing Republicans are suddenly fiscal conservatives?
who don't they want to attack?????
Right wingers need to remember Texas and Califorina was land we annexed from Mexico.
Not to mention several other states! Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, etc.
I can't listen to Glenn Beck, my brain can't take the stupid. This is a man who refers to Puerto Ricans as immigrants, after all.
I've never seen change without a fire
Actually Tom, you are wrong. Texas won its independence from Mexico and then sued congress to be admitted as a state. we won the territory that later became New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California as part of the Mexican surrender in the Mexican-American War. We annexed none of that territory.
ps read a history book it might help you out a bit
My goodness Chris, you are one ignorant lemming...
We did indeed sieze land from Mexico, just as we took land from the native Americans.
Of course Republican apologists like yourself see American history only through the prism of American exceptionalism.
Pick up Howard Zinn's book 'The People's History of The United States', you might find it quite informative.
General Santana signed away the lands in question. As part of the peace negotiations.
Hell, Monterey Calif used to be the Capitol of Mexico.
But you need to look further back. Before the Spanish conquered Mexico.
Native peoples.
As for Arizona, The Apache Indians call that home. They frequently made raids into Mexico. Stealing women, cattle and whatever they could .
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Was because Mexico was encroaching on their land.
Mexico was marching north. Confiscating lands.
It's very easy to follow. Just trace the missions.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I just love how these assholes talk about the last 8 years like it was a bi-partisan issue. The Repug's wanted total power and they failed at every test. Now they want to tell us how things should be done.
Give us a few years to fix your mess and then maybe we can talk!
Also how many times did this jerk look at Republican nonsense and ask the question "What if it doesn't work?" I'm guessing there is not one single example anyone could come up with (but that's just a guess...ok, it's an educated guess!)
her golden opportunity when Beck said. "Laugh all you want,,," It was her opening to point at Beck and laugh hysterically; and I mean gut-busting, bellying-aching laugh for about 30-45 seconds. I've personally used this particular ploy and found it consistently effective, particularly if used in a crowd of people.
Heh.
woodguy
Hey, I gotta a suggestion
Let's legalize weed
And snow.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
tax oxygen. Has that been done?
Audiences never forget? Then tell me why Rush Limbaugh is even in the news after about 8 years of (relative) silence.
David, I am not sure why you refer in your original post to Ms. Powers as "the blonde Fox political analyst, Kirsten Powers." Her blondeness has nothing to do with the issues discussed in the post.
This kind of sexism ought to be avoided. One of the things I like most about C&L is the professional way John and the other posters--and most of the commenters--conduct themselves. Let's keep that high standard.
Thanks.
I thought everyone on FOX 'News' was blonde, except for 'Brown Haired Guy Who's Not Steve Duecy,' the token brunette.
me-oww!
Why can't the Mormons patrol the Mexican Border? They did so well defeating the ******s. Glenn, a Mormon himself, can lead the charge.
Never been in the military, never seen combat, yet huffs and puffs and supports war and violence (as long as someone else participates in it). Typical overcompensating closet queen Republican.
Their cash cow supporting their feeble social net has been oil exports.
Cantarell (their one and only supergiant field - everything else is comparatively small potatos) is in double digit decline. At present rates of depletion, when one accounts for the Export Land Model, Mexico will stop exporting oil around 2014.
When that happens it will no longer be getting the big subsidy from export, and BANG! massive social implosion within a year or two.
And it will be a PERMANENT loss. NEver to come back.
So, actually, (oddly) Beck is correct - Mexico is facing a catastrophe. They may well TRY to emigrate out, but if the depression continues in the States, they might not migrate to the USA....
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
If Beck and bat-shit crazy Malkin are sooo concerned about the Mexican drug cartels, why aren't they advocating the only solution that de-funds the cartels and as a bonus generates tens of billions in tax revenue every year? DECRIMINALIZE then LEGALIZE.
Look, Glenn, you really have to check those M&M. Are you sure they didn't give you crazy pills instead?
And is Michelle Malkin being imprisoned somewhere and taken out to parrot conservative pander? The same backdrop every day. I'm surprised she's not blinking an S.O.S. to us.
So does the USA and we have better chemicals.
The good thing here is that when Fox decides that Beck is way too stupid even for Fox there will be no place else for him to go. It will be lights out. Oh, oh... no wait... guess he can go over to Fox Talk Radio with John Gibson.
Or go on a reality TV show. You know, get locked up in house with Verne Troyer, Peter Brady, Rod Blagojavich and a couple of washed up porno stars?
How did Glenn Beck get this job?
The good thing here is that when Fox decides that Beck is way too stupid even for Fox there will be no place else for him to go. It will be lights out. Oh, oh... no wait... guess he can go over to Fox Talk Radio with John Gibson.
The doof can't even get Sesame Street right. He says that it is "brought to you by the LETTER (singular) F and U."
Send Beck back to elementary school to learn "singular" and "plural." He was so excited to get in the F and U reference, he couldn't think enough to use his English correctly.
Legalizing drugs in the US will eliminate the drug trade, which eliminates the narco-terrorist threat from Mexico that Beck and Malkin are trumping up.
Half of our own prison population could be released and would no longer be considered criminals. But then, what type of message would that send to our children?
Oh that we really are a civilized and free society.
But god forbid we stop throwing people in jail for getting a buzz.
Beck loves to mock, but he sure doesn't like being on the receiving end does he?
Glib "Bleeach!" changes his apocalypse du jour more often than his magic underwear.
Oh, it's always something with these guys...
"Loony Toons"
"Barking Mad"
Demented
Soft in the head
And
Wingnut
Did anybody notice that between the 2 of them Beck and Malkin got away with conflating that giving x amount of surveillance equipment to Mexico was proof that the mexican criminals had stolen all of it? Beck talks about it being stolen, and Malkin talks about it being given to the Mexican government and those two sentences are supposed to be proof that they've been stolen. Second grade logic (and failing second grade), at best.
I picked up on that too. My guess is that they are counting on the legion of mouth breathers that make up their audience not to think critically, or question their (ahem) reporting. After all, they're talking about brown people, so it must be true.
I know we need to keep an eye on the wing nuts, but I think we are all dumber for having witnessed that display of idiocy...
I would like to know how close to the boarder that either of these two nuts have been. Monterey is one of the most modern cities I have ever seen and is very progressive. ( thanks to all of the US corporations that have relocated there) But for the first 300 miles of Mexico it is desert. The drugs are grown in the tropical regions where you cannot drive 30 miles without coming to a military check point where each vehicle is searched for drugs and weapons. The police carry machine guns, and are very serious about their jobs, and the general population fear them. Mexico is more serious about stopping the manufacture of drugs than the United States is about the consumption of drugs.
How can they get away with making this shit up? It is like they are trying to incite a riot. Why would Fox even air this crap. Is Corporate America really that afraid of what progressives are going to change?
What is this about the money that was sent to Mexico? Does this group of nuts not realize that the Bush Administration borrowed 9 billion from Mexico to help fund the Iraq War? Look it up. It is there.
How long will this crap continue? Obama has been on the job for a week and the attacks are ruthless.
I just had this really scary thought - that some people watching this freak show probably think Beck actually knows something.
I'm so glad C&L watches this crap so I don't have to.
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