Popcorn time: Beck calls out the dogs on GOP's "Cap and Traitors"
OK, pop some popcorn and pull up a chair. Glenn Beck is calling out the dogs … on Republicans.
He ran a special segment last night urging his audience descend en masse upon the “Cap and Traitors” – Republican House members who actually voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill last Friday – all eight of them. With him to seal the deal was the Washington Examiner's Kevin Mooney, who besides being in need of a new suit was also in need of a logic text:
Beck: Now, there are eight Republicans who voted for cap and trade. ... Look at this map that we put up. It looks like all of the votes -- there it is -- it looks like all of these votes -- and we're going to have some showers -- uh -- all of the votes really came, half of the votes, more than half -- from those areas. The West Coast and from the liberal Northeast.
Mooney: Well, Glenn, you're put your finger on it. Uh, the votes, whether they're Democrat or Republican, in favor of this bill, out of the coastal areas, the elite areas of this country, they're areas of the country where the energy prices are already high. Democrats and Republicans voted against this bill in other parts of the country where they already are using other fossil fuels and have lower energy prices.
Beck: Isn't it interesting that those are the areas that are collapsing the fastest?
Mooney and Beck, not to put too fine a point on it, are full of crap. Just by way of example, look at my own home state of Washington, whose delegation voted strongly for the bill, and is included on their list of "coastal states" whose energy prices are supposedly too high. In reality -- somewhere far distant from these guys' residence on Planet Wingnuttia -- Washington's energy prices are among some of the lowest in the nation (for instance, our electricity costs are far below the national average, since we get so much of it from hydroelectric sources. Likewise for Oregon, another "elite coastal" state. Meanwhile, some of the nation's highest electricity costs can also be found in Florida and Texas -- some of the "non-elite" states on Beck's graphic.
And Glenn? Our economy here in Washington is far from collapsing. The housing bubble didn't overinflate as much here as elsewhere -- including, say Florida and Texas. And we have Microsoft and Boeing. So we're hurting, yes -- but we'll be fine. No thanks to the right-wing ideologues like yourself who wrecked the national economy.
Phony methodology aside, it is in any event always fun to see the right savage its own -- because nearly all of the eight Republicans who voted for the bill came from vulnerable districts. Dave Reichert, from Washington's 8th District, just barely survived two tough challenges from Darcy Burner, and did so in part by selling himself as friendly to environmentalists. And indeed, he comes from a district that has never elected a Democrat, but whose growing technology-worker base is a rapidly changing demographic politically -- and particularly big on environmental issues.
So we're happy to see them get hell from the Glenn Beck wing of their party. It just reminds the large mass of swing voters in the 8th District and others like it, once again, why it's stupid to vote even for a "moderate" Republican -- because they will always be overwhelmed by the pseudo-populist Wingnuttians who dominate the GOP at all levels. Especially the pundit one.
Becks' work is sick. FOX has a mental problem.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Yes Glenn, God graced us all with you, Hannity and Limbaugh. You are spreading his word of peace, humility, kindness and compassion. Keep up the good work my deluded and maniacal brother.
Amen.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
More republicans will be voting against republicans in office.
with Sotomayor.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Wouldn't the Donut One be more fitting?
I mean, look at him.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
The elite northeast! the elite west coast!
All the Rethugs have is attempts to dividing America.
Beck says those areas are collapsing? Which areas of the country have the lowest education rates, the highest infant mortality rate and the area most blinded by religious christian mullahs? I believe that would be the south and middle west.
I be interested in watching this guy's rehearsals. You know he can't say half the crap he does without Fox trying to keep some rein on his idiocy. Wonder where the "blooper roll" is of his, and Limbaugh andd Hannities tapings.
Can see him now, "nope not enough fake disdain, let's do it again and I'll roll my eyes "bigger". Can you get a close up?"
This is just a "cleaned up" version of his radio show in the AM. In the AM he also called Illinois a traiter state as well. Took it off the map for TV because even the average Fox viewer would have caught the incongruety of the elite coast sphiel.
May I introduce all of you to our newest Senator from Minnesota....Al Franken!!!!!
Applause!!!!!
(This'll give Beck something new to whine about).
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
...by the length of time it took me to log in.
Woo HOO!! Here's the headline from CNN.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
Just in time to run for reelection.
Stupid Beck is only being used for Dick Licking the Drugster.
Dualism:
Fundamentalist Christianity is among the most clear-cut expressions of a Manichean dualism in American society. Its world is divided into good and evil, black and white. In turn, this kind of dualism signals a propensity toward authoritarianism, or what Erik Erikson called totalism: the eager embrace of a totalitarian society.
Religiosity has been almost universally recognized as an important element of any manifestation of fascism in the United States. As early as 1935, Sinclair Lewis observed: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
More recently, scholar Robert 0. Paxton remarked that "religion... would certainly play a much larger role in an authentic fascism in the United States than in the first European fascisms:"
A brief look at our history seems to substantiate these predictions. Earlier forms of fascism in America were explicitly “Christian” in nature. This is particularly true of the extremists who formed small but widespread societies around neo-Nazi philosophies and admiration for Hitler, most notably those led by the crypto-fascist mystical “philosopher” William Dudley Pelley in the 1930s.
--David Neiwert (chap. 4 p. 87-88) The Eliminationists
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
Fascist Warning Sign(s)...
#1: Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
#2: Disdain for the importance of human rights.
#3: Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
#4: The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
#5: Rampant sexism.
#6: A controlled mass media.
#7: Obsession with national security.
#8: Religion and ruling elite tied together.
#9: Power of corporations protected.
#10: Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
#11: Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
#12: Obsession with crime and punishment.
#13: Rampant cronyism and corruption.
#14: Fraudulent elections.
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I would say we are certainly headed that way, like two runaway freight trains on a collision course - and harboring any delusion of us being any type of democracy or even republic only exascerbates the problem. The candidates that run for higher office, in either of the big parties, are only those that are allowed to run by the oligarchs who are really in charge in this country. If they weren't, then people like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders would be getting a lot more press and positive coverage than they do.
Posting the 14 points of fascism is a good idea - they look sooooo painfully familiar when we put them up against our present condition.
I don't know, Glen, Nancy doesn't look like she can remember where she lives, let alone who voted which way two years from now.
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative.”
- John Stuart Mill
You cannot open up to an op/ed section in Chicagoland without running across some prescription drug fueled drivel from this woman.
She's always been one of the wingy-est nuts out there and now, unfortunately I have a face to go with the insanity.
Turns out she has a blog: http://nancyjthorner.wordpress.com/
Interesting that FOX chose to just describe her as a voter, if she's actually a well known figure.
Personally, judging by this blog entry she wrote, I'd have categorised her as a global warming denier: http://nancyjthorner.wordpress.com/2009/04/22...
Not that being a global warming denier would have anything to do with opposing cap and trade...
..the beotch-slapping of a gal old enough to be a grandmother. Should anyone decide to engage in such a despicable act, I will go on the record as both rejecting and repudiating that behavior.
Now, who's gonna take care of this?
I think she is a Republican committee member. South Bend has its equivalent of Nancy Thorner with the ramblings of Dorothy Elkins, who is frustrated because Bush & Cheney are no longer in office.
I want these people like Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh to scream at the top of their lungs about every program that is passed in the next 4 years. I also want all of these programs to work beautifully. It may not work to all but rid the nation of the Fascists talking heads that dominate the media but sooner or later the people have to have some kind of light go off. I know for the last 8 years everything they have promoted has failed. During the Reagan administration almost everything he promoted failed but was scrambled and spun to look O.K. During Clinton everything they fought against worked pretty good. For the last 8 years they have been %100 wrong about everything but about %45 of the voting population didn't notice. Sooner or later you would think that a large number to those %45 would just slap them self on the side of their heads and say "WAIT A SECOND"!!
but I watched this right after eating my lunch and between Beck and Thorner I'm really feeling queasy.
Imagine most of the votes coming from the areas with the most representatives! Ohhhhh, it hurts . . .
hm, i sure don't feel elite...
I feel elite (snark) as hell but Beck missed my little state down here called Florida. If our electric bill came in at less than $200.00 a month, we would celebrate. Last I looked gas was about $2.75 a gallon in these parts. So I don't know if we qualify for being elite or not. I do know that every day more and more houses become empty and those already empty have been that way for a long time.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"Meanwhile, some of the nation's highest electricity costs can also be found in Florida and Texas -- some of the "non-elite" states on Beck's graphic."
Well it only stands to reason.
It takes a whole passel of energy to E-lectro-cute Nig..uh.."Colored" folks and um..retards.
"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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He82NBjJqf8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
take a collection to give that poor Examiner guy a decent haircut. Man that sucks. Oh, and thank god I live in the elite west!
Talking about elite
I get so annoyed with the new Miracle Whip TV commercial
With the slogan
"No, We Won't Tone it Down,"
Like their all trendy and cutting-edge.
And I'm like WTF dude...
You're just white glop not good enough to be mayonaisse
And I hate mayonaisse.
It's like the old joke about WASP's being blander than white bread and mayo,
And you're even blander.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
why cap-and-trade is such a great idea?
i like waxman, but i feel this plan promotes green energy as dubiously as clean coal, and in the end, will implode with another enron style energy trading grift.
Doesn't fat-face Glen Beck reside in the "liberal northeast"?
And to think this guy is somebody's offspring, was once some one's child. Now he's turned bad ass schitzoprhenic on national TV, while all the sick, weak, or depraved among us watch and follow.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
David, don't talk up WA state too much.
You forgot to mention rain, rain, rain!!
And more rain...
On topic, Beck can go "cheney" himself.
...but he's not the one I'm worried about.
It's the viewers (and listeners to his radio show) who take his every word as if it were gospel. And unfortunately, there are millions of 'em.
But he'll certainly be an even more juuuuuicy target if Uncle Rupert does what I think he will eventually do - put Glennie's show in Bill-O's time slot.
0'LIEly better watch out for Beck.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
This guy Beck, his pal Hannity, and patron, Rush Limppaw, barely graduated from high school...
They collectively are mouth pieces! They know nothing!
And, we have Ron (friggin)Reagan's old political guru, Roger Ailes, to thank for them...
Fageddaboutem... and Fox too...
Congressman LoBiondo of NJ Votes Yes!!!
No big surprise since LoBiondo has often voted for positive environmental legislation, despite his party's insistance on voting in lock-step. His yes vote isn't because he's afraid of a challenge since his seat in Congress is assured for years to come.
Congressman Smith R-NJ has also stood up to his party on notable occassions.
To call either one of them traitors when both are very loyal Republicans is laughable. To call any Congressman a traitor for any reason whatsoever is despicable.
doesn't that lady have some cats to feed or something? Well, it looks like one of his intern's got their grammy on the teevee!
It's amazing to see how much the right uses the media for advocacy, while the whiny libtards of the MSM cling to their chivalrous notions; must show both the sane and wingnut sides of the issues, etc. Meanwhile Beck is lobbying people to get their reps to vote a certain way, flashing phone numbers, CALL NOW! Not to mention how much they promoted the ol' teabagging. Someone should call the House's oh, so concerned new Media Caucus, see if they'd like to weigh in. I'll not be holding my breath.
The ONLY way we can stop Global Warming is systematic population reduction. There are too many people on this earth. There are too many people in impoverished nations . Please watch this movie about Global Warming : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=28895...
http://video.google.com/videoplaydocid=288952...
Do you really want to know what Obama is up to with Cap and Trade? In his own words "this will make electric rates sky rocket". Stop burying your head in the sand and watch this video clip. http://******.com/archives/2008/11/02/obama-i...
Which time did he lie to us?
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