You knew this was coming: Beck now attacking bloggers, with Jane Hamsher first on the list
The rightie tighties have their knickers in a wad because Jane Hamsher decided to point out that Joe Lieberman's wife not only made large sums annually on the payroll of insurance companies -- which creates a clear conflict of interest for Lieberman in taking a lead role in killing health-care reform -- but also in fact collects money from the Susan G. Komen Foundation as a "global ambassador" for women's health. Jane organized a campaign to have her removed.
Factually and logically, Jane's right that it's silly for outfits like Komen to be underwriting someone who has so badly damaged the ability of millions of women to obtain health-care insurance. But facts and logic have nothing to do with the world of right-wing nutcases.
Particularly those at Fox, who have been avidly denouncing Hamsher's campaign as "outrageous" and using it to paint Lieberman as a martyr of "the far left." Bill O'Reilly, among others, devoted a large chunk of last night's O'Reilly Factor, including his Talking Points Memo, to denouncing the campaign as "sickening" and "disgraceful."
The Giant Turnip of Wingnuttia, aka Glenn Beck, was particularly vicious. He devoted a whole segment to calling Hamsher out, holding up a reproduction of her infamous Lieberman "blackface" Photoshop from 2006 and repeatedly referring to it.
Having once worked for Jane, I can attest to the fact that she sincerely regrets having run that shot, and not just because it's constantly used to slap her down. But really, this is the kind of argumentation we've come to expect from Beck, a la his attacks on Van Jones and Anita Dunn: Latch onto a single rhetorical mistake, then play it over and over as though that's what the person is about.
Well, hey, that particular game is a two-way street. The only problem with Beck is that, as our Fearmonger in Chief, he gives us almost a daily example of complete asshattery that should in fact permanently discredit him. To wit:
Where to start?
Would someone please give that loon a cookie before he hurts himself.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Oh...and FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Well, if we're going to focus on the rantings of Glenn Beck we might as well focus like a freakin' laser beam.
How about organizing a daily vigil at Fox in Los Angeles and New York City against Beck? Perhaps suggest that Fox should lose their broadcasting license because Beck is a "Homegrown Terrorist"?
Or something along those lines?
He should really be somewhere weaving baskets or working a garden where he can't hurt anybody.
"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
or crocheting something that isn't there.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
How about organizing a daily vigil outside of Glenn Beck's personal residence instead, you know, like what was done outside of Senator Joe Lieberman's residence recently?
That, of course, presumes that (1) he doesn't live in some Reich-wing gated community, and (2) that he hasn't already employed thuggish Blackwater/Xe types as bodyguards ...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...
"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
You know you've touched a nerve when they call you out by name.
right wing during the past year. Hamsher and Maddow are the first two nominees. Oh, and Grayson.
Kucinich and Franken.
NOBODY 2012
skivvies in a bunch is good. Good on Jane Hamsher.
Jane is the crosshairs because she is digging beneath the kabuki dance of Republicans vs. Democrats and exposing the Corporatist Party that lurks beneath.
She's an American hero, fearless and brave.
Way to go Jane!!! Keep the pressure up. I'm thrilled the truth is getting out... Lieberman and his wife ought to have the spotlight focused on their avarice and greed, not to mention the outrageous conflict of interest. WTF do these people think they're getting away with anyhow?! Such a bunch of oxy-maroons!
And so should everybody else on this thread.
"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
Isn't Jane Hamsher one of the people to whom we give credit for putting Ned Lamont in the Senate. Now she wants to boycott the Susan G. Komen Foundation because the wife of the man she defeated works for them.
I cannot tell you how proud I am of that courageous Jane Hamsher for
her successful work on our behalf.
"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
What's your point, Chuckles?
for "pro bono?"
Lamont didn't get elected because Leiberman went indy and got elected by republicans.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
who is this "our"?
Gee, are you STUPID.
You OUGHT to be sorry.
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"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
So Jane Hamsher ran a picture of Joe Liebermann that was racially offensive which she removed at the request of the candidate she thought she was assisting. She apologized to "anyone who was genuinely offended." The candidate she thought she was assisting ultimately lost to Lieberman.
This blog and others have said bad feelings from the campaign in which Jane Hamsher posted a racially offensive photo of Joe Lieberman are one reason, if not the main reason, Joe Lieberman is abandoning past public positions on health care and being, in one poster's words, "a spiteful little toad."
Now Jane Hamsher has launched a campaign for Joe Lieberman's wife to be removed from her position as an unpaid "Global Ambassador" for the Susan G. Komen Foundation because of her husband's position on
health care.
And some of you are defending Hamsher and calling me stupid. And calling yourselves progressive. Very interesting.
"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
That's all that needs to exist. End of defense of Hamsher for me.
if there is a conflict, it is for Joe Lieberman, not his wife. If Hamsher insists on dragging her into it, call for her to resign from her positions with firms that have health care related clients (she does not work, and as best I can determine has not worked for insurance companies).
Launching a campaign to have her removed from an unpaid position with a foundation that is not remotely related to any possible conflict of interest over this legislation allows the right to target Hamsher and paint her as the kind of bitter character we suspect Lieberman to be.
What makes Hamsher's efforts even less useful is she chose to attack the Susan G. Komen Foundation. They may deserve it on other grounds, but they are considerably better known and more popular than either Mrs. Lieberman or Ms. Hamsher.
Dragging them into this fight to which Hamsher brings some baggage of her own is not, in my opinion, the best idea Hamsher has had.
"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
Her addressing the issue with the Komen Foundation is called "applying pressure" as it should be called and as it should be done. To allow ANY credibility for this woman or her husband through her is wrong. Neither of them deserves any. If Mrs. Lieberman has any class at all, she will fall on her sword and resign. Mrs. Lieberman has influence in her position, and it IS related to what her husband does. He benefits and she benefits. And as to what she personally does, dig deeper. You don't have the whole picture. His wife works for a lobbying firm as a senior counselor in guess what areas, surprise! Health and pharmaceuticals. Does it surprise you that a woman works outside of the home?
Based on his recent defense of the "three-fifths" clause in the Constitution, his former habits, and/or what one would need to drink in order to take him seriously.
in Florida and Texas before getting off his meth habit?
I heard it was three.
And he killed their dogs, too...
It was on the internet...
I would not leave my daughter, or any girl under age 21, alone with that creep. Can you imagine the conversations he and Oriley have at their favorite bar after work?
With or without the grunts and farts?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
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Corruption favors the wealthy.
I've never seen his birth certificate...or his working papers.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
If he didn't pick up the phone and call to say you are wrong, then by his own reasoning, you're right.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Good for Glen (or Glenda?). Let him enter the snake pit of the blogosphere. It's easy to attack presidential appointees or even the prez hisself. This arena is a bit "different". He'll end up like Lou Dobbs and John Gibson, and a year from now people will be saying, Glen who?
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
No problem - Jane can mop the floor with Glen. I think she should challenge him to a cage match.
for exposing the major conflict of interest regarding Droopy and wife. Of course Becky doesn't mention this. Douche
Fish in a barrel much, Jane?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Yesterday he had three catagories on his chalk board and he was putting members of the Obama advisors and cabinet in each one. This was in response to the President calling the big bankers "fat cats". His third catagory he called "Liars and Crooks". I couldn't help but wonder about that particular name. Of course as someone off camera handed him the pictures of the people he was putting in those catagories, he didn't know who about half of them were so the off camera person had to tell him their names. Then somehow magically he determined which catagory the person he didn't know should go into.
A couple of times this week you could tell he wasn't prepared for some parts of his show and he blew some lines badly. I can't help but wonder if there is some pressure being put on him from somewhere.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
-just like ORiley, Hannity and all the other creeps. They haven't enough intelligence or imagination to say the awful things that come out of their mouths. They haven't enough intelligence or imagination to wonder what consequences of their vicious words might be. They haven't enough decency to care, if they did know.
the imperial dream. To smash borders, to realize ambition without boundaries, to “conquer the world.”
To live mindfully of others, to observe the decencies, to clean up your room. What could be more “sissy,” more domestic, less “heroic,” less Manly?
I congratulate them. I didn't believe that those fuckers could read.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
He must have a troop of researchers digging up dirt on people because as long as I have been on the net, I had never seen that black face pic of Lieberman.
Orin Hatch was on Beck's show this week. I mean I don't know which is worse, Hatch for going on that show or Beck for having Hatch on his show. What Hatch did do was legitimize Beck. I'm sure Beck's head grew three times its size after that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Glen's job is very easy and very old:
1) Make you afraid of something.
2) Tell you who is to blame for it.
3) Give you the sales pitch.
Glen uses a bunch of inflammatory rhetoric, but never says anything that doesn't lead to the pitch.
Sounds kind of like the job description of an evangelical preacher doesn't it?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Yup.
On Rove, too.
Strike! While the iron is hot!
All you need remember is that old adage: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Glen Becks criticizes anyone for anything, I know that the person he attacks must be doing something which is right and pro-America.
Beck is a loon.
You had to know someone was going to say this. Loons are beautiful birds and they are hurt by your using them in a sentence that way. They admit that Beck is a bird brain, but that's as far as it goes.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWCZ2mqGfIE&fe...
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Thanks! That was fun to watch. When Palin gave her never ending speech as she dropped out from being gov of Alaska, it seemed there were loons in the lake behind her. It was so appropriate as she spoke we heard the call of the loon.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
She could have used the tip.
After all, The Call of the Loon is so much more poetic than Going Rogue. Kind of Jack London-y... very Alaskan.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Since Beck is preaching to his choir, all he has to do is play the double-standard:
- If an "enemy" (say, John Kerry flubbing a joke) says something that could be interpreted multiple ways, it's immediately obvious that they meant the WORST POSSIBLE MEANING.
- If a "friend" (say, Michelle Bachmann accusing fellow members of Congress of being anti-America) says something that could be interpreted multiple ways, it's immediately obvious that they meant the BEST POSSIBLE MEANING.
Again, if you're in the choir, and you're a RWA-type who sees no problem just believing whatever fulfills your biases, then you're not going to have any issue with applying these two standards as needed.
So you get the same people saying, "I don't know, I just don't trust Obama" and then saying "I just trust Michelle Bachman. I believe whatever she says". It's tribal prejudice where you never ackowledge the prejudice.
And it's killing us.
Always looking for fresh talent--brains pickled by guilt, inadequacy, drugs, and booze to make idiots out of themselves. Beck is going to be difficult to top though.
Nahh. He seems like a bottom to me.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Oh dear god...
[Starts splashing brain bleach directly from the bottle...]
I was told about this stuff, this brazen and vicious attack on Mrs. Lieberman . . from a woman named, uh, uh, uh, “Hamster.” An internet personality!
Ha ha ha
How would Beck define a "vicious" attack? Would it be considered "vicious" to repeatedly accuse someone of wanting to destroy their own country, sell it out to enemies and cause the suffering of hundreds of millions of people? How is it more vicious to accuse a DC politician of being corrupt?
Beck and his followers are right-wing authoritarians who are collectively helping to destroy America and the species. Does that sound like hyperbole? Do a little reading on right-wing authoritarianism and tell me it isn't one of the biggest historical forces leading to collapse.
isn't it?
Did Jane ever post an individual post stating her realizations about that use of blackface? Stating why it was wrong? If not, then of course she can be held to account for hypocrisy and use of racist imagery. By anyone. Even if Beck is a sleazy, fake opportunist.
she "sincerely regrets using that shot." But this is all I can find from her. It is as much defiance as apology, but it was in the heat of battle, so to speak.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/ab...
"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
Today Glenda was talking about the school incidents where kids were told they couldn't read the Buybull or draw pics of the crucifixion. He then told of a law being considered in WI where the history of the labor movement should be taught in schools. He summed it all up by asking which is more important to us, Jesus or labor unions?
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
Poor glenda and his bipolar misery - he'll be burnt out in six months. Did anyone mention Roger Ailes today?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
because everything he is saying applies to that one, not our current one. Bush warned us (just as beckerhead says about hitler) that he wanted America to be a dictatorship, just as long as he was the dictator (dick-tater), and he was. He ignored the supreme court rulings and the congress. Under bush America became a true dictatorship for the very first time. Obama has restored many of our freedoms that bush took away from us, such as the freedom to protest the government. Also, everything the tea baggers are protesting about came about during the bush administration, not the Obama administration. They waited till a Democrat was in the White House to start complaining.
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