Glenn Beck didn't bother to even have any guests on his program yesterday because he was too busy calling progressives "parasites" and "a virus" and making insane connections that only he understands. That's typical eliminationist rhetoric.
He can't handle differences of political belief, so he wants to wipe out liberals and progressives from the face of the earth. He believes that since he uses a blackboard with chalk and incoherently erases a letter off of one word to form new words that will make it all comprehensible.
Beck's been working himself up into a frothy, psycho-frenzied lather about destroying all progressives as he promotes Jonah Goldberg's dishonest book and thesis about fascism, which he uses for his own demented documentary. And apparently I should be eliminated too.
Wow, all because I was not happy with Lynne Woolsey for hosting a fundraiser for CA-36's very own Blue Dog, Jane Harman, and wrote a few posts about it calling for her to stop.
Beck: The traditional democratic party is going up against the radical fringe left.
I've been telling you that there's a difference between democrats and progressives from the beginning now but nobody wants to listen. Here it is. Their are Blue Dog democrats and but they are not socialists, Marxists radicals. They are more like your grand father's democrat. Most Democrats still love America, they love the founders and they love the constitution and believe in this country. But then there's another group and they have infiltrated not just the Democratic party, but the republican party...
Speak softly and carry a big stick. blah, blah, blah...We got this from an insider. Wait until you hear this story. The co-chair of the CPC...
How many times have I said they are like a virus feeding on the host of republic.
The progressives are parasites inside the democrat....The California progressives weren't the only ones upset. John Amato of Crooksandliars wrote on Huffington Post.
"for Woolsey to holding a fundraising events for a known Blue Dog should be a firing offense for the CPC."
Progressives Democrats for America joined in, They started an online petition asking her to withdraw from the event. Woolsey said no. I don't know how this story ends quite frankly it's California and it's all going to end in a mudslide right into the bottom of the ocean eventually anyway, but let me tell you something. The last time the progressives were in this position and they started gobbling power and they exposed themselves people caught on and hated them.
That threatens him, so he warns that people like me are destroying the Democratic Party. Of course, you know he loves the Democratic Party as much as he loves eating sandpaper. He opines that progressives have been hiding for years and years in the wilderness and suddenly snuck up on him.
He's the Teabagger King and is trying to purge all moderate Republicans from the GOP, as if they were a disease, and replace them with arch-conservative haters. And while he's at it, he wants to do the same for Democrats.
Of course, Glenn has nothing but our own best interests at heart. Riiiiiiiight.
UPDATE: After watching this again and adding a little transcript, isn't it nice for Beck to hope that California gets hit with an earthquake that destroys the state and we end up as fish food. What a guy, that Beck. He not only is hoping for progressives to be eliminated, but the entire state of California as well.
Daniel Schorr read Nixon's enemies list live on television after it was released. Apparently he didn't realize his name was on it. Later he said something to the effect that he had come to feel his inclusion therein was his greatest achievement.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
these morons are serious and can't be trusted.
Where is Evet and what did you do with her/him? Eh?
...it's time to eliminate the progressive strain that is infecting the very fiber of true Americanism. "I luv my country...and I fear for it.'..[sniffles]
LimpBalls
I loved the scene in matrix when "Agent Smith" explains his theory about humans! Somehow i can't see Beckerhead channeling Elrond.
Wow, that was profiund. Using a movie as a reference for disagreeing with someone. How a good Family Man quote or maybe Beavis and Butthead?
... too elitist-liberal-highbrow for you?
Do you even know what quote BobD was referring to?
I watched it Sunday night and watched reloaded last night and I don't which quote he's talking about.
"I'd like to share a ... revelation I've had with you, Morpheus. And it came to me when I was trying to classify your species. You see, you're not really mammals ... all mammals live in balance with their environment. But not humans. Humans move to one area, use up all its resources, and then move to another.
"There is one organism that shares that characteristic. Would you like to know what it is? It's a virus, Morpheus. Humans are a disease. We ... are the cure."
i can handle your misspelled words, but, please, do not screw up the funniest TV show's name... guy, its GUY. family guy. watch it, love it.
All future posts from 'sox will be pointless, regardless of quality.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
...should be considered an honor.
Mr. Amato I believe that you owe this anti-American freak a thank you card.
"...He can't handle differences of political belief..." It wasn't Beck calling for Woolsey to be fired because she hosted a fund raiser. I smell a hypocrit.
Such brave work, ferreting out liberal fascism! Perhaps they can all wear a fancy uniform to identify themselves as enemies of fascism. And develop a snappy salute.
maybe they could wear little blackboard pins denoting themselves as beckerheads and Real Americans.
sat and watched Beck the other day for more than 5 minutes and he frightened me. He's mentally unbalanced for sure.
If he frightened you, maybe you should get mommy or daddy to put the parental block on that chanel.
.
... Glenn Beck is the equivalent of pornography to trolls like you? Makes you all hot and sweaty down there in mommy's basement?
It's actually funny because the only time I "watch" Beck is on videos captured for this web site. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy no matter what side of the ideological aisle you sit on. Seems Amato might be that guy who lives in a glass house but likes to throw stones. Open your eyes girlfriend and maybe you can see that.
You didn't even give me a ring. What a cheap date!
Sadly, if you don't understand the difference between Beck's desire to purge political elements he disapproves of and John Amato disapproving of Lynn Woolsey's hosting a fundraiser for Harman, it doesn't speak to your intellectual credentials.
Where some of the most brain dead ignorant right wing bullshit originates from.
... it's his willfully ignorant and violent defenders.
Beck just handed John the "medal of ________" (fill in something good!)
To have the likes of Beck attack for any reason is a GREAT and substantial compliment.
*high fivers*
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Shades of 1927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knwInALcz98
An attack from Beck may be a badge of honor today.
One day soon, it could be an actual physical attack.
He has money, power, true believing followers.
Be careful and don't write him off as a wingnut.
Be vigilant, for sure...but we Progressives need to stand up and get in the face (when necessary) of these regressive bastards.
-as easily as "conservatives". Probably more easily, since your average Liberal doesn't have a long history of criminally insane behavior. And since we're such Fascists we do things like taking a class in gun-ownership, we know how to load a pistol and even which end to point at an attacker.
as the Tea-Baggers, Reich-Wingers, Beckians, and other related bat-shite crazy loons are already organizing into militias -- have been for years in a number of cases. When was the last time you heard of a Liberal Progressive or Leftist militia -- let me know and I will gladly join it (safety in numbers, you know.)
I truly believe that Glenn Beck and his "handlers" fully intend to put all "liberals" on the endangered species list, for real. I do know how to defend myself, and have some rather modest means as well. 'Nuff said here.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
"Be careful and don't write him off as a wingnut."
Identifying Beck for his wingnuttiness doesn't write him off.
He is truly a wingnut. That doesn't "write him off" in any way - at least to me is doesn't.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
wingnut.
... Beck and his minions are far more dangerous than the 'terrorists' they routinely decry.
Congratulations Amato!!
Yes congratulate Amato. He thinks people who have fund raisers for those he disagrees with should be fired, but he accuses Beck of not being able to handle different political beliefs. They invented a word for that, it's called hypocrisy.
but are you a true Beck believer?
I'm a true pragmatist. If Beck/Olbermann/Limbaugh/Malkin/Carville/Maddow...hopefully you see the pattern here...is right, give him or her credit. If he or she is wrong, call them out on it. The blind polarization we see in this country today is not only nauseating, it's counter productive.
you would put Olbermann and Maddow in the same comparative context as Beck, O'Reilly and Malkin. Why not include Coulter in there as well.
who admires babbling-drooling-insane-rabble-rousing-pigs who work for Right Wing billionaires'.
If Beck ever said anything true, even accidentally, he'd burst into flames, or melt into a puddle of putrid slime.
They are not in the same category as the others. They don't lie or spread misinformation.
http://hisvorpal.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/...
Funny, I disagree with posters here all the time.
And I don't necessarily agree with the political views of the C&L staff. So throwing rocks at a condition which I do not suffer from isn't proving pragmatism, it's proving that you don't know your elbow from your arse.
"...he (Amato) thinks people who have fund raisers for those he disagrees with should be fired.."
Links, please. Show some evidence of Amato's hatred of fundraisers for people he doesn't like.
Wotta maroon.
Dude, here's a cluestick: John objected to the fund-raiser because she's chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Fund-raising for a Blue Dog -- the sworn enemies of the CPC -- is just stupid politics, not to mention bad optics. He's talking about the utter lack of internal discipline on the left, in sharp contradistinction from the right. We've all seen, for instance, what happens when anyone criticizes the Mighty Limbaugh.
Amato hasn't compared conservatives to diseases like cancer or a virus, or vampires who want to suck out our lifeblood, or other eliminationist rhetoric.
But Beck is doing it on a nightly basis before an audience of millions.
Just remember: eliminationist violence in America, historically speaking, has always been preceded by eliminationist rhetoric, which not only creates the attitudes necessary for violence, but also has a powerful permission-giving effect.
My son and his high school classmates are the Maroons (odd but true fact).
He says he is a pragmatist. I'd say he is an underacheiving loser.
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"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
... Beck to fire off a salvo at David Niewert for dissing Goldbrick's pet theory.
-'firing off a salvo' that is. The Loadpant's discourse is best compared to Farting on cue, with an occasional belch tossed in for variety.
republicans are the plague.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and beck proves it daily!
their disease is carried by Rats like Beck.
you don't want to end up like Berg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Berg
I'd like to see a comparative analysis between Liberal "violence" and Conservative violence. Abortions can't be included, since a LOT of Conservatives have them, too.
That one screams for a graphic. Any photoshop gurus in the house?
Congratulations John , that is an honor .
hiding in the wilderness?
Conservatives always want to see the wilderness destroyed....
it is where their fear lives...
... in which Beck claims our accolades are proof of progressive insanity and the threat they pose.
"LOOK AT THEM! They actually think they're doing the right thing! My GOD, how can they be so BLIND!"
Beyond the call, and all that, but could some patriotic nursing mother please stuff the guy's pie hole with a sweet, milky nipple. He is rather cute, and it might be true (though controversial) that his mother loved him. A little affection is all he's looking for.
as the kind of person that would prefer to be tied up and whipped.
Any takers?
Beck begs to be whipped - and whipped well!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
for a job change?
This ass-clown is a waste of Mother's milk. He made up a story about his own Mother committing suicide in a play for sympathy on the radio. She actually had gone out in a boat with a guy, there was a partially consumed bottle of alcohol and both in the boat, still afloat, had drowned. Police speculate his Mother jumped in for a swim and got in trouble and the guy jumped in to try to rescue her. The police had no reason to suspect this was a suicide and there was no suicide note.
Why do you hate America*?
(*now a multinational corporation)
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Beck is promoting a Lincoln Memorial "non political fundraiser" for next August 28 called Restoring Honor. Here's a link to Beck's website promoting the event. http://www.glennbeck.com/828/
Why not simply call the rally "A Fundraiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation"? Oh right, because the Foundation comes SECOND as this disclaimer in the link provided indicates:
"Please note all contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) will first be applied to the costs of the Restoring Honor Rally taking place on August 28, 2010. All contributions in excess of these costs will then be retained by the SOWF."
Can someone explain to me how a rally intended to "restore honor to our nation's capital" is also going to be "non-political"?
Beck is blatantly using a charity that supports the children of fallen Special Operations forces to call a far-right rally.
WAIT! It gets worse. This entire rally is actually a BOOK LAUNCH for Beck! See the last two paragraphs here: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/art...
perverse, could they?
But you have to love the fact that this schizo (with apologies to those who truly suffer from schizophrenia) wears a stormtroopers outfit on his cover of "Talking with Idiots" (subtitle - "A Conversation with Myself")...
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“Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR, and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no
The fact that Glenn Beck actually has a "successful" show is an indictment of this country's rancid educational and political systems.
Only one generation ago, countries like Germany and Italy learned bitter lessons about letting such pseudo-intellectual, anti-rational poison fester.
Come on Glenn, tell your viewers that a billionaire Saudi prince is the second largest shareholder in Fox News. I dare you.
.... was a sign that humans, in the US anyway, are devolving as a species. Case in point: "Jersey Shores" and specifically "Snooky".
It's getting embarrassing owning a TV.
Even more embarrassing paying excessive bills for that large quantity of drivel.
from a republic to an empire, devolution is a given.
Is it the 21st century yet?
"A mind is like a parachute,it doesn't work if it's not opened!"
Frank Zappa
... if it's packed properly.
Glenn routinely does an intellectual HALO jump (high altitude / low open) ... and forgets the latter half.
If Hitler were alive today and in the American political scene he would be a regular on Faux News and maybe have his own show. This is not to say that any of Faux News's personalities are Hitler wannabes but rather an observation that being an outspoken far-right rabblerouser seems to earn you a platform and a meal ticket from Faux.
It's Beck, obviously. That guy has our interests in mind!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Historians respond to Jonah Goldberg's "liberal fascism"
Make sure you take the time to check out the essays from several historians (and one researcher with a left-wing background) that Dave Neiwert organized for the History News Network that were posted today.
Academic historians, in fact, have tended to shy away from tackling Goldberg's book, precisely because it is such an obvious work of propagandistic polemics, and his methodology so shabby, that they haven't considered the work (such as it is) contained therein to be worthy of academic consideration.
But because Goldberg's fraudulent thesis has now become conventional wisdom on the American Right -- and particularly among the Tea Party set, where signs equating liberals to fascists and Obama to Hitler have become commonplace -- many historians, especially those who have specialized in the serious study of fascism, have come to the realization that calling out Goldberg for his fraud is long overdue.
To that end, I began organizing last fall a series of essays from academic historians and political scientists critiquing Liberal Fascism. The essays are now ready, and this Monday, Jan. 25, they will be presented at History News Network.
In addition to my introductory essay, there will be essays by four widely acknowledged experts on fascism:
-- Robert O. Paxton, professor emeritus at Columbia University and the author of The Anatomy of Fascism.
-- Roger Griffin, professor of political science at Oxford Brookes and the author of The Nature of Fascism.
-- Matthew Feldman, professor of history at University of Northampton, and a co-editor of several academic texts on fascism.
-- Chip Berlet, senior researcher at Political Research Associates and the co-author (with Matthew Lyons) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort.
(you can google the HNN link)
... actually gave us a preview here on C&L.
Hey glenn, Teddy said "SPEAK softly" not "walk softly". "Walk softly" is believed by some people to be the original African proverb. When you go off on your retard tangent at least use the google, like Sara did. You might not come off as such an uneducated doofus.
Pundits:
Pundits are the rich orphans of the media business. Some are former reporters, some are former political operatives, and some are just propagandists in the Limbaugh mold. Among them, transmitters are common, many of them picking up far-right memes because of their outrageousness quotient: the best way to make your reputation, as a pundit is to say something that makes headlines. No publicity is bad publicity, as they say. And the demand for pushing that "cutting edge" farther rightward becomes insatiable.
Pundit-transmitters range from one-time liberals, like Christopher Hitchens, to barely concealed extremists, like David Horowitz and Michael Savage. In between, it was commonplace to hear the late Barbara Olson repeat a Patriot legend, or for Peggy Noonan to indulge in plainly irresponsible speculations about Muslims, often straight out of the nativist handbook. The most notorious of them, probably, is Ann Coulter.
The effect of all these voices is rarely direct or acute but rather cumulative. The effect on audiences of hearing this ever-more outrageous hatefulness repeated endlessly and in the guise of mainstream speech can be lasting and profound. But who, exactly, are the audience, who are the receivers of these transmissions? --David Neiwert (chap. 3 p. 81)
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Never "Burn" bridges. Don't feel bad John... Beck alienated the 911 peeps as well. It reminds me of the situation whereas... David notes in his book... By turning the White House into an organ of the religious Right, Bush signaled that he was a full participant in what was rapidly becoming the most important meeting ground for a broad range of right-wing beliefs: evangelical Christianity. Bush's overt political appeals to the fundamentalist views of his audiences—particularly in portraying himself as receiving divine guidance—gave himself immunity from fault and his every step the Lord's imprimatur. He thereby also placed himself in the charismatic position of combined political and religious leadership.
The effect was to lead individual followers to identify their religious beliefs with Bush's political agenda and to draw nearly the entire evangelical bloc behind him politically. And what I see... The militia movement was only one strategy of the broad coalition of right-wing extremists who call themselves the "Patriot" movement, which also included an array of tax protesters, "constitutionalists," antiabortion extremists, antienvironmentalists, various conspiracy theorists, and the movement's core of religious white nationalists. The strategy of forming militias was aimed at recruiting from the mainstream, particularly among gun owners. It eventually fell prey to disrepute and entropy, for reasons mostly related to financial mismanagement and competing egos and agendas,
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I would love to take a canoe paddle and: ___________Glenn's__________,while inserting a cocktail fork up __________and___________while pounding a ____________in _________and_____________oven mitts.
"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
on hitting the big
timetop."Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
like old school racist dixiecrats? I believe it.
on point √
Study the symptoms not the virus...
...John Amato of Crooksandliars wrote on Huffington Post, etc...
Er, I thought you WERE a California progressive? And doesn't Adrianna live in California, too?
Ah John I bet it sent a little thrill up your leg to know that Glenn's reading C&L LOL
http://www.thealders.net/blogs
Just call me Dazed & Confused
I'm not Tweety...LOL
i still find it difficult to comprehend anyone could take this doughboy as adult entertainment. i have two kids that argue and make things up that sound einsteinian when set against the incredible bullshit this charlatan moans about. this limp phoninomenon is an inarticulate churl. i'll ignore him. maybe he and his "followers" will have rallies, but i can't imagine him on a rostrum stirring up the masses. i can't imagine him in a small room stirring cookie dough.
Glen Beck is a moron of epic proportion. I almost feel sorry for the brainless sheep that actually listen to and believe this idiot. By the way your grandparent's democrats were known as "dixiecrats".
By the way, why haven't Beck or Hannity mentioned James O'Keefe's arrest today? I didn't hear a single peep about it on FAUX propaganda network.
It amazes one to realize the extent to which this silly country is susceptible to such blatant propaganda as spewed forth on a Daily basis by FOX Noise.
These are the days of America’s ultimate doom. When a clueless thought Nazi like Glenn Beck is able to hijack America political conversation, it only proves beyond a wisp of a doubt that America has swallowed the fatal capsule of its own demise.
Seriously, did you ever, in your weirdest, stupidest fantasies think your country would fall as low as it has? It kinda makes you wonder.
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Tom Degan
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