Is there a licensed psycho-therapist in the NY area willing to go to Fox News Headquarters in Manhattan and stage an intervention for Glenn Beck? I really think he's lost his mind. It's not even funny anymore; this is a man whose brain has clearly snapped.
Reeling from his epic fail on getting Eric Massa to divulge details on the evils in the White House, Beck launched full on into his proof that the "Mao-lovers" in the White House are grasping for unprecedented power grabs due to the designation of protected lands in the west. (Apparently caring about the environment is Stalinist. Right, Jim DeMint?) And his proof that this is the White House Maoist/communist agenda? The "hidden" messages in that communist Woody Guthrie's classic (and 70 year old) song "This Land Is Your Land". And somehow this land grab is because fish are more important than people and you're too stupid to understand that you have no right to health care. No, seriously:
Here's the latest land grab and we only know this because of a memo that was leaked: The Obama administration is pursuing 13 million acres through 11 states in the West in the name of "national monuments." Maybe we'll get one of Chairman Mao? How about Stalin? He was good at controlling the lands, I hear. And they are doing this without telling anyone. It's executive order. They don't care about what you think about it.
Here's another one: Do you like to fish? Well, enjoy it while you can because it looks like special interests once again are trumping common sense and the voice of the people. A new report says it's a move to appease environmental groups and, just like before, without the consent of the people and by executive order.
We told you he would do this. Heck, The New York Times said he'd do it. The report claims that Obama will "no longer listen to the public" as he tries to prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing on some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes and even some inland waters. So, because a couple of environmentalists want to save the fish, people could lose rights.
Do you remember the song, "This Land Is Your Land"? Here are the last couple of verses:
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
The song was originally written in 1940, by the way, by Woody Guthrie — communist. It's a song about a progressive utopia land with no ownership of property. Because some have it and some don't. And we all think of this as an American song.
The song goes to indoctrination, but that's another story — land grabs are where we are at. It's grab all the rights you can. Health care — the Soviets used to call it maintenance. It sounds so tender, so loving that way, doesn't it? I can almost picture the caring hospitals in the Soviet Union, where they perform "maintenance" on the human body. It's like a Jiffy Lube for people.
Man, he does jump all over the place, doesn't he? Tell me again, how is this different than the raving loony stomping down the sidewalk muttering how the little green people have implanted chips in his brain to allow the government to read his thoughts? Or Father Coughlin? Or Radio Rwanda? Or Joseph McCarthy?
This isn't the first time he's heard secret messages in music, as Media Matters documents.
Well, Glenn does speak for those who wake every morning and do exactly what Snap Crackle and Pop tell them to do. He relates to these people well. He’s coo-coo for cocoa puffs.
He's nuttier than chipmunk shit.
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” - Harlan Ellison
Goddamn, that is funny!
Damn, that's funny. Can I use this quote with my friends or do you have some kinda copyright?
go ahead, use it, I say. I've heard 'nuttier than squirrel poop', too. I used it on a blog and some right-winger went on a rant on how immature I was. I replied something like, 'am not, YOU are'
no doubt borrow and steal from all the craziest agitators in history, including Hitler & Mussolini, and probably 'scholars & wits" from the Spanish Inquisition.
I don't think Beck has any thoughts or ideas, his brain is mush from years of alcoholism and drug abuse (like so many conservative gasbags). He reads off a teleprompter.
Or he has a tiny mic in his ear, with some lick-spittle reading his lines to him.
The Beck Show writers must gag and retch whenever they see their reflection in a mirror, if they have reflections.
Oh, and Beck is Ugly, Too.
was a communist? Our National Parks are communist? Who knew? By the way did he happen to explain how keeping our public lands public instead of turning them over to private corporations is a "land grab"?
Nope! He did get all upset because the President is destroying everything Andy and Opie used to enjoy in Mayberry.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I got news for you. Mayberry was a communist Eden, they just didn't know it. Aunt Bea was there to report on them. Barney wasn't really inept, he was the smartest fucking guy in town.
out West was he talking about Obama "pursuing" then? I thought he was talking about the efforts to save the national parks and forests from more clear cutting and mineral mines through the cheap leases to right wing corporations with terrible past histories of environmental abuses and massive corruption. You know the usual.
Stop the Clearcutting: "The Tongass National Forest, known as "America's rainforest," is a land where huge bears grow fat on salmon, eagles soar the endless skies, and 500-year-old trees stand silent sentry over a rich and verdant world."
"But the Sealaska Corporation, having profited from years of clearcutting, is trying to force its piece of the puzzle where it doesn't belong. The U.S. Senate is preparing to discard the keystone of conservation and authorize Sealaska to clearcut public lands in the Tongass."
The Tongass National Forest is the largest unit in the national forest system, almost 17 million acres.
I misunderstood you answering my question POP. I thought you were saying nope he wasn't calling TR and our National Parks system communist. I'll go have a cider and I'll be alright. But the reply I left to it is still a good one. ;)
most people, even the knuckleheads who tune in to Glenn Dreck, like our national parks -- and Woody Guthrie songs. He's completely overplaying his hand here.
..aren't we all? Maybe if everyone on our side of the sign sends beck a message that merely sez' "I'm a communist!" he'll see the futility of his rant. (just in case: "I'm Spartacus!" etc.)
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Commies Now"
..see it works.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
wasn't a "land grab". Ask the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the Arapahoe, the Kiowa, and all the rest about that.
but the bulk of his audience lost their collective minds some time ago, which is why he's one of them. this is great for ratings though: the insane man's howard beal.
Glenn Beck isn’t going anywhere; he a huckster and he good at it; “there a sucker born every minute“. He selling a product that likely to be detrimental to people that buys into it. What the right word for: He has convinced himself what he is doing is right because his mind has been influence by all the money he is making?
not crooks and Bloody Lunatics...
You've been fanned
Wait'll Beck gets a hold of this story.
Obama supports DNA sampling upon arrest
Now I know this is not necessarily Obama's decision or initiative. It was bound to happen anyway. but at least he could have taken a principled, reasoned stance against it.
Notice, you submit DNA upon arrest, not conviction. Also notice that the notion of a DNA database is so flawed it wont even work.
The people have been Barackstabbed.
I am so glad you posted this. I thought I heard him call Woodie Gutherie a communist yesterday, but I thought surely I had misunderstood.
Tonight Beck had a special section of his show describing why he and Father Coughlin were different. He also talked about McCarthy and just sort of skimmed over what McCarthy really did, ending the piece with the information that McCarthy was censured by the congress. I got the impression that Beck didn't feel McCarthy did anything wrong.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
They are coming to take him away ha haa!
Of course when he all out loses his mind and gets thrown in the nut house after showing up to work naked and covered in chocolate syrup it will be proof to his followers that the black helicopters are coming.
Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are vile men for allowing this ongoing emotional catastrophe to blight the airwaves.
Glenn's career will end badly.
..end it all.", they are obligated to call the cops and have beck thrown into protective psychiatric custody. One can only hope.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
in the dynamite show.
As far as uncle buck goes, Jabba the Hut would be a better entertainer than this piece of nothing.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
I am becoming a big fan of Comedian Glenn Beck. He is either truly insane or just a pure genius. He's gone bat-SSSS-crazy lately and yet people, CNL included, get their panties in a bunch over what is clearly ridiculous. If he got on his show and claimed that Obama was using the next shuttle mission to the moon to collect tons of green cheese in order to feed starving nations which would shame them into joining his New World, Interplanetary Communist Order...it would be on the first page of a dozen left-leaning blogs the next day: CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT GLENN BECK IS SAYING! CALLING OBAMA A COMMUNIST!!! THE NERVE!!! Seriously folks, he's almost pulled it off. I can't wait to see what his next step will be.
yes, I know there are half-wits on the right who take this crap seriously, but give me a break. you are promoting his stupidity. an attention whore wants attention...seems to me we'd all be better off to just ignore this jackass.
I see your point but we have serious issues that have been totally derailed because we're wasting time talking about socialism, death panels on and on.... what about keeping kids home from school because the president is going to address them?
It's ugly and it has ramifications. If it were on at 2 am maybe I would feel different.
WE are wasting time talking about it. Fine, let HIM waste his time with it, why should WE play his game?
/ignore GlennBeck!*@* all
My daughter came home for spring break last week. She’s studying Shakespeare right now and we had an interesting conversation about Hamlet. First she noted that “The Lion King” was just Hamlet retold with lions. I thought that funny. Then she asked if I thought Hamlet was crazy. I didn’t think so, really. Mostly just pissed – and acting crazy. Then she said something very interesting…
Whether you only act crazy all the time, or really are, what’s the difference? She was right. There is no difference.
Glenn is like that. Whether he’s just acting crazy or not – he’s nuts.
??
"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
There's a significant difference between claiming the moon is made of green cheese (because it is a physical impossibility) and misrepresenting political philosophies to weave a convoluted conspiracy theory which underlies a so-called 'grass roots' political movement.
If you read C&L, then you'll know it's not just Beck's antics, but a consistent and progressive pattern of rhetoric that has serious implications and unpleasant outcomes, carefully documented and explained by David Niewert.
As for ignoring braying jackasses who have microphones, consider Rush Limbaugh. I didn't pay much attention to him - he was just another opinion-peddling type, talk radio fare. Now, nearly three decades later, he's so influential that politicians bow and scrape before him.
... ignoring Limbaugh got us the media we have today - totally ineffectual and mired in false equivalency.
How's that working for you, hmm?
It needed to be said.
won't stop him. It hasn't, yet.
But more than a minute of his rambling makes me retch.
According to a biography of Beck, back in his drug fueled DJ days, Beck made fun on air of a rival DJ's wife losing her baby, thats the mark of a truly insane sociopath.
Does anybody on the right have enough integrity to stand up to Fox and say enough, or are they all really that far gone? I actually voted republican in the past (many years ago). That probably won't happen again for a long time if ever.
If any republican speaks out against Beck, they will have to answer to Rush.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Beck gets round the clock coverage and advertising....even from CNL.
I doubt anyone here will be buying gold or survival seeds. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
. we can't stop talking about Glenn Beck!
The Beck, Limbaugh and Palin threads tend to run up to 3 digits in comments rather quickly. I'm trying to avoid them now, unless it's just over-the-top offensive to me. They are distractions, trolls with national microphones. And I've just gotten very bored with their antics. They will only go away when they stop being financially useful. When the money stops, they will. If beck and their ilk say craziness, just call the sponsors and be done with it. No threats, just let them know what they are associating themselves with.
I've never seen Glenn Beck's TV program or heard his radio program. However, I feel like I know him like my brother after spending so much time here on CNL.
that Sen. Reid slipped into the Senate bill that says neither the House nor the Senate can repeal any HCR legislation that is passed for ten years.
And here we have all the Republican leadership going around squawking that the second the bill is passed they will be working to repeal it.
I think this is the kind of stuff we should be discussing here.
And whether or not John is going to post another March Madness bracket thang....
"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
His wife nad daughter have been seriously injured in a car accident. I doubt he'll be doing anything coherent for a little while. At least his family has got that government healthcare though.
..know your enema..enemy!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
We're not advertising him. We hold him up for scrutiny. We point out his dangerous rhetoric. We show how his insanity affects the national dialogue. That's why this site is called CROOKS AND LIARS.
You honestly think ignoring him works? Really? How has ignoring Limbaugh worked?
You don't ignore these cancers. You expose them. You hold them up to scrutiny. You show where they are wrong.
Only then can you make them irrelevant. Ignoring something never makes it go away.
these posts always prep me for the next family gathering. then I'm not so blindsided by the crazy.
My sister in law listens to this asshole all the time. My wife worries about her. I told her the next time she visits her (I never do) to ask her when was the last time she read a non-fiction book. Glenn's books don't count. I'll bet she never has.
..any of beck's lunacy and then tear it apart.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert have ridiculed Beck often. But they are dismissed due to their being on Comedy Central.
Keith Olbermann dissembles Glenbeckistan all the time. And he does it with truth. But some in the media say Keith is simply the left wing version of Beck and try to have them be put on some sort of reportage scale that balance each other. Keith, while very very angry at times, employs facts. Beck, employs the brain farts of the deranged.
I am currently working in Singapore and have a devil of a time explaining Fox TV. It is one of the stations available on both the biggest cable suppliers here. What they most want to know is: how can Americans believe such crap?
There were some telling comments the other day when he interviewed Massa. Beck said there are two unauthorized books coming out about his life and his reaction was they would try to destroy him or some such. One has to wonder, what in the hell is in those books that is so bad he's already worried about it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Beck is crazier than a shithouse rat.
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
a very good read by reporter John L. Smith about Oscar Goodman's life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas, now almost over after 3 terms in office.
I am sure he will be part of the new Mob Museum which will open next spring in the former post office and court house in downtown Las Vegas.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
there is nothing in those books. its self-promotion. "wonder whats in those books?" go buy it! more money to Beck. He's playing the Howard Stern game to perfection: those who agree with him or like him, watch his show, buy his product....those who disagree or hate him, watch and buy even more. Classic.
page outta palin's playbook.
if i'm in a bookstore and I'm feeling cranky, I go to the political "best" sellers table and turn all teh crap around or put a lib's book on top. ain't I a stinker?
I do that, too.
I and other listeners of beloved Pat Cashman would go into supermarkets and turn the Pineapple Upside Down Cake boxes upside down.
That was Pat's "Rain of Terror" movement in the 90's.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
..the truth.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
twenty years of drink/drug abuse, lots of very nasty behavior, and prob revelations about Becks boy2boy clubbing lifestyle.
Its gonna be fun.
Woody Guthrie was truly a great American. In his importance to the country -- and to the American people -- I think I would rank him ahead of any Republican since Teddy Roosevelt.
It's like Jackson Browne wrote in his song "The Rebel Jesus:"
"... and so we give a little too the poor if the generosity should seize us, but if we interfere in the question of why there are poor, we get the same as the Rebel Jesus."
One Woody Guthrie, questioning why some people never seem to be satisfied and others go hungry, is worth a million Glenn Becks.
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
... and it's one of my favorites.
He got called up in front of the HUAC and told them, "I'm not a Communist, though I've been in the red all my life." True, he never actually joined the party. Did write a column for one of their weekly papers, though, and was a "fellow traveler."
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
So its sounds like Beck wants no government-pure anarchy-which would make him a leftist!
What was with that slam on Rosie O'Donnell, and that only Jesus can save?
Jesus, he was all over the map- I really think this man has severe mental illness- His paranoia constantly jumping from topic to topic make him sound crazy..
Right wingers are so closed off to reality- they really think American style capitalism, with no limits or regulations is a utopia-
In time people will see Beck for the nut he is...
and give us a diagnosis.
I'm sure he's got "something"....
"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
Kind of off topic but I always loved this song: Get out of my way or I'm gonna Shove!
If you get tired of AC 360 there's always GB 5150.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
rofl
or understanding. He is making his own special bed in Hell to lie in.
sorry, meant to be a stand alone comment...
Beck seems to think fascism, communism, socialism, Marxism and Maoism mean the same thing- is he really this stupid, or just acting stupid to pander to his uneducated hillbilly trailer trash audience?
personally, i think it is a combination--part ignorance, and part play-acting
n/t
Fascism/Maoism/Communism is much worse than socialism/Marxism.
"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
according to the official definition in "On Bullshit." It's a distortion of true-ish things, slapped together without concern for accuracy or truth, and meant to deceive.
Ooo, beck has a new term to misuse!!
can't wait until he starts spewing things about obama's trotskyism
in the annals of modern political buffoonery, saying the obama WH is full of maoists might just be the biggest laugh line
Just check out The White House visitors log....
(If you can locate it).
"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
will start calling them maoistbaters.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
A two month moratorium on uttering the words "Glen Beck" would allow the right deal with the moron... Until then he's safe.
right before she crashed and burned.
I think the pressure of having to come up with something new every day for his show is making him insane. There's only so many sane ideas that conservatives feel free to discuss amongst themselves, so at the end of every show, Beck is faced with the daunting task of coming up with the next show. He's Sisyphus, rolling the rock up the hill every day, and at the end of each show, he's back at the bottom again.
This can't help but make the guy absolutely nuts after a while. Pretty soon, any idea for a show, no matter how whacko it might be, begins to look good.
Retire, Mr. Beck, if only for your own sanity.
Beck thinks of himself more along the lines of Prometheus, who brought fire to mortals and was punished by the gods for doing so. You see, every day, they come and eat his liver ...
Prometheus brought enlightenment to mankind, as personified by fire, because his brother, a titan named Epimetheus, created mankind without any natural defenses: claw, fang, body armor etc.
This led to Prometheus punishment of being bound on Mt Aetna where an eagle fed on his liver everyday, it regrew overnight, to be devoured again and again on succeeding days. It was reminiscent of Loki being bound under a dripping serpent for his part in the murder of the god Balder. His wife Sigyn would collect the burning venom in a bowl, but she had to occasionally empty it out, and while she was away the burning acid would strike Loki, and he would struggle, like Prometheus would struggle, and that was said on both parts to be the cause of earthquakes, possibly the divination technique of hepatoscopy, and bad medical attention from Aetna.
And Prometheus though Zeus was telling him to mount Edna.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
insanity pays.
U2's "One" is really about a facist communist socialist anarchist totalitarian plot by the Irish to consolidate the earth under a new world order.
"Auld Lang Syne" is really about a time traveler from Scotland who went into the past to make a power grab on new years celebrations.
The Dreidel Song is Jewish propaganda about getting Americans to not like not liking bank overdraft fees. Not to mention the blatant attempt to corner the worlds clay market.
If you rearrange the letters in "bat-sh!t crazy lunatic" it can also be spelled as Glen Beck which is clearly a plot by language itself to victimize the only person on television who makes any sense, Bill O'Reilly.
...can I get a show on Fox now?
Got a chalk board? That might help.
you don't see the chalkboard in my mind?
Oh crap! I do.
if you just tell fifty million of your friends...
Reid's wife, daughter injured in accident
"Tell me again, how is this different than the raving loony stomping down the sidewalk muttering how the little green people have implanted chips in his brain to allow the government to read his thoughts?"
The only difference - Beck gets his TV show and then his insanity is repeated here and on other progressive blogs.
Other than that - no difference at all.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Woody would feel right at home having an idiot like Beck bad mouth him. He was always getting in trouble for his songs.
"If this nut-job gets in power, you're screwed Jack."
Wow, truer words were never spoken: If this nut-job Beck gets in power, we're screwed.
Maybe the "organic seed company" will take him back to their ranch and then give the time slot to Massa.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness it has killed our economy,and ruined the lives of millions of people.
according to Forbes, most billionaires saw extraordinary gains following the financial melt down of our country. we also have the most billionaires so it's working out good for well, like fifty of us.
A lot of connected people made out like bandits during the meltdown.
Does anyone else see the irony in Beck asking us whether we believe that there are "nutjobs" down the road. I'm not sure about "down the road," but there's at least one on my tv and thy name is Beck.
... actual nutjobs standing in the road?
... jobs for nuts?
... jobs that pay nuts?
... nuts who need jobs?
So confusing.
That's exactly what I thought as I watched this clip. Does he actually listen to what comes out of his mouth or is he really that demented?
"Tell me again, how is this different than the raving loony stomping down the sidewalk muttering how the little green people have implanted chips in his brain to allow the government to read his thoughts?"
It isn't.
... from the bus station on national television, hear them on the radio, or see their books on sale.
Not even Frank Chu had that big a following.
or someone at faux has some serious blackmail shit on this guy and he's just reading a script written by a team bigger than the one on jon stewarts show.
Twenty years of drink/drug abuse and boy2boy club lifestyle, provides plentiful blackmail material.
If his fundie conservative audience knew his true character and background, they would retch like the rest of us.
He was very vicious and mean in his rising DJ years, he accrued a lot of bad habits, and honed his bad side.
not that that would make him any more sane.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/11/11gre...
The latest accusation is that not only does Obama want to take away our guns, he wants to ban fishing. I think that's what all this Woody bashing is about.
from the link above:
it's totally ridiculous.
off of San Pedro.
This email landed in my son's inbox yesterday and all the fishermen her in SoCal are sending this particular link all around the net: (no pun):
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/03/10/food-secu...
It would be wise of Gibbs to set the story straight on this one....
"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
The segment where he was rambling on about 'crack pies' that cost $45? I tuned in a little late in the rant and was trying to figure out what the fuck he was talking about.
Talk about schizophrenic, the man is hard to watch it's so disjointed. It makes literally no sense. Plus I love how he hates on Teddy R. That's just precious to me.
A perk of working for Faux.
He started his show last night pointing to a photo of Wilson and said 'I hate that guy'.
It says something about a society that anyone would watch this guy. I can understand the voyeuristic thrill of reality TV, even blood sports. But this guy doesn't even have complete thoughts. It's just random babbling with enough buzz words and finger pointing to appeal to some lizard brains.
Beck, Limbo, Coulter, BOR, etc., are so much more articulate than the liz'brains. Facts be damned; it's all emotion & hate--"full of the sound and the fury, signifying nothing" except the final deterioration of the mass American mentality.
BTW, I woke up w/a revelation this morning: People believe in religion b/c it's easier than to try to make life on earth better.
I wish they were following the lead of Woody Guthrie.
Sadly, they are not.
Beck = batshitcrazy.
As Colbert refers to Beck,is nothing if not predictable.
He's simply working his way through Progressive history and cooking up little hate inducing formulas(constructed from stereotypes and labels) to keep his fans in teeth gnashing distraction.The worst of it is the inevitability that his hateful characterizations of Liberals will by necessity need to grow more loathsome and potentially dangerous to keep his audience interested.When you have nothing of import or substance to contribute,you go for the jugular.Beck won't give it a second thought.I wonder how many more random murders Fox is prepared to allow self serving sociopaths like this to propagate?I shudder to think.
"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
Beck claims to be an autodidact. If that is true he is an argument for outlawing homeschooling. On a more interesting note, no less a personage than Joe Lieberman arranged for him to attend Yale University. He failed to attend a single class. What a lazy asshole.
Years ago or during his CNN days !?
This would explain where Beck is coming from and who his puppet masters are.
from beyond the grave? Does Beck know he's dead?
I don't get it. How anybody can watch this nasty PoS is beyond me. It's easy to say that he's crazy, but what's scary to me is that he has actual fans. Those people should have to wear collars and be restricted to areas where children don't play.
I've noticed Beck likes to hate on dead people and he speaks of them in the present, as if they were still alive.
I sent an email to the LDS media people asking if this is who they want as the public face of Mormonism, citing Article 11 of the 13 Articles of Faith.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
... throw out a member who pulls in millions each year? I imagine his tithing smooths over a lot of things.
Fuckin' right, man. Ten percent of whatever this crazy bastard earns? That would probably smooth over cluster bombing Salt Lake City.
I didn't think of the tithes, you're right.
That's when a duty to the church becomes a method of bribery
And help finance anti-gay referendums.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Good for you-very creative approach to the ..er..problem.
"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
Beck is just promoting Reaganite / Republican ideaology , anti regulation , anti social programs , greed is good and is the only virtue there is . He is doing his part in the Republican defeat Obama and make him fail (at any cost) campaign . Beck's just more outrageous than the rest in his methodology , he has no conscience not to mention he's getting rich and has become a star , hero of pea brained simpletons ... who are the real problem in this country . I've doubted his sanity but I don't think Beck is nuts , he is evil and simply has no conscience .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
As do many people when they put on their rose tinted spectacles and remember fondly their young single party days of not much responsibility.
Everybody (ignorant of politics) has a decade that they fondly remember, this translates into thinking the POTUS of the day was wonderful too. Clinton is god like to the 30 40 years olds.
I support anarchism, so I can kind of relate to Beck's little drawing there. I'm fascinated with the fact that most of what Glenn Beck says is almost true if he would just include more information to improve the context. First of all, he ignores the fact that our capitalist system already assigns way too much power to a very small group of people (so they too would be near the top of his triangle). Also, why does Beck always focus on "big government" while turning a blind eye to "big business"? If anything, corporations are generally far more authoritarian and oppressive than government, so this little detail invalidates his whole premise. If Glenn Beck was genuinely concerned about the division of class and power in our plutocracy (which he clearly isn't), then he would shine the spotlight on systems that avoid the pitfalls of BOTH state socialism and capitalism. Libertarian capitalists (like Beck) need to realize that you can't be a libertarian if you support a society that's run by corporations.
there's a lot of valid anger at how our country is going down the toilet and govt could help, but big business is grreat at deflecting and keeps people like Beck around to channel that anger at govt. The govt is corporate owned, but people don't seem to get that, at least not the beck watchers...because beck validates their feelings but tells them to be mad at someone other than his corporate master.
yes. yes. yes.
that's the whole raison d'etre of tea parties.
Populist anger manipulated by big business.
you make some excellent points.
"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
Slip in 80% truth and add in the 20% lies you want to promote.
The worst propagandists of the twentieth century knew this well.
brilliant!
The point is if Beck is off his rocker, so are his followers and listeners that buy into his insanity. These people are all certifiable and a danger to us and also to themselves.
I've never seen Beck's show except for these clips as I am at work. Beck's show airs at 5:00PM EST when most TV viewers are at work.
So really who is his viewing audience? Retirees... guys getting up for night turn... unemployed redneck alcoholics... or college kids playing drinking games doing shooters each time GB cries?
Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here
should think long and hard about what Woody Guthrie had written on his guitar. ... But lemme guess whats next ...? sending his Flyin Monkeys after Pete Seeger ... ? after all he's only 96! I'm sure a 5 or 6 of them could take him ...!
Beck: You miserable low information piece of dog shit.
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
Beck being shocked! that "This Land Is My Land" is a protest song.
omg what an idiot
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
You're right - that guy's a freakin' lunatic.
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
...THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY,HA, HA?
You know, I've never watched this man, only seen the excerpts that are played. I have one question. What the hell is he talking about? Okay here's another, seriously, where is he getting this crap from?
n/t
This land is my land, it isn't your land. I've got a shotgun, and you don't got one. If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off. This land was made for only me.
What a douchebag.
If Woody bit him on the ass. Woody probably would too, if somebody made some kind of mouth protector. He had a way of chewing the ass off of assholes. I'd like to see Beck have his son, Arlo, on the show, Arlo would take his freaking head off, piss in its mouth and hand it back to him. I'd have popcorn for that show.
Personally, I'd just call the Humane Society.
Beck calling others "nutjobs." Irony is dead.
http://beck.cnnbcvideo.com/?rc=fb.publish&fv=...
should be a hoot
for "born in the usa" and showed how the beatles were anti revolution
rock critic he aint
Any mention of corporate power, or of right wing media power. That guy can't see himself in the mirror.
most fitting
In all seriousness, Glenn Beck is a very deranged individual, and I can only imagine that those tuning into his show everyday are the tin foil hat crowd. By the way, both Sean Insannity and Beck are college drop outs. Billo is the brains in the bunch, and that's not saying much. These people have a huge intelligence deficit, but then of course they're quite proud of their ignorance.
Beck is an entertainer. He doesn't believe any of this shit. It's just an act.
And typically, the rightwing nutters don't want us to know the last two stanzas of "This Land is Your Land." It is very difficult to find. They are afraid that people might agree with it. Come to think of it, it still makes sense today.
Were getting to the point with these wacko righties that some restriction of speech may have to be implemented and it is really to bad. These guys are abusing our open society. Listening to the video I found it to be a sophistication of misinformation, deception, lies, and innuendo being used and it is scary. Talk about communism, this the kind and method behind the old Soviet propaganda. It is like Beck is making a point while true is not really reality based however with uninformed and with the less educated it makes sense. I know this sounds authoritarian but Beck should be arrested if you really consider how this harms the country.
First of all the illustration Beck makes of big government is a fraud. The threat of power would exist if it were more centralized like if the President was more like a Dictator. I will admit we have big government but that is only because both Democrats and Republicans have tried to limit government employment by hiring contractors but it is not centralized control, it is just not true and if Beck doesn't like it he should be blasting Corporate America. Big Business is very much entrenched in government and metaphorically owns government. Because of this any oppression or loss in privacy comes from big businesses influence into government. The truth is that it is Corporate America that we should fear.
Being silent on Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and all the rest of the crazies is not a good idea because this is like brainwashing and the more the susceptible hear it without rebukes the more the population believes it. It is really the fault of the media who is aligned with the right for the reason we keep hearing this obnoxious garbage from these sociopaths.
A famous quote from the Nazis was "tell a lie long enough and people will believe it.
Courtesy of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeahROQ716M
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