I prefer it when you guys aren’t so transparent. At least try.

Beckerhead, I know you’re worried about your ratings and your ad revenue, but I would caution you against trying to hitch to Oprah!’s star. You can’t fly that high and never will be able to do so. You can’t buy class. Or intelligence.

It’s always a source of wonderment to me how one who so loves war can be so opposed to taxes. Does Beckerhead think we have corporate sponsorship of wars? Will someone tell him it’s the other way around; i.e. that wars are a form of corporate welfare?

The Real Royal King said:
You can’t buy class. Or intelligence.

KING on the skids . I KNOW . The check bounced when I tried it back in 1946 .

Beck worried about his ratings? Do you even listen to his show? He’s had a successful run for the last 10 years.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/01/chris-mathews-black-republicans-are.html

and then compared it to how he hates paying taxes but loves tithing.

He loves that tax exemption tithing provides

greg454 said:
Beck worried about his ratings? Do you even listen to his show? He’s had a successful run for the last 10 years.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/01/chris-mathews-black-republicans-are.html

I was speaking of FOX “News” but you are correct to mention the radio component. Indeed, Beclerhead and Father Coughlin both have met with radio success. But, I don’t think I’ve tuned to an AM radio station in the last couple of decades. All that clatter, all those ads.

What caught Beck’s attention was a section of the Morgan interview where Winfrey explained how much she hated signing taxes”

What the hell does that mean? She now signs tax bills into law?

KING goosestepping in it . As someone who supposedly loves Amerika , why do I keep complaining about it ? I only stay put because Moscow refused to grant me a visa because I was too leftist . Those pansies are not proud of their Communism , but I am !

The Real Royal King said:
You can’t buy class. Or intelligence.

You prove that everyday!

Zing!

notsofast said:
What caught Beck’s attention was a section of the Morgan interview where Winfrey explained how much she hated signing taxes”

What the hell does that mean? She now signs tax bills into law?

Wouldn’t you rather imagine she is saying she hates to review her returns?

MIddleRoader says:

He loves that tax exemption tithing provides

I’m pretty sure you have NO clue what you are talking about.

The Real Royal King said:
Wouldn’t you rather imagine she is saying she hates to review her returns?

No- she should say she hates paying “such high taxes.”

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
MIddleRoader says:

He loves that tax exemption tithing provides

I’m pretty sure you have NO clue what you are talking about.

Demonstrably, he does, Michelle-in-Utah.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
MIddleRoader says:

He is anything but.

The Lantern of Truth said:
KING goosestepping in it . As someone who supposedly loves Amerika , why do I keep complaining about it ? I only stay put because Moscow refused to grant me a visa because I was too leftist . Those pansies are not proud of their Communism , but I am !

I have to say, at long, long last, you have hit upon something. Quite by accident, I have no doubt …. But, I have always viewed Communism, especially Soviet Communism, as essentially rightist.

Concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few.
Strong anti-intellectualism.
Led by old white men.
Anti-Semitic. Xenophobic.
Paranoiac.
Tyrannical. Dictatorial.
Belligerent.

Yes. It sounds like the Amerikan Republican party of 2010, doesn’t it, without the ManTan?

Such a surprisingly good point, Kumquat. Thank you.

Listened to a radio interview recently with a gentleman who works for the Tax Policy Center. He was discussing the Bush tax cuts and simplifying the tax code among other things. He said that in one of their recent studies, unsurprisingly, most people said they pay too much in taxes and want their taxes cut. They were then asked what of their favorite programs and services they’d be willing to part with in order to have their taxes lowered. Most replied “none.”

i heard they shut down his radio show in a couple of major cities.
is that true? and why did they?

ChiliPeppersFan said:
i heard they shut down his radio show in a couple of major cities.
is that true? and why did they?

I guess you never heard of radio stations changing formats.

notsofast said:
I guess you never heard of radio stations changing formats.

i didn’t know hence the ?
thanks for the answer even if it included the condescension.

Now don’t play dumb, Chili. You know you were being condescending with the question.

ChiliPeppersFan said:
thanks for the answer even if it included the condescension.

Son, you are suffering from delusions of adequacy. You are very modest for you have much to be modest about.

You have no equals; only superiors.

notsofast said:
I guess you never heard of radio stations changing formats.

Indeed. Did WOR go Country or Easy Listening?

The Real Royal King said:
You can’t fly that high and never will be able to do so. You can’t buy class. Or intelligence.

A lament over his own sorry self no doubt. TRRK spoke from the heart here b/c he knows and lives in that same sad state.

Grammie said:
A lament over his own sorry self no doubt. TRRK spoke from the heart here b/c he knows and lives in that same sad state.

I suppose you never tire of being derivative and redundant, Janet.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Now don’t play dumb, Chili. You know you were being condescending with the question.

i honestly didn’t know and wanted to find out…i’ve learned not to go on assumptions here because the other side loves to humiliate you for lack of knowledge. straight out of the right-wing handbook ‘rules for radicals’.

Glenn Beck needs the help of a mental health professional. He is a dried up alcoholic, dyslexic, and a raving lunatic at times. His logic is so full of holes, his brain must look like Swiss cheese.

“I guess you never heard of radio stations changing formats.”
Nutsofast, my man! You don’t have to defend beck’s every mole. You might sound little authentic if you thought for yourself once in a while. Now go school me about how liberal I am.

The Real Royal King said:
I suppose you never tire of being derivative and redundant, Janet.

Not when I am addressing a core value such as I did here today.

Certain truths can never be.repeated often enough.

Now Chili, you know the Rules for Radicals is your sides baby. We do have a new book called Rules for Patriots if you would like to refer to that.

Grammie said:
Not when I am addressing a core value such as I did here today.

Certain truths can never be.repeated often enough.

You obviously don’t understand core values.

But, have a great day, dear.

nice_thought said:
“I guess you never heard of radio stations changing formats.”
Nutsofast, my man! You don’t have to defend beck’s every mole. You might sound little authentic if you thought for yourself once in a while. Now go school me about how liberal I am.

hey (-), the next train leaves in 15 minutes, libby; be under it!

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Now Chili, you know the Rules for Radicals is your sides baby. We do have a new book called Rules for Patriots if you would like to refer to that.

What are the rules for patriots?

The Real Royal King said:
Indeed. Did WOR go Country or Easy Listening?

Don’t know but I was surprised when I visited a city that had a great R&R station only to find they had switched to Gospel music!

ChiliPeppersFan said:
i’ve learned not to go on assumptions here because the other side loves to humiliate you for lack of knowledge.

Jared, your paranoia is really out of control.

Settle down, son.

Nutsofast says, “hey (-), the next train leaves in 15 minutes, libby; be under it!”

Why u hate trains so much?

nice_thought said:
Nutsofast says, “hey (-), the next train leaves in 15 minutes, libby; be under it!”

Why u hate trains so much?

Your Steve Martin impression is really poor.

Try again!

Glenn’s point: I want to pay less in taxes so that I can pay 10% of the amount I saved to my church. (And increase my salary to boot.)

“Try again”
Nah, I let you win. Happy now?

nice_thought said:
Nah, I let you win.

Thank you Sonny Listin. You can look that up, son.

notsofast said:
Thank you Sonny Listin. You can look that up, son.

Sonny Liston. You should have looked it up.

Paul says:

What are the rules for patriots?

You’ll have to read the book to find out.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Paul says:

What are the rules for patriots?

You’ll have to read the book to find out.

Can’t you give me a few? I hope I’m not walking around with no idea that I actually hate America.

Glenn will make in excess of 50 million this year. At the highest tax bracket (35%), Glenn will pay $17,470,308 in Federal taxes. That leaves him with at least 32.5 million. If the individual tax rate was raised to 40%, Glenn would pay 20 million in Federal taxes leaving him with 30 million instead of 32.5. Thus, Glenn’s outrage, because Glenn was deprived of donating 250K to his church because of those insufferable tax rates.

The Real Royal King said:
You obviously don’t understand core values.

Your values? You’re dead on right. I understand you no more than I do Loughner or Eric Fuller. They are foreign to me and I really don’t care to delve into those cesspools.

Grammie said:
They are foreign to me and I really don’t care to delve into those cesspools.

Or yours either.

…and Lord knows the Mormons need that.

Oprah a tebaagger, LMAO?!?!??!?!?!? Crying psycho Beckie is crazier than originally thought . . ..

The deficit could be immediately eliminated if just the super wealthy, like Glenn, sacrificed a scant few of their millions, leaving them with, still, a king’s ransom. Instead, the right talks about depriving the bottom 40%, already living collectively on less than .1% of the income, and substantially uninsured, of the meager benefits the government offered them via the watered down healthcare reform act. And Glenn is the spokeman for the common man? LOL.

Val says;

Thus, Glenn’s outrage, because Glenn was deprived of donating 250K to his church because of those insufferable tax rates.

He’d rather give it to the church because he knows they don’t waste it. Seriously has a Mormon harmed you in some way, because you seem to really despise them.

valkyrie101 said:
Glenn will make in excess of 50 million this year. At the highest tax bracket (35%), Glenn will pay $17,470,308 in Federal taxes. That leaves him with at least 32.5 million. If the individual tax rate was raised to 40%, Glenn would pay 20 million in Federal taxes leaving him with 30 million instead of 32.5. Thus, Glenn’s outrage, because Glenn was deprived of donating 250K to his church because of those insufferable tax rates.

Do the math on Oprah, now.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:Seriously has a Mormon harmed you in some way, because you seem to really despise them.

They’ve sure harmed Christianity.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Val says; Thus, Glenn’s outrage, because Glenn was deprived of donating 250K to his church because of those insufferable tax rates. He’d rather give it to the church because he knows they don’t waste it. Seriously has a Mormon harmed you in some way, because you seem to really despise them.

That was satire. Don’t be so defensive.

I do not consider money spent, essentially to support Mormon witnessing efforts, spreading a gospel that posits that only Mormons will be saved, to be money well spent. I’d rather give it to the Shriners.

notsofast said:
Do the math on Oprah, now.

You bet, notsofast. To the extent Oprah opposes an increase in the tax rate for the super wealthy, she is just like Glenn, except times 5 or 10.

Ah the smell of liberal religous bigotry. You gotta love it!!

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
I’m pretty sure you have NO clue what you are talking about.

ok, sure window washer.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Ah the smell of liberal religous bigotry. You gotta love it!!

How does using money to recruit new LDS members constitute a better use than the government helping some uninsured family? Well, every person that contemplates giving money to charity must decide, according to his own conscience, what charity to give to. That is not bigotry. I assure you I would consider money given to any number of religious groups (besides the Mormons who I love to single out just for your amusement, Michelle) to be a waste.

Of course the libertarians scratch their head as to why any organization is tax exempt, including churches. Especially since studies show that only a small percentage of money donated to most not for profits actually gets to the intended receipient, with most of the donated money going toward overhead, salaries, and those super minister heated dog houses.

No worries, Val. You can rest assured in the knowledge that I do not feel the need to bash someone elses religion, no matter what it is. If it makes you feel good to do it, go for it, I don’t really care.

ps, Our chuch leaders don’t make a salary. They consider it service.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
No worries, Val. You can rest assured in the knowledge that I do not feel the need to bash someone elses religion, no matter what it is. If it makes you feel good to do it, go for it, I don’t really care.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
ps, Our chuch leaders don’t make a salary. They consider it service.

That’s cool. :-)

Nadine Otego said:
Oprah a tebaagger,

No. It’s technically impossible. Maybe a teabaggee.

valkyrie101 said:
Especially since studies show that only a small percentage of money donated to most not for profits actually gets to the intended receipient, with most of the donated money going toward overhead, salaries, and those super minister heated dog houses.

What studies are those, valk?

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
They’ve sure harmed Christianity.

I am not a Mormon but of the Mormons I’ve known, I can say this: They are honest, fair, responsible, frugal, better educated than most, hard-working, and charitable. I would defy anyone to tell me how Mormons have harmed Christianity. Sure, they’ve got some funny ways but they don’t criticize those who do not embrace their ways. If I were to hire someone right now to tend to my money or do a job in my absence, I would hire a Mormon.

this nation’s mega churches do have salaries and yes tooo muchof our donated monies do go toward other expenses…it is sad…to understand that fact…ahh never mind moving on

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Ah the smell of liberal religous bigotry. You gotta love it!!

Hate to rain on your parade but I’m a Christian. Personally I hate all denominations because they corrupt the religion with all the bickering “My interpretation is right!” “No, mine is!” Give me a break!

If we all have an equal stake in keeping the US the greatest country in the world, why is it wrong to expect one individual to pay a higher percentage of taxes than another. The graduated income tax rates was perhaps our first downward slide into socialism.

One can argue that those who have benefitted most from the freedoms in the US should pay a higher percentage but that’s a false argument; that mindset is the claim that we are not all equal. Equality means equal benefits AND equal responsibilities. If a person is poor, it is an incentive to improve their position to the point where they have more money to work with after paying their equal share of taxes–that’s motivation to move toward excellence, as opposed to remaining mediocre.

Pablo said:
What studies are those, valk?

You are awsomely lazy, Pablo. Try google. Here is a little help:

“But the study reported that of the $250 billion given in 2005, less than $78 billion went directly to those in need. Indeed, less than 20 cents of every dollar donated to religious organizations goes to the poor, Sandberg wrote last year in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The numbers for healthcare and educational donations are worse—10 cents and less than 9 cents per dollar, respectively.

http://www.globalphilanthropy.ca/index.php/blog/comments/how_much_charitable_giving_actually_supports_the_most_needy/

murphy0071 said:
Glenn Beck needs the help of a mental health professional. He is a dried up alcoholic, dyslexic, and a raving lunatic at times. His logic is so full of holes, his brain must look like Swiss cheese.

He has not asked for such help; don’t you think that should be his call? As for the “raving lunatic” I seem to note that trait being manifested by those on the left.

X-3 said:
I am not a Mormon but of the Mormons I’ve known, I can say this: They are honest, fair, responsible, frugal, better educated than most, hard-working, and charitable. I would defy anyone to tell me how Mormons have harmed Christianity. Sure, they’ve got some funny ways but they don’t criticize those who do not embrace their ways. If I were to hire someone right now to tend to my money or do a job in my absence, I would hire a Mormon.

The entire system of denominations does more harm than good. The fact that people believe that their interpretation of God’s will and the end times is right and others are wrong only harms Christianity as a whole. Personally as a black man I question the integrity of anybody who abides by a belief that my skin is the mark of curse or who up until the civil rights movement believed I would only get into heaven as a slave or that I couldn’t be a priest in their church up until said point. ll this time I never knew that God was a racist, did you?

“Think of the Negro, cursed as to the priesthood…. This Negro, who, in the pre-existence lived the type of life which justified the lord in sending him to earth in the lineage of Cain with a black skin…. In spite of all he did in the pre-existent life, the Lord is willing, if the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection. He will get a place in the celestial glory. He will not go then even with the honorable men of the earth to the Terrestrial glory, nor with the ones spoken of as being without law”

While visiting my estate in the Hamptons, I dropped by the Montauk Yacht Club and happened to bump into Oprah. She invited me to join her for a sunset cruise, and of course the subject of Brisket Palin came up. When I compared the size of the little ragamuffin’s thighs to that of Melville’s Moby Dick, Oprah laughed so heartily that she expelled a bit of shrimp cocktail into the sea, where it was immediately devoured by a large Carcharodon carcharias.

writer said:
While visiting my estate in the Hamptons, I dropped by the Montauk Yacht Club and happened to bump into Oprah. She invited me to join her for a sunset cruise, and of course the subject of Brisket Palin came up. When I compared the size of the little ragamuffin’s thighs to that of Melville’s Moby Dick, Oprah laughed so heartily that she expelled a bit of shrimp cocktail into the sea, where it was immediately devoured by a large Carcharodon carcharias.

ROFL, TRRK impersonations lol

Impersonations? You sound as if you’re doubting my story.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Ah the smell of liberal religous bigotry. You gotta love it!!

Just for the record Michelle. My spouse worked for mormons and they were the nicest people you would ever want to meet or be associated with. Fair and honest and giving. They kept their religious/political views to themselves. I’d like to think although, I can’t know for sure, they would not be Beck fans.

I don’t like Beck because he is an insane reactionary.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
The entire system of denominations does more harm than good. The fact that people believe that their interpretation of God’s will and the end times is right and others are wrong only harms Christianity as a whole. Personally as a black man I question the integrity of anybody who abides by a belief that my skin is the mark of curse or who up until the civil rights movement believed I would only get into heaven as a slave or that I couldn’t be a priest in their church up until said point. ll this time I never knew that God was a racist, did you? “Think of the Negro, cursed as to the priesthood…. This Negro, who, in the pre-existence lived the type of life which justified the lord in sending him to earth in the lineage of Cain with a black skin…. In spite of all he did in the pre-existent life, the Lord is willing, if the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection. He will get a place in the celestial glory. He will not go then even with the honorable men of the earth to the Terrestrial glory, nor with the ones spoken of as being without law”

I give you some credit here on the difficulties among denominations and acknowlege that such difficulties still exist today! It is sad that this is so but it is so, nonetheless. I suppose, however, it just reminds us that we mortals are not perfect, and never shall we be while we are in this physical existence.

You cite some example of some denomination and I can cite a few examples of denominations that shall remain undeclared: Some believe their denomination members is the only one that shall enter into heaven (actually, quite a few denominations believe this way), some believe it is wrong to play a musical instrument inside a church, others believe that if one does not tithe, they shall not enter the kingdom of Heaven. To those, I say this:

God is about love, justice, tolerance, mercy, charity, and responsible behaviour. This is all that matters to me.

Long Live Oprah.I wouldn’t even want to imagine how much she pays in taxes! I would be pissed too.

It’s so weird: when my wife listens to Beck, she gets “an overwhelming feeling of evil.” I asked her why, and she said that she could tell that he is a liar by HOW he speaks.

I’m more empirical and philosophically trained. Beck lies and we prove this day after day. I have a long list of posts detailing Beck’s false claims, and I don’t post nearly all the ones I know about. I have a large unused file detailing many of Beck’s lies.

Beck is on the wrong side of history again, but — not surprising — he was on the side of democracy in the Middle East in support of Bush’s war of choice against Iraq. He hasn’t changed his mind: Glenn Beck is a hypocrite through and through. I prove this with facts and logic over and over again. And this begs the question: why does Beck has such a large following?

Yes, he’s persuasive and cunning and gifted. He’s also highly skilled at manipulating his viewers; Beck is a master manipulator. Why else would more of his followers not hear the lies I could detect before starting The Glenn Beck Review. He programs his viewers to dismiss any and all criticism of him, no matter how factual and unbiased, no matter how honest. This has led me to a recent re-evaluation of his intellect as of late. He’s still ignorant about the world, but he’s very bright, clever, gifted, persuasive and intelligent. It’s taken a while to see that, but the link about his manipulation skills forced me into rethinking just how smart he is.

It’s still all about Glenn Beck. His motivations, according to Beck’s biographer, Alex Zaitchik, “are, and have always been, money and fame. If Beck has a true religion, it’s not Patriotism. It’s not Mormonism. It’s cross-platform self-marketing.” Those who do not grasp this about him, can not hear his lies or hypocrisies, do not recognize that this uneducated, ignorant man is a charlatan and yellow propagandist, are victims more than they are supporters. They are to be pitied, not respected.