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Glenn Beck: Communists Will Say ‘Jesus Was A Marxist’ To Co-Opt American Holidays

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The Communist Party USA is the sort of fringe third party that rarely gets any attention in the national spotlight, but a recent speech by a party leader asserting that the group seeks to “reclaim” the Fourth of July as their holiday landed them squarely in Glenn Beck‘s crosshairs. On his radio program today, Beck played a clip of the speech and warned that, just as the Communists were trying “reclaim” Independence Day,” they were after American history.

Beck played a clip of a leader of the Missouri/Kansas Communist Party USA, speaking at a dinner in honor of American communist leader Herschel Walker. In it, the speaker complained that “the right wing has hijacked some of our holidays,” among them July 4th, and “they make it sound like we’re unpatriotic.” That comment was met with cackles all around the Beck studio, with Beck proclaiming they had “only been trying to destroy the American way of life since 1868″ and that the communist holiday they should actually observe was “May Day, you communist freak.” Beck then complained, somewhat exasperatedly, that “you can say anything and get away with it,” using as an example a facetious claim that Benjamin Franklin was a woman.

They are doing it,” Beck asserted sternly amid the chuckles of his co-hosts. “They are doing it. ‘Jesus was a Marxist,’” he mocked, also highlighting comments by Al Sharpton claiming that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Marxist and joking that Easter was a Communist holiday, too. “The bunny shares his eggs,” Beck argued, suggesting that the Bunny got all his eggs in the first place through “redistribution of eggs” from the chickens. It’s almost reminiscent of the famous “government with cows” analogies, except it’s with chickens, and Easter, and only communists. Then Beck turned, more seriously, to what he considered a progressive narrative that needed to be fought: “Michelle Obama said, ‘We have to change our history.’” That, he noted, was at the core of the Communist’s complaint, and what they shared with more mainstream groups.

The segment from Beck’s radio program below:

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  • edisciple

    Whoa…I fast Mediaite for few days & you guys go change the comment section to disqus! It’s about time. As for Glenn…hilarious!

  • Nature Freak

    Glenn Beck would like to be a cult leader really really bad.
    I suspect Glenn sees himself as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Glenn is the Big Man, the Son of God, the King of Kings.
    Word of warning: if Glenn Beck gives you some Kool Aid. DO NOT DRINK IT!

  • Nature Freak

    Glenn Beck would like to be a cult leader really really bad.
    I suspect Glenn sees himself as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Glenn is the Big Man, the Son of God, the King of Kings.
    Word of warning: if Glenn Beck gives you some Kool Aid. DO NOT DRINK IT!

  • Glenn Bovine

    Yes, Baboon. The J man was a greedy as$whole who didn’t beg for manna, didn’t multiply fish to feed the hungry, didn’t turn water into wine, didn’t heal the sick, and didn’t sacrifice himself for mankind.

    Sounds like a real hard capitalist.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    I don’t know the context Al Sharpton and the NAACP comments regarding Martin Luther King, but it is kind of ironic that the “proof” many of King’s associates had severed their ties to the Communist Party and that there was no evidence he was a member came intense surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI trying to prove the opposite.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Glenn is so right.Them ****,*******, leftist always tryin’ to co opt real Americans holidays.***** and ****** and all them can ***********.

    Glenn’s doing the Lords work.Bless Glenn Beck.*********** you pinkos.

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t that dude used to have a TV show?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah! Next thing ya know they’ll be co opting pagan holidays and calling it Marx’s birthday , with decorations and gifts and stuff.

  • Anonymous

    I believe the title of the story more correctly ought to be thus…

    Communists Will Say ‘Jesus Was a Marxist’ To Co-Opt American Holidays

    Oh, heck.  Why put forward that low a burden when it’s so easily met?  How about this..

    Any Random Influential Liberal Might Be Liable to Say Jesus Was a Marxist To Co-Opt American Holidays

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    So if Jesus was a marxist, does that mean that Darwin was a conservative?

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Frankenstein

    That doesn’t sound like a marxist either- a marxist turns water into wine (on the taxpayer dime) but only he can drink it.

  • Anonymous

    Jesus was just a dude. like beck. or anyone else.

  • http://twitter.com/superchundy Super Chuñdy

    “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” 

    Who said that? Jesus or Karl Marx? It’s hard to tell sometimes. 

    I guess this also means that Glenn isn’t getting into heaven.

  • insideguy

     Not so much coverage of glenn on mediate since his show has gone off the air. To quote the WHO I guess he’s just ffffffffffadeing away:)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    Dear Comrade Frances, 
     You ridicule Beck quoting her dietness saying, “Michelle Obama said, ‘We have to change our history.’” That, he noted, was at the core of the Communist’s complaint, and what they shared with more mainstream groups.

    Then we find out that they just passed bill through homosexual commie Mark Leno to CHANGE HISTORY TO discover who was WEARING PANTIES while crossing the Potomac!  You’re full of ridicule Frances even to the point of trying to obscure the fact that most of the DemoNcrat party AGREE with EVERY FREAKING TENENT of COMMIE ANTI-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY!     
    Your whole mocking tone anytime any of YOUR PEOPLE get called on their Anti-Life, Anti- American or Anti-Jesus, filth, is “nothin’ ta see her folks, keep it movin’”. But WE C U Frances and Jon and Tommy the socialist Christopher, oh yes indeedy, We C U.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    It means that you clearly don’t have the Holy Spirit or you would understand that this passage is not about “wealth” it’s about one’s ATTITUDE towards that wealth and ones willingness to REPENT. In the VERY NEXT SCRIPTURE Jesus assures them that it is indeed possible. 
    Matthew 19:23-26
    King James Version (KJV) 23.Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24.And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 25. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26. But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

    Liberals should abstain from quoting the bible and perhaps start EMBRACING it. You might learn how little you actually know.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    Jesus IS God. 
    1 Timothy 3:16
    King James Version (KJV) 16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

    And those like you, PubicHair, who seek to diminish Him, will pay for it in the end.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_V72AH6WWKZ4YC7DF5ZKKOMMMUQ Keith

    Jesus was not a Marxist. He only wanted the FATHERLESS and the WIDOWS to be given charity. Jesus taught PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and that is what His apostles taught to the saved.
    2 Thessalonians 3:10
    For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither shouldhe eat. 

  • Anonymous

    Jesus LOVED the money changers, as I remember Jesus gave special powers to the money changers so they could get into heaven with all of their cash.  And remember all the talk about how awesome usury is?  Jesus would LOVE bankers!

  • http://twitter.com/superchundy Super Chuñdy

    But in Deuteronomy 25:11-12 its says:

    If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.

    Clearly, this implies that Beck will not be going to heaven.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZQUNZHUZCYO7T5FP6NUEHMQ4UM David K

    Hello!

    This is the FOURTH TIME I have attempted to post. I do not use vitriolic language, I do not swear, I may take people to task, but why am I getting censored?

    By the way, you cannot make up humor like this, it only happens in the REAL WORLD.

    Communist Party sues Democrats for stealing party platform!

  • Jerry Baustian

    It is absurd for the Communist Party to claim that they are patriotic, and that patriotic holidays like Independence Day are days of celebration for communists. To be a loyal American, one must be willing to pledge to preserve and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic; Communists are part of that collection of enemies.

    I know that the Communists think they are becoming part of the political mainstream, now that Barack Obama is president, but that’s not true.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Thanks for putting that up, It made my day…..  Communist Party suing the Democrats coz they’ve gone to far with their communist agenda…  Wow!

  • Omar Locke

    jesus may not have been a marxist but he certainly was NOT a mormon! I wish we could hashtag this sooo bad! 

    #mormon

    #cult

  • Anonymous

    Is Glenn a Christian? His knowledge of the religion is quite perverted. Misquoting history/scripture to suit his wretched view is shameful. 

  • Anonymous

    But, since he is still on radio, Mediaite will continue to report on him. We non-conservatives can choose to laugh at him or ignore him. Conservatives (not all conservatives) will continue to praise him, and think he is still as popular as ever.
    Whatever rocks your boat.

  • Anonymous

    Who says there are no third party alternatives in the US? :-)

  • Anonymous

    That’s completely awesome when you can have your thinking done for you, and all in 140 characters!

    #vapid

    #sheep

    #imbecile

  • Anonymous

    Jesus didn’t beg Ceaser for manna, he multiplied fish and loaves to feed not the poor, but his audience and he turned water into wine as a bit of a wedding gift (and a bit of showing off.) Jesus didn’t just heal the sick, he raised the dead and as for sacrificing Himself, he was just doing what God told him to do.

    Jesus was a theocrat, not a Marxist.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I’ll bet Goldman Sachs would just LOVE Obama…er, Jesus.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I don’t see Obama using religion to sell his ideas like this jerkoff. Nice try though.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, it could be made up. Just sayin’

  • Anonymous

    Beck then complained, somewhat exasperatedly, that “you can say anything and get away with it”Pot, meet kettle.

  • The Dweller Ysul

    Yeah, the meek achievers shall inherit the earth.

  • The Dweller Ysul

    Yeah, the meek achievers shall inherit the earth.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    Ya, Glen tell us about ALECexposed.org……………..and please explain it to me Lucy. Beck is a shill of the fascist regime; he is paid to push the agenda of the corportists. It’s kind of funny to hear a fascist call people communists………………..

     Mussolini:  fascism should be called corporatism “ because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” It worked so well Adolf Hitler was named Time magazines’ Man of the Year, February 2, 1939.

  • Dik Gozinya

    Would it be safe to guess Van Jones could be compared to Judas then?

  • Dik Gozinya

    Would it be safe to guess Van Jones could be compared to Judas then?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UN2IOV42YKYBHHACKOZNWUFMJQ whitneymuse

    He elected to become a Morman.

  • Anonymous

    I conclude that Beck’s assertion is completely reasonable.  The type of tactic used by Communist/Socialists is in the “Playbook”… Sol Alinsky’s, Mao, Lenin, etc.

  • Nature Freak

    Jesus was Jewish, although Jews at the time were divided into numerous sects
    (kind of like today).

  • Anonymous

    The same tactics can be applied by anybody. Any political statement is “propaganda.” White propaganda is truth, black propaganda is false, and gray propaganda is a mix. You can choose to believe that your party is white and the other party is black, or you can be a realist and assume there is a whole lot of gray in political speech. “My side is almost white. Your side is almost black.”

  • Anonymous

    With all due respect and based on your last letter denying, (not questioning) a Pre-Law, basic Legal concept, regarding Constitutional Law, we cannot continue further, “Prima Facie!” Your quiz is irrelevant. I think you are wandering in a dimly lit room of legal courses and portions thereof, are sticking to the velcro of your Left wing predispositions? Hence that excites you and you feel confident. Regardless, You are still in a dimly lit room wandering.

    Furthermore you reject my expertise because of my political views which means YOU are exhibiting discrimination! If you want to learn about “Neutral Principle,” Google it, and read about yourself. Try Professor Wechsler or Judge Jaffe. Even Robert Bork has excellent commentary. Moreover, I have given you case law that should provide insightful. Read those cases as well as others. Spend some time in a law library… Have fun… LOL

    If you want to know more about the legal concepts I have proffered you, then get your degree. A child, a little child could understand that little DEVILl gets 4 apples and COSMOS gets 4 apples. Thats equal protection. When the teacher says I will take 2 apples from DEVIL and 1 from COSMOS, that unequal, hence unconstitutional. How can you NOT understand that?

    I am sick of babysitting you two… Now go away and don’t come back until you proper credentials!

  • Anonymous

    According to him, it was because his wife was hot.

  • Anonymous

    According to him, it was because his wife was hot.

  • Anonymous

    Glenn Beck is a hero to the conservative movement..he has an agenda of spreading hate and fear and follows that agenda, facts be damned…You cant reason with his kind..

  • Anonymous

    Did you watch the two episodes Beck did on African American Heros of the Revolution?

    Or did he make that all up, including the African American pictured in the famous painting of the crossing the Delaware River?

    Why would he pay homage to people that no one else has for decades, even fellow African Americas?  

    Who is “spreading hate and fear?”  You sir, you are…

    PURVEYOR

  • Anonymous

    Or how about the episode pertaining to President Obama’s Ghost Cabinet, meaning “Czars?”  Conservative or Liberal, Czars are Un-Constitutional.  (Yes, Reagan had a Drug Czar and that was wrong also)

    “Delagata non delagata,” meaning one cannot delegate power or authority that they themselves do not possess.  Hence, Czars are not under the control of normal Constitutional powers and are Un-Constitutional.  Doesn’t that bother you?

    Glenn Beck exposed this activity on his show.  Obama has dozens of secret fiefdoms doing his bidding for him. Conservative or Liberal, is that Ok with you?  Its NOT with me.

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