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Glenn Beck On Fox News Sunday: I Have ‘Zero Desire’ To Be President

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Following his Restoring Honor rally yesterday Glenn Beck appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning to talk with Chris Wallace. Wallace has been giving some tough interviews of late, and today was no exception.

During the lengthy interview, Wallace grilled Beck on the Martin Luther King controversy and asked how exactly Beck intends to “reclaim” the Civil Right movement. He also played the Fox & Friends clip during which Beck declared President Obama to be a racist, and additionally asked him if sees himself as someone whose responsibility it is to “save this country?” “Don’t you?” responded Beck. All in all, made for an interesting interview, particularly as we don’t get to see Beck on the opposite side of the couch all that often.

Wallace also asked Beck if he had any political intentions, and pressed him about rumors he and Sarah Palin might consider a joint presidential ticket. Answer: He is not, they are not, and he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, though he doesn’t say so in so many words.

Not a chance. I don’t know what Sarah is doing. I hope to be on vacation. I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don’t think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet, but they’ll show up.

Beck also noted that he’ll have some crowd numbers soon from his own aerial estimates and that it will likely be in the hundreds of thousands. You can watch the full interview below.

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  • shootfromthehip

    Good. Beck and I finally agree on something.

    America has zero desire to see you as President.

  • Azarkhan

    “he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, though he doesn’t say so in so many words…”
    Glynnis MacNichol

    It’s called being diplomatic; the 2012 campaign hasn’t begun yet nor has Ms. Palin announced she is running yet.
    Besides, actions speak louder than words–Sarah Palin was the only potential Republican presidential candidate invited to speak at the rally. She and Beck are perfectly in tune in cherishing the virtues that made America great.

  • axel360

    shootfromthehip said:
    Good. Beck and I finally agree on something.

    America has zero desire to see you as President.

    And mediaite has no desire to see any of your conservative bashing comments in every article

  • shootfromthehip

    “She and Beck are perfectly in tune in cherishing the virtues that made America great.”

    America still is great., Azarkhan.

    Always has been, always will be.

    Too bad you cons hate America so much.

    What a shame.

    #Crybabies
    #sorelosers

  • shootfromthehip

    “And mediaite has no desire to see any of your conservative bashing comments in every article”

    Do you speak for Mediaite?

    Are you Dan’s boss?

    Don’t think so.

    Or maybe you just hate free speech?

    If you want nothing but conservative viewpoints, you can always just turn on Fox “news.”

  • Azarkhan

    shootfromthehip said:
    America still is great., Azarkhan. Always has been, always will be. Too bad you cons hate America so much.

    Sorry Nostradamus, I don’t have your ability to predict the future. I can only compare the present with the past.

  • writer

    shoot, you’ve already proven that the left never makes unreasonable statements or resorts to name calling. No need to spike the ball.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    shootfromthehip said:
    Good. Beck and I finally agree on something. America has zero desire to see you as President.

    Beck says he’s unelectable. He’s probably right, because he would have to temporarily sell out and move to the center to capture the moderate vote to have a chance. Create a “phony” Glen Beck, lie about who he really is to get elected, which I think he would be uncapable of. Unlike the dickwad currently holding the job.

  • shootfromthehip

    Our President is a “Dickwad?”

    Wow.

    I wonder if Beck or Jesus would approve of such language.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    I really hope that the taste of respectability Beck got at his successful rally yesterday will rub off on him and he will take his incendiary rhetoric down a notch. Yesterday wasn’t a turning point for America but It could be a turning point for him.

    Or he could just go back to being as shock jock…

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Wow Glynnis, He is not, they are not, and he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, though he doesn’t say so in so many words.

    So now you just make up what Beck says and thinks. Oh I’m sorry, you and Media Matters do that all the time already.

    Shooterboy, you scored a -50 on the Lie-O-Meter.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    I guess someone gave Beck a dose of sanity too bad it will lose its effect by tomorrow.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    let’s see…he’s a rodeo clown…agreed
    people who take what he says as gospel are idiots…agreed
    he is not electable…agreed

  • dummy123

    Bathtub Boy has not tweeted is 15 hours.
    He can’t figure out how to attack Glenn!!

  • Ted-

    Andy Lamb said:
    Beck says he’s unelectable. He’s probably right, because he would have to temporarily sell out and move to the center to capture the moderate vote to have a chance. Create a “phony” Glen Beck, lie about who he really is to get elected, which I think he would be uncapable of. Unlike the dickwad currently holding the job.

    Dickwads like you evidently did not understand St Glenn’s message of tolerance. Maybe your just an dumb-ass…I’m just sayin. Repent and Glenn will forgive you.

  • tatboy

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    I guess someone gave Beck a dose of sanity too bad it will lose its effect by tomorrow.

    You misspelled “Dumb”… it not G.O.O.D…. it’s D.U.M.B. Just trying to help.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    tatboy said:
    You misspelled “Dumb”… it not G.O.O.D…. it’s D.U.M.B. Just trying to help.

    What?

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Oh you are funny

  • tatboy

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Oh you are funny

    Took you a second did it???

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    I was being sarcastic with my ‘you are funny’ remark.

  • Ted-

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Wow Glynnis, He is not, they are not, and he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, though he doesn’t say so in so many words.

    So now you just make up what Beck says and thinks. Oh I’m sorry, you and Media Matters do that all the time already.

    Shooterboy, you scored a -50 on the Lie-O-Meter.

    Basil – You are a coward and a liar and are getting your fair share of thumbs down.

  • The Royal Court Jester

    Beck’s rally was a smashing success
    But now is not the time for a recess
    It’s a sign of things to come
    We’re building up momentum
    To oust the crooks from the White House and Congress

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    so he doesn’t think he’s electable? could it be that he said…
    “When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” –”The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)
    or maybe…
    “The only [Katrina victims] we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” –”The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)
    could have been this one
    “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” –on why people who lost their homes in forest fires in California had it coming, “The Glenn Beck Program,” Oct. 22, 2007 (Source)

    yeah beck, i’d say ya might have pissed a few people off

  • Patrick Henry

    And some say Fox isn’t fair and balanced.

  • Ted-

    The Royal Court Jester said:
    Beck’s rally was a smashing success
    But now is not the time for a recess
    It’s a sign of things to come
    We’re building up momentum
    To oust the crooks from the White House and Congress

    Epic fail; who did this, the family gerbil?. Please edit and resubmit.

    Jester, in all seriousness, you still get an A for tea-bagger and of course the requisite A for asshole, so I hope there are no hard feelings. I’m guessing you teach second, maybe third grade?

  • TfT

    Glynnis, Glynnis, Glynnis…..you really shouldn’t put your own thoughts into Glenn Beck’s head. Fer shame;

    Not sure what has happened to you Glynnis; are you taking directions from Keith Olbermann these days on how to lie and distort? Has Dan turned the board over to MSNBC or something?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Ted, there you go again. The Lie-O-Meter has nothing to do with the thumbs.

    But since you asked…………Gordon ……8 thumb up…..5 thumbs down.

    Ted…………….20 thumbs down…………11 thumbs up. YOU LOSE.

  • DonnaK

    In the interview Beck says, he wants a candidate with honor and dignity and he hasn’t seen one yet. Wow, what a slap in the face to Palin!! It’s a good thing being President is not one of either of their dreams, cause it is never going to happen for either of these 2 unelectable grifters.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    granted chris wallace is one shining speck in a pile of crap even if he wants to have sarah half term palin sit in his lap

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Ted, I’m sorry I misread your count……..21 thumbs down………….only 7 thumbs up. YOU LOSE even bigger.

  • StandUp

    On a different thread, BowenIsland schooled Glennbeckreview on hypocrisy
    Witness the carnage for yourself

    BowenIsland says
    Clearly GBR you have no understanding of the word hypocrisy. People opposed to the building of the mosque are only exercising their 1st ammendent rights as well. That you don’t see that is only evidence of your partisian blindspot .
    Both sides are guaranteed rights under the Constitution. This public “debate” ( for lack of a better word) over this issue is , I believe , evidence that the Constitution works . No one is arguing that they can’t build on the site, only whether they should.
    You seem only to happy to deny opposing view points the right to voice their opinions, in this instance. I BELIEVE that ofcourse they can build, and people of course can support that. I also belive that I, and others, have the right to disapprove and voice displeasure.
    You seem only to happy to silence dissent . The selective application of rights that you subscribe to seems to be on a tipping scale depending on what side of the issue YOU are.
    That my friend, is hypocrisy.

    That one’s going to leave a gaping wound

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    DonnaK you really should not comment. Palin is not a candidate, YET. So Beck’s remark had nothing to do with her. See how you make people feel superior.

  • The Royal Court Jester

    StandUp said:
    That one’s going to leave a gaping wound

    And to throw a little salt in the gaping wound

    GBR is an expert on hypocrisy
    Lives in his own convoluted democracy
    His webpage is lacking
    Any scientific backing
    Wasn’t he the star of the movie “Idiocracy”

  • BatBoy

    shootfromthehip said:
    Our President is a “Dickwad?”

    You shouldn’t talk about our president that way!

  • Raygun

    Wallace is one of the few guys actually giving Fox News and semblance of a real hard new channel. Wish he’d grilled Bush when he had him.

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    granted chris wallace is one shining speck in a pile of crap even if he wants to have sarah half term palin sit in his lap

    The extent of your flatulence is staggering.

    Where is David Berkowitz when we need him?

  • notsofast

    Raygun said:
    Wish he’d grilled Bush when he had him.

    LOL

    Hey, libtard- Bush has been gone for 18 months! It was in all the newspapers- It’s Barry who has been ruining the country for the last 1 and a half years!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    notsofast…
    thank you for your witty posts…you are always so fun to read

  • DonnaK

    Gordon–The media talk about her all the time being the top candidate, and she hasn’t said no, so I would think Beck would consider her a candidate. If he thought she had honor & dignity he would have mentioned her. Just because your obsessed with her, clearly he’s not!! Who are you to tell anyone on this forum that they should not comment? Who made you Mediaite God?

  • Raygun

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    Hey, libtard- Bush has been gone for 18 months! It was in all the newspapers- It’s Barry who has been ruining the country for the last 1 and a half years!

    Not a liberal or a tard, I just remember his interview with Bush being very lovey dovey and delicate and his interview with Clinton being how these should be.

  • tatboy

    Raygun said:
    Not a liberal or a tard, I just remember his interview with Bush being very lovey dovey and delicate and his interview with Clinton being how these should be.

    Yes… he should have given him that tough treatment Olby gave Obama… Oh Wait… never mind.

  • writer

    Yes, I recall how all of the media took it easy on Bush. Can’t recall a negative word in eight years.

  • notsofast

    Raygun said:
    I just remember his interview with Bush being very lovey dovey and delicate

    Did he bow to Bush like Brian Williams did to Obama??

    I think not!

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    DonnaK, there you go again.
    If he thought she had honor & dignity he would have mentioned her.

    Do you think he would have invited her to speak if he did not think she had honor and dignity?

    There I go again, feeling superior to YOU. LOL.

  • Raygun

    writer said:
    Yes, I recall how all of the media took it easy on Bush. Can’t recall a negative word in eight years.

    Don’t remember a single on of them skeptical of Iraq WMD’S claim. Even “liberals” like Chris Matthews declared the Iraq War won in 2 fucking weeks.

    notsofast said:
    Did he bow to Bush like Brian Williams did to Obama??

    I think not!

    Yeah, he pretty much did. I’m equally upset at Williams not sticking it to Oba

    tatboy said:
    Yes… he should have given him that tough treatment Olby gave Obama… Oh Wait… never mind.

    Honestly are you people 5? “MOMMY HE STARTED IT!”. Just because Olbermann goes soft on Obama doesn’t justify Hannity going soft on Bush or the other fucking way around.

  • notsofast

    Raygun said:
    notsofast said:
    Did he bow to Bush like Brian Williams did to Obama??

    I think not!

    Yeah, he pretty much did. I’m equally upset at Williams not sticking it to Obama

    Then post the video.

    Here is Williams bowing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLYtHHxTTmc

  • writer

    The media wasn’t skeptical of the WMDs because the Dems believed Iraq had them, too. That’s why the Dems also voted for the war resolution. It wasn’t till later that it became all Bush’s fault, and the left said Bush had been ‘lying’ about it.

  • grumbles

    there is a god!!!!!!

  • notsofast

    More lib hate:

    Howard Kurtz on Sunday smacked down liberal talk radio host Bill Press for saying the Park Service allowing Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” event at the Lincoln Memorial was like “granting al Qaeda permission to hold a rally on September 11th at Ground Zero.”

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz0y2BiauOR

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    No shit he doesn’t want to be president. It’s becoming evident bit by bit that he wants to become Der Fuhrer.

  • notsofast

    notsofast said:
    Did he bow to Bush like Brian Williams did to Obama??

    I think not!

    Raygun said:

    Yeah, he pretty much did. I’m equally upset at Williams not sticking it to Oba

    .

    Then post the video.

    Here is Williams bowing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLYtHHxTTmc

    I’m waiting, raygun.

  • Firstrate

    and we have less then zero interest in seing beck run for president

  • Firstrate

    i love Chris Wallace, but this interview made me sick to my stomach.

  • redleaf

    Stupid people always tell radio hosts, “you should run for president! You’d totally tell (the opposing side) to screw off and die just like you do on the radio!!!!”

    OK, whatever.

  • NORBIT

    lol!!

    Watch the INTEGRITY-CHALLENGED President take credit for the Iraq war, when he did everything he could to stop the very actions allowing him to withdraw the troops!

    This man LIED about Health Care, Stimulus, FinReg, Czars, Rev. Wright, and the very essence of who he is and what he believes!
    The only people showing lower moral standards than this President are his Mind-Conditioned, Hate-Filled, Race-Baiting Professional Left Supporters!!

  • juan

    The Joint Chiefs of Staff have stated our National Security is at risk due to the deficit!

    Obama and the Democrat Party have bankrupted our country and put our National Security at risk!

  • juan

    shootfromthehip said:
    Too bad you cons hate America so much.

    Your Party owns the HATE AMERICA label and always will own it!

    It we are Racists because we don’t agree with the Socialist Democrat Party, then I’m PROUD to be one!

  • Azarkhan

    May Allah continue to grant us enemies as stupid as the Obama regime! Democrats already have to explain the President’s anti-American, anti-common sense stance regarding the GZ mosque. Now they’ll have to explain the regime condemning a state to the UN. What a thoughtful gift two months before the election.

    PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.

    In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.
    “The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100828/ap_on_re_us/us_brewer_un_report

    PS: Members of the council include China, Cuba, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Zambia. LOL.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Azarkhan said:
    In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report

    The way I see it this it’s a vast improvement. Used to be that we had to apologize to the entire world for our idiot president (Bush), now we only have to apologize for our idiot governor.

    That’s progress!!!!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Haha…I just noticed Beck had bullet proof armor under his white shirt yesterday. He really DOES think he is MLK. lol

  • Adolph Palinbeck

    Let’s see.
    New ad:

    You like right wing thinking?

    He’re some friend who did too: Adolph Hitler, Jospeh Stalin, Mao, Putin, Lenin.
    Oh yeah, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
    Oh yeah thta’s the road we want to go down. NOT!

  • Adolph Palinbeck

    Restoring Honkies? That was the rally. Did they have a phone booth big enough?

  • Ted-

    Well, its very clear from the tea-bagging comments here and elsewhere that St. Glenn’s attempt at tolerance and and end to hatred have failed miserably. What Beck fails to understand is that his tea-bag followers are little more than brain stems and can barely tie their own shoes let alone pay attention for three hours.

    At any rate Becks attempt to fundamentally change America has failed; blame the idiotic tea-baggers for shooting themselves in the foot. Did I mention epic failure?

  • writer

    “Honkies”. LOL

  • murf

    Adolph Palinbeck.. You just named leftist’s agenda.. Nice try , sport .

    Moderate to Democrat to Liberal to Socialist to Communist .. The ” progression ” is clear .

  • redleaf

    Dear, bushworlda,
    I’m very interested in the hot sale for Manola Blanhik shoes.
    Can you please email at screwoffyouscumbagspammer@screwyou.fu

  • lanquihue

    Ted- said:
    Epic fail; who did this, the family gerbil?.

    From a guy who’s very familiar with gerbils.

  • Michael_T

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    I really hope that the taste of respectability Beck got at his successful rally yesterday will rub off on him and he will take his incendiary rhetoric down a notch. Yesterday wasn’t a turning point for America but It could be a turning point for him.

    Very well said.

  • Michael_T

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Wow Glynnis, He is not, they are not, and he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, though he doesn’t say so in so many words.

    I agree. That was a surprising comment by Glynnis b/c I know she is a fan of both.

    I was also surprised that Mr. Beck said, “I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet.”

    He also took a swipe at the GOP during his rally lumping them in with the dems for a criticism I don’t recall the details of. He has done it before – e..g. the convention in Nashville. Wonder how Mr. Ailes feels about this.

  • lanquihue

    Michael_T said:
    He also took a swipe at the GOP during his rally lumping them in with the dems for a criticism I don’t recall the details of. He has done it before – e..g. the convention in Nashville. Wonder how Mr. Ailes feels about this.

    I’m guessing that, unlike places like msnbc and cnn, Ailes is a businessman first. Those other networks feel that their job is to advance progressive ideology regardless of viewership. If Ailes were an ideologue, he wouldn’t be airing Andrew Napolitano’s or John Stossel’s Libertarian-themed shows.

  • Calvin

    Michael_T said:
    He also took a swipe at the GOP during his rally lumping them in with the dems for a criticism I don’t recall the details of. He has done it before – e..g. the convention in Nashville. Wonder how Mr. Ailes feels about this.

    He does this alot. Are you a regular viewer of his? BTW, he is a registered Libertarian. Anyways, ditto to what lanquihue said:

    lanquihue said:
    I’m guessing that, unlike places like msnbc and cnn, Ailes is a businessman first. Those other networks feel that their job is to advance progressive ideology regardless of viewership. If Ailes were an ideologue, he wouldn’t be airing Andrew Napolitano’s or John Stossel’s Libertarian-themed shows.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-J-Lemire/100000045361210 Alfred J. Lemire

    I have made a documented record of lefties calling conservatives names, remarkable for their viciousness and hatefulness its length, 835 words. The left repeatedly blames the right for defects more characteristic of the left. It would be nice of everyone could treat their Other with respect.

    From NPR, regarding the MLK “I have a dream” speech: “The March on Washington, with the sheer size of its crowd and the powerful words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was considered the historical tipping point in the struggle for civil rights.” Various estimates have put the size of the 1963 crowd at 200,000 or 250,000. A lawyer who writes at Power Line and who was present for the 1963 MLK speech wrote that this crowd was significantly larger.

    I have been at Tea Party (not really a party, but a popular movement, mostly fixed on restoring sanity to government spending, size, power, and taxation) rallies. Participants were “middle class” and genial. A black woman–young, intelligent, informed, and well received–addressed my city’s group.

    Many on the left imagine most conservatives to be quite different from what most conservatives are. This situation reminds me of the “two solitudes” of English- and French-speaking Canadians a few decades ago, which the present Governor-General has declared over. I wish the two solitudes between the American left and right were over, too. That won’t end in my lifetime.

  • the real john t

    NORBIT said:
    The only people showing lower moral standards than this President are his Mind-Conditioned, Hate-Filled, Race-Baiting Professional Left Supporters!!

    murf said:
    Moderate to Democrat to Liberal to Socialist to Communist .. The ” progression ” is clear .

    notsofast said:
    Hey, libtard-

    Alfred J. Lemire said:
    I have made a documented record of lefties calling conservatives names,

    Hey Alfred, did you document any RWers calling the left names? Why not? There’s just a few I posted from just this thread. And there’s plenty more on here. Are you a hypocrite?

  • lanquihue

    the real john t said:
    Hey Alfred, did you document any RWers calling the left names? Why not? There’s just a few I posted from just this thread. And there’s plenty more on here. Are you a hypocrite?

    Too bad your iddy biddy feelings are so easily hurt, ya come guzzler.

  • the real john t

    lanquihue said:
    Too bad your iddy biddy feelings are so easily hurt, ya come guzzler.

    Here’s another one Alfred. Maybe you should start documenting the RW insults.

  • Latin2

    Video of how Liberals left the Mall after Obama’s inauguration;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWIkeCD7Jaw&feature=related

    Video of how people left the Mall after Beck’s rally;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NioIQc6hA8M&feature=player_embedded

    The video evidence speaks for itself.

  • the real john t

    Latin2 says:
    August 30, 2010 at 2:38 am
    ——————————

    Nice photo shopped video you gave of the liberals leaving the mall. You are a joke.

  • http://none pyrope

    shootfromthehip said:
    Good. Beck and I finally agree on something. America has zero desire to see you as President.

    It appears we disagree…but, what’s new? I would be proud to vote FOR Mr. Beck, if he chose to run.

  • the real john t

    pyrope said:
    I would be proud to vote FOR Mr. Beck, if he chose to run

    You and three other people. And that’s counting Beck and his wife.

  • NORBIT

    the real john t said:
    Hey Alfred, did you document any RWers calling the left names? Why not? There’s just a few I posted from just this thread. And there’s plenty more on here. Are you a hypocrite?

    It’s only name-calling if it isn’t TRUE!

  • dcjoe

    This is somewhat disappointing because we will never get to hear Beck answer questions about his radicalism. He gets to retain his elitist position in the MSM, or as Palin calls it the LSM, and throw stones and make a boat-load of money getting people angry. HIs angry followers will continue to make him rich and he can share the laughter with his elitist colleagues.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-J-Lemire/100000045361210 Alfred J. Lemire

    The real john t makes a good point, but there’s zero chance a list of conservative name-calling will be as extensive or as loaded with venom. It is better to win over people with well-presented facts and sound conclusions.

    As to the political ambitions of Mr. Beck, he properly has none. His past is much too checkered; he is playing the role he should be playing in life. The same is true for Ms. Palin; if she had had a serious ambition to be President, at least in the next cycle, she would have engaged in a few serious learning visits to the nations of the world by now.

    If one is a homeowner with a house in disrepair, one does not engage a physician, however distinguished, to fix it. While leading a country is more difficult than fixing a house, the country has several highly qualified present governors who could provide needed leadership: Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and perhaps Chris Christie of New Jersey. Of the candidates in the last cycle, Mitt Romney was the best, done in mostly because of the distrust many have for Mormons. Beck & Palin, or Palin & Beck? Fuggeddaboutit.

    As to my list, here’s a small slice. The addition signs mark invective from one speaker or writer:

    The far right +the far, far right+ +on the far, far right+ extreme right, far Christian right, far right jerks, right-wing bozos have been rabble-rousing people on the right, right-wing crazies, right-wing crackpots, loons of the radical right, ultra-right wing crackpots, ultra right wing religious right drivel, right-wing nutballs, nuts. right-wing nuts, assorted right-wing nut jobs, anti-evolution nutjob, right-wing thugs, right-wing Yahoos, extreme right wingers, extremist right wingers, extra-chromosome conservatives, extra-chromosome right wingers +right-wing, extremist, Confederate-flag-waving Republicans+ the unthinkable right +extreme, far-right Republicans+ family values right wingers, Neanderthal conservatives, firebrand right wing, the hateful right, hating right-wingers, implacable right, far right-wingers, hard-core right wing, the Precambrian right, righteous right, the Snarling Right, right-wing turkeys, wingnuts, [and] the flying monkeys of Greater Wingnuttia.

    Sorry, the real john t, “libtard” does not quire match that. And the others ato which you point are, as NORBIT writes, true, or close enough, like the words indicating the slide of many to ever-more extreme positions on the left.. As for myself, I’m less concerned with calling the President and leftwing Democrats anything than I am with their preference for sharply increasing state control of the economy and the people in it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-J-Lemire/100000045361210 Alfred J. Lemire

    After committing yet another typo (“ato” for “to”), I’ve taken the time to look at all 48 of the photos Ms. McNichol posted. The photos and especially the comments were straight, intelligent, and informative. Ms. McNichol indicated who was there and why.

    A job well done.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    My wife and I discussed Beck last night. She feels that Beck is evil. I insisted, no; he’s not evil. He’s just the opposite of good. She won the debate.

    Beck wouldn’t schedule the rally on a Sunday, and then he ended up blowing off discussion about reclaiming civil rights for rich, white people in order to hold a massive religious service. Beck is not one to miss an opportunity to create controversy, so the date and place he chose fits into his scheme.

  • writer

    Beck isn’t evil, just an amateur. Until he can whip the crowd into killing a few people, like Al Sharpton did in the Fashion Mart incident, he will remain so.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    writer says: “Beck isn’t evil, just an amateur. Until he can whip the crowd into killing a few people, like Al Sharpton did in the Fashion Mart incident, he will remain so.

    Beck is no amateur, and if that idiot in CA hadn’t gotten drunk to go on his murderous rampage, Beck would have inspired the killing of others.

    Hopefully, that’s the end of that kind of inspiration.

  • writer

    Again, it’s a woulda coulda. Al’s got the real numbers.

  • http://none pyrope

    the real john t said:
    You and three other people. And that’s counting Beck and his wife.

    You seem to be forgetting the 750K who attended the Restoring Honor event–and the hundreds of MILLIONS who followed it on C-SPAN. Then, there are the non-lockstep Democrats and Republicans, but most of all, there are the independent thinkers.

    I, however, can only speak for myself: I’m tired of voting “against” someone; I desire greatly to vote “for” someone. I have not voted “for” a candidate since I voted for Mr. Reagan. Even he had his imperfections, but I guess we’re stuck with the human race from which to select our representatives in government.

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