Fear Not! Dems Played Right Into Glenn Beck’s Plan With HCR Vote

your moment of glenn

by Glynnis MacNicol | 6:18 pm, March 22nd, 2010

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I have to wonder if someone challenged Glenn Beck to make every possible historic reference he could summon to mind tonight — tenuous or otherwise — in attempting to describe the blanket badness of last night’s health care vote, because there sure was a lot of them (video below). But first things first!

If you were expecting Glenn Beck to throw a temper tantrum over the passing of the health care bill by the House you had to wait a full twenty minutes into tonight’s show to see any expression of anger. Beck wanted to make good and sure viewers knew he was not upset. Turns out Congress had played right into his hands by revealing themselves to be the evil Progressives he has been saying they were for a full year now (so sort of like the validation Beck was hoping for from Massa, but writ large). So, yes, in many ways this is the best thing that could have happened to Beck.

But fear not, he is also very angry. For a number of reasons, one of them being that people (and Nancy Pelosi) had the audacity to describe the HCR bill as “historic.” It is not historic in Glenn Beck’s definition of the word. To make his point Beck lists (with visuals) all the American events that he does consider historic. And he’s certainly not wrong, at all. However, all the “historic” events that pop to Beck’s mind either involved violence, or were a reaction to it (i.e. the Gettysburg Address)…draw your own conclusions. Also, no major legislation apparently made Beck’s cut. Video below.

Glenn Beck, Health Care Reform, Nancy Pelosi, Your Moment of Glenn

m

His comparison with historic events makes absolutely no sense. You can cherry pick and compare the passing of the bill with anything that happened in the past – how about the Big Bang?
Azarkhan

“We are here now to be… along with the Congresses that enacted Social Security, Medicare, Civil Rights Act, health care for all Americans, all of that on a par,”–Nancy Pelosi

One of the problems for Democrats in November will be that this part of Ms. Pelosi’s statement- “health care for all Americans”- is not true. In fact 85% of Americans already have health insurance, and by most accounts, are quite happy with it.

That 85% of America now faces higher taxes, more government bureaucracy, and, as underpaid doctors begin to leave the health system, declining standards of treatment. “Evil progressives” like Pelosi, in their missionary zeal to help those whom they consider to be have-nots, have forgotten that most of America is composed of those who have. They have also assumed that their goals are synonymous with the goals of all Americans. In this they are wrong again.

Pelosi, Harry Dean and Barack Obama are zealots who gained this “historic” victory by going against the wishes of most of the American people and many members of their own party. The word for the kind of victory they won was coined over two thousand years ago-pyrrhic.
SWWT

Under paid doctors leaving the health system…

… yeah sure.
joseantony001

It is not okay to compare this piece of legislation to great moments in history, but its perfectly okay to compare it to the worst moments!
disgusted

Change their stripe(s) from red, blue TO whatever! They showed us – what they ARE!
Azarkhan

Sorry, Harry REID.
felixw

Go ahead, make fun of Beck. But Acorn declared today that it is broke. And I’ve lost count of how many ideological adversaries that Beck has mortally wounded. You certainly need to include Van Jones and Anita Dunn on the list.

So if Beck is now targeting “progressives in Congress,” I would withhold your snide remarks until we see what goes down in November. I wouldn’t be surprised if Beck gets the last laugh again.
sponge bob

” However, all the “historic” events that pop to Beck’s mind either involved violence, or were a reaction to it (i.e. the Gettysburg Address)…draw your own conclusions. ”

Did not know that the U.S. landing on the moon was violent or a reaction to it.
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

I’m also struck by how Speaker Pelosi is the only woman in Beck’s list, other than a few of the unidentified people sitting at the counter in Woolworths and one would think that Rep. Clyburn who made an on-camera comparison to civil rights legislation would be in a better position to judge its appropriateness than Glenn Beck.

Oh, and though it was a good speech, it’s a little ironic that Mr. Beck considers a cemetery dedication which included the line; “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” more “historic” than the actual battle.

(see m’s comment)
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

The punctuation is off in the last paragraph in my previous comment, but yeah…
Lincoln says the nation should honor those who fought; Beck remembers the speech.
rmbltmbl

Prediction: MacNicol goes APE SHIT about spanking.