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Beck: “I Can’t Tell The Difference Between Extreme Leftists And Radical Islamists”

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Glenn Beck spent most of today’s show sounding alarm bells about the Muslim Brotherhood and how dangerous it would be for them to gain power in a post-Mubarak Egypt. Most controversially though, Beck played a clip from Rosie O’Donnell and read a pamphlet being distributed around the Middle East called “How to Protest Intelligently” and was startled by the similarities he noticed.

Beck continued:

“Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between extreme leftists and radical Islamists. I don’t. Except I haven’t seen anybody on the left take an airplane and blow up buildings. But they’re both going for a New World Order and they’re both doing it through riots.”

Beck’s usual attempts to provide at least some humor in his show were nowhere to be found today as he himself admitted his shows lately have been bleak. However, he thought he would leave viewers with at least some hope and suggested they pray. Given that he couldn’t imagine what it would be like to live in Israel where soon they will be surrounded by people who “are being encouraged to embrace their rage and their hate,” Beck feared, “if these countries begin to fall I don’t know how to save Israel. I don’t know if you can save Israel.”

Beck suggested later in the week he might have more answers, but for now, prayer for our families and prayer for Israel was all he could recommend. These are certainly serious times, but whether Beck’s extremely solemn tone and depressing predictions throughout is what audiences want to hear is another question.

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  • Garth

    No Glenn, you can’t. That’s not the only problem you have either.

  • Pablo

    Prayers for decent Egyptians are in order as well.

  • Gasket

    Yeah…because extreme leftists (which to Beck = people like Rachel Maddow, or KO) go decapitating people for not embracing their dogma. People listen to this buffoon and take him seriously? No wonder his ratings have dropped from last year. Prof. Chicken Little.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Neither can I Beck. Watch your back buddy, liberals do not like it when the truth gets out.

  • tgk

    Geez Mediaite, do you have to report on EVERYTHING Glenn? Seems pretty obsessive to me. You don’t have to have 5 articles every day just to repeat what was on his radio / tv show. You know, people can WATCH HIS SHOW.

    Relentlessly feeding the haters is getting old.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    What, is Beck stupid? Muzlims wear towels on their head.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    tgk said:
    EVERYTHING Glenn? Seems pretty obsessive to me

    Seen Bombshell ?

  • nice_thought

    What happened? All of that gold didn’t work, now they have to pray too. This smells like a scam.

  • writer

    The difference is subtle. Radical Islamists can never be found with pork barbecue in their beards.

  • Garth

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    What, is Beck stupid? Muzlims wear towels on their head.

    The answer is yes he is and it goes without saying that you are as well.

  • Pablo

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Seen Bombshell ?

    Strangely enough, he’s pooping in the Rush thread. Could there be a break up in the works?

  • Pablo

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    What, is Beck stupid? Muzlims wear towels on their head.

    And they smell better.

  • Garth

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Neither can I Beck. Watch your back buddy, liberals do not like it when the truth gets out.

    Yeah Glenn, watch your back buddy. You can’t make this shit up. Absolutely hilarious!!

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    It looks like Tingles is a loyal Beck viewer:

    Chris Matthews Compares Tea Party to the Muslim Brotherhood

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/02/01/chris-matthews-compares-tea-party-muslim-brotherhood#ixzz1CTV1BuQz

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    what a moron, yes glenn we need mumbarak in power. DICTATORS FOR DEMOCRACY! Can you say back to bush policies?

  • Pablo

    nice_thought said:
    What happened? All of that gold didn’t work, now they have to pray too. This smells like a scam.

    Yeah, and how about that crazy food storage notion of his? What a nut!

    Thousands and thousands of angry AND hungry people. What could go wrong?

  • poolviking

    Grab yer guns and yer gold and head for the hills cause the lefties are coming.
    They want to give health care to everyone (even the brown people).
    They want the rich to pay an extra 4% in taxes (commies).
    They want all American children to be educated (not in private schools).
    They want the poor to be able to eat (not in MY America).
    Cry beck cry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    Pablo said:
    Yeah, and how about that crazy food storage notion of his? What a nut! Thousands and thousands of angry AND hungry people. What could go wrong?

    you must of forgotten to read the main reason they gave for the food riots in egypt, the curfew they installed. See here in america we don’t have one, though i’d say you beck morons have a self imposed curfew at all times of the daybecause the world outside is just soooo scary.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Garth said:
    The answer is yes he is and it goes without saying that you are as well.

    Oh, I’m sorry, you must be one of those douche liberals that does stuff because you think that people from some group will think you’re cool. Okay, so you wear a towel on your head, even though you’re not a muzlim. Sorry homes, but guys like you are a boil on the ass of America. You probably wear size 900 pants down around your ankles, too, with a hat on sideways. Sort of unbecoming for a fifty year old fat guy. Face it cuz, you’re a chump and nothing you say will make your family like you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between extreme rightists and radical Islamists. I don’t. Except I haven’t seen anybody on the right take an airplane and blow up buildings (well, except for Joseph Andrew Stack). But they’re both going for a primitive world, claiming they’re taking back their countries, and they’re both willing to do anything to make it happen.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    It looks like Tingles is a loyal Beck viewer:

    Chris Matthews Compares Tea Party to the Muslim Brotherhood

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/02/01/chris-matthews-compares-tea-party-muslim-brotherhood#ixzz1CTV1BuQz

    I can’t tell the deference between Chis Matthews, and an overfed leaping gnome….

  • Pablo

    Hey, Ben! Don’t keep any extra food around. I’m fine with that. And if for some reason our supply chain gets upset, don’t come knocking.

    Really, what could possibly happen? We don’t have a curfew.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    I can’t wait until Obama’s second term, it’s going to push Limbaugh and Beck over the edge, as Nancy Pelosi cackles from her mountaintop lair.

    Even liberals imagine nancy cackling, it’s bi-partisan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    I can’t tell any real difference between Glen Beck and an aging John Wayne Gacy.

  • The Tea Weasel

    Pablo said:
    Hey, Ben! Don’t keep any extra food around. I’m fine with that. And if for some reason our supply chain gets upset, don’t come knocking.

    Really, what could possibly happen? We don’t have a curfew.

    I will take my MP5 and raid your house for your food. (LOL) (not about the MP5)

    Re: Original topic
    Maybe if Glenn was a bit more…..worldly….he could tell the difference. But coke addicted alcoholic future Mormons probably don’t pay too much attention to the world they live in.

  • Color Me Badd

    Too bad William Cooper got killed by the FBI 3 weeks after 9/11 cause he could sue Glenn Beck for stealing his material.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    Pablo said:
    Hey, Ben! Don’t keep any extra food around. I’m fine with that. And if for some reason our supply chain gets upset, don’t come knocking. Really, what could possibly happen? We don’t have a curfew.

    yes continue with your “the sky is falling” rhetoric and how bad it is that things have changed in the world. It’ll be funny to see you continuing to buy gold in mass droves and purchasing food insurance while the rest of us are doing quite well. The beauty is that you’ll continue to deny that you fell to a huge scam, a cheap product sold by a cheap snake oil salesman who could double for porky pig.

  • Calvin

    “Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between extreme leftists and radical Islamists. I don’t. Except I haven’t seen anybody on the left take an airplane and blow up buildings.”

    Well, there was one guy, but it wasn’t a big plane.

  • Pablo

    The Tea Weasel said:
    I will take my MP5 and raid your house for your food. (LOL) (not about the MP5)

    Good luck with that. :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    The Tea Weasel said:
    I will take my MP5 and raid your house for your food. (LOL) (not about the MP5) Re: Original topicMaybe if Glenn was a bit more…..worldly….he could tell the difference. But coke addicted alcoholic future Mormons probably don’t pay too much attention to the world they live in.

    An MP5 – nice. Plays a nice tune. You should hear it, Pablow. It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it LOL

  • Pablo

    Ben Pratt said:
    yes continue with your “the sky is falling” rhetoric and how bad it is that things have changed in the world.

    Did I say the sky was falling? I’m just an old boy scout, Ben. And an old machine gunner.

    It’ll be funny to see you continuing to buy gold in mass droves and purchasing food insurance while the rest of us are doing quite well. The beauty is that you’ll continue to deny that you fell to a huge scam, a cheap product sold by a cheap snake oil salesman who could double for porky pig.

    Gold is doing quote well these days, and I don’t know that Food Insurance products are any better or worse than the competition, because I’ve never seen them. There are other ways to be prepared and mine involves a big ass chest freezer full of tasty meat. Yummy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Bill Adkins said:
    Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between extreme rightists and radical Islamists. I don’t. Except I haven’t seen anybody on the right take an airplane and blow up buildings (well, except for Joseph Andrew Stack). But they’re both going for a primitive world, claiming they’re taking back their countries, and they’re both willing to do anything to make it happen.

    Poor Joseph Andrew Stack – he strikes a blow against the USA and the IRS for the Tealiban and they deny he’s one of them. Bet he wishes he’d been more clear in his notes.

  • Leftist Asshat

    Idk why baggers are afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood. They’re the “good” ones. Sure, their goal is to create a world wide Ummah, but they renounced violence!

  • X-3

    Ben Pratt said:
    what a moron, yes glenn we need mumbarak in power. DICTATORS FOR DEMOCRACY! Can you say back to bush policies?

    You apparently have never watched Glenn Beck. OK, so I don’t get to watch every day, but in yesterday’s program he was reounting all the dictators the US has wrongly propped up over the years. His take on it was that it sullies our claim that the US stands for liberty for all. He was, of course, correct. My takeaway on it was we must let our elected representatives know that it is wrong for them to support dictators. You have any problem with that?

  • Gasket

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    It looks like Tingles is a loyal Beck viewer:

    Chris Matthews Compares Tea Party to the Muslim Brotherhood

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/02/01/chris-matthews-compares-tea-party-muslim-brotherhood#ixzz1CTV1BuQz

    Look at this douche. You just applauded Beck comparing Rosie O’Donnell to people like Abu Zubaydah and Al Zarqawi. You are no different from Matthews.

  • Gasket

    Not a big surprise. You said once that liberals wanted the Tucson shootings to happen so Obama’s polls would go up/.

  • The Tea Weasel

    Pablo said:
    Good luck with that. :-)

    I am certainly not stupid enough to raid the house of a man who uses a rabbit with a pancake on his head as an avatar. That is, of course, the Ton Ton Macoute’s secret symbol for assassin.

    :)

  • Gasket

    X-3 said:
    You apparently have never watched Glenn Beck. OK, so I don’t get to watch every day, but in yesterday’s program he was reounting all the dictators the US has wrongly propped up over the years. His take on it was that it sullies our claim that the US stands for liberty for all. He was, of course, correct. My takeaway on it was we must let our elected representatives know that it is wrong for them to support dictators. You have any problem with that?

    I didn’t have a problem with the presentation until he tangentially tied the beginning of WWI to what’s happening in the middle east. That is hyperbole. Even O’Reilly was not buying it.

  • nice_thought

    Pablo said:
    Yeah, and how about that crazy food storage notion of his? What a nut!

    Thousands and thousands of angry AND hungry people. What could go wrong?

    U are into that Mormon theology too?

  • nice_thought

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    It looks like Tingles is a loyal Beck viewer:

    Chris Matthews Compares Tea Party to the Muslim Brotherhood

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/02/01/chris-matthews-compares-tea-party-muslim-brotherhood#ixzz1CTV1BuQz

    U didn’t like that when Matthews did that, did you? Then why u defending beck when he does the same?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    X-3 said:
    You apparently have never watched Glenn Beck. OK, so I don’t get to watch every day, but in yesterday’s program he was reounting all the dictators the US has wrongly propped up over the years. His take on it was that it sullies our claim that the US stands for liberty for all. He was, of course, correct. My takeaway on it was we must let our elected representatives know that it is wrong for them to support dictators. You have any problem with that?

    Yes and then he blames it all on radical leftist presidents while skipping conservative presidencys Ie: The dictators supported by ronald regan in the 1980s or the corrupt shah supported by one dwight eisenhower or even how the khmer rouge received aid from regan. They doesn’t fit with his narrative so he glances over it.

  • X-3

    nice_thought said:
    What happened? All of that gold didn’t work, now they have to pray too. This smells like a scam.

    I don’t own much gold but I began buying silver back in the mid 90s when it was less than $5/ounce. I bought 100 ounces per quarter. Today silver closed at a smidgen over $28/ounce. If you calculate the appreciation, you will see I’ve earned a pretty nice return on my investment. Sux for you that you didn’t do the same. Silver will be selling for $31/ounce by the summer.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Calvin said:
    Well, there was one guy, but it wasn’t a big plane.

    Joseph Stack wasn’t a liberal!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    nice_thought said:
    U didn’t like that when Matthews did that, did you? Then why u defending beck when he does the same?

    It’s inaccurate to equate the two.

    With Beck’s pair:
    They’re both fixated on indoctrinated world-views they seek to impose on their respective society’s.
    The problem for “extreme leftists” in this country is that they only represent 20% of the people.
    The other 80% have moved on!

    The Tea Party, as it’s commonly viewed, is an amorphous political initiative that stresses prudence and self-reliance; the Muslim Brotherhood, as I understand it, is a Theocratic tyranny.

  • X-3

    Ben Pratt said:
    Yes and then he blames it all on radical leftist presidents while skipping conservative presidencys

    That’s not what I heard him say. I heard Glenn Beck admonish republicans as well as democrats. The bottom line for me is that it’s wrong when the US backs dictators of any shape or size. The US government MUST learn that backing dictators is the wrong thing to do. Are you willing to make certain they hear that from you?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Yes, let’s pray. Just like that right-wing preacher praying for Obama’s death or that he “gets a brain tumor and dies just like Ted Kennedy”.

  • nice_thought

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    It’s inaccurate to equate the two.

    With Beck’s pair:
    They’re both fixated on indoctrinated world-views they seek to impose on their respective society’s.
    The problem for “extreme leftists” in this country is that they only represent 20% of the people.
    The other 80% have moved on!

    The Tea Party, as it’s commonly viewed, is an amorphous political initiative that stresses prudence and self-reliance; the Muslim Brotherhood, as I understand it, is a Theocratic tyranny.

    If you say so, professor! Or is that a derogatory term for you?

  • X-3

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    the Muslim Brotherhood, as I understand it, is a Theocratic tyranny.

    There can be NO doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood is all about advancing Shariah law and the dominance of Islam throughout the world. I’ve met very few Muslims who denounce openly and frankly the idea that Shariah law is wrong. One Muslim I knew who did as much caught some serious flack from some of his fellow Muslims. I forget the word they used on this guy but it was basically a label that painted him as a traitor. Further, the idea that ANY religion should do this is equally as wrong, but the analogy that some have used that fundamentalist Christians are as bad as fundamentalist Muslims is…quite a stretch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    X-3 said:
    That’s not what I heard him say. I heard Glenn Beck admonish republicans as well as democrats. The bottom line for me is that it’s wrong when the US backs dictators of any shape or size. The US government MUST learn that backing dictators is the wrong thing to do. Are you willing to make certain they hear that from you?

    absolutely, i’m actually on board with that. But i doubt most conservatives will be as open minded to fighting their war on terror. That’s been their foreign policy tactic for so long i doubt they’d be willing to change. Machiavelli seems to be their patron saint.

  • Gasket

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    It’s inaccurate to equate the two.

    With Beck’s pair:
    They’re both fixated on indoctrinated world-views they seek to impose on their respective society’s.
    The problem for “extreme leftists” in this country is that they only represent 20% of the people.
    The other 80% have moved on!

    The Tea Party, as it’s commonly viewed, is an amorphous political initiative that stresses prudence and self-reliance; the Muslim Brotherhood, as I understand it, is a Theocratic tyranny.

    This is laughable if it wasn’t so obtuse. So, the rightwing in this country is not trying to “impose” their will on the rest of the country? Is that why they are kicking out the SC judges in Iowa for making a ruling they did NOT like?

    Plain and simply, Beck compared Rosie O’Donnell to people like KSM and Al Zarqawi. People who CUT other people’s heads off for not subscribing to their beliefs. It’s hypocrisy to call out Matthews and whitewash Beck’s own demagoguery!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    It’s inaccurate to equate the two.

    With Beck’s pair:
    They’re both fixated on indoctrinated world-views they seek to impose on their respective society’s.
    The problem for “extreme leftists” in this country is that they only represent 20% of the people.
    The other 80% have moved on!

    The Tea Party, as it’s commonly viewed, is an amorphous political initiative that stresses prudence and self-reliance; the Muslim Brotherhood, as I understand it, is a Theocratic tyranny.

    Flaw # 1:
    You attempt to equate the entire left-wing portion of the US to extreme leftism
    Flaw # 2:
    The other 80%? Polls show that though the country labels itself as conservative on the issues we tend to lean more center-left.
    Flaw # 3:
    The Tea Party is trying just as much to enforce its views on others. The Republicans are actually trying to redefine “rape”
    Flaw # 4:
    The Muslim brotherhood lists its mission as to instill the qur’an as the basis for family, community and state. The Christian arm of the right, which many in the tea party belong to, is also trying to make the bible the basis for many things.

    Have I successfully tore apart your argument?

  • Gasket

    X-3 said:
    There can be NO doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood is all about advancing Shariah law and the dominance of Islam throughout the world. I’ve met very few Muslims who denounce openly and frankly the idea that Shariah law is wrong.

    I’m sorry…but do you even know what Sharia is?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    It’s inaccurate to equate the two. With Beck’s pair:They’re both fixated on indoctrinated world-views they seek to impose on their respective society’s.The problem for “extreme leftists” in this country is that they only represent 20% of the people.The other 80% have moved on! The Tea Party, as it’s commonly viewed, is an amorphous political initiative that stresses prudence and self-reliance; the Muslim Brotherhood, as I understand it, is a Theocratic tyranny.

    many would equate the extreme religious rhetoric spewed by those on the far right to be theocratic ideals.

  • nice_thought

    X-3 said:
    I don’t own much gold but I began buying silver back in the mid 90s when it was less than $5/ounce. I bought 100 ounces per quarter. Today silver closed at a smidgen over $28/ounce. If you calculate the appreciation, you will see I’ve earned a pretty nice return on my investment. Sux for you that you didn’t do the same. Silver will be selling for $31/ounce by the summer.

    You maybe right. And congratulation for earning the wealth right way. At least you didn’t scare bajesus out of regular folks into buying the product. Or, someone had to trick you into buying silver?

  • X-3

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Joseph Stack wasn’t a liberal!

    You might be wrong about that:

    http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/washington_post_suggests_crazed_pilot_was_a_tea_partier/

    But, it doesn’t matter, he was a nutjob.

  • Pablo

    Bill Adkins said:
    Poor Joseph Andrew Stack – he strikes a blow against the USA and the IRS for the Tealiban and they deny he’s one of them. Bet he wishes he’d been more clear in his notes.

    Yeah, and he should have left the “Yay for communism” stuff out of them. It’s good to know that you understand where he was coming from, Bill. Like minds, i guess.

  • Pablo

    The Tea Weasel said:
    I am certainly not stupid enough to raid the house of a man who uses a rabbit with a pancake on his head as an avatar. That is, of course, the Ton Ton Macoute’s secret symbol for assassin.

    :)

    Yeah. You don’t mess with Oolong.

  • Pablo

    nice_thought said:
    U are into that Mormon theology too?

    No. You?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Pablo said:
    Yeah, and he should have left the “Yay for communism” stuff out of them. It’s good to know that you understand where he was coming from, Bill. Like minds, i guess.

    Why that crushes me – you got me on that one – I have no comeback at all, I surrender. Uh, wait. He didn’t say “yay for communism.’ Your bad. Got anything else? (BTW, just re-read ol’ Joseph’s rant – he IS the tea Party).

  • nice_thought

    Pablo said:
    No. You?

    Pablo said:
    No. You?

    No, not me either. That’s one reason I dont buy Mr. Beck’s idea of, “we are all doomed, buy more food” theme.
    I might have misread your comment erlier. I thought you were fine with Beck’s assertion that we better stack dried food or the liberals gonna come get ya.

  • Calvin

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Joseph Stack wasn’t a liberal!

    In his manifesto he proclaims,

    ““The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. “

    “There are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us.”

    “Now when the wealthy f*ck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. “

    “The joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple”

    “The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government.”

    Even the leftists at the Democratic Underground recognize one of their own,

    “I think he presented his case well, lucidly, and has expressed what many of us here on DU have expressed: Anger at the injustices done to the American people, frustration at the unwillingness of our government to help us, and helplessness at the realization that we ultimately have no power.”

    “There are many points made that I read on DU everyday.”

    Overtly embracing Karl Marx, Stack chose to end his manifesto with an attack on free-market capitalism,

    “The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”

    http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/20/joseph-stack-disillusioned-leftist-not-racist-right-wing-teabagger

    Crap, how dare they quote Joseph Stack’s own words. They’re as bad as Fox News.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Calvin said:
    In his manifesto he proclaims, ““The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. “ “There are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us.” “Now when the wealthy f*ck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. “ “The joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple” “The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government.” Even the leftists at the Democratic Underground recognize one of their own, “I think he presented his case well, lucidly, and has expressed what many of us here on DU have expressed: Anger at the injustices done to the American people, frustration at the unwillingness of our government to help us, and helplessness at the realization that we ultimately have no power.” “There are many points made that I read on DU everyday.” Overtly embracing Karl Marx, Stack chose to end his manifesto with an attack on free-market capitalism, “The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.” http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/20/joseph-stack-disillusioned-leftist-not-racist-right-wing-teabagger Crap, how dare they quote Joseph Stack’s own words. They’re as bad as Fox News.

    Except what is beyond your understanding is he didn’t like the wealthy or government or capitalism or communism. He fit the classic neo-anarchist profile of the Tea Party. You has met the enemy, Calvin, and he is you. Just pull it over yourself and feel all warm and fuzzy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins
  • X-3

    nice_thought said:
    You maybe right. And congratulation for earning the wealth right way. At least you didn’t scare bajesus out of regular folks into buying the product. Or, someone had to trick you into buying silver?

    I believe that most people realize the US dollar is and has been a fiat currency for some time–that would include Glenn Beck. I was lucky enough to be tipped off on this by a man I came to admire. He was quite well-to-do, a self-made millionaire. I think it’s good when we can look at what others are doing and emulate that which we see as correct. By doing so, I was able to send my kids to university. They have since begun paying me back for my investment in their futures.

  • da-wdc

    I wonder if Beck has ever met an extreme leftist in his entire life. There really aren’t too many of them is the thing. Or is he using the Bill O’Reilly definition of ‘far left,’ which means anyone to the left of Evan Bayh (who is basically a Republican)?

  • Pablo

    nice_thought said:
    No, not me either. That’s one reason I dont buy Mr. Beck’s idea of, “we are all doomed, buy more food” theme.

    Why would you need food if you were doomed?

  • Pablo

    Bill Adkins said:
    http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/900549-tea-partiers-create-facebook-account-honoring-3.html

    Anonymous postings on internet forums are excellent sources of factual information. Highly authoritative. You’re got tremendous research skills, Bill.

  • nice_thought

    Pablo said:
    Why would you need food if you were doomed?

    You gotta ask Mr. Beck that. But, to tell the truth, you are way too smart for Mr. Beck’s audience. Do u defend him because you get paid or something?

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Ben Pratt said:
    Yes and then he blames it all on radical leftist presidents while skipping conservative presidencys

    Not true, which tells me that you don’t actually know, but simply assume that he never dumps on conservative politicians. Shame on you.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Flaw # 1:You attempt to equate the entire left-wing portion of the US to extreme leftismFlaw # 2:The other 80%? Polls show that though the country labels itself as conservative on the issues we tend to lean more center-left.Flaw # 3:The Tea Party is trying just as much to enforce its views on others. The Republicans are actually trying to redefine “rape”Flaw # 4:The Muslim brotherhood lists its mission as to instill the qur’an as the basis for family, community and state. The Christian arm of the right, which many in the tea party belong to, is also trying to make the bible the basis for many things. Have I successfully tore apart your argument?

    “Extreme Left” refers to those self-defined Progressive Democrats who have usurped Party leadership, and seek further encroachment of Federal control – through legislative and regulatory means – over virtually all aspects of society.

    The Muslim Brotherhood can SAY whatever they want, it’s their actions that define them.
    QWe’ve been reminded of that recently with Stimulus, Health Care, Bailouts, FedReg, Earmarks, Transparency, SEIU, Lobbyists, GE…the President SAYS a lot also!

    You proffered an argument, but it was hardly successful.

  • Pablo

    nice_thought said:
    You gotta ask Mr. Beck that. But, to tell the truth, you are way too smart for Mr. Beck’s audience.

    I don’t recall him saying that we’re doomed. Do you?

    Do u defend him because you get paid or something?

    No, I’m raking in that sweet Koch brothers dirty outside money. My job is to distract you from them.

  • BarneyFranken

    da-wdc said:
    I wonder if Beck has ever met an extreme leftist in his entire life. There really aren’t too many of them is the thing. Or is he using the Bill O’Reilly definition of ‘far left,’ which means anyone to the left of Evan Bayh (who is basically a Republican)?

    What is your point? That there isnt such a thing as an extreme left? LOL ok.

    Whats the expression: “Denial aint just a river in Egypt?” How appropriate.

  • nice_thought

    Pablo said:
    I don’t recall him saying that we’re doomed. Do you?

    No, I’m raking in that sweet Koch brothers dirty outside money. My job is to distract you from them.

    Smart ass. Lol

  • Gasket

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    “Extreme Left” refers to those self-defined Progressive Democrats who have usurped Party leadership, and seek further encroachment of Federal control – through legislative and regulatory means – over virtually all aspects of society.

    There is no usurpation of the Democratic party. The party has always been a “big tent.” Last I checked, the Democratic leadership IS Progressive. It’s leader, the President, is a Progressive. The party has no “purity tests” or a purging of it’s membership ranks like the rigid GOP has done under the “usurpation” of it’s very own political infidel populists – The Teabaggers.

    The Muslim Brotherhood can SAY whatever they want, it’s their actions that define them.
    QWe’ve been reminded of that recently with Stimulus, Health Care, Bailouts, FedReg, Earmarks, Transparency, SEIU, Lobbyists, GE…the President SAYS a lot also!

    Hmmm…stimulus? George Bush II signed 2 BIG unfunded bills for economic stimulus as well as the biggest unfunded entitlement bill ever. Where was your outrage then? Healthcare. Derived from the template of Republican Romneycare in MA, a law that encompasses numerous provisions championed by Republicans like Bob Dole & Sen. Grassley in the 90′s and a conservative think tank like the Heritage Foundation. Hypocrisy much? Bailouts? Hmmmm…I wonder whose idea it was for the big bank bailout? GWB’s own treasury secretary Paulson. Not a Democrat or a liberal by any means. Wait a minute, didn’t “conservative” Speaker Boehner also vote for that bill and help it’s passage to law? No kvetching then! FedReg? Wasn’t it YOU conservatives/GOP blaming Barney Frank for NOT regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Earmarks? Wasn’t it the Senate’s own Republican Minority Leader Mitch who was against the banning of earmarks before he was for it? What about the legendary porker, the late Republican Senator Ted Stevens? What about Sen. Jim Inhoffe and his constitutional “defense” of the practice in the Senate gallery? Don’t you have an earmark porker as the head of appropriations in the current 112th congress? Transparency? Who was against “transparency” of campaign finance again? Yeah…only Democrats have lobbyists. You guys broke records in spending aka lobbying to win the US house just last year. Do you need a mirror? What does the Lord say about removing a speck from thy neighbor’s eye while having a LOG in your very own?

    You proffered an argument, but it was hardly successful.

    Was that really a defense you just put up or a self inflicted gunshot?

  • Pablo

    Gasket said:
    The party has no “purity tests” or a purging of it’s membership ranks like the rigid GOP has done under the “usurpation” of it’s very own political infidel populists – The Teabaggers.

    Nope, nothing like that at all!

  • Pablo

    da-wdc said:
    I wonder if Beck has ever met an extreme leftist in his entire life.

    Barack Obama has.

  • Gasket

    Pablo said:
    Nope, nothing like that at all!

    Yessssssss! You got me. Because a PAC is the Democratic Party or the DNC.

    Did you watch the RNC chairmanship debate AT ALL?

  • Gasket
  • The Tea Weasel

    Pablo said:
    Barack Obama has.

    You’ve never broken bread with people of differing faiths and opposing viewpoints? What a sheltered life you have led. I myself have had friends who included the head of the Republican (Tea) Party of my state, and SDS members. Both had their good points and both were definitely interesting company, for differing reasons.

    I know staunch conservatives often refuse to mingle with people of other viewpoints (see: Country Clubs) but how else are you to understand The American Experience.

  • da-wdc

    BarneyFranken said:
    What is your point? That there isnt such a thing as an extreme left? LOL ok.

    My point is that it is small, disorganized, and lacking influence and what small organizations/political parties there are don’t have a lot of money and can’t get anybody elected. Beck likes to pretend that certain people he picks out are very powerful when it’s just not so.

    If Glenn Beck can’t tell the difference between extreme leftists and radical Islamists, well, all I can say is he’s working very hard to be stupid.

  • Gasket

    The Tea Weasel said:
    You’ve never broken bread with people of differing faiths and opposing viewpoints? What a sheltered life you have led. I myself have had friends who included the head of the Republican (Tea) Party of my state, and SDS members. Both had their good points and both were definitely interesting company, for differing reasons.

    I know staunch conservatives often refuse to mingle with people of other viewpoints (see: Country Clubs) but how else are you to understand The American Experience.

    Can you imagine if Obama had “broken bread” with the Bin Ladens like Bush Sr. did?

  • Raygun

    This is just a pathetic thing to do. Markos Moulitsas released a book called American Taliban about how the American right was like the Taliban and now Beck does the same with the left. Why the fuck are we resorting to fire at other AMERICANS when we have a common enemy?

  • Pablo

    The Tea Weasel said:
    You’ve never broken bread with people of differing faiths and opposing viewpoints? What a sheltered life you have led.

    Did I say something to suggest that? Or are you just making shit up to argue with? Yeah, it’s the latter, which is pretty much a waste of everyone’s time. Which is cool, because I’ve got time to kill, silly.

  • StandUp

    Ben Pratt said:
    The beauty is that you’ll continue to deny that you fell to a huge scam, a cheap product sold by a cheap snake oil salesman.

    Hey- this thread is about Glenn Beck, not Al Gore.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Pablo said:
    Anonymous postings on internet forums are excellent sources of factual information. Highly authoritative. You’re got tremendous research skills, Bill.

    The reality of Tea Party tribute pages to Joseph Andrew Stack against right wing blogger’s opinion piece that Stack wasn’t right wing. Reality versus opinion. Yeah, that works as authoritative. See, fact trumps opinion. Look it up

  • valkyrie101

    StandUp said:
    Hey- this thread is about Glenn Beck, not Al Gore.

    That was good. :-)

  • valkyrie101

    “Honestly, I can’t tell the difference between extreme leftists and radical Islamists. I don’t. Except I haven’t seen anybody on the left take an airplane and blow up buildings. But they’re both going for a New World Order and they’re both doing it through riots.”

    Does that mean that the “riots” that freed the eastern block, in which communism was cast aside, were the beginning of a new world order, and not God’s children pressing their right to freedom? Glenn is a satirist, not a serious commentator.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    In Denmark we have a radical islamist called Asmaa Abdol Hamid (a woman). She joined the radical left-wing party called Enhedslisten.

    Many commentators were saying that she did belong there but I disagree. She belongs there because what unites radical islam and socialism is their hatred towards the Western Civilization. And that is enough to unite them.

    Glenn Beck is absolutely tight on this issue; they have a common goal and can unite as long a Capitalism and Christianity exists.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    Gee, I can’t wait until Beck let’s us know today that the NEW WORLD ORDER, as such, is filled with NEOCONSERVATIVES (you know the people who actually devised our policy of supporting dictators in the Muslim world).

    Face it, this uprising is way beyond the capacity of Beck to understand because he can only see an US vs THEM world. The US are all the puppets America has hired to do our bidding in the Muslim world (including Mubarak) and THEM are always Muslim radicals like the Muslim Brotherhood who would definitely take over if our hand chosen PUPPETS didn’t stay put.

    Sorry Beck-O but there is a third option. There are nations like Egypt, Iran, and Yemen and more that possess a nation with a well-educated and strongly connected to the rest of the world through the internet middle class. No one is burning American flags in Egypt right now. I know it’s beyond the fake conservative realm of understanding, but it is possible that there are people in the Muslim world who love their country more than they hate the United States.

    Perhaps if Fox News had actually bothered to spend some money hiring Middle East correspondents instead of spending all their money on paranoid uninformed blowhards like Beck, they might have a better handle on their facts and Beck wouldn’t be so desperately trying to understand an uprising that is beyond his comprehension.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

    da-wdc said:
    If Glenn Beck can’t tell the difference between extreme leftists and radical Islamists, well, all I can say is he’s working very hard to be stupid.

    Being stupid comes naturally for Beck. He doesn’t have to work at it.

    BTW< the NEW WORLD ORDER, he's going to school us all on, is one where the likes of MUBARAK rule in perpetuity. This NEW WORLD ORDER has no room not only for radical Muslim rule but even a Muslim Middle Class not controlled by ruling elites (which is more likely what the future of Egypt holds). If he's going to insinuate that the NEW WORLD ORDER was devised by radical leftists (even though neoconservatives were the ones who put what people would describe as NWO policies into effect) and then try to argue that radical leftists are just like radical Muslims (who according to the NWO dictates have no room in power in this NEW WORLD ORDER) then how can radical leftists have devised the NWO. In other words, the NWO only wants RADICAL MUSLIMS as convenient scapegoats to seize power. Using that logic, Beck himself is part of the NWO and, thus, according to his own logic, a RADICAL LEFTIST and a RADICAL MUSLIM.

    Beck needs to stop watching conspiracy theory videos on the internet and actually travel to a MUSLIM NATION to even begin to know what the hell he is talking about. He's out of the loop and the fact that FOX NEWS doesn't even have EXPERTS on the Middle East on their payroll, it's not like his own network is going to do a good job of filling in his obvious information gaps.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Kimbo, how would YOU like to be so STUPID, that
    you could make 35 Million a year??
    Just asking!

  • Talisman

    Like he actually cares about Israel. Not Christian, not a concern.

    But, I do like his train of logic.

    Islam provides protest manuals in Egypt, these manuals are used to provide violent protest. The result of this violence will be to end Israel. Liberals provide manuals and cause violence (he’ll show us tomorrow, what a cliffhanger). Therefore if you care about Israel’s existance, you need to hate liberals.

    Let’s not forget about the 3 way war between Islam, the elite, and the liberals. So what’s that make him and his army of right wing nuts, Switzerland.

  • timcajun

    Let me give you the 10 sec. “Beck Show ” to save you time!….. Be scared, they’re coming to get you, I was right, take my word for it, get angry, don’t look up facts, just believe me! Shows over!

  • X-3

    Ben Pratt said:
    absolutely, i’m actually on board with that. But i doubt most conservatives will be as open minded to fighting their war on terror. That’s been their foreign policy tactic for so long i doubt they’d be willing to change. Machiavelli seems to be their patron saint.

    Are you on board with that as much for when liberals do it as do conservatives? If you are, then “we” have a chance of the US ending its affinity for propping up dictators just because they’re willing to smile and say nice things when they take our money.

    Although it pains me, I must admit that Machiavelli has, at times, seemed to be their patron saint.

    I’m just a simple minded person, but it seems to me that the word of the US should be golden–especially when we claim that LIBERTY is our cause. When I think of the perversions of this claim through the years of my life, it’s very troubling. So, I will make a pact with you (and anyone who wants to get on board with this notion), I will express my disagreement with any of our leaders–regardless of their party–who back dictators and I will trust that you will do the same.

  • X-3

    Thorkil Kowalski Værge said:
    Many commentators were saying that she did belong there but I disagree. She belongs there because what unites radical islam and socialism is their hatred towards the Western Civilization. And that is enough to unite them.

    Thank you for your post. The truth you present is vastly overlooked by most people in the US.

  • X-3

    da-wdc said:
    If Glenn Beck can’t tell the difference between extreme leftists and radical Islamists, well, all I can say is he’s working very hard to be stupid.

    What difference is there when the motives and outcome are anarchy?

  • X-3

    Gasket said:
    Can you imagine if Obama had “broken bread” with the Bin Ladens like Bush Sr. did?

    That’s an interesting claim. Can you prove it?

  • X-3

    Gasket said:
    I’m sorry…but do you even know what Sharia is?

    Yes, I do.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons_why_sharia_is.html

    Do you know what a caliphate is?

  • juan

    The author wrote:

    These are certainly serious times, but whether Beck’s extremely solemn tone and depressing predictions throughout is what audiences want to hear is another question.
    _______________________________________________________________________________________

    Indeed we want to hear the truth!

    Thanks, Beck & Fox!

  • timcajun

    juan says:

    Indeed we want to hear the truth!

    Thanks, Beck & Fox!

    A standard “Beck” prediction ” liberals are bad, they’re coming to get you, the world will end and some place it will be warm or cool today….. man he’s great he always gets it right!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Beck can’t tell the difference between extreme leftist and “radical” Islamists because he’s an uneducated charlatan. First of all, the Islamists he frets about aren’t radical, although in fairness, they are referred to as such. They are, in fact, reactionary, far more reactionary than Beck. Beck wants America to go back to the 19th Century where the reactionary Islamists want the Middle East to go back to the 13th Century. Leftists, generally speaking, want to go forward to some new order. You can count on Glenn Beck for toxic, idiotic nonsense:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/02/maddow-discusses-becks-toxic-nonsense.html

    Beck’s idiotic propaganda is effective though: just read the fear from X-3′s comments above. Beck is a master at manipulating sheep, ignorant, gullible sheep who know even less about the subjects Beck addresses than he does.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    It’s so weird: when my wife listens to Beck, she gets “an overwhelming feeling of evil” too. 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.

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