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Glenn Beck Boasts Of George Soros’ And Media Matters Failure To Get Him Off The Air

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Glenn Beck isn’t one to hold back, and when it comes to efforts against himself by George Soros and Media Matters, of course he was going to speak up. He did on today’s program, and it had plenty of maniacal laughter, George Soros impressions, and eventually all roads led back to one of Beck’s most oft-made points: progressives think you’re stupid.

As always, he was a fine showman. He called Media Matters founder David Brock “the hero of the downtrodden” while gleefully reminding his audience that even though “they’ve tried to monitor every word I’ve said for years and years,” in the end, “they’ve done everything they can to shut me up – that didn’t work.”

So why did they try so hard to shut him up? Well, Beck said it’s actually not about him (which a screen behind him helpfully pointed out). Rather, it’s about shutting the American people as a whole up. From there, it turned into a monologue about the First Amendment and how Beck doesn’t want his opponents taking off the air, complete with references to Saul Alinsky, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Jefferson. Sure, it was something of a paint-by-numbers Beck segment, but you can’t say he doesn’t know how to do them. Plus, it’s impressive to watch the segment morph from a laugh at the expense of Media Matters to Beck galvanizing his audience, expressing confidence they’ll be the “peacemakers” of tomorrow.” Video of the segment below.

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  • The Real Royal King

    Complete self-absorption. Everything is always, always about Beckerhead.

  • Big Eddie

    Wow . Turn the evil Soros’ and Media Matters nonsense into Glenn Beck being ” boastful “. Amazing .

    In other news , in this grim economy , Obama preparing to take 1600 people with him on a pleasure trip to India next week . Maybe Soros’ can chip in on this 50 million dollar trip .

    http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/white-house-staff-to-man-taj/413078/

  • Ted-

    Obviously MM and Soros are getting to him. But last I looked Mudrock was writing his checks. Does this idiot really believe that MM and Soros are going to fire him? Obviously not, this is just Beck being the Michael Scott of Fox “News.” Glenn Beck has no need to be liked but he does like to be praised.

  • BarneyFranken

    The Real Royal King said:
    Complete self-absorption. Everything is always, always about Beckerhead.

    Speaking of Peckerheads, I love RRC’s knee jerk liberal comments to anything Beck.

    I dare you to actually watch this episode (dvr it at 2am est) and then restate your comment.

    I only need to say one thing to refute you: Yes I Can.

    If you did see the episode, then you’d understand what that means and how badly I just pwned you.

  • The Real Royal King

    Ted- said:
    Obviously MM and Soros are getting to him. But last I looked Mudrock was writing his checks. Does this idiot really believe that MM and Soros are going to fire him? Obviously not, this is just Beck being the Michael Scott of Fox “News.” Glenn Beck has no need to be liked but he does like to be praised.

    You know, I am not bothered by what Beckerhead says. He’s a lunatic. I just find him so deathly dull boring. Like Lard Limbaugh, in the end, and that’s a mighty big end, he talks only about himself.

  • Hawk11

    So long as there are people out there who believe that this guy reports the “news”, people who buy his “gold”, people who read his “books”, People who buy his “freeze dried nuclear war food”, people who believe that this guy does anything other than give his convoluted opinion and scare people into believing that he is some kind of savior? No worries… This guy who insultingly wrote a book called “Broke” while he banks over $30 million a year and his “followers” barely reach the status of middle class? No worries…

    Your “fair and balanced” FOX snooze icon is not going anywhere.

  • The Real Royal King

    BarneyFranken said:
    Speaking of Peckerheads, I love RRC’s knee jerk liberal comments to anything Beck. I dare you to actually watch this episode (dvr it at 2am est) and then restate your comment. I only need to say one thing to refute you: Yes I Can. If you did see the episode, then you’d understand what that means and how badly I just pwned you.

    But I live in the Central Time Zone.

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

    “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”

    George Soros said this in Europe in June 2006 while speaking of the need for a UN world government. That is ALL one needs to know about Soros. He hates what this country is.

  • Ted-

    Andy Lamb said:
    “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”

    George Soros said this in Europe in June 2006 while speaking of the need for a UN world government. That is ALL one needs to know about Soros. He hates what this country is.

    So does Glenn Beck. Although he does want you to like him.

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

    But if you want some more, here you go…..

    In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for “The American Thinker” she says, “George Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically…almost overnight.”

    In 1994 Soros boasted in “The New Republic” that “the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.” The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, in which Soros helped almost collapse the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be “one of the greatest social robberies in human history.”

    In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia. At the time, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, called Soros “a villain, and absolutely evil.” Thailand activist Weng Tojirakarn said, “We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula. He sucks the blood from the people, for only his own gain.”

    The website Greek National Pride reports, “Soros was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia, Ukraine and Myanmar. Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros’ role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality.”

    France upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider trading. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars by the French government.

    Recently, Soros’ native Hungary fined him 2.2 million dollars for “illegal market manipulation.” Elizabeth Crum wrote that “The Hungarian economy has been wrecked as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. Soros’ deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary’s economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.”

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Enough is enough…..I say we have a viewer boycot of the Ed Schultz show….what’s that you say….its already underway.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Hawk11 said:
    So long as there are people out there who believe that this guy reports the “news”, people who buy his “gold”, blah, blah, rant, rave, lefty paranoia, etc., etc.

    Homes, you’re a retard, Beck never, ever has claimed to “report the news”. Jesus, no wonder you guys couldn’t realize your dream for more than two years before people caught on to what a bunch of idiots you are. Beck sure does yank your chain, and it’s funny as hell!

    I wonder how long before GBR shows up with his stupid web page…

  • Greg

    “What happened later with Charlie is something I think I can understand. He became basically housebound due to illness and his small world became even smaller. His brother got him a computer and he was able to stay connected with family. And he watched television and found Glenn Beck… I found Glenn Beck about the same time Charlie did. I understand how his fears were grown and fostered by Mr. Beck’s persuasive personality. The same thing happened to me but I went in a different direction with what I was seeing. Rather than blame politicians for the current issues, I simply got prepared for what Glenn said was coming. I slowly filled our pantry as Glenn fed fear into me. I did not miss watching his show and could not understand why the rest of the world didn’t get it — Glenn became a pariah to me. But I was finally able to step away and realize the error of my ways. The media lost its grip on me. But it still held very tightly to Charlie.”- cousin of Charles Wilson

    “”Just remember that as you are politicing for your reelection. It only takes one piece of lead. . . . Kill the fucking Senator! Kill the fucking Senator! I’ll donate the lead. . . . Now that you’ve passed your health-care bill, let the violence begin. Let the violence begin.”

    “By your attempts to overtake this country with socialism, somebody’s gonna get to you one way or another and blow your fucking brains out, and I hope it does happen. If I have the chance, I would do it.”

    “Kill the fucking Senator! Hang the fucking Senator! I hope somebody puts a fucking bullet between your fucking eyes. Far left liberal socialist democratic bitch. You mother-fucker. You sold the fucking people of the country out for socialism. I hope somebody fucking erasers your fucking life. Yes, I hope somebody assassinates you, you fucking bitch.”

    “We are going to fuck you up. We are going to fuck you up as bad as we can. Yes, the independents. The real people of this country, not you spineless fucking socialists. You better watch your fucking back, baby, because there’s people gonna come after you with fucking both fucking barrels, bitch.” -Charles Wilson

  • Ted-

    Rusty Shackelford said:
    Enough is enough…..I say we have a viewer boycot of the Ed Schultz show….what’s that you say….its already underway.

    Rusty – all Glenn wants is for you and like minded sycophants to get on your knees and well, tell Glenn how much you love him. Surely you can do that can’t you Rust. Do it for Glenn. On your knees please.

  • Ted-

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Homes, you’re a retard, Beck never, ever has claimed to “report the news”. Jesus, no wonder you guys couldn’t realize your dream for more than two years before people caught on to what a bunch of idiots you are. Beck sure does yank your chain, and it’s funny as hell!

    I wonder how long before GBR shows up with his stupid web page…

    Dip shit, by definition, you are a tard. Glenn Beck still wants you to love him.

  • SmartAlec

    The Real Royal King said:
    But I live in the Central Time Zone.

    Then watch it at 0100 hours dumbass

  • Ted-

    SmartAlec said:
    Then watch it at 0100 hours dumbass

    You are something akin to a dingle berry aren’t you?

  • Hawk11

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Homes, you’re a retard, Beck never, ever has claimed to “report the news”. Jesus, no wonder you guys couldn’t realize your dream for more than two years before people caught on to what a bunch of idiots you are. Beck sure does yank your chain, and it’s funny as hell!

    I wonder how long before GBR shows up with his stupid web page…

    First off, it’s “Holmes”, not “Homes.” Second, you’re right… He doesn’t claim to report the news. He does, however, say that he is an “entertainer.” So, if you are “entertained” by Glenn Beck then by all means be entertained. But, if you feel that this man offers anything to you for any other reason than to line his own pockets,than you sir can judge who the “idiot” is. Maybe the better word for me to use for you would be “fool.”

  • SmartAlec

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    I wonder how long before GBR shows up with his stupid web page

    He might not show up here since the thread is already about Beck. His SOP is trying to turn all threads into a Beck discussion to satisfy his obsession.

  • The Real Royal King

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Homes, you’re a retard, Beck never, ever has claimed to “report the news”. Jesus, no wonder you guys couldn’t realize your dream for more than two years before people caught on to what a bunch of idiots you are. Beck sure does yank your chain, and it’s funny as hell! I wonder how long before GBR shows up with his stupid web page…

    Actually, Kumquat, GBR is articulate, and he backs up his analyses with thorough documentation. When he makes an error, he immediately admits it and apologizes. He is always civil, far more civil than I. I don’t agree with everything GBR writes, but I have a great deal of respect for him and for his work. On another thread, I wrote about the value of posters who offer not just copies and pastes or citations, but also offer analysis and informed opinion. GBR is such a poster.

  • The Real Royal King

    SmartAlec said:
    He might not show up here since the thread is already about Beck. His SOP is trying to turn all threads into a Beck discussion to satisfy his obsession.

    My, Kumquat, GBR seems to be as big a threat to you rightists as Joy Behar.

  • SmartAlec

    Ted- said:
    You are something akin to a dingle berry aren’t you?

    No, I don’t think I am related to you

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Hawk11 said:
    First off, it’s “Holmes”, not “Homes.”

    God, you’re more retarded than I gave you credit for. So If I call you my home boy, it would be holmes boy? Okay, “holmesy” I gots it. :)

  • Mr.Papshmer

    The Real Royal King said:
    GBR is articulate

    GBR is a stupid liberal asshole, like you and Sherlock Holmes. I mean Hawk11.

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

    SmartAlec said:
    He might not show up here since the thread is already about Beck. His SOP is trying to turn all threads into a Beck discussion to satisfy his obsession.

    Nah, he’ll show up on this one too, sooner or later.

  • Ted-

    SmartAlec said:
    No, I don’t think I am related to you

    You should be proud that it took you just 10 years to complete 6 grades. For most tea-baggers it takes 12, which makes you an Einstein among tea-baggers. Congrats.

  • SmartAlec

    The Real Royal King said:
    Actually, Kumquat, GBR is articulate, and he backs up his analyses with thorough documentation. When he makes an error, he immediately admits it and apologizes. He is always civil, far more civil than I. I don’t agree with everything GBR writes, but I have a great deal of respect for him and for his work. On another thread, I wrote about the value of posters who offer not just copies and pastes or citations, but also offer analysis and informed opinion. GBR is such a poster.

    No more comments please, we already have a winner for the most absurd post of the day…or week…or ever.

  • The Real Royal King

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    GBR is a stupid liberal asshole, like you and Sherlock Holmes. I mean Hawk11.

    Yes, I was right. GBR does threaten you and your ilk, Kumquat.

  • CosmosDan

    It’s not really about me , it’s really about UBER ME!!

  • Hawk11

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    God, you’re more retarded than I gave you credit for. So If I call you my home boy, it would be holmes boy? Okay, “holmesy” I gots it. :)

    Be careful with the “R” word. Sarah Palin would take offense to you. I’ll give you the credit for being a loyal Beck follower. So when Beck tells you that you should jump of a bridge, but buy his book first, well we’ll all wave to you on the way down and he will be laughing from his compound in upstate NY while counting his money.

  • SmartAlec

    Ted- said:
    You should be proud that it took you just 10 years to complete 6 grades. For most tea-baggers it takes 12, which makes you an Einstein among tea-baggers. Congrats.

    Why do you think that using a term referring to an sexual act associated with homosexuality is an insult? Your homophobia is frightening.

    You also seem to think everyone to the right of Bill Maher is a “teabagger”. Your bigotry almost outshines your homophobia

  • ganymede

    I usually cannot watch Beck simply because his phoniness and paranoia is so overwhelming, but I did listen to this clip. “We’re not racist, we’re not violent, but we’re not going to remain silent”, and “Let the American people decide for themselves…We’re peacemakers”. OK. Great. My question of Beck and all his acolytes is, what do you want.? Where are your ideas of what must be done. All I see and hear is that the same disreputable millionaires who pushed for deregulation of everything so they could rob us blind, are the same people who are backing The Tea Party. Along with that you have an outlandish media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, who definitely doesn’t have my welfare in mind, cornering the rightwing media market and milking it for all it’s worth. Why is it that the rightwing intellectuals (and there are a few) have not been able to posit a single, sensible, scenario of what we must do to get out of this economic mess. I’m sure I’m considered an leftwing extremist by the far out rightwing types who inhabit this website, but I’m just an ordinary liberal guy who considers Beck, Palin, Limbaugh to be the most radical, extreme, social and political personalities to emerge since the rightwing/fascist characters who opposed FDR and would have liked a Nazi style dictatorship in the USA in the 1930′s. They would have probably allied us with Hitler! The Founders of this country were for the most part very gifted humanists. But we’ve descended to the point where rightwingers wave the Constitution like many of them wave the Bible as their moral truth. Well, the Constitution like the Bible can be interpreted in many different ways. Just talk to Justices Scalia and Thomas about their moral and legalistic views. Making George Soros your boogyman shows that your compasses are not working properly. Yes, he’s a super-duper capitalist manipulator but he’s put a lot of his money to good use promoting peace, democracy and health around the world and, of course, pushing to legalize marijuana which would certainly help to end the deadly drug wars. I just wish that more of you people who are caught up in all this retrograde nonsense would snap out of it. You don’t have to love Obama, but he has accomplished quite a bit considering the mess he inherited, and if he weren’t black you would certainly not be as hostile. (uh,oh he’ using the race card-but it’s the truth and most people know it) Also, he isn’t a leftwing socialist! That’s a joke. Hopefully, enough of you will wake up and help to keep some of the more wacky and dangerous Teapublicans from being elected next Tuesday. I’m optimistic.

  • The Real Royal King

    ganymede said:
    I usually cannot watch Beck simply because his phoniness and paranoia is so overwhelming, but I did listen to this clip. “We’re not racist, we’re not violent, but we’re not going to remain silent”, and “Let the American people decide for themselves…We’re peacemakers”. OK. Great. My question of Beck and all his acolytes is, what do you want.? Where are your ideas of what must be done. All I see and hear is that the same disreputable millionaires who pushed for deregulation of everything so they could rob us blind, are the same people who are backing The Tea Party. Along with that you have an outlandish media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, who definitely doesn’t have my welfare in mind, cornering the rightwing media market and milking it for all it’s worth. Why is it that the rightwing intellectuals (and there are a few) have not been able to posit a single, sensible, scenario of what we must do to get out of this economic mess. I’m sure I’m considered an leftwing extremist by the far out rightwing types who inhabit this website, but I’m just an ordinary liberal guy who considers Beck, Palin, Limbaugh to be the most radical, extreme, social and political personalities to emerge since the rightwing/fascist characters who opposed FDR and would have liked a Nazi style dictatorship in the USA in the 1930’s. They would have probably allied us with Hitler! The Founders of this country were for the most part very gifted humanists. But we’ve descended to the point where rightwingers wave the Constitution like many of them wave the Bible as their moral truth. Well, the Constitution like the Bible can be interpreted in many different ways. Just talk to Justices Scalia and Thomas about their moral and legalistic views. Making George Soros your boogyman shows that your compasses are not working properly. Yes, he’s a super-duper capitalist manipulator but he’s put a lot of his money to good use promoting peace, democracy and health around the world and, of course, pushing to legalize marijuana which would certainly help to end the deadly drug wars. I just wish that more of you people who are caught up in all this retrograde nonsense would snap out of it. You don’t have to love Obama, but he has accomplished quite a bit considering the mess he inherited, and if he weren’t black you would certainly not be as hostile. (uh,oh he’ using the race card-but it’s the truth and most people know it) Also, he isn’t a leftwing socialist! That’s a joke. Hopefully, enough of you will wake up and help to keep some of the more wacky and dangerous Teapublicans from being elected next Tuesday. I’m optimistic.

    A very good post. You have given me much about which to think. Thank you.

  • Thelonious Funk

    yawn.

  • SmartAlec

    The Real Royal King said:
    A very good post. You have given me much about which to think. Thank you.

    Take a few aspirin first, I’m sure the thinking will give you a headache

  • http://libertyinprogressnow.wordpress.com/ ProgLib

    Glenn forgot to take his anti-obsessive meds today… he was particularly obsessed than usual today.

  • felixw

    Glenn Beck clearly won this contest, and it wasn’t even close. Soros backed Media Matters, and tried to silence Beck with a boycott of advertisers, a non-stop disinformation campaign, character attacks, ridicule, etc. And look how it’s turned out. Beck has the audience. Beck has the bestsellers. Beck has the ratings. Beck draws the biggest live audience of the year at his rally. Beck is having a huge impact on next week’s election.

    And Soros and Media Matters? They’ve become a joke. A laughing stock. Such obvious purveyors of propaganda that even the leftwing media is embarrassed to cite them as a source on anything.

    No contest. Beck wins hands down, and Soros is stuck backing an outfit that is so discredited it will soon need to change its name or shut down or morph into something new (as has Acorn) to run away from its own reputation.

  • Patrick Henry

    Ted- said:
    Dip shit, by definition, you are a tard. Glenn Beck still wants you to love him.

    Hey, wuss, didn’t I tell you no one cares what you think. God, you are the retard here, and an unpatriotic retard at that. Stop wasting our time with your drivel.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Hawk11 said:
    Be careful with the “R” word.

    Sure thing, holmes. :)

  • Patrick Henry

    Hawk11 said:
    First off, it’s “Holmes”, not “Homes.” Second, you’re right

    Actually, it is whatever he wants it to be, so STFU.

  • The Real Royal King

    felixw said:
    Glenn Beck clearly won this contest, and it wasn’t even close. Soros backed Media Matters, and tried to silence Beck with a boycott of advertisers, a non-stop disinformation campaign, character attacks, ridicule, etc. And look how it’s turned out. Beck has the audience. Beck has the bestsellers. Beck has the ratings. Beck draws the biggest live audience of the year at his rally. Beck is having a huge impact on next week’s election. And Soros and Media Matters? They’ve become a joke. A laughing stock. Such obvious purveyors of propaganda that even the leftwing media is embarrassed to cite them as a source on anything. No contest. Beck wins hands down, and Soros is stuck backing an outfit that is so discredited it will soon need to change its name or shut down or morph into something new (as has Acorn) to run away from its own reputation.

    … and he has no legitimate advertisers. Beckerhead is on the air only because of Murdoch’s stubborn pride and largesse. Basically, Beckerhead is a welfare recipient.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    The Real Royal King said:
    A very good post. You have given me much about which to think. Thank you.

    Yeah, me too. And I think that, like you, he’s an asshole. :)

  • Seeing November From My Window

    Man, I would love to be a fly on the wall over at MM when George has his next staff meeting with Obama on conference.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Patrick Henry said:
    Actually, it is whatever he wants it to be, so STFU.

    Awesome graphic, does the king know? Hahahahaha!

  • Patrick Henry

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Awesome graphic, does the king know? Hahahahaha!

    Thanks, it is my Halloween avatar.

  • George C

    ProgLib said:
    Glenn forgot to take his anti-obsessive meds today

    Hey ProgLib….. Don’t you have a website to watch fail ? Gordon Bloyer OWNS you !!!! HAHAHAHAHA

  • tgk

    So, Glenn Davis, it doesn’t bother you that George Soros’ money bags and MM are trying to shut down Glenn Beck’s right to free speech. What you get out of it is that Glenn is “boasting” about the fact they haven’t succeeded YET?

    Nice reporting

  • Hawk11

    Patrick Henry said:
    Actually, it is whatever he wants it to be, so STFU.

    Patrick, you putz, do you really think I’m going to listen to you telling me to STFU? Backwoods looking, far right wing, homophobic, xenophobic, year 1776 constitutional recognition only, no forward progression, everyone should carry a gun and live in the wild west, one black guy in a crowd of 100,000 makes you diverse, Glenn Beck cock sucking, Bill O’Reilly ass kissing, Sean Hannity worshiping, Sarah Palin drooling son of a hick. It’s not your way or the highway, and you don’t get the last word because you think you should.

  • Hawk11

    ;-)p

  • roxsteady

    It appears that his act has grown old. And by old, I mean Hover round old!

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010270013

    I’ve also noticed that we don’t get crowd estimates for Palin anymore either. Now, in Orange County California they had betweed 200 to 500 people for her but, did you notice that her recent stop in Florida with Steele and Rubio they didn’t give the crowd totals. I wonder why? No I don’t!

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Hawk11 said:
    year 1776 constitutional recognition only

    Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a retard!!!!!!! I’m guessing he doesn’t even know….

  • Hawk11

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a retard!!!!!!! I’m guessing he doesn’t even know….

    Clarify, ding dong.

  • Hawk11

    Oh, I’m sorry… 1787. I’m sure that’s what you meant.

  • Cancon2

    The Libs need Boggiemen. Beck fit the bill. A little history lesson and 3-4 million viewers will make Libs crazy. Yup, Progressives, or whatever name you are hiding behind now, keep blowing gaskets. And really RRK and Ted ( same asshole?), I am sure Beck loves you too.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    The Real Royal King said:
    Complete self-absorption. Everything is always, always about Beckerhead.

    At first I thought this was a self-diagnosis, then I got to the second sentence.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    ganymede said:
    Why is it that the rightwing intellectuals (and there are a few) have not been able to posit a single, sensible, scenario of what we must do to get out of this economic mess.

    Because “we” can’t do anything about it. Your question wrongly assumes that there is a “right” way and a “wrong” way to control an economy. A controlled economy is a controlled economy. The best thing government can do is get out of the way.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Cancon2 said:
    Progressives, or whatever name you are hiding behind now

    Great line.

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

    ganymede said:
    . I just wish that more of you people who are caught up in all this retrograde nonsense would snap out of it. You don’t have to love Obama, but he has accomplished quite a bit considering the mess he inherited, and if he weren’t black you would certainly not be as hostile. (uh,oh he’ using the race card-but it’s the truth and most people know it)

    Don’t worry, most of the centrist independants, moderate Republicans and, many moderate Democrats HAVE snapped out of it. That is why Obama’s approval numbers are tanking, and why so many Democrat seats in the House and probably about 8 in the Senate will be Republican come next Wednesday. He is the most divisive President in many decades, possibly ever.

    Do you not think that Obama is a divisive President? Was the health care bill (not the watered down one that passed, but the original one that got chopped up beacuse even Dems opposed it) divisive? A bill with an ultimate goal (Obama’s words, not mine, pre-2007) of single payer, only one option, government run health care? A bill with an eventual requirement that everyone purchase insurance, something he said he opposed during the campaign? Was filing a lawsuit against a state for trying to enforce immigration law divisive? Is continual demonization of the previous administration divisive? Is continual race and class baiting divisive? (You want examples, I’ve got plenty.) Is the cap and trade legislation divisive?

    Obama’s legislation is opposed almost unanimously by Republicans. And, much worse, he can’t even get many Democrats to go along with him without bribes and legislative gifts. Obama is WORSE than partisan – only OPPOSITION to his bills is bipartisan. Obama even divides his OWN PARTY. Please, if Obama is not a far left President, why are so many Democratic candidates running away, practically AGAINST him in their own races?

  • writer

    King, if you find Beck that boring, how is it that you’re always aware of every word he says? Oh, I forgot. You’re schizophrenic. That ‘other’ King watches Beck, then tells you what was said.

  • Seeing November From My Window

    Box of Rox says:

    I’ve also noticed that we don’t get crowd estimates for Palin anymore either. Now, in Orange County California they had betweed 200 to 500 people for her but, did you notice that her recent stop in Florida with Steele and Rubio they didn’t give the crowd totals. I wonder why? No I don’t

    Well Bill Clinton couldn’t even fill up half of a high school gym the other day, not that the media reported it. Media Matters=BIG FAIL!!!! Glenn Beck owns you!

  • felixw

    The Real Royal King said:
    … and he has no legitimate advertisers. Beckerhead is on the air only because of Murdoch’s stubborn pride and largesse. Basically, Beckerhead is a welfare recipient.

    You need some new aliases. The old ones have become so disgraced that many people, I’m sure, just vote them a thumbs down without even reading them. But who can blame them? When you post so often, and never say anything substantive, people start treating you like noise, a distraction for the people who have something to say here.

  • jrcmi

    Big Enema: “Obama preparing to take 1600 people with him on a pleasure trip”

    “50 million dollar trip”

    The only citation for this claim I could find is from the Indian website mentioned. There is no mention a $50m price tag in the article or elsewhere that I could readily locate.

    It is possible that the Indian reporter misunderstood. “1600 personnel” could have been mentioned in reference to government employees who WORK at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, not the actual number of persons making the trip. According to the article, security personnel total 25.

    You are also wrong about this being a “pleasure trip.” From your own cited article: “[T]he Indo-US business summit, which will be addressed by Obama, will take place in Hotel Trident’s plush Regal Room at Nariman Point. Only 400 hand-picked delegates have been invited for the summit . . . ”

    I suggest you actually READ items you cite before spreading more dubious info – unless you don’t really care about being truthful and accurate.

    “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”

    A single, out-of context quote, allegedly spoken by George Soros, that I cannot find on any non-right-wing website. An independent, contextual citation, please.

    “Beck has the audience. Beck has the bestsellers. Beck has the ratings. . . . ”

    Beck has the “sheeple.” He can keep them. He is also a proven liar. The sheeple can have HIM.

    “Beck connects Obama, Soros to “violent revolution” coming to “our shores”

    http://mediamatters.org/research/201010270046

    “Glenn Beck tied President Obama and George Soros to a group he has vilified for purportedly bringing “violent revolution” to “our shores.” Beck has repeatedly demonized Soros as “evil,” characterized Obama as a Soros pawn, and has accused Soros of putting a “bounty on my head.”

    Soros must’ve hired some pretty inept hitmen, since Blech-h-h-h has proclaimed Soros’ evil intentions for months.

    It’s almost pathetic to see right-wingers so desperate to deride and demean our president – and our democratic process, by extension – that they resort to such absurd extremes of dishonesty. How un-American.

    http://www.RepubliCorp.us

  • jrcmi

    Now I know why Andy Lame sounds so redundant and off-topic. he’s cut-n-pasting his own posts.

    Don’t break a nail.

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    … and he has no legitimate advertisers. Beckerhead is on the air only because of Murdoch’s stubborn pride and largesse. Basically, Beckerhead is a welfare recipient.

    What? Their checks bounce? The ratings don’t count? Beck lives on your money? You’re smoking the locoweed again, aren’t you Kook?

  • BarneyFranken

    The Real Royal King said:
    But I live in the Central Time Zone.

    So you admit you don’t actually watch.

    Since thats the case, you really need to STFU and leave the commenting to people who actually know something about Beck’s show other than what Soros wants you to believe.

    The King has been PWNED.

    Where’s your crown now King? If you want I can go to BK and get you one of those awesome paper ones to wear while your blogging in your mom’s basement.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christina-Mayberry/100000465268058 Christina Mayberry

    The two thinks that I like most about Glenn Beck is “Don’t take my word for it, look it up for yourself. And, I hope I’m wrong”. Well I have looked it up for myself, and I can honestly say that I know FOR SURE that he is not full of it. I’ve done the research for myself and everything is all there..He IS NOT WRONG.

    For those of you who say that Beck is “Boastfull” and “Paranoid”, Then how would you explain the 1.8 mil. that George Soros pumped into NPR AFTER Beck invited him on his show for one full hour? I believe that Beck is probably the smartest ones on the Fox News Channel, he does his homework. Now. I did a little digging of my own, and I found that Soros was actually a supporter and donated to the campaign of Obama when he was running for the U.S. Senate.

    I do not belive that he is paranoid, I believe that he is spot on and if the republicans do not take over in the mid-term elections, then our country is in more trouble then anyone could have imagined.

  • tgk

    The Real Royal King said:
    … and he has no legitimate advertisers. Beckerhead is on the air only because of Murdoch’s stubborn pride and largesse. Basically, Beckerhead is a welfare recipient.

    Ah, but I would be willing to bet if one went back through your comment history, there would be more than a few claiming it’s all about the money for Fox/Murdoch. Whatever works in the moment huh?

  • Big Eddie

    The evil Soros is munching on his live eel sandwich this morning , petting his cat and chortling about what his henchmen , Obama and Clinton , have fouled up , trying to force out Kendrick Meek , the Senate nominee in Florida chosen by the voters . The voters ! Sosors don’t care about no voters ! A shocking scandal !

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

    jrcmi said:
    Now I know why Andy Lame sounds so redundant and off-topic. he’s cut-n-pasting his own posts. Don’t break a nail.

    This is a thread about George Soros. I posted comments about George Soros. Then someone posted comments singing Obama’s praises (far, far out of the mainstream left wing liberals like you still love him.) I replied pasting comments I made about Obama on another thread, also about Obama. Big deal. Yeah, definitely off topic Copernicus.

    jrcmi said:
    It’s almost pathetic to see right-wingers so desperate to deride and demean our president – and our democratic process, by extension – that they resort to such absurd extremes of dishonesty. How un-American.

    Talk about redundant. You keep harping on “right wing” BS –

    “For many of us who voted for change in 2008, we have not gotten the change that we hoped and worked for” – DE Senate candidate Democrat Chris Coons, from his first debate with Christine O’Donnell.

    “They know that I have not agreed with Obama on cap-and-trade. I don’t agree on the spending. I wouldn’t have supported the health care bill if I had known it was so far reaching” –
    WVa Senate candidate Democrat Joe Manchin, appearing on various news shows over the last week.

    I could post more quotes from Dem candidates, but you’re not worth the time. Democrats are running away from Obama, save for blind far left wing ideologues. Talk about redundancy, a link to some half ass little website called RepubliCorp.us (there, I advertised for you) is in every friggin comment you make. Is that POS site yours? You’ll find out how popular the President is next Tuesday, as he costs a lot of Dems their jobs. Enjoy watching them get their asses beat.

  • Pablo

    Andy Lamb said:
    Talk about redundancy, a link to some half ass little website called RepubliCorp.us (there, I advertised for you) is in every friggin comment you make. Is that POS site yours?

    No, RepubliCorp.us is brought to you by MoveOn.org, which is to say that it’s a……ta da…George Soros production, just like Media Matters. I know, you’re shocked too, right?

  • Pablo

    Isn’t it interesting that instead of actually documenting anything the Republicans are doing, those crazy Soros kids at RepubliCorp are progressives pretending to be Republicans so they can produce video to smear Republicans with? This is the dumbest thing out of the Soros camp since the General BetrayUs idiocy.

  • Oregon Conservative

    How much Soros money would it take to reverse the inevitable???

    Speaker John Boehner of Ohio…

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    Oh, look. George Soros’ minion, Media Matters David Brock is a whiny titty baby as well as being clinically insane.

    “On Tuesday, I asked Sarah Palin to use her influential voice to stop attempted incidents of domestic terrorism incited by right-wing extremists like Glenn Beck. By telling Beck, ‘I stand with you,’ Palin — Fox News’ star contributor — now associates herself with acts of violence and the insane conspiracy theories and hate speech behind them.

    Rather than seize the opportunity to act in the national interest and do her part to prevent a major tragedy like the Oklahoma City bombing, Palin called into Beck’s show to call me ‘pathetic.’ While Palin and I don’t agree on much, I honestly believed we shared the view that the incitement to violence by a powerful media outlet was a national crisis that transcends the partisan divide. Sadly, I was wrong.”

    Should such a tragedy happen, I’ll be looking at RepubliCorp, not Beck listeners.

  • Bad Wolf

    “Stupid” is not a synonym for delusional but the similarity is negligible.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Ted- says: “… this is just Beck being the Michael Scott of Fox “News.” ”

    Ted, you insult Michael Scott!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christina-Mayberry/100000465268058 Christina Mayberry

    George Soros is bad news, I think we can all agree on this, but do you really know what we are dealing with here? This is a page that I found while that will show you the kind of person we are really up agianst. If he can do this to his own people, what do you think he will do IF he gets his “people” into power. Here is the link to the page.

    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/173/076/George_Soros_Says_He_Feels_No_Remorse_For_Collaborating_With_Nazis_During_WWII_to_Send_His_Fellow_Jews_to_the_Death_Camps,_Steal_Their_Property.html

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Christina Mayberry says:
    “George Soros is bad news, I think we can all agree on this, but do you really know what we are dealing with here? This is a page that I found while that will show you the kind of person we are really up agianst.”

    He was 14 y/o for god’s sake! Talk about a smear job. Get the facts on Soros:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/what-has-this-guy-done-that-has-glenn.html

    And more important, get the facts on Communist supporter (as an adult!), R. Murdoch. Who is worse?
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/glenn-becks-boss-faction-unto-himself.html

    Soros is a good guy who funded anti-Communist activists behind the iron curtain. Murdoch supports communists and their policies. The right doesn’t seem to care, but they’ll point their finger at Soros because Glenn Beck says that he’s “evil.” If lying condemned people to hell, Beck would already be there.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    Fear is a wonderful asset to have in your arsenal of human senses. If it is continually tricked into action, you need to find the perpetrator and try to destroy his or her name and hope that puts him out of business so as to protect other innocent people who could succumb to a terrible accident brought on from the decision embraced because of the trust you had in a fear monger. Spreading fear is like a bully swinging a club at you because he continually keeps you on guard and ducking all the incoming threats he has told you about. A fear monger is a thought bully and he keeps forgetting; what goes around comes around to its beginning. They always get paid back but don’t remember why.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    uggugg says:
    “Fear is a wonderful asset to have in your arsenal of human senses. ”

    So is being a masterful liar. Lincoln was right: you can fool some of the people all of the time. From:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/interview-with-stopbeck-activist.html

    Paul Westlake: “Beck is so much smarter than a lot of people think. He’s a natural communicator and skilled liar. I’m a skilled liar, too, but I chose the honest path as a teenager. But I can still recognize the signs, the slowly, carefully constructed sentences, the false humility that serves as bravado, the thinly self-assured gusto with which he mixes tiny truths with massive lies and persuades his followers that he has a particular insight that all others simply lack. What’s amazing is the percentage of Americans that are literally stunted in their social development enough to watch this obvious charlatan and take him for the genuine article. The dismantling of social services, coupled with decades of middle class economic decline, have regressed the American education standards to a point where Glenn Beck and the Tea Party are possible. I knew it was coming twenty years ago, I just didn’t realize it was coming this soon and this hard.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Elliot/1397506919 Derek Elliot

    Soros money is blood money. He made his first shekel selling the gold teeth taken from Holocaust victims — his own people. He refused to apologize to the families of these victims when he had an opportunity on Sixty Minutes a few years ago (it’s on YouTube). A truly despicable human being.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Oh, Derek; you’re the reactionary pointing your finger at someone, who was 14 y/o at the time that he was told by his father to do what the Nazi told him to do.

    Let me say this: if Soros was a contributor to pro-corporate/tea party organizations like the Koch brothers are, you and Glenn Beck would fawn over him.

    There’s one real reason that you are smearing Soros: he supports progressive organizations. The smear to which I refer is the idea that he has “blood money.” He also didn’t take the teeth from victims although he did go with the Nazi who was taking possessions from Jews during the Holocaust.

    In the U.S., he would be tried for cooperation as a juvenile.

    You want to see a despicable human being? How about a “pro-business” propagandist who supports the Chinese Communist as an adult. No excuses except of course for this man greed rules his decisions.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/glenn-becks-boss-faction-unto-himself.html

  • timcajun

    The CIA, Mafia and Daffy Duck were all trying to shut me down last year and they couldn’t do it! I must be as good as Beck!

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