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Glenn Beck Hits Back At Claims He’s A “Lunatic,” But Does He Have Any Solutions?

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One of the most frequently used short-hand criticisms of Glenn Beck is that he’s nothing but a crazy conspiracy theorist scaring his viewers needlessly. This criticism heated up considerably in the past week as Beck made connections between the uprising in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and his usual enemies of Marxists attempting to create a One World Order. An article on Gawker entitled “The Right-Wing Nut’s Guide to Egypt” used him as a poster boy. Reason’s Michael Moynihan called that episode “the dumbest thing ever broadcast on (non-cable access) television.” On Beck’s own network, The Daily Beasts’ Michelle Goldberg described his notions as “lunatic theories” on Fox & Friends. Beck played that clip on today’s show, chuckled and promised viewers they’d “feel bad” for Goldberg by the end of the show. But, if he really wanted to hit back at these accusations, Beck should stop trying to prove his theories and start offering solutions.

The other day, I half-jokingly paraphrased Beck’s positions on Hosni Mubarak and his opposition as “Why back anyone? They all stink.” It’s just this kind of attitude that throws further flames on his critics’ fires. When you only talk about the tons of “shadow parties” that are trying to take down our way of life, but don’t offer any way to stop them, anyone would begin to sound like a conspiracy theorist. Anyone. He’s spent plenty of time trying to prove his theories (the dozens of chalkboards on stage this week prove that), but he hasn’t given any concrete ways to solve the situation in Egypt in a way that won’t lead to the “Coming Insurrection.” And, no, neither “The Four E’s” or “fixing Reason firmly in her seat” qualify as “concrete.”

Normally, we wouldn’t think Beck was obligated to do anything other than point out faults and problems. After all, this is his show, he can do with it what he wants. However, Beck promised something different a day short of one month ago.

On his first show of the new year, Beck gave his New Year’s Address, a speech which I described as having something for everyone: “heroic and inspiring talk for the Restoring Honor crowd and pseudo-cult leader talk for the Restoring Sanity crowd.” The biggest moment of the speech (not counting the big reveal of those aforementioned E’s) was where Beck unplugged the red phone which was his line of contact for when the White House wanted to reach him. That phone was so he could give them suggestions on how to save the country. He was sick of waiting for the call though, he explained at the time. No, now it was time for him to lead.

“I will no longer look to others for leadership or answers. We’re out of time. I will lead, me and my family. And I will teach my family and myself to be independent, honorable, educated, self-reliant, and charitable. And with firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, I choose to re-found this amazing nation by rediscovering it within myself and sharing it within the circle of my own influence, the principles and ethics that defined American exceptionalism.”

Big words and ones that I’m sure garnered applause in the living rooms of not a small amount of Beck Faithfuls. But, since he was no longer waiting to give President Obama solutions, why hasn’t he started giving them to us?

This Egypt situation is the perfect example of that problem. So, Glenn, you’ve told us that the Muslim Brotherhood is going to take over if Mubarak steps down. You’ve said that Mubarak is a bad guy and we never should have allied with him. Well . . . we did. That’s done. So what should America do? What should Obama do that would make you happy? I don’t have any answers but, a month ago, you promised you would. It was a courageous thing to do (and something that made for great television), but now you have to live up to it.

While making fun of his critics today, Beck said he no longer cared. He quoted Davy Crockett, saying they they could go to Hell while he goes to Texas. Clearly, though, you do care. (That’s not a knock. Who wouldn’t?).

If you want people to take you seriously, you need to live up to those big claims you made. You need to stop accusing the White House of doing unspeakable acts and not giving suggestions of what they could do better. You need to stop bad-mouthing all the potential powers in Egypt and start coming up with a good one. You need to stop scaring and start actually leading.

Watch the opening segment of today’s show where Beck discusses his critics in this clip from Fox News below:

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  • Big Eddie

    How about a story on the Code Pink gathering this weekend , and the threats to Clarence Thomas , his wife and others ?

    How about the info Glenn provided on Tariq Ramadan ( grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood ) , and the Obama administration overturning his banning from the U.S ? How about Obama ‘s ties to the MB ?

    http://www.cis.org/kephart/tariqramadan

  • kvon

    2 million people watch this retard…wow.

  • nice_thought

    Were you in vacation last two years, mr. John; you liberal Leftie. Glenn has been giving solutions all along. Either you buy gold or you stack up dried foods. Can’t get any easier than that, can it?

  • Probably NOT wrong

    kvon said:
    2 million people watch this retard…wow.

    Yeah, and another 6 Million listen to his Radio Talk Show and
    he has about 10 Books that have hit the NY Times Best Sellers list,
    and he earns about 35 mil a year AND don’t that just piss you off, kvon!!
    UMM

  • Leftist Asshat

    Right on!
    Glenn Beck should solve all the problems in Egypt and America, or else he should stop talking about them! And if he doesn’t do President Obama’s job for him, then all of us leftist asshats are going to call him crazy!

  • George C

    Garth. said:
    Ted/SarahP/Garth is an attention starved narcissist who, I’m afraid is going to have go further off the ledge to get the attention he deserves

    FIFY

  • Big Eddie

    Solutions , huh ? He ‘s exposing what the MSM will not .

    The people coming on here to insult a good man like Glenn who is doing a service to his country are merely ignorant . And the ignorant are always loud in argument .

  • Nacho

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Yeah, and another 6 Million listen to his Radio Talk Show and
    he has about 10 Books that have hit the NY Times Best Sellers list,
    and he earns about 35 mil a year AND don’t that just piss you off, kvon!!
    UMM

    That says a lot about the retards that watch/listen to him.

  • tgk

    So, if you don’t have the answers, you should just ignore the situation? I don’t believe Glenn ever said he had solutions to anything like what’s going on in Egypt. He was talking about solutions to restoring the principals and values that America was founded on, hence the 4e’s. But I am sure you already know that Jon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Craig-Brokenburr/1442222202 Michael Craig Brokenburr

    Beck is going nuts he’s about to enter Alex Jones territory. The man doesn’t even have a firm grasp on American History.

  • nice_thought

    Garth. said:
    FIFY x2 He he he.

    They give a lessons on “how to reply to a smart a post,” in the local community colleges. look it out.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    I am surprised Glenn Beck was able to get up and come
    back after that Blistering v
    Verbal Major League ass-whuppin’
    BOMBSHELL, Sr. put on Glenn and Fox a couple days ago!

    I am beginning to lose confidence in ‘ole GBR!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Craig-Brokenburr/1442222202 Michael Craig Brokenburr

    Why does Beck try and associate the left and the radical muslims together they are on differnet sides of the spectrum. Radical Islam is at it heart a harcore conservative movement.

  • BFD

    Have the Australians been forced to throw “another egg roll on the barbie” yet?

    Great article Jon. I didn’t realize there was such a backlash for his Egypt show.

    “the dumbest thing ever broadcast on (non-cable access) television.”

    Hilarious.

  • Nacho

    The REAL IMPORTANT part of his theory is what he made sure to write in while on TV.

    “…AND the Western way of Life.” It’s not just capitalism or America, its YOU.

    Be scared, They hate your way of life so they will do what ever it takes to destroy YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

    Buy GOLD!

  • nice_thought

    Garth. said:
    “Look it out.” Good God, you morons can’t get anything right. Who is “they?” Fat and dumb is not way to go through life moron.

    Thank you for the compliment. You just ruined my evening, you jerk.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Big Eddie, Tommy C covered that story by blaming conservatives.

  • grafxmail7

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Yeah, and another 6 Million listen to his Radio Talk Show and
    he has about 10 Books that have hit the NY Times Best Sellers list,
    and he earns about 35 mil a year AND don’t that just piss you off, kvon!!
    UMM

    Good for him! He’s making money off the fools that believe him!

    He says something true or predicts something that is obvious and he acts like a prophet.
    He says something wrong or stupid and he excuses himself by calling himself a rodeo clown.
    All the while he’s just raking in the cash from a bunch of clowns that believe and defend him.

    This is hilarious and entertaining.
    At the end of the day, though, the real joke is the people that believe Chicken Little Beck!

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Beck Responds to ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Accusations With Three Sentences

    On radio Thursday, Glenn Beck responded to those accusing him of wild “conspiracy theories” connecting the extreme left and extreme Islam in the wake of the Egyptian unrest — and he used three simple, succinct sentences to do so.

    “I want the left to know, I plant my flag in this soil. If I’m wrong, so be it,” he said before laying out his case. “And you can discredit me all you want for the end of time, but I’m telling you I’m not wrong on this one. And there are three points that I want to make sure are very clear.”

    Sentence one: “Groups from the hardcore socialist left, and extreme Islam will work together because of the common enemy of Israel.”

    Sentence two: “Groups from the hardcore socialist left and extreme Islam will work together because of the common enemy of capitalism.”

    Sentence three: “Groups from the hardcore socialist left, and extreme Islam will work together to overturn relative stability, because in the status quo, they are both ostracized from power and the mainstream in most of the world.”

    Give exposing them Glenn. You are doing a great job!

  • screwauger

    Garth. said:
    I think if you listen to the drug addled moron you automatically subtract 90 pts (minimum) from your IQ which would leave Limbaugh listeners no smarter than a used q-tip. Sounds about right.

    i think you’re mixing up your hate speech. Seems like you can’t decide who you hate more glenny or elrushbo. You know what they say about hate…it’s only there if deep down you love them. Otherwise you wouldn’t care. Or it’s complete FEAR of the TRUTH

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Garth, did you use to go by the name Iris or Ted?

  • nice_thought

    Garth. said:
    Does anyone in their right mind ( this of course excludes Michelle in UT) believe that Glenn Beck is anything more than a manipulative and self serving con artist? And a classic asshole? You’ve got to be a something on the order of a learning challenged Michelle in UT to believe otherwise and we know she is brain dead..

    You mean, left mind, Ted?

  • nice_thought

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Garth, did you use to go by the name Iris or Ted?

    Congrats for beating me to it.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Bershad wrote, “Clearly, though, you do care. (That’s not a knock. Who wouldn’t?)” Oh Jon, be careful you don’t get yourself o the shit end of Beck’s stick. You know how rough he is with his critics, and God knows you’re very careful not to cross that line.

    At least you did bring in what critics are saying, and as a student of world politics I have to agree with Reason’s Michael Moynihan who called that episode “the dumbest thing ever broadcast on (non-cable access) television.” It was also loaded with factual errors, some born of ignorance, some of sheer stupidity and absurd but typical paranoia.

    I wrote on Beck’s website today that I defend his IQ here at Mediaite when someone accuses Beck of being stupid or a moron. On the other hand, smart people know their limitations. I would no more pretend to be a surgeon than Beck should pretend to be a pundit or have real, scholarly knowledge of the complex Middle East. If he were smart, he would have invited an expert to come in and ask questions. Hell, John Bolton says some frightening things that Beck’s audience would have sucked up. If he were smart, he’d understand and know his limitations. He’s not smart though; he’s not stupid. This week Beck proved, once again, that he’s uniquely unqualified to have a show on television discussing anything more complex than theater and fictions. Glenn Beck may be the greatest show on TV, but his nonsense is getting old…unless you’re Rupert Murdoch who specializes in dishing out nonsense.

  • screwauger

    nice_thought said:
    Congrats for beating me to it.

    ahh, common troll. Not to be confused with the common creek chub.

  • screwauger

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Bershad wrote, “Clearly, though, you do care. (That’s not a knock. Who wouldn’t?)” Oh Jon, be careful you don’t get yourself o the shit end of Beck’s stick. You know how rough he is with his critics, and God knows you’re very careful not to cross that line.

    At least you did bring in what critics are saying, and as a student of world politics I have to agree with Reason’s Michael Moynihan who called that episode “the dumbest thing ever broadcast on (non-cable access) television.” It was also loaded with factual errors, some born of ignorance, some of sheer stupidity and absurd but typical paranoia.

    +1000
    I wrote on Beck’s website today that I defend his IQ here at Mediaite when someone accuses Beck of being stupid or a moron. On the other hand, smart people know their limitations. I would no more pretend to be a surgeon than Beck should pretend to be a pundit or have real, scholarly knowledge of the complex Middle East. If he were smart, he would have invited an expert to come in and ask questions. Hell, John Bolton says some frightening things that Beck’s audience would have sucked up. If he were smart, he’d understand and know his limitations. He’s not smart though; he’s not stupid. This week Beck proved, once again, that he’s uniquely unqualified to have a show on television discussing anything more complex than theater and fictions. Glenn Beck may be the greatest show on TV, but his nonsense is getting old…unless you’re Rupert Murdoch who specializes in dishing out nonsense.

  • screwauger

    shud have been “+1000″

  • screwauger

    Garth. said:
    You’re babbling. Is this natural for you?

    is there a mosquito in here. What’s that buzzing?

  • nice_thought

    screwauger said:
    is there a mosquito in here. What’s that buzzing?

    It’s not mosquito. Your ass is leaking and making sounds. ;)

  • kvon

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Yeah, and another 6 Million listen to his Radio Talk Show and
    he has about 10 Books that have hit the NY Times Best Sellers list,
    and he earns about 35 mil a year AND don’t that just piss you off, kvon!!
    UMM

    Making money off of sheep has never been easier!

    Seems you folks have your own little L. Ron Hubbard. Congrats!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    “Beck Responds to ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Accusations With Three Sentences:

    Sentence one: “Groups from the hardcore socialist left, and extreme Islam will work together because of the common enemy of Israel.”

    Sentence two: “Groups from the hardcore socialist left and extreme Islam will work together because of the common enemy of capitalism.”

    Sentence three: “Groups from the hardcore socialist left, and extreme Islam will work together to overturn relative stability, because in the status quo, they are both ostracized from power and the mainstream in most of the world.”

    All three are baseless and idiotic, Beck pretending that he has special information when he is — as is his wont — pulling facts out of his ass. How people can think that they are smart listening and reposting this utter nonsense is truly a mystery. I guess, if you’re ignorant about the facts, you’ll buy and grab onto anything that sounds persuasive. Say what you will about Beck, he is persuasive, dangerously so:

    http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2011/02/becks-poison-is-in-system-glenn-becks.html

  • grafxmail7

    Big Eddie said:
    Solutions , huh ? He ’s exposing what the MSM will not .

    The people coming on here to insult a good man like Glenn who is doing a service to his country are merely ignorant . And the ignorant are always loud in argument .

    People said the same thing about Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy.
    How history turn out for these guys?

    Chicken Little Beck is nothing but a fear mongering snake oil salesman and he’s cashing in on all the believers.
    I must admit that I do find the minions that follow him quite entertaining!

  • Probably NOT wrong

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Bershad wrote, “Clearly, though, you do care. (That’s not a knock. Who wouldn’t?)” Oh Jon, be careful you don’t get yourself o the shit end of Beck’s stick. You know how rough he is with his critics, and God knows you’re very careful not to cross that line. At least you did bring in what critics are saying, and as a student of world politics I have to agree with Reason’s Michael Moynihan who called that episode “the dumbest thing ever broadcast on (non-cable access) television.” It was also loaded with factual errors, some born of ignorance, some of sheer stupidity and absurd but typical paranoia. I wrote on Beck’s website today that I defend his IQ here at Mediaite when someone accuses Beck of being stupid or a moron. On the other hand, smart people know their limitations. I would no more pretend to be a surgeon than Beck should pretend to be a pundit or have real, scholarly knowledge of the complex Middle East. If he were smart, he would have invited an expert to come in and ask questions. Hell, John Bolton says some frightening things that Beck’s audience would have sucked up. If he were smart, he’d understand and know his limitations. He’s not smart though; he’s not stupid. This week Beck proved, once again, that he’s uniquely unqualified to have a show on television discussing anything more complex than theater and fictions. Glenn Beck may be the greatest show on TV, but his nonsense is getting old…unless you’re Rupert Murdoch who specializes in dishing out nonsense.

    Well, shit, BOMBSHELL, Sr.
    Why didn’t you ‘splain it in that very articulate way
    before?
    OK everyone! Go to new thread!

  • tgk

    grafxmail7 said:
    Good for him! He’s making money off the fools that believe him!

    Do you detest all people that make money off of what they do? Or is your disgust just reserved for conservatives? Do you think all the (evil) people making money that you don’t agree with are all phony’s and the ones you agree with don’t do it for the money, just that they believe in what they are doing? AKA Michale Moore? Attacking capitalism while living the good life because of it? Al Gore, making millions off global warming while living in a mansion by the sea that’s going to rise 20 ft any day now?

  • tgk

    GlennBeckReview said:
    I wrote on Beck’s website today

    I’ll bet he was thrilled and read with great anticipation what you had to say GBR

  • Cali

    Michael Craig Brokenburr said:
    Why does Beck try and associate the left and the radical muslims together they are on differnet sides of the spectrum.

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend? I have realized some conspiracies that never come to fruition. It usually happens when they get close to the goal and then have to determine which one is going to be on top and they tear each other down. If they succeed the Progressives will move quickly to suppress Islam or Islam will cut off their heads. It’s a nasty business. We also fail to know all that is going on in the back ground. While all this stuff Beck warns of is going on our side is not idle.

  • AngelPeters

    Someone, please get this man some help. Seriously.

  • Big Eddie

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Garth, did you use to go by the name Iris or Ted?

    Both , plus SarahP.

  • Leftist Asshat

    grafxmail7 said:
    People said the same thing about Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy.
    How history turn out for these guys?

    Too bad they didn’t have twitter back then. They coulda had a second career like our man Keith Olbermann.

  • StandUp

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Garth, did you use to go by the name Iris or Ted?

    He used to be Ted with the crying Beck avatar, then SarahP. with the Sarah avatar, now he is Garth with the Rush avatar. This guy just can’t make up his mind who he hates more. You can change names and avatars, but you cannot hide hate.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    GBR = the reason Glenn Beck has to spend a million dollars a year on personal security.

  • nice_thought

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    GBR = the reason Glenn Beck has to spend a million dollars a year on personal security.

    Nah.. You might be giving him too much credit.

  • Grammie

    Leftist Asshat said:
    Right on!
    Glenn Beck should solve all the problems in Egypt and America, or else he should stop talking about them! And if he doesn’t do President Obama’s job for him, then all of us leftist asshats are going to call him crazy!

    .
    Just putting your comment out there again b/c it deserves repeating!

  • fiera

    Get a rope. that man is sick.
    tie him up strongly, He is belong, to a mental institution or to the taller tree

  • grafxmail7

    tgk said:
    Do you detest all people that make money off of what they do? Or is your disgust just reserved for conservatives? Do you think all the (evil) people making money that you don’t agree with are all phony’s and the ones you agree with don’t do it for the money, just that they believe in what they are doing? AKA Michale Moore? Attacking capitalism while living the good life because of it? Al Gore, making millions off global warming while living in a mansion by the sea that’s going to rise 20 ft any day now?

    How did you extrapolate that? Who was attacking capitalism? I’m a big time capitalist.
    I was making fun of the fools that believe in Chicken Little Beck.
    Do you believe in Chicken Little Beck?
    Are you one of those people that blinding defend him no matter what he says?
    Do you buy his books? Do you buy gold? Do you buy his survival backpacks?

    Chicken Little Beck is the performer and snake oil salesman but I find his followers to be the biggest jokes of all!

  • Probably NOT wrong

    You think this is funny, I just watched a couple segments
    of Tingles Hardball Show.
    Good Lord you think Obama made this guys sack tingle,, it has become
    apparent he has lost his freaking mind since Beck called him a
    Sanctimonious BalloonHead a couple days ago.
    He has a woody for Beck bordering on Terminal!
    Tingles, instead of asking clowns like Eugene Robinson and that little dickhead
    from Media Matters each night what Beck is thinking,, go across the damn street and ask
    Beck face to face. Then you can come back and report his response! Shit!!
    Eugene Robinson is always introduced a Pulitzer Prize Winner.
    If that guy is a Pulitzer Prize Winner I am going to start submitting my Grocery
    List to the Selection Committee.
    The Media Matters guy is just a

  • grafxmail7

    Chicken Little Beck is NOT a lunatic.

    The people who follow and believe Chicken Little Beck are the lunatics.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    GBR = the reason Glenn Beck has to spend a million dollars a year on personal security.

    Yeah, word is out that the BOMBSHELL is now packing a 500
    Squirt Super Soaker!

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    Is it me or is Glenn going bald AND blind? By the way, I wish he would hurry up with the blind thing, the suspense is killing me and many tea-baggers across America. No that it’s any great loss.

    I condemn this comment! No self respecting, kind, caring, peaceful Progressive asshat would ever wish blindness on anyone. Lynching black guys? Hell yeah (http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6)! But not blindness!

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Gosh, THAT is clever, graf.
    Chicken Little Beck!
    Damn, I wish I had thunk of that!

  • grafxmail7

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Gosh, THAT is clever, graf.
    Chicken Little Beck!
    Damn, I wish I had thunk of that!

    What you would have thunk of would have been something like “Dear Leader Beck”, or “Your Excellency Beck”

    Chicken Little Beck followers are a JOKE!

  • StandUp

    fiera said:
    Get a rope. that man is sick.tie him up strongly, He is belong, to a mental institution or to the taller tree

    Could you repeat that in English please?

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    You clearly are in favor of lynching black guys which naturally makes you repugnant and a racist.

    No. That’s the Baggers!
    Us Leftist Asshats would never say that United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be enslaved and then hung! http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6

  • Leftist Asshat

    fiera said:
    Get a rope. that man is sick.
    tie him up strongly, He is belong, to a mental institution or to the taller tree

    Just like Clarence Thomas, right bro! http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    No, I’m sorry asshat but you are clearly a big time racist and moron. Not to mention something of a brainstem.

    Click the link SarahP http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    Let me guess…white trash?

    I renounce “Garth/SarahP” using the racist slur “white trash”. No peaceful, kind, caring Leftist Asshat would ever use such racist language!

  • ImNotBlue

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Gosh, THAT is clever, graf.Chicken Little Beck!Damn, I wish I had thunk of that!

    Get used to it… he uses it in every post, and almost every sentence.

    Of course, all eh really says is, “I’m laughing at Chicken Little Beck fans,” and “Are you a fan?” Over and over and over and over again.

    Just don’t ask him about his credentials. He’s lived all over the globe, and a few other planets too… he speaks about 80 languages, has been the CEO of every company ever, is young enough to still be in “the demo,” but spends a lot of his time on Mediaite for reasons which are yet unknown.

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    At least you admit that you are a white trash racist.

    About the same way you admit you either don’t know how to click on a hyperlink, or comprehend a simple 3:00 minute long YouTube video.
    Now go click on this link and watch this peace loving, progressive video http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6! You’re giving us Leftist Asshats a bad name!

  • grafxmail7

    ImNotBlue said:
    Get used to it… he uses it in every post, and almost every sentence.

    Of course, all eh really says is, “I’m laughing at Chicken Little Beck fans,” and “Are you a fan?” Over and over and over and over again.

    Just don’t ask him about his credentials. He’s lived all over the globe, and a few other planets too… he speaks about 80 languages, has been the CEO of every company ever, is young enough to still be in “the demo,” but spends a lot of his time on Mediaite for reasons which are yet unknown.

    Where did you get your some what made up facts about me?

    Are you a follower of Chicken Little Beck?

    Did you buy one of his survival backpacks?

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Americans need to worry about their loss of freedom, but Egyptians need to have a dictator. Great message, Beck!

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    I’m sorry but you must first admit that you are a buffoon and a racist. Which of course you are. Asshat.

    Stop giving me excuses to post this link of us “Progressives” saying that Justice Scalia should go back to Sicily and Justice Thomas should be sent out to the fields, have his fingers and toes chopped off and then he should be hanged, because it’s giving us “Progressives” a bad name! http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6

  • grafxmail7

    Do you followers of Chicken Little Beck have a name for yourselves?

  • grafxmail7

    Leftist Asshat said:
    About the same way you admit you either don’t know how to click on a hyperlink, or comprehend a simple 3:00 minute long YouTube video.
    Now go click on this link and watch this peace loving, progressive video http://tinyurl.com/4ow49p6! You’re giving us Leftist Asshats a bad name!

    The guy in the video is an idiot.

    That doesn’t change the face that all the followers of Chicken Little Beck are a bunch or clowns (rodeo).

  • tgk

    grafxmail7 said:
    How did you extrapolate that? Who was attacking capitalism? I’m a big time capitalist.
    I was making fun of the fools that believe in Chicken Little Beck.
    Do you believe in Chicken Little Beck?
    Are you one of those people that blinding defend him no matter what he says?
    Do you buy his books? Do you buy gold? Do you buy his survival backpacks?

    Chicken Little Beck is the performer and snake oil salesman but I find his followers to be the biggest jokes of all!

    Obviously reading comprehension is not your strong suit.

    You have to answer my questions before I answer yours, of course that would require you actually read and understand what I wrote first. I’ll wait…………..

  • Leftist Asshat

    Garth. said:
    How do you, a brainstem, explain its ( that would be you dip shit) comment about lynching a black man? You must have all the intelligence of a tampon. No offense to tampons.

    Well…if you insist there Garth/SarahP.
    Remember, it’s all your fault I had to post this article from Yahoo News here:

    Anti-Koch progressives call for violent acts against Justice Clarence Thomas at rally

    In an edited video released Thursday, progressive protesters are shown calling for violent attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas while protesting outside a summit billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch held last week in Palm Springs, Calif.
    Asked by the filmmaker to say what he would like to do to Thomas, one protester says: “put him back in the fields.”
    “He’s a scumbag,” the man says. “He’s a dumb shit scumbag.” The man also said Thomas’s colleague, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, “should go back to Sicily.”
    A young woman at the rally said that though she was “all about peace,” she would like for Thomas to undergo “torture.”
    Two other protesters appear to call for Thomas’s death. When asked what should happen to Thomas, one person says “hang him” while another protester says “string him up.”
    http://tinyurl.com/4rncdeb

  • ROCKSTEADY

    ImNotBlue said:
    but spends a lot of his time on Mediaite for reasons which are yet unknown.

    Again this could be said about a lot of people here.

    Garth. said:
    Leftist Asshat

    Is this you seeing nothing from your window?Clever girl.

  • The Tea Weasel

    I propose we name Glenn head of the Full Mooner Party. And henceforth, we should call his fans “The Chicken Little Gang”.

    It’s amazing, and even a little sad, that Glenn draws any audience. But throughout American media history there has been a Beck-like figure with a small, urgently frightened audience. I guess there is a need for Becksy. Otherwise his audience would be roaming the streets stridently discussing the impending collapse of civilization with themselves. Now those folks can discuss it with the TV in the comfort of their homes.

  • The Tea Weasel

    BTW, buy you some gold and soup packets before the Caliphate comes to a government near you.

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  • WillP

    Glenn Beck does have serious mental health problems. Let me first say that he is very intelligent and articulate. I don’t know if anybody in media today has superior communication skills. I saw an interview with a former fellow DJ from Arizona awhile ago who commented that Beck was always provocative trying to make waves. Beck pushes conspiracies such as this one over the caliphate or makes outlandish statements such as the president is a racist partially to maintain and improve his ratings. But, it is partially as well to address his overwhelming emotional insecurities. He is constantly seeking attention to build up his fragile ego. I made the observation before that he repeatedly reminds people that he is a former alcoholic. He does this for people to gain sympathy to see him as a great man who has overcome significant adversity in his life. The same pattern of someone with major insecurities seeking attention and approval is always present with Glenn Beck. For what it’s worth I am a licensed mental health counselor so I do have a background in mental health.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    grafxmail7 said:
    Do you followers of Chicken Little Beck have a name for yourselves?

    Little Becks peckers?

  • cjd ohio 1

    WillP said:
    Glenn Beck does have serious mental health problems. Let me first say that he is very intelligent and articulate. I don’t know if anybody in media today has superior communication skills. I saw an interview with a former fellow DJ from Arizona awhile ago who commented that Beck was always provocative trying to make waves. Beck pushes conspiracies such as this one over the caliphate or makes outlandish statements such as the president is a racist partially to maintain and improve his ratings. But, it is partially as well to address his overwhelming emotional insecurities. He is constantly seeking attention to build up his fragile ego. I made the observation before that he repeatedly reminds people that he is a former alcoholic. He does this for people to gain sympathy to see him as a great man who has overcome significant adversity in his life. The same pattern of someone with major insecurities seeking attention and approval is always present with Glenn Beck. For what it’s worth I am a licensed mental health counselor so I do have a background in mental health.

    its worth nothing

  • valkyrie101

    Glenn is the Russell Crowe character in a Beautiful Mind.

  • jasonhaze

    Before you it, Beck will gone like the morning mist, on Faux noise anyway….
    When the daily sheep come to, and realize the world is not going to end tomorrow, and Obama is not stealing their cheese and butter, They’ll move on to some other fear-monger that FAUX will drag out of the rubbish.

  • grafxmail7

    tgk said:
    Obviously reading comprehension is not your strong suit.

    You have to answer my questions before I answer yours, of course that would require you actually read and understand what I wrote first. I’ll wait…………..

    Your “question” was more of an uninformed statement than anything. Your questions were relative to an ideology. It was a bunch of babble that had nothing to do with the article or what I had said. It was a silly diversion to try to change the subject.

    I was laughing about people like you. People who believe and defend Chicken Little Beck. You’re like a bunch of rats running around attacking anyone who says anything even remotely questionable about Chicken Little Beck. You’re all predictable and usually say the same thing.

    Now go and buy some gold or some seeds and be afraid!

  • Grammie

    WillP said:
    For what it’s worth I am a licensed mental health counselor so I do have a background in mental health.

    .
    As a “licensed mental health counselor” I would hope that you would know that you are no more qualified to give a “professional opinion” on a stranger’s mental health status than the janitor who cleans you work space?

  • Paleoconservatarian

    grafxmail7 said:
    You’re all predictable and usually say the same thing.

    Now this post is just asking to start a sub thread on the definition of irony.

  • wayback

    Beck will see the demise of O’Donnell Mr Ed Maddow and the entire circus of morons called MSNBC. Comcast will throw them in the trash like an old pizza box. Beck will also see the end of the Obama reign. They call him crazy yet his predictions are coming true. He has taken down a few far left radicals and will continue to do so. The Left can say nothing that doesn’t include the words Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman – their idealogy smashed to dust in the Nov elections, their spokepeople dropping like flies. Chris Matthews is on life support and his leg tingles don’t inspire him much anymore. Beck on his worst day could crush any “big time” lefty in a serious debate.
    For those of you who mock Glenn Beck- you will see him destroy his competitors (already is) and remain at the top of the American people’s ratings.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Michael Craig Brokenburr said:
    Why does Beck try and associate the left and the radical muslims together they are on differnet sides of the spectrum. Radical Islam is at it heart a harcore conservative movement.

    Michael, your facts are correct, but your analysis of Beck misses the point.

    Both “radical islam” and “America’s far left” want to tell EVERYONE how to live & make all the rules.
    That’s what they have in common — they’ll both ruin your life. Beck is absolutely correct about this.

    The difference between them comes in the very different way they want to ORDER everyone to live.

    The muslims insist you “think” like them. They are a sad group with low self-esteem, and somewhat hopeless.

    The lefties are greedy & lazy. They want someone else to take care of them. They want a guaranteed job & they confuse IQ with value. They are also a sad group. Amazingly, they’ll work hard to control you, but they don’t want to work to provide value to anyone.

    They use similar/overlapping methods. They want dramatically different lives.

  • the real john t

    Arkansas Steve said:
    The lefties are greedy & lazy. They want someone else to take care of them. They want a guaranteed job & they confuse IQ with value. They are also a sad group. Amazingly, they’ll work hard to control you, but they don’t want to work to provide value to anyone.

    That is about the most ignorant thing I’ve read in a long time.

  • ImNotBlue

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    Again this could be said about a lot of people here.

    That was a reference to grafx’s blather about his “credentials.”

    Seems that the more “importance” some people have, the more time they spend on Mediaite. A contradiction, no?

  • glenn113

    The insane asylum.

  • ImNotBlue

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    Now this post is just asking to start a sub thread on the definition of irony.

    Wait wait… let me guess the response…

    grafx will say something about “Chicken Little Beck,” and then ask if you’re one of his “followers.”

    *Sigh*

  • The Tea Weasel

    the real john t said:
    That is about the most ignorant thing I’ve read in a long time.

    He’s from Arkansas for Christ’s sake, cut him a break.

  • tgk

    grafxmail7 said:
    Your “question” was more of an uninformed statement than anything. Your questions were relative to an ideology. It was a bunch of babble that had nothing to do with the article or what I had said. It was a silly diversion to try to change the subject.

    I was laughing about people like you. People who believe and defend Chicken Little Beck. You’re like a bunch of rats running around attacking anyone who says anything even remotely questionable about Chicken Little Beck. You’re all predictable and usually say the same thing.

    Now go and buy some gold or some seeds and be afraid!

    Nope, it was a straight forward question relevant to YOUR post (which had nothing to do with article BTW). Obviously you don’t intend to answer it. Talk about diversion. You are a typical liberal, hit and run insults and NO substance of any kind. Keep laughing…..

  • StandUp

    Arkansas Steve said:
    The lefties are greedy & lazy. They want someone else to take care of them. They want a guaranteed job & they confuse IQ with value. They are also a sad group. Amazingly, they’ll work hard to control you, but they don’t want to work to provide value to anyone.

    the real john t said:
    That is about the most ignorant thing I’ve read in a long time.

    Then it must have been a long time since you read anything. Arkansas Steve is dead on.
    You can read ignorant statements just by proofreading your own comments.

  • the real john t

    The Tea Weasel said:
    He’s from Arkansas for Christ’s sake, cut him a break.

    Yeah, that’s one of those read states that the blue states end up supporting with their tax dollars through the government.

  • Yargburger

    I’d totally Beck that! Is it true that it is only 4 E’s? I was hoping for more, but he can totally Mubarak my world with his right wing nuts!

  • the real john t

    StandUp said:
    Arkansas Steve is dead on.

    How many years you been working, if you work at all?

  • StandUp

    the real john t said:
    How many years you been working, if you work at all?

    40 years and still going. Self-employed. Anything else? I’ll be more than happy to answer.

  • the real john t

    StandUp said:
    40 years and still going. Self-employed.

    How come all RWers on here always claim to be self employed?

  • StandUp

    the real john t said:
    How come all RWers on here always claim to be self employed?

    What do I have to do to prove it and we can move on?

  • grafxmail7

    ImNotBlue said:
    That was a reference to grafx’s blather about his “credentials.”

    Seems that the more “importance” some people have, the more time they spend on Mediaite. A contradiction, no?

    Why are you obsessed with the “credentials” thing? I responded to someone with an uniformed opinion about me with some facts about me to counter a nonsense point.

    The original post had nothing to do with you but now you’re in love with me and can’t stop referencing it?

    The Chicken Little Gang Clowns are circling. They’re hilarious!

  • X-3

    Jon Bershad:

    You may recall that before the so-called “experts” on the Middle East were warning us how all or most of the governments of the Middle East could topple in the “domino effect” that began in Egypt, and how the Muslim Brotherhood were situated in all these countries with enough power to either take over or strongly influence the formations of new governments, Glenn Beck outlined it all on his chalkboard. An article with that chalkboard was posted on Mediaite! Of course, Mr. Beck’s strongest critics–meaning those who only read about him on HuffPo, Gawker, (un)Reason, Daily Beastiality, etc.–used their ever familiar claim that he’s just an uninformed conspiracy theorist. No one who listens or watches Mr. Beck’s program was surprised by that reaction.

    When Mr. Beck said that it was time for him to “lead,” he qualified that whom he would lead was himself and his family to do the right things–that is called “operating within one’s sphere of influence,” and restoring one’s own honor, the “4 e’s” and “fixing reason firmly in her seat” are clearly within everyone’s sphere of influence–even yours. This is what Mr. Beck was speaking of when he said: “I will no longer look to others for leadership or answers. We’re out of time. I will lead, me and my family. And I will teach my family and myself to be independent, honorable, educated, self-reliant, and charitable. And with firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, I choose to re-found this amazing nation by rediscovering it within myself and sharing it within the circle of my own influence, the principles and ethics that defined American exceptionalism.” When he said this, he was suggesting that we all do the same thing in our own lives.

    As for suggesting that Mr. Beck should offer us “solutions” to these problems, I have three responses for you:

    1. How many solutions have YOU offered? If you think you can do better, why don’t you quit hiding behind your keyboard and sniping at Mr. Beck and those of us who are doing what we can? If you want people to take YOU seriously, that is.

    2. What office does Mr. Beck hold that would empower him to enact any solutions he might have to offer and, since he holds no office, why do you–someone who never have offered solutions yourself–feel it is incumbent upon him to offer solutions in the first place?

    3. But, Mr. Beck has, in fact, offered solutions for those of us who, like he, are not in a position of power. His solutions are that we should humble ourselves before God, and trust in divine providence that we should be guided in our peaceful actions to cause those who are in power to do the right things. Further, Mr. Beck has urged his listeners and viewers to educate ourselves, and not take for granted anything he has said.

    It was magnanamous of you (sarc) to agree with Mr. Beck when he admonished our government for having backed dictators now and in the past. If words like FREEDOM and LIBERTY are to mean anything honorable coming from the mouthes of Americans, our leaders must not sully the word by backing dictators. Sadly, this is a lesson I do not think our government will easily learn, but their failure in learning it has caused people in other countries to take a negative view of America and Americans. We are considered two-faced and pious and we can only blame our government for this.

    In closing, I leave you with this: You chide Mr. Beck for mentioning “shadow parties” and the enemies in our government. Have YOU ever sought to do as Mr. Beck suggests and not take his word for what he claims but to look it up for YOURSELF? By your words in this articles, I would venture not, and that makes you no different than any of the anti-Beck trolls who have writhed in orgasmic delight with your scurrilous, vacuous, and vapid remarks about a man who is clearly one of your many betters.

  • Kat

    valkyrie101 said:
    Glenn is the Russell Crowe character in a Beautiful Mind.

    Off meds! lol

  • Yargburger

    X-3 said:
    Jon Bershad:

    Gurrrrrrrl! Werq it out!

  • ImNotBlue

    grafxmail7 said:
    Why are you obsessed with the “credentials” thing? I responded to someone with an uniformed opinion about me with some facts about me to counter a nonsense point. The original post had nothing to do with you but now you’re in love with me and can’t stop referencing it? The Chicken Little Gang Clowns are circling. They’re hilarious!

    Obsessed? Nah… I just find your lies funny.

    I guess you’re part of the “Pretend To Be Someone Worthwhile” Gang. Don’t worry, there are a few others around here who will keep you company.

    Hilarious!

  • Kat

    Grammie said:
    .As a “licensed mental health counselor” I would hope that you would know that you are no more qualified to give a “professional opinion” on a stranger’s mental health status than the janitor who cleans you work space?

    he didn’t diagnose him. he said he had serious mental issues. difference. i also would like to add that I lost a lot of respect for Dr Ablow who apparently would like to be the new Dr. Phil and is riding on Becks coat tail for celebrity instead of giving Beck the help he needs.

    No serious mental health advocate should ignore the serious signs he exhibits.

  • Upon Further Review

    Jon Bershad writes: “Beck unplugged the red phone which was his line of contact for when the White House wanted to reach him. That phone was so he could give them suggestions on how to save the country.”

    Sorry, Jon, your reporting is factually lacking.

    Beck said he installed the phone “so you [the White House] can correct my mistakes as they happen.” That was around the time he was reporting on Anita Dunn’s admiration for Chairman Mao.

    What’s the source of your claim that Beck hoped to “give [the White House] suggestions on how to save the country”?

  • grafxmail7

    ImNotBlue said:
    Obsessed? Nah… I just find your lies funny.

    I guess you’re part of the “Pretend To Be Someone Worthwhile” Gang. Don’t worry, there are a few others around here who will keep you company.

    Hilarious!

    Come on! Where’s your self esteem and logic? Is being a Chicken Little Beck follower really got you that down that you resort to calling me a liar? You don’t even know me. You actually make things up about me and then YOU call me a liar.

    You doth protest too much! You really do love me!

  • Kat

    the real john t said:
    How come all RWers on here always claim to be self employed?

    I came to that deduction along time ago. And I will even go as far as to say they probably are honest hardworking self employed business people. Who probably feel bogged down with the numerous codes and regulations etc. And lay that blame at the feet of the lefties for it. When in fact they should look at their fellow, not so honest, slide by anyway they can, as often as they can, self employed brethren that try and cheat their customers or cook their food in filthy kitchens etc etc etc. that have brought the need for these regulations.

  • X-3
  • the real john t

    ImNotBlue said:
    Obsessed? Nah… I just find your lies funny.

    Kind of funny, I’ve never seen you say a word to Gordon Bloyer when he talks about all his “credentials” and how famous and successful he is. But I guess that’s because he’s a RWer.

  • Kat

    the real john t said:
    Kind of funny, I’ve never seen you say a word to Gordon Bloyer when he talks about all his “credentials” and how famous and successful he is. But I guess that’s because he’s a RWer.

    Don’t be silly John, Gordo can prove he’s a jerk off. He has his website and you tube performances!

  • jimS

    I never get the reaction by the media to Beck. He talks about the news or how he perceives it. How can ANY network that has Rev Al Sharpton after all the lies and hatred, racist and anti Jewish speech and actions, to comment on ANYTHING ever say a word about Beck. Beck says radical Islam may take the present opportunity to stir the pot and use other groups to that ends. Code Pink with a ad bar on the Muslim Brotherhood website? Did MSNBC report on that and which US groups are helping/assisting/aiding the MB? See that’s the thing about Beck, his critics never mention the long and winding road it takes to reach that conclusion. Nope, just take him out of context, get the rant and rave shot etc. I have no idea if Beck’s theory on this current Middle East crisis will come about. However it’s interesting and makes you think, sometimes I think he’s nuts and other times he brings some tid bits that stop you in your tracks. Mr Ed, Rachel, Larry and Chris don’t. They just run 4 hours of anti Fox and their commentators. Boring…..Tell me something new….like Beck does every once in a while…if Beck gets run over what on earth would you have to talk bout?

  • Upon Further Review

    Michael Craig Brokenburr said:
    Why does Beck try and associate the left and the radical muslims together they are on differnet sides of the spectrum. Radical Islam is at it heart a harcore conservative movement.

    Really? So why does the left get more outraged about three Al Qaeda leaders getting waterboarded, even when it provides information about future terrorist attacks, than the fact that a radical Muslim was allowed to remain in the U.S. Army long enough to turn a gun on dozens of his fellow soldiers?

    How come the left cites freedom of religion when it supports a mosque at Ground Zero, but strangely ignores freedom of speech when it condemns peaceful Tea Party protests?

    How come the left cares more about getting Guantanamo terrorists civil trials and eventual release than it does about protecting innocent Americans from another 9/11?

    No connection between the left and radical Muslims, you say? Nahhhhh … in the words of Sergeant Schultz, “I see NOTH-ing!”

  • pakattak

    Kat said:
    Don’t be silly John, Gordo can prove he’s a jerk off. He has his website and you tube performances!

    Don’t forget, his letter to Rush was read ON AIR!

    Gordon is 2 legit 2 quit

  • BOMBSHELL

    GlennBeckReview said:
    as a student of world politics

    But daddy, that’s not what your trade school diploma says, it says you’re a student of deep fry cooking.

    Why don’t you tell these people how Glenn Beck is a lying charlatan like you always do?

    Oh, and bad news daddy, all the air leaked out of mommy again. You’ll have to blow her up when you come up from the basement.

  • ImNotBlue

    grafxmail7 said:
    Come on! Where’s your self esteem and logic? Is being a Chicken Little Beck follower really got you that down that you resort to calling me a liar? You don’t even know me. You actually make things up about me and then YOU call me a liar. You doth protest too much! You really do love me!

    By your logic, does that mean you love Beck? He seems to be the only thing you’re capable of talking about (albeit with one nickname over and over and over again).

    Oh, and what did I make up about you? Do tell!

    the real john t said:
    Kind of funny, I’ve never seen you say a word to Gordon Bloyer when he talks about all his “credentials” and how famous and successful he is. But I guess that’s because he’s a RWer.

    That’s funny, I’ve never seen you say anything negative about any left-winger (on this site, on television, or in politics)… ever! In fact, I seem to remember a night when you were presented with an indisputable left-wing lie, and you simply couldn’t not condemn or say anything negative about it. So I’m not sure you’re the one to lecture me about… well, anything really.

    As for Bloyer… he’s posted videos of him interviewing people, has he not? I’ve never cared to watch one. Are you telling me he doesn’t actually interview those folks?

    Of course, I’ve never seen him say he knew multiple languages, was a super businessman, and travels the world (heck, TRRK once told me he held a job of “significant national importance”)… yet, spends a lot of time at Mediaite. I suppose some claims just seem less likely to me. Of course, since those come from the left, I doubt you’d have a problem… right?

  • grafxmail7

    ImNotBlue said:
    By your logic, does that mean you love Beck? He seems to be the only thing you’re capable of talking about (albeit with one nickname over and over and over again).

    What a weak come back! A silly straw man reply. Where is your mettle, man!

    Let’s see some of that Chicken Little Gang spirt from your soul!

  • the real john t

    ImNotBlue said:
    I seem to remember a night when you were presented with an indisputable left-wing lie, and you simply couldn’t not condemn or say anything negative about it.

    OH! But needless to say you can’t tell me the lie or what it was about. Typical.

    ImNotBlue said:
    That’s funny, I’ve never seen you say anything negative about any left-winger (on this site, on television, or in politics)… ever!

    And I’ve never seen you say one word against a RWer here, on television or in politics. So take your self righteous lectures and stick them where the sun don’t shine.

  • VADude

    The left is either to stupid to see the facts, or they believe everything the White House media puts out. It is very easy to call someone names; it’s another to prove them wrong. Beck is the first one to tell you don’t believe what he says, find out for yourselves. This is something I did and encourage everyone to do.

    I am aware many younger Obama supporters want to hide in the sand and don’t want to believe what they hear. If they had any actual knowledge of how the Nazi’s came to power and performed Ethic cleansing on the Jews and how many times Ethic Cleansing it has been repeated throughout history.

    Why do you think so many of the far left flock to academia? This has been going on since President Wilson. The far left has rewritten history many times so future generations will believe what they are told not exactly what happened. Look at Harvard, one of the most prestigious Universities in America, yet it ranks #1 in the production of Radicals. Look at the tenured staff, how many are Muslims and radicals???

    Wake up smell the coffee, but more important PAY ATTENTION!

  • the real john t

    VADude said:
    The far left has rewritten history many times so future generations will believe what they are told not exactly what happened.

    What a bunch of bullshit. Just where did you get your expertise? From Glenn Beck?

  • Upon Further Review

    the real john t said:
    VADude said:
    The far left has rewritten history many times so future generations will believe what they are told not exactly what happened.

    What a bunch of bullshit.

    Really? Consider how much progressive Democrat president Woodrow Wilson is admired these days by left-wing academics, yet how many of today’s college students even realize that Wilson condoned segregation in federal government jobs?

    Conversely, FDR is considered the greatest president by many lefties, yet the same people who get apoplectic about the waterboarding of three terrorist leaders should spend 5 minutes researching what Roosevelt did with the German spies who were captured on U.S. soil during World War II.

    (Hint: They didn’t get civil trials or lengthy appeals.)

  • valkyrie101

    Glenn is like the camp counselor taking everyone out into the woods and telling ghost stories. Or the uncle trying to explain how to catch snipe.

  • valkyrie101

    Glenn is Orson Wells.

  • TrollJuice

    X-3 says:
    February 4, 2011 at 12:42 am X-3(Quote)
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    And ALL these people vote democrat.

    http://www.wikio.com/video/progressive-rallyists-call-lynching-clarence-thomas-5014373
    ==============

    I guess it is another activist conservative trying to put out an edited video……What a surprise!

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/conservative-activist-encourages-violent-rhetoric-at-koch-brothers-protest/

  • http://www.danzview.blogspot.com Eyepublius

    If the public were the adult and Beck the child, they would have him committed. That’s the issue. The man’s a raving lunatic. How can FOX keep him on the air is a mystery, and no, my friends, it’s not “his free speech or their freedom of the press,” or any other such nonsense claim. It’s shear and utter madness to have this man on TV, cable or other airwaves.

    What is the purpose, the aim, the goal, the reason to keep him on the airwves, um, Mr. FOX? His ratings? Beck has lost sponsors and viewers both. So it must be something else – what could it be? To lead? To offer solutions? Ha… How about to destroy all that is good anywhere in the country with this warnings and dire predictions about this or that, which never materializes?

    Ouch, now I sound like Beck. It must be catching. Wait – that’s his goal. Produce a flock of little Becks blockheads. Hurry, you might catch his next show. Bring your laughing towel, or crying towel – your pick.

    — Dan Francis

  • tgk

    Eyepublius said:
    If the public were the adult and Beck the child, they would have him committed. That’s the issue. The man’s a raving lunatic. How can FOX keep him on the air is a mystery, and no, my friends, it’s not “his free speech or their freedom of the press,” or any other such nonsense claim. It’s shear and utter madness to have this man on TV, cable or other airwaves.

    What is the purpose, the aim, the goal, the reason to keep him on the airwves, um, Mr. FOX? His ratings? Beck has lost sponsors and viewers both. So it must be something else – what could it be? To lead? To offer solutions? Ha… How about to destroy all that is good anywhere in the country with this warnings and dire predictions about this or that, which never materializes?

    Ouch, now I sound like Beck. It must be catching. Wait – that’s his goal. Produce a flock of little Becks blockheads. Hurry, you might catch his next show. Bring your laughing towel, or crying towel – your pick.

    — Dan Francis

    You DO realize that your same rant has been said over and over and over and over (well you get the point) right? Do you think you have added something new, different, or special here? All you’ve shown is that you don’t watch his show and are relying on “head lines” or 3 – 4 paragraph stories for your information about him. Bravo….

  • valkyrie101

    Glenn helps people get their fear out in the open, and he gets liberal goat every time.

  • valkyrie101

    I’ll bet he is going to be even more over the top today. And because of Glenn the media, and all of us who pay attention, will be forced to consider issues that, without Glenn’s (and Fox’s) stick, would never have been delved into in our collective human psyche.

    The rodeo clown tries to get the bull’s attention, runs it out of steam, and leads it to the corral.

  • zumpano

    Because what we need more of is FEAR.

    You Beckerheads are such a fucking joke. Didn’t he ask you guys to be more civil on message boards just a few months ago?

    How quickly you forget.

    Keep up your slurs and your fanatical maniacal worldview.

  • Grammie

    Upon Further Review said:
    (Hint: They didn’t get civil trials or lengthy appeals.)

    .
    I felt particularly sad for the young guy, I think he even turned himself in, who cooperated completely and totally of his own volition and as soon as they got all they wanted he was executed.

  • 78Thomas

    His comments “communism and extreme islam will work together” right there show how stupid his “theory” is.
    Communists and extreme islam in harmony….jeez is this Beck on another planet.

    Communists hate Israel and jews? But love Islam? Glenn Beck groupies…I dare you to just stop and think about it for a second. It makes no sense. Period.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Glenn Beck has been proven right many times. He was right about Obamacare funding abortion, he was right about ACORN, he was right about Van Jones being a communist, he was right about Piven advocating violent revolution, and he is right about communism and Islam working together.

    The Taxpayer-Funded Lifestyle of Jimmy Carter.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/02/taxpayer-funded-lifestyle-of-jimmy.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    78Thomas said:
    Communists and extreme islam in harmony….jeez is this Beck on another planet.

    I found that connection interesting, as well.

    Lenin once wrote, “All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.”

    I find it hard to believe that Communists would work along-side Islamic theocrats. Historically, they tend not to. Just look at the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

    Also, has Beck never heard of Labor Zionism? What about the conspiracy concepts like Jewish Bolshevism? What about the huge number of Jewish individuals detained and murdered, by the White Army during the Russian Civil War, for being ‘communist sympathizers’?

  • ImNotBlue

    grafxmail7 said:
    What a weak come back! A silly straw man reply. Where is your mettle, man! Let’s see some of that Chicken Little Gang spirt from your soul!

    Same thing, over and over again.

    the real john t said:
    OH! But needless to say you can’t tell me the lie or what it was about. Typical.

    Sorry, John… you’re just not that important to me. I don’t remember every lie you’ve tried to spread. Sorry.

    And I’ve never seen you say one word against a RWer here, on television or in politics. So take your self righteous lectures and stick them where the sun don’t shine.

    Again, your ignorance of what I do isn’t really my problem.

    78Thomas said:
    His comments “communism and extreme islam will work together” right there show how stupid his “theory” is.Communists and extreme islam in harmony….jeez is this Beck on another planet. Communists hate Israel and jews? But love Islam? Glenn Beck groupies…I dare you to just stop and think about it for a second. It makes no sense. Period.

    Haven’t both Communism and Radical Islam led to brutal dictatorships throughout the course of history? Oh look, I found a connection!

  • Te2006F

    78Thomas said:
    His comments “communism and extreme islam will work together” right there show how stupid his “theory” is.Communists and extreme islam in harmony….jeez is this Beck on another planet. Communists hate Israel and jews? But love Islam? Glenn Beck groupies…I dare you to just stop and think about it for a second. It makes no sense. Period.

    78Thomas don’t miss this video from 2002 posted on youtube, please come back and comment
    Beck’s Matthews-Mocked Conspiracy Confirmed: Video of US Communists, Socialists & Labor Unions Working With Muslim Brotherhood-Associated Groups
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlq4nFMJiQQ&

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    ImNotBlue said:
    Haven’t both Communism and Radical Islam led to brutal dictatorships throughout the course of history? Oh look, I found a connection!

    I think you are missing Thomas’ point. He is not saying that Radical Islam and Communism have nothing at all in common. He’s saying that it would be very unlikely that Communists would work alongside theocrats of any religion, let alone Islam. Working with an organization that would hold allegiance to faith above allegiance to the state does not seem like something Communists would want to do. It kinda flies in the face of classic Communism, which argues that no allegiance should be greater than the one you have with the state.

  • Te2006F

    Stephen I don’t think we are missing the point, is just that if you have internet you can find the info to tell you that Beck is on the right track. In the video I posted above for Thomas one guy says we are “comrades in struggle”. Beck is right about them and their thinking of the “enemy of my enemy is my friend”. What more do you need to put this point to rest?

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Beck’s Matthews-Mocked Conspiracy Confirmed: Video of US Communists, Socialists & Labor Unions Working With Muslim Brotherhood-Associated Groups

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/becks-matthews-mocked-conspiracy-confirmed-video-of-us-communists-socialists-unions-working-with-muslim-brotherhood-assoc-groups/

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Sorry Te2006F, I see you already posted that video. Oh well, it deserves to be repeated. Not that liberals will actually watch it.

  • Te2006F

    You’re right LT. I’m passing on to all my contacts who are just normal people with no political leaning and with little time for current events.

  • JazzyJim

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Beck’s Matthews-Mocked Conspiracy Confirmed: Video of US Communists, Socialists & Labor Unions Working With Muslim Brotherhood-Associated Groups http://www.theblaze.com/stories/becks-matthews-mocked-conspiracy-confirmed-video-of-us-communists-socialists-unions-working-with-muslim-brotherhood-assoc-groups/

    You’re using Beck’s on-line rag to support his Fox show? LOL. You’re as nutz as Beck!!

  • Calvin

    valkyrie101 said:
    Glenn is Orson Wells.

    No, not quite.

  • JazzyJim

    jimS said:
    I never get the reaction by the media to Beck. He talks about the news or how he perceives it. How can ANY network that has Rev Al Sharpton after all the lies and hatred, racist and anti Jewish speech and actions, to comment on ANYTHING ever say a word about Beck. Beck says radical Islam may take the present opportunity to stir the pot and use other groups to that ends. Code Pink with a ad bar on the Muslim Brotherhood website? Did MSNBC report on that and which US groups are helping/assisting/aiding the MB? See that’s the thing about Beck, his critics never mention the long and winding road it takes to reach that conclusion. Nope, just take him out of context, get the rant and rave shot etc. I have no idea if Beck’s theory on this current Middle East crisis will come about. However it’s interesting and makes you think, sometimes I think he’s nuts and other times he brings some tid bits that stop you in your tracks. Mr Ed, Rachel, Larry and Chris don’t. They just run 4 hours of anti Fox and their commentators. Boring…..Tell me something new….like Beck does every once in a while…if Beck gets run over what on earth would you have to talk bout?

    Saving our country from the idiots whom didn’t learn history the first time around and are following fools of moronic opinions, echoing them as fact. You seem to miss the bigger picture as Beck likes to distort and misdirect, with his psuedo intellect (for a failed college student – it’s absurd and comical, that he would “play” educator to his audience – with all the visuals of a class room). Every thing he does is to DISCREDIT DEMOCRATS. Nothing is based in reality – but his own paranoid delusions. As a Democrat since Beck came on air, I’ve discovered that I’m apparently a Nazi, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Progressive, Elitist, Godless Liberal, Hollywood Elitist, Ivy School Elitist, et. al. – while excelling in anything is nice – for the Democrats to have pulled all the above off on this country – in the 2 years of President Obama (oh, yeah – I might be a Muslim too!) is nothing but political theater for those whom can’t decypher Beck’s insanity (actually Fokkks insanity). The fact that there is only one totally misguided voice in this country of such paranoid idiocy as broadcast by Fox Ministry of Lies and the RNC Czars of Distortion and Propaganda – you should ask yourself – is it worth being in a cult called the GOP – because I don’t want to be ProChoice?

    You’ve been suckered.

  • Firstrate

    Beck=LOSER

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Te2006F said:
    if you have internet you can find the info to tell you that Beck is on the right track.

    You can also find the info that 9/11 Truthers are on the right track, but that doesn’t mean that it’s accurate.

    Te2006F said:
    In the video I posted above for Thomas one guy says we are “comrades in struggle”.

    I would not take the efforts of some to be indicative of the intentions of the whole. I appreciate the video you posted and, at this time, I cannot dispute what is shown, however that is not evidence of a grand conspiracy involving the whole of Communism and the whole of Radical Islam working in tandem.

    Te2006F said:
    Beck is right about them and their thinking of the “enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

    Once again, I find this thought a little peculiar. There are many anti-semites and conspiracy theorists that argue Jews were instrumental in bringing about the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, that Judaism is essentially synonymous with Communism. This was a common mindset of the White Army and the Nazis.

    I am still hard-pressed to believe that Communists, who believe that nothing should be held more sacred than the state, would work with Radical Islamists, who want the establishment of theocratic governments.

  • timcajun

    Why can’t the teas see, this clown is throwing this crap on them because he knows they’re uninformed and so open to the fear,hate and being scared! The “Fear Factor” just said “this women was wrong, he didn’t say that” …then… he went on to say what he… “calims”… he said!! Guess what? He said the same thing she did! It was what the women said from the start! He rambles on and on and claims proof and says nothing truthful! Long live the sheep!

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

    Gee LOOKY HERE, Herr Beck hasn’t gotten a couple new blackboards. He has to add his INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM CALIPHATE spewings to his other MARXIST MAOIST PROGRESSIVE SPEWINGS. Now if he can only find a way to blame Woodrow Wilson, then he can bring all his THEORIES into on big ball of LOONY BULL SHIT primed for the historically illiterate and intellectually lazy audience can easily digest since MANY YEARS of history in school failed them.

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

    GEE Herr Beck, wouldn’t these the very same MARXISTS that the precursor to the TALIBAN fought against even more viciously (and far more effectively) than they fought against the AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS in Afghanistan? So basically you’re saying that our TEN YEAR presence in Afghanistan have not only not gotten rid of the Taliban or captured Osama Bin Laden, but it has SOMEHOW driven the Marxists and TALIBAN (one time mortal enemies) even closer together. Isn’t that simply an assertion that proves that the NEOCON DEVISED policies in Afghanistan have FAILED?

    I didn’t seem to see OSAMA BIN LADEN (the notorious MARXIST HATER) on your little board of FACTS. Maybe you might need to buy another board because you’ve intentionally left out a whole DECADE of historical fact about the radical Muslim world. Maybe that’s because those FACTS fall straight under the guise of a misguided REAGAN-era policy that doesn’t make your fear of radical Muslims looks so hot, especially since Reagan actually funded, trained, and armed these very same radical Muslims.

  • Te2006F

    Stephen Hogan said:
    grand conspiracy

    Does it matter if its not the whole of Communism and the whole of Radical Islam working in tandem?
    the comment above was communism and extreme islam will work together, crazy theory or not? here’s video that says its happening. Its clear that what you had there was a coalition of groups each has its own agenda I’m sure but there’s strength in numbers so why not for as long they are useful.

    grand conspiracy ??? that video was from CSPAN shot in our capital out in the open and Code Pink has not only joined HAMAS in the flotilla but had a direct weblink to MB site. That’s not conspiracy is fact. What’s an American organization doing in bed with Hamas and MB? Arent’t they the enemy of America? Its a simple yes or no. the video shows clearly American communist, socialist, unions standing and cheering together for killing Jewish people with islamic organizations. There really is not a conspiracy, there just a lack of good reporting and investigation in the main news outlets.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gail-Marie-Day/1739250382 Gail Marie Day

    getta towel, A Kim Bo, you’re foaming and drooling. Missed your meds today, huh? Micheal Savage is right…liberalism IS a mental disease….same goes for all you union thugs, community organizers, code pinkers, progressive party supporters…everyone who thinks that the state/government should take care of everyone..and make all our choices for us..leaving us no real options….you all need to take your wind machines and solar collectors, your electric cars and go start your own country somewhere…..see how long you all last….The name jim jones ring a bell?His little community organized paradise turned out sooooo well…NOT

  • SpineCrusher

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Sorry Te2006F, I see you already posted that video. Oh well, it deserves to be repeated. Not that liberals will actually watch it.

    You should have said, “Not that any SANE person would waste their time watching it”.

  • SpineCrusher

    JazzyJim said:
    Saving our country from the idiots whom didn’t learn history the first time around and are following fools of moronic opinions, echoing them as fact. You seem to miss the bigger picture as Beck likes to distort and misdirect, with his psuedo intellect (for a failed college student – it’s absurd and comical, that he would “play” educator to his audience – with all the visuals of a class room). Every thing he does is to DISCREDIT DEMOCRATS. Nothing is based in reality – but his own paranoid delusions. As a Democrat since Beck came on air, I’ve discovered that I’m apparently a Nazi, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Progressive, Elitist, Godless Liberal, Hollywood Elitist, Ivy School Elitist, et. al. – while excelling in anything is nice – for the Democrats to have pulled all the above off on this country – in the 2 years of President Obama (oh, yeah – I might be a Muslim too!) is nothing but political theater for those whom can’t decypher Beck’s insanity (actually Fokkks insanity). The fact that there is only one totally misguided voice in this country of such paranoid idiocy as broadcast by Fox Ministry of Lies and the RNC Czars of Distortion and Propaganda – you should ask yourself – is it worth being in a cult called the GOP – because I don’t want to be ProChoice? You’ve been suckered.

    awesome post!! 200x thumbs up!!

  • SpineCrusher

    Te2006F said:
    Does it matter if its not the whole of Communism and the whole of Radical Islam working in tandem?the comment above was communism and extreme islam will work together, crazy theory or not? here’s video that says its happening. Its clear that what you had there was a coalition of groups each has its own agenda I’m sure but there’s strength in numbers so why not for as long they are useful. grand conspiracy ??? that video was from CSPAN shot in our capital out in the open and Code Pink has not only joined HAMAS in the flotilla but had a direct weblink to MB site. That’s not conspiracy is fact. What’s an American organization doing in bed with Hamas and MB? Arent’t they the enemy of America? Its a simple yes or no. the video shows clearly American communist, socialist, unions standing and cheering together for killing Jewish people with islamic organizations. There really is not a conspiracy, there just a lack of good reporting and investigation in the main news outlets.

    Wow! Amercians from different backgrounds working together for a common goal. That must mean that everything they think and do is exactly the same, huh? Everyone who cares about human life is all involved in your conspiracy to allow Sharia law to take over the world….what a load of BS.

    Strap your tin-foil hat on even tighter and keep babbling till the men with the white jackets come for you.

  • BarneyFranken

    JazzyJim said:
    Every thing he does is to DISCREDIT DEMOCRATS. Nothing is based in reality – but his own paranoid delusions. As a Democrat since Beck came on air, I’ve discovered that I’m apparently a Nazi, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Progressive, Elitist, Godless Liberal, Hollywood Elitist, Ivy School Elitist, et. al. .

    Um, unless you are Natalie Portman, Im pretty sure YOU arent both a Hollywood Elitist and an Ivy School Elitist.

    But its nice to know you have such a high opinion of yourself.

  • Te2006F

    SpineCrusher said:
    Wow! Amercians from different backgrounds working together for a common goal. That must mean that everything they think and do is exactly the same, huh? Everyone who cares about human life is all involved in your conspiracy to allow Sharia law to take over the world….what a load of BS. Strap your tin-foil hat on even tighter and keep babbling till the men with the white jackets come for you.

    please read before you comment, what conspiracy??? : )

  • ganymede

    Whenever the name Glenn Beck comes up on this website, the crazies really come out in numbers. I’m beginning to think that Beck is the greatest gift to progressive causes we’ll ever have. He’s even better than Sarah Palin. To look at all the thumbs up and the semi literate comments indicates that we have huge educational problems in our country. How can anyone listen to him as he is clearly a very sick dude. The more he bloviates the more he downgrades and makes irrelevant all rightwing/conservative principles and causes. Asides from the 2-3 million people who hang onto every word from the master’s lips, the vast majority of people couldn’t give a rat’s ass what this character has to say. If you haven’t noticed, Beck’s audience has peaked and he is beginning to stumble. I predict he will take a long vacation in the not so distant future. I’m sure there will be another Beck and you will fall for this one as well. It’s the yin/yang effect – there will always be people who have to go against the grain. Whether you want to accept it or not, Obama is doing a pretty good job considering what he has to deal with, including the resistance from the irrational right.

  • Garth

    I’m sorry Glenn but the data are in and you’re still a lunatic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Albert-Moore/100001333355433 Albert Moore

    Ah, but ’tis a divine madness.

  • 78Thomas

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) says:
    February 4, 2011 at 1:10 pm Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)(Quote)

    You post the video in belief that it vindicates Becks paranoid delusion that communists and extreme Islam will ban together for shared hatred of jews.
    The man who appears after Larry Adams and identifies himself as a unionists, look who’s standing behind him. Those are jews. But undereducated probably didn’t see that or want to see that. That kills your conspiracy.
    Next you take the Muslim American Society and the Council on American Islamic Relations and use your broad sweeping brush of logic that since the words “muslim” and “islam” are used they are “extremists”. They are not Al Queda or Jamal Islamiya. Its the classic scare tactic of Beck and his ever so weak connections. Its knee-jerk and disingenuious.
    That video only proves that Beck groupies do not want to deal with objective reality. They only want support, no matter how weak, their preconcieved bias’s and personal prejudices.

    ”If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.”
    —Glenn Beck, arguing that the Cash for Clunkers program was nothing more than a secret government plot to gain access over your computer, July 2009

  • jimistreets

    I am by no means a Glenn Beck fan nor am I an apologist. That said, I am able to discern fact from fiction, regardless of the source. What this means is, even if a statement comes from a source that I generally disagree with, whether it be Beck, the media, Hannity, Olbermann, etc., I will grasp truth whenever it makes an appearance. That said, I disagree with liberals the VAST MAJORITY of the time. This is true for many reasons, but one major reason is on display in the form of the comment by the self-proclaimed “Liberal Tormentor.” They use terms that completely poison the well of debate like “paranoid delusion”, which in the liberal mind suffices for reasoned debate, then, without realizing it, libs like the tormentor, in classic liberal fashion, show themselves guilty of the very same things they accuse others of, e.g., “Use your broad sweeping brush of logic…”, and then proceeding to state that, “Beck groupies do not want to deal with objective reality.” , using the same “Broad, sweeping brush.” Then the tormentor states that Beck’s groupies possess “preconceived bias’ and personal prejudices.”, displaying his own while doing so.
    Here’s a newsflash, tormented one: Some of Israel’s harshest critics, to the point of nearly being an enemy, are JEWS! There are books out that document this strange phenomenon. The point you made in your comment proves nothing.
    Using your “brush” once again, you put words into people’s mouths by stating that simply because of the words “Muslim” and Islam” are used, Beck and his groupies are too stupid to differentiate between peaceful Muslims and the radicals. CAIR has been documented numerous times to have been a front group for fundraising for radical Islamist terror groups, with some of their member being sent to prison for doing so.
    Granted, Beck’s “Cash for Clunkers” comment was pretty stupid, but that doesn’t mean that everything he says is false. Geez, I wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama in a thousand years, but when the man speaks the truth, I know it when I hear it. I’m not going to presume nafarious motives to EVERYTHING the man says just because I think he is a bad President.
    Not only Liberal Tormentor, but Liberals in general could stand to exercise some of the tolerance they claim to possess, while they HATE conservatives for supposedly not having any…Have a nice day!!!

  • 78Thomas

    JimiStreets,
    First of all your identifying my response to Liberal Tormentor as my ID. I was commenting on Liberal Tormenters video as defense of Beck’s prophecy and logic. Just to clear that up.
    Next, you want to take issue of broad statements. Ok, no harm in that. But thats just blurring the focus of this debate. To keep on track lets stay on point.
    But where is your point that using a video with the weakest of connective logic as defense of Becks prophecy?
    If CAIR were an “extremist” organization, they would have been banned from operating within the US as Al Queda is. They are not. Let’s at least be rational and not use fear as a means to witch hunt. And yes, many conservative jews are not zionists. But do you honestly believe that conservative jews and extremist muslims are in a cabal together, with some communists? That makes no sense.
    The “Cash for Clunkers” comment was just an example of the fear and paranoia that Beck spreads.
    And his prophecy that these groups will come together is also founded on fear and playing on ignorance.

  • 78Thomas

    And to keep the rebuttals from blurring the focus, the issue is Glenn Becks’ theory that what is happening in Egypt has nefarious groups behind it working together.
    I say it is a populist uprising that has been brewing for decades and is a people’s demand for self-determination, not living under a dictator.

    Glenn is using the wonderful weapon of allusion to instill fear. .

  • Rockycomet

    Fear seems to be his moniker. Buy gold the economy going to tank soon! Buy guns you’ll need to protect yourself and your gold! Pray that tomorrow isn’t the end of the world!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    jimistreets says:
    “I am by no means a Glenn Beck fan nor am I an apologist. …They use terms that completely poison the well of debate like “paranoid delusion”,”

    That is pretty much what Beck does, Jimi. Beck makes totally absurd claims, spouts nonsensical ideas and conspiracy theories, and then millions of manipulated followers actually believe that he says because they think that he’s legitimate and not the complete charlatan that he actually is. Beck must go before the well of debate is poisoned beyond reason. If may already be.

    See: http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/02/why-glenn-beck-isnt-crazy-and-millions.html to understand how he pulls off this amazing manipulation of people’s minds.

    For a summary of Mr. Beck, see the year in review explaining his lies, his hypocrisies and his yellow propaganda:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/12/year-of-beck-in-review.html

    Glenn Beck is a menace to reason and intelligence. He has also inspired three of his followers to commit murder. The yellow in yellow propaganda means irresponsible.

  • 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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