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Glenn Beck Is ‘Totally Cool’ With Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally To Restore Sanity’

by Frances Martel | 10:28 am, September 25th, 2010

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After Jon Stewart announced his Rally to Restore Sanity, a march on the Washington Mall inspired by the honor-restoring Restoring Honor Rally Glenn Beck organized in August, many wondered whether the mere idea would peeve Beck, or he’d find imitation the sincerest form of flattery. After an initial flippant comment wishing them luck, Beck explored the topic further on last night’s O’Reilly Factor, where he told the host he was “totally cool” with the idea.

The love between Stewart and Stephen Colbert and Beck and Bill O’Reilly this week has been sky-high, with Stewart’s appearance on the Factor and his later pseudo-olive branch on Oprah, where he called Beck his “money-maker” and indirectly thanked him for paying for his children’s college expenses. Beck didn’t catch the O’Reilly appearance (he was too busy catching reruns of Oprah to watch, naturally), but was happy to hear he was making someone money. “God bless America!” he proclaimed, while O’Reilly tried to devise ways to get a cut of the proceeds from both the fund and just the Stewart and Colbert careers as a whole– “You should really get some money off this Halloweenfest,” he advises Glenn. Where the money will come from seems a bit more suspect; Beck doesn’t think there will be much money at all, until O’Reilly reminds Beck of the pot dealers he suggests will be circling the rally like vultures. “This is going to be good for us,” Beck concluded, though he did also note that “I will be disappointed if less than three million people get there.”

If three million people wouldn’t show up to watch Stewart and Colbert, then the next idea Beck had would certainly do it. Discussing the latest from the world of Andrew Breitbart– film footage of Breitbart confronting confused protesters in Chicago who seem not to know exactly what they are protesting, since they don’t quite recognize Breitbart at first– Beck came up with a real money-maker: “I would like to see Andrew Breitbart and Bill O’Reilly in a cage match.” Maybe Linda McMahon can set that up when she’s a senator.

Beck also took his own stab at defining the amorphous mass O’Reilly constantly refers to as his raison d’etre, “the folks,” for which he received a fair bit of mockery from Stewart when the latter was on The Factor. “The Folks,” according to Beck, are “the normal people… they have ‘jobs.’” Take that as you will.

Beck and O’Reilly’s weekly playtime clip via Fox News below:

Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, O'Reilly Factor, Rally To Restore Sanity, Restoring Honor, Washington

Big Eddie

Rumor has it that the BILL MAHER LET’S ALL DRAW MOHAMMED DAY is Oct . 28th . The Mohammed artists will be meeting up Oct. 30th at the Mall in Washington , the same day and time as the Colbert/Stewart rally . This must be kept on the down low .
Moderate

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Sanchez’s opponent, Van Tran, is Republican and of Vietnamese descent. And Sanchez takes issue with both his political affiliation and his ethnic group in her remark. “The Vietnamese and the Republicans are—with an intensity—trying to take away this seat that we have done so much for our community … take away this seat from us and give it to this Van Tran, who’s very anti-immigrant and very anti-Latino,” read the subtitles of the video, recorded in Spanish.
Azarkhan

Glenn and the crew on Obama’s Auntie Zeituni.

http://www.therightscoop.com/glenn-beck-slams-obamas-aunt
felixw

Beck has a rally to celebrate the values of Martin Luther King, and espouse the founding principles of our nation. The Left responds with a rally of clowns. That says it all, right there….
jooce81

Big Eddie said:
Rumor has it that the BILL MAHER LET’S ALL DRAW MOHAMMED DAY is Oct . 28th . The Mohammed artists will be meeting up Oct. 30th at the Mall in Washington , the same day and time as the Colbert/Stewart rally . This must be kept on the down low .

Give it up already.. your still mad he mocked the 10 commandments? it’s not a big deal
betweentwoevils

Big Eddie said:
Rumor has it that the BILL MAHER LET’S ALL DRAW MOHAMMED DAY is Oct . 28th . The Mohammed artists will be meeting up Oct. 30th at the Mall in Washington , the same day and time as the Colbert/Stewart rally . This must be kept on the down low .

Big Eddie may be on the downlow. He/she has posted this on nearly every thread. “Methinks she protesteth too much”
betweentwoevils

In this case I am a fan of Jon Stewart. He is using his celebrity status, albeit limited, to raise the idea that most of America is not that divided – moderate in views, willing to compromise to look for solutions that best suit the common good. Beck’s retoric, on the other hand, is very divisive and extreme.

Jon had a T Shirt the other night that said, “I don’t agree with you, but I am sure that you are not Hitler.” Funny and poignant.
FoxSpells666

I stopped watching Jon Stewart the day he unfairly dissed Mad Money’s Kramer. Sure the guy is a huckster, America is the land of hucksters. But Stewart didn’t have the brains or balls to get someone like Tim Geithner on his show, asking the tough questions about money moving around the Fed and Goldman Sachs and why the Obama admin is full of Wall Street cronies who were up to their necks in the fraudulent banking meltdown. Jon Stewart is a pertually adolscent loudmouth.
Jackie_Treehorn

Big Eddie said:
Rumor has it that the BILL MAHER LET’S ALL DRAW MOHAMMED DAY is Oct . 28th . The Mohammed artists will be meeting up Oct. 30th at the Mall in Washington , the same day and time as the Colbert/Stewart rally . This must be kept on the down low .

Wow wishing for the deaths of people who disagree with you…sounds very Talibanish of you. Maybe Tea Baggers should be labeled “American Taliban”.

Oh wait….
writer

Jackie conveniently leaves out the people who actually make death threats for drawing pictures, and chooses instead to excoriate Bid Eddie for being satirical about it. Sounds very left-wingish of you, Jackie.
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Jelperman

Looks like Glenn Beck is promoting Jew-haters on his show again. First Elizabeth Dilling (who referred to Eisenhower as “Ike the Kike”), and now Eustace Mullins:

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/09/into-the-psyche-of-eustace-mullins/63457/

The most incriminating book in my personal library is the only authorized biography of the poet Ezra Pound, inscribed to “my friend Graeme Wood” by its author, Eustace Mullins, whose work Glenn Beck cited yesterday on his show. Mullins was an open purveyor of blood libel: he claimed that Jews kidnap Christian children, ritually puncture their veins, and drink their blood as a restorative for their own degenerate bodies. During Pound’s involuntary commitment in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington in the Fifties, Mullins visited him frequently, and under his direction, Mullins authored foundational texts in Federal Reserve conspiracy theory. Those theories have proved impressively durable. In addition to Glenn Beck’s citation yesterday, Pat Robertson’s books peddled variations on them in the 1980s, and elements of the Tea Party echo them now. (Short version: the Federal Reserve controls the world, and the UN is taking over the US via the New World Order.)

Mullins died in February at 86, and when I visited him in Staunton, Virginia, six years ago on assignment for The Jewish Daily Forward, he was already slowed by age, living in a creepy, dark rat-trap filled with religious icons, votive candles, and old newspapers. The wallpaper curled down off the wall in two-foot sections, and the chairs coughed up decades’ worth of dust when we sat down. He surprised me by snatching the Pound biography from my hands and inscribing it. The moment reminded me of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Doctor Jones accidentally gets Hitler’s autograph in his notebook.

Glenn Beck is like Louis Farrakhan, only without the charm or intellect.
writer

Let’s see. Farrakhan is anti-semitic. And his best friend is Rev. Wright. And Obama spent twenty years in Wright’s church. Nope. No connection at all. That would be guilt by association.
Jelperman

Did Wright ever peddle Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic filth in his church? No, so take your red herring and false analogy and stick them way up your ass.
writer

“Louis Farrakhan is one of the great figures of the century.” In the same November/December special double-cover issue of Trumpet News Magazine that contains Wright’s fulminations about “garlic-nosed” Italians, we find a full scale cover-picture of Louis Farrakhan and an interview with Farrakhan himself. The Farrakhan cover-story was published in association with Trumpet News Magazine’s decision to honor Farrakhan with an “Empowerment Award.” (Trumpet is a Wright vehicle.)
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

FoxSpells666 says: “I stopped watching Jon Stewart the day he unfairly dissed Mad Money’s Kramer. Sure the guy is a huckster,…”

and it’s so unfair to dis a huckster? I have to wonder what passes for comedy in your home.
Patrick Henry

felixw said:
Beck has a rally to celebrate the values of Martin Luther King, and espouse the founding principles of our nation. The Left responds with a rally of clowns. That says it all, right there…

Good point, Felix!
Jelperman

So you admit you’re lying -you can’t show where Wright promoted Farrakhan’s anti-Jewish garbage in his church. Concession accepted.

And what exactly did this have to do with Obama?
Patrick Henry

betweentwoevils said:
In this case I am a fan of Jon Stewart. He is using his celebrity status, albeit limited, to raise the idea that most of America is not that divided – moderate in views, willing to compromise to look for solutions that best suit the common good. Beck’s retoric, on the other hand, is very divisive and extreme.

Jon had a T Shirt the other night that said, “I don’t agree with you, but I am sure that you are not Hitler.” Funny and poignant.

The last numbers I have heard was 40% conservative, 40% moderate, 20% liberal. I think the conservative number only goes higher from here. We should respect each other regardless, but I worry about that when I read this board. I hope most of the hatefulness is just people venting anonymously and that they don’t speak to others like that in the “real” world.
writer

“Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience,” continues Wright. “His integrity and honesty have secured him a place in history as one of the nation’s most powerful critics. His love for Africa and African American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.” …

But it has to be said in the church, or it doesn’t count. Still trying to sort out these left wing rules of political correctness. LOL
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

I wonder if Stewart will slip in a massive get-out-the-vote effort like Beck did with his Black Robe Republican Regiment.

http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/glenn-becks-black-robe-republican.html

They’ll be called the White Hat Sanity Riders.
writer

The title of Mr. Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Mr. Wright is one of the first people Mr. Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Mr. Obama consulted Mr. Wright before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Mr. Wright before announcing his candidacy.
writer

No need to thank me for enlightening you, Jelp. Glad to do it.
Jackie_Treehorn

writer said:
Jackie conveniently leaves out the people who actually make death threats for drawing pictures, and chooses instead to excoriate Bid Eddie for being satirical about it. Sounds very left-wingish of you, Jackie.

And knock on the guy who points out the wishing of death of fellow Americans. How very conservative christian of you…..

Being that Stewart (the organizer of the rally) ripped into radical muslims following the South Park incident…
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/jon-stewart-takes-on-comedy-centrals-censorship-of-south-park/
goes to show how small minded, spiteful and not to mention uniformed (which we all knew anyways) the American right is….
writer

Big Eddie wished death on others? Thought he was just making fun of those who do that, for such major offenses as drawing pictures. And good for Stewart when he ripped the people who do that. But Jackie, you’re not doing that. You’re just ripping Big Eddie for satirizing their intolerance.
Jackie_Treehorn

Wow I’m glad you knew me last year when the incident happened and you know my views on it.

Well to have you know yes Muslims are ridiculous little scum of the earth vermin who use religion (just like Christians and Jews) to take what they want by any means necessary. The world would be a much better place without them as it would all religions.

So now what were you saying about my views?

And yes knowing the ridiculous over the top reaction of them to the drawings and saying “Oh the drawers will be at the Oct 30 rally” is not wishing death on fellow Americans? Like I said uninformed….but you’re a FAUX lover, as we’ve seen it’s proven just how uninformed you and your fellow viewers are.
Patrick Henry

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Well to have you know yes Muslims are ridiculous little scum of the earth vermin who use religion (just like Christians and Jews) to take what they want by any means necessary. The world would be a much better place without them as it would all religions.

Jackie, (1) obviously you hate everything religious and, (2) I have never seen a positive post from you, only negative and insulting. Coincidence, or might there be some correlation there?
writer

So Jackie, would it be your contention that since Stewart has called out the fanatics who threaten death on anyone depicting Muhammad, he has put targets on anyone who shows up at his rally?
Raygun

People who watch Glenn Beck’s show don’t have jobs either because they’re all retired.
Yoda002

felixw said:
Beck has a rally to celebrate the values of Martin Luther King, and espouse the founding principles of our nation. The Left responds with a rally of clowns. That says it all, right there….

I think you already missed the clown rally, but I think he was pretending to be a preacher.
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Jelperman said:
So you admit you’re lying -you can’t show where Wright promoted Farrakhan’s anti-Jewish garbage in his church. Concession accepted.

Wright spews his own anti-semitic garbage. Was Beck doing anything of the sort? He, unlike your source Grame Wood, does not have a personalized inscription from Mullins on a book in his library.

What the hell is your point?