What did they accomplish in their decade-plus of spy work? This rhetoric that America is that close to falling apart is ludicrous fear-mongering.

What do you expect from a country whose real leader is a former KGB officer?

Wow this is delusional. If they’ve been here for a decade, then we’ve been weak for a looooong time, Glenn. People like these have been around for years, they were around during WW2, some have probably stayed and become full fledged citizens. Some of those “angry people from russia” at the parties probably fall into this category. Wake up here. I’m sure Michelle will love this though Glenn.
On the other hand, I do commend your ability to turn anything towardsyour cause and doomsday message.

It’s truly not that ludicrous. We are spread so thin all across the globe, we have wide open borders, debt that is impossible to pay and no trust in the leadership of the country. Read the history of Rome and you will see just how close we are to that once-great empire. Like Rome, our walls will soon fall if we do not learn the lessons from history.

What did they accomplish? They built relationships with policy makers. They got close to people who govern our country. I think even if they were not able to send out information (which I believe they did) that is scary enough.

I’m sure liberals are upset that the spies were caught.

Munch your job can be finding liberals who went on the record saying they are upset the spies were caught.

I read Are We Rome? There are some parallels and lessons to be learned, but America is not so fragile that it is on the brink of total collapse.

With Oblahblah at the helm, who knows what catastrophes can happen. It will be a miracle if the country survives the democrats.

mproust said:
With Oblahblah at the helm, who knows what catastrophes can happen. It will be a miracle if the country survives the democrats.

Over-the-top hyperbole alert. But hey fear is a great way to control people.

Beck is in dire need of a lithium drip

HahahAHAHAHahahAHAHAH “Oblahblah”!!!!111 We Right-Thinking Americans CONTINUE to WIN the WORDS WAR!!!1 There are so many HILARIOUS names for our jug-eared president (“Obamao”, “Obowma”, “The Obamessiah”, “Nobama”, “Obumbles”, “Secret Kenyan Muslin”) and YOU just added another FINE ADDITION to the collection!!1 You TRULY share the same mastery of words that your NAMESAKE, Marcel Proust himself posessed!!!!11

Beck is an intellectual bozo. Or as he self-describes, a rodeo clown. He isn’t to be taken seriously. I would take Hannity or O’Reilly’s intelligences over Beck any day. I may not always agree with them, but they aren’t stupid either. Beck is just plain dumb.

So basically, when we actually CATCH spies….it proves we are about to topple

But when a Republican is in office and 9/11 happens….we are fighting back against terrorism and rising up?

Brilliant

Beck believes the end of the world is near, that it will involve the melting down of our government, that only people who are prepared, with stores of food, gold, last days seeds, and of course, guns, will survive. Fortunately, Glenn and his Mormon friends will be whisked away to heaven.

Since we are about to be overrun by commie heathens, might I suggest that all real patriotic McCarthy loving Americans do the following. 1) buy gold and 2) buy survival seeds and 3) buy a copy or two of the Overton Window.

I don’t get why people are so shocked about this Russian spy ring. I don’t know who invented the narrative that this kind of thing ended with the Cold War. The only country that stood down after the Cold War is the US. Russia, China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, etc. have all continued sending deep cover agents to this country to burrow into our institutions and send back intel. Sadly, the CIA doesn’t have the balls to do much work inside enemy countries anymore, because they’re too terrified of a public relations flap. We know China has dozens if not hundreds of agents all over America inside large corporations, academia, and throughout the public and private sectors. America on the other hand relies mostly on signals intelligence for information. We don’t have human beings on the ground in enemy countries to send back intelligence. That’s why the CIA has been wrong about nearly everything in recent years. They were wrong about WMD in Iraq, they missed 9/11, and so on. Unless someone sends an email, makes a phone call, or a friendly intel service gives us something, then we don’t know about it. This is why Gen. Petraeus and the Pentagon are running their own stealth intelligence service using special forces soldiers. Those guys actually go out and bring back intelligence we can use in the war effort. The CIA is outraged that they’re being circumvented and keep trying to get them shut down.

Chris,
I doubt you know too much about the operations of the CIA. And yes, besides the countires you mentioned, you could also mention Israel, Taiwan, and many others. Most countries have spy networks, but that does not mean they intend to use them to affirmatively damage our country. Certainly America has spys all over the world, including in countries that we consider allies. Correct?

Karl & Ted, the creme de la creme of liberal philosophy!

paulmdoro said:
Over-the-top hyperbole alert. But hey fear is a great way to control people.

Exactly who is Mproust attempting to control with his comment and why do you consider it to be fear inducing?

Although I wouldn’t have put it exactly as proust did I too, for the first time in my life, am anxious with a tinge of fear for my country. I have lost that supreme confidence I once had that America will always be and will always be that “shining city on a hill”. Remember how “the band played on” in 1930′s Europe?

Having concerns is not unreasonable or laughable. One very teeny tiny concern is that Mediaite considers the most noteworthy aspect of this story is a 37 second soundbite from Glen Beck which is guaranteed to bring out the seeds and gold crowd in full force followed by your all too predictable (you seem to be in a rut, Paul) comment.

I sometimes wonder who Stalin would have considered the “useful idiots” today.

Laugh all ya want kids and bury your heads in the democrat/socialist sand, they live among us, just like the 911 hijackers did. If you don’t think these are perilous times you are a dolt.

Are these times more perilous than earlier times? Can you acknowledge dangers in the world without believing that “the end is near”?

Not at all nutsomush – I’m with you and the rest of the numb-nuts; unless we buy gold, buy seeds (and that means you must plant them) and buy the Overton Window and the other shit that Glenn Beck sells, we will be screwed by the commies and I’ll be sitting next to you and that brainiac timzank in a gulag. Wait….hang on…I think I see one behind a tree. Jesus, they are everywhere man!!

Ted, I mean Karl, I mean, BFD, conduct your research!

Bawaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I don’t think that Tim, and I know I’m not, is saying that these are uniquely perilous times unknown in our history.

I’m saying that the combination of the multiple perils (some of which-terrorism-are unique b/c of the nature of no single entity) combined with our internal politics and policies are perhaps more dangerous than pre WWII.

I don’t believe “the end is near” in several ways. I think we must face the danger and our actions will determine if we fail, succeed or continue to tread water. I am fairly certain that nieiher the journey nor the outcome will personally affect me. I think that my children will be affected and my grandchildren could very well be affected to an extent that horrifies me.

Can you, Paul, acknowledge dangers of international importance without blind faith that “the end” will always be fairy tale happy?

nutsomush – YOU may think this commie invasion is funny, but most McCarthy loving Americans DO NOT!!! Shame on you.

Oh, and then there’s this. Bawahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Grammie, Paul subscribes to the “they’ll slit my throat last cuz I’m a supporter” mantra.

Believing that the glass is half full, as opposed to half empty, is a Christian thing. We know it ultimately turns out OK because that is what the Bible teaches. Certainly the dangers to our country were FAR worse during the sixties when the threat of nuclear proliferation rendered so much fear that school children were required to practice getting under their desks and kissing their little asses good bye.

I’m wondering if anyone thinks the glasses makes Glenn look professorial? I don’t of course, because I know the guy is an asshole. But just wondering what others think.

This was an operation that hadn’t had it’s plug pulled. It’s obvious! Just look at their out dated methods. Beck is a clown!

but most McCarthy loving Americans DO NOT!!! Shame on you”

Sorry, clown. List the people McCarthy accused of being a Communist who was not one.

I’ll wait!

nutsomush – aka clown – I already played this game with yet another brain-stem. I listed two and of course there was no response. Listen nutsomush, if you had any capacity to learn (and sadly you do not) you would know the names but instead McCarthy loving morons like yourself swallow the bullshit that Glenn Beck feeds you. You really don’t want to play that game because frankly, you’re an idiot and way out of your league. Isn’t it time to strap on the tea-bagging feedback?

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What do you expect from a country whose real leader is a former KGB officer?”

I just saw BILL Clinton being lectured to by Putin about how out of control our police are!

LOL

Ted, continue your research!

Your red neck matches your eyes!

Oh, and Ted, you retard, it was a Democrat who was the head of HUAC that got your Hollywood Commie buddies, including Sean Penn’s father, blacklisted!

bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

nutsomush – you continue to live up to your tea-bagging reputation with brain-stem incoherence. Now, to the rest of us this is expected, especially from a tea-bagger living in moms double-wide, but I suppose to your tea-bagging friends this is proof of genius. Yes, of course. Now, I don’t blame you for your stupid; I doubt there is anything you can do about that, you’re an idiot, and I’m sure you’ve learned to adapt. But there is something you can actually take control of. For your sake, and your friends at the trailer park, be a leader, not a follower and ditch the mullet.

bawahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Buy seeds, then gold.

Ted, you lost!

bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Man, where is David Berkowitz when you need him?

Ted, yu’re the guy who rides the subways during the summer months just to smell the fecal fumes emanating from the hot leather seats.

nutsomush – you lost by virtue of three things 1) you refuse to ditch the mullet and 2) by your own admission, you are not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer (which is a nice way of saying your a dumb-ass) and you are 3) unAmercian. I’m sorry.

Bawahahahahahahaha!!! (I think I probably need to tell you that I’m laughing at you, not with you. Didn’t want to assume you understood the difference, which of course, you wouldn’t.

Buy several copies of the Overton Window.

Now, we can both agree that your tortuous, unsubstantiated post really wasn’t well thought out, was it?

Go back into your excrement stained cage, you abominable, knuckle-dragging miscreant.

You started at the bottom…and it’s been downhill ever since!

Bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

nutsomush – Just curious. You seem like a nice tea-bagger. So, I’m wondering, when you are alone and its just you and your mullet, what goes through your mind when you dream of Glenn Beck and Joe McCarthy? Please keep it clean and remember to lay of the Mountain Dew before going to bed.

Even neutral Sweden has Russian spies. Glenn Beck lives in a fairy-tale world.

Speaking of spy Presidents, wasn’t papa Bush the director of the CIA sometime before becoming President?

I know and feel in my heart that he doesn’t believe all this crap coming out of his mouth. What I know is that for him this is entertainment, it’s part of the job to get ratings in. The sad thing is for those who are defending this moronic achievements, it’s nothing but political entertainment.

Deliberately or otherwise, Beck has it wrong. The fact that these people were exposed means the “end” is actually FARTHER away, not nearer.

“I’m sure liberals are upset that the spies were caught.”

Olga Fugyerself . . . comrade.

“With Oblahblah at the helm, who knows what catastrophes can happen. ”

BUSH was “at the helm” during the entire time this bunch was active. They were CAUGHT during the Obama administration . . . comrade.

“fear is a great way to control people.”

It worked for Bush, to a point.

“Beck is an intellectual bozo. Or as he self-describes, a rodeo clown. He isn’t to be taken seriously. I would take Hannity or O’Reilly’s intelligences over Beck any day.”

Beck is a calculating liar. He uses the “clown” excuse to get away with outrageous – and damaging – statements and conduct. We tend to dismiss him but he is actually quite harmful to meaningful discourse.

After all, here we are talking about HIM instead of things that matter.

I wouldn’t use the words “Hannity,” “O’Reilly” and “intelligence” in the same sentence. More precisely, both of them are intellectually dishonest – when the aren’t lying outright.

“Beck believes the end of the world is near”

Beck wants US to believe the end is near. Buy gold!

“buy a copy or two of the Overton Window.”

A little light reading while you’re huddled in your backyard bunker – buying gold!.

“China has dozens if not hundreds of agents all over America”

China is BUYING America – with our own $$$! They don’t seem to think the end is near, either.

THEY should buy gold, too! I don’t know what use gold will be after “the end” – but buy it anyway!

“Karl & Ted, the creme de la creme of liberal philosophy!”

– notsoswift, the crumb-de-la-crumb of “pointless attack” slobbistry. You mindlessly condemn people without giving a single reason for doing so.

Beck’s mindless ranting on TV is one thing. When YOU do it, you just make a fool of yourself.

“Exactly who is Mproust attempting to control with his comment and why do you consider it to be fear inducing?”

The comment wasn’t about mp – or about fairy tale endings. paul is pointing out the use of fear as a tactic, per se. Fear diminishes rational thought – and vice versa.

“Having concerns is not unreasonable or laughable.”

No one’s laughing – or disagreeing. Concern is rational and reasonable. Fear is counterproductive. Panic is destructive.

“smell the fecal fumes”

“excrement stained cage”

You REALLY need professional help with your excretion obsession. Ugh.

We have had spies all over the world for decades and so has Russia, why is this a surprise to anyone?

some idiot said:
What do you expect from a country whose real leader is a former KGB officer?

What!!!!!!!….. Rush Winbaugh is a former KGB officer?

mproust said:
With Oblahblah at the helm, who knows what catastrophes can happen. It will be a miracle if the country survives the democrats.

That rich. Those spys were here during the ENTIRE Bush administration, and they were being monitored just as they were being watched once Obama took office. They weren’t arrested as spies until NOW.
Just to be fair, WE have spies around the world, also.

notsofact said:
Ted, continue your research! Your red neck matches your eyes!

I have read many postings by you. You are quick to criticize and insult, but you yet to provide one fact. And YOU expect everyone else to do research? Crack a History book, why don’t you?

Ted said:
I’m wondering if anyone thinks the glasses makes Glenn look professorial? I don’t of course, because I know the guy is an asshole. But just wondering what others think.

i think you’re the asshole.