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"We’re not even three months into Obama’s term and already he’s screaming on air," Allahpundit wrote in one recent post. "How’s he going to deal with another three-plus years?"
Commenting on Beck's manic transitions between light comedy and frothing-at-the-mouth rage, Allahpundit added: "Either he’s acting or his mind is … highly nuanced."
"What the hell is going on at Fox News?" wrote David Frum, the former Bush official and conservative writer, in a recent column. He added, "There’s always been a market for this junk of course. Once that market was reached via mimeographed newsletters. Now it’s being tapped by Fox News."
Even Fox's own Shepard Smith seems to be uncomfortable with the new trend, frequently mocking Beck on live TV and referring to his show as a "fear chamber."
While not as specific in their targets, there have been some other eyebrow-raising commentaries from the right recently, calling for a more fair-minded approach. Few would ever accuse David Horowitz, author of books like Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, of shying away from strong language, but even he took up the cause of civility recently, penning a widely distributed column this month accusing conservatives of falling prey to "Obama derangement syndrome."
"Neither our support nor our opposition should be based on hysterical responses to policies that we just don't like," Horowtiz wrote. "Let’s leave that kind of behavior to the liberals who invented it."
Horowitz added that Obama should be given credit for pursuing policies in Afghanistan and Iraq largely supported by mainstream conservatives. His criticism that Obama can't catch a break from the right seemed to resonate with Fox News regular Bernard Goldberg, who recently got into a surprise tussle with Sean Hannity over whether Obama deserved praise for the Navy SEALs successful rescue operation in Somalia.
"If something bad happened here... I'll tell you who would have been leading the crusade against him—you," Goldberg told Hannity.
Politically, the right has always featured an uneasy alliance between social conservatives, cultural conservatives, national-security conservatives, and fiscal conservatives. Whether these rumblings of dissent about the state of the right-wing media are passing noise or a harbinger of a greater split, it's clear that Fox's latest gambit is not without its detractors.
"I just wish everyone would take a step back from this extremist brink," Johnson said. "It can't lead anywhere good. At best, it will bring the right-wing blogosphere into disrepute, and at the worst it could lead to violence if you encourage these real nuts out there."
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Fox "News" has really gone loco recently with Beck and a general anything goes approach. I wonder if Homeland Security will infiltrate the mobs they want to provoke. And maybe fox News itself. One can hope.
A terrorist does not have to do bodily harm. They spew hate and divisive talk. Fox News needs to be entitled Foxs Opinion Network. I know of local fights over listening to Beck and Hannity. Do these terrorists realize the damage they do OR is it all about the monney?
Actually, I don't hope that... That would just reinforce and justify their paranoia. I'm content to let themselves keep getting so crazy they drive off every sane person who used to side with them... I just pray that they don't harm anyone.
That is the last thing you want to do, it will feed their frenzy, give them rope, eventually the idiots that the are, they will hang themselves with it
I just pray that they don't harm anyone.
Brahahaha what are you brain-dead? I guess only leftists like you and Cede Pink and Acorn are allowed to voice there opinions right? If we working people take time off to voice our opinions we are nuts right? Notice I said time off as we work for a living we don't just sit around like your protestors living off government grants waiting for a bus and marching orders form George Soros.
I don't recall ACORN getting any "mocking" from news media. In fact, it was Andrew Cuomo that called up and PAID ACORN cronies to protest in front of AIG execs. It was ACORN cronies that jammed a Chicago radio station so a conservative guest wouldn't go on air.
ACORN cronies are paid, they are there to intimidate - as they did w bankers to loan unqualified borrowers. Hence, why Freddie and Fannie got us into this mess.
Gee, Harley... remember Oklahoma City? Remember that nutjob in Pittsburgh last week? That's what I mean when I say I pray they don't harm anyone. Whenever you go stoking irrational fears and conspiracy theories, you run the risk of stirring up people who AREN'T particularly sane or safe.
I've got no problem with people organizing, protesting, and disagreeing all they want... it's the nature of democracy. The problem is when instead of protesting we get nutjobs talking about armed insurrection against a democratically elected government.
It's terrifying. These guys aren't going to be satisfied until someone gets hurt.
I like how I can point out all the propagandist talking points in everything Harley and Venus say.. it's mesmerizing
I am a hard working American and I am a free thinker.. does that make me a communist or a socialist?? because I educate myself and dont just take what is fed to me by mainstream media as fact??
so i guess anyone who doesn't agree with neo-con right wing agenda is a jobless tree hugging welfare taking communist..
o and it wasn't the loans that sank the economy, it was the packaging and selling and reselling and insuring them as low risk investments for YOUR pensions that sank it..
THEY (the government (big business and unions)) do not care about us hard working folks.. we are just resources.
Stop crying over spilled tea because your liar didn't win the election and a different liar did.. The money would be spent either way.. don't you kid yourself.
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Last I heard, Code Pink and Acorn were not hardcore gun enthusiasts whose answer to everything is more guns and less civility. You may not like hippy leftists, but you don't need to worry about them pulling a gun on you or blowing up buildings. The right really needs to take a look at themselves. Religious extremism, militancy, nationalism, weapon fetishism; sounds a lot like the nuts that they are so afraid of in other countries. You fools won't be happy until the US looks like the Middle East.
And don't give me the Weather Underground of any of that sixties leftism shit, those guys have migrated to the right (ala David Horowitz), where extremist nuts are currently held in high esteem.
Amen to that. If they are #1 in cable news, what is wrong with we Americans. He is vicious and devisive. Glad CNN saw fit to discard him.
I wonder if Homeland Security will infiltrate the mobs they want to provoke. And maybe fox News itself. One can hope.
Wow according to fools like you we should not listen to conversations from oversees that sre from terrorists but you are hoping DHS investigates it's own citizens and a news outlet. And this mob you are talking about is normal hard working people who do not want there pockets picked to give free stuff to losers like you. And we are millions Bub so they better get more agents because this is just the beginning and we will not be silenced by Fascists like YOU.
absolutely, the last thing that the democrats should do is fall prey to temptation and emulate the vices that right wingers like you have been comitting for the last 8 years. We worship our freedoms not your false gods. Please weep yourself out amd douce yourself with all the gasoline in the world we will cheer you on
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optimus:
I think you are being a bit dramatic, and so is this article. Glen Beck isn't the furthest commentator out there.
glen beck, keith olberman, sean hannity... these clowns are used by the networks to entertain the empty minded viewers who need to be told what to think. I agree w/ drfadel in the sense that the only dangers these people will pose is to themselves and possibly a couple of innocent bystanders that get too close to their idiot rallies.
Finally.
I'ts nice to see there still are some "true conservatives" out there. Since when did this "attack all critics at all costs and by any means possible" crowd get in charge of the GOP, out with them and in with the true conservatives (like the ones the greatest generation tell me about ;) "you know there was a time when the conservatives were the level headed adults in the room" some tell me.
Book burning, the guys with the guns make the rules and people who respond to "We are not supposed to torture people." by calling the guy stupid and ignorant are not true conservatives. Not by my grandparents standards.
Check this out if you missed the Limbaugh caller http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904070031?show=1
I remember that time, ElLamer. I'm a Democrat, but back in the day, we could have good, honest discussions -- left and right together because what we all shared (and knew it) was love of country.
I can't get my mind around what has happened to the GOP, but it appears the "base" is getting ready to create another Timothy McVeigh, or a Timothy McVeigh group. They've been whipped up and enraged to the point of becoming irrational.
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ElLamer wrote: Since when did this "attack all critics at all costs and by any means possible" crowd get in charge of the GOP, out with them and in with the true conservatives (like the ones the greatest generation tell me about ;) "you know there was a time when the conservatives were the level headed adults in the room" some tell me.
Well, they looked at what seems to work for liberals--i.e. attack critics at all costs, and decided to run with it.
"Neither our support nor our opposition should be based on hysterical responses to policies that we just don't like," Horowtiz wrote. "Let's leave that kind of behavior to the liberals who invented it."
Nah David. That one is all yours. I guess we must forget about the stories of how the Clinton's murdered people.
It seems as thought the only ones who suffered Bush Derangement Syndrome is the Republican party.
You guys followed the guy who will go down as the worst president in our history.
You have to be crazy to follow that guy.
Glenn Beck is playing a role that nets him big bucks, thanks to Fox, and doesn't mind a bit that he's making conservatives look like complete idiots.
Actually MSNBC Olberman is the big nut! Watch out liberals, Olberman will get you with his bogus rants.
And what do you think of Beck?
The difference is that Olberman actually has a brain, he talks to people intellect not their animal instinct, a little over your head may be? to intimidating for feeble right wing brains
Olberman is no worse or better than Glen Beck in their tactic.
I see, you find a "Conservative" blogger that doesnt agree with Beck and now "they" are turning against him..that is rich. Beck is informative and our country has forgotten that old chestnut about those who forget history..... This tax revolt is about common sense, we are spending too much and need to stop it, We cannot spend our way out of debt we need to live within our means. Crazy...I know.
Beck is informative mainly as a reminder of what can happen to your brain after years of alcohol and prescription drug abuse...
Jill
This tax revolt
Is a crystal
Clear
Demonstration
Of how
A very large slice of
The country has absolutely
No idea of what
Is going on.
They're fearful
And blindfolded
And don't know
The first thing about economics
Or why the money
Is being spent.
They're lashing out
To keep from wetting
Their pants.
I'm laughing but
It's only so
I don't cry.
Rita
Rita -
It sounds like
You are wetting your pants
And
Crying
At the same time
To me.
I only wish
I had a clue
Of what is going on.
Please
Explain it to me.
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I don't think
An explanation is going
To help you.
It's only information if it's true. There is a standard test to see if you can be rehabilitated: How old is the earth? Anything less than a couple Billion years for your answer and your out.
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Clinton only managed to do that because he had a Republican Congress forcing him to. Also, this bubble that recently busted didn't start during the GW Bush admin, it started during the Clinton admin.
"Clinton - 4.6 percent increase in national debt every single year he was in office - HOW DID HE MANAGE TO OVERSEE THE GREATEST PERIOD OF ECONOMIC GAIN AND REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING - BECAUSE HE WAS A DEMOCRAT."
Actually, it was because of his conservative economic policy. Surprise!
"Sit down and shut-up"
If only Republicans were as enlightened as Democrats.
If anyone has been watching the National News these last two week, you sow our tragedy in Pittsburgh when three policemen were killed and two more were injured after responding to a domestic situation between a twentysomething son and him Mom over of all things the dog peeing in the house! How does this relate to this article? The guy was armed to the teeth and he believed in Conspiracy theories and that the government was taking his right to own guns away. Seeing the funeral for these upstanding officers and their families mourn makes it clear to me that these outrageous theatrical antics on Beck, Limbaugh etc. should be scrutinized and held responsible for the wake they leave in our society.
But wait....both Newscorp, Beck and Rush are making money. Isn't that America at it's best.
The left needs to marginalize the right in order to maintain Obama's lease on power. This translates into attacking every prominent figure who rises in opposition. You saw it with Palin, Limbaugh and now Beck. Unable to match their arguments, the left tries to delegitimize them by viciously ascribing to them the qualities sane people associate with the useful idiots on the left: hate, paranoia and plain weirdness. At the sane time they try to refloat such old shipwrecks as McCain, a tame RINO they like as long as he's not running for president. When he did, same old story. McCain was old, cranky, about to get cancer and die.
It's true ,the left wants to kill anything to do with "traditional values" and simply via Obama admin and his 100 czars is to control society.
Glenn Beck and all the conservatives will remain superior to the old left.
Obama, leave America alone!
I'm on the left. I don't want to kill anything to do with traditional values, but I do want to kill the idea that anyone who doesn't kowtow to the religious right is somehow immoral or "bad".
However, the uproar over Obama wanting taxes on the very rich to return to the level they were at under Nixon is a lot of sound and fury and signifying nothing. The Glenn Becks of the world are swooning and fainting and having dizzy spells simply because they *lost* and no longer get their own way on every piece of legislation.
It's pathetic, and more than a little ridiculous.
America elected Obama, Venus. Deal with it. I know it's not pleasant... trust me, I wasn't terribly happy after America elected Bush in 2004. When you're on the losing side, the government is going to do things you... DUH, disagree with. That's the way it works. Ya have a problem, you make a better argument, you convince people, and you try again.
The second Obama wants to do away with elections, seize all private property, or eliminate all independent media, I'll be right there in the trenches with you... but if I can deal with (what I believed) were the gross injustices and violations of American values in the Reagan and Bush administrations, I'm sure you're mature enough to handle Obama's policies in a mature fashion. Or is that hoping for too much?
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I am pretty sure John McCain is going to outlive the Republican party. Or good old Meghan will start a new one. Very clever, trying to get liberals snapping by naming the goofball trinity as "unable to be matched".
I almost got upset. Then I just remembered you don't buy it either.
But wait....
John Mccain does not support Palin anymore, and that is the Dems fault? Between her ex-son in law, her convict sister-in law, her pregnant teen-aged daughter, now she has a problem with the wife-raping AG she has nominated. What leaders you Conservatives have!!
ROTFLMAO!!
love it, are we serious here Mr. Banjo player? Rush and Peck actually have arguments? They are just hate mongers attacking Obama because he is "a closet Muslim" "anti American" "danger to national security" if this is an argument, I have a pyramid to sell you in Cairo
Good God Almighty it's hot in here tonight! Wooo!
Beck is popular, gets good ratings, and actually says some pretty wise things-most of which come directly from the words of America's Founding Fathers. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he's well studied, too! Nevertheless, liberals (and supposedly now Republicans) bash him like there's no tomorrow. Where was the outrage when he was on CNN? The "irresponsibility" I see doesn't emanate from the people who support and watch him (and they're not loonies, by the way, no matter how hard the liberal press tries to smear them), but the people who will do anything to solidify their own political agendas, especially those terrified that Beck may actually be echoing the things many Americans who haven't been brainwashed-and who may or may not have voted for Obama--are thinking. And perhaps Beck and the people who watch him do, indeed, have something to fear after reading the recent Department of Homeland Security "warning" to law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity" which, of course, is meant to target conservatives and includes many who might disagree with the present administration and who support following the Constitution and responsible taxation (oh my God, now that's loony!). In fact the "report" even named "disgruntled war veterans" as a segment of the population who may go bonkers at any moment. And might I mention the government of Missouri who recently warned their state police that Christians, "sovereign citizens", those opposed to abortion, tax revisionists, and anti-illegal immigrant advocates are potential would-be terrorists. And thrown in with that lot are people with third party bumper stickers that mention candidates like Ron Paul. Now if that's not something to fear, I don't know what is-and it should terrify EVERY American, no matter whom they voted for.
Simple.
He reached
New heights of
Cuckoo
At Fox.
Because he could.
'24' is not drama
There
It's a
Reality show.
You're right - CNN didn't smear Glenn Beck - this guy is great!
Libs - leave the guy alone, the majority of his viewers, 2.5 million daily - jealous ABC, NBC, CBS ?
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Beck is insane. He is, in Bill O'Reilly's words, a "loon." I saw him a few times on CNN. I was outraged. I sent him at least 2 emails, while he was on CNN, expressing my outrage over his fringe point of view and his antics. It should be noted that Beck was actually on Headline News, and, if I'm not mistaken, on at an odd hour.
Further, Beck's antics are becoming more odd and wacky as time goes on. That's a big reason for the outrage now, compared to when he was on Headline News.
I saw Beck defending himself the other day by claiming that he spoke out against Bush and his deficit spending. I have to ask, did Beck call Bush a "socialist," a "marxist," a "communist," or a "fascist" as he is now calling Obama? Did Beck show Nazi imagery when he spoke about Bush? Last week, I heard Beck say that we have been marching towards fascism ever since Teddy Roosevelt. If Beck believes this, surely he would have been pulling these stunts when Bush was president.
I voted for Obama; I am still very glad that I did. However, I do not agree with everything he says or does. And, yes, I am concerned about the huge deficits being run up. At the same time, I don't really think anyone really knows how to fix the economic mess we are in, caused by the previous administration.
Even if I agreed 100% with Beck's message, I would not watch him; I would be outraged with him because he is, once again, a loon of the highest order. He is frankly one of the most embarrassing creeps you will ever see in the media.
Wow, just what would you disagree with Obama about? Oh, that he's leading us off a cliff which we'll never climb out of. Your last paragraph tells it all. Even when you are 100% agreeing, you don't watch? How does that make sense. Do you have a TV?
Beck is the best thing to come out of Fox in years. He will bury the loons at MSNBC.
Because NEWSCORP Media Complex has hijacked the Tea Party Protest to hold on to the tax cuts for the wealthy is sad. Why do Republicans vote against their own best interest. Eric Odum who originated the Tea Party was all about SPENDING protests not TAXATION protests but dittoheads follow while being misinformed. Now that is SAD!!
OK. I read the report. I assume written by the same DHS employees who worked there before Obama.
The report states that right-wing extremist groups might try to recruit returned soldiers for their military skills. Not exactly targeting vets. Also the evidence for a rise in "rightwing extremist activity" is fairly substantial. If nothing else look to the run on guns and ammunition, and Chuck Norris' call for a "violent revolt".
ALSO there is a similar report on LEFT-WING Extremist activity. Only with the left-wingers the gov. is more concerned they will hack into the govt. computers and disrupt the system, not blow up a Federal building (Tim McVeigh anyone?)
And of course this should terrify everyone. But where was the fear and indignation when the govt. was doing it to the left for the last half decade (and longer, some would argue). Google Nicole Salazar arrest.
Gotta wonder just how sincere your statement really is.
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So you are basically saying that the cops are changing their profiling to include some of the crazy white suburbanites??
I know it feels a little weird being on the other side of the fence, but you'll get used to it.. being a little tense and nervous when a cop pulls up next to you even though you've done nothing wrong, wondering if you should nod at him or if that will piss him off, wondering if you should just keep looking straight or will that make him think you are up to something. Should I keep my hands at 10 and 2 or 9 and 3?.. ok leave em both up there so he see's both hands.. don't make him nervous, or will he think I've something to hide with both hands on the wheel?? oh what to do what to do.. ok he's gone.. don't turn around and make sure.. he might be still be watching..
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You're kidding, right? If not, you might be the one with the psychiatric illness.
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But wait...
Have you noticed that all the leaders of the Republican Party are known drug addicts? Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sara Palin. Nuff Said!!
ROTFLMAO!!
Glenn
Beck
Is a wild
Wahini
For sure
But he caught the
Biggest wave
In the ratings wars
And now he's
Crying his way
To the bank
Because
His audience
Needs a bandaid
For their
Fear.
Glenn Beck is terrific and a very entertaining, informative and procovative talk show host. I love him, his presentations and his messages.
It obvious the liberal media is scared to death of Glenn Beck - gee, are they going to try an intense smear campaign against him like other conservatives?
I gotta say, DHS really needs to focus on their own, they are dividing the country and shutting down spirited debates.
This writer needs to back up his story w facts, not opinions from liberals/dems/progressives!
Stay classy
Always
Venus.
VenusMuse, what you don't understand is that Beck is having the last laugh--the joke is on YOU. He is just a Stephen Colbert character, not believing any of his own horse shit.
Poor morons like you think he's smart; He's no Ivy leaguer like Colbert, but he's pretty damn smart to pull the wool over all y'all's eyes over there in nut job land.
You're apart of the "poor morons" livipeacock - if you don't like Glenn Beck, his message, his show, don't watch him!
Go back to MSNBC loons like Olberman and cling to your tv set. That is apparently all you are capable of.
Venus,
Please run for office, heed the call of the Republican party, they need people like you, and you're exactly the type that we want as competition, just made my day
drfadhel -- maybe you should heed your own suggestions. Liberals should show confidence over bashing those you believe don't fit your liberal opinions, big government.
The bashing of opposition isn't necessary. Bring someone better to the dance next time.
Venus
Why do you assume that if someone thinks beck is a moron that he must be watching msnbc and he must be a liberal..
o
wait
that's what you've been programmed to believe.. and then once you've been programed, you gotta call everyone else brainwashed.
You are a victim of mind control
I really wish I could have a nice thought provoking conversation with some of my "conservative" coworkers.. but I can't, because they are all programed with the same line of bs. I say 'conservative" because most of them are blue collar "joe six-packs" that have no idea what they are actually supporting.. and that MY FRIEND is exactly why we have these shows.. because as the greedy get greedier, they thin the heard, so they have to resort to mind control to get votes. DO SOME RESEARCH.. LEARN SOME STUFF!
Wait a minute. Isn't this article about the RIGHT wing media criticizing Beck? I'd like to know what some of the more conservative readers think of that. I think it is interesting. I miss civil discourse between right and left that are based on educated, well-thought out opinions rather than knee-jerk reactions. Seems like some of the folks on the right are recognizing that. I believe that there are a lot of the people in the middle who are tired of the hysterics on both sides and would like to get back to a place where we can have a reasonable discussion of the issues. The U.S.A. has a lot on its plate right now and I think it is going to take the best and brightest brainpower of both the left and the right to get us out of this mess!
Finally, a note of sanity. Thank you ittybittykitty.
Grundy
You don't come here
Looking for
Sanity.
Admit it.
Thank you indeed, Itty.
I won't watch anyone who looks as if they are going to have a heart attack or can only yell as if that makes their point of view have more meaning.
I'm so sick of people labelling one party as intrinsically "evil" or "daft". The full range of the political spectrum is required for a functional democracy. One of the ways I avoid being a puppet for either party is to get my information from many sources both American and foreign.
Beck is very difficult to excuse. His antics aren't those of a journalist. They aren't those of a professional pundit. They don't foster civil discourse. In troubled times those are truly important things....
Scared of Gelnn Beck? LOL Really? Not in this lifetime and the majority of people look at him and laugh but hey go ahead and try to pass off your right nut jobbers as normal respeced people. People with guns and an inability to accept a black man watch Glenn Beck.....not the majority of people in this country who put Obama in office. Wait til the 2010 elections and see who the big losers are when people like Beck are their cheerleaders. LOLOLOL Afraid of a nut job? Really LOLL change parties man and earn some respect for your craft.
Benjamin, you might want to watch a few episodes of Glenn Beck. I thought "journalism" meant you reported the truth and it's intended message, not taking out of context.
You missed the point here: " Glenn Beck. Just this week, Johnson went after Beck for using violent imagery and rhetoric in a segment where he pretended to douse a guest with gasoline then threatened to set them on fire.."
It was water dude.
"pretended to douse a guest with gasoline"
"It was water dude."
Um, you DO know the definition of "pretend," right? Actually, having read some of your posts, I'm not sure you're too solid on any "reality/fantasy" distinctions...
Tina Brown! enough botox...your eyebrows are crazy and you're writers are even crazier. I'm what some people would call a classic liberal...alas, they exist no more. Who are these new, angry voices? Such hypocrisy as well. I have watched Glenn Beck on CNN and I've seen him on Fox....he's still the same man....I don't think he's crazy, why is everyone saying that? He has passion and believes a certain way. Let's not shut down our rights to free speech people! The "right" is made up of really great hard working Americans as is the "left"....lets not let the fringe ruin it for everyone. And Tina? lay off the botox and rid the site of hard leaning leftist dribble....it's not doing anyone any good.
Beck is an irresponsible 'ranter', not a news person (as FOX purports) nor a journalist. He uses inflammatory rhetoric that incites irresponsible conduct, as demonstrated in the recent Bingham, NY "going postal" tragedy, in which Beck was named in the suicide note.
Is this REALLY who we want on the airwaves? Beck is part of the anti-intellectual movement that Palin stirred up last year and that Fox is fanning with its overt support of "tea parties".
Is Beck representative of who we have become or does he have air time on TV to attract the fringe? Regardless, I fear that we will not understand the incendiary impact of his ranting until we have more tragedies to which he is linked. THEN WHAT?
Glen Beck is not that radical. Most people that pile on have a mob mentality. Another way to view him is just another human with an interesting take. Please stop the hate on him ..he is a brave man with a big heart.
Well said. Glenn Beck offers his interesting take. It's wild anyone would want to bash Free Speech.
If the liberals don't like the views of Beck, they can turn the channel!
Equally, I don't like the rants of MSNBC'S Olberman - so I don't watch him. And he doesn't get under my skin!!
Mob
Mentality?
For crying
Out loud
You two
Are so
Dramatic.
Beck is a deeply unstable
Basketcase
Who cries at
The drop of a hat.
No one is
Piling on
Unless
They're wearing
White face
And
Rubber horns
On their
Belts.
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The majority who watches / listens to Glen Beck ( Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Michael Savage, etc ).
1). WHITE.
2). Racists.
3). Conspiracy theorists.
4). Angry.
5). NRA Members.
6). Evangelicals.
7). Rural.
8). Homophobic.
I would bet that those who watch the Daily Show have a higher level of education than those who watch Glen Beck. I would bet that the information you get from Comedy Central is more informative than you get from FOX Noise......
Where were the "Tea Parties" when Bush was in office?.
I have a master in aeronautical sciences and I love watching the daily show :) You're right about the "Tea Parties", just bizarre stuff.
I watch Glen Beck!
What I am not!
1.Racist
2. a Conspiracy theorist
3. Angry
4. NRA Member
5. Evangelical
6. Homophobic
What I am!
1. White and not ashamed
2. IQ 157
3. Medical Professional
4. Education - Masters
5. Rural
6 Better informed than you because I watch FOX
No further point in responding to you because as Thomas Paine said, "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead".
Anyone who has to state his IQ in a post paid for it. And changing bedpans is not a medical professional;-)
But wait....
Better informed about what exactly, from watching NEWSCORP. Can you say SPIN!!
Right, Mensa Boy. Einstein didn't wear socks with a suit or comb his hair. What's your point.
You are also not any of those things. You are:
1. A dude.
2. On the internet.
3. Lying.
Prove it!!!! You have an IQ of 157, really?, were you not told that the IQ test on the back of the Cracker Jack box was a hoax?. Medical "Professional", I'll bet you clean bed pans!. Rural, so am I , I drove a Log Truck for 5 years what the F&^K does that matter?. Better informed because you watch FOX, Yeah..... Sarah Palin says she's informed becuase she reads ALL THE NEWSPAPERS....
Sorry Pal your party LOST, your candidate LOST and the G.O.P. is imploding from the inside out, makes for great drama!!!!
Good Luck as you will need it.
I agree. Also, have you noticed that most of the "hate bloggers" have multiple grammatical and spelling errors in their entries? Someone even misspelled Cheney the other day.
I would agree with angry...but most of the conservatives I know personally are primarily terrified that a Dem president will raise their taxes.
They really just care about one thing...Tax cuts...
Other than their terror of Obama (or any Dem) they are loving people who want a better world...they just Believe the "right hype":
make the rich richer and that's how you'll be OK, even if you Actually get poorer!!!!
these people All make under $250,000/ year )...they're the working poor who are totally shafted by our current tax system (W2 forms making them little more than serfs)
but they believe if the "RICH" are taxed it somehow means them????
they are exactly the people who will benefit the most from Obama's administration....hopefully with time they'll realize that..I think that's exactly why the "right" has become so venomous
Again. Glenn Beck and his ilk (which includes Limbaugh, Malkin, and a majority of the Republican Party) are not conservatives. Conservatives believe in reigning in public spending, are against nation building and pre-emptive wars and support personal freedom through small government.
The Republican Party now is diametrically opposed to Conservative values, during the Bush years Republicans supported massive war spending, increasing Presidential power at the expense of personal liberty and became a cheerleader for regime change and pre-emptive war.
If anyone here Listen to Beck, Malkin, Coulter, Bolton, Limbaugh..................you are NOT conservative.
What happened to the old Republican Party? I miss some of those values (and I'm not talking about the family ones). How in the world did they become the party that restricted personal freedom? Hopefully some changes will be made. I am a Democrat, but have voted Republican in the past (a LONG time ago before the religious nuts high-jacked the party). We need two strong parties in this country.>
I voted Republican for years. It wasn't until Bush that I saw a major (a truly major) swing in the party that I could not support any longer. (And I had a gut feeling Bush was going to be bad... very bad.) I agree with many of the tenets of the Republican party. I just haven't witnessed them in use in decades.
The only real difference in spending between the parties is Republicans/bombs... Democrats/social spending.
glenn beck is a fool, he needs to stop before he has a heart attack
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It's all this irrational hatred by the left of FoxNews, Limbaugh.
Haters never miss an opportunity to criticize those they perceive as haters.
?????. You need to lay of the Oxycontin.
People who watch Beck and his like are the far right extremists that are resentful of any non-white person who is successful. VenusMuse and your likes, get over it you ignorant fools! The world has changed.
If you don't like Glenn Beck LIppo, don't watch him!
I don't like the views or opintions of many mainstream alarmists - so I don't watch them.
The world is ever evolving, and it's a free country! At least for now!
"The world is ever evolving, and it's a free country! At least for now!"
Now that's not alarmist at all.
"I know you are but what am I", screamed until teeth literally fallout of VenusMuse's mouth.
Liplo, how racist you are. Blacks, Hispanics, Native American, Asian, etc., folks of all races and cultures watch Glenn Beck. You idiot, this country has not, nor ever will change. The Constitution dictates that WE THE PEOPLE are to protect it and this country against tyranny and abuses of power. Make no mistake, moron, WE WILL TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK OUT OF THE LIBS" HANDS.
Take our country back fromt the LIBS Hands??!!. Really?. The last time I checked we live in a DEMOCRACY, so if you dont like it either LEAVE or make sure your candidate wins next time, but without cheating.
Tyranny?. Look it up in the dictionary and you will see the pic of G.O.P. / Bush.
Abuse of Power, see above.
You are the IDIOT / MORON. You sound like another sore looser that wanted Palin for Pres.
I vote Beck the new head of the GOP. They are in such trouble with their nonsensical rhetoric and (no) ideas. Beck will just sink them even faster.
But wait...
Did you run that by Rush?
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Oh come on.... Cheney is more important.
Glenn Beck is a comedian who just announced his comedy tour and to some on the right he is an embarrassment...He is wing nut performance art.
The joke is on anyone who claims he's more than an entertainer.
I'm a card carrying conservative...and I like what Beck has to say, however, I do think he carries on a bit too much. To all you people who criticize the content of what he says...you really haven't listened to him. Beck is one of the most honest patriots we have. He has America and its' constitution first in his heart. He genuinely cares about your freedom and one day you will wake up to that fact.
It isn't the he doesn't bring up certain good things. The point is he goes too FAR. His rants about the state of this nation are beyond reality (not always, but often) and do more harm then good. (Both to the nation and to the GOP) And frankly not everyone wants the GOP to go down that road.
That's what's wrong with this country. No PASSION in it. I love Glenn's love for this country and his passion for it. Where is yours?
Passion is one of the few things we are in no short supply of... logic is much more rare.
"most honest patriots we have"
Like when he honestly said he was disgusted with the weeping widows of 9/11?
Glenn Beck should go back to the Sehome High School's parking lot and smoke some more weed.
Thank you.
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