Glen Beck is REAAAALLY trying it!

[Nicole Dupre]

I can't remember if I saw this clip in here or not, but just for perspective...

That was a skit waiting to happen. I watch Beck for a few minutes a week, just to remind myself of how warped Fox News really is, and the Nazi references are non-stop.

[giovanni_hotel]

From the Huff Post:


I keep asking myself, what is the "restoring honor" thing? What does it mean in Glenn Beck dog-whistle speak? What does it take to lose one's "honor"? The language of honor is from another time and means quite different things for a man or a woman. It's not that America has failed on the battlefield, or run from an enemy. America, the America Glenn Beck wants to save, is Lady Liberty, a fallen woman. For shame. It is not car company bailouts that have cost her her honor, no, we know, we all know... she gave herself, shamefully, willingly... to you know who.

It is time to restore America's honor.

[giovanni_hotel]

From the Huff Post:

Dr. Laurence Britt studied regimes in Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Spain and Chile and discovered that they all shared 14 characteristics:

. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause.
4. Supremacy of the Military.
5. Unapologetic Sexism.
6. Controlled Media Message or Outlets.
7. Obsession with National Security.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined or Indestinguishable.
9. Corporate Power is Protected.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed or Eliminated.
11. Disdain for Education, Intellectuals and the Arts.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Blatant Corruption.
14. Fraudulent or Suspicious Elections.

How many of these fit the current GOP/Tea Party rhetoric?

[PomonaCA]

From the Huff Post:

Dr. Laurence Britt studied regimes in Germany, Italy, Indonesia, Spain and Chile and discovered that they all shared 14 characteristics:

. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause.
4. Supremacy of the Military.
5. Unapologetic Sexism.
6. Controlled Media Message or Outlets.
7. Obsession with National Security.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined or Indestinguishable.
9. Corporate Power is Protected.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed or Eliminated.
11. Disdain for Education, Intellectuals and the Arts.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Blatant Corruption.
14. Fraudulent or Suspicious Elections.

How many of these fit the current GOP/Tea Party rhetoric?

Oh, oh! I know the answer! I think I definitely fit #1, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 12. I'm all about honesty and make no bones about any of my admitted characteristics. In fact, I'm proud of them. But I have to say that #13 seems to be a union worker/ACORN/government employee thing. I mean, these people have a monopoly on corruption and cronyism.

[giovanni_hotel]

Union workers/ACORN/government employee corruption is small peanuts compared to the insider dealing and corruption on Wall Street that rigged a bailout from the Feds after the top investment banks tanked the global economy by selling worthless stock derivatives based on bogus real estate mortgages they knew would default.

[noble1337]

i fuckin hate glen beck.
also, i saw some clips from the gathering, and i wondered...

-how many are minorities?
-how many are homosexual?
-how many arent christian or catholic?

fuck, i cant think about fox news people without gettin pissed. its so popular too.
im deffinitly not left or right, but yea....i find myself agreeing with the democrats a lot more aha

[PomonaCA]

Union workers/ACORN/government employee corruption is small peanuts compared to the insider dealing and corruption on Wall Street that rigged a bailout from the Feds after the top investment banks tanked the global economy by selling worthless stock derivatives based on bogus real estate mortgages they knew would default.

So what your arguing is that government corruption is OK? Why? Because of Wall Street corruption? This is what you're arguing, is it not?

[south ov da border]

to me government has become about power and noot about people. Everyone has their opinions. I don't mind Beck but I do see him scaring lot of people ...

[Nicole Dupre]

also, i saw some clips from the gathering, and i wondered...

-how many are minorities?
-how many are homosexual?
-how many arent christian or catholic?

Few, none, and most.

i fuckin hate glen beck.
...

fuck, i cant think about fox news people without gettin pissed. its so popular too....

Personally, I can't be bothered with hating. I don't hate anyone. That's their gig. Not mine.

I just wish stupid and insecure people would fuck less.

[giovanni_hotel]

It's one thing if some punk steals my wallet. Bad.

It's another when a multi-trillion dollar theft perpetrated by the finance industry put the global economy on the brink of collapse and a worldwide depression.

(Much, much) Worse.

It's all about degrees, my friend.

If you find yourself in a brawl, take out the biggest, baddest dude first. The others will cower in fear.

Is ACORN really the problem?? Or labor unions??

Or the uber rich on Wall Street who OWN the federal government???

Think about it.