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Glenn Beck Has a PointPosted on Jan 20, 2011
Excuse us while we hold back the dry heave and acknowledge that buried in this obnoxious, childish rant of Glenn Beck’s, there’s a valid point lurking. Below, Beck comes unhinged after playing a clip of CNN anchor John King apologizing because a guest used the words “in the cross hairs.” King’s apology is typical of the reaction to the shooting in Arizona and the speculated (and unproven) connection it may have had to nasty rhetoric. Now, Beck is clearly defensive as one of the leading voices of nastiness on our airwaves. His network, Fox News, is home to the all-stars of the genre and his colleague there, Sarah Palin, was singled out in the aftermath of the shooting. But he’s got a point. Whatever the Arizona shooter’s motives, it seems absurd that a guest on CNN using an innocent turn of phrase should generate an apology. Furthermore, our media is much more violent, as Beck, in his own way, points out, than our language. Where do we draw the line? Should we ban movies and literature that feature assassination or murder for fear of inspiring the mentally unbalanced? Advertisement Beck, using baby talk and pantomime, cautions CNN not to insult its viewers by treating them like idiots. We suggest he do the same. —PZS New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy. |
By Agent of Truth, January 26, 2011 at 3:51 pm Link to this comment
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People need to wake up the fact that Glenn Beck is the biggest ASS in the world. This closet homosexual is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology that he mixes with cherry picked parts of Catholicism, New Age Religions and his personal core as a washed up, dry alcoholic. He is a pretty messed up individual who possesses absolutely no personal integrity. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. The two are not the same as one is a cult and the other is a religion. This makes Glenn Beck one very twisted screwed up moron who sold his soul to the lowest common denominator of personal stupidity. And for the record…the religion of Islam has far more in common with Christianity than the mormon cult.
Glenn Beck can be summarized simply as a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. Those are his only qualifications for anything in life as he never went to college and definitely knows nothing about American History or the US Constitution. Because he does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, this makes him the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. Considering the fact that Beck’s personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. He is definitely not a true conservative.
Just as with that sex crazed control freak (Joseph Smith) who duped impressionable people into his home made belief system called mormonism, or that 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russell) who duped ignorant people out of lots of money and started the Jehovah’s Witness Cult, this over-paid idiot (Glenn Beck) got in bed with Satan a very long time ago. It’s really all about the money as hate, lies, promotion of ignorance and fear mongering are the only marketable skills that Glenn Beck has on his side. The only way he survives is from developing and growing a flock of very impressionable idiots who do not understand the difference between a cult and a religion or truth & facts versus lies.
Glenn Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them frequently pervert truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths. Beck is simply part of a national league of pseudo-conservative idiots who make big money by selling lies and half truths to impressionable fools who occupy the lowest levels of society. You know the type…tea baggers and registered republicans who are condemned to repeat the mistakes of history.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, January 24, 2011 at 5:07 pm Link to this comment
Remember, Glen Beck like a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Report thisBy carl stoll, January 23, 2011 at 11:14 pm Link to this comment
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Glembek may have a point. As a matter of fact he may have several points. But none of those points excuse him for deliberately pimping to the oligarchy and deluding the masses. Glembek is a cog in the corporate machinery of oppression.
Report thisGoebbels was in the same racket. Only suicide saved Goebbels from the gallows.
Perhaps one day Glembek will pay the price for his lies.
By carl stoll, January 23, 2011 at 11:00 pm Link to this comment
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Alex’ pathetic little bleat, “God bless Glenn Beck. He knows what he’s talking about.” can only stem from the mind of a chimpanzee. It sounds so hyper-phony. It’easy to tell that neither (a) Alex, nor (b) Glembek nor (c) God (whoever He is) has the slightest idea of what they are mumbling about. Is there some way to amputate gullibility?
Report thisBy Maani, January 21, 2011 at 6:38 pm Link to this comment
Armageddon:
Don’t mince words: tell us what you REALLY think! LOL.
Peace.
Report thisBy Peter Knopfler, January 21, 2011 at 3:52 pm Link to this comment
IS NOT EVERYONE TIRED OF THIS MORMON RANTING;
Report thisSEPARATE STATE FROM CHURCH ALREADY, is it not about
time we honored this great principle, Minister
Huckbee running for office separate church from State
Glen Beck a recent convert to the MORNMAN, no Moron,
no Mormon Johnny come lately scripture find in New
York State give me a break, I worked with alcoholic
drug addicts all they can do is shift the addiction
to some easier to live with, addiction can not be
cured its a development of the brain earlier in life.
Can you imagine what Glen was like at 8 year old then
at 14, then at 28 and these crucial years are those
that shape the human brain Glen is still the addicted
reject young man. Only now he can project his mental
instability on TV because Murdoch can control addicts
better than thinking people, Anyone with any brains
would have some class and not work for Maniac
Murdoch, Stop Watching Glen and let Murdoch come up
with a new puppet, you know He will.
By Quinty, January 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm Link to this comment
Tobysgirl -
I may not have an ounce of sanity since I watch Glenn Beck from time to time. I find
his rants fascinating. As I sit there in the comfort of my calm, warm, and serene
living room I’m also aware that there tens of thousands of folks out there who, at
this very minute, are watching too. Folks who take this stuff seriously. Who believe
they are actually receiving a history lesson - as in things that actually happened. In
the past with real people. That it is not all the mere bubbling in a fevered mind
which can’t distinguish between an acid high and a children’s animated cartoon.
So I sit there like the rabbit mesmerized by a cobra, staring into its eyes. Yes, you
Report thismust be right. I have no sanity. Why else would I do this to myself?
By Bill Desmond, January 21, 2011 at 12:59 pm Link to this comment
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Despite Mr. Becks personal shortcomings, and that I find his positions on just about anything poorly thought out, there are much, much worse that him. Listen to A.M. talk show radio. Compared to many, Mr. Beck comes acrross as a mildly cranky Rotarian.
But having said that, the brilliance of your First Amendment- surely the most important legislation in the history of the human race since the Magna Carta (And I’m not an American) - gives him the right to express his opinion to any one who cares to listen. Tell me if I’m wrong, but my interpretation of the Amendment does not give any one the right not to be offended.
The best counter to Mr. Beck et al, is a well articulated, forceful, positive and small L liberal argument. Don’t let these people own the airwaves, or control the agenda. But I think it’s still important to recognize their rights, that they are American citizens, and to keep the personal slurs out of it all. Its the message, not the medium.
Report thisBill in Canada
By Tobysgirl, January 21, 2011 at 11:12 am Link to this comment
Having realized that no one with an ounce of sanity or compassion listens to the likes of Glenn Beck in the first place (unless they are taking notes), I believe the right-wing media creeps are more symptomatic of America’s viciousness than actual instigators. I don’t know how anyone can listen to people screaming or talking gibberish, as Beck does, for any length of time without being mentally unstable in the first place.
But then I don’t understand the fondness for bullying and humiliation in my country. Why is everyone always whining about bullying in schools while watching crap like Survivor? Has anyone ever caught two seconds of Nancy Grace (name correct?)? I can’t stomach humiliation as entertainment for even two seconds. We need to seriously think about what kind of people basically watch vomit being broadcast and ENJOY it.
Report thisBy godistwaddle, January 21, 2011 at 7:49 am Link to this comment
Glenn’s just got his barrels pointed the wrong way—at
Report thisthose who think the poor and middle classes should be
given a break.
By NadePaulKuciGravMcKi, January 21, 2011 at 12:52 am Link to this comment
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all israel all the time glenn beck
Report thisBy Armageddon T Thunderbird, January 21, 2011 at 12:36 am Link to this comment
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The only point that Glenn Beck has is his homosexuality that he is still holding off on announcing till a more lucrative time. People need to wake up the fact that Glenn Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology that he mixes with cherry picked parts of Catholicism and his personal core as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. The two are not the same as one is a cult and the other is a religion. This makes Glenn Beck one very twisted screwed up moron who sold his soul to the lowest common denominator of personal stupidity. And for the record…the religion of Islam has far more in common with Christianity than the mormon cult.
Glenn Beck can be summarized simply as a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. Those are his only qualifications for anything in life as he never went to college and definitely knows nothing about American History or the US Constitution. Because he does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, this makes him the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. Considering the fact that Beck’s personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. He is definitely not a true conservative.
As with Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate who started the Jehovah’s Witness Cult, this over-paid idiot (Glenn Beck) got in bed with Satan a very long time ago. It’s really all about the money as hate, lies, promotion of ignorance and fear mongering are the only marketable skills that Glenn Beck has on his side and he has a growing flock of very impressionable idiots who do not understand the difference between a cult and a religion or truth & facts versus lies.
Glenn Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them frequently pervert truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths.
Beck is simply part of a national league of pseudo-conservative idiots who make big money by selling lies and half truths to impressionable fools who occupy the lowest levels of society. Basically…tea baggers and registered republicans who are condemned to repeat the mistakes of history.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, January 20, 2011 at 8:49 pm Link to this comment
Re: Alex, January 20 at 3:07 pm
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“God bless Glenn Beck. he knows what he’s talking about.’
Thats what Jim Jones followers thought of him.
Report thisBy Maani, January 20, 2011 at 4:22 pm Link to this comment
Although I have no love for Sarah Palin, TD - and both the MSM and AM - continue to repeat a complete lie.
There was ZERO connection between Palin’s creation of the infamous “crosshair” map and her use of the phrase “Don’t retreat: reload!” That comment was made to Dr. Laura Schlessinger in a Tweet after Schlessinger quit her show after being castigated over using the word “nigger.” It was THIS that Palin was responding to, using the infamous phrase (admittedly stupidly and incorrectly) re Schlessinger’s First Amendment rights.
There was almost nine months between Palin’s putting the crosshair map on her site and her TOTALLY UNCONNECTED comment to Schlessinger.
It is time the media acknowledged this. There are plenty of reasons to dislike both the map and the comment. But connecting them is nothing less than yellow journalism.
Peace.
Report thisBy gerard, January 20, 2011 at 4:07 pm Link to this comment
A moderate degree of self-restraint is necessary if we are going to live together with liberty and justice for all. Lack of a moderate degree of self-restraint weakens others’ self-restraint.
One’s own personal definition of “moderate” depends upon each individual’s experience of what it means.
Report thisIn spite of dangers, people prefer freedom of speech because the lack of freedom of speech is much more dangerous.
By samosamo, January 20, 2011 at 3:35 pm Link to this comment
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For a bit of more ‘good’ news about beckie and fux news:
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/01/20-0
Is this a sign the tides are turning?
Report thisBy Peter Knopfler, January 20, 2011 at 2:17 pm Link to this comment
Pete King was screaming for the execution of Julian
Report thisAssange King to Murder, Minister Huckbee kill Julian
this guy is wacko and will get wacked, what goes
around comes around ask for death you get nine year
old dead! Wake up America, or not to worry Communist
China will solve all your problems that dead nine
year old would be in the factory working 200,000,000
child workers in Communist China. Send our companies
to Communist China why not send our kids too, nothing
else to do, no education no jobs send them all to
Communist China, they can abuse without guilt. NO GOD
IN COMMUNIST CHINA.
By Wren, January 20, 2011 at 2:09 pm Link to this comment
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How about we just ban incitement to murder.
Report thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcvbw6ExTQ&feature=player_embedded
By felicity, January 20, 2011 at 1:22 pm Link to this comment
Speaking of Glen’s pointed head (skimohawk) has anyone
Report thisseen the photograph of the Tucson assassin wearing a
Glen Beck look-alike wig? Beck bears an uncanny
resemblance, or is it the other way around, to the
assassin. Would Beck be offended by the doctored photo
of him? It’s just a harmless doctored picture, isn’t
it.
By roger, January 20, 2011 at 11:42 am Link to this comment
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Glenn Beck tells his audience to shoot people in the head on June 10, 2010. So… Why doesn’t he think he contributed to the massacre?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcvbw6ExTQ
Report thisBy Alex, January 20, 2011 at 10:07 am Link to this comment
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God bless Glenn Beck. he knows what he’s talking about.
Report thisBy primerman, January 20, 2011 at 7:57 am Link to this comment
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If Glenn and Rush don`t think their rhetoric is incindiary, then why do they have private security details protecting them ?
Report thisBy Bonnie, January 20, 2011 at 7:00 am Link to this comment
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As much as I despise Beck I actually agree with this. Too much emphasis is placed on the least important things. People will be driven to violence because Beck has them convinced that this person or that is seriously evil and literally destroying America, not because of his dark jokes or Sarah Palin’s website graphic. Maddow and Olbermann do that a lot and it drives me crazy!
Report thisBy skimohawk, January 20, 2011 at 4:17 am Link to this comment
really.. I mean… why do you even waste bandwidth on that stupid sonofabitch?
like the guys say on Sunday Night Football:
C’mon, Man!
Report thisBy skimohawk, January 20, 2011 at 4:15 am Link to this comment
the only point Glenn Beck has is the one on top of his head.
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