Glenn Beck Digs Himself Deeper in the Hole With His Conspiracy Theories
Hardball's Chris Matthews has finally started paying attention to the fact that Glenn Beck's show is nothing but fear mongering and incoherent rants and touting nonsensical conspiracy theories. Media Matter's Eric Boehlert and The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson discuss some of Beck's latest wingnuttery with the uprisings in the Middle East.
They also spent a little time discussing neocon Frank Gaffney who's been spreading panic about the Muslim Brotherhood taking over our government that John wrote about yesterday. Maybe Matthews will finally quit having him on as a guest on Hardball after this.
Best line in the segment by Eugene Robinson after Matthews asks him if Beck has any sense of history:
ROBINSON: This is the stuff normally you would prescribe medication.
Ain't that the truth?
Full transcript via Lexis Nexis.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. As the crisis continues in Egypt and may continue on for quite a while, if you listen to Dr. Brzezinski, the right wing, led by Glenn Beck, continues to traffic in conspiracy theories. Why not? They have more to do with scaring this country than getting the truth out of what`s happening over there.
So what are they up to this time? Well, Eric Boehlert is a senior fellow with Media Matters, and Eugene Robinson`s a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for "The Washington Post."
Gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. And I sometimes -- I`m not surprised by right or left-wing argument in this country. Sometimes the rhetoric is rather wholesome. Now, catch Glenn Beckon Tuesday night, this diatribe about the Caliphate. He starts talking about ancient Babylon. See if you can follow this. I did. Let`s listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GLENN BECK, HOST, FOX NEWS "GLENN BECK": Iraq is really important, especially to the Shi`ites, especially to the 12ers who are in charge of this country right now because what is in Iraq? There`s one place that we told our bombers not to bomb. Does anybody know what it was? Two wars in Iraq, we said, No bombing there. Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon. Why? Because the Bible tells us that that is the seat right here of power of a global evil empire. Well, that`s also where the 12th imam from Iran is supposedly going to show up! Everybody on this side wants ancient Babylon for their caliphate!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: You know, before we go any further, I have rarely heard anything like this on television in my life, but the -- well, let me just ask our guests. Eric, the -- what is he saying about the decision by our bombing fleet, our bombers, those who are directed and their civilians who control our military under both Bushes, President Bush, Herbert Walker, and then, of course, George W. Bush -- that they somehow decided, as part of some global caliphate they`re envisioning and hoping to move along -- they told our bombing people when they put these sorties together, Don`t hit ancient Babylon because that`s going to be the center of evil --
ERIC BOEHLERT, MEDIAMATTERS.ORG: Right.
MATTHEWS: -- the power -- it`s going to be the seat right there of power of a global evil empire. He (INAUDIBLE) are the Bushes involved -- what in hell is this man talking about?
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: Your thoughts. Wide-open question.
BOEHLERT: Well, that seems to be one of the hurdles. He`s now rewriting history backwards, and now he`s sort of dragging the Bushes into it, with previous wars in the territory. Look, I mean, Glenn Beck has for years now at Fox, he`s dug himself this sort of conspiratorial hole and he`s just going to keep digging, I mean, regardless. And so now --
MATTHEWS: You`re so smart. (INAUDIBLE) because people who believe in these grand conspiracies --
BOEHLERT: Yes.
MATTHEWS: -- they`ll end up saying, It wasn`t just the Dallas police and it wasn`t just the CIA and it wasn`t just the FBI, it wasn`t just Nixon and Johnson, it was the Irish mafia around Kennedy. Everybody was involved! The Secret Service -- because once you start going into this --
BOEHLERT: Right. Right. Right.
MATTHEWS: -- conspiratorial mind, you have to make -- you have to come up with an explanation why somebody didn`t catch somebody.
BOEHLERT: And, so, now every --
MATTHEWS: And the reason they didn`t catch him is because they`re in on it.
BOEHLERT: And so now, miraculously, every piece of breaking news fits perfectly into his grand plan.
I mean, he wasn`t talking about Egypt two months ago. But if you listen to him now, of course, it makes perfect sense --
MATTHEWS: OK.
BOEHLERT: -- because he was warning about this -- this leftist Islamist revolution. It`s not just going to happen in America now. It`s apparently going to spread worldwide. So --
MATTHEWS: OK.
Gene, I want to give you another piece of cake from this -- strange cake, in fact.
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Now, here`s the story, just as a setup to this, so we all remember, so we don`t forget piece by piece what Beck is building here.
Beck has, for a while now, said the president is a socialist and a communist. That`s very important to understand who he`s -- because there`s no more common term in the world right now.
ROBINSON: Right.
MATTHEWS: And socialists had a lot to do -- they were part of the -- the modern Israel --
ROBINSON: Mm-hmm.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: -- Labor Party, of course, all the heroes were -- were socialists.
But he has this strange new theory now. Socialists, who he identifies with the president, communists, who he identifies with our president, are the ones behind all this.
Here he is. They`re behind the trouble in Egypt. Here he is on the radio today talking about the caliphate and the socialists and communists, who are of course the Obama people, working together with extreme Islam. Let`s listen to this latest.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP, "THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM")
GLENN BECK, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST, "THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM": I want the left to know I plant my flag in this soil. Groups from the hard-core socialist and communist left and extreme Islam will work together, because they are both a common enemy of Israel and the Jew.
Islam wants a caliphate. Communists wants a communist new world order. They will work together and they will destabilize, because they both want chaos.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: Gene Robinson.
ROBINSON: It -- this makes absolutely no sense on any level. It makes no sense on any level.
MATTHEWS: Where this Community Party meeting these days?
ROBINSON: Well, don`t you know how --
(LAUGHTER)
ROBINSON: -- the communists and the Islamists have always worked together? Except the fact that they`re always trying to kill each other.
MATTHEWS: And the socialists, too.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: You know who hates -- you know who hates -- who hates the socialists the most? The communists.
ROBINSON: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Doesn`t this guy have any sense of history?
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: And socialists were a big part of building the modern Israel. What is he talking about?
(CROSSTALK)
ROBINSON: This is the stuff normally you would prescribe medication.
(LAUGHTER)
ROBINSON: He -- he -- no, I`m serious. And -- and, normally, it does nobody any good. Glenn Beck says this. He says that. He says this crazy --
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Yes, but why is he saying it now?
(CROSSTALK)
ROBINSON: Well --
MATTHEWS: Is this to get Obama`s --
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: -- way?
ROBINSON: Well, here`s what bothers me. I think frankly it is a case that he`s dug the conspiracy hole so deep that he just has to keep digging.
But here`s what upsets me about it is, watch those pictures from Cairo, and it -- it makes you anxious. It causes anxiety among a lot of people because -- and why not? These are anxious times.
And so here`s this guy who is just compounding people`s anxiety with these loopy conspiratorial theories.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: And I just think it`s -- if you have that sort of platform, you have that sort of -- sort of megaphone that he has, that you have --
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: -- that I have with a column, there`s a certain responsibility that comes with that. And if you don`t recognize that, you`re just a jerk, you know?
(CROSSTALK)
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: Well, Eric --
ROBINSON: And he`s just a jerk.
MATTHEWS: -- you guys have been studying this guy for a long time.
BOEHLERT: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Before we move on to Frank Gaffney, another guy who is getting into the full moon category, what -- what is he trying to -- is there a logic here? Or is it just as Gene suggests? He has just gotten deeper and deeper?
BOEHLERT: Yes.
MATTHEWS: You`ve said this. Is it just you get so far into these conspiracy theories in blaming everything center -- anything left-of-center that`s evil in the world, you blame everything on them and you tie it all together with Barack Obama is a socialist, he`s a communist, that he`s -- he`s in with the Muslim Brotherhood? They are all working together against you. That`s paranoid talk.
BOEHLERT: Yes.
MATTHEWS: That is paranoid talk, definitionally.
(CROSSTALK)
BOEHLERT: Yes.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Your thoughts.
BOEHLERT: And, so, as Gene was saying, the underlying fear is, what you see in Cairo is coming to the States, where that --
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BOEHLERT: Beck has been talking about the coming insurrection. And it`s coming from the left. And now we`re being told that it`s going to look like Cairo.
And so this is part of -- this is just part of the conspiracy. And, frankly, I think it`s basically a programming -- it`s a rating shtick for Beck. I mean, Beck is at heart a radio guy. He came up in radio. They are haunted by the idea of falling ratings.
January was his worst ratings month ever at FOX News. He -- he -- he always needs a shtick. And so Egypt is the new one. The caliphate is the new one. And if you look at the numbers, the people are saying -- even some of his viewers are saying, OK, wait. Can you explain this again? Where are we going with all of this stuff?
(CROSSTALK)
(LAUGHTER)
BOEHLERT: Where is this going?
MATTHEWS: Well, it goes to the unitary theory, which really most crazy people go. They want one simple theory of everything that scares them.
(CROSSTALK)
ROBINSON: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Let`s go to Frank Gaffney. I don`t know what he`s up to.
Frank Gaffney believes we`re about to go into Sharia law in this country. He`s convinced we`re all going to be getting our hands cut off, our heads cut off, whatever else. Here he is speaking out this week on FOX, this week, of course, to warm -- to warn us that the Muslim Brotherhood is taking over this administration. Let`s listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, FOX NEWS CHANNEL)
FRANK GAFFNEY, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: What is going on here in part is that the Obama administration`s policies are being viewed through and actually articulated and now implemented through influence operations that the Muslim Brotherhood itself is running in our own country.
You cannot possibly get your strategy right, you cannot execute it effectively if you don`t know that the enemy is actually giving you advice on how to proceed.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: What`s he talking about, Gene?
ROBINSON: I have no -- again, I have no idea. This, it -- it just makes no sense.
MATTHEWS: He says that Napolitano, the secretary of homeland defense, is getting advice from these people, from the Muslim Brotherhood?
ROBINSON: Well, it would -- it would be not just the secretary of homeland defense. It would be also you, I guess, and --
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: -- and -- and the media in general getting advice from the Muslim Brotherhood? I just -- it -- it -- you know, Sharia -- let me just state for the record Sharia law is not coming to the United States.
MATTHEWS: You know, when I was a kid --
(CROSSTALK)
ROBINSON: I would bet a lot of money on that.
MATTHEWS: I`m about your age, Gene and -- and Eric.
When I was kid, we saw "The Invisible Man," because after you have seen "The Invisible Man" at a drive-in theater with your dad, the first thing you would do when you would go home, when mom was away, you would reach under the bed and make sure he`s not there, right?
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: I mean, that`s what this is about, isn`t it? The invisible man is coming to get you. You`ve got to check under the bed. You`ve got to make sure there`s no possible space in your bedroom he could be.
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: Isn`t this what it`s about, pure, utter fear-mongering?
BOEHLERT: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Eric, last thought.
BOEHLERT: Yes.
And Frank Gaffney is -- it`s not just in the Obama administration. He`s been claiming the conservative movement, CPAC, one of the controversies they`re having this year is they have been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. So --
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Oh, those red -- those red SOBs over there at CPAC.
(LAUGHTER)
(CROSSTALK)
BOEHLERT: Apparently, the Muslim Brotherhood has the -- the entire Beltway wired.
(LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: We have got trouble in River City.
Thank you, Eric Boehlert. Thanks very much. You`re doing great -- great work over there.
Eugene Robinson, as always.
The balloon head needs to increase his meds, or risk losing the few viewers he's still hanging on to - Ailes Murdock, and Hannity.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
someone needs to burst becks bubble and take
him off the airwaves permanently........an institution
with a small padded room is preferable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSmu_JDtzVM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
pick a very public fight with Beck... partly because he probably DISGUSTED with what Beck gets away with on the air... and partly because he wants to pick up some FEBRUARY RATINGS thru a public PISSING MATCH with the CLOWN over at FOX. More power to him! Either reason is good enough for me!
Rather a stupid thing for a has been shock jock DJ to do, picking on somebody of Tweetys experience and with the contacts he has.
Fox non news and the right wing propaganda machine has gone off the rails! Their lies and fear is whipping up into an ugly cyclone. Pure incitement, wrong and very damaging!
Beck is reaching something strange these days.
Why he has that silly grin...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Beck is just trying to one-up himself again. He's been doing this for so long though, that complete looney land is all he has left.
He's like the out of control Rocker's who just have to keep getting more stoned every night. Eventually they wind up in a body bag.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
for teevee junkies, one monkey throws shit at another one. Waste of time.
And good tag line too.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Same goes for the rush monkey. Thanks man.
I wonder if any of the yahoos falling for this "End of America!!" crap have noticed that none of the snake-oil salesmen peddling it has sold off all their U.S. stocks, sold their U.S. homes, packed up their family and headed for "safer ground"...
When a government and media are engaged in so many falsehoods it is natural for theories of conspiracy to arise.
"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories" - President George W. Bush at the United Nations - November 10, 2001
"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed - and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law-maker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy." - JFK - April 27, 1961
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Beck's bullshit sounds like brilliance to his idiot listeners and viewers. They are impressed by words like caliphate and Babylon because these words seem mysterious, ancient and, most importantly, old testament biblical to the bumpkins. Beck even has a blackboard, maps and a pointer to explain his insights to his simpleton followers. What a knowledgable man he must be.
I'm suprised he didn't go in for televangelism before this right wing propaganda gig.
He is a televangelist. That is what he is doing every day on Fox. And making a tidy profit at it, as so many do.
He lost 39 percent of them last month! That's a huge number. I guess he's hoping to get them back with this nonsense. But he's not smart enough to realize that when you're a shock jock, you have to keep upping the shock, which eventually is your undoing. We are just witnesses to the great unraveling, which can't happen soon enough. His voice and delivery are that of a televangelist, though. It's creepy.
beck's loss is tweety's total viewership. tweety's numbers haven't budged and beck is still over a million. tweety sounds like a moran when he sputters 'balloon head' and 'looney tunes' and when he has David Corn, Gene Robinson or Joan Walsh on he hollers over them or out right cuts them off. He totally stampeded over Eric Boelert when he was trying to make the linear point about back's incitement of gun nuts. It is as impressive as beck's delusions, tweety's inability to process information presented directly to his face.
At what point does our whole society and the government finally understand that this level of ignorance is not entertainment...but a real threat to our place as a logical, thinking nation.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Too late L & P , we gave up our place as a logical thinking nation when Bush was elected , that was it , the end of logic , reason and critical thought .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
The GOP wordsmiths pulled the word "socialist" from their focus-group forge and shaped a blunt weapon that would immediately trigger hatred, or at the very least distrust, towards those whom it was applied to. To their utter dismay, crazies like Beck have overused and abused it even more than their beloved Oxycodone. The public sees that Beck is insane, and that he hates Socialists, therefore Socialists must not be such a bad thing after all. He has almost single-handedly turned one of their most precious weapon-words a full 180 degrees. The irony is delicious.
To answer for his complete lack of self discipline.
complex. Keep up the drawing and quartering 'til it's done.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Were it not for fear mongers like Beck directing the hate and fear people would notice exactly who is doing what to whom and why. Then there would be trouble for the oligarchs who pay him to direct the fear and hatred elsewhere.
so much as he should be concerned with what kind of jackal puts Beck on the air day after day to whip up the lunatic fringe. We make fun of Beck, etal on FOX - it's great sport. But Murdoch has more sinister goals than amusing us with these clowns.
You're right WTB .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
I remember a televangelist that used to be on one of the local L.A. stations, a Dr. Gene Scott. He too was into chalkboards and crazy shit. One time, he spent months analyzing the dimensions of the pyramids in relation to biblical scripture. He was actually more entertaining than Beck.
Werner Herzog made a documentary about him, "God's Angry Man"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cAaIHdozI&fe...
He was a little before my time, but Gene Scott is at least partially responsible for spawning the other SoCal stooge-- Wally George.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Generally, I refuse to click on a link about Beck but.. man, what a better world we'd be in if more of the media were willing to belly-laugh at these morons. One of the biggest crimes committed by our media is their elevation of the nuts, charlatans, and morons through their inability [fear] to simply acknowledge what they really are.
I wish the "media" would ignore Beck and let Stewbert make fun of him. People who watch Beck believe his nonsense; they aren't going to watch MSNBC for a different point of view and then be "converted" by O'Donnell, Ed, Chris, or Rachel. The liberals who watch MSNBC know Beck is just a carnival barker; they don't need to be told that; MSNBC is preaching to the choir. The guy isn't worth a response and nobody's mind is going to be changed by MSNBC devoting any time to him at all. I think it just gives him more attention when they take the time to refute his stupid talking points. Ignore him and O'Reilly and just talk about things that are important.
should be exposed by legitimate journalists and comedians. Obviously, there's a percentage of brainwashed sycophants who won't be swayed, but other people get it. As noted in the above clip, Beck has lost a good portion of his audience already. I think he's getting too crazy even for the small percentage who watch his show religiously. I find him comical and creepy at the same time.
every Sunday. Beck is just moving it to prime time TV. He's trying to connect the dots which lead up to the prophesied tribulations, the fall of the temple mount, the Antichrist taking up house on the fallen Mosque in the Synagogue which is supposed to replace it. He's basically pumping Revelation theories without mentioning Jesus.
No mystery at all to what he is doing.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Pat Robertson and his 700 Club deserve royalties from Beck. He's totally ripping off their schtick.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Don't always agree with Matthews but.. Beck is almost becoming self satire, what the hell is he talking about? Guys like him have truly rendered terms like socialist/communist/fascist meaningless.
And Frank Gaffney, I'll let more comical people than me opine on his notion that CPAC, f-in CPAC, is infiltrated by radical muslims, holy...
The ad running at the bottom of the page where I saw this was for some book, and said at the bottom of the ad...
"as seen on Glenn Beck..."
You might want to be a little more picky with who advertises on your own site...
It occurred to me that you could put Beck's show, as it is, on Comedy Central right after Daily Show/Colbert and he'd be hilarious.
Thanks, I spit coffee all over my screen after reading that one.
If I had wanted cream and sugar why order the damn coffee?
I swear, Glenn Beck is going to pull out a gun and shoot himself in the head one of these days. And he is going to do it on live TV.
If I had wanted cream and sugar why order the damn coffee?
has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and that Fox News is a commie front.
Glenn Beck actually has a CCW. That is an actual sad fact. And apparently also goes around with a bodyguard. The stupid son of a bitch may actually pull out a gun someday. Scary.
yup, vegas nails it, same shit sister sarah (warrior princess for god) does, the faithful know the script, the whore of babylon, the seven seals, trumpets, 144,000, the whole nine yards; but that's not worries me, oh no, it's how he figured out the kremlin connection, how did he figure that out? about putin, i mean? our best agent, blown, just like that................
"ROBINSON: This is the stuff normally you would prescribe medication.
"Ain't that the truth?"
Yet again, C&L bloggers using stigma of mental illness as a tool to intensify insults against other people. There are good people with mental illness. Some of them agree with you. They don't deserve for their problem to be used as a convenient tool when you want to insult somebody whose politics you disagree with, even when it's a scumbag like Glenn Beck.
Please reconsider all the god damned jokes about "he needs medication" and "padded rooms" and all that bullshit. It's cliched for one thing, and it's hurtful for another thing. You might as well call him a (insert ethnic slur here).
(edited, sm)
A friend of mine has a sister that suffered a terrible accident. At one time she was a well educated teacher, but now, due to her injuries, can only perform simple tasks. She watches Glenn Beck constantly and believes every word.
This is the demographic Beck is aiming for. Damaged human beings, racists, mysogynists, conspiracy loons - in other words, probably at least half of the Fox viewing audience. People that won't fact check anything he says at another source, and willing to be led to believe total bullshit as if it was fact. Just another form of propaganda, subtle, yet effective.
It took long enough for Tweety to finally wake up to this menace. Let's see how long it takes before he gives up on it.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
those of a dain bramaged individual. Credit to my high school calc teacher.
I look for Faux Noise to cut him loose. I think Beck has passed that point where crazy people have no clue they are crazy...it's everyone who has the problem. His fans found his descent into madness entertaining for awhile, now it's just sad. I'm sure there is still the possibility of a bright and lucrative career somewhere in the field of satellite radio.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
With his girth?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The bottom line is who cares. If Glenn Beck isn't manipulating public opinion someone else is. It never stops. It is so irrelevant that most of one-side spends their carbohydrate infused brains demonizing the other side's idiots. There is an agenda, there is a conspiracy but if you pepper the world with a zillion conspiracies, the real ones hide in the crowd. The reason Glenn Beck is popular ,while a Thom Hartman,or a Mike Malloy languish in minimal exposure is people know something ain't right in Kansas but and they want someone to think it out for them. Those guys are given the theater to agitate while the other side can mostly agitate about the folks currently monopolizing the podium. That is a conspiracy too!!
There is a smorgasbord of viable theories out there with the real ones right in front of our face. Debating Glenn Beck is just diversional entertainment. It's cheese in the mouse trap.
bys1955
I'm a leftist. A socialist. A communist. An anarchist. A libertarian. I'm a Noam Chomsky-style libertarian socialist.
My father is a Fox News tea-partier. I realize he's just completely taken in by the traditional media in this country. Maybe it's like that with all the Boomers. They were raised on TV. They've always turned to it for solice. For entertainment and enrichment. They trust the TV.
That's how they can entertain the cognative dissonance of "The Number One Name In News" / "Top Rated News Station in the Nation" railing against the conspiracies of the "Mainstream Media". These guys are pros at the game that has fully matured in the medium. Of course, it's really only a game followed by those who still watch the boob-toob. The elderly Boomers.
I finally broke down last Thanksgiving. I was out visiting him in "god and guns" country (rural Pennsylvania), where he lives with my 95 year old grandmother. We were up late playing cards and smoking pot and talking about politics. He launches into some rant about Obama being a communist or something, then he gets real serious, and he's like, "If I had my way. Like, if I had an island. Everyone would do what they could, to the best of their ability, according to the best fit for their skills. And, then, everyone would just get what they needed. An equal share of the harvest."
I just facepalmed, at that point. My dad's family were farmers and schoolteachers. I think it must have been the Reagan coolaid, and too many untested drugs that fried his generation's minds. I'm wondering if the same thing is brewing for this generation too. Is Obama our Reagan? Are we going to be sucked in to the same "The World is Ending" mantra, and just sign ourselves up for 30 more years of bullshit.
Meh, who cares.
Oh, right, the point was that Beck gives me some hope. My dad used to be a huge fan, but then it finally snapped. He's like, "You know what son, I think this guy is just full of it. I think he's just winging it with most of this stuff." He said he's followed my advice and just turned the TV off, and enjoyed the quiet. I feel like the healing is finally starting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8SSBjyzEyA&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. People claiming that Beck is a lunatic have it wrong. It's all part of how Beck rolls. He's been sounding like a lunatic for a decade now. At it works! Even Matthews, in his "Let me finish" segment suggests that people watch Beck occasionally. Controversy widens Beck's audience. That's all Beck is about.
See "Commentators and guests discuss Beck's "lunacy."
Then, as always, warn other's of Beck's game, his dangerous game. Share that information and site about Beck.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
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