The Rachel Maddow Show: Beck vs Birthers
The Rachel Maddow Show's Kent Jones reports on Operations Flood It's campaign against Glenn Beck for not giving more attention to their crazy conspiracy theory. So nice to see the wingnuts shooting each other in the foot.
MADDOW: “WorldNetDaily,” the paramount purveyors of the birther conspiracy which offers its readers the chance to contribute to “where‘s the birth certificate” billboards and join a petition campaign for a hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama, which offers its readers chances to buy “where‘s the birth certificate” yard signs and bumper stickers that say, “Where‘s the birth certificate” and what they call the, quote, “must-wear clothing item for 2010! ‘Where‘s the birth certificate‘ t-shirt.”
That “WorldNetDaily” is outraged, outraged, I‘m telling you. They‘re claiming they have been mocked by a man who, quote, “caricatured those who question the sitting president‘s eligibility with straw-man arguments.” They say this man mocking them portrays birthers as conspiracy nuts.
Imagine. Who could be the target of such wing-nut fury from the right? Is it Jon Stewart? My friend Keith Olbermann. An even more mannish version of me? No. How about Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck? Earning the ire of the birthers? Kent, have I just read a mistake in the teleprompter machine?
KENT JONES, MSNBC CORRESPONDENT: You have not. I‘m nodding because it‘s true. Mr. Glenn Beck, the one and only. Take a look.
MADDOW: Wow!
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
GLENN BECK, HOST, “GLENN BECK”: I‘m sorry. I just love my country. I almost forgot, he‘s also closing Gitmo and letting the terrorists onto the streets. People all around the - all around the country today have been called insane, lunatics, extremists, but we are not insane or extremists or anything like that.
JONES (voice-over): If there‘s a woo-buck buck buck club, one would assume Beck has an honored seat at the head table right next to these guys. Surely, there‘s is a peas-in-a-pod relationship, brothers-in-arms against the Kenyan menace.
Oh, no. Birthers are furious, furious that Beck isn‘t sufficiently mouth-foamy about the absolutely crucial Obama birth certificate issue.
BECK: There are other things that you should concentrate on. Who cares about the birth certificate thing? He‘s appointing communists.
JONES: So how are miffed birthers handling this? With Operation Flood It, with inundated Beck with irate calls and E-mails. Quote, “Fox has the guts to throw jabs at Obama for four years but they do not have the guts to deliver the knockout punch, Obama‘s ineligibility. We have to change that.”
Now, despite the onslaught of Operation Flood It, Beck remains unimpressed.
BECK: Today there is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers on the air. I have to tell you, are you working for the Barack Obama administration? I mean, that‘s the dumbest thing I‘ve ever heard.
JONES: Ouch. You can imagine how the birthers must feel. Rejected by your hero. Et tu, Glenn, et tu. As for Beck who today accuses liberals of orchestrating Operation Flood It, he‘s not taking the birther off-ramp into crazy town.
What was it Groucho used to say? He wouldn‘t want to belong to any club that would have someone like him as a member?
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MADDOW: I love the flaming liberals, “You‘re on Obama‘s side.”
JONES: Yes.
MADDOW: No, you‘re on Obama‘s side.
JONES: No, you are.
MADDOW: It is poetry. Thank you very much, Kent. I appreciate it.
First he disses birthers and then today he had some nearly kind words for Sen. Al Franken. I hope he doesn't have that disease where you can't tell lies anymore. His career would be over.
He's still crazy as hell so don't worry about his career. When this birth certificate thing got too insane for BillO and others, Beck saw the writing on the wall. But by this time his tea baggers had latched on to him as their leader and they are not going to back down. I do hope the baggers break up into groups and attack themselves.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Remember Monty Python's "Life of Brian?" Maybe we could have the "Life of Beck?"
With the same ending of course.
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.
I guess every rose does have its thorns, even plastic ones.
Too bad for Beck, he built this crazy SOB group and now they want to be fed more craziness. If he doesn't feed them they seem to want to eat him. Eat up, crazy bastards!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"Feed me
SeymourGlenny?"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.
"Feed ma allll night long."
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
"We are what we repeatedly do. Batshit crazy, then, is not an act, but a habit."
(The original is 'excellence'.)
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
until GlennBeck and Oily Taint nekkid wrestle in a swimming pool full of lime jello and borscht.
Quit that - there isn't enough brain bleach . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
This is ridiculous.
You guys really need to lay off whatever it is your imbibing and start drinking cola with no scotch, 'cause it's making you all loopy.
Oh SNAP!!!
That's the funniest thing I've heard since Lush said he wouldn't carry the water fer Boosh anymore.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Did Beck run out of Vicksvapo rub....?? He doesn't cry anymore.
pennlady
among, for example, fundamentalist, homophobic conservatices in 'historic' protestant churches in the US (google Institute for Religion and Democracy, realignment, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal) who, after breaking away from the mainline group, have gone on to split over and over into each time 'purer' factions.
with blind, uninformed, violent, racist, misguided, fundamentalist loud mouths... just give them a rope and enough time.
your biggest problem is how to unclog wall street and other puppet masters off your tax supported government.
beck is a joke and a hiccup in history, really, and speaks more about the state of literacy in the US than it does about anything remotely real.
the tone of this piece by maddow is beyond her usual annoying pitch and into the truly juvinile (sp) how are we supposed to take her seriously when her delivery is that of a giddy highschool girl discovering her tickly parts for the first time with her lacrosse buddies after the big game...
after a steady diet of amy goodman and jon stewart, maddow looks foolish...
quit the price is right antics and report the news already, rachael...
you are on the correct side and do good work, but you are not funny and less and less belivable...
just sayin'
Speak for yourself. There's nothing wrong with her "usual pitch". Showed your true colors with a cheap homophobic comment about the lacrosse buddies. And frankly, she makes me smile quite often. I think she's a gem and never miss her show. Too bad having a little fun with the insanity around us bothers you. Her offbeat humor and sarcasm endears her to her fans. It doesn't make her less believable, it makes her a regular person.
just sayin'...
What we really should be scared of is that he is appointing COMMUNISTS! Of course to Glenn 70% of the country would be communists and another 10% have communist tendencies. According the the fox nation the only thing the government can do is fight wars and interfere. Any interference is this communism that Glenn speaks of. The fox nation needs an attitude adjustment.
I'm good with Rachel and I'm thrilled she is calling them out.
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