Tag: Glenn Beck

Paul/Beck: WTF Moment

Okay I admit it….I have seldom been very polite to the Right’s Glen Beck…..I have made fun of just about everything he has ever said…..is it possible that I may have been mistaken about this fellow?

Some will say that I have been right on….and others will call me names for my attacks on him……

May I suggest that anybody who has ever read my blog….please have a seat for I am about to shock the crap out you………

I apologize to Glen Beck for accusing him of being out of touch…..why would I do that?  Politico has published my reason…..

Glenn Beck is admitting he was wrong and liberals were right for opposing the invasion of Iraq.

“[Liberals] said we couldn’t force freedom on people,” Beck said at the start of his Tuesday radio show. “Let me lead with my mistakes. You were right. Liberals, you were right, we shouldn’t have.”

“From the beginning, most people on the left were against going to Iraq,” Beck said. “I wasn’t.”

The talk show host explained that when a possible invasion of Iraq was being discussed, he believed Saddam Hussein was backing terror against the United States and that something had to be done.

“In spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said, ‘We shouldn’t get involved, we shouldn’t nation-build’ and [that] there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free,” Beck said. “I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free.”

On Tuesday, Beck said, “You cannot force democracy on the Iraqis or anybody else, it doesn’t work. They don’t understand it or even really want it.”

Beck does have his moments of brilliance……or least he has admitted his mistake….more than most people on the Right would ever do…….

But I do not expect him to be as forthcoming on other issues……..but it is nice to hear some on the extreme Right admit their mistake…….

And then there was another bombshell….at least for me….and this one came from Rand Paul (go figure)……….when talking about the situation in Iraq he stated…….

“I think the same questions could be asked of those who supported the Iraq War,” Paul said of Cheney’s op-ed. “You know, were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there? That’s what the war was sold on. Was democracy easily achievable? Was the war won in 2005, when many of these people said it was won?

Paul went on to note many current Iraq War supporters also are concerned about the situation in Iran.

“They didn’t really, I think, understand the civil war that would break out. And what’s going on now — I don’t blame on President Obama. Has he really got the solution? Maybe there is no solution. But I do blame the Iraq War on the chaos that is in the Middle East,” said Paul. “I also blame those who are for the Iraq War for emboldening Iran. These are the same people now who are petrified of what Iran may become, and I understand some of their worry.”

Okay I have been successfully caught off guard by these revelations……..if you know anything about string theory then you know there are parallel dimensions…….apparently I have stepped over into one of them…….

You Want Scary?

The rightwing media has been scaring the piss out of the American people for years now……..Obama is a secret Muslim….Obama is a socialist…..Obama wants to brainwash your kids….brainwashing ….now there is a good subject for a post…..Beck, Limbaugh, Huckabee,  et al have been giving all kinds of scenarios….but brainwashing is my favorite…..

After all the scary stuff these whack jobs have been throwing at us….there is a new one that really scares me to no end……Newser is reporting on this scary scenario……

If you think Sesame Street is too left-wing, Glenn Beck agrees with you—and he’s offering an alternative on his Internet channel GBTV. Beck won’t be hosting Liberty Treehouse, which debuts Monday, but the hour-long show will share his channel’s conservative sensibilities, and won’t shy away from dealing with politics, Politico reports. Much of the show’s content resembles Nickelodeon fare, with segments on science and issues like bullying as well as a large block of children’s news. “Liberty Treehouse will not only entertain children and young adults, but it will respect them and their knowledge and passion for history, art, science and current events,” Beck says. Critics, however, say it’s hypocritical of Beck to move into children’s programming after all his ranting about progressives indoctrinating the young. “I imagine the show will be a sort of anti-Sesame Street, which Beck probably thinks is a socialist-Islamist plot concocted by Frances Fox Piven and the Ayatollah in the 1970s,” scoffs Alexander Zaitchik, author of Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance.

Can you just imagine the misinformation that will be taught to the young?  These are impressionable minds and the stuff he will force feed them will last a lifetime and impact our society in more ways than we can imagine and NONE of them good…..so if you want scary….how is this?

Was It A Message From God?

It is the weekend….Sunday to be exact….and since I do not post much on religious stuff…..I will change that today….the day before I return to the silliness of politics…….

To begin with…..this post may irritate my more religious of readers and if it does….I apologize that your beliefs cannot handle a bit of scrutiny…..onward!

I have heard that this or that was a message from God…..first of all, do you really want to follow a God that would talk to any of these attle brained morons?  Second, I am just following a logical progression…..

There have been many that say that God is sending us messages…in one form or another……First, I recall a message the Pat Robertson talked about…it was Katrina and its effect was, according to him, a message from God and our sinful ways……then there was everybody’s favorite right wing dumbass, Glenn Beck….he informed the world that the massive tsunami in Japan that wrecked havoc was a message from God……and then there is my favorite female nutcase, Michele Bachmann, who said that it was a message from God that she run for the GOP nomination….but she was not finished with her contact with God……just last week she said that the Hurricane Irene was a message from God to Washington D.C. for politicians to wake and listen to the people…….I never knew God was all that political…..oh well….live and learn.

I will bet that you are wondering just where I am going with this chain of thought, right?

Let us step back about a month or so…..remember Indiana state fair?  When a country band called Sugar land was about to go onstage for their performance and a freak wind gust collapsed the stage they were about enter?

Well if you think out the logical progression of thought that the right wing dipsticks have then you can postulate that it was a message from God that he hates or at least disapproves of country music….PERIOD!

Side note:  The loss of life in everyone of the cases I cited were horrific and I am by NO means making light of their deaths…I am trying to point out that anything can be attributed to a message from God…..the sooner that some realize this fact….the sooner they can get on with their lives and learn to be happy……

And They Say There Is NO God!

For centuries people have been debating the existence of God or whatever your name is for some unseen omnipotent being that has some sort of control over the happenings on this tiny little f*cked up planet…..everyone has an opinion (I guess they are kinda like a/holes)….but finally there is PROOF!  So now we can put the whole thing to bed…..(that was humor in case anyone missed it)

Fox News host Glenn Beck may be in denial about his ratings decline, but the Nielsen numbers don’t lie: He’s lost one-third of his audience from this time last year, and has lost nearly four out of ten of his viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, the demographic advertisers most covet.

See!  There is a GOD!

The ratings sag seems to be spreading to Beck’s radio empire as well, where he suddenly finds himself off in key markets such as New York and Philadelphia. Beck’s daytime show was also recently yanked from four radio stations in Connecticut because the program’s increasingly inconsistent content had hurt ratings, according to the executive who pulled Beck off his stations.

It is good to see that I may have been a bit mistaken about the American people and their propensity to believe bullsh*t……maybe now we can get back to real issues and problems and solutions….I can only hope….but then I remember something Ben Franklin once said…..”He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

UpDate:  While I held this post in my drafts more breaking news has come out about Beck and FOX…..

Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that Beck will “transition off of his daily program” later this year.

Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts, will instead work with Fox News to produce programs for the channel.

SEE!  There is a GOD….Thank you, Irene……

Crap! Thought We Were Socialists!

From the VOMITORIUM

Keeping with the socialist theme…….

For a couple of years now…we liberals have been maligned by the Right for all too many reasons….because we do not agree with some of the more outrageous issues then were must be socialists in liberal clothing…..and of course since Obama is a black dude he has to be a socialist…..and since he wanted adequate health care for all Americans he must be a communist  and he even knew Saul Alinsky that would make him a Marxist….and just when I was getting use to the idea that conservatives thought me/us as socialists……my fav kook on the Right has to crap on my parade…..I mean Glenn Beck and his show…..

Far-right blogger Pam Geller was on Beck’s show and was talking about the possibility of Samantha Power could be the next Sec of State….Geller was most upset about something Power said when she was asked about the Israeli-Palestinian solution of a 2 state solution……

the mask comes off, and out comes Obama’s army of little nazis.  Power was asked what would be necessary to stop a move toward genocide by “one party or another” in the Israel-Palestinian conflict; she said it may require investment in a new Palestinian state and a “meaningful military presence.”

And then she resorted to her normal diatribe……example of Geller invoking Nazis to attack those with whom she disagrees. Geller previously accused President Obama of “go[ing] full on Nazi,” claimed Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is “an admirer of an architect of German national socialism, Nazism,” and called Democrats “National Socialists.”

So now I am a Nazi/ fascist….Since I do not agree with her on anything….that would make me a National Socialists…..at least the title has ‘socialist’ in it……we went from the far left to now the far right……damn!  We need to get our titles straight or we could confuse our opposition…..

I am so confused….will someone please make my mind up for me!

Bring Me The Head Of Glenn Beck

From the VOMITORIUM

I like humor!  Do you like humor?  But not all absurdities are humorous….thus enter Glenn Beck…..

For years the conspiracies of Beck have been flying around the internet….and at times he is just beyond belief….and yet he just keeps going on and on….kinda like a red, white and blue Energizer Bunny…..and like I said there are those times that I have to just kick back and giggle at the fact that someone will believe what he is saying…..

We know that he is most concerned about those sneaking socialists, communists and Marxists….but even a deluded a/hole cannot truly believe what he is saying…….

mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103140…

I would love to know what makes this person feel so superior that some Marxist group would even consider him a threat?  Maybe he should check in with Dr. Phil….one wannabe to another…..

They Are Just Community Organizers

From the VOMITORIUM

No matter how hard I try to be fair in my posts to both sides of an issue….there are always morons that just piss me off because they cultivate ignorance and stupidity…never a good thing for a country…..

I apologize for the ignorance of this person……I try not to give Beck anymore notoriety than he deserves…. but there are days when he just goes too far with is hair brain bullsh*t and today is one of those days……

In this vid he compares community organizers to suicide bombers….that’s right…if you are a community organizer then you are NO better than a wacko with a bomb…..

watch and puke!

http://mm4a.org/eyQstd #p2

Someone please explain why anyone with half a brain would even consider this yo-yo well informed?  One of my favorite quotes is….”Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance”….do not know who said it…..and Beck is a Hell of a farmer…for he can cultivate stupidity better than most…..

Say It Ain’t So!

First of all, the title is sarcasm!  We can only hope that somewhere a microbe of intelligence is sneaking back into the American political psyche….

For years I have been one of those who does NOT see any use for Glenn Beck….his delusional conspiracies and a search for a boogey man behind anything that is not radically right….has lowered the IQ of the American voter by 100 points…..he has NO political use other then dumbing down the electorate….

But there is a minor glimmer of hope for a return to political sanity on the horizon…..as reported by the UK’s Guardian:

what sounds like a dream come true: Fox News is considering parting company with Glenn Beck, the rococo conspiracy theorist who inspires those on the swivel-eyed right and infuriates anyone to their left.According to the New York Times’s media correspondent David Carr, unnamed Fox News executives are said to be “contemplating life without Mr Beck” when the conservative shock jock’s contract ends in December.

There may be a simpler reason, or two in fact, behind Fox News’s apparent case of cold feet. One is that Beck’s dense conspiracy theorising makes for terrible television. While it had a novelty value at first – Beck’s act has only been on Fox News for two years – it is far more intellectually demanding than anything similar on cable news. He rarely has guests and often appears before a blackboard covered in charts and arrows. In many respects Beck’s hectoring resembles not much more than a tedious Open University lecture from the 1970s, but without the kipper ties. Another word for the format: dull. Hence the inevitable loss of viewers.

The other simple explanation is that Fox News can afford to play hardball because it has a ready-made replacement on hand: former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, a host with a similar appeal to Beck but with none of the downsides. Dobbs is conveniently parked on the Fox Business channel, and can easily switch places.

Will FOX and Beck really split the sheets?  But Dobbs as a possible replacement….well we would go from terrorist causing all the problems to Hispanics being the boogey man in the closet…..so either way dullards would still have their boogey men……

Yes…He Is An Idiot!

From the VOMITORIUM

Did you know that if you believe in the “American Dream”, then you are a COMMIE!….I will give you a minute to absorb that…..why in God’s name would I make such an accusation?

It is NOT me that says such a moronic thing…but rather the darling of the radical right….one Glenn Beck, conspiracist extraordinaire…….he  made this assertion recently……on his cable show on FOX…..

So, think about what the American dream is. Got it? Unless you have read this book [Epic of America], you most likely don’t know what it is. This is a progressive book. This was written by a Woodrow Wilson progressive who was, oh, he was great. He was an advisor. Big progressive. The American dream, you think everybody gets a fair shake. Right? Yeah, no, no.

This is the actual definition of the American dream because it was a progressive that coined the term in this book. It’s that everybody gets a house and a car and a chicken in every pot. It’s that, well, you know, c’mon, a fair shake isn’t enough. It’s state capitalism.

On February 24, Glenn Beck said “most likely you don’t know what the American dream is,” that it is actually a progressive invention of the 1930s, and that it is currently being used by communists, unions, and other assorted bogeymen to cloak their radical intentions behind a term that is “warm and cuddly like bunny rabbits.”

See?  According to Beck if you believe in the American Dream then you are either a socialist or communist or some radical Leftist……you listen to his made up crap about Obama and his policies and nopw YOU are a commie because you believe that there is an “American Dream”….and you continue to listen…..

Now, will some one on the Right or a conservative please explain to me why NO one wants to call this moron out for is deliberate fear mongering and the out right lies?  Why is he allowed to continue to spread hate and discontent?  He has a right to speak his mind….but he does not have the right to make up facts to influence the mentally challenged…..