tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64179150429437764452024-03-13T14:17:47.995-07:00Conservatives Against Glenn BeckConservativesAgainstGlennBeck is not affiliated with Glen Beck or any other Glenn Beck organization. The opinions expressed on this site are not endorsed by GlennBeck.com or any of its affiliates.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-58136574706950112252011-04-06T14:29:00.000-07:002011-04-06T14:31:45.908-07:00Great Day Alert: Glenn Beck is OUT at Fox News!!!!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/files/2011/04/glenn-beck.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 220px;" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/files/2011/04/glenn-beck.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Beck is out!!! What a great day for real conservatives. <br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Glenn-Beck-profile.html"></a></strong><blockquote><strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Glenn-Beck-profile.html">Glenn Beck</a></strong> is out at Fox News Channel. <p>Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts and FNC have reached a deal which will see Beck “transition off of his daily program” later in 2011.</p> <p>Beck’s much-reported troubles with the advertising community are believed to play a role in the decision.</p><p>More at <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/glenn-beck-to-leave-fox-news-program-will-produce-and-develop-new-shows-for-fnc_b60690">http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/glenn-beck-to-leave-fox-news-program-will-produce-and-develop-new-shows-for-fnc_b60690</a><br /></p></blockquote><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-23933216761105404962011-03-16T14:02:00.000-07:002011-03-16T14:05:15.923-07:00Fox News to pull plug on Glenn BeckOne can dream. It does, however, sound like it could be in the works.<br /><br /><blockquote>Glenn Beck took to his radio airwaves Monday and offered a long, rambling monologue about the <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2011/03/06/ny_times_beck_and_fox_news_may_separate.php">New York Times report</a> that he and Fox News may be parting ways. Beck announced that he had “decided that the media and the American left have become nothing more than a shampoo label and should be disregarded as we disregard most shampoo labels... because they all say the same thing: lather, rinse, repeat. That's all they do.” But Beck went on to spend an awful lot of the next 14 minutes or so regarding that particular shampoo label - especially pointing out how it paled in comparison to his own insights, righteousness and grasp of world affairs. And yet, Beck affirmed the central part of the Times report – that he and Fox News may indeed separate. And then Beck melodramatically vowed that somewhere, somehow we'll all be together. You tell me if this doesn't sound like a man whose contract is not likely to be renewed.<br /><br />At about 5 minutes into the video below, Beck admits, “Yes, my contract (at Fox News) is up at the end of the year. Contracts do that. Fox and I have had a great relationship and the current contract does come to an end in December. My admiration for the people that work at Fox and the people that have built Fox cannot be overstated...”<br /><br />Read more at <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2011/03/16/glenn_beck_sure_sounds_like_hes_leaving_fox_news.php">http://www.newshounds.us/2011/03/16/glenn_beck_sure_sounds_like_hes_leaving_fox_news.php</a></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-40388681373004034872011-03-16T13:56:00.000-07:002011-03-16T14:01:36.776-07:00Glenn Beck Not Saying God Caused Japan Disaster as a Wake Up Call, BUT God Caused the Japan Disaster as a Wake Up Call<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/03/15/alg_beck_crazy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 150px;" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/03/15/alg_beck_crazy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In classic Beck style, he issued his standard disclaimer of "I'm not saying that" God caused this disaster to send us a message, but God caused this disaster to send us a message. Please, Fox News, dump Glenn now before it's too late. Please conservatives, dump Glenn now before it's too late. <br /><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>"We can't see the connections here," he said <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103140010" target="_blank">on his show Monday</a>. "I'm not saying God is causing earthquakes - well I'm not <em>not</em> saying that either!"</p><p>"What God does is God's business," Beck continued. "But I'll tell you this...there's a message being sent. And that is, 'Hey you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.' I'm just saying."</p><p>Beck continued trying to make a connection between human behavior and the natural disasters that have wreaked havoc in Japan, even casually mentioning "radical Islam" before revealing what he called "the answer."</p><p>"The answer is, buckle up!" he said. "Because it's going to be a bumpy ride."</p><p>In light of the disasters that have devastated Japan, the Fox host stressed people should follow the biblical Ten Commandments, or what he referred to as "10 rules of thumb."</p><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br />Read more: <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_glenn_beck_japan_earthquake_could_be_message_from_god_to_follow_the_ten_commandm.html#ixzz1GnYeIKfd">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_glenn_beck_japan_earthquake_could_be_message_from_god_to_follow_the_ten_commandm.html#ixzz1GnYeIKfd</a><br /></div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-19690633522578143772011-03-15T04:50:00.000-07:002011-03-15T04:54:33.496-07:00Fox without Glenn Beck? Is Charlie Sheen more sane than Beck?I suspect someone like Judge Napolitano would actually increase audience size since so many have abandoned Beck. Charlie Sheen would be an improvement, sanity-wise.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/glenn-beck-napolitano-fox-news-draws-same-audience-glenn-beck-25486"></a><blockquote><a href="http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/glenn-beck-napolitano-fox-news-draws-same-audience-glenn-beck-25486">Glenn Beck's Fill-In on Fox News Draws the Same Audience as Glenn Beck</a><br /><br />Glenn Beck fans and foes, take note: For those wondering if Fox News -- which is “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/media/07carr.html">contemplating life without Beck</a>” -- can survive, last week was a good indicator that it can.<br /><br />Beck, whose contract is up in December, was on vacation -- with Judge Andrew Napolitano <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/glenn-beck/transcript/judge-napolitano-government-and-fear">filling in</a> on Beck’s 5 p.m. show Monday through Thursday (Friday's show was pre-empted by coverage of the earthquake in Japan, and anchored by Fox’s Shepard Smith). <p> And the jury is <em>in</em> on the Judge: Napolitano held his own, maintaining roughly the same audience that Beck has drawn in 2011 -- and, like Beck usually does, beat CNN, MSNBC, HLN and CNBC combined in total viewers.</p> <p> Here are the four-day averages for Mon.-Thurs. last week, provided by Nielsen:</p> <p> <strong>>> FNC's Glenn Beck*: </strong>1,851,000 total viewers (412,000 25-54-year-olds)<br /> <strong>>> CNN's Situation Room:</strong> 581,000 (157,000)<br /> <strong>>> MSNBC's Hardball:</strong> 661,000 (155,000)<br /> <strong>>> CNBC's Fast Money:</strong> 203,000 (47,000)<br /> <strong>>> HLN’s Showbiz Tonight:</strong> 201,000 (65,000)</p> <p> <em><strong>* With Napolitano</strong></em></p><p><em><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">READ More at <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/glenn-beck-napolitano-fox-news-draws-same-audience-glenn-beck-25486">http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/glenn-beck-napolitano-fox-news-draws-same-audience-glenn-beck-25486</a></span></strong></em></p></blockquote><p><em><strong><br /></strong></em></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-90503942705757780422011-03-01T14:50:00.000-08:002011-03-01T14:57:22.606-08:00Glenn Beck, The Most Disturbing Personality on Cable Television<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/02/24/the-most-disturbing-personality-on-cable-television/" rel="bookmark"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><blockquote><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/02/24/the-most-disturbing-personality-on-cable-television/" rel="bookmark">The Most Disturbing Personality on Cable Television</a><br /><br />It’s hard to tell how much of what Beck says is sincere and how much is for show. Whatever the case, and even taking into account the entire MSNBC lineup, Glenn Beck has become the most disturbing personality on cable television. One cannot watch him for any length of time without being struck by his affinity for conspiracies and for portraying himself as the great decoder of events. Political movements are not just wrong; they are infiltrated by a web of malevolent forces. Others see the shadows on the wall; Beck alone sees the men casting them. The danger when one paints the world in such conspiratorial terms is that it devalues the rational side of politics. It encourages a cast of mind that looks to expose enemies rather than to engage in arguments. Few things, after all, are as they appear.<br /><br />...<br /><br />It looks to me like it’s only a matter of time — and I suspect not much time — until he blows apart professionally. If and when that happens, one can only hope that conservatism as a movement will have created enough distance from Beck to mitigate the damage.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-55129745500986297932011-02-21T13:16:00.000-08:002011-02-21T13:17:34.985-08:00The real reason Glenn Beck hates Google ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eLnwswsrSQQ/Ss2w_3gjxEI/AAAAAAAAAEg/K7T8qfuN3Nc/s400/google_glenn_beck2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eLnwswsrSQQ/Ss2w_3gjxEI/AAAAAAAAAEg/K7T8qfuN3Nc/s400/google_glenn_beck2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-53935175515010825502011-02-17T19:58:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:06:30.101-08:00Glenn Beck: Boycott Google ... Maybe, sort of, not really<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nesseler.org/pages/uploaded_images/google-monster-artikel-773259.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 127px;" src="http://www.nesseler.org/pages/uploaded_images/google-monster-artikel-773259.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Beck has found a new bogey man this week ... GOOGLE. He's not saying that people should boycott Google, just don't use it because we have to be careful who we do business with these days. Um, OK. <br /><br />Does he come up with this 5 minutes before the show? If not Google, what will Glenn use the next time he wants to connect two unrelated events? Hello, Yahoo.<br /><p id="paragraph1"></p><blockquote><p id="paragraph1">Conservative pundit <a title="Glenn Beck" href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Glenn+Beck" class="informTopicLink">Glenn Beck</a> said <a class=" external" target="_blank" href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/16/from-the-show-reduce-your-google-use/">he will no longer use Google</a> or its products because of perceived ties to government agencies and its involvement in the uprising in <a title="Egypt" href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Egypt" class="informTopicLink">Egypt</a>, he said on his Fox television program Wednesday.</p> <p id="paragraph2">"I'm really not sure that I want my search engine involved in government overthrows, good or bad," <a class=" external" target="_blank" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4542197/beck-three-reasons-to-be-wary-of-google-part-1/">Beck said on his Fox show. </a>"There is a strange thing going on with this search engine and our government. And we all have to choose who we do business with."</p> <p id="paragraph3">However, most of his vitriol was aimed at <a title="Google Inc." href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Google+Inc." class="informTopicLink">Google</a> working with "hardcore leftists."</p><p id="paragraph3">More: <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Glenn-Beck-Doesnt-Trust-Google-116382729.html?dr">http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Glenn-Beck-Doesnt-Trust-Google-116382729.html?dr</a></p></blockquote><p id="paragraph3"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-84469132541609716622011-02-05T12:00:00.001-08:002011-02-05T12:06:54.697-08:00Bill Kristol on Glenn Beck: He's Marginalizing HimselfGlenn has cranked up the crazy to new levels this week. I sure wish he would quit calling himself a Libertarian or Conservative, since people assume real Libertarian Conservatives are remotely like Glenn. Even Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard calls Glenn out on his paranoia and conspiracy theories this week.<br /><br /><p></p><blockquote><blockquote> <p>Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end. And it's a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice.</p> <p>But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He's marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.</p> <p>Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it's a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition. </p> </blockquote><p>from <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html">Stand for Freedom by William Kristol, The Weekly Standard</a><br /></p></blockquote><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-27951509586342611332010-12-09T07:18:00.000-08:002010-12-09T07:18:07.415-08:00The Glenn Beck Review: Beck's anti-Semitism addressed by Jonathon Schell<a href="http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/12/becks-anti-semitism-addressed-by.html?spref=bl">The Glenn Beck Review: Beck's anti-Semitism addressed by Jonathon Schell</a>: "Home Disclaimer Contents For Glenn Beck Share This URL The following article, 'An Now: Anti-Semitism' by Jonathan Schell, is being repr..."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-20900279294894041832010-09-29T18:07:00.000-07:002010-09-29T18:14:03.358-07:00Glenn Beck's 2 AM Letter to Sarah Palin ...Hey, Glenn, I know. You ARE doing more harm.<br /><br /><blockquote>“I wrote Sarah Palin a letter last night about 2 in the morning,” Beck said on his radio show in September. “And I said: ‘Sarah, I don’t know if I’m doing more harm or more good. I don’t know anymore.’ ” - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/magazine/03beck-t.html?pagewanted=9">Being Glenn Beck NY Times article</a></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-50899850300250765212010-02-22T11:13:00.000-08:002010-02-22T11:15:25.917-08:00Glenn Beck for the bailout before he was against it ..."The "REAL STORY" is the $700 billion that you`re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it." ---Glenn Beck 9/22/2008 <strong><br /></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-67559273474246041902009-11-21T18:13:00.001-08:002009-11-21T18:13:57.074-08:00Glenn Beck starting a “100 Year Plan”… WTF?<object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Perr1o530PU&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Perr1o530PU&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="349"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-56187377584038200192009-11-21T18:10:00.000-08:002009-11-21T18:12:03.643-08:00Glenn Beck Unveils his "I am Fucking Crazy" plan for America and his Book Sales<a href="http://gawker.com/5410066/glenn-becks-scary-blueprint-for-world-domination-in-2010-unveiled-the-plan" class="top">Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"</a> <div style="float: right;"> </div> <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p><a rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/11/the_actual_plan._01.jpg"><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2009/11/500x_the_actual_plan._01.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" /></a><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #glennbeck" href="http://gawker.com/tag/glennbeck/"><br /></a></p><p><a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #glennbeck" href="http://gawker.com/tag/glennbeck/">Glenn Beck</a>'s <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29776.html">talking up some scary plan for 2010 lately</a>. It's scary because Glenn Beck is talking. And today, Glenn Beck unveiled his 100-year plot to fundamentally change America—and democracy—as we know it. Glenn Beck is fucking insane.</p><p><a href="http://gawker.com/5410066/glenn-becks-scary-blueprint-for-world-domination-in-2010-unveiled-the-plan" class="top">[FULL STORY]</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-1517696734376474652009-11-21T18:06:00.000-08:002009-11-21T18:08:19.902-08:00Glenn Beck living vicariously thru Doug Hoffman ... Unconceeds<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/19/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5713187.shtml">Doug Hoffman Blames ACORN for Stealing Election</a><br /><br />The Conservative Party candidate who conceded a closely-watched upstate New York House race has formally repudiated that concession in a statement that suggests community-organizing group ACORN stole the election for his Democratic opponent.<br /><br />Doug Hoffman <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5675702.shtml" class="link">first suggested</a> he was "unconceding" earlier this week on Glenn Beck's radio show.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/19/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5713187.shtml">[More ... ]</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-24643122710597574292009-11-16T13:06:00.000-08:002009-11-16T11:06:37.553-08:00Glenn Beck's Guru: W. Cleon Skousen - Racist, Mormon, Conspiracy Theorist<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hamthechimp.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cleon-skousen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 163px;" src="http://hamthechimp.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cleon-skousen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>W. Cleon Skousen is Glenn Beck's favorite author. He wrote the bible of the 9/12 movement, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880801484?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880801484&adid=0335NVWPAT73M1W54S72&">The 5,000 Year Leap</a>." A once-famous anti-communist "historian," Skousen was too extreme even for the conservative activists of the Goldwater era, but Glenn Beck has now rescued him from the remainder pile of history, and introduced him to a receptive new audience. <span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html">[Meet the Man Who Changed Glenn Beck's Life]</a></span><br /><br />Beck loves the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy">guilt by association</a> tactic when it comes to his targets, but look at Beck's own self described "guru". Skousen was the epitome of a paranoid racist. Like Beck, he was always on the lookout for red scare communist infiltrating our government. He was also a proponent of the "New World Order" conspiracy theory that Beck also pushes.<br /><br />Beck has perfected Skousen's conspiracy theory tactics ...<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">{Insert Glenn Beck's target here}</span> is a dangerous radical. He/she is involved in some inexplicable government conspiracy to engineer crises of financial and foreign policy. Be afraid, be very afraid. We're doomed ...<br /></li></ul>If you're not familiar with Skousen, he was the Glenn Beck of his day. Racist, Mormon, conspiracy theorist; man that sounds familiar.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/md_horiz.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 152px;" src="http://images.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/md_horiz.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/whos-glenn-becks-daddy-meet-w-cleon-skousen/">Glenn Beck’s Mentor? Meet W. Cleon Skousen, Bestseller</a><br /><blockquote><ul><li>Skousen’s <em>The 5,000 Year Leap</em> interprets American history “through an unspoken lens of Mormon theology” and is required reading at religious schools such as George Wythe University in Utah.</li><li>The FBI kept a 2,000 page report on Skousen.</li><li>The rest of Skousen’s oeuvre includes pamphlets and books on “the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy.”</li><li>Per the FBI file: “During the past year or so, Skousen has affiliated himself with the extreme right-wing ‘professional communists’ who are <span style="font-weight: bold;">promoting their own anticommunism for obvious financial purposes</span>.”</li><li>Critics charged <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Beck</span> Skousen with “inventing fantastic ideas and making inferences that go far beyond the bounds of honest commentary.”</li><li>Applying Skousen’s attacks on communism to today, Beck has listed the new enemy as “liberals, special-interest groups, [and] the ACLU,” according to his first book <em>The Real Truth</em>.</li><li>“Over my book or anything else, get <em>The 5,000 Year Leap</em>,” said Beck. “It is the principle.”</li><li>Another book being passed around at 9/12 “seminars” is Skousen’s <em>Making of America</em>, which describes “America’s religious Founders and their happy slaves.”</li></ul></blockquote><ul></ul><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Skousen's writing on race are most troubling given that Glenn likes to label others as racist at the drop of a hat. Anyone who questions his own race based rants, is automatically a racist. Here are a few things Glenn's hero, Skousen, had to say about race.</span><br /></strong><blockquote><strong>Newly sold slaves "usually a cheerful lot." </strong>"The tendency was to sell families as units, if for no other reason [than] to keep the slaves contented. The gangs in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains. At the other extreme, when the Central of Georgia railroad company in 1858 equipped a Negro sleeping car to assist in the slave trade it set a standard not always maintained in a later generation. When on the block, the slave was as likely to hinder as to help in his sale. Some, out of a vain conceit in bringing a high price, would boast of their physical prowess, in which case an unwary purchaser would likely be cheated. Others would malinger, because of a grudge against owners or traders or in order to bring a low price and be put at less tiring labor. Dealers, also, adopted the tricks of horse traders to make their merchants more attractive -- the greasiest Negro was generally considered the healthiest." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, pages 731-732]<br /><strong><br />Broken marriages "one the blessings of slavery."</strong> "Negro weddings were attended by white people who joined in the celebration. If the marriages were of a rather impermanent nature, that fact was frequently considered as 'one of the blessings of slavery.' At church and camp meetings the Negroes, in their own section of the building or tabernacle, enjoyed the experiences immensely. They could shout without restraint, while the masters, in order to preserve their dignity, had to repress their emotions. It made little difference if religion was thrown off soon after the camp meeting dissolved -- backsliding was pleasant, and there was always a chance to get intoxicatingly converted again." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, page 734]<br /><br /><strong>Southern slavery better than Northern freedom. </strong>"The free Negro had rather more opportunity for economic advancement in the South than in the North. The Southerner was bothered by the race problem but knew how to handle the individual Negro, while the Northerner professed a benign interest in the race so long as its members were as remote as possible. Neither section was willing to grant equal rights in education, suffrage, or legal standing, while many states of all sections had laws prohibiting the immigration of free Negroes. Abraham Lincoln could not have maintained his standing in the Republican party had he not been a staunch supporter of the Illinois exclusion law and a firm opponent of political and social equality. It was most difficult for a Negro to get a job in the North, except at the most loathsome of tasks. Some Negroes, having been freed and sent to any Northern state which would receive them, became so miserable as to solicit a return to slavery." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, pages 735-736]<br /><strong><br />"Negro preachers" warranted surveillance. </strong>"The worst offenses of slaves against the white men's code were rebellion and running away. Drunkenness, stealing, hiding out from work, personal filthiness, carelessness of property, fighting, and general brutality had various positions in the scale of misdemeanors. Negro preachers often bred discontent by their unnecessary restraint upon pleasure, and, if itinerants, had to be watched closely for abolitionist or seditious doctrines." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, page 734]<strong><br /><br />Southern life a "nightmare" of fear -- for white people.</strong> "The constant fear of slave rebellion made life in the South a nightmare, especially in regions where conspiracies were of frequent occurrence. The extermination of white civilization in Santo Domingo was followed in the nineteenth century by several other bloody outbursts in the West Indies, which never failed to cause ominous forebodings in America. [...]<br /><strong><br />Slaves hampered efficiency of white labor. </strong>"In the management of slave labor the gang system predominated. The great majority of owners, having at the most only one or two families of Negroes, had to work alongside their slaves and set the pace for them. Slavery did not make white labor unrespectable, but merely inefficient. The slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken. If the owner got ahead of the gang they all would shirk behind his back." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, page 732]<strong><br /><br />White schoolchildren would "envy the freedom" of "colored playmates." </strong>"Slave food, even if monotonous, was plentiful. Corn bread and bacon were the mainstays, with plenty of fruit and vegetables in season. In hog-killing time, countenances were unusually greasy. Clothing also was on the par with that of the poorer white people and no less adequate in proportion to the climate than that of Northern laborers. If [negro children] ran naked it was generally from choice, and when the white boys had to put on shoes and go away to school they were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates. The color line began to appear at about that time." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, pages 732-733]<strong><br /><br />Cruelty rare, slave owners "the worst victims." </strong>"Excessive toil occurred only where the masters or overseers were feeble witted as well as brutal. A persistent rumor among abolitionists was that sugar planters followed a policy of working slaves to death in seven years as a matter of economy. The persons spreading such reports were as ignorant of Negro nature as they were of conditions in the sugar mills. Furthermore, they overrated the ability of the masters to know how to kill a slave in the given time instead of leaving him a broken-down burden to the plantation. When they set out to prove the accusation they returned with no evidence, but convinced that the practice existed in some obscure region which they had not succeeded in ferreting out. Harriet Martineau, after watching slaves go through the motions of work without tiring themselves, considered the planters as models of patience and observed that new slave owners from Europe or the North were prone to be the most severe. Numerous observers, of various shades of opinion on slavery, agreed that brutality was no more common in the black belt than among free labor elsewhere, and that the slave owners were the worst victims of the system." [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880800178?tag=autnet-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0880800178&adid=1QAQQPEH8GZFDF8YWZXQ&"><em>The Making of America</em></a>, pages 733-734</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Related:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html">Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life</a></li><li><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/whos-glenn-becks-daddy-meet-w-cleon-skousen/">Glenn Beck's Mentor</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34682_Cleon_Skousen-_The_Crank_Who_Inspired_Glenn_Beck">Cleon Skousen: The Crank Who Inspired Glenn Beck</a><a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/09/16/w-cleon-skousen-glenn-becks-crackpot-mormon-guru/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to W. Cleon Skousen: Glenn Beck’s Crackpot Mormon Guru"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></li><li><a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/09/16/w-cleon-skousen-glenn-becks-crackpot-mormon-guru/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to W. Cleon Skousen: Glenn Beck’s Crackpot Mormon Guru"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>W. Cleon Skousen: Glenn Beck’s Crackpot Mormon Guru</a></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-314356805856077122009-11-12T20:22:00.000-08:002009-11-12T20:23:18.263-08:00South Park: Eric Cartman does Glenn Beck<a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251890/?autoplay=false">Eric Cartman does Glenn Beck.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-34684178445645910642009-11-09T16:53:00.000-08:002009-11-09T16:53:46.784-08:00American Thinker: Glenn Beck's Jihad on Moderate Republicans<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/glenn_becks_jihad_on_moderate.html">American Thinker: Glenn Beck's Jihad on Moderate Republicans</a><br /><br /><a href="http://autismretort.blogspot.com/"><br /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-83618524527183140532009-11-06T07:39:00.001-08:002009-11-06T07:39:49.765-08:00Jon Stewart's Glenn Beck Impression<table style="font-family: arial; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 268px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Guy_Fawkes.jpg/180px-Guy_Fawkes.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Happy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes">Guy Fawkes Day</a>, Glenn Beck.<br /><br /></span>This is the anniversary of the day that Beck lost me, when he attacked Ron Paul supporters, the very people than have flocked to his 9/12 Movement, by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rc4OJWH1nE">comparing Ron Paul supporters to domestic terrorists</a>. I don't accept Beck's "Ooops, I changed my mind, Ron Paul is great" story. Ratings changed his mind!<br /><br />Beck also claimed he would never tie his movement to a terrorist attack like the Ron Paul money bomb fund raising effort that took place on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes">Guy Fawkes Day</a>.<br /><br />It's a tad ironic that Beck did "tie his movement to a terrorist attack" with his 9/12 movement that milks 9/11 to the max.<br /><br />Today, Bachman's rally in Washington didn't just happen to land on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes">Guy Fawkes Day</a> (Nov 5). So are they domestic terrorists today, Glenn?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Related:</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.dailypaul.com/node/7601"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Glenn Beck Was Against Tying Political Movements To Historical Terrorist Attacks, Before He Was For It</a></li><li><a href="http://www.dailypaul.com/node/7601">Open Letter to CNN and Glenn Beck: Ron Paul Supporters are Not Terrorists</a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=5&ved=0CBMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Findex.php%2Fhistory%2Feuropean%2F310&ei=TA7zSqPQI5Oj8QbSiNjfAQ&usg=AFQjCNHDvc9B-663g_TOm31ORxBfZS_5Hw&sig2=6NNolrAlofDCi1naellpwg" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNHDvc9B-663g_TOm31ORxBfZS_5Hw','&sig2=6NNolrAlofDCi1naellpwg','0CBMQFjAE')"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=5&ved=0CBMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Findex.php%2Fhistory%2Feuropean%2F310&ei=TA7zSqPQI5Oj8QbSiNjfAQ&usg=AFQjCNHDvc9B-663g_TOm31ORxBfZS_5Hw&sig2=6NNolrAlofDCi1naellpwg" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNHDvc9B-663g_TOm31ORxBfZS_5Hw','&sig2=6NNolrAlofDCi1naellpwg','0CBMQFjAE')"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Ron Paul and <em>Guy Fawkes</em></a></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-56778790882167936762009-11-04T20:28:00.000-08:002009-11-04T20:34:40.610-08:00Glenn Beck Tactic: Link two unrelated eventsBeck has been using this technique more and more. <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-5738-Political-Buzz-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d3-Video--Glenn-Beck-confuses-facts-on-SEIU-and-St-Louis-town-hall-fight">Link two unrelated events and leave out big chunks of the story</a>. There are enough issues with unions tactics, without making shit up and trying to link everything under the sun to Obama. It's so ironic to hear Glenn talking about a Truth Squad.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-12982651252191508972009-11-03T13:11:00.000-08:002009-11-03T13:17:23.993-08:00The Paranoia of Glenn Beck<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Humor/becks-ark.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 187px;" src="http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Humor/becks-ark.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>When I think Glenn can't get any nuttier, he outdoes himself. He seems even more paranoid than usual in <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1440" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Glenn Beck: It Is Time To Build An Ark">Glenn Beck: It Is Time To Build An Ark</a>. Beck sees a conspiracy around every corner these days.<blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1440" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Glenn Beck: It Is Time To Build An Ark">Glenn Beck: It Is Time To Build An Ark</a><br /><br />Beck is a seer of a catastrophic future. He believes that all must be destroyed in order to save the righteous. He has previously agreed with the notion that America’s only hope is for Osama Bin Laden to blow us up again. Now it is the flood that will wash us clean. He embodies the mentality of an Apocalyptic cultist who is convinced of his infallibility. And like his cultist predecessors (David Koresh, Jim Jones, etc.), he views himself as a target of the evil that surrounds him and us. While he claims to fear for the country, he fears for nothing more than he does his own safety:<br /><br /> “You ever see those movies where they say, ‘I gave a note to my attorney, and if I’m found dead, open the note.’ I kind of feel like you’re my attorney. If I show up, you know, in Thailand, dead from auto-erotic asphyxiation, don’t believe it.”<br /><br /> “I fear that there will come a time when I cannot say things that I am currently saying. I fear that it will come to television and to radio, and I will stop saying these<br />things. Understand me clearly. Hear me now. If I ever stop saying these things, you will know why. Because I will have made a choice that I can only say certain things, and I haven’t lost all of the rights. But know that these things are true. And if you hear me stop saying these things, it’s because I can no longer say them to you. But hear them between the sentences. Hear them, please. I will be screaming them to you.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1440" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Glenn Beck: It Is Time To Build An Ark">[More]</a><br /></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-40751779873161062772009-11-03T08:47:00.001-08:002009-11-03T08:49:05.680-08:00Glenn Beck: Milking 9/11 ... AgainIn less than shocking news this week, rodeo clown, Glenn Beck continues to milk 9/11 anytime he can for his own purposes. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eAHnYucz3Hc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eAHnYucz3Hc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-62497155304873370832009-10-29T20:07:00.001-07:002009-10-29T20:07:50.255-07:00Newt Gingrich vs. Glenn Beck and the GOP - Greta Van Susteren | On The Record With Greta - FOXNews.com<a href=http://shar.es/awtG7>Newt Gingrich vs. Glenn Beck and the GOP - Greta Van Susteren | On The Record With Greta - FOXNews.com</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-59686259490129797772009-10-21T17:49:00.000-07:002009-10-22T06:30:07.780-07:00Three Tactics Progressives (and Glenn Beck) Use to Discredit Their Opponents.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://brendancalling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/glennbeck.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 167px;" src="http://brendancalling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/glennbeck.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is great, Glenn Beck exposing the tactics of progressives in today's edition of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/column_archive/0,2976,227,00.html">The One Thing</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569007,00.html">Three Tactics Progressives Use to Discredit Their Opponents</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="intelliTXT">Disparaging any dissent ... </span><br /><ol><li><span id="intelliTXT">those involved are "wrong thinking"</span></li><li><span id="intelliTXT">the ideas presented are a "danger"</span></li><li><span id="intelliTXT">or that those opposed are simply in it for "profit."</span></li></ol>I really don't disagree that progressives use these tactics, but everyone uses these tactics,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> including Beck himself</span> (frequently). These 3 magic tactics just came to Glenn in a flash this week while contemplating the dirty tricks used against him lately.<br /><span id="intelliTXT"><strong><blockquote style="font-weight: normal;">The other day, we put up one of our "chalkboard trees" about Fox News and the White House attack on free speech. Just as an aside, I listed the three things they were saying about us to try to discredit the network. That's when it hit me: They're the same three things progressives use to discredit their opponents on every issue.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hello, earth to Glenn Beck. This is what you do every single day. Anyone who disagrees with you is wrong thinking, dangerous, and/or in it for profit.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Glenn goes on to add this little nugget which also describes HIM to a tee.</span></strong></span><br /><blockquote><span id="intelliTXT"><strong></strong></span><span id="intelliTXT">Meanwhile, their goals are always right, their methods safe and healthy and their motivation pure, enlightened and for the betterment of humankind and Mother Earth.</span></blockquote>Glenn goes on to give us some examples of progressives using these tactics then hits us with the closer.<br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span id="intelliTXT">So, the argument works every time. But now that it's exposed, will it continue to work or will logic now kick in?</span></blockquote>Oooo, oooo, I want to be smart too Glenn. Thanks for letting me in on these super secret progressive mind f*&ks. I'll be on the look out for them now and I bet I find lots of them.<br /><br />This is where Glenn gets to the most important issue: Glenn Beck himself. "I, I, I, me, me, me, yada, yada". The remainder of this lesson is devoted to how all of these tactics are used on him.<br /><blockquote><p>So, taking all of their arguments, one by one, and adding them all together, I guess it would be safe to assume that according to the inclusive, diverse progressives that I'm just a crazed, poor person-hating, flat-Earth believing, moon-walk denying, deficit-loving, homophobic, xenophobe, who is a homogenous, women-hating, racist, that loathes hard-working, blue-collar Americans.</p> <p>Oh, did I mention I'm a warmongering, jingoistic fatso? That hates children? And puppies? And spits on trees? And shoots gerbils, just for sport?</p> <p>And if I don't hate, I'm simply dangerous. A fearsome, mob-inciting, redneck, flesh-eating monstrous, rhetoric spewing, out-of-control religious zealot, bent on blowing something up, maybe even before the end of the show.</p> <p>For good measure, I'm also in bed with huge multi-national conglomerates and special interest groups — like Goldman Sachs and unions. Wait, it's kind of tough to make that work if you've ever seen a single one of my shows, but let's not let logic get in the way of the White House's hysterical insults.</p> <p>Now, which is more reasonable: That I'm all of these things or that I'm a person who takes things issue by issue?<br /></p></blockquote><span id="intelliTXT"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Well, golly gee, Glenn. Are those my only two options? All or nothing? This is a typical Glenn Beck straw-man. It almost sounds like you're accusing anyone who disagrees with you of "wrong thinking".<br /><br />Oddly, these are the exact tactics you used last year on Ron Paul before your come to Jesus conversion that corresponded to your move to your new network.<br /></span></strong></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wrong thinking ... </span>Beck frequently ridiculed Ron Paul as crazy or nuts. Not only did he portray Dr. Paul as wrong thinking, he distorted Dr. Paul's foreign policy positions into "he's blaming America." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rc4OJWH1nE">Beck agreed that many of the Libertarian websites were "un-American" and allied with "islamo-fascism."</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rc4OJWH1nE">Where am I wrong? The Ron Paul Revolution is a catchy slogan, but I fear that some of his fringe supporters are taking the word revolution too seriously</a>. - Beck<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dangerous ..</span>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rc4OJWH1nE">Compared Ron Paul supporters to domestic terrorists</a>. Claimed he would never tie his movement to a terrorist attack like the Ron Paul money bomb fund raising effort that took place on Guy Fawkes Day. It's a tad ironic that Beck did "tie his movement to a terrorist attack" with his 9/12 movement that milks 9/11 to the max.</li></ul><span id="intelliTXT"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Turn on Glenn's show any day of the week to see him using these 3 tactics himself. Stop over and visit Glenn's <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/column_archive/0,2976,227,00.html">The One Thing archive</a> and pick one at random. You will see Glenn preaching on the wrong thinking of anyone who disagrees with him. You'll see Glenn describing how dangerous said foes are in great detail. Glenn doesn't use the profit tactic as often as the first two, but he does pull it out for special occasions like Obama winning a peace prize or Al Gore opening his mouth.<br /><br />Of course, Glenn has his own bag of tricks. The <a href="http://conservativesagainstglennbeck.blogspot.com/2009/09/when-did-glenn-beck-stop-beating-his.html">When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife</a> style of journalism is the old standby. </span><br /><br /><br /></strong></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417915042943776445.post-59175866926432605862009-10-21T14:41:00.000-07:002009-10-21T14:46:22.783-07:00Alex Jones: Glenn Beck, Don't be a Benedict Arnold!<object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xZEnV_-R-10&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xZEnV_-R-10&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="349"></embed></object><br /><br /><blockquote><p>Even Alex Jones recognizes that Glenn Beck is a fraud and is by no means a Libertarian.<br /></p><p>Edited by Paul Joseph Watson<br /><a href="http://prisonplanet.com/">Prison Planet.com</a><br />Tuesday, September 15, 2009</p> <p align="left"><em>Alex Jones has addressed Glenn Beck in the form of an open letter, appealing to him to “be on the right side of history” by using his growing public platform to tell the truth rather than exploiting it to deceive grass-roots conservatives and libertarians into following a re-birth of the neo-con agenda that Beck has embraced all along.</em></p><p align="left"><em>Glenn Beck,</em></p> <p align="left">It is important to preface this letter by highlighting the fact that I do not attack people lightly and have defended you in the past when Van Jones was calling for you to be fired. I fully support your right to free speech.</p> <p align="left">It cannot be denied that you – Glenn Beck – are an extremely talented radio and television host and you have a magnetism and a proficiency of public speaking that draws people in and maintains their interest. However, being a novice history buff I am also painfully aware of the fact that Benedict Arnold was, like you, a talented individual – he was also a traitor.</p> <p align="left">History is what matters and being on the right side of history is what’s important when it comes to the legacy we leave on this planet. You don’t want people to look back on you as a Benedict Arnold, as a traitor to America. You don’t want people to look back on you as a media whore, as playing the role of being loyal opposition to sucker legitimate and growing grass roots opposition to the new world order.</p> <p align="left">Your agenda is to put out a dual message – to discredit and polarize the conservative movement to the benefit of the establishment left and the elite. Your bizarre and clownish antics of fake crying, <a href="http://gawker.com/5293905/exclusive-how-gq-made-glenn-beck-cry">which you proved were staged when you replicated them on demand for a GQ photo shoot</a>, are doing nothing but reinforcing the stereotype that the conservative right is insane.</p> <p align="left">Your entire 9/12 project has nothing to do with uniting America and everything to do with reinforcing neo-conservative rhetoric about how we should relinquish our rights and accept the police state because terrorists want to attack us and Saddam Hussein has WMD’s and yellowcake.</p> <p align="left">As the video below illustrates, despite the fact that you claim to be “a Libertarian at heart,” you have publicly supported programs and legislation that are universally abhorred by the vast majority of libertarians, such as the banker bailout and the USA Patriot Act.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L6C6E6ayh4U&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L6C6E6ayh4U&rel=0&border=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="349"></embed></object><br /><br /></p><p align="left">During your Monday September 22 2008 TV broadcast, you expressed your vehement support for the bailout, stating, “The $700 billion dollars that you’re hearing about now is not only I believe necessary, it is also not nearly enough.” However, as soon as Bush left office and Obama picked up the baton and continued the same financial policy, you changed your tune and routinely attacked the bailout as an example of how socialism was taking over America.</p> <p align="left">The bailout was bad news for America under Bush just as it is under Obama, both were merely performing a transfer of wealth from America to offshore banks and giving the Federal Reserve total dictatorial control over the economy, but you only opposed it when Bush was out of office, proving that your opinions are not wedded to right or wrong, but to which puppet is in the White House.</p> <p align="left">A host of mainline conservative talking heads opposed the banker bailout, as did the majority of the American people, but you went on television and publicly supported it. This is irreconcilable with you being “a libertarian at heart” as you claim.</p> <p align="left">In addition, you aggressively attacked Ron Paul and his supporters during the election campaign when it looked like the Texan Congressman might have a real chance of winning the nomination. You implied that Ron Paul supporters were domestic terrorists and should be dealt with by the U.S. Army, but later tried to side with Ron Paul supporters when the infamous and discredited MIAC report echoed your own talking point that people who support Ron Paul were dangerous.</p> <p align="left"><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/161107_beck_smears.htm">The smear came during a November 2007 show </a>when you were still hosting on CNN. Yourself and ex-Marxist David Horowitz smeared Ron Paul supporters, libertarians and the anti-war left as terrorist sympathizers and inferred that the U.S. military should be used to silence them, parroting a talking point that traces back to a September 2006 White House directive. When asked about the issue, Ron Paul dismissed you as “pretty discourteous” and a “demagogue”.</p><p align="left">You Glenn Beck have acted as a cheerleader for the wars of aggression launched since 9/11 and in addition called for Iran to be attacked, claiming that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is preparing a “second holocaust.” Once again, these political opinions stand completely contrary to libertarian principles, which follow the founding fathers’ view that an expansionist aggressive foreign policy is bad for America.</p> <p align="left">You have attacked Obama for unraveling the Bush war machine to give you left cover, when in fact Obama has done everything in his power to expand Bush’s wars, beefing the campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan while removing a token amount of troops from Iraq and replacing them with an even greater number of contractors.</p> <p align="left">By attacking Obama for being different to Bush, when in reality he offers not change whatsoever, you keep people locked in the left-right paradigm and ensure that instead of coming to the realization that the whole system is rigged, they will merely vote in another puppet for the new world order in 2012.</p> <p align="left">Glenn Beck – you are controlled opposition, you are there to co-opt and ensure the Tea Parties are under control and that they never focus on taking on the real power behind the American economy – the Federal Reserve.</p> <p align="left">Bearing in mind that you almost died not too long ago, wouldn’t you rather come to the end of your life, whether that be in one year or 30 years from now, knowing that you stood up for true liberty and freedom? Isn’t that more valuable than your $50 million dollars a year contract? When I was approached ten years ago and offered large sums of money every year to sell out and become what you are today – the new Rush Limbaugh – while accepting tight controls on what I could and could not discuss – I said no and I thank God every day that I made the right decision.</p> <p align="left">I appeal to you directly Glenn – think twice about what you are doing, think twice about what you are a part of right now. Try to do what you can to redeem yourself and don’t be a Benedict Arnold, don’t be a traitor that takes legions of good-natured but hoodwinked people down the rat hole with you as America collapses because those who had voices and platforms used them to deceive and distract rather than tell the truth.</p> <p align="left"><em>Alex Jones</em></p></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0