Unlimited "Glenn Beck is a nutter" thread

[Cain]

Just a few to start you off:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

Beck has created a massive meet-up for the disaffected, paranoid Palin-ite "death panel" wing of the GOP, those ideologues most susceptible to conspiracy theories and prone to latch on to eccentric distortions of fact in the name of opposing "socialism." In that, they are true disciples of the late W. Cleon Skousen, Beck's favorite writer and the author of the bible of the 9/12 movement, "The 5,000 Year Leap." 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.

I've read Skousen's nephew before, who is a nutter, but Unlce W. Cleon is far worse.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/24/beck-white-culture/

In July, Fox News' radical host Glenn Beck called President Obama a "racist," saying that he "has a deap-seated hatred for white people, or white culture" — a comment that sparked a successful advertising boycott of his Fox News program. This week in an interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Beck said he was "sorry" for the way he "phrased" the claim, but still contended that it's a "serious question" as to whether Obama is a racist.

During the interview, Couric posed a question from a Twitter user who wanted to know what Beck meant by "white culture" in his attack on Obama. Beck responded by stuttering: "Ummmmm, I don't know." He then suggested that he had already answered the criticism on his website, and therefore didn't want to "make news" by responding to Couric.

"Can you explain what you mean by the white culture?" Couric insisted, "because some people say that sounds kind of racist." Beck complained that he shouldn't be the "target" for "asking" if Obama is a racist.

http://wonkette.com/411263/glenn-beck-literally-like-actually-literally-boils-a-frog-on-his-glenn-beck-show

Oh... god. Apparently someone taught Glenn Beck a metaphor, and already, there has been one known death. You see, Obama, he's like throwing frogs in a pot of boiling water. This part of the metaphor stands in for Health Care. You dig? But John McCain, a completely random human who actually has had very little to do with the public health care debate, would never do something so gay, ever, as to force America to eat some pondwater consommé. John McCain HATES the French delicacy of Gay Soup. No, he would put the frog in regular water and slowly bring it to a boil. This part of the metaphor also represents Health Care. Ha, it is confusing! Let's actually boil something alive, for clarity.

Obviously this minor rhetorical point would be impossible to understand unless Beck were to throw an actual living creature in boiling water, on television. Never has anyone been more surprised than Glenn Beck upon realizing the Metaphor Frogs are far, far more reliable than whatever piece of shit sold to him by the pet store that can't even die on cue.

[Remington]

RAAAAAGGGGEEEEEE


Good stuff starts @ 3:00

[Elder Iptuous]

yes. beck is crazy. plenty of examples... but the frog was, as he clearly says in the video, a fake frog.
i mean, c'mon, Cain.
we should be focusing on the fact that GLEN BECK RAPED AND MURDERED THE REAL FROG...

[Iason Ouabache]

RAAAAAGGGGEEEEEE


Good stuff starts @ 3:00

Woooooooowwwww... He really thinks that we should deny health care to illegal immigrants? Does he realize that they are actual human beings and not evil demon spawn from Hell! I'm pretty sure denying health care to them would be a breach of several human rights treaties.

[Iason Ouabache]

Proving that Glenn Beck has zero sense of irony:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009950082_webbeckdispatches26m.html

Beck said he didn't remember politics being divisive growing up, and that if people now could just stop "tearing each other apart" there was a bright future for the country.

[Iason Ouabache]

Beck can't explain what he means by "white culture"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKZ1qbDyKOM

BTW, when did Katie Couric become a serious interviewer?

[Requia ☣]

When she started asking twitter questions.

[Remington]

This just in from the right-wing:




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/obama-facebook-poll-asks_n_301860.html

[LMNO]

Um... What was the final tally?

[Remington]

Um... What was the final tally?

No idea, the poll was deleted and the partyvan was called.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

 

Just keeps getting more and more funny... and then the screaming will set in.

[Halfbaked1]

Is he a nut?  Yes.  But he was right about the ACORN organization, though they may not be as corrupt as he makes out, enough offices fell for the worst con I have ever seen that they should be investigated.

[Golden Applesauce]

Is he a nut?  Yes.  But he was right about the ACORN organization, though they may not be as corrupt as he makes out, enough offices fell for the worst con I have ever seen that they should be investigated.

The impression I got from the tapes of the ACORN "investigation" wasn't so much that ACORN itself is (necessarily) corrupt, just that they didn't bother to train any of their workers, who retained a very strong in-group out-group mentality where pimps and hos are Our People and the government is the Big Scary Man.

[Halfbaked1]

Is he a nut?  Yes.  But he was right about the ACORN organization, though they may not be as corrupt as he makes out, enough offices fell for the worst con I have ever seen that they should be investigated.

The impression I got from the tapes of the ACORN "investigation" wasn't so much that ACORN itself is (necessarily) corrupt, just that they didn't bother to train any of their workers, who retained a very strong in-group out-group mentality where pimps and hos are Our People and the government is the Big Scary Man.

The Government should be considered a big scary thing.  I agree that it is a training issue, but that multiple offices were cool with underage prostitution and, in one case, even offered help in smuggling the children across the border.  add to the fact that multiple states have been investigating them for voter fraud and you have alot of small issues that add up to something that could be much more.  There should be an investigation of such an organization to make sure that they are on the up and up.  These guys have strong ties with our current President, I want them to be cleared because America does not need that kind of issue with its first black president.  I mean it's bad enough these "Birther" nutjobs running about and the "Truthers" calling for a meeting with President Obama. 

i may hate the governmental system currently in place, but I don't need to invent reasons to hate them.  Presidents, or their parties, pushing bills thru without sufficient oversight.  Taxation on issues that the people do not agree with.  I mean why do these talking heads like Beck get all the attention when we should be watching our government so that the people don't need instigators like Beck and Hannity, Olberman and Maddow.

[Cain]

ACORN are an irrelevance.  Goldman Sachs have the government and FBI dancing to their tune, funding their continued existence and arresting enemies based purely on their say-so and you're worried about an organisation with a budget of a few million?

Priorities, people.  Don't worry about how the deck chairs are arranged while the ship is sinking.