Unlimited "Glenn Beck is a nutter" thread

[Juana]

They better charge these guys with treason. I'm kind of torn between hoping it quashes this sort of thing (which it won't) and hoping it'll inflame it (which is much more likely).

[Lord Quantum]

I would say that I feel sorry for you but I live in Georgia. We're more paranoid but other than that, I see your strip mall churches and raise you an army of street preachers.

Got those, too.

But! We only have one mega-church, which most of us refer to as the Mother Ship for a variety of reasons.

I see your mothership and raise you a church that believes that churches that have kitchens are all going to hell.

[Iason Ouabache]

I am Glenn's complete lack of irony:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003260022

If you don't want to click: Glenn is accusing Obama of using the politics of fear.

[Cramulus]

You know what I find ironic?
(and I acknowledge that I'm beating a dead horse here)

Terrorism is "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion."


When Glenn Beck motivates people through fear,

when the government justifies itself by referencing 9/11,

basically any time that you trade freedom for security,


isn't that a form of terrorism?

I'm not saying that the government's warrantless wiretapping is equivalent to flying a plane into a building
but the real effect of 9/11 wasn't based on the lives we lost, it was the cultural reaction to the attack. That was the intent of the terrorism, to shake everybody to the core and make them question their values.

Constantly evoking this image -- or any image of violence and destruction -- as a form of persuasion
        seems to be tapping into the same power source. You can't get people to agree with you unless you evoke the same fear, as we experienced on 9/11

that's what's so frustrating to be about the 9/12 movement. I forget which pundit said it, but 9/12 was a scary fucking day! YES we all stood together with the flag flying overhead and our hands on our hearts.. but NO, this is what led to the patriot act!




btw, HI NSA BOTS!

[hooplala]

I agree.  The terror about terrorism, and branding anything or anyone who disagrees as a terrorist, is in itself a form of terrorism.  This whole past decade has been largely about fearmongering.  And Glenn Beck is one of the worst.

Though, I will say, as much as I think Glenn Beck is a bag of douche... I'm glad he exists, and is allowed a forum.

[Da6s]

http://www.wftv.com/news/22999143/detail.html

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back.
A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF.
The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn't know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money.

Freakin' Genius.

[Freeky]

http://www.wftv.com/news/22999143/detail.html

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back.
A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF.
The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn't know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money.

Freakin' Genius.

That's awesome!

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.wftv.com/news/22999143/detail.html

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back.
A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF.
The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn't know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money.

Freakin' Genius.

That's more win than I care to contemplate.

[Jenne]

FUCKING GLENN BECK DITTOHEADS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?

[Doktor Howl]

FUCKING GLENN BECK DITTOHEADS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?

I <3 ragey Jenne.   

[Jenne]

FUCKING GLENN BECK DITTOHEADS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?

I <3 ragey Jenne.   

CEPT YOU RUINED HER WITH YOUR DRIVEBY DIALWRONG.

EVERYTHING'S PISSING ME OFF TODAY!    IF I SEE GLENN BECK IN THE STREET IMA KICK IM IN THE JIMMY!  DON'T SEE IF I WON'T!

[Doktor Howl]

FUCKING GLENN BECK DITTOHEADS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?

I <3 ragey Jenne.   

CEPT YOU RUINED HER WITH YOUR DRIVEBY DIALWRONG.

EVERYTHING'S PISSING ME OFF TODAY!    IF I SEE GLENN BECK IN THE STREET IMA KICK IM IN THE JIMMY!  DON'T SEE IF I WON'T!

I was trying to dial "John" on my speed dial, and dialed "Jenne", which is right below it.

I have really big fingers.

[Jenne]

FUCKING GLENN BECK DITTOHEADS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?

I <3 ragey Jenne.   

CEPT YOU RUINED HER WITH YOUR DRIVEBY DIALWRONG.

EVERYTHING'S PISSING ME OFF TODAY!    IF I SEE GLENN BECK IN THE STREET IMA KICK IM IN THE JIMMY!  DON'T SEE IF I WON'T!

I was trying to dial "John" on my speed dial, and dialed "Jenne", which is right below it.

I have really big fingers.

I do it all the time.  On the iPhone, some areas of the screen are more sensitive than others, and my clumsy fingers touch "call" or whatever before I know it, and I'm going SHIT SHIT SHIT ENDCALL ENDCALL.

  You were polite and sat while I cackled in your ear, semi-hysterically, after biting your head off for calling me while working.

You, Sir, are a god among men.   

[LMNO]

Ten bucks says he was getting off on it.

[Doktor Howl]

Ten bucks says he was getting off on it.

She charged me $4.99/minute for phone rage.



Dok,
Thinks we might be on to something.