Unlimited "Glenn Beck is a nutter" thread

[Cain]

Beck is not a fan of evolution because white mainstream Protestants arent.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/10/glenn_beck_on_evolution.php

Fixed for more likely truthiness.  Mormonism, as a body of teachings, doesn't explicitly say anything that contradicts evolution and some Mormons, like Mitt Romney, seem to have no trouble believing in it.

However, because politically focused Mormons, including Beck, have been building alliances with the mainstream Christian right, they've to an extent adopted their teachings on certain key issues.

This is Beck signalling, yet again, "I'm one of you guys.  Not one of those guys."

[Phox]

Beck is not a fan of evolution because white mainstream Protestants arent.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/10/glenn_beck_on_evolution.php

Fixed for more likely truthiness.  Mormonism, as a body of teachings, doesn't explicitly say anything that contradicts evolution and some Mormons, like Mitt Romney, seem to have no trouble believing in it.

However, because politically focused Mormons, including Beck, have been building alliances with the mainstream Christian right, they've to an extent adopted their teachings on certain key issues.

This is Beck signalling, yet again, "I'm one of you guys.  Not one of those guys."

Also to support this, the Vatican accepts evolution as valid. And you know how Catholics are atheistic, God-hating, communist perversions of Christians, so everything they think must be wrong, right? 

[the last yatto]

Depends on the pope, I think they been on the decline ever since they had their summer home in france

[Cain]

Beck is not a fan of evolution because white mainstream Protestants arent.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/10/glenn_beck_on_evolution.php

Fixed for more likely truthiness.  Mormonism, as a body of teachings, doesn't explicitly say anything that contradicts evolution and some Mormons, like Mitt Romney, seem to have no trouble believing in it.

However, because politically focused Mormons, including Beck, have been building alliances with the mainstream Christian right, they've to an extent adopted their teachings on certain key issues.

This is Beck signalling, yet again, "I'm one of you guys.  Not one of those guys."

Also to support this, the Vatican accepts evolution as valid. And you know how Catholics are atheistic, God-hating, communist perversions of Christians, so everything they think must be wrong, right? 

Yeah.  Someone needs to point out to the American right in general that reversed stupidity is not intelligence.

Of course, getting to admit evolution isn't stupid in the first case would be nice, but, you know, baby steps...

[Phox]

Of course, getting to admit evolution isn't stupid in the first case would be nice, but, you know, baby steps...

Hit the nail on the head there, Cain. 

[Jenne]

I need to see more angst from the neocons about this anti-intellectualism that has taken hold of the far-Right.  It's one of the last strings that holds the Repulicans in the realm of credibility, for the long-run.

[Juana]

 

Glenn Beck believes in four insane things before breakfast

Missed in the brouhaha over Sarah Palin's verbal flub about our North Korean "allies," and much more telling:

According to host Glenn Beck's own transcript, Beck's very next utterance was to proclaim that the "mystery" jet contrail recently seen in California (explained weeks ago (even by Fox News online) as almost certainly an optical illusion created by still air and a jet contrail from a known UPS delivery flight) was in fact a secret two-stage missile launch by the Chinese government to assert their power over America, "sending a signal that the world has changed."

Beck then went on to state that the Chinese "control the world."

Did Sarah Palin, would-be leader of the United States, disagree with any of this?  Nope.

Palin's verbatim response: "Well, that's right."

For Beck's (and apparently Palin's*) version of reality to be accurate, of course, these four logical conditions must also be true:

(a) China can launch missiles in or near U.S. waters in broad daylight without provoking any American response; (b) the Pentagon either does not know this, and therefore cannot defend our shores, or they do know, and are now engaged in a massive coverup (either one of which must be sufficient for both Beck and Palin to question their avowed support of the Pentagon); (c) for the missile to have any meaning, China must have assumed that the Pentagon would understand the source and significance, something even Americans ourselves apparently cannot assume, according to (b); and (d) China must have also either assumed that the Pentagon would be cowed and not respond, or been eager to start a hot war with massive loss of life for no explicable reason.

Beck's assertion -- with which Palin showed no disagreement whatsoever -- requires belief in no less than four different insane things -- and that's even if the contrail hadn't already been fully explained.

And this gets virtually no comment anywhere.

Apparently we've all been numbed by stupidity for so long that while the media can still grok an obvious up-is-down screw-up, the presence of mind-blowing nests of illogic immediately adjacent to the famous gaffe... that's just dismissed as normal.

*Some may suggest that Palin was agreeing only with Beck's unique notion of Chinese global dominion. After all, Beck's assertion about a Chinese missile occurred a full eight seconds before her statement of agreement. One can defend Palin simply by insisting that eight seconds is an unreasonably long time to retain information. 

[Cain]

The "China is taking over" trope is very popular amongst the Teabagger right.  I remember Christine O'Donnell also asserting this.  And I believe this was popular among certain Patriot militia groups in the 90s as well (IIRC, this was a main plot point in The Turner Diaries, though whether it was included because Patriot groups believed it, or whether its inclusion led to Patriot groups believing it is up for debate - especially since the spectre of some kind of UN-sponsored foreign troop takeoever goes back to the John Birch Society).

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Glenn Beck believes in four insane things before breakfast

I'm not sure Beck and Palin actually believe this shit*. I thought so at one point, and maybe they did earnestly believe a lot of that crap, but now it's getting more and more obvious that they're just mouthpieces for strategists that have carefully been crunching the numbers.

*See Subetai's post above mine.

[Phox]

Yeah, but what about that missile they launched at 'Murrica? I mean, obviously, that's what it was. It couldn't be explained in any other way, right?  

[the last yatto]

Glenn Beck believes in four insane things before breakfast

Now a Willy Wonka joke 

[Cain]

The other irony about all this is that if people followed the news, they'd know China already has a military plan in place to intimidate or bring down America, and it's called Assassin's Mace, and American strategists are well aware of it.

China doesn't need to fire a missile to try and coerce or threaten America, it just leaks another report on a particular Assassin's Mace program.

[BabylonHoruv]

I note that in the article on the "assassin's mace" they reference the dual use of the word mace in English.  Considering that the label is a translation from Chinese I wouldn't expect that dual usage to be portable across languages.  Perhaps it is, but that incongruity makes me suspicious of the article.

[Juana]

Hmm. My stepdad speaks Chinese. I shall ask him.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Fixed for more likely truthiness.  Mormonism, as a body of teachings, doesn't explicitly say anything that contradicts evolution and some Mormons, like Mitt Romney, seem to have no trouble believing in it.

However, because politically focused Mormons, including Beck, have been building alliances with the mainstream Christian right, they've to an extent adopted their teachings on certain key issues.

This is Beck signalling, yet again, "I'm one of you guys.  Not one of those guys."


Also to support this, the Vatican accepts evolution as valid. And you know how Catholics are atheistic, God-hating, communist perversions of Christians, so everything they think must be wrong, right? 

What happened to your teabagger friend?