Glenn Beck on May Day

[KurtFF8]

On another confused tirade, Glenn Beck goes on a tirade that links the situation in Greece with the May Day celebrations in the United States (I'm assuming this is at least a few days old) Other than hoping he is absolutley right ;) (that the things like the May Day rallies in the US and the massive AFL-CIO march in NYC actually are leading to a better movement) he at least shows a few revolutionary websites

Pretty entertaining to any revolutionary of course, it gets old quick and never gets old at the same time somehow to me

DpvztQAS2vk

It's also interesting to note his attacks on the working class and unions becoming more intense and frequent. This is a scary step in right-wing populist rhetoric.

[Dimentio]

Well, when they attacked "the socialist government and the corporations", they gained populist cred. Now when they're attacking the unions, they will galvanise union resistance and create a counter-movement.

[Dean]

This is why the mainstream media is such shit. "The right wing is full of hate? The right wing never called the police 'pigs!' They never doubt them before knowing the facts!"

It's meaningless dribble specifically engineered to provide emotional stimulation which is both wishy-washy (and therefore widely palatable) and addictive.

[Robocommie]

Let Beck spread his bullshit. Let him stir up fear in the petit bourgeoisie. Hopefully what he fears most will come to pass and the revolution will break down the door of his office and put him on trial.

I mean shit, this guy is the most disingenuous of right wing fearmongers. His every sentence is dripping with manipulation.

"Oh, that cop just caught on fire, I notice the reporter isn't putting down his camera to help out."

That's because a journalists job is to never stop filming so the truth gets out. As a member of the media you're supposed to know that.

"Oh look at that! A cop just got hit in the head with a bottle!"

And Oscar Grant got hit in the spine with a bullet. I'm sure you've never ranted about that once, though, or any of the other brutalities committed by the noble policemen. Some "libertarian" you are.

"They call us hateful, but the right has never called the police, 'pigs'"

No, you just call some of the hardest working human beings in America "illegals" and constantly frame people fighting for dignity and a better life as crazed animals just because they happen to be reds.

"The press is going to say don't listen to him, he's a fearmonger. I am telling you, there is something going on very bad and you can see the pattern, it's beginning here."

And I genuinely wish you were as afraid as you manipulate your listeners into being, because you, far more than they, deserve it, you two-faced snake.

[Rusty Shackleford]

funny thing, after seeing this clip a few days ago i decided to watch "The One Thing" a few times. ive noticed that this portion always has the same tone. it is truly indoctrination. its mildly entertaining when he comes up with some batshit crazy idea like "SEIU and AFL_CIO are revolutionary" or "The Coming Insurrection" is a communist handbook, or that the invisible committee is made up of communists and some teachers. where the fuck does he get this shit.

[Robocommie]

I do want to say that The Invisible Committee is a bad-ass name.

[Os Cangaceiros]

These are communist revolutionaries. We don't want to think that they even exist, but they do.

lol


They are not anarchists

lol wut

[Robocommie]

lol wut

Even Glenn Beck likes to get involved with tendency mudslinging, "Those people aren't anarchists, they are Stalinists!"

[Os Cangaceiros]

He's right about The Coming Insurrection, though...my favorite part of that book was always the part where they talk about "how to destroy families". Man, the havoc I've wrought with that knowledge...

[Robocommie]

He's right about The Coming Insurrection, though...my favorite part of that book was always the part where they talk about "how to destroy families". Man, the havoc I've wrought with that knowledge...

Hah, I haven't read it, do you know what he's referring to? Maybe something about the nuclear family?

[Foldered]

I like how he equates all protest with all protest.
The only people who take this shit seriously are fucking idiots anyway.

[mo7amEd]

The video is not availible anymore... damn, I love to watch Glenn Becks videos, more fun than most comedy series and shows.

[Foldered]

The video is not availible anymore... damn, I love to watch Glenn Becks videos, more fun than most comedy series and shows.
It's still working for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpvztQAS2vk&feature=player_embedded

EDIT: Maybe it has something to do with your IP since it's not North American. I doubt it, since it's youtube, but yeah.

[RedScare]

Dude, this is fucking hilarious, I'm laughing my ass off right now. Beck's a clown, treat him as such.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Glenn Beck should title his show: This is an image from the past. He talks like a narrator from a 1950s scare film. Not just because he's a neo-McCarthyist - his intonations make him sound like he is warning 1950s high school kids about the dangers of goofballs and popping bennies.

[Foldered]

Dude, this is fucking hilarious, I'm laughing my ass off right now. Beck's a clown, treat him as such.
I agree, but the thought of anyone taking this stuff seriously is scary.

That rhetoric, regardless of message- whether conservative or progressive, right or left- is very dangerous.

[cb9's_unity]

Petty Bourgeois nationalism (in in this case American Exceptionalism) at its finest.

People like Beck so steadfastly refuse to look at the truth of the nature of capitalism that they are baffled when the rich are greedy and the workers start to fight back. The only thing they have to fall back on is the idea of some sort of uber-nationalism that will make everyone finally uphold 'common sense'. However if people could just put away their personal interests, and act with 'common sense', then capitalism wouldn't exist anyways.

[KurtFF8]

I've decided that Glenn Beck is "Bizzaro Edward R. Murrow"

[The Vegan Marxist]

I couldn't help but lol when I heard him say that the invisible committee's book "The Coming Insurrection" talks about how to destroy families, & especially when he pointed to a book that talks about the '08 Greek revolts, led by the Anarchists, & said that it's about communist revolutionaries, although I'd agree there were, but then said "they're not anarchists". I'm actually surprised that Beck's paranoid mind didn't realize how Anarchists, especially the Greek anarchists, ARE communists. But who's to judge Beck's poor detrimental mind of illusionary bullshit? :p

[this is an invasion]

funny thing, after seeing this clip a few days ago i decided to watch "The One Thing" a few times. ive noticed that this portion always has the same tone. it is truly indoctrination. its mildly entertaining when he comes up with some batshit crazy idea like "SEIU and AFL_CIO are revolutionary" or "The Coming Insurrection" is a communist handbook, or that the invisible committee is made up of communists and some teachers. where the fuck does he get this shit.

The Invisible Committee is made up of communists.

[The Vegan Marxist]

I find Beck as hypocritical as well when he goes off on Communist revolutionaries for being violent & then praises the "founding fathers' of America. George Washington was ruthless, but a revolutionary no doubt! And let's see, I wonder why we see violence as a necessary cause..hmmm..:

"Those that make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~JFK

Plus, didn't Beck call for the "eradication of all progressives" at a conservative meeting one time?

[gorillafuck]

I hope he keeps getting more and more absurd, it makes him less and less credible.

[Qayin]

The Coming Insurrection is a book written by French Anarcho-Communists about Insurrectionist theory, how to turn an attack into a revolution applied to what they have seen with the French/Greek riots.

Nothing about splitting up families this guys a piece of shit

[The Vegan Marxist]

The Coming Insurrection is a book written by French Anarcho-Communists about Insurrectionist theory, how to turn an attack into a revolution applied to what they have seen with the French/Greek riots.

Nothing about splitting up families this guys a piece of shit

I'm sure he was talking about the talks of the nuclear family, in which he feels is about "destroying the family unit', which is a very common misguided argument made by the majority of pro-capitalists.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

GB's mixture of lies and twisted half truths is interesting. His descripition of the AFL-CIO and SEIU as "revolutionary" is hysterical. There's a subtext of racism in his spiel. Beck referenced MLK, explicit racism isn't on the corporate agenda right now, but the pictures of crowds of marching Hispanics, demanding to be treated like human beings, was designed to play on the worst fears of middle America.There's a deep, subliminal fear of hordes of "others", ready to "take everything we own" from the hard working US petty bourgeois.

Beck's paymasters are getting worried. The crisis in Greece is almost textbook Marxism. The working class can only end the crisis which they're being forced to pay for by ending the system. The ruling class knows this. The fightback in Greece (and many other places) is the "threat of a good example" which has them scared.

I would expect propaganda hacks like Beck to rev up to high gear in the coming shitstorm...er..period.

[Axle]

I find Beck as hypocritical as well when he goes off on Communist revolutionaries for being violent & then praises the "founding fathers' of America. George Washington was ruthless, but a revolutionary no doubt! And let's see, I wonder why we see violence as a necessary cause..hmmm..:

"Those that make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~JFK

Plus, didn't Beck call for the "eradication of all progressives" at a conservative meeting one time?

Nah, I'm sure it was ok when the Founding Fathers did it because they were fighting tyranny...but those protesters wanting a living wage, or supporting immigrants, or just being fed up with Capitalism? Well, they're a fucking dangerous revolutionary element that needs to be purged for the safety of us all.

Of course, Glenn Beck would never make the connection that that's exactly how the British Empire would have viewed the American Revolution.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Towards the end of the video Beck offered to go on a union picket line. Could we hold him to this in a way he couldn't ignore? It would be funny to watch him squirm.

[Robocommie]

Towards the end of the video Beck offered to go on a union picket line. Could we hold him to this in a way he couldn't ignore? It would be funny to watch him squirm.

That's just it, he's set it up so it's about as useless a support for union picketers as it can get. Because if he's already declared the SEIU and the AFL-CIO as viper's nests of violent revolutionaries, who's left? The UAW? Maybe? Though even they're affiliated with the AFL.

The schmuck has a way of affirming his populist image with his fans while denouncing the actual labor movement. It's not that he has a problem with strikers or unions, he just has a problem with unions that get "too big and powerful" just like those awful corporations. He says this as he cashes the checks from his corporate sponsors. Man of the People indeed.

[Crusade]

I always walk away from a Glenn Beck show feeling more optimistic about a Leftist revolution.

[Robocommie]

I always walk away from a Glenn Beck show feeling more optimistic about a Leftist revolution.

The funny thing is, that's true for me as well. He sickens me with every word he says because of the sheer duplicity of it all, but I do hope he's right about the impending socialist doom. :p

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

Dude, this is fucking hilarious, I'm laughing my ass off right now. Beck's a clown, treat him as such.

Oh, we do. But it's also important to keep in mind that a lot of people watch him on TV and are influenced by what he says. When people feel generally angry and have nowhere to direct that anger it makes them vulnerable to right-wing hysteria. So although he is a joke, he can't be dismissed completely.

[Antifa94]

Fascism is coming.
With his rhetoric of peace and bourgeois morals, he will bring about a state in the fashion that Hitler did in 1933. I am waiting for an SA like paramilitary to form- The Minutemen? They'll grow.
The Democrats today are like the social-democrats of the Weimar Republic. When fascism comes, leftists, immigrants, democrat demagogues, intellectuals, etc.
His anti-communism is almost unimaginable. It will whip the petit-bourgeois masses into a fury and we will see the destruction of whatever vestige of democracy we retain.
God, do I hate Glenn Beck.
a lot of foreigners will be rounded up into concentration camps, and those that are allowed to remain in society will be castrated, just like in the Third Reich.
I tremble at the prospect of 2012, let alone this November.

[Antifa94]

"intellectuals, etc. will be murdered and/or placed in internment camps.

[Os Cangaceiros]

And Glenn Beck is going to be the catalyst for all of this? :lol:

[SocialismOrBarbarism]

Why the hell would anyone find Glenn Beck whipping up anti-communist hysteria "funny"?

[Os Cangaceiros]

On any given day only about three million people (max.) watch Glenn Beck's TV program. That means that out of a nation of (roughly) 300 million people, 297 million of us aren't watching his show. So let's not make a mountain out of a molehill, here.

That's not to say that Beck doesn't express and mirror a lot of viewpoints that I find highly offensive (and unfortunately quite prevalent), but I feel completely safe laughing at the loon.

[Antifa94]

It can grow.
3 million is still a large number, and don't less than one percent of the population usually participate in a revolution?
He could have a march on Washington and we can be in concentration camps in a week.

[9]

"intellectuals, etc. will be murdered and/or placed in internment camps.


It can grow.
3 million is still a large number, and don't less than one percent of the population usually participate in a revolution?
He could have a march on Washington and we can be in concentration camps in a week.

wtf is this fearmongering. This is exactly the sort of shit that's gonna be used by anti-fascist "socialists" to try to scare the working class into voting Democrat in 2012. It's completely ridiculous.

[Antifa94]

I admit it's rather paranoid, but nonetheless plausible. I have no doubt that I would be interred under their regime.

[The Red Next Door]

Why haven't this fuck had a heart attack during his rant yet?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Why the hell would anyone find Glenn Beck whipping up anti-communist hysteria "funny"?


The more they attack us verbally, the more they undermine themselves intellectually.
The more they attack us physically, the more they undermine their "moral high ground"

the way he is attacking us (verbally) is quite comical. sure, people will think its all true, and sure it will lead to some instances of violence. but if you consider yourself a communist, you are probably also aware of the violence it may bring upon you. its a fact of life. if you go against the status quo, you will have shit coming your way.

[Barry Lyndon]

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."- Voltaire

[28350]

I only flipped through The Coming Insurrection once, but didn't find it that interesting. Does anyone know if it has any substance to it, other than insurrectionist anarcho-communism?

[Uppercut]

I'm sorry, but I just can't make it through the whole thing. I hate Glenn Beck with every ounce of my being. Of course, come revolution, he'll go down with the rest of them, so at least that's something to look forward to.:p

[Robocommie]

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."- Voltaire

Always one of my favorite quotes. :D

[Jimmie Higgins]

Wait, does anyone know who the wizard is? Tell us Beck!

[cb9's_unity]

I never read the book he talks about. Do they really just talk about breaking up the nuclear family? Does Beck really consider that worthy of making the book evil?

If that's really what Beck is talking about, then its just another thing to add to the list of Beck taking comments completely out of context.

[Robocommie]

I never read the book he talks about. Do they really just talk about breaking up the nuclear family? Does Beck really consider that worthy of making the book evil?

In all fairness, I myself have interpreted the "breaking up of the nuclear family" to mean breaking up the idea of family in general before it was better explained to me.

[bcbm]

communists should seriously start sending our new publications to glenn beck. we'd make so much bank from the free advertising and all his fans buying that shit up.

[Robocommie]

communists should seriously start sending our new publications to glenn beck. we'd make so much bank from the free advertising and all his fans buying that shit up.

New plan for revolution; sensationalize the revolution, merchandize it, and then use the money to BUY the means of production.

[bcbm]

from each according to their ability, to each according to how much glenn beck pimps their shit

[RadioRaheem84]

Beck likes to say that the right isn't calling police officers pigs, but wasn't a right wing christian militia about to kill a dozen or so cops at a funeral after they kidnapped and killed a police officer they summoned to their home?

[Robocommie]

Beck likes to say that the right isn't calling police officers pigs, but wasn't a right wing christian militia about to kill a dozen or so cops at a funeral after they kidnapped and killed a police officer they summoned to their home?

Good point, man.

[Foldered]

communists should seriously start sending our new publications to glenn beck. we'd make so much bank from the free advertising and all his fans buying that shit up.
Since I'm convinced that 80% of people watch Glenn Beck as a joke, this could fare well.

[Red Commissar]

Beck likes to say that the right isn't calling police officers pigs, but wasn't a right wing christian militia about to kill a dozen or so cops at a funeral after they kidnapped and killed a police officer they summoned to their home?

There was a wacky "comic" called "Liberality for All" featuring Sean Hannity, Gordon Liddy, and Oliver North going militia on a dystopian liberal regime, which does have a number of scenes of them killing cops.

http://www.cracked.com/article/209_6-hilarious-attempts-at-brainwashing-kids-with-comic-books/ (at #4)

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/article/1/2/7/9127.jpg?v=1

Though it's quite fine in this case, they are fighting for 'murica's freedom from pinko liberal fascists.


It is 2021, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. America is under oppression by ultra-liberal extremists that have surrendered governing authority to the United Nations. It is up to an underground group of bio-mechanically enhanced conservatives led by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North to thwart Ambassador Usama Bin Laden’s plans to nuke New York City.

I think it's important to remember however that Beck is catering to already existing misconceptions and hate of the conservative American populace. He's focusing their energy and attention into things like this in order to try and draw parallels to American liberals. He's not necessarily showing anything new.

Ultimately though he's putting on a show for his viewers. He caters himself to their views and puts himself in a position to make money from advertising and his merchandise.

[Znamya]

From Forbes


"He’s in it for the money, and he makes a lot of it. $32 million a year, in fact. He’s just a showman, telling people what they want to hear. It’s nothing but an act, and it’s a very good one. He brazenly admitted this to Forbes magazine the other day, knowing that most of his fans will just claim the reporter twisted his words. He’s laughing all the way to the bank, getting rich selling false hope to millions of conservative white people, but deliberately refusing to tell them what they need to hear. If he started doing that, he’d be off the radio and TV in an instant, and his yearly income would be a lot closer to $32 than to $32 million."

With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers.



right-wing populist rhetoric.

There is nothing about Beck that's populist. If you listen to these morons' rhetoric, it's primarily about defending rich people while at the same time bashing workers and trade unions. He's nothing but a mouthpiece for the ruling class. A right-wing populist would be someone like Buchanan.

[The Ben G]

OMG! IS TEH UNIONS!!!

Really, Beck? Really?

[Tablo]

Haha, my mom think the situation in Greece is that all the lazy people are angry their welfare state has quit giving them handouts. I try to explain to her the situation and the influence of Marxists and Anarchists have on the unrest, but she ignores me. She is far too brain washed by her beloved Beckers. She also gave me a lecture about how revelations is true and the world will end soon. I fucking love hearing this bs everyday. :laugh:

[-persona-]

Ba ha ha ha! "I don't have to defend myself. I just have to show you the future." What an ignorant tool. God have mercy on the unsuspecting masses.

[Red Commissar]

There is nothing about Beck that's populist. If you listen to these morons' rhetoric, it's primarily about defending rich people while at the same time bashing workers and trade unions. He's nothing but a mouthpiece for the ruling class. A right-wing populist would be someone like Buchanan.

Most of the right wing media defends the rich. The thing is though all of them try to act like they are providing a voice to "average" Americans, there is a considerable level of of populism running through all of them.


OMG! IS TEH UNIONS!!!

Really, Beck? Really?

Again, another issue is that this sentiment already exists in the American public. You probably won't get much favorable comment towards unions by many segments of American populace that consider themselves to be "conservative".

[Znamya]

Most of the right wing media defends the rich. The thing is though all of them try to act like they are providing a voice to "average" Americans, there is a considerable level of of populism running through all of them.

Populism involves rhetoric that sticks up for regular people while blasting the rich and powerful. Look at Huey Long, for example. Beck does none of that and therefore cannot be considered a populist. He's just a representative of the fascist, rank-and-file GOP goons (see freepers)

[Red Commissar]

Populism involves rhetoric that sticks up for regular people while blasting the rich and powerful. Look at Huey Long, for example. Beck does none of that and therefore cannot be considered a populist. He's just a representative of the fascist, rank-and-file GOP goons (see freepers)

I know what populism is. My point is most of Fox's broadcast style employs the technique heavilly even if they don't actually seriously believe in it. It's a powerful technique and it's no surprise that it has the most influence on people who would consider themselves to be "average" Americans.

Most populists are just opportunists anyways, they focus on building support for whatever nonsense they have to draw attention away from their other views, like Beck and anyone else.

[mo7amEd]

It's still working for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpvztQAS2vk&feature=player_embedded

EDIT: Maybe it has something to do with your IP since it's not North American. I doubt it, since it's youtube, but yeah.

No... it's not working in Sweden. Fucking Fox News!

Could someone maybe upload it somewhere else? maybe to much to ask.

[GreenCommunism]

glenn becks radio show is syndicated.
he is the host of The Glenn Beck Program, a nationally-syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks

i'm not sure if it means unionized, at least in french syndicated means that

[Raúl Duke]

No, syndicated in the media means something else.

[Mumbles]

I love watching this and just mentally destroying it for practice. Is fun shit.

First he worries about who organized the Arizona marches and protests, maybe he doesn't realize more than one group is pissed off about it and that one person *cough* himself *cough* doesn't have to lead it all as king of the revolution.

The intellectuals (professors is how he worded it) are communists? Maybe it's because they...umm...you know...thought about stuff? Maybe. Possibly. I dunno. Or he's just an ass who can't stand that people are smarter than him. Also he doesn't say why the book tells people to get violent, he just says "get violent".

Okay that bit about communists using anarchy or however he twisted that bit up definitely sealed him into the hating people smarter than him.

Did he just blame the ENTIRE Greek revolt on the banks? Yes, let's ignore the government.

Don't know anything about the AFLCIO so I can't rant about something stupid he said here, but I know ya'll have already mentioned it.

Aww, man he didn't bring up RL on his website witch hunt. :(

Setting stuff on fire is evil? Wearing masks to hide ones identity from fucker like you, Beck, is evil too?

Cops know the risks of the job when they join.

Where did this whole thing about fundamentally transforming something you love come from? What the hell? Is that just to confuse everyone? Or am I just asleep?

Doesn't the US military support the violent overthrow of states?

Honest question: did we support the bailout? I didn't think we did because monopolies don't help, but I might have incorrect economic views of what you all here believe.

Oh science! He ends by comparing himself to MLKJr.

Damn...that was a headtrip. Sorry if this is a bit too ranty, I'm asleeep and still want to raise hell over this man while it's still fun to do before he gets too scary.

[Raúl Duke]

Aww, man he didn't bring up RL on his website witch hunt.

One day...one day...

after all he did mention that obscure coming insurrection book. Is RL more obscure than that book?

lol

[Foldered]

Has anybody heard about his "Plan"? I just saw a criticism of it on Colbert, but his plan actually looks scary. It's fucking ridiculous.
Thinking about starting a separate thread about it.

[RadioRaheem84]

Beck likes to tout the whole Nazi angle with everything but when it's applied to actual repressive laws like the ones imposed on the people of AZ, then he goes apeshit. But seriously, he is grade A propagandist. He likes to tout the famous statement by Pastor Niemoller but beings and stops with; "first they came for the Jews". He doesn't read the whole statement which clearly shows that the Nazi regime was right wing in nature and scope.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Has anybody heard about his "Plan"? I just saw a criticism of it on Colbert, but his plan actually looks scary. It's fucking ridiculous.
Thinking about starting a separate thread about it.No, what is it?

[Mumbles]

I saw that thing on Colbert too! It was fucking scary!

He's proposing a hundred year plan to "refound 'merica" and he's revealing it on the same day and place is MLKjr's Dream speech. I hope the right wing that support him are still the backwards people that oppose civil rights so that they'll go apeshit over his plan since he's comparing himself to King.

[RadioRaheem84]

!! Link?

[Ligeia]

Here's a link to the video. (http://the44diaries.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/stephen-colbert-rips-glenn-beck-for-mlk-connections/)
And here's a link to the announcement of "the plan" (http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/33398/).

[Animal Farm Pig]

This reminds me of a joke:

Two jews are sitting at a bus stop in Tel Aviv. One is reading Ha'aretz, the other is reading some terrible antisemitic rag. The one reading Ha'aretz says to the other, "What are you reading that shit for?" The antisemitic paper reader says to the Ha'aretz reader, "Well, what does it say in your newspaper? Economic troubles. Suicide bombings. International consternation. Look at my paper. According to this we control the world economy and run the world's most powerful governments!"


So, that's kind of how I feel when I see this kind of shit. I just wish half of it were true. We would be winning.

By the way, are the book recommendations any good?

[RadioRaheem84]

Here's a link to the video. (http://the44diaries.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/stephen-colbert-rips-glenn-beck-for-mlk-connections/)
And here's a link to the announcement of "the plan" (http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/33398/).

This guy is nuts! God gave him a plan, that's not a plan? What the hell does that mean?

[hardlinecommunist]

I've decided that Glenn Beck is "Bizzaro Edward R. Murrow"
Bizzaro Edward R Murrow thats a good one.

[Barry Lyndon]

Beck likes to tout the whole Nazi angle with everything but when it's applied to actual repressive laws like the ones imposed on the people of AZ, then he goes apeshit. But seriously, he is grade A propagandist. He likes to tout the famous statement by Pastor Niemoller but beings and stops with; "first they came for the Jews". He doesn't read the whole statement which clearly shows that the Nazi regime was right wing in nature and scope.

He's not just leaving stuff out, he's flat out lying. Pastor Niemoller said 'They came FIRST for the Communists....'. But, of course, that would destroy Glenn Beck's Nazism=Communism idiocy.

[KurtFF8]

He's not just leaving stuff out, he's flat out lying. Pastor Niemoller said 'They came FIRST for the Communists....'. But, of course, that would destroy Glenn Beck's Nazism=Communism idiocy.

Exactly, apart from having questionable logic, he is indeed just flat out dishonest in his presentation of arguments.

To the point even where he must know what he's doing I would say (although who knows, maybe he somehow doesn't)

[JacobVardy]

Anyone else seen the AK press response to this video? Its a bit smug, but kinda funny.

http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/an-open-letter-to-glenn-beck/

[Chambered Word]

Haha, my mom think the situation in Greece is that all the lazy people are angry their welfare state has quit giving them handouts. I try to explain to her the situation and the influence of Marxists and Anarchists have on the unrest, but she ignores me. She is far too brain washed by her beloved Beckers. She also gave me a lecture about how revelations is true and the world will end soon. I fucking love hearing this bs everyday. :laugh:

Go and ask her:

1. If they were too lazy to work, why are they suddenly peeling their arses off the couch and rioting every couple of weeks or so?
2. If everyone is receiving handouts, why didn't the government cut back on them before the economy crashed and not after?
3. How the fuck are meagre government handouts meant to crash the economy anyway?
4. What about the government and Goldman Sachs fixing the statistics? Was that an influence at all? :rolleyes:

[Foldered]

I was wondering when AK Press would say something.

[Mumbles]

Is AK press generalizing about communists or something? Cause I didn't know all communists were authoritarian...

[KurtFF8]

Remember back on page one where I called Beck a "Bizzaro Edward R. Murrow"? Well he recently called NY Representative Anthony Weiner someone who is "...actually trying on the shoes of McCarthy" for calling out his conflict of interest about his Gold advertising sponsor and how Beck promotes Gold. Pretty funny stuff Article Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2136;_ylt=AnUQkTSgCdIUnpcWJN5aFX2s0NUE;_yl u=X3oDMTNqYjE0ZzRqBGFzc2V0A3luZXdzLzIwMTAwNTE5L3lu ZXdzX3BsMjEzNgRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzQEcG 9zAzEEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0 BHNsawNnbGVubmJlY2tmZXU-)