What Glenn Beck is saying this morning is extremely dangerous

[ZRT2209]

In short, Obama is an evil tyrant who needs to be overthrown. "evil" "tyrant" "hates America" "would have been treated as a spy on the battlefield" "brainwashing children" "actively working to destroy the Constitution" "wants to eliminate private charity" "liar" "lies to your face" "bully" "grotesque" "hates God" "is bitter for being black"

[el_bryanto]

1. Sounds like Beck on a Monday.

Or, more of a dog bites man story than a man bites dog story.

Bryant

[Blue_Tires]

9. Or Beck pretty much ANY day past or present...

[el_bryanto]

13. Before he got his TV show he was more balanced -

still a right wing stooge with goofball instincts -but not quite so far out - I think the TV show has enabled him to craft a cocoon in which his crazyiness can really fester and deepen.

Most people need someone around to say "Hey that's kind of bullshit"- even right wing hacks.

Bryant

[Half-Century Man]

17. Uhhhh

He BECAME unstable after getting canned by Faux?

[dmr]

34. idk, I think he was already unstable while on Fox.

He's just gone further downhill since then.

[Half-Century Man]

42. He had some slope left????

Who would have thought that?
Is there more slope, If he rides it down deeper into idiocy will he still be potty trained?

[el_bryanto]

65. Shrugs - it's a process

Look we are liberals which means we believe people are shaped by their environments - if you move from an environment in which you accept criticism as a part of your life, and then move on to being lionized and adored by teapartiers and then create your own little world - well you tend to get crazier. It's not an uncommon phenomenon.

Bryant

[Frustratedlady]

24. If Beck ever came face to face with Obama,

I guarantee he'd wet his pants.

I just know it.

[ZRT2209]

35. yes, Obama should just show up at his studio one day.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Why are you listening to him?

Why are you repeating it here?

[janlyn]

37. can't answer for them..

but for myself, I follow the adage (know thy enemy) !!
I try to keep in mind what my grandmother said about Hitler.
That they all thought he was a funny little man, and that no one thought he would be taken seriously until it was to late.

Not saying Beck has that kind of power but, that there are those in power who think like him. And while we may think they are but shit crazy doesn't keep them from being a danger!

[Buzz Clik]

43. I guess I grow weary of 20 or 30 Beck posts a day.

Yeah. Beck is unhinged. Alright already.

[janlyn]

45. understand completely!!!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

40. Speaking of a little scary, your thought police routine fits the bill.

Don't try to tell people what they can post. Alert on a post if you don't think it should be here. You're not The Decider.

[Buzz Clik]

44. I asked two simple questions. I made no demands. You, however:

Don't try to tell people what they can post.

I will post whatever I fucking please. You don't like it? Take your own advice.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

47. I'll get right on that, sweetie.

[Buzz Clik]

56. Your choice.

[kestrel91316]

68. How does asking 2 questions make him the "thought police"??

Where did you study logic (and fail)?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

70. What were the questions? What emotion were they designed to elicit?

Come on now, I know you can get this, unless of course, you're invested in not getting it, which seems like it may be the case. Sorry, I have no time for people who feign stupidity.

[Dash87]

61. Comedy factor. I listen to Hannity on the way home.

It's all self-parodying.

[lunasun]

3. More than one paranoid schizo is listening

[ZRT2209]

4. now he is fake crying about how great his own NRA speech was

"others are telling me my speech changed their lives"

"and so it begins"

"get out of your comfort zone"

"we will be accused of horrible things"

"they are setting out to destroy us"

and so WHAT begins???????

[freshwest]

38. The Tribulation, the persecution and killing of Christians in Revelations by the anti-Christ Obama.

That is a powerful narrative that is engrained into millions of children and the GOP has found a way to harness that belief.

The evidence is all around us, they say, from climate change to oil spills, sexuality they call unnatural, murders, drugs, this and that and on and on. You cannot remove this from the subconscious of most of them.

Talk radio and television preys upon these things continuously with psychological tools. They see things happening in the real world and call it fulfillment of prophecy.

It means just what Beck says it means, store goods, surround yourself with believers, reject all others as of satan, then arm yourself for the coming attacks, get as far away as you can from any kind of government.

Most of these folks don't have a strong grasp of scripture but are addicted to media. So it begins, 'accused of horrible things,' lies will be told about Christian leaders, and 'destroy us' is sending Christians to FEMA camps and next the slaughter of Christians.

Thus he inoculates the right wingers from any facts that go against the narrative. This is Conspiracy Theory at its most effective, since the storyline has existed for centuries and all he has to do is add to it.

Beck loves to focus on Nazis and the Holocaust to hide behind those victims and get that anxiety going here. 'Get out of your comfort zone' means to become a Christian Nationalist, secede from the USA, the only way to live while the forces of darkness (in more than one way) take over Earth.

Alex Jones and the NWO, same thing. It's all the same, all the way to the 'Zionist Bankster Cabal' stuff, that comes straight out of the old 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' pushed by Third Reich, Stormfront, etc.

He's 'preaching to the choir.'

[Berlum]

50. + 1

[LuvNewcastle]

54. Well said.

His listeners have been fed that apocalyptic bullshit all their lives and now he's taking advantage of their abuse just like every other cult leader and radical politician has done in the past. It's like a time bomb that's waiting to be set and he's punching in the combination.

[freshwest]

58. It's sad. I read the same stuff as a kid. But separated it from my daily life.

This was brought back to the fore in many people's minds by the Reagan Republicans and it's only gotten worse since then. Incredibly bad.

Christians of some persuasions read Tim LeHaye's 'Left Behind' series and it has enlivened and brought those notions into their everyday life. It sets up the 'US versus THEM' mentality.

Church is nothing like it used to be when I was growing up. It's back to something more akin to the days of burning witches and slaughtering those who didn't 'believe' the things decreed by one fanatic or another.

The Founding Fathers did not want that here and spoke firmly against repeating it, but the televangelism in the eighties and the revision of American history by various preachers reduced the message of charity, forgiveness, tolerance of others and peace to something I don't want stuck under my shoe.

They are afraid, and their focus is narrow, unable to percieve anything that would take them out of it, as 'sinful.' Which makes them act like robots who are ready for whoever flips the switch.

The results have been in slow motion with the revolution at the ballot box. Some believe if they make this country like the Old Testament, we will be spared judgement for our sins. American exceptionalism falls into that belief system, too.

I say we need to pay attention. Most of the rightwing swill we see being disgorged by those who resist any lawful order and threaten killing Democrats are listening to Beck, Jones, etc. everyday. These shows are replayed, it's much stronger than the church on Sunday crowd ever was.

[Marrah_G]

5. He's a disgusting propagandists who sells shock, fear and hate for a living

Just another day.

We have free speech in this country, so until he goes broke because all his sponsors left him for being a loon, there isn't much that can be done.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. He is the Tokyo Rose of our time.

And without the good music.

[ZRT2209]

25. He is the Father Coughlin of our time

[geek tragedy]

6. That's the Republican base for you--psychotic paranoid racists.

Perfect NRA speaker.

[ZRT2209]

7. he's also talking about his gun and that he is "firm"

[Half-Century Man]

11. This is my rifle, this is my gun. this is for killing, this is for fun......

I guess no one would be able to gauge the status of his penis unless he told us....Uhhh..thanks(?)

[ZRT2209]

8. Beck claims "someone" is threatening him and his family

with a folder of information "six inches thick"

[Half-Century Man]

14. True

Its a copy of the petition urging him to go away

[ZRT2209]

10. ALWAYS the apocalyptic melodrama, for 6 years now

[ZRT2209]

12. says Alinsky is evil - WHILE HE HIMSELF USES ALINSKY TACTICS

"I will FIGHT anyone who uses Alinsky"

"I will not tip my hat to the devil"

"This fight is for the entire ball of wax"

"The FREEDOM OF ALL MANKIND IS AT STAKE" - "That is 100% true"

[Dawson Leery]

15. Beck and Jones are playing to their skinhead neo-nazi/white supremacist base.

[lpbk2713]

16. Not really a morning that stands out from the rest.

Any time he is out of his restraints is a dangerous morning.

[ZRT2209]

18. "Saturday "it" began"

What God has told me to do...

"This is "the last thing God has told me to do""

"I'm going to need you"

"clean out your life" "40 day challenge" begin it today...time is running out is implied

Our sponsor today is Sheri's Berries!

Wow, he gave you a GREAT lead-in there Sheri! I assume business won't be so great under the apocalypse to come. Wonder what Sheri's end-times business plan is.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Sounds like he's fomenting treason.

[ZRT2209]

23. yes

[War Horse]

20. He says this *all* the time

But yes, it dangerous.

[liberalmuse]

22. The Crazy is getting worse and worse.

I'm starting to become alarmed. They're getting into hate speech and insurrection territory.

[BeyondGeography]

26. That's show biz

[reformist2]

27. How is that not incitement to riot? Total abuse of the right to free speech.

[NCTraveler]

28. Well now....

Well now more people have read his rant here than listen to his show.

What was it, you and a couple thousand other people tuned in this morning?

[freshwest]

64. My state reps live under death threats from his demagoguery; police and others killed.

The court records have shown the correlation, but nothing can be done to shut up Beck because of the First Amendment which he is abusing mightily everyday, paid by rightwing billionaires. And since I lost family members to this wingnuttery, I can't but take this seriously. YMMV, though.

[Newest Reality]

29. He is a tool

The reaction you have is one side of it and the motivation of those who believe him is the other side.

It is interesting to watch the effect, (on any political views) of massive manipulation by personalities who are becoming moguls in this experiment: Limbaugh, Jones, Beck, etc.

Edward Bernays would simply love the debacle and, of course, the medium is the massage/message.

Why are the on? Why do they become popular? Why do people react either pro or con? That's what's more important here. Pull back and take a look into the manipulation and manufacture of consent and the nature of entertainment, (above and beyond facts or actuality) as a means to appeal to emotional proclivities and shape opinion.

[magellan]

30. It's very dangerous to ignore this or laugh it off IMHO

I can remember a time when the hateful, divisive, and frankly traitorous rhetoric we regularly hear from the far right would have produced public shock and stinging rebuke from elected officials. Now it's so commonplace that it's not unusual to hear it from elected officials, while their colleagues and supporters defend them.

I really long for the days when there was still a shred of decency and honor left in America.

[ZRT2209]

36. +1

[Dash87]

62. How so? His core audience are a bunch of whiny babies.

They haven't done one thing yet. Not one, despite their "tree of liberty needs watering" bull crap. I think it deserves to be laughed at at this point. Also, between Glenn Beck's crying fits and his outrageous broadcasts, he has as much credibility as Alex Jones.

Glenn Beck is a joke, and his audience are all a bunch of wannabes who are too afraid to do anything. I can say with confidence that not one of them has the will to act. They're a bunch of losers that can't even leave their own basements.

[magellan]

63. As I explained

...this type of rhetoric used to be the rare exception, not the rule. Tolerating it has led to a breakdown in civil discourse and reason. Tea Baggers and other vile, ignorant cons who spew this dangerous garbage are being elected to Congress.

I left this country for several years and was stunned by how openly depraved and hysterical the right's rhetoric had become when I returned. It's gotten dramatically worse since then, and still, virtually no one calls them on it. Maybe people have become desensitized. I haven't.

Laugh if you will. I maintain it's dangerous.

[grilled onions]

31. Know Your Enema

One must be prepared to defend against the loons,the fringe,the tinge of insanity by knowing what they believe or what others to believe.

[RandiFan1290]

32. That is his daily message

He is trying to convince his listeners that it will only take 10% of the country to help him in his revolution to put an end to liberals. He wants a war but like most on the right he wants someone else to start it and fight it.

[freshwest]

67. He supports Koch, NRA, USCoC, calls liberals, progressives and Democrats the enemy of mankind.

Here's hoping the wingnuts with their libertarian leader won't start a bloodbath in Washington, D.C. on July 4th. They clearly intend to provoke something there or their home states for the 2014 elections.

With civilians crowding the place to celebrate the nation's Independence Day, they bring armed weapons to intimidate those there. If the police let them go on their way, they'll be empowered to do it more often.

If police don't let them do it, they'll squawk gun grabbers at home and get votes that way.

If violence ensues, the prophets of disaster who want a civil war to start will scream Police State, Martial Law, etc. and that won't just be the rightwingnuts, either.

[ZRT2209]

69. those guns definitely come with a message of tyrannical bullying intimidation

[freshwest]

71. So naturally, they transfer the word 'tyranny' to LEOs charged with trying to keep the peace.

They call their bullying tactics the last resort of victims of the Big, Bad Black Man in the White House. But they're not racist, never!

[sigmasix]

33. playing house with NRA pedophiles

Beck loves it when baby killing NRA members pay attention to him and repeat his conspiracy theory narrative of history. It looks like Beck has the allegiance of every pedophile, rapist and wife beater- just like the NRA membership list. Beck+ NRA= No responsible adults+ hatred for America(ns). The Gungeon's right wing members will always complain when people describe the truth about NRA members. Even when those NRA members and advocates are busy raping and murdering children!
Why do NRA Teabaggers hate America so much?
maybe the answer can be found in the reason that so many NRA members are pedophiles. Gotta have gunz to protect the rapists from thier victims, dontcha' know. The NRA's membership list reads like a "who's -who" list for pedophiles, rapists, wife beaters and conspiracy theory mongers. Beck and his NRA goons are in fact one of the lowest form of human vermin- dead babies are left behind wherever they go.

[galileoreloaded]

46. you and that graham4anything should have a show...

the gunhumpin', babykillin', ladyrapin' NRA Hour of Delusion or something.

hell, i'd listen.

[Occulus]

49. We already have more than enough rightwing TV shows

We don't need to add to it by putting graham4anything on the air.

I'm trying to say exactly what you think I am.

[galileoreloaded]

51. hehehehe..i think we are on the same page w both posters. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

39. Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. - Mencken

[Ganja Ninja]

41. This guy is riding for a very hard fall.

In order to do what Beck does you have to have some pretty serious character flaws. Some day something is going to come out or he's going to do something and it will all come crashing down. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up blowing his brains out.

[Sheepshank]

48. Beck's personal hate agenda got upped a couple of notches....

when he lost his cushy Fox job, due to Obama. For sure he'dnever take responsibility for his own words. His irrational conspiracy mindset would demand that Obama is at the bottom of it all, including the loss of his income.

He's got nothing to lose at this point, and riling up plenty of NRA idiots, to gain.

[Dpm12]

52. My response to Glen Beck...

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[La Lioness Priyanka]

53. why are you listening to him?

[TheFutureWillCome]

55. I haven't heard of this guy in quite awhile

that said...It sounds like he is still spouting the same BS

[Progressive dog]

57. He's had his nutty minutes in the spotlight

No sane person cares what he says any more.

[cheyanne]

59. Let's not let the corporate enablers of Beck off the hook

He just won an award from the Disruptive Foundation for his wonderful "business" plan. Here is the complete description of his innovative qualities:

Glenn Beck, one of America’s leading multi-media personalities, is the founder and owner of TheBlaze, a 24/7 news, information and opinion network that is available on television and online. TheBlaze.com attracts 10 million unique visitors per month. Beck’s quick wit, candid opinions and engaging personality have made The Glenn Beck Program the third highest rated radio program in America and his unique blend of modern-day storytelling and insightful views on current events allowed him to achieve the extraordinary feat of having #1 New York Times bestsellers in both fiction and non-fiction. Beck also stars in a live stage show and is the editor of GlennBeck.com. He previously hosted a phenomenally successful show on Fox News. While Beck entered the media world as a DJ at the tender age of 13, everything changed when he found a new vision of his career – talk radio. In 2002, he launched The Glenn Beck Program on just 47 stations with the mission to make listeners “feel goodness from my show and accept me for who I am, flaws and all.” Nothing has been the same since. Today, just a few years later, he owns his own television network, his radio show can be heard across the country on over 400 stations, his books reach the top of bestseller lists and he travels across the country performing his live stage show to sold-out audiences. Across all of these mediums, Beck connects with his fans in a whole new way, inspiring and entertaining them with his humor, hard-hitting interviews and honest tales about his life

The event was hosted by NYU Tisch School of Business. The Disruptive Foundation is the brainchild of Harvard business professor Craig Christensen.

[Dash87]

60. I seriously doubt Beck's dumb followers would do anything.

They're too cowardly, waiting for each other to act - no will to do anything. It's like a bunch of babies throwing tantrums.

They'll just roll over and accept anything passive-aggressively. Just an all-around laughable bunch that should never be taken seriously.

[Boomerproud]

72. I hope you're right.

However, a terrorist bomb went off in Oklahoma City 4/19/95 and I'd like to know what Timothy McVeigh and anyone else he was connected with was listening to. Interesting that the Republicans NEVER talk about OKC when they talk about terrorism.

[Initech]

66. Where is the Secret Service?

[Blue Idaho]

73. Gee I wonder why he lost his slot on FOX News?

Could be he is as crazy as a box of bats and has a following measured in dozens...

I remember hearing a tape of him saying that if he lost his radio show he'd keep up this act even if he was wandering the streets...

Someday Glen, you will be that angry man with a shopping cart and a sleeping bag.