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I keep hearing about this f8ckwad, but don't watch him. But, I find it fascinating that rightwing ideas seep in to left wing-ish rhetoric. The Democracts are self defeating ( they wish! :eyes:) I keep hearing about the "circular firing squad," from Democrats!!! Internalized rightwing dialogue, rehashed and reproduced for consuption among fellow Democrats. Har. Har. :sarcasm: Or complaints and heated debates about PC. It's cool to say, "That's so gay," that harms no teens. :sarcasm: The thing is to protect our ever so creative freedom of expression (of slurs) without cultural constraints ( no, I did not say legal, I said cultural). That anti- PC stance seems to be a Glenn Beck refrain: "Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up."-Beck Insider Video: Episode 2 on November 13, 2006 Or the oft repeated, so verrrry thought inspiring, discussion stirring, "I want a pony!"Another Beck core value: "The world is so complicated... I'M TIRED, I WANNA CUPCAKE!" -Beck That's the point from David Neiwert and How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right at Orcinus blog. Not only does it leak into the minds of right wingers, it also stains progressive thought. "Neiwert makes an alarming case for the fact that the rhetoric that leads up to violent crimes against whole classes of individuals is a necessary ingredient to the carrying out of the penultimate acts, that without the vicious cheerleading, many of the acts would not be carried out because, he says, "such rhetoric has played a critical role in giving permission for it to proceed, by creating the cultural and psychological conditions that enable the subsequent violence." At the bottom of such rhetoric is a savagely anti-democratic, American-hating ethos too, despite the flag-cocooning in which the shouters participate." - http://www.amazon.com/Eliminationists-Hate-Radicalized-American-Right/dp/0981576982/orcinus-20/Beck The Latest Right Wing Mouth To Seek Fame and Dishonorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_BeckOn November 16, 2006 Jon Stewart of The Daily Show criticized Beck's recent remarks during an interview with Keith Ellison, the then newly elected Minnesota representative and first Muslim ever elected to U.S. Congress. During the interview, Beck stated, "I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way." Stewart responded to Beck's statements with "Finally, a guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking."<4> David Segal of The Washington Post described the Ellison interview as "surely most embarrassing moment" and a "stink bomb." He then speculated on Beck's popularity: "Maybe an attention-deficit host is exactly what an attention-deficit public wants. Listen to a few of Beck's shows and what strikes you most is the enormous ratio of words to substance — how Beck can monologue for minutes at a time and leave behind almost nothing except the impression of great vehemence."<5>
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The 912 Project The 912 Project is a campaign that was announced by Beck on March 13, 2009. It is named for nine principles and twelve values, articulated by Beck, that he claims embody the spirit of the American people on the day after the September 11 attacks.<20> His twelve values are honesty, reverence, hope, thrift, humility, charity, sincerity, moderation, hard work, courage, personal responsibility, and gratitude.<21>
His nine principles are: America Is Good; I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life; I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday; the family is sacred; if you break the law you pay the penalty; I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results; I work hard for what I have and I will share it with whom I want to; it is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion; the government works for me—I do not answer to them, they answer to me.<22>
Beck Spew-ations: (can't call this trash "quotes" as it would be an insult to quotes everywhere.)
"Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?" The Glenn Beck Program, May 14, 2004 Comment on Michael Berg, the father of murdered (be-headed) American businessman Nicholas Berg
I find this guy despicable. Everything in me says that. The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all." <1><2> The Glenn Beck Program, May 14, 2004
Would you kill someone for that?...I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore...I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it,...No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, 'Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore,' and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, 'Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death.' And you know, well, I'm not sure." <1> The Glenn Beck Program, May 17, 2005 Posed question: What would people do for $50 million dollars?
Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. Insider Video: Episode 2 on November 13, 2006
"You pinhead. You think we would actually be sitting here and saying "well, look at the way she was dressed?" If she were Joan McCain, stop it. You self-centered self-righteous socialist out of control dangerous man-hating bitch. Shut your mouth. We might have bought into this crap in the 1960s because too many people were doing LSD. We're not on LSD anymore -- we need to start making sense." The Glenn Beck Program, March 3, 2008
In response to feminist Gloria Steinem's opinions on the John McCain/"Joan" McCain accusation. "The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?" The Glenn Beck Program, January 12 2009
"Hey, does anybody notice this crazy thing that we’re on the road to socialism? I’m just saying. Wow. We got — we got the SCHIPs thing going for us. That’s great. There is the change that we were all hoping for, really, seriously. Hey, I got an idea. If we’re going down the road to socialism, I mean, why not really go for it, huh? Comrades, good news from the western front, our glorious revolution is starting to take hold. Oh, the revolution of change. Our fearless leader has just signed in SCHIPs, and earlier today, he spoke out against capitalism. Listen up." In response on Fox News to the S-CHIPS bill signed by President Obama on February 4, 2009
"The world is so complicated... I'M TIRED, I WANNA CUPCAKE!" - Glenn Beck
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