Beck: The 'Ron Paul Revolution' is meant as a catchy slogan, but I fear some of his fringe supporters are taking the word 'revolution' too literally.
Beck: "Bush has really not told us the truth, not told the American people the truth on government spending, on the border.
And even when it comes to the war, you didn`t tell us that we are in the fight of our life. You told us to go shopping."
Follow me below the fold, in which I proceed to tear Glenn an ass so wide even the best hemorroid doctor Rupert Murdoch can afford won't be able to put him back together again.
Let me be clear about something first Does ANYBODY here remember how to deal with a bully???? You DON'T Ignore him, you Don't avoid him, you Don't hope he goes away. YOU WALK UP TO HIM IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM, and you make sure people see you do it.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program
This is too rich. What a difference a new employer, a new President and a few million dollars can make, huh Glenn?
From the line on the bottom of the video we can determine this video was shot on Nov 12, 2007. This can be ascertained by googling the MLB trade that sent Omar Infante from the Detroit Tigers to the Chicago Cubs for Jacque Jones, which can be plainly seen in the CNN news ticker at the bottom of this video. I am e-mailing this diary to Keith Olbermann per his request and I hope you will too. I figured Keith would dig the baseball reference. As for Glenn Beck and his Right Wing cohorts at News Corporation, I thought it would be ironic to show up their bullshit by using a concepts that are entirely foreign to them; research and journalism based on fact and truth.
Here is the transcript of this segment for those of you who can't watch the video.
Beck, 2007, Before News Corporation Millions: Well, here`s "The Point" tonight. While our foreign enemies are the obvious ones, the physical threat may be developing domestically, as well. And here`s how I got there.
As I told you last week, Ron Paul raised over $4 million in one day. That`s huge news. His supporters raised the cash on November the 5th to commemorate Guy Fawkes. This guy was a British terrorist who tried to overthrow the government by blowing up Parliament and killing everybody in it. Paul`s supporters called the donations, and I`m quoting, a "money bomb."
Fawkes was caught the very last minute, some say with his hand on a torch about to light the gunpowder under Parliament.
Now, the vast majority of Paul`s supporters take this little metaphor the way it`s intended, as a rallying cry to create a dramatic political shift. It`s really not the way I would go, you know, tying my movement in with a historical terrorist attack, especially in post-9/11 America. But hey, you know, I`m a libertarian at heart. I get it. You raise money however you want, as long as you`re not blowing other people up.
But America, here`s what you need to know tonight. Ron Paul`s supporters are tapping into something that`s very real. It`s something that I`ve talked about on this program for a very long time: the rising tide of disenfranchisement in this country. And it`s coming from all sides of the political spectrum.
If that feeling of disenfranchisement leads to political discussion, then our system works perfectly. But if fringe elements take that disenfranchisement and turn it into violence, we endanger the freedoms we`re supposedly all fighting for.
David Horowitz is the author of "Indoctrination U: The Left`s War Against Academic Freedom." And Jonathan Sandys, he is a writer and founder of Churchill`s Britain. He`s also the great-great-- I`m sorry, the great- grandson of Sir Winston Churchill.
Jonathan and David, it`s good to have you here.
Jonathan, let me -- let me start with you. Guy Hawkes -- or Fawkes, as I understand it, he is basically an old-timey Timothy McVeigh.
JONATHAN SANDYS, FOUND, CHURCHILL`S BRITAIN: Sorry. Say that again.
BECK: That he is England`s version in the 1600s of Timothy McVeigh, except his bomb didn`t work. He`s a terrorist. Is he not?
SANDYS: Yes, yes. Yes, he was a terrorist. Very much so. He had a very clear set of views. He was a Catholic and wanted to return Britain to a Catholic realm. And he was backed by the pope in Rome to blow up the parliament, blow up James I and his government...
BECK: OK.
SANDYS: ... and overthrow -- and then have a Catholic -- a Catholic king reinstated.
BECK: All right. Now, one of his big things, and I think this is where it ties in today. One of his big things was he felt that nobody was listening to him, that the government wouldn`t respond.
We felt that way, and that`s why we disbanded from the -- from Great Britain in the 1700s, as well, because we -- we felt like the king wasn`t listening to us. Do you sense at all that this is the same kind of thing that is going on in Great Britain and in America right now?
SANDYS: Yes, this is a problem we are facing at the moment in Great Britain certainly and also in America. We have governments that are promising an awful lot of things for the voters. But they aren`t delivering on them.
But nobody is actually asking the people what do you actually want? What is it in education that you want? What is it in life that you actually want? Nobody -- nobody cares.
BECK: Well, David, let me go to you. Because you are a -- you were a Marxist in the `60s. You were a radical. You were a guy that was exactly the opposite of where you are now. Winston Churchill I believe said that, you know, when you grow up you get some common sense.
Is this the same kind of thing, or is this worse than what it was in the `60s with the radicals then?
DAVID HOROWITZ, AUTHOR, "INDOCTRINATION U.": Oh, I think it`s much worse. First of all, my parents were communists, and they were part of a vast conspiracy, and it was orchestrated from Moscow and wanted America to lose the Cold War.
We have a lot of people in this country who think that we`re the enemy. And a lot of them are drawn from the ranks of the old left and the new left, the secular left. But to them has been added a -- you know, a whole new constituency of Muslim radicals, of which there are many in this country on our campuses.
And then the -- of Democratic Party leaders out of a very short- sighted desire for political advantage, have defected from a war that they -- that they all supported and have denigrated the mission of this war and fueled the -- you know, the fires of what you call disenfranchisement.
BECK: But -- let me go -- let me take it back the other way, though, David. It`s not just the left this time. It`s also the right. I mean, Ron Paul`s supporters are also the right, and that`s from people saying, you know what? Bush has really not told us the truth, not told the American people the truth on government spending, on the border.
And even when it comes to the war, you didn`t tell us that we are in the fight of our life. You told us to go shopping.
HOROWITZ: Well, but he did say it`s going to be a long war.
You`re right. There`s a strain of isolationism and anarchy in the American tradition which Ron Paul is tapping into. I think it`s very significant that he chose Guy Fawkes as an image.
There are plenty of, unfortunately, libertarian Web sites which are indistinguishable from the anti-American left these days. LouRockwell.com and others like that. Totally in bed with the Islamofascists and have turned against this country.
BECK: Jonathan, I met you, what, I think a couple of weeks ago, and we had a conversation. You are as concerned about your country as we are here in America on ours.
SANDYS: Yes.
BECK: You`re seeing that it`s being sold out, as well, that it...
SANDYS: Yes.
BECK: There`s something beneath the surface that is just washing everything away.
SANDYS: Glenn, we have had an agreement in this country for many years now that if our allies in America go to war that we will join you in that battle.
I believe David is completely right in what he is saying, that when George Bush stood up and actually said that we were going to go to war against terrorists and when Tony Blair stood up and said the same thing, both our countries, both our peoples and our governments were behind it -- were behind those two leaders.
In this country at the moment we are now looking at a backlash where everybody is saying we`ve got to get out of Iraq now, and we can`t look at Iran and everything like that. There`s a total loss of traditional values in this country for continuing and finishing what we start.
BECK: OK.
SANDYS: Once you`ve begun something, you`ve got to stop it.
BECK: Jonathan, thank you.
David, I`d love to have you on the radio program and talk about the history with your family.
HOROWITZ: Absolutely.
BECK: And what that was. So maybe we`ll line that up.
OK. Where am I wrong? The Ron Paul revolution, I think it`s meant to be a catchy slogan, but I fear some of his fringe supporters are taking the word "revolution" too literally. Agree or disagree? Go to Glenn -- I`m sorry, CNN.com/Glenn right now and cast your vote.
Holy Hypocritical Sellout, Batman!
Let's look at some of Beck's statements in a little then and now perspective, cast in a before News Corporation and After FAIL and Balanced light.
Beck, Before: It`s really not the way I would go, you know, tying my movement in with a historical terrorist attack, especially in post-9/11 America.
Really, Glenn? You mean like tying yourself to a terrorist attack in a post 9/11 America by sitting calmly on your own program while someone advocates FOR a terrorist attack against America BY The guy who committed the attacks against America on 9/11? You mean something like that?
Beck, After:
At :24 seconds into this video
Scheuer: " The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. "
You mean something like that?
Or how about this?
Beck, before:
If that feeling of disenfranchisement leads to political discussion, then our system works perfectly. But if fringe elements take that disenfranchisement and turn it into violence, we endanger the freedoms we`re supposedly all fighting for.
Yeah, about those fringe elements advocating violence Glenn, maybe you should take a look at this.
Beck, After: Jokes about poisioning Speaker Nancy Pelosi
or this one Glenn, where you let out a dog whistle call for revolution and encourage violence when you say "You will have to shoot me in the forehead before I acquiesce and be silent!"
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The real number of all the people who come across me in the course of a couple of weeks is probably closer to 20 or 30 million. I need you, out of those 20 0r 30 million people to realize that you have a special place, that you have a job to do yourslef, and you do it. Don't try to connect with anybody else. It's your job."
You have a job to do? Don't tell anybody about it? I wonder if Timothy McVeigh thought the same thing?
Of course, you know about Timothy McVeigh, don't you Glenn? Or, you did in 2007 while you were employed by CNN.
Beck, before: Jonathan, let me -- let me start with you. Guy Hawkes -- or Fawkes, as I understand it, he is basically an old-timey Timothy McVeigh.
JONATHAN SANDYS, FOUND, CHURCHILL`S BRITAIN: Sorry. Say that again.
BECK: That he is England`s version in the 1600s of Timothy McVeigh, except his bomb didn`t work. He`s a terrorist. Is he not?
Yeah, so, we have proof that you do know about Timothy McVeigh when you are demonizing him, but what about when you are aware that you are inspiring new Timothy McVeighs but you need to calm them down? What then, Mr. Beck?
Beck, after: "These people in Washington have no idea what they have done. They have awakened a sleeping giant. But just one lunatic, like Timothy McVeigh, could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for, because these people in Washington won't pass up the use of an emergency.
Look how the media ran with the abortion doctor killing. They tried to pin that despicable act on Fox in general, and specifically Bill O'Reilly and me.
They tried to pin Dr. Tiller's death on Bill O'Reilly? Wel, whatever gave them that idea? Maybe it was O'Reilly's repeated claim that Dr. Killer would kill any baby for any reason for a simple fee of $5000 dollars, maybe that had a little something to do with it, maybe?
Yeah, so you don't want a Timoty McVeigh to hurt what you and everyone with you is working for, but if it does happen and a Conspiracy theory inspired homegrown terrorist does do someting "stupid" the innocent victims he or she would kill and the horrific damage that would be done would rank a distant second to the damage it would do to your cause. You selfish, thoughtless asshole. You are a sociopathic monster, Glenn Beck.
Want more of your own snake oil medicine, Glenn? Let's take our before/after examination into your nose dive down into the cesspool of crazy you swim in with Rupert Murdoch's millions of salary dollars a bit further, since you know a lot about taking things further, don't you Glenn?
Horowitz: We have a lot of people in this country who think that we`re the enemy. And a lot of them are drawn from the ranks of the old left and the new left, the secular left. But to them has been added a -- you know, a whole new constituency of Muslim radicals, of which there are many in this country on our campuses.
And then the -- of Democratic Party leaders out of a very short- sighted desire for political advantage, have defected from a war that they -- that they all supported and have denigrated the mission of this war and fueled the -- you know, the fires of what you call disenfranchisement.
BECK, before News Corp money: But -- let me go -- let me take it back the other way, though, David. It`s not just the left this time. It`s also the right. I mean, Ron Paul`s supporters are also the right, and that`s from people saying, you know what? Bush has really not told us the truth, not told the American people the truth on government spending, on the border.
And even when it comes to the war, you didn`t tell us that we are in the fight of our life. You told us to go shopping.
It's NOT just the left? It's the right too? But, but, but, Glenn? you said . . .
As if Glenn has never broken Godwin's law, that which states that anyone who should make comparisons to Hitler or fascism in order to win a political argument should be disqualified from further rational debate. Of curse, if that were true, then The Republican party and the Conservative movement as we know it today in 2009 would wither and dry up before you had the time to sat "Obama is a fascist."
For the sake of the present topic I hope those who are reading this will forgive this diarist for the following text, and waive Godwin's law for the next few moments of the day.
Going back to that whole research thing, here is Benito Mussolini, father of fascism and his definiton of fascism in the Encyclopedia Italica. The definition was written by Mussolini himself.
Fascism [is] the complete opposite of...Marxian Socialism
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After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application.
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...Fascism denies, in democracy, the absur[d] conventional untruth of political equality dressed out in the garb of collective irresponsibility, and the myth of "happiness" and indefinite progress....
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The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality -- thus it may be called the "ethic" State....
...The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone....
Fordham.edu
ON THE OTHER HAND, Glenn, ON THE OTHER HAND! Mussolini described liberalism and then said ON THE OTHER HAND before describing Fascism. By denying this you are PROMOTING FACSISM! By urging your small minority of loyal fools to usurp a Democratically elected Government you are promoting fascism! You do not wish to "lead() to political discussion", as you stated in 2007 when you said such disenfanchisement as you yourself foment would prove that "our system works perfectly" you want to teabag that discussion, you want to lead your loud, ignorant minority out with guns in tow in order to cow the majority of Americans who rejected George W. Bush's policies, McCain and Palin's Presidential campaign and the Republican party and their conservative agenda. You, Glenn Beck, through either paranoid ignorance or decpetive treachery are promoting FASCISM, by the founder of fascism's very own definition. You, sir, are a fascist.
Amazingly, and worse, is that by comparing ANYTHING or ANYONE to Hitler you are engaging in a form of Holocaust denial, Glenn. You are diminishing the horror inflicted upon the world by Hitler by daring to compare it to reforming health insurance corporations or limiting corporate polluters, or whatever other hairbrained objections you may have, none of which benefit the majority of Americans, all of which stand to benefit the Super Rich and the offending Corporatiions themselves.
Being born of a Jewish woman, by Hebraic law I am considered Jewish myself. Though I identify myself as an agnostic I have studied the bible, the talmud, the Koran and the teachings of Buddha. Call it a case of intellectual curiosity, if you will. I admit openly that I am no expert on any religion, but I know this, whatever God there may be, whatever shape or form he or she may have, none of them, NONE OF THEM, would deny medicine to the wounded or care to the ill, nor would they seek to profit from being in the position to render such aid. Only a moster would do so. Only a monster would defend such actions. That is why we celebrate empathy in religion and shun hate, because it is empathy that keeps us from becoming monsters, Glenn. It is empathy that is next to Godliness, not cleanliness. Those who would compare cleanliness to Godliness are the brainwashed among us, such as yourself, they of the eternal sunshine of the spotless and empty minds, empty minds that you and those like you would gladly fill with misinformation, lies, fear and hatred, especially hatred of that which is unknown and unlike themselves.
By belittling the horrors committed by Hitler in comparing it to higher taxes you are defending his actions in a way, Glenn. You are making such horrors as the Holocaust less horrific by comparing them to a bailout of the auto industry. You are, in fact, whether you know it or not, defending the name of Hitler and Fascism by making their crimes seem like less than they were, which is the deepest depths of the human soul. You remember what a soul looks like, right Glenn? Or did you forget to take a picture before you parted with your own?
There is too much bullshit that has come out of Beck's mouth to keep up with, yet I have NOT heard Glenn Beck say that It's NOT just the left in, oh, I'd say about 9 months or 50 million News Corp dollars ago. I HAVE heard Mr. Beck say that Obama is "like Hitler", "a socialist", "a communist", "supported by Brown Shirts", and an "Oligar(c)h" who is going to "Kill your Grandma/baby", and that Liberals are "Fascists" who want to do things "That Hitler did."
So much for that load of crap.
Oh, and about Ron Paul's supporters and the fringe Revolutionaries . . .
THERE HE IS, GLENN! WATCH OUT! RON PAUL IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU! OR NEXT TO YOU! OR ON TOP OF YOU! AND HIS SUPPROTERS AND THE GUY FAWKES PEOPLE WHO WANT REVOLUTION, WHERE ARE THEY? OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! THEIR RIGHT BEHIND YOU TOO!!! RUN, FORREST, RUN!!!!!
Face it, Glenn, you are a shill, a sham, a con man, and a snake oil salesman. You are a hack, a clown, a wolf crying assclown without a shred of shame or credibility outside of your sound proof echo chamber of a bomb shelter/doom room. You are a fool, a charlatan, a pea brained jack ass and you play a useful pied piper to the misinformed and paranoid as you take money from OLIGARCHS like Rupert Murdoch who do not want reform, good government or democracy. Rather, Rupert Murdoch, an Australian citizen by birth, does not want any nation to have an effective Government. Rupert Murdoch wants Mob Rule, wars of aggression, torture, unaccountability and a Government so small it can not protect us from the excesses of the Super Rich and their multi national Corporations, and he wants tax cuts, don't forget tax cuts, but only if they are for the rich and powerful.
What's more, Mr. Beck, you are a racist and a race baiter, and you are employed by racists and race baiters. Simply looking into a mirror or viewing your own program and the network it airs on through the white and white lenses you would foist upon the rest of America would prove this to you, but you'd probably call it a conspiracy and threaten not to acknowledge it, even if someone from the Government threatened violence against you, as you so often claim that they may.
You are a puppet at best, Glenn Beck, and a ventriloquists' dummy at worst. Either you are such a paranoid true believer of the crap that you sell that you can't see what you have become even if you looked into the mirror of 2007 before your sad slide down into the intellectual cave of delusion, or you are happy to have Oligarchs like Rupert Murdoch stuff their hands up your ass while they put words in your mouth, words of fear and hate and ignorant drivel, while they drink champagne and you continue to prattle on behind a wooden face and rattling, plastic eyes, pouring your cool aid snake oil for the simple minded low information voters that somehow got convinced they are watching an actual news program.
You can fool some of them some of the time, Glenn, but you can't fool all of them all of the time, and you ain't fooling me or the mojroity of Americans. You don't care if you do. All you want, Glenn Beck, is for 20 or 30 million Americans who will start your fascit revolution, the same you so stridently opposed right until Rupert Murdoch and his sort bought your soul. Somehow I guess you didn't demand much for it, most likely you gave it willingly and not at gun point, as you would have us believe it would take.
So go cry about it, Glenn. I can only imagine the torment your bitter, shrivelled soul must go through as you feign outrage at the moneyed powers of America while cashing that big, fat Rupert Murdoch check, all while surpressing your feigned, sycophantic laughter on the way to the bank.
A bank that the Government you rail against bailed out, in order to keep Corporate shills like you employed, protected, and on air where you happily and frantically dupe We The People you claim to love and protect.
And about those revolutionaries you feared in 2007 and those terorists you fear still to this day. Well, many would agree that our founding fathers were revolutionaries, and the British Royalty and the empire they threw off over two centuries ago would certainly have considered them terrorists. Those very same founding fathers whom you praise were revolutionaries themselves, and not Neo Conservatives as you would portray them and their values. In your attempts to rewrite history to fit in with your own ideology you insult the founding fathers, Glenn. Of course, you probably are unaware of that. Being aware of things would make your job that much more difficult.
Of course, all this is too much for you to consider, Glenn. You don't do "Research" or "Thought", you would prefer a sound bite driven fascism of the few, the loud and the Morans over the America our founding fathers envisioned, that which is protected today from the likes of you by the few, the proud, the Marines.
Would that my sires who fought for the Union at Antietam, the USA in WWII against actual for real Nazi's, or my father who fought actual Communists in Vietnam could have met you in this life, Mr. Beck. After listening to your mindless screeds for five minutes they would have put their Government approved military issued boots up your sniveling, crying candy ass.
You have no shame. Nor do you have any "common sense". If you had either you would retire now to a beach in Somalia, where neither Government interference nor technologicla proof of your own hypocricy could trouble your terrified mind, or any of your Beckerhead viewers anymore.
Oh, and Glenn, those Ron Paul supporters and fringe Revolutionaries, THEY'RE NOW YOUR BIGGEST FANS!!!!!!
This diary is dedicated to MSNBC reporter and journalist Keith Olbermann. You can contact him at Countdown@msnbc.com
It is now 38 (if my reckoning is correct) days since News Corporation employee and certifiable psychopath Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama, an African American, a Racist who hates white people, despite the fact that both Barack Obama's mother and grandmother are themselves caucasian, and still he has yet to be fired from his job, although the man who is sponsoring a boycott of Beck's advertisers for making that statement and thus endorsing his vitriol has been demonized for saying nothing nearly as terrible, has himself, under lesser allegations that are without legitimacy, stepped down from his post.
If you have not done so yet, please join the boycott against Glenn Beck at colorofchange.org
Oh, one more thing, about that, "Obama hates white people.", Glenn. I did a little bit more of that "Research" thing I was talking about, and, well, can you explain this, because, I have to take this statement along with your other statement to mean that you think Barack Obama hates himself.
"He (Barack Obama) is, he's very white.
Hey Glenn, don't forget to pick up your bedsheet with eye holes at the door before you leave.
I wish you Good day, dear reader, and may the founding fathers have mercy on us all.
Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com