I mean, what other conclusion can be drawn, when Beck explains how patterns work.
Yesterday on his radio program Beck was ranting against net neutrality and cap and trade. Then he said:
And to quote the White House, "We will step on their throat with our boot."* If you want to talk about a jackbooted thug, that is a quote from the White House. "We will step on their throat with our boot.". And after that - then they kill. It is the pattern of every out-of-control government. We are seeing the pattern here. If you don't think that they won't kill, well you're probably right. Probably right. Why jump to those conclusions. So far we've only see the unions - the thugs from the White House (long pause) beat (long pause) intimidate (long pause).
-Glenn Beck, on the Glenn Beck radio program, May 6, 2010 (audio transcription by JLFinch, emphasis added)
So according to Beck-logic, patterns are inexorable. The future is carved in stone and is revealed by these unalterable patterns. That's the only way Beck's argument - "then they kill" - works.
Beck has gone to great lengths to portray the Obama White House as out-of-control. You see, Obama was elected and now he's actually governing. Clearly, he's out-of-control. I mean, you watched Beck's "documentary", Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die (and by "Live Free or Die" Beck means "throw off the shackles of progressive dictator Obama to live free - or you will die!"), right? What do you mean you didn't watch it?! Watch the damn video! It's all there! Dead bodies! Starved corpses! Stalin and Mao and Hitler killed a bunch of people, and they were progressives, and Obama is a progressive - it's all so damn clear, man! What other proof do you need, for the love of God!?
So, if you are a bit (or more than a bit) off and you actually believe Beck's premise that the Obama Administration is an out-of-control government, you must follow his pattern to the conclusion he conveniently provides - that EVERY "out-of-control" government kills its citizens in cold blood. No other conclusion is possible. That's just how it is.
If A, then B - PERIOD! Do not question the Great and Powerful Beck! A is true, so sit down and shut up! B is coming, so sit down and shut up!
Beck feels he has proven A, so now B must be coming! It's The Pattern, and he has proven The Pattern and The Pattern is inexorable and unalterable. (Beck really must think his audience is a bunch of morons, because he often presents these kinds of creepy, flawed, dumbed-down arguments and flogs them to death to beat the information into their dull, angry little noggins.)
That being the case, there are some other patterns that must also therefore be about to come to pass. One would be that people who tout their moral and religious superiority, and demonize teh gays, actually turn out to be closeted homosexuals. It's The Pattern. George Rekers. Ted Haggard. Roy Ashburn. So, by following Beck's logic of The Pattern - should we be expecting some sort of revelation from him? Maybe it will turn out to be more along the lines of John Ensign. Or Mark Sanford. Or David Vitter. I'm sorry, Glenn. It's The Pattern. You are powerless in the face of The Pattern!
There's also a Pattern with anti-government radicals, similar to the tea party, committing violence. David Koresh. Tim McVeigh. I'm sorry, Glenn. It's The Pattern. The Tea Party is powerless in the face of The Pattern!
Every "out-of-control" government kills? Then I guess every preachy pseudo-religious blowhard such as yourself is either a closeted homosexual or an adulterer. And every anti-goverment radical will also kill.
Glenn - you need to learn to stop making dumb arguments that cut both ways and bite you in the ass. Just because you easily dupe hateful stupid people doesn't mean that you're right.
Peevish Beck just can't understand why people are calling him irresponsible and crazy. He just can't understand why the stupid, corrupt, lazy media won't pick up his "stories" and run with them.
I don't know, Glenn. Maybe they don't want blood on their hands. That's just a guess on my part, though. Maybe they have some professional integrity. Maybe you're right and everyone is just out to get you. Or maybe you're just a greedy, dangerous, power-mad, unscrupulous demagogue.
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*This is really a textbook example of exactly how Beck works. Here's the quote in context.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday the Obama administration will "keep a boot on the throat" of BP to make sure the company stops oil from a sunken rig from pouring into the Gulf of Mexico as soon as possible. - The Washington Post
Kinda makes a difference when there's context, doesn't it?
But don't let that stop you, Glenn! You don't need to tell your listeners that "the White House" was not talking about net neutrality, but about requiring BP to stop its erupting underwater volcano of oil - a point most if not all Americans would actually agree with.
Glenn Beck, connecting dots where none exist.
(And in fact, most RWNJs are accusing the White House of not acting fast enough, but Beck objects to a forceful statement of purpose to control the spill from the White House. It all makes sense in their alternative universe where logic and integrity do not exist.)
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RANDOM QUESTION #1:
Beck has recently shifted focus to "prove" that separation of church and state is bunk and the Founders, a bunch of religious zealots, intended America to be a Christian Theocracy, and the only reason we don't know this is because a group of evil progressives conspired across 100 years of history to hide this information. Glenn, please answer this: If that is the case, why isn't the word "Bible" in the Constitution?
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RANDOM QUESTION #2
Why do Beck's Faith, Hope and Charity posters look just like Shepard Fairey's Obama poster?
BECK:
FAIREY:
You do so love your petty antagonisms, Glenny. What. a. jerk.
Well, as long as you can dupe your drones into buying it and putting $$ in your pocket - that's all that really matters, isn't it. You want them to save the nation - by buying tshirts, books, tickets and all that other crap you sell on your website.