Glenn Beck decided to illustrate a "simpler time" in America by showing classic ads for the likes of Coca-Cola and Kodak. Not unpredictably, it ended it tears and strange analogies. The Huffington Postsummarizes:
"These examples of Americana were so moving to Beck that he just couldn't help himself; he begin to tear up (not for the first time). His monologue, which was interrupted a few times by his tears, began with the wisdom that politicians can't take us back to that simpler time; they can only take us farther away. It then devolved into a strange and extended analogy of America as a teenage kid who got dragged to a party he didn't really want to go to, and where his friends poured beer on him, and that ended with dad doing what's right."
David, you could have done without citing the Huffington Post.
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Pat
8:55AM Oct 16th 2009
You thought talk-radio agitator Rush Limbaugh bombed in his brief stint as an NFL studio analyst for ESPN? That was Emmy-winning caliber compared with his more recent work as a prospective team owner.
I'm not sure which is more embarrassing for the group led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts trying to buy the St. Louis Rams: That it had to drop Limbaugh this week from its list of limited partners after a backlash. Or that it obliviously included him in the first place.
You think Checketts considered at all how Limbaugh's well-earned reputation for divisiveness and veiled racial bigotry might go over in a league whose share of black players is 65 percent? I wonder if ol' Dave was listening when Limbaugh said the NFL ``too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.''
Also I wonder how many fans would be proud to have their beloved franchise owned by a man who, on the radio, sang a parody called Barack the Magic Negro to his audience of diversity-fearing lemmings.
Alas, there still are places in America to look wistfully upon the days of segregation, perhaps.
Safe to say the NFL is not one of them.
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Alex Lekas
9:10AM Oct 16th 2009
Pat, I dare you to break new ground among liberals: cite an actual example of Rush's bigotry or racism. I'll spare you the trouble. You can't. Want to know why? Because it's not out there to be found. If it were, don't you think the alphabet soup of networks and the big dailies would have flooded the airwaves and newsstands with it by now?
As the Magic Negro, Rush's crew took an existing song - not one he created, but one based on an opinion piece written by a liberal for the LA Times. As usual, you come to places like devoid of facts, having refused to eithe think for yourself or do any research, and obvlivious to the reality that among the folks NOT put out by Rush's inclusion in the ownership bid was Olberman, of all poeple.
Checketts considered a few things: Rush's bank account, his Missouri roots, and passion for the NFL. Voter registration cards are generally not required, except in the land of guilty white folks who continue to see blacks as hapless victims whose only hope rests in the bosom of the left. As is always the case, you have failed to bring a substantive fact to the table to even remotely back up your allegations. That the NFL sometimes resembles a thug league isn't exactly news; even black writers have commented on the street antics of some players, both on and off the field.
I don't care about owners and seems that a leage which tolerates the likes of Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder doesn't, either, but when race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson speak up, the oh-so-PC NFL can't drop its pants fast enough. I hear George Soros' name mentioned as being part of a group bidding for a stake in the Rams; you equally uptight about that or are your ownership biases restricted only to folks of a particular ideology?
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buster
9:33AM Oct 16th 2009
Who doesnt know it is all an act?
Come'on it is easy to see he is full of hate and crap, he was on cnn and still is.
He has GW's booze recovery program......none, not drinking and still an asshole. He uses his sobriety to make money off of hate and fear, boy Glenn that karma gonna be rough when it circles back around.
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Pat
9:35AM Oct 16th 2009
Here you go, Alex, not that facts ever meant anything to a Limbaucile.
Regarding the NAACP, Limbaugh said:
‘The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.’
Regarding slavery:
‘We didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.’
Recently, on life in ‘Obama’s America’:
‘The white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, “Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on.’
And finally, in a league made up of predominately African-American athletes, how can you have an owner who says, ‘[Black people] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?’”
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Truth
10:33AM Oct 16th 2009
As usual, the fools on the left want to attack the messenger because they can't address the message.
Beck spent a considerable portion of his program showing video of Anita Dunn, another Obama Marxist, blathering in a most obscene, tongue flickering, Mao endorsing way, to a bunch of high school students. She clearly admitted to Mao being her most influential philosopher. Mao?
Mao, the most prolific mass murderer in human history is Anita Dunn's most important influence, and Obama has her as his attack dog tasked with dealing with his most vocal media critics.
Mao murdered as many as 70,000,000 people, in his own country! He far surpasses Hitler's achievements in mass murder, and Dunn admires the guy.
Why isn't the media discussing that? This is who Obama appointed to deal with the Free Speech problem. Yes, a Mao disciple would know how to deal with that pesky free speech.
David Sessions is obviously a Soros hack, spouting the leftist line. He cites Huffpo, a Soros backed blog, but fails to provide anything more than the typically childish leftist attacks on Beck's emotional style.
Maybe that scorn for heartfelt emotion is what has enabled the left to produce the coldest, cruelest, and most prolific mass murderers the world has ever seen. Our media is goose stepping right along with those who emulate the warped, deranged, and demonic leftists of the past. Our media fails to so much as question key government officials who profess great admiration for evil, depraved tyrants.
Is it that people like Sessions are too stupid to connect the dots? Are they just to dull witted to notice Obama's Mao like indoctrination attempts in our schools?
Wasn't Mao big on mandatory service in government controlled youth groups? Yes, and so was Hitler. HMMMMMMM
Maybe, since Sessions is a likely Soros hack, he could entertain us with comparisons between the Nazis and Mao's Red Army. Soros knows a lot about the Nazis. He worked for them in WWII. Now he owns the Democrat party, and is Obama's most powerful adviser, or is it puppetmaster. Sessions could tell us all about the similarities between Soros's Shadow Party tactics, how he got Obama into power, and Hitler's rise to power, and then compare that to Mao's evil ascendancy. But no, all we get from Sessions is some drivel about Beck getting emotional.
You HYPOCRITICAL SOB's........you did not have the integrity to play the Youtube video from the same show, that preceded the one you are displaying by only a few minutes????????
Anita Dunn, media relations for Barack Obama...telling high school students in Potomac MD, how Mao Tse-Tung is one of her inspirational heroes? The same Mao who is responsible for 70 million deaths in peace time. The same Mao who has killed more people than Stalin and Hitler. And you choose to show the video of Beck getting emotional????
I'm not even a Rush fan and I know that he didn't say those things. Provide links to actual audio clips of him saying them. You can't because he didn't. A book came out saying he said those things and attributing them to Media Matters, but Media Matters says they never had any record of him saying them. So provide a source, please. The liberal news media ran with them, even though they weren't sourced and now they look like fools, but they won't admit their mistake. Limbaugh is suing.
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buster
9:45AM Oct 17th 2009
in simpler times, when you committed TREASON(plame) you got hung.
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Maria
9:22AM Oct 16th 2009
What is odd is the Media is more focused on him shedding a tear...uh, what about the fact that he showed a video of Barack Obama's white house Communications directors saying one of her favorite philosophers is Mao Zedong, who under his command, murdered millions of Chinese people. Mao had slave labor and had children spy on their parents. Those parents were then jailed. Around 70 million people died in China under Mao.
Sure she also mentioned Mother Theresa, but she was anti-abortion and extremely religious, but Mao was a mass murderer.
I don't recall anyone in office saying they admire Hitler, but oddly many in the Obama whiteshouse seem to love killers, as long as they are Communists of course.
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amity222
9:14AM Oct 16th 2009
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!
I also need someone to help me. I'll set myself up for all you morons to respond...... did I just hear that Michigan with 15% unemployment, created 400 some NEW jobs from the stimulus AND Nevada (where harry Reid has helped sooooo much), second in highest unemployment created.....don't fall off your chair.....159 NEW jobs from the stimulus? Please, I hope this is not true. There is also a report out there that $2.6 BILLION in our defense fund has been distributed BY BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE to earmarks including museums and a Teddy Keddedy building. Shame on these people! Why aren't these sites reporting this kind of information to debate? The contributors must be sitting around and laughing at all the hate they're creating between people.
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Alex Lekas
9:16AM Oct 16th 2009
nothing odd about it at all, Maria. The media increasingly focus on style rather than substance and, besides, few people in newsrooms have visceral reactions to the likes of Mao, Stalin, or Castro. Their role is to attempt to make anyone on the right appear silly or unhinged, and Beck does not help with these weepy jags he periodically has. When someone like Beck cries on the air, the story will ALWAYS be about the crying than about the reason behind it.
No one bats an eye at a WH person showing admiration for Mao becuase no one in the mainstream press sees an issue with it. These are folks who ignored posters of Che Guevarra in obama campaign offices during the election, and who support an administration full of self-avowed hard left people. You can't point out a problem if you don't think a problem exists.
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Fearless Leader
10:34AM Oct 16th 2009
Prescott Bush (W's grandpa, HW's dad) was so in bed with the nazis, his bank got shuttered until the war was over..
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screamnwolf86
9:13AM Oct 16th 2009
I bet most rednecks would like to go back to a simpler time. However, that's all bs. Time were hard for people then also. However, no one had power but the white man. Hmmmmm, I'm beginning to see why this redneck wants to go back!
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amity222
9:27AM Oct 16th 2009
You are clueless, aren't you.........
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INorOUT.us
6:50PM Oct 16th 2009
Really??? Name one time that Glenn talks about having more power than any person other than the 'White Man'? Why does everything have to be about race?
The days he is talking about were the days that we could actually trust our politicians, and not feel like we were sending them to Washington to stab us in the back. Have you contacted your Congressman wether they will sign the pledge: http://www.inorout.us
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aganadagnu
9:23AM Oct 16th 2009
Money-slave Beck will try anything to gain ratings for Master FOX; in this case not a good actor commonly called crocodile tear. Where is the clip that shows him taking his fat check laughing and running to the bank? Never mind, I don't watch him anyway; he who is spawned by Limbaugh. That's where we lost the good old days from the me me Boomers to the hate hate Rushers
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Tammy
9:31AM Oct 16th 2009
Anyone who realizes the full extent of where this country is headed should shed a tear or two. If Obama worshipers would rather belittle and ridicule those of us who cherish liberty, then all I can say is...your day will come. That's not meant in a threatening manner, only that someday you'll be faced with one hell of a decision. And when that day comes, will the realization finally dawn on you that the course you took was wrong or will you ignore that gnawing sense in the back of your mind to the detriment of your fellow citizens?
If you're not watching Beck then you don't know how precarious the situation is.
March to the beat of Obama's drum if that's what floats your boat but don't imagine you're indispensible, and don't think for one second you can't or won't ever turn on those of us who choose our own step.
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moderate
11:34AM Oct 16th 2009
What liberties have you lost, specifically. Habeaus, privacy, peace, no warreat searches, nope those were all lost by the previous administration. They decided the president should have absolute power to do whatever he wants however he wants. Quit babbling or parroting what the faux tears and faux care faux news tells you. I wonder did beck use the vicks to bring on the faux tears for this ridiculous spot?
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aganadagnu
11:36AM Oct 16th 2009
Yes Tammy the pendulum swings. America is in the grips of Corporate Communism and the people of America are serving up mortgage payments; insuring their body parts without assurance and counting pennies at the pumps where prices are fixed by the monopolies. The counterswing has gathered momentum for the "good" until it reaches the other peak. Anyway try the american dream and one is enslaved to Corporate Communism with bank mortgages the best part of one's working lives- a nightmare wouldn't you agree?