Audio- Glenn Beck claims "one of first things" Obama administration did "was nationalize all of the curriculum"

I had to listen to it to believe it. It's just a blatant lie. Hell, not even blatant, let's try schizophrenic. Remember the Texas textbook controversy Glenn?

Today's Right Wing Meme

John McCain:

It would have been a serious mistake to have read the suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing his Miranda rights, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday.

McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a longtime leading Republican on national security issues, said he expected the suspect in the case could face charges that might warrant a death sentence if convicted.

"Obviously that would be a serious mistake...at least until we find out as much information we have," McCain said during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning" when asked whether the suspect, 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan.

"Don't give this guy his miranda rights until we find out what it's all about," McCain added.

Pete King:

Rep. Peter King (N.Y.), the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, wants to know whether the Justice Department consulted with the intelligence community.

“I hope that [Attorney General Eric] Holder did discuss this with the intelligence community. If they believe they got enough from him, how much more should they get? Did they Mirandize him? I know he’s an American citizen but still,” King told POLITICO.

The Fox and Friends are on the wagon too, but look who disagrees:

Scary day when Glenn Beck is the one making sense. h/t John.

"It is time we rethink our heroes"

By GottaLaff

It's L.A. Times letters to the editor time:

Roosevelt then, Obama now

Re "Roosevelt was right — we need more Americans ‘in the arena,' " Opinion, April 23

Bob and Elizabeth Dole remind us of the words of Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena … who does actually strive to do the deeds."

As I read this, I could think only of our president, who is striving so valiantly to solve our problems. And the critics: the Rush Limbaughs, the Glenn Becks and, yes, many in Congress — the small men who, for power and money, do nothing but criticize, tear down and attempt to destroy him.

Sadly, too many Americans admire the critics, whose negativity serves only to destroy, rather than the doer, "whose place shall never be with those cold and timid souls" but who "spends himself in a worthy cause" because that is what brave men do.

It is time we rethink our heroes.

And our priorities. And our approach to "news". And the way we communicate. Feel free to add other rethinkitudes in Comments.

Audio- Glenn Beck asks: "What has [Obama] said that sounds like American?"

Glenn Beck's New Novel Is Ripped from Glenn Beck's Headlines

By GottaLaff

Glenn Blech didn't have to come close to taxing his warped imagination when he wrote [sic] his new novel. No, he merely had to grab some crayons and construction paper, and the words just flowed.

Gawker has a plot summary that you can read here, but suffice it to say it's as predictable as you most likely predicted. It's all about the Big Bad Liberals, fear mongering, terrorist attacks, and, well, get a load of the heroes.

It's not often one can profit from jotting down his own recurring dreams:

Through the magic of imagination, he can cast himself as the dashing young playboy and put a younger Sarah Palin in an adventuring catsuit and the pair can run off into the night, solving crimes against American traditionalism and safely waiting to do it until they can get married in a consecrated chapel built out of Lincoln's old house.

And they're aided by a crusading band of "patriots"! This means Teabaggers.

Go take a look. And bring some Kleenex, because you'll laugh yourself to tears.

Glenn Beck to Give Commencment Speech at Liberty University

By GottaLaff

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match...

What could be more perfect:

Jerry Falwell Jr., chancellor of Liberty University, announced Friday that Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, will deliver the commencement address at the Lynchburg campus’s May 15 graduation, the News & Advance reports.

“Beck is one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded,” Falwell said in a news release.

Everything Baby Falwell said is true.... if by "principles upon which this nation is founded" he means gasbaggy, bellowing hate-filled, lying spew by an alcoholic drug abuser bordering on insanity. And isn't that what conservative Christians value most?

I hope ClusterFox catches his tearful, self-indulgent, blathery blubbering on camera so they can run an endless loop of it all the livelong day.

I almost feel sorry for the grads, because his bloaty little redfaced image will be etched into their memories forever.

How ironic that most of them have twice the intelligence he could ever hope to have in his itsy bitsy hollow little pea brain. I said intelligence, not judgment. After a stint at Falwell U, that still remains to be seen.

Video- Beck says "freedom of speech is under attack ... the person that questions [Obama] comes under vicious attack"

Then how come you're still on the air Glenn? Via Media Matters.

Audio- Glenn Beck: "God is giving a plan, I think, to me," says God is asking us to "stand, peacefully, quietly, with anger"

Okay. God is telling Glenn Beck what to do? Does this man not have people around him who can readjust his meds?

AUDIO: Leader of Hutaree Christian militia rehearses for rally

By GottaLaff

From the Department of Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner:

David Stone rehearses for militia rally:

What a guy. Just the type you'd want to bring home to Mom and Dad.

Federal court officials today released a secret recording of David Stone, the leader of the Hutaree Christian militia in Lenawee County, made as he practices a speech to supporters during a Feb. 6 car ride to a national militia meeting. [...]

"We outnumber them, " Stone said. "They forget, they live in our neighborhoods. They shop at our grocery stores. They eat at our restaurants. We are the ones who control everything in this nation from preparing the food that they eat to running the power stations. … "

Is the media ready to call them terrorists yet?

This post is dedicated to those who incite violence and hate speech, and/or stand by as others do either or both.

I'm talking to you, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann (and other conservative Congress members), and any extremist who may have momentarily slipped my mind.

This kind of behavior should not be the new normal, but unfortunately, that seems to be the case.

"This country, I think, will be brought down into violence."

From the April 19 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program

H/t: T1theinfamous

Audio- Glenn Beck: There were "anywhere between 36,000 and 150,000 political prisoners" under Woodrow Wilson, Obama is following his "playbook"

/eye roll/ And believe it or not, this is not the craziest thing he's said today.

VIDEO- Tea Bagger: "Dip them in boiling water, nothing better than a dead liberal"- including Obama

By GottaLaff

Via one of my Twitter pals, EZKool:



The first interviewee is a Beckbot. The next one wants liberals boiled to death.

Nah, Tea Tantrumers aren't psychos at all. Just one big, touchy-feely, grassrootsy, values-lovin', tax-hatin', Beck-grovelin' family:

kpominville — April 17, 2009 — Despite the fact 95% of Americans just received the largest tax cut in American history, a parade of the easily manipulated gathered in St Clair Shores, Michigan on Wednesday because the crybaby pundit Glen Beck told them to.

The first woman was holding a sign that read: "Honk if you support the constitution" so I stopped and asked her exactly what she thought was threatening the constitution."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04...

Imagine if these people got their wish and shoehorned their candidates of choice into the White House and Congress. I wonder how they'd feel once they realized they were being used and discarded like the naive trash that they are.

By the way, when will the media begin to refer to the sickest among the Tea Baggers as terrorists?

H/t: 1kecko

Graph-ick! Glenn Beck's ratings go south

By GottaLaff

Read it and weep, Beck:

How could this be? A ratings decline? For Mr. Poopular? But... Glenn Blech is so, so... train wrecky. And you know how everyone loves to crane their necks to catch a glimpse of a good wreck:

Based on the Nielsen numbers, here's a look at Beck's average daily rating over the last month. [...]

You'll note that aside from a temporary spike that came on March 22, the Monday after the historic health care vote, Glenn Beck has spent the last four weeks with between 2.5 million and 2.0 million viewers, which represents a downward trend.

Gee, I can't imagine why viewers would stray from such a fine role model for their kiddies.

I wonder if my pal StopBeck has made an impact. I'm leaning yes.

Media Matters has more wholesome goodness here.

Audio- Glenn Beck on tea partiers saying Obama is "very liberal": "Is that different than Marxist?"

If I was rich I'd send all of these stupid yahoos dictionaries, but you know they'd only use them to prop up their egos...

Library of Congress will acquire all Twitter messages

By GottaLaff

"The Library of Congress will acquire all public tweets", the Library of Congress publicly tweeted :

A Library spokesman later expounded on the new archive in a blog post, writing that its primary function will be to assist researchers and educators.

Well, if it's going to assist researchers...

This is a learning opportunity, said the Library spokesman, who failed to tweet his thoughts:

"I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data," wrote the spokesman, Matt Raymond. "And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can possibly conceive."

Like teenagers filling us in on what they're about to eat? Like Jim Carrey splitting up with Jenny McCarthy?

Like Keith Olbermann yummily zapping Glenn Beck?




I guess there are some tweets that are educational.

Here comes the Big H. However:

The acquisition could pose concerns for privacy advocates, who could argue that too much private information will soon become part of the public domain.

If privacy becomes as optional as choosing to publicly tweet or Direct Message (a private, e-mailed tweet), Library, we have a problem.

Audio- Beck says Obama will find a "gay, handicapped, black woman, who's an immigrant" who's a "radical" justice like Sotomayor

Total rodeo clown mode.

Video- Ingraham: Obama has no "problem using...vitriolic and accusatory language" against Beck, Fox, but won't "offend" terrorists

Poor put upon wingers.

Video- Glenn Beck warns that country is "on eve of destruction" and "will be destroyed if we don't turn our ways"

Cesca better hurry up with the exposing, this kettle's about to whistle.

VIDEO: 53 Glenn Beck Fans Get Their Cars Towed

By GottaLaff

Some of you may have seen this already, but I hadn't. It's scrumptious:

"At at recent University of Central Florida event starring Glenn Beck, some enterprising frat brothers set up fake Event Parking signs that result in 53 Beck fans having their cars towed."

Karma.

H/t: RW

VIDEO- Mid-level Fox executive: "Whatever will sell is what we have to say." CNN just as guilty.

By GottaLaff

Just. Watch:



Slightly paraphrased:

"A majority of people at the middle level at Fox News don't believe a word of what they are saying."

Why are you saying it? "Whatever will sell is what we have to say."

Many staffers are considered "left wing", but if they found a message that would sell, the opposite of what they believe, they would do so. That's the Rupert Murdoch way.

Glenn Beck is only as good as his sponsorship. His message doesn't play into Fox News, and he's losing national sponsors, leaving only local, low-paying sponsors. (Thank you, StopBeck).

So how useful is Beck to ClusterFox? He's not. They're selling propaganda to sell products.

From the middle level executive's point of view, there is no political objective at Fox News [sic]. People are stupid enough to believe what they say, and ClusterFox reaps the benefits.

"They'll tell you whatever they sell, and they're only as good as their sponsorship.... at the national expense."

"They're a little annoyed at Ann Coulter... and Glenn Beck."

"CNN is just as guilty as Fox News of being an engine of propaganda... generating fear..." (regarding terrorism)

"News agencies are dangerous to freedom and liberty."

From the horse's mouth.

H/t: t_spano

Video- A Saturday On The Fringe: Scenes From The Right's Rallies In Nevada And Florida

How can anyone take these people seriously? Via Media Matters.