Glenn Beck - we bought Alaska in the 1950's (1:02)

[underpants]

Run time: 01:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KXrQJGr9HY   Posted on YouTube: June 30, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 01, 2009 By DU Member: underpants Views on DU: 2831

 
Is he on EVERY Fox News show now?

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/30/beck-alaska/

CARLSON: But nowhere in that bill is anything about reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

BECK: None. <…>

You know Donald Trump, I want to talk to this guy. When he was on the show just a few minutes ago I was thinking how can you not be laughing at us? How can the world not be laughing at us? We have all these resources. Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s? We bought Alaska for the resources. And now we say no!

:rofl:

Beck’s attempt to rewrite history to fit his talking point is also troubling. For clarification, Alaska was purchased in 1867 for $7.2 million and soon became known as “Seward’s Folly,” named for Secretary of State William H. Seward, because at the time it was widely regarded as foolish to spend so much money on remote tundra. (Perhaps Beck was thinking of Alaska becoming the 49th state in 1959.) The resources the U.S. was after in 1867 weren’t oil, but fish, furs, and the prospect of closer proximity to Russia from the North American continent.

[Old and In the Way]

1. The more you listen, the stupider you get. nt

[pkdu]

2. Glenn Beck already admitted on "The View" he doesnt deal in "facts"

see at roughly 5.00 in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyn3b2-XbM

Cheers
P

[ihavenobias]

3. This deserves a rec.

Really, how much more will it take for EVERYONE to recognize that these clowns should not be listened to? I know, I know, there will always be that 10-20% of unflappable nuts that will enjoy Fox News despite all logic, reason and facts.

But I think there is a small but sizable percentage of "moderates" who don't realize just how much misinformation and bullshit comes out of Fox.

PS---.

[underpants]

4. HE seems to be the flagship of the network

this can only work to our benefit

Seriously he is on O'Reilly at least twice a week maybe three times. Now he is doing the morning show....and to be honest he looks more than just a bit frazzled

Look out on 9/12, that is when he will reveal to the world what he has been "working on" :scared: :hide:

[lindisfarne]

5. Intelligence threatens some Americans. They actually prefer clowns for that reason.n/t

[Sanity Claws]

6. OMG

How stupid and ignorant can one get?
Did anyone correct him? Or were the rest as stupid as Beck?

[underpants]

7. They are all reading off the same script

thus the leading question and the nodding approval

blah blah blah they are paid to read out loud

[tclambert]

23. A wise man once said, "When you think people can't get any more stupid,

just wait five minutes. Or turn on Fox News."

I believe the wise man was W. C. Fields.

[MadMaddie]

8. Oh a wrong date here....a misplaced fact there. Reading

comprehension 0 and you have Glen Beck. This guy is an idiot.

[edc]

9. Seward's Folly (1867)

Beck's foolishness (2009)

[Enthusiast]

20. Good one, edc. nt

[valerief]

10. I guess Beck is now officially Fox's Folly.

What a moron.

[shadowknows69]

11. Wow. Teh Soopid is strong with this one.

It's called a history book Glen, or wikipedia if you must, try reading one sometime.

[mckara]

12. Idiots of the Right, United!

You have nothing to lose, but your BRAINS!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Historic NY]

13. he should have called whats her name.........

[Ztolkins]

14. "No one has read it. Nowhere does it say anything about..

reducing our dependence on foreign oil"

Fox anchor's idiocy shouldn't, but always does, surprise me

[madamesilverspurs]

15. There's a "Glenn Beck"

in every bar. Always sits in the same place, knows everything about everything and makes up what he doesn't know and deigns to 'educate' all the other patrons, whether they want to be 'educated' or not. And the drunker he gets, the more he 'knows.'

We used to refer to one of these clowns as our resident "sexual intellect," and he was the only one who didn't get that he was being called a fucking know-it-all.

[moonbatmax]

18. What, you mean THIS guy?

Nah, I guess Cliff had a lot more cred.

Actually, Glenn got me going there for a second when he mentioned Atlas Shrugged. I was expecting him to say tell us how Ayn Rand explains the whole situation to a T, and instead he points out how LONG the book is?!? I'll bet if you gave him a squirrel gun, he'd try to beat the squirrels to death with it.
:wtf:

Full Disclosure: I've never read any Ayn Rand novels, and my impressions of such are likely wildly misinformed. :crazy:

[nytemare]

16. We bought Alaska so Palin could see Russia.

In 2006. Sheesh. Everybody knows that.

[pam4water]

17. I love quote, "it took a year to read", Atlas Shrugged. LOL They're so funny they should quit their

day jobs.

[argyl]

19. Waterworks Glenn keeps this up and Fox will have a "Glenn Beck (D)" label under him every time

he mouths yet another idiotic statement.

[Libertas1776]

21. Ah, yes I remember reading about

this in my high school US history class. What was it called, Eisenhower's Folly? :sarcasm:

[bulloney]

22. Now, think Beck. Why would the Soviet Union sell us Alaska during the height of the Cold War?

I'll say it again, there's a direct correlation between how conservative you are and how ignorant you are on history.

Secretary of State Seward bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre during the LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION you sobbing moron!!!

[ihavenobias]

24. Kick n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

25. You can actually see the others pause while they think, "wait a minute, that ain't right..."

Then they produce a half-hearted "yeah".

:rofl: