Glenn Beck: ‘It Is Approaching Treason’ To Elect A Progressive Congress

[marmar]

I would say he's as dumb as a box of rocks, but at least rocks serve some purpose. :dunce:



from ThinkProgress:



Beck: ‘It Is Approaching Treason’ To Elect A Progressive Congress»


On his television show yesterday, CNN’s Glenn Beck invited conservative strategist Mary Matalin to discuss domestic drilling and energy issues. Matalin claimed — without evidence — that President Bush’s voluntary carbon reducing policies have cut back emissions in the U.S. while mandatory caps on carbon have not.

But Beck one-upped Matalin, lamenting that “we’re going to get a progressive Congress” that will not increase domestic nuclear energy production, something Beck declared “is approaching treason”:

MATALIN: But the data is explicit and it’s clear. By voluntary emissions reductions, our — our emissions are reduced here in the United States under Bush’s plan. And where it was mandatory, they are not reduced. (…) We could — we could do nuclear here. France — France has 80 percent of its energy from nuclear…

BECK: We’re not going to! We’re not going to. None of these candidates will do it. We’re going to get a progressive Congress — I swear to you. It is — it is approaching treason with these people in Washington. You know it and I know it, and every single American knows.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/beck-treason/


This is not the first time Beck has made unfounded attacks upon environmentalists or accused progressives of treason:

– Beck compared former Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to raise awareness of global warming to the Nazis, saying the global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth is “like Hitler.”

– In an interview with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a Congressional Progressive Caucus member and the first Muslim elected to Congress, Beck asked, “What I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.’”

– During the Southern California wildfires last year, Beck blamed the blaze on “damn environmentalists.”

Moreover, Matalin’s claims on emissions are unsubstantiated. Because of Bush’s voluntary emission policies, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. have actually increased from 2001 to 2006. In fact, mandatory emission standards have proven successful in many cases. For example, one prominent environmental study found “a marked overall decrease in emissions of pollutants subject to mandatory federal regulations” from 1991 to 2002.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/beck-treason/

[scarface2004]

1. why is bek on tv?!?!?

he s a total frickin asshole...the only way i know of his bs is by seeing it on the blogs..no one can possibly be watching this donkey excrement!!!

[AndyTiedye]

14. Beck is on TV Because the Wingnuts Who OWN The Networks Want Him There

[muntrv]

18. I know, he has shitty ratings.

[Kutjara]

2. Well, that's disproved one of my pet theories.

I've long maintained that putting Glen Beck and Mary Matalin within ten feet of each other would create what I call a "black hole of cretinism" so powerful it would suck the entire planet into it's idiotic maw. I must go back to the lab and work out precisely why that didn't happen.

[Cassandra]

8. It didn't happen?

You're sure?
The very fact that Beck has a show suggests otherwise.

[Kutjara]

9. That's an excellent point. I may have to revise my theory to account...

...for the fact that we're all actually inside the "Cretin Hole."

[Cassandra]

11. How does the theory of relativity...

effect the Cretin Hole?

[Kutjara]

13. It doesn't apply, because nobody in the Hole...

...believes in it. Doesn't fit with the Bible, you see.

[LTR]

3. Of course

Because I can only learn how to be a good American from a cocaine addict.

:eyes:

[Bob Dobbs]

4. whiner wouldn't know treason if it waterboarded his scummy a**.

He is one of the prime "projectors" of the fascists. He projects on progressives all the actual qualities of his dark overlords.

Psychological projection is the prime defense mechanism of the fascists and their sympathizers, as they, deep down, know how evil their policies are, and how objectivism is a totally failed mythology, and how they will burn in hell for what they are doing, so they project.

[WCGreen]

5. If I was Ellison I would have just answered and said you prove that

you are not, you big bag of air.

What have you done for this country other than try to divide us. That, sir, is treason in my book.

[Mythsaje]

6. "Every single American knows..."

Ah. Obviously a message from the Psychotic Friends Network.

[SeattleGirl]

7. Treasonous bastards sure like to throw that word at us, don't they?

:grr:

[bemildred]

10. So "Democracy" means "agree with Glenn or else you're a traitor"? nt

[Dark]

12. Fuck you Beck. I am sick and tired of these dipshit ditto heads questioning my fucking patriotism.

I'm not the one who elected president shit for brains into power. They are. They have helped to ruin every fucking thing that was good about America in the last 8 years, and they have the nerve to accuse ME of having no patriotism?

FUCK YOU.

[newmajority]

15. As usual, BecKKK is 100% opposed to reality

Given the last 8 years, it is actually approaching treason to NOT elect a progressive congress, along with President Obama, so we can dig out of this mess.

[ladjf]

16. What kind of a company would hire a raving maniac such as Beck?

[Octafish]

17. Beck sounds like the turd governor-general from 'V.'

Same stupid stare, too.

[Rex]

19. He does claim to be stupid and crazy.

Amazing someone would pay him 50 million.

[SoCalDem]

20. What time does CNN run the show where progressives state their case, and offer

persuasive commentary?? Hmmm?? CNN???

They give this reactionary idiot a show to bloviate against HIS "enemies", and he gets to do it unopposed:grr: