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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:38 PM
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Just watched an entire Glenn Beck show
WTF is he talking about? That man is crazy as hell. He calls the entire Obama Administration Revolutionaries and compares them to the Soviets and Nazis. To think this guy has inspired the Tea Party movement, scary stuff. Then on the Faux News break they say the Republican candidate in the New York race suspended her campaign and they credit the Tea Party movement.
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Ardent15 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:39 PM
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1. Why did you do that?
You'll never get that time back.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 06:38 PM
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20. Wanted to do something scary for Halloween, maybe?
I couldn't. I get queasy at the thought of that kind of gore.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:40 PM
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2. Are you okay? That must have been brutal.
Good to familiarize yourself with the enemy though.
Hard to believe that people allow such hatred to
be fed to the masses, isn't it?
He is a very dangerous lunatic, that one.

BHN
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:41 PM
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3. I've tried. It's too hard.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:43 PM
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4. Sometimes I truly wonder if fools like Beck actually believe the insanity they're spewing
or if they're merely playing up to their slice of the audience. The rwing crowd is a fertile demographic to cultivate as many have found out. People like Tim La Haye, the tv preachers, talk show hosts across the country are pushing the hot buttons of the right nonstop.
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:43 PM
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5. Good ole Glenny. Goes from incoherent to batshit crazy in under a second
After watching his trainwreck, I'm pretty certain that anyone who regularly watches is either loony tunes, lives in a different universe, or both.

Seriously, something has to be off to even gather much more than a theme from the guy. Never have I heard such a stream of nonsense, stupidity, and bullshit in my life.
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:43 PM
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6. dupe
Edited on Sat Oct-31-09 03:44 PM by TheKentuckian
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:47 PM
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7. Hmm. I've blocked Fox "News" on my receiver and my router.
Besides, Stephanie Miller watches Fox so I don't have to.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:54 PM
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8. Stop calling him crazy - he's not. He's that way ON PURPOSE.
It's even worse than crazy because his schtick is cynically calculated for no other reason than to make him wealthy.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 03:57 PM
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9. he has a mortgage and he gets paid well. we should do the same
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Jkid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 04:08 PM
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10. I seen one of his episodes before.
He was bawwwing about how public media and network neutrality will destroy the "free market" with a proposed 0.5 percent tax on every electronic entertainment device (computers, tv's, dvd's, video game consoles...). I don't paying for a new and improved PBS or a BBC equivalent. I pay taxes too, even though it's mostly sales taxes.

The only reason I would be watching Fox New Channel at all because they switched over to 16:9 broadcasting 24/7. Most cable tv channels are dragging their feet in broadcasting in widescreen. I have a HDTV but there is no option for digital widescreen for cable and if want widescreen I have to pay and HD add-on fee, which does not guarantee that most channels will be in widescreen at all.

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Joe the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 04:17 PM
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11. You have to be crazy to understand wtf he is talking about......
if you're a sane person then you won't understand a thing when watching his show.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 04:20 PM
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12. I watched him too. And I think I understand what he was saying....

"There's....you know...all this.....be aware of.....because this , and that, well, YOU know what it means...
watch out.....( looks tearful).....I love America, and it's....just too......Hitler.....( waving arms)...
FEAR...fear...fear....them, them, them.....crazy.....( batshit raving).....Obama ( hissing).....
and people just don't SEE.!!!!! ..they don't get.
But We get, it , don't we, my presciousssssssssssss....
our RIGHTS.....freedoms.....( drooling now)......warn you about this......"

Is that the show you watched, doc?
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 04:24 PM
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13. You may need to find a support group quick for your recovery and transition back to reality.
We're here for you, man. :hug:
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 04:35 PM
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14. You need to be totally sanitized. Do not come into contact with
other human beings as you may infect them with a wingnut bacterial infection.

You may have to take shots also.

:silly:
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 04:50 PM
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15. He's a huckster, thinks he can be the RW equivalent of Abbie Hoffman.
Edited on Sat Oct-31-09 04:51 PM by no_hypocrisy
Wants to lead the next Revolution and get rich in the process.

Wish Abbie were here to take the bastard apart.
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leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 05:00 PM
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16. Take a shower..........NOW!
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 05:02 PM
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17. When Colbert promised, on his very first show, "to feel the news at you"...
...this is what he was satirizing. Beck is a drama queen, who stirs nascent rage and directs it, approximately, toward Democrats, usually by way of fictitious librulz 'n' commies, in the hope that some of it sticks to the political opponents of his masters.

It's not about content, and Beck is in no way crazy.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 05:07 PM
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18. You're much braver than I am.
I don't think I could sit through an hour of his shit without wanting to destory my TV. :argh:
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 06:17 PM
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19. One time I watched about 10 minutes
of him ... I think he's certifiably nuts ... seriously. :-(
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 07:17 PM
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21. He and Rush are modern day Father Caughlins.
:puke:
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 07:19 PM
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22. I did that once. I still have nightmares. nt
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