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mike r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 04:40 PM
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Glenn Beck very angry about Glenn Beck's characterization of Glenn Beck's event
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008250048

Glenn Beck very angry about Glenn Beck's characterization of Glenn Beck's event
by Christine Schwen

As Media Matters has noted, after a long year of claiming he would "reclaim the civil rights movement" with his 8-28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial which was touched by "divine providence," Beck has started scaling back those grandiose claims, hoping against hope that no one would remember anything he's said in the past year.

In one such instance today, Beck ignored a cardinal rule for those interested in lying about their record: Destroy the evidence.

See, today, Beck complained that "the media" have renamed "Divine Destiny" -- his 8-27 Kennedy Center event -- "Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny." "The media" did this, Beck explained, to suggest that Beck is appointing himself to a Divine Destiny. "Yes, I'm going to announce that I'm Jesus on Friday, and only Martin Luther King on Saturday, but that's it!" Beck sarcastically added...

Wow that does sound unfair. Who would call the event "Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny," cruelly suggesting that Beck is making grandiose and religious claims about the event? It turns out that "the media" Beck was referring could have easily been media personality Glenn Beck, who posted this on his website on August 11: ...

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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 04:43 PM
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1. I am glad he does that stuff.
Not something I would choose to do.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 04:54 PM
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2. And I thought I was going to see him just floating in the air above President Lincoln. n/t
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 04:58 PM
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4. Yeah, he'd look great with that white dove circling around his head,
standing on a cloud...


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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 05:01 PM
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5. At best, we might get to see some pigeons poop on him! LOL
:rofl:
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 05:14 PM
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7. Wow! All over his shining raiment, too...
:bounce:


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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 04:58 PM
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3. lonesome roads where lies always qualify as the truth
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 05:14 PM
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6. did anyone read that paragraph?
Jesus on a skateboard, what were those heroic religious filled speeches during the struggles of Americas' earliest days?

on a sidenote, I see that goldscam for cash is advertising.
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jimlup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-27-10 07:43 PM
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8. Wouldn't it be great if no one showed!
Just Beck and Palin and a big empty Lincoln memorial.
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