Glenn Beck: Slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas"

[democracy1st]

Glenn Beck: Slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas" and then "the government began to regulate things"

From the October 1 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:


http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010010026

[Maru Kitteh]

1. "I HAVE A GUN. PICK MY TOBACCO OR DIE!"

How exactly is that innocent?

They're just not even pretending to hide it anymore, are they?

[tblue]

28. "Run away and I'll cut off your foot!"

He's so sad he was born a couple centuries too late to enjoy all that innocence.

[roguevalley]

38. what a complete cock head he is

[wizstars]

39. Nah, he's just foreskin. he's not good enough to be a cockhead...

Where did they find that piece of work??!?

[roguevalley]

45. snerk! I don't know, in a bin somewhere.

[LynneSin]

2. Yes Glenn, and Hilter was known to be nice to children and animals too

:eyes:

[WCGreen]

18. Until the government over regulated the genocide...

[arcane1]

3. Ah yes, excessive regulation was the bad part of slavery...

Now it all makes sense!

:eyes::silly:

[arbusto_baboso]

5. Yes, exactly, If it hadn't been regulated, slavery would've ended all on its own.

This is the kind of utter bugfuckery we have to deal with, folks.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. Really, Beck...

I'm sure the slaves weren't too thrilled with the idea. :eyes:

[old mark]

6. Like the idea that people were merchandise to be bought and sold at will...

Ideas like that, Beck?


mark

[toddwv]

17. I'm not surprised

We're talking about people who believe that exploiting others for financial gain is the epitome of "human rights".

[eppur_se_muova]

44. You forgot to say "seemingly innocent" ideas like that. ;^)

;)

[political_Dem]

7. Glenn Beck needs to screw himself six ways to Sunday.

Can this ass be more ignorant than he already presents himself to be?

[joeybee12]

8. I guess dragging people kicking and screaming at gunpoint onto a boat

to destinations far away, although many would die before they got that...yeah, that does sound like a INNOCENT start.

[AtomicKitten]

9. good gawd almighty

[Brickbat]

10. And the innocent idea of slavery would be....

....hmmmmm....:think:

[xocet]

11. Cue to 2:15 in the audio to hear the excerpt in context...Why listen to Glenn more than necessary?

[Iterate]

30. I wish I had known.

That's the first time I'd heard him outside of a video clip on countdown.

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[pnwmom]

13. Listening to that tape, it's almost like listening to the devil himself.

Or how I would imagine it to be.

The smooth sentences, the quiet voice, the evil banality of the man.

[DirkGently]

14. Wow. It's like he's trying to top himself for Craziest Statement.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. He Showed His *SS

"Things". Those things were Human Beings. But he'll never be called out on that.

[unblock]

16. that damn gubmint mandating slave-ownership on those god-fearing plantation owners!

the free market would have sorted slavery out if it hadn't been codified into law by LIBERALS!!!111!!!

:sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

19. I'm sure he will be called to account, oh, just any second now

And "small government" Republicans across the country, fearful of being associated with such bugfuck insanity, will be knocking over little old ladies in their haste get in front of a camera or a microphone to disavow this latest bullshit from Beck.

Right?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Ah yes slavery, a dream founded on the idea of people......

people selling people to other people who wouldn't do their own goddamn work. What a philosopher this man is.

[Ohio Joe]

21. WTF?

You know.... every time someone posts some clip from this douchebag I think... man, this guy just can't say anything stupider... and every time he proves me wrong.

[liberal N proud]

22. How in the HELL is forcing another human being to do work you don't want to, INNOCENT????

:nuke:

[Pathwalker]

34. Actually, it was worse. It was about owning another human being,

and you could make them do worse things that just work. Nothing innocent about slavery, and Glen Beck is mentally ill.

[MattyGroves]

23. Proof that the whole "honor and integrity" shuffle he had at the Mall was a money grab

On the plus side, if Palin isn't smart enough to denounce Beck w/out reservation she can give up any hope of winning another election.

[BlueIdaho]

24. That may be the single dumbest thing

I have ever heard a human being utter...

WTF?

[mitchum]

25. Since no one is interested in a Glenn Beck upskirt, he has to say things like that...

in order to continuously draw attention to himself.

[Lint Head]

26. Soooooo, Thomas Jefferson having sex with a slave was caused by

government regulation?

[MilesColtrane]

27. What a clownish asshole.

What's next out of his mouth, the Holocaust happened because of taxes on the rich?

[Iterate]

29. Those were the golden years of deregulated slavery,

before the slaves lobbied the government to make slavery official and got the courts with their activist judges to make laws for the Crown, or the colonies, or maybe it was the States which didn't have rights because of the 14th Amendment, and then OSHA stepped in and made it all more complicated.

1696 it was, when the first slave code was enacted in South Carolina. Before that things were peachy; not long after you actually had to provide one set of clothes per year. Imagine that, a handout if there ever was one, though you could still burn them alive if you wished. Talk about death panels, but I suppose he means innocent death panels.

[DirkGently]

42. If only the dang libs hadn't gotten involved, with their fussy "reg-U-lations . . . "

(yes, it's sarcasm, should anyone need to read this far to know that)

[madrchsod]

31. he really does`t make any sense...

[Sheepshank]

32. started with seemingly innocent ideas...WTF

Placing a person in servitude and bondage against their will, even on paper seems like an innocent idea.

[MrScorpio]

33. What a fucking idiot

It started from pure greed, exploitation and racism. "Seemingly innocent ideas", my ass.

What planet is this asshole on?

[boppers]

35. Try reading your holy books, or some history books, moron.

Slavery pre-dated most modern history.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Glenny I know American Fiction is your strong suit

but trust me, when Gilbert proposed TRANSPORTATION for the over population in the UK, it was as a CHEAP labor force not necessarily meant to survive...

You might want to actually pick up a book before you burn it glenny.

[AC_Mem]

37. MMFA - Someone mentioned

That this should be brought up as a boycott point. I agree, and also think it should be reported to the FCC...it probably won't help but it can't hurt to let it be known that this type of inflammatory wingnut talk is not acceptable.

Personally, I think he is losing it, especially about the Washington event tomorrow. He has been spinning out all week ;)

[frogmarch]

40. As if I needed another reason

to hate his guts.

[sonomak]

41. What an evil asshole

racist to the core.

[Lorien]

43. I wonder what drugs he's doing this time around

:crazy:

[kenny blankenship]

46. Is there a text transcript of this somewhere?

I know the link goes to some audio. I just have to see it in print before I can believe something this bizarre is real somehow.

[Flubadubya]

47. Saw the DAMNDEST bumper sticker on a truck in Texarkana yesterday...

"If I had known this I would have picked my own damned cotton!" :grr:

There were other stickers on the truck that I could never get close enough to make out but one had the letters O-B-A-M-A spelled out but each letter was the start of some word (too small to see), but I guarantee you, this redneck was no Obama supporter! Of course, there was the obligatory confederate flag and all. I really wanted to run his ass off the road. :puke:

On Edit... I just did some research and I'm pretty sure the O-B-A-M-A sticker said this: One Big Ass Mistake America!

[nightgaunt]

48. First you decide how you are going to lie then be convincing is that you believe it first

Slavery certainly didn't start the way he claims. But he is betting that no matter how often he tells his listeners to "look into it for themselves" most will not. Unless they look only in the approved authors and books then they get the same thing, with footnotes of each other and themselves.

1609-Slaves and bonded servants arrived with the settlers into North America. Christians, Muslims, Animists and Jews were all involved in global slavery. Maybe Hindus too. No one was free from its taint. However after Christianity took over western Rome, the slaves could no longer buy their freedom as in the olden times of Greece and Pagan Rome. One of the innovations Christianity gave to us since slavery is never explicitly rescinded by Jesus nor in the Old and New Testaments. Just in how to treat them.

When the bonded servants were freed from their economic based slavery the black slaves by-and-large were not. Some could still get their freedom but very few. In the Americas the slaves remained of color whether Indian or African. At the crucial time slavery remained in the Land of the Free compromised to keep the Southern states from helping the British to regain their colonies. The Missori Compromise of 1858 continued it. If the Civil War (I) hadn't happened overt slavery would have certainly lasted longer maybe into the late 20th century. However in Dixie slavery remained as Jim Crow Laws and economic slavery, many on the same plantations they had been chattle slaves before. It was a business where cheap labor was paramount to keeping the plantations and King Cotton continuing making a profit for their owners. It wasn't morality, it was Capitalism that was the core value here. It still is as corporations try to return as closely as possible to that time. Sweat shops are a model for today.

Freedom for all is still not fully realized on our planet yet, not even in the USA yet. Slavery of any kind must be a capital crime or they just don't consider it important.

[democracy1st]

49. Keep On!