The Red Vadge Of Turdage
I caught Glenn Beck on the tube today — not the Million Moron March thing, but a Fox show in front of a studio audience in which Beck and some other crackpot tried to wrestle out how George Washington could have possibly been a Freemason (long story short, they concluded that Washington was a Mason before Masons became the embodiment of evil, so he was still pure of heart, and then Beck joked about how the Illuminati was going to kill them for saying that, only he wasn’t really joking).
In other words, a real history lesson.
Then Beck took questions from the audience, and one young woman pointed out that America’s founders risked their lives for liberty and she wondered if Beck knew any modern-day politicians who had done or would do the same.
Beck’s answer: Michelle Bachmann. I shit you not. He could have said Max Cleland or John Kerry — hell, he could have just mentioned John McCain if he wanted to stick to one side of the aisle. And you could tell even he knew his answer was really, really bad even as he was explaining his reasoning (Bachmann’s super brave because she says her stupid shit even though there’s a slim chance that some lefty out there is plotting to to teepee her house or something).
It’s like Roy’s commenter Kia Penso wisely said: ‘It’s not even that what he peddles is shit to sane people, it’s shit to his people too. But Beck’s audience can’t even recognize that, they think shit is what they are supposed to get…’
And they luuuuuuuurrrrves them they’s shit, because Beck says it’s good for them. It’s the right kind of shit.
It’s amazing how it’s happened, actually. Beck et al have convinced these people that the good stuff…charity, compassion, empathy, common good, is shit while the shitty shit is the golden stuff they must hoard and accumulate at all costs. Up is down. Black is whit…err, no. That one won’t work with this crowd.
Given the hard-on teatards have for hating Muslims, I’d say Keith Ellison and Andre Carson risk their lives by going to work every day.
Kia’s last name is going to become the new Internet tradition of which everyone is aware.
Oh come on people! What’re you doing, watching the emmys or something? I hope to be able to get a contract tomorrow, or at least early this week, so I won’t have as much time soon to lurk or comment here, but I know youse all usually have oodles of time on your hands. How can I be the only one here at this time (10:19pm PDT)?
There comes a point where you have to blame the customers for showing up again and again and buying more of those shitty shitty mangoes. Especially in this case!
“Million Moron March” is good but I like “BeckerWood” also or J. Stewert’s “I Have a Dream (but the kind of dream you have after eating three peperoni hot pockets right before bedtime) Speech.”
“penso” = “think” in I-Talian.
Professional/political wingnuts don’t answer live questions well at all. Look at how many of them refuse to ‘take’ questions from an audience or the press. Palin is the best example.There is Angle, a Palin wannabe. Rand Paul. Plenty of others who claim the press is biased and only take questions “in advance”.
I suppose it is because most of them are operating on Autopilot most of the time. They memorize the wingnut crazy act pretty well, but it’s pretty rigid, not able to adapt to surprises or contradictions. And they have shown themselves to be extraordinarily ignorant. Even the quicker-witted ones, and I don’t think Beck is one of them, don’t know the answers to the easiest questions.
Palin: “I read all of them!” “In what way do you mean agree with the Bush doctrine?”
Beck: “Michelle Bachman!”
Over the last few years the right has passed from the merely surreal through the utterly delusional into a previously unknown realm of whackitude that has no name.
The shorter for this, of course, is “Monkey – with a gun photoshopped into his hand.”
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=monkey+with+a+gun+photo&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=1ER7TNzSGcGBlAfmhNDwCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCQQsAQwAA
Your wish is my command Jennifer.
There comes a point where you have to blame the customers for showing up again and again and buying more of those shitty shitty mangoes. Especially in this case!
I totally agree. I’m all done with compassion for them because they are stupid. It doesn’t take a fucking well educated genius to figure that when you’re watching a TV pundit go slowly over the edge, you probably shouldn’t go with him. At some point you need to figure out your values for yourself. You cannot convince me that all those people in DC share Beck’s delusional ‘whackitude which has no name’ as Snorghagen so eloquently stated.
“Million Moron March” is good but I like “BeckerWood” also or J. Stewert’s “I Have a Dream (but the kind of dream you have after eating three peperoni hot pockets right before bedtime) Speech.”
I’m surprised that the portmanteau “Glennbeckalypse” isn’t in wider use. It’s got a great rhythm and everything.
They memorize the wingnut crazy act pretty well, but it’s pretty rigid, not able to adapt to surprises or contradictions
Rigidly devoid of facts, reality and humanity. Inquiry, deeper thought or explanation in the context of reality doesn’t suit the wingnut mentality.
“Million Moron March” is good but I like “BeckerWood” also or J. Stewert’s “I Have a Dream (but the kind of dream you have after eating three peperoni hot pockets right before bedtime) Speech.”
Nuremberg for Dummies
The thing is they don’t really have the numbers to effect real change. Not the kind they want. Hell, we libs didn’t get that either. The USS ship of state is vast and doesn’t turn all that quickly.
I have heard some Dems say that we could keep both the house and the senate (it’s possible). Since the Teabaggers seem to think that they are entitled to a majority imagine what their reaction is going to be post November if it doesn’t fall their way?
Big hot purple tears.
As a rather cocky System Lord once quipped:
“The key to enslaving humans is to tell them how special they are.”
Teepee nothing! This anarcho-leftist is going to light a bag o’ poo on fire, put it on her doormat, ring the bell, etc.
Off the pig!
Or, first the bag on the mat, then the flames …
Watched Dr. Strangelove again last night – it’s in the regular rotation for about once-per-year viewings – and I noticed that the actor playing the B52 navigator is named “Glen Beck.” A coincidence? I think not.
Bachman is in danger everytime she speaks. Eventually, as chronicled by Douglas Adams, her intestines will rebel against her awfulness and strangle her.
Maybe the Phelps clan is right – God Hates America.
What other explanation could there be for the Becks and Palin$?
Eventually, as chronicled by Douglas Adams, her intestines will rebel against her awfulness and strangle her.
You would think her innards, above all, would understand how full of shit she is.
So, roughly a century later we have another round of loudmouth self-promoting right wing popular fascists leading public gatherings and protests against the secular liberals undermining our nation, against the profligate federal spending / federal reserve / need for a gold-backed currency, against the immigrants from barbarian countries despoiling our nation and stealing the jobs, against the foreign religions which are destroying our Christian values…
…It’s not an accident that TeaTards and BeckTards see themselves as in a locked battle against secular progressives, because that’s pretty much the position that the early 20th century right wing populists, nativists, and fascists throughout the West felt that they were in, too.
The Klan’s highest membership numbers and national influence weren’t in the South in the late 1800s, but in the mid-West in the 1920s as they increasingly went after Catholics and immigrants from Southern Europe.
We’re in a situation maybe more like the years after WW1 than we are the years of the Great Depression, the years when all the biggest right wing ideological movements arose in the West in opposition to the advances of labor and socialism.
Except, of course, we have no left left with which to counterpose today’s right.
El Cid, your obsession with “facts” and “history” just proves you are a liberal fascist bigot who hates America. And puppies, too.
Reminds me of a PJM commentator who wrote yet another Islam-bashing article the other week and had one of her commenters swooning over how “you are the bravest woman around.” Apparently, courage is now measured by the ability to release an article in a blog where everyone already agrees with you, and only after other commenters have spent three weeks preparing the terrain with the exact same article slightly reworded.
Is there a level of self-congratulation they won’t sink to? Sadly, no!
Is there a level of self-congratulation they won’t sink to?
Only Michele Bachmann’s intestinal flora know for sure.
Except, of course, we have no left left with which to counterpose today’s right.
We need a socialist movement and instead we’re barely holding the centrist line – a line that’s moved pretty far to the right in the last thirty years and will move further in that direction the next time the teabaggers have electoral success.
Well, now we know where Beck’s getting his blowjobs from.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. *I’ve* risked more for liberty than Michelle Bachmann.
Now, who wants to bring me a Diet Coke?
Remember that no-name blog that mocked Steve Gilliard after he died?
http://bit.ly/9vJAVI
He’s calling the TN mosque arson a false flag, which I suppose could be possible but it’s kind of a quick assumption to reach considering all the genuine anti-Muslim bigotry out there.
Washington was a Mason before Masons became the embodiment of evil
Washington was a Freemason in 1698????
If you want a domestic example of an politician risking his life for freedom, there is John Lewis.
Wonder why Beck doesn’t mention him?
Then Beck took questions from the audience, and one young woman pointed out that America’s founders risked their lives for liberty and she wondered if Beck knew any modern-day politicians who had done or would do the same.
Ain’t it funny how Beck couldn’t name a single Iraqi vet?
If you want a domestic example of an politician risking his life for freedom, there is John Lewis.
Wonder why Beck doesn’t mention him?
Wait. Do you mean from his work in the ’60s or when he was assaulted early this year?
I’m surprised that the portmanteau “Glennbeckalypse” isn’t in wider use. It’s got a great rhythm and everything.
Cuz who wants to be reminded that Beck has lips?
We need a socialist movement and instead we’re barely holding the centrist line – a line that’s moved pretty far to the right in the last thirty years and will move further in that direction the next time the teabaggers have electoral success.
And then swing wildly back once it’s understood they can’t fucking run a country.
This is reminding me of the 70s, when shit got done and then we got Reagan, only in reverse.
Wait. Do you mean from his work in the ’60s or when he was assaulted early this year?
From the perspective of Lewis it probably was a continuum. But I meant the sixties, when he did risk his life fro freedom and he is still an active politician, so he seems to be the best fit.
And then swing wildly back once it’s understood they can’t fucking run a country.
By any logical measure, eight years of Bush should have put an end to that trope. Not only did it not, we had a movement pop up almost immediately demanding all the things that Bush had done, only this time more so.
That alone really makes me feel like giving up on the American voter.
Not only did it not, we had a movement pop up almost immediately demanding all the things that Bush had done, only this time more so.
A movement didn’t pop up. It was funded from above. The money will run out, eventually.
The anchor on NPR just stated unequivocally that Obama is a Christian, and, sadly enough, I was somewhat surprised that she didn’t somehow equivocate on that shit.
The anchor on NPR just stated unequivocally that Obama is a Christian
If only it was FOX.
The money will run out, eventually.
Will it? The top 1% have so much money and tend to get a bigger and bigger share. So why not spend a little on useful idiots? Worked well so far.
If only it was FOX.
Yeah, not holding my breath on that one.
The anchor on NPR just stated unequivocally that Obama is a Christian, and, sadly enough, I was somewhat surprised that she didn’t somehow equivocate on that shit.
Your tax dollars are being spent spreading ‘facts’, how do you like that commies?
The top 1% have so much money and tend to get a bigger and bigger share.
True, but even that’s finite and eventually the tables will turn. Part of why they’re so desperate to re-acquire the Bush tax laws is they were starting to drain their coffers. Another economic or natural disaster and more people will wake up to this fact, just as they did after Katrina and after the mortgage collapse. The returns they are getting on their investments are getting smaller and smaller and useful idiots fewer and fewer. They can’t establish an equilibrium. It will eventually collapse around them.
Your tax dollars are being spent spreading ‘facts’, how do you like that commies?
It’s “Commies”. Please.
Your tax dollars are being spent spreading ‘facts’, how do you like that commies?
Taxes? Pshaw! I just sit around eating bon bons all day and giving birth to children I don’t take care of.
I just sit around eating bon bons all day and giving birth to children I don’t take care of
*packing suitcase, grabbing passport*
*packing suitcase, grabbing passport*
You can’t leave! We’re supposed to be on Maury next week!
“Just How Large Was the Attendance At Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally?”
Very large were the attendees anyway.
You can’t leave! We’re supposed to be on Maury next week!
*SCREECH*
Oh yea. I need that paycheck. It’s paying for the hookers in Tahiti.
Interesting. The only independent source says 75,000 to 90,0000…
I like Beckapalooza, myself. Or Tbogg’s coinage, “Beckstock.”
risked their lives for liberty and she wondered if Beck knew any modern-day politicians who had done or would do the same…Beck’s answer: Michelle Bachmann.
She’s the only one so crazy I can imagine her strapping herself into an explosive vest and heading out for the Mall of America on a Back to School Sale day.
The others would just convince some other poor schlump to do it.
nearly half a million people were in attendance
*lukewarm coffee spittake*
No, sorry, one 300 pound person does not count as 3 people.
By all reasonable estimates, nearly half a million people were in attendance
If, by “reasonable estimate” you mean the opinions of people trapped deep in the crowd, going, “Golly, Martha, there must be half a million folks here!”
Official crowd estimates
True, but even that’s finite and eventually the tables will turn. Part of why they’re so desperate to re-acquire the Bush tax laws is they were starting to drain their coffers. Another economic or natural disaster and more people will wake up to this fact, just as they did after Katrina and after the mortgage collapse. The returns they are getting on their investments are getting smaller and smaller and useful idiots fewer and fewer. They can’t establish an equilibrium. It will eventually collapse around them.
I hope you’re right. Like I said, Katrina and the mortgage collapse should have led to a swing away from them, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. At most, Beck & co. use things like the bailout to direct anti-bankster sentiment against the Democrats.
If the equilibrium’s going to collapse around them, I sure wish it’d get a move on and do it.
What a quarter of a million people looks like
Note that you can see the crowd all the way back to the Washington Monument and then some
Beck’s crowd
Taken from the Washington Monument. It looks to be about half the size.
If, by “reasonable estimate” you mean the opinions of people trapped deep in the crowd, going, “Golly, Martha, there must be half a million folks here!”
“Why, I bet there’s 500 times more people than we have in Lickspit, Nebraska!”
At most, Beck & co. use things like the bailout to direct anti-bankster sentiment against the Democrats.
People are smarter than that. That a public and vocal minority can be swayed does not mean the American people themselves are buying it. They’ll offer flimsy support at best, and once the teabaggers turn out to be as bad as they are angry, they’ll be a footnote on the pages of history.
If that. Anybody remember William Jennings Bryant as anything beyond the attorney in the Scopes trial?
People are smarter than that. That a public and vocal minority can be swayed does not mean the American people themselves are buying it. They’ll offer flimsy support at best, and once the teabaggers turn out to be as bad as they are angry, they’ll be a footnote on the pages of history.
Provided we can get people to give a shit in the first place. If we can’t, then it makes the teabaggers more powerful.
Provided we can get people to give a shit in the first place.
Eventually. There’s the problem
Provided we can get people to give a shit in the first place.
Eventually. There’s the problem
Beck is a natural enema of liberalism.
Just like when Doughboy convinced the Great Unwashed that liberals = hitler in that stupid book so will the spawn of TGU grow to believe that Beck was the rightful heir to MLK, and that MLK’s message was about helping you and yours through constant prayer and not social and economic justice.
so will the spawn of TGU grow to believe that Beck was the rightful heir to MLK, and that MLK’s message was about helping you and yours through constant prayer and not social and economic justice.
The size of either group or even combined totals a bucket of warm spit in terms of the ocean of the electorate.
*lukewarm coffee spittake*
No, sorry, one 300 pound person does not count as 3 people.”
I am waiting to get my car detailed and need entertainment. This is a great start.
Honor wasn’t the only thing restored at the rally
I am waiting to get my car detailed¹ and need entertainment.
¹VNoonerR
The only independent source says 75,000 to 90,000
Joe Scar said 300,000 talking to Howard Dean this morning, and during that conversation raised it to 500,000. It’ll be a million by noon.
Million Moron March, indeed.
@ Actor:
I know, but they have a friggin’ news show and countless hours of hate radio to blast their message. This more than makes up for their small numbers (at least to the untrained media).
“I am waiting to get my car detailed¹ and need entertainment.
¹VNoonerR”
I think that’s one of the few services they don’t offer.
How is Triumph of the Swill any different than the “9/12” project which had about the same number of people and of people dressed up as Uncle Sam?
I know, but they have a friggin’ news show and countless hours of hate radio to blast their message.
I’m not worried, long term. Well, I mean, I am a little, and if you read my blog, you’ll see why, but ultimately, history will stomp them into the mud.
Short term, that’s where the damage happens.
I am waiting to get my car detailed and need entertainment. This is a great start.
You’re welcome! I am currently gimptastic (shut up, Actor), and could use entertainment, too…and help getting to the bathroom.
It’ll be a million by noon
Guess we’ll know the real number come votin’ time, won’t we? Cause surely they’ll all show up to the polls!
I am currently gimptastic (shut up, Actor), and could use entertainment, too…and help getting to the bathroom.
Ooooh, I’m not really into scatophilia, but in your case I’d make an exception…
Most of us live in the short term. In the long run we’re all dead.
I am currently gimptastic (shut up, Actor), and could use entertainment, too…and help getting to the bathroom.
You could entertain the rest of us by postings videos of you limping off to piss.
You could entertain the rest of us by postings videos of you limping off to piss.
She’s wearing the gimp suit, too!
Most of us live in the short term. In the long run we’re all dead.
Yea.
Funny thing about life, innit? It ends.
Ooooh, I’m not really into scatophilia, but in your case I’d make an exception…
Um, thanks?
You could entertain the rest of us by postings videos of you limping off to piss.
Limping would be preferable to scooting my ass along the floor or wrangling crutches. I’m actually most amused by my self-talk, which is thisclose to “You went peepee in the big girl potty! Good job!”
Limping would be preferable to scooting my ass along the floor
Of course, we can just follow the slime trail to find you if need be…
Of course, we can just follow the slime trail to find you if need be…
Oh, yeah, that’s right. I wasn’t talking to you.
This would be the same Michelle Bachmann who hid in the bushes to spy on a gay event? THAT Michelle Bachmann?
Oh, yeah, that’s right. I wasn’t talking to you.
It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full anyway.
I’m actually most amused by my self-talk, which is thisclose to “You went peepee in the big girl potty! Good job!”
Your self-talk is suspiciously Vitteresque.
Not quite, T&U. He said, after discussing part of Beck’s spooch* where Beck made up some new classification for Obama which is neither Xian nor Moozlim, “…even though there is no evidence”. Close, but not quite.
It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full anyway.
You would know…
Your self-talk is suspiciously Vitteresque.
As appealing as not having to get up to go to the bathroom sounds, I try to avoid adult didies at all costs.
It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full anyway.
You would know…
That may be the first time in my life I’ve ever been accused of being polite.
You know, the right like to label political figures they don’t like as “the antichrist”. But the myth says the antichrist will be someone who will look very attractive to the true believers. So a more likely candidate to fit the myth would be someone like Glenn Beck or Jerry Falwell.
Most credit should go to the reporter who pointed out that Bech’s words were just moer in his incessant efforts to make Obama other.
Funny thing about life, innit? It ends.
Today is the first day of what’s left of your life.
Today is the first day of what’s left of your life.
Or the last day of your life…so far.
That may be the first time in my life I’ve ever been accused of being polite.
I guess I’m feeling generous today.
I checked in on the Glenn Beck speech on C-span for about ten minutes, then I went and did somethig useful for a while. Then I looked back in on it for about ten minutes to see if anything miraculous had happened yet. Of the twenty minutes I watched, Beck said a lot of stuff, but he really didn’t say anything at all. I did not hear anything that made sense, anything inspiring and several things that were self contradictory. Now I;’m not a wingnut, but I still have to believe that at least half the people who showed up were thinking “why the hell am I standing out here in the hot sun listening to this crap” after about twenty minutes or so.
Robert Costa at The Corner:
Robert Costa at The Corner:
The Denial is strong with this one.
I still don’t know what “restoring honor” means. When did the country lose its honor? Lemme guess: when their old white guy didn’t win?
The money will run out, eventually.
Will it? The top 1% have so much money and tend to get a bigger and bigger share. So why not spend a little on useful idiots? Worked well so far.
Its the best investment they can make. A little red meat for the useful idiots who keep electing people who will send more tax money back into the hands of the wealthy.
I mean, pretty much any money they give the Tea Party is going to go right back into their hands anyway. The organizers know how to fleece their own.
When did the country lose its honor?
When she gave it up for a five dollar tax cut and some candy.
“When did the country lose its honor?
When she gave it up for a five dollar tax cut and some candy.”
America sounds like a slut.
I guess I’m feeling generous today.
Percocet is wonderful thing.
When did the country lose its honor?
When we started enslaving people to do our dirty work?
When we started killing the inconvenient locals through disease, slaughter and starvation?
When we stole land to fatten our empire with no regard for the people who already lived there?
When we started wars of imperial aggression?
And when we whitewash and ignore all of the above in the name of patriotism?
“When we started enslaving people to do our dirty work?
When we started killing the inconvenient locals through disease, slaughter and starvation?
When we stole land to fatten our empire with no regard for the people who already lived there?
When we started wars of imperial aggression?”
That’s NOT what I’m talking about.
When did the country lose its honor?
When we allowed an addled-pated drug addict to control the national dialogue?¹
¹ This could, of course, refer to any number of people, from Beck to Limbaugh to Imus to Bush the Younger.
I do believe this speech will go down in history as “The Glenn Beck I HAVE A
DREAM!list of words that get wingnuts excited!” speech.This would be the same Michelle Bachmann who hid in the bushes to spy on a gay event? THAT Michelle Bachmann?
That is one way to interpret it. Another might be:
“This would be the same Michelle Bachmann who self-taught herself clandestine reconnaisance techniques normally only practiced by our most elite special forces soldiers and then put her life on the line deploying to an event put on by some of America’s worst enemies, the kind of people who want to destroy marriage and the core of American families? THAT Michelle Bachman?”
Cases could be made for either interpretation. Michelle Bachmann: Crazy Gay-Stalker or Delta-Savant in Defense of Families.
That’s NOT what I’m talking about.
Oh, then you must be talking about
when we started negotiating trade polices down the barrel of a gun?
when we sold out the middle class for corporate windfalls?
when we impoverished our trading partners through economic imperialism?
when we created narco republics to feed our insatiable demand for drugs to finance dirty wars abroad?
when slashed university funding to build bigger and better prisons to house a whole generation of modern day slaves?
The money will run out, eventually.
Except they keep stealing more.
The only independent source says 75,000 to 90,0000…
NOT REASONABLE!
I think last time the DC subway disclosed its ridership stats for the Sunday and they weren’t appreciably higher than a non-event Sunday such that the people going to the rally weren’t even statistically significant.
I looked around but can’t find anything on it yet, but maybe some smart journalist will call up a DC metro person and get the goods.
This would be the same Michelle Bachmann who hid in the bushes to spy on a gay event?
It was caught on videotape.
Let us consider standard towel sizes.
I think last time the DC subway disclosed its ridership stats for the Sunday and they weren’t appreciably higher than a non-event Sunday such that the people going to the rally weren’t even statistically significant.
You don’t really expect these people to ride the subway, do you? That would be like risking their lives for FREEDOM or something.
Flip,
Give it a couple of days
You don’t really expect these people to ride the subway, do you?
They were, in fact, warned to stay off the Metro by a “blogger” last week.
I guess to avoid a blow up and ridicule like whatisface suffered after the 9/12 rally when a small herd of pre-teen thugs mocked him to his face, and he threatened to shoot them in his after-thoughts.
This would be the same Michelle Bachmann who hid in the bushes to spy on a gay event?
It was caught on videotape.
This is central to my point! The fact that they were even able to detect the Delta-Savant in Defense of Families just shows that the gays are intensely training to advance their insidious attacks on America!
[hangs head]
OK, I got nothin.
I spent yesterday driving (mid-coast Maine to south Georgia in 24 1/2 hours, a new personal best) listening to satellite radio and heard a lot about the Beckopalypse. As to restoring honor, well. Honor can refer to female virginity and as to our nation’s honor in that respect I believe the unicorn is already out of the barn. Then there’s the glove slapping, seconds calling, pistols at dawn kind of honor. Is this all about Burr being a better shot than Hamilton? What other kind of freaking honor can they be going on about?
Wanna bet these are Beckites?
What other kind of freaking honor can they be going on about?
A white President.
BTW, “Support Our Troops”?
WHen did we stop?
Wanna bet these are Beckites?
That would be a sucker bet. I shall decline.
Well, honor is a wonderfully nebulous word. “You’ve offended my honor” pretty much means “you’ve hurt my ego”. That is what this was really about.A lot of insecure white people’s egos have been hurt by reality, and Beck is salving (restoring) those egos by denying that reality.
We lawfully elected a black democrat president. How much can a white man who believes his country was made by and for white men take?
How much can a white man who believes his country was made by and for white men take?
The history of the United States has been an erosion, sometimes slowly, sometimes violently, of white male privilege.
Some see this as a bad thing. Some are idiots. By allowing more opportunity for everyone, you build a stronger, better nation. Period.
It’s a different nation than the one white supremacists would want to inhabit. And instead of racists, perhaps we should start referring to them as “supremacists”.
Glenn Beck has done every bit as much to improve America’s politics as GG Allin did to improve its music.
Nativism in the US has turned shrill & incoherent because its fan-club can feel it waning in strength.
Cultural diversity is eating nativism like Coca-Cola eats a coin, & for the “Can We Have Another Bush Junta Yet?” Mighty Whitey Tightie demographic, that’s not the organic evolution of society – it’s doomsday.
supremacists”.
They might take it as a compliment.
Pictures from the aerial survey company:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014993-503544.html
The crowd has a lot of green space between people. Not dense at all for about 3/4 of the space the crowd covers.
The crowd has a lot of green space between people. Not dense at all for about 3/4 of the space the crowd covers.
So, beach towel? Bed sheet?
Glen Beck offered to restore our honor. We honored his offer. So all weekend long it was honor and offer, honor and offer.
So, beach towel? Bed sheet?
Based on the picture?
Area rug
Million Moran March
Back halfway up the page,
The size of either group or even combined totals a bucket of warm spit in terms of the ocean of the electorate.
Yes, but they’re the most highly motivated and politicized part of the electorate right now. That’s the problem. Elections are won by motivated people. There’s probably just as many people now as in the 1930s who believe free-market fundiism sucks and there has to be a bette way – problem is, there’s no one to give voice to their concerns, and the system as of right now militates against real populists emerging.
Elections are won by motivated people. There’s probably just as many people now as in the 1930s who believe free-market fundiism sucks and there has to be a bette way – problem is, there’s no one to give voice to their concerns, and the system as of right now militates against real populists emerging.
There’s some truth to this, with the added caveat that elections are really won by money.
I don’t think the Teabaggers have enough to buy a Congress, much less a Presidency.
Glenn Beck has done every bit as much to improve America’s politics as GG Allin did to improve its music.
Indeed a good comparison, Beck the aurator’s speech has all of same quality of GG with his pants around his ankles aiming a quart of liquid excrement at the audience.
Can we get a suicide on stage, Glen?
Hm. What if someone got Tania Beck drunk and made a sex tape with her? Think that would throw him in a suicidal rage?
I mean, this is a guy who divorced his first wife once he learned she had cerebral palsy.
Which apparently was contagious…
Best.Headline.Evah!
How did he become a Mason? Easy. “George Washington” was actually Adam Weishaupt, and man if Beck started doing this sort of thing on his chalkboard I would totally watch his show.
“George Washington” was actually Adam Weishaupt
I demand George Washington’s long form, non-Kenyan birth certificate vault copy!
“I demand George Washington’s long form, non-Kenyan birth certificate vault copy!”
Don’t forget to check the kerning.
Can’t claim credit, saw it somewhere:
Glenn Beck’s “I Have a Scam” Rally
Also, what is this stuff about the Masons? My high-school boyfriend’s dad was a Mason and you never saw so many pasty, overstuffed white Republicans in your life as at their social events — and this is when Republicans were uptight local business types, not ex-Confederate whackaloons.
#actor212 said, August 30, 2010 at 20:11
There’s some truth to this, with the added caveat that elections are really won by money.
I don’t think the Teabaggers have enough to buy a Congress, much less a Presidency.
Two words: Koch brothers (rhymes with…) See Jane Mayer’s story in “The New Yorker”.
Also, what is this stuff about the Masons? My high-school boyfriend’s dad was a Mason and you never saw so many pasty, overstuffed white Republicans in your life as at their social events — and this is when Republicans were uptight local business types, not ex-Confederate whackaloons.
The Masons have been a bugaboo for the Fundamentalists for a quite a long while now. Masonry is ecumenical, it supports the brotherhood of all men, OF COURSE the raving bigot brigade will hate and fear it.
The fact it may be a puppet group for THE ILLUMINATI doesn’t help either fnord.
Kinda makes sense. They’re kindred spirits. They’re both batshit crazy, and they both babble in languages no one but them can understand.