But I’m curious what they have to say about the “fact” that Dr. Althea King loves Glenn Beck. Let me guess, she must be sick or something, right?

The only item I wish to add to the comments above is addressed to those who accuse Beck’s detractors of not watching his show.

I am a Beck detractor on steroids and I watch his show down to the painful act of having to transcribe from it from time to time. If you fall for his garbage you are a weak-minded, uninformed, sentimental fool. You had best start taking a hard look at his revisionist, hate-filled, racist history and start doing some critical thinking. If you believe his version of either the past or the present you are living in a world of paranoid delusions, not some kind of Everyman truthout. Get a clue. Drop your superstitions. Think.

-Wexler

Glenn Beck: Today, we announced the first 15 minutes of the 8-28 event and the people that will join me on stage. We announced that we are going to start — restart the Badge of Merit that George Washington gave his troops. It’s what the Purple Heart is based on, except the Progressives — what a surprise — in 1933 introduced the Purple Heart.

The Purple Heart was based on the badge of merit by George Washington. It had nothing to do with being wounded in action. It had everything to do with doing something of honor and integrity, something to — something that — where you really put your neck out and you did something of real merit, not just getting shot — not that that’s –

But he was trying to build people that understood honor and merit and integrity and God.”

Take THAT, 442 Regimental Combat Team!!! Glenn Beck is NOT impressed by your exploits!!

The Jonestown incident involved Flavor Aid, not Cool Aid.
See how myths overtake facts? That’s exactly why Beck’s abuse of information presented as fact is being discussed in this forum in the first place.

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Brooks I am curious to know how many books or even websites you have read about socialism that lead you to make this statement. Can you name a single book you have read on the topic?

According to the CIA World Factbook, nine European countries rank above us in terms of per capita GDP — Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Netherlands. The United Kingdom, Austria, Canada, Australia, France, and Germany rank right below us.

All lean toward socialism.

Would you care to rethink your views once you have sufficient information to be able to make a rational comment about socialism?

Two questions about your stance against a woman’s right to terminate pregnancy, based on the arguments you provide. I would be very eager to know your answers:

1) Do you or do you not support capital punishment?

2) Since you feel life begins at conception, do you not agree that any fetus conceived in the United States by foreign parents, who are not in the country at the time of birth, is entitled to birthright citizenship per the 14th Amendment?

This of course has nothing to do with the fact that once the child is born the Republicans no longer give a damn one way or the other what happens to it or the mother.

you realize that Liberal anger at conservatives is the result of 40 plus years of right wing smear campaigns thrown at the Liberal movement.
I for one have encountered lots of hateful conservatives online who routinely through insults my way. Before you try taking the high road, the movement you support needs to tone done the rhetoric and inflammatory remarks. Maybe once the conservative movement shows a little good faith towards those they disagree with, especially when things don’t go their way, you’ll find that those you complain about will be a lot more civil. The Ball is in the conservative movement’s court and it is time for them to practice what they preach.

Until then stop singling out a few random people and making them look like they are the face of the liberal movement.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/pres.....index.html

Be advised, ever-afraid conservatives, you will be exposed to ideas not approved by the right-wing noise machine.

@Zac- What about the people who don’t want “God”, or I should say your god(I doubt Beck has a big Hindu or Muslim following)? Do they get to live in America too?

@”Proud American”- Were you aware that MLK’s dream involved something called “democratic socialism”, and that Beck’s equivalents in those days called him a Communist? In fact one of Beck’s ideological mentors, W. Cleon Skousen, believed MLK to be a Communnist and believed as many conservatives did at the time that the civil rights movement was a Communist plot.

Anyway, it’s shameful and chilling. The Republicans are divisive – that’s their M.O.

Karen- Please explain how anyone in the White House is a “Marxist” thug, explain what you think Marxism is, explain why Wall Street banks gave a “Marxist” thus 3 million more dollars in campaign contributions than his opponent. Also were you aware that the Fox Network’s parent company, Newscorp, makes billions of dollars off of “Communist” China?

See, this is why we make fun of you Beck fans, because you deserve it. You spit out words like “Marxist thug,” “Nazi”, “Constitution”, “Founding Fathers”, and you have no idea what you are talking about because you are regurgitating information from a DJ who also didn’t know what he was talking about. You lack the ability to look at sources objectively and determine who probably has more expertise to speak or write about something. If it doesn’t fit the narrative put out by some slick commentator, it must be “liberal” and thus biased.

Alright, members of Beck’s flock, ye who get your historical and political education from a radio DJ. Now is your chance to defend Beck. Choose any comment or claim about Beck made by this article or other commentators on this blog, and debunk it. Anything at all.