Dennis Prager Is Stupid

8:48 am EST July 28th, 2010 | Conservative | 7 Comments

Lamenting about those mean liberals in the National Review, Prager writes:

Would mainstream conservative journalists e-mail one another wishes that they could be present while Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or Michael Moore died slowly and painfully of a heart attack?

Mr. Prager, meet Glenn Beck:

BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.

Again, meet Glenn Beck:

Just three days after imploring his viewers to refrain from “violence,” warning them that “just one lunatic, like Timothy McVeigh, could ruin everything,” and saying that “it is your patriotic duty to stop” someone who is thinking or talking about turning violent, Glenn Beck staged a scene in which he gave a glass of wine to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then said, “I put poison in your — no, I — I look forward to all the policy discussions that we’re supposed to have.”

Beck didn’t make these statements on a private e-mail list. In fact he made them on nationally syndicated broadcast radio and on national cable news.

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7 Responses to “Dennis Prager Is Stupid”

  1. Enlightened Liberal says:
    July 28, 2010 at 10:39 am

    Granted, both are still wrong. However, it is a matter of degree. There is little chance that someone on a LISTSERV that consists of journalists will try to act on these things. Glenn Beck’s audience? Wouldn’t be surprised if these words became an incitement to violence. In fact, his words already have incited violence.

  2. Jinbanme says:
    July 28, 2010 at 10:41 am

    Prager never resorts to name calling. he consistently lays out his points and contrasts them with opposite views. He is always a gentleman. Whereas Beck sometimes does go too far in assigning evil motives to people.

    To refute Prager’s points with a mainstream example of negative rhetoric from the right is fair, but maybe debatable. To call him “stupid” is base and childish.

    While I describe your rhetoric here in negative terms, I offer no opinion of your character.

  3. LongHairedWeirdo says:
    July 28, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    One thing to keep in mind is that conservatives are now completely using up all of their “oh, for heaven’s sake, *IT WAS A JOKE!*” defenses when they say anything bad about liberal folks. Save these clippings; next time any one of them who attacked Journolist says something mean and pretends it was a joke, remind them that they clearly expect any such statement to be taken seriously, even when spoken in private.

  4. Robert says:
    July 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Prager stupid? In other news, water is wet, the sun rises in the East, and another Dennis is flying to Mr. Prager’s defense.

  5. Gary says:
    July 28, 2010 at 10:52 pm

    Robert, you are in over your head. As Mark Twain said…”It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

  6. Jaim says:
    July 28, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    “To call him ‘stupid’ is base and childish.”

    And entirely accurate.

  7. Scott Mercer says:
    July 29, 2010 at 1:53 am

    Fine. I will not call Dennis Prager stupid. Ignorant, perhaps, but not stupid. He appears quite intelligent.

    But I will say that in my opinion, the stick up Dennis Prager’s ass has a stick up its ass.