Glenn Beck: He Says He Honors Martin Luther King, Opposes Central Idea Behind MLK
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To reiterate, anyone who believes this huckster is an idiot. Even worse if you travel across the country to see him handle snakes.
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Shorter Glenn Beck: MLK has his MLK, and I have mine.
“YOU’RE JEALOUS NOBODY WATCHES MSNBC”-Matt Drudge
Quick quiz. Which spiritual leader actually said the following:
Was it:
a. Jesus Christ
b. Mother Teresa
c. Martin Luther King, Jr.
d. Glenn Fucking Beck
Clearly he’s a joke, why isn’t everybody laughing?
Because he’s a joke but he’s not a funny joke
Bishop shot and killed at Mormon church in Visalia
Clearly anti-Mormon hysteria aimed at Glenn Beck by the left-wing.
Are we seriously so stupid and far gone that we’re going to recreate 1930s Germany?
Wow Denise…kind of early for a “look over there” isn’t it?
Hey Denise the Dipshit, here’s an sterling example of the Mormons’ tolerance of non-Mormons.
Just learned today that Beck’s a Mormon, which led me to his Wikipedia bio. Wow. I’m not saying you can’t overcome all that early trauma, but even as the background of a megalomaniac demagogue it’s pretty hair-raising.
Downtown Randy Brown, why would you condone the killing of an innocent man such as this bishop, just because of an incident that happened back in 1857 that he had nothing to do with?
Why do you hate the “other”?
1930′s Germany much?
Our criticism of racism and religious bigotry in the tea party must really be getting to you, Dennis, otherwise you wouldn’t be reaching so far for your you-too-isms.
I can almost see the shit-eating grin on your face as you type your response: “You’re not getting to me, Wilbur…” Yeah, sure we’re not.
For the record, when the Democratic Party, Daily Kos and Media Matters sponsor a big Keith Olbermann Rally with anti-mormon rhetoric, with people carrying signs saying “A Mormon on Teevee is a Moron on Teevee”, and demanding that no Mormon churches be built within three blocks of any Ted Bundy murder site, then you can post stuff like this and not look like a complete dookey-shoot.
Ah, Dennis, what a stunning “look over there” piece of crap you pulled while your hero Glenn Beck goes around spitting, once again,on a real American hero, MLK. It’s amazing, Dennis, how full of hate you are for Americans and liberals that you’re reduced to the stupidity you’re reduced to.
Are any of us so stupid as to believe that the Salt of the Earth is as suspicious and hostile toward Mormons as toward Muslims?
I mean, what kind of head-in-the-sand ignoramus would even imply that?
Google “The Mountain Meadows Massacre” and then tell us how wonderful the Mormons again.
“the Mormons are again” for “the Mormons again”.
Fixed.
It’s amazing, Dennis, how full of hate you are for Americans and liberals that you’re reduced to the stupidity you’re reduced to.
I don’t hate anyone, Tyro. As much as you need for that to be true in order to validate your animosity towards anyone who doesn’t espouse your liberal philosophy, or you the “others”, if you will, it simply just isn’t true.
If you think what I wrote here as commentary to a very true story is stupid, a story far worse than what little you know about some construction equipment at the site of a future mosque being set ablaze for which you likened to 1930′s Germany, then you need to do some serious soul searching about just what it is you think should define stupidity. It can’t be that Oliver’s hysteria about equipment being set on fire by who the hell knows who is serious, and the commentary by me about left-wing hysteria about Glenn Beck and a mormon bishop being murdered is just pure stupidity. Your logic does not follow, Tyro.
Either MLK believed:
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Or he believed in quotas based on the color of skin; have it both ways, you cannot!
…and demanding that no Mormon churches be built within three blocks of any Ted Bundy murder site, then you can post stuff like this and not look like a complete dookey-shoot.
Will I. Am, serious question.
Do you think the comparison by Oliver to 1930′s Germany hysteria is a valid one to what’s going on today?
Google “The Mountain Meadows Massacre” and then tell us how wonderful the Mormons again.
“So….”what you are saying, DA, this your justification for what happened a century and a half ago and part of the Obama philosophy of “we will punch back twice as hard”?
Shorter DA: “The 1859 incident must not remain unavenged!”
Sorry Den.un.is, you don’t get to ask any serious questions as long as you’re slinging dogshit like this. I’m not going to play chess with someone who’s brandishing a can of cheez whiz.
I’m saying they’re a group with a clear history of violence against non-Mormons, and therefore they and their offshoots(like Ervil Baron) should be watched carefully.
I’m not going to play chess with someone who’s brandishing a can of cheez whiz.
The reference to Nazi Germany was the cheez whiz, Wilbur. And you guys ordered up the boxes of Ritz Crackers and had a nice little serious discussion about it. You wolfed down the cheez whiz like there was no tomorrow. Of course you think this is like 1930′s Germany.
“Of course you think this is like 1930′s Germany.”
So does Glenn Beck, and he gets to have a big party on the lawn.
Or Weimar Germany:
History according to Glenn Beck:
Missing from the Beckathon was the song. Mutatis mutandis.
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gather together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch on the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon says a whisper, arise, arise
Tomorrow belongs to me
Tomorrow belongs to me
O Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
Your children have waited to see
The morning will come
When the world is mine
Tomorrow belongs
Tomorrow belongs
Tomorrow belongs to me
Not hearing a lot from wingnuts comparing Beck to social justice champion MLK–you know, the subject of this post. Maybe it “won’t show up in google.”
anotherbozo, why would that crowd want to sing a show tune written by a pair of Jews?
Ah, Dennis, at the end of the day, your hero Glenn beck and his parade of hatred filled animals tries to claim the mantle of MLK, but at the end of the day, they hate what he stood for. Those opposed to MLK were, like the beck fans of today, people who hated the poor and shilled for the warmongers and right wing tycoons of their day, just as you do. The republican party has become a hate group.
Doctorpsycho1960
Aren’t most showtunes written by Jews?
When it comes to the entertainment industry they pretty much have the market covered.
So does Glenn Beck, and he gets to have a big party on the lawn.
Gosh darn, hnice, if I didn’t know you any better, and I admit I barely know you at all, I’d almost have the impression you didn’t think Glenn Beck had that right. Or, perish the thought, that you acknowledged that he did have the right, but you opposed it.
Nahhhh. Now way you’d be thinking THAT!
Sorry — are you taking issue with either of my assertions? Because they sort of undercut the idea that the left made up shouting about how the US pre WW2 germany.
missed an = in there. US = pre ww2 germany.
Dark Avenger said (and Randy Brown seemed to agree)
I’m saying they’re a group with a clear history of violence against non-Mormons, and therefore they and their offshoots(like Ervil Baron) should be watched carefully.
Sort of like Muslims, eh boys?
“Sort of like Muslims, eh boys?”
Yes, exactly — the difference is — and try and keep up — we don’t get suspicious of Mormons, but apparently *everyone* is suspicious of Muslims. So, yes. Sort of like them, as you say, but one group is the target of nationwide protests, while the other isn’t.
Is it just me, or is that just not that hard to follow?
hnice, you need to reread Dark Avenger’s post. He said Mormons need to be watched carefully. This after commenting about a Mormon bishop who was just shot and killed.
Evidently, yes, is it just you.
Evidently, yes, it is just you.
Sorry Dennis, you’re confused: I was responding to IL.
Good gravy, they really don’t understand sarcasm, do they?
Ol’ Froth, Dennis has some sort of high-functioning autism or something, because he really does struggle with these kinds of social interactions. Sarcasm is way too complex for him to wrap his feeble little brain around.
Every once in a while, the mask slips, Ol Froth. Thank God hnice has the old ‘Oh, I was just being sarcastic.’ excuse to go to the well on when it does.
See, Froth? And no matter how absurdly over-the-top the sarcasm actually was, or what hnice says now, or what anyone tells Dennis, he’s sticking to his guns. Same old, same old. Dennis’s perception IS reality, and ain’t nobody gonna tell him different.
What a egocentric hack.
Um, yeah, but when I read the post, I clearly saw it as sarcasm, hnice didn’t have to explain that to me.
@doctorpsycho1960: “that crowd” would be surprised to learn that Jesus was a Jew.
Gawd.
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This is who they are, Noel. This is what they do.
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FINALLY.
This is Hitler and Goebbels and Nazi-style character assassination all over again, Pollak.
In other words, in trying economic times, opportunistic political movements demonize the “other” and the result is often character assassination against ethnic minorities.
Tell me, August, are we seriously so stupid and far gone that we’re going to recreate 1930s Germany?
Again Dennis, you (and the right) clearly do not understand sarcasm. You didn’t “get” the Brietbart reference in the piece? The writer of the article you linked to didn’t get it either.
This is Hitler and Goebbels and Nazi-style character assassination all over again, Pollak.
Apparently, Huffington Post didn’t get the sarcasm, either, Ol’ Froth.
THOSE DAMNED EDITORS!
Guster, you’re not getting my sarcasm.
“Thank God hnice has the old ‘Oh, I was just being sarcastic.’ excuse to go to the well on when it does.”
What the fuck is this piece of shit talking about? I was serious the entire time. Not my fault if no one has any fucking idea what he’s talking about.
I’m trying to make any sense of this — if it’s about the ‘party on the lawn’ comment, I was completely serious. Go google ‘Glenn Beck Weimar’ — he thinks it’s 1930s germany. And he did get to have a big party. Which of those wasn’t I clear about, and how could I possibly have been more literal? It was a statement of fact about what you can hope to achieve if you compare America in 2010 to pre-WW2 germany. If this bothers you because you think this comparison is hysterical, I mean, what can I say?
Who’s Guster? Is he Polly’s boyfriend? Do they both know Ted Rall?
Not sure MLK would cite Elizabeth Dilling as a must read.
Since his assassination in 1968, he has been the single most important exemplar of civil rights and of liberalism generally in recent world history. – Conservapedia
Stories You Won’t Find at Media Matters…..
Education secretary urged his employees to attend Sharpton’s rally
Chicago-style intimidation tactics being funded by the American taxpayer.
This is who they are.
This is what they do.
“Are we seriously so stupid and far gone that we’re going to recreate 1930s Germany?”
Dennis, go get your own blog.
Shorter Oliver: IOKIYAD
Shorter me: This has nothing to do with what we’re talking about, Duncan didn’t do anything wrong, and Dennis needs to go get his own blog.
Yes, had any of Bush’s cabinet secretaries told their minions to attend a political rally of any type, Oliver would declare “nothing wrong” and let it sit without commenting at all. In other news, the sky is green.
PS: Isn’t it about time for another update on the ObamaBoom?
And invitation to do something is now a requirement to do so?
Yah think, SF?:
Link
What happens when Obama wants to cut taxes for small businesses? That’s right, republican obstructionism – they don’t even believe in their own ideology:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/47768/20100831/obama-urges-republicans-to-drop-the-blockade-on-jobs-bill.htm
P.S. MLKs March for Jobs and Freedom demanded a minimum wage increase. Odd, the Mall looks much fuller than for Beck’s rally.
An e-mail saying that the education secretary is going to be somewhere, and employees are invited to attend, is “intimidation” in Chicago? Wow.
That’s really pretty pathetically weak. Do you have an opinion on why you grab such weak stuff and try to make them out to be meaningful?