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That’s about right.
So nasty, uncivil, and true. Love it.
I don’t think it’s that funny. Probably because it’s not outlandish enough.
Or at all, really.
Fitz! He’s my local cartoonist for the AZ Daily Star. He’s great, you should read the letters to the editors from grumpy old Fox news viewers complaining about him practically every day. They are always listing ‘retired’ as their occupation. Go figure.
“Or at all, really.”
Huh?
I should point out that I DID read mambo’s third comment, and I still can’t figure out what “Or at all, really.” is supposed to mean
I only see two comments from mambo.
In any event, it seems to me that s/he’s saying that the strip isn’t outlandish enough. That is, it’s not an exaggeration of what Beck would have done (of what Beck DOES do currently).
Huh?
Sean’s right. Sorry for the confusion. “Probably because it’s not outlandish enough. Or at all, really.” Meaning that the strip is just an accurate representation of Beck.
Mr Willis:
If I told you that more Black Blogs and more Lampblack Yellow Journalists have focused on Glenn Beck in the past month than they have over the more material and proven threats to our community – would you be surprised?
http://withintheblackcommunity.blogspot.com/2010/09/as-prevailing-leadership-of-our.html
The fact that Al Shaprton took the state at the venerable “Preparatory High School For Colored Youth”, once the top ranked school for Black Americans under the leadership of Anna Julia Cooper who is commemorated on a US postal stamp. Today – despite having favorable people running the city of Washing DC and the School system – the school that is now known as “Dunbar High School” is merely just another failing inner city school.
As you focus on Glenn Beck few focus on Al Sharpton and his search for QUALITY EDUCATION while failing to note that it was once in place at Dunbar yet it escaped as people like you became focused on your external enemies to the PROGRESSIVE instead of the actual threats to the Black community.
Constructive, can it, alright? Seriously. We call this ‘look over there!’, and the idea is that if you point at something else, we’ll all stop noticing that Glenn Beck is a giant racist.
Nice cartoon, Oliver. The ‘federal stormtrooper’ thing is exactly right. ‘States’ rights’ is and always has been the go-to for racist apologists. It was during the Lost Cause, it was during the integration of the schools, and it is today.
Glenn Beck is the 21st century Lonesome Rhodes: http://tildology.com/2010/08/29/a-face-in-the-crowd/
For those wondering what the heck is a Lonesome Rhodes:
http://tildology.com/2009/09/28/a-face-in-the-crowd-2009/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Face_in_the_Crowd_%28film%29
Just saw that movie recently. A must-see. I pray for Glenn meeting a hot mic and a disgruntled sound guy.
There shoulda been a frame where he says something like “Of course whenever a few silly Negroes get firehosed somebody has to play the race card”
Nice poster, P. Woman.
“GLENN BECK HAS A LOT OF BLACK FRIENDS LIKE ALVEDA KING. YOU LIBS ARE JEALOUS OF HIS RATINGS”-Matt Drudge
Anal retentive nitpick alert:
Shouldn’t that be “Nail, meet hammer”?
Isn’t the head already part of the nail?
I’m assuming that you are referring to the “hitting the nail on the head” saying, not alluding to the fact that your carpentry skills involve headbutting.
No jr, we’s jealous of his GOLD
Yeah, that’s it!
Okay, now I want to see a sequel, “If Glenn Beck Had Been Around in November of 1941″.
Oops, did I Godwin?
You guys really bring the LOL’s!
This little mental masturbatory fantasy about someone that none of you know would have said 40 years ago….just like little children.
A laugh riot I tell ya…..
InverseIntellect,
You’re amusing too, but sadly you’re incapable of getting the joke.
Steve
Hold on….
I’m doing a comic about MLK from 40 years ago, involved in plagiarism and infidelity…You guys are going to love it!
What a bunch of knuckleheads you lefties are….
Yeah iv,
Beck was just mocking what the March for Freedom and Jobs was all about. That’s what entertainers do.
“I could give a flying crap about the political process. Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. We’re an entertainment company.” – Glenn Beck
Oh wait… The cartoon was all about entertaining the rubes?
inbredliberal…flinging his own poo in a blog that delights in deflecting it back to his sorry ass.
Randy you should have a psychiatrist look at that poo and ass obsession of yours…..it is…disconcerting.
This week on Really! (With Seth and Amy) –
inverseliberal suggests that Beck would have been shoulder to shoulder with MLK on the March for Freedom and Jobs. Instead of slagging him as a “community organizer” and socialist.
Really!
yea gumby, really. And here is the evidence:
“Glenn Beck is using his popularity and influence to bring us together … to focus not on politics but on honor and ‘the content of our character not the color of our skin’,” as her uncle had put it, said Alveda King…..”
Do you guys ever get tired of being stupid all the time?
Those are the only words MLK ever said. Ever. He never said anything else. And if he ever did, he actually meant to say the other thing.
Shorter Fafaroo:
“Cant we just erase that part!”
True Equality to a Liberal: It Burns, It Burns!
First iv calls MLK a plagiarist and philanderer, then he supports the assertion that MLK was about “the content of our character not the color of our skin”.
The poo he’s flinging is the shit he ate.
Shorter Fafaroo: “Cant we just erase that part!”
Can I get a ruling here? IL may have set a new record for the shortest length of time it takes for a conservative to forget the totality of MLKs record on equality, affirmative action and social justice after it has been explained to them.
So is nine days a record?
fafaroo,
And then there’s this:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/08/25/martin-luther-king-jr-s-son-slaps-glenn-beck-around-for-his-perversion-of-history/
Apparently in wingnuttia the niece’s opinion carries more weight than the son’s. I like this quote: “my father did not claim that God was on his side; he prayed humbly that he was on God’s side.” The latter speaks to the wise, the former appeals to the fool. But iv may be right, Beck might be refining his strategy.
Can I get a ruling here? IL may have set a new record for the shortest length of time it takes for a conservative to forget the totality of MLKs record on equality, affirmative action and social justice after it has been explained to them.
I’ve often thought it might be useful to keep a database of all the wingnut talking points that have been debunked here without refutation, so that whenever they show up peddling the same exact nonsense (which they will, repeatedly) we can, with one copy-and-paste, dump a bunch of links on their head showing them how often they’ve been taken to the woodshed before.
Not that it would stop them from repeating it again, like a mynah bird with brain damage, but it would ultimately save a bit of typing.
Can we get a ruling here?
Do you leftards agree with MLK when he says
I have a dream that my four little 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 are you going to start hiding behind phrases like “the totality” of his record on equality?
So leftards, do you agree with his “I have a dream” speech or not? This is a yes or no question by the way…..
Yes, I agree Troll, and to bad, and in no small part due tour regressive fellow travellers, we are still not there, judging by you and your ideological brethren treatment of Sherod, Jones, & of course the bogeyman in the White House.
It reminds me of the old joke about telling jokes by number. When Random Wingnut burbles ‘but MLK cheated on his wife!’ we can check the card. ‘#37′, we reply.
Of course, wingnuts will complain that we’re not telling ‘em right.
yes or no questions….
Steve, you are incoherent , Robert, non-responsive.
I’ll bet we won’t be able to get a single lefty to agree to that most basic “dream” of MLK….
That explains a lot…..
Or are you going to start hiding behind phrases like “the totality” of his record on equality?
Jesus fucking christ. IL, the point is not that we “disagree” with this statement:
The point is that MLK did not see this statement as being in conflict, at all, whatsoever, with the social justice policies he advocated for remedying centuries of discrimination, both racial and economic, in this country.
Assholes like Glenn Beck would have you believe otherwise. And rather than actually read and understand MLKs philosophy and his legacy, you take the word of Glenn fucking Beck and write stupid fucking shit like this: “True Equality to a Liberal: It Burns, It Burns!”
This, of course, has been explained to you multiple fucking times by multiple people all of whom have given you ample evidence to prove the point. And again and again and again you come back with the same stupid fucking shit.
Like every other conservative troll here you are impervious to reality, completely opposed to learning if that means changing your preset, Beck-approved world view one iota.
Why do you think that is?
I have a dream that my four little 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. ?
Yes, I share this dream with every mote and iota of my being.
I also think we’re not quite to the point where it can happen yet. That a black man like Obama can be elected president means we have come a long long way. That he can’t serve as president without the sorts of lizard-brain reactions we get from the teabag crowd – go back to Kenya, witch-doctor bone through the nose, why do you hate white people, where’s your birth certificate, etc. means we have a bit of a way still to go.
Do you believe we are at that point, inverseliberal? Why or why not?
One can only imagine what Beck et al would have said about this line from the “Dream” speech had MLK given it today: “In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.”
No doubt we’d be here having to explain what a metaphor is etc. etc.
Fucking idiots.
That he can’t serve as president without the sorts of lizard-brain reactions we get from the teabag crowd …
Or without the Dr. Laura-style response: “A black man is president so it’s okay for me to mock your whining complaints about the continuing casual racism of your white friends and family.”
“Glenn Beck is using his popularity and influence to bring us together … to focus not on politics but on honor and ‘the content of our character not the color of our skin’,” as her uncle had put it, said Alveda King…..”
The same Alveda King who compared gay marriage to genocide? Yeah, she’d be the LAST person that one should refer to in regards to civil rights.
Please stop feeding the trolls.
I have a dream that my four little 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.
Ah, but isn’t the trick is to delude oneself into believing that The Others disagree?
“little children
bunch of knuckleheads
you should have a psychiatrist look at that
Do you guys ever get tired of being stupid all the time?
It Burns, It Burns!
leftards
incoherent
unresponsive”
Maybe Jesus would have gotten more converts by smearing the content of The Other’s character?
I don’t think it’s up to a silly white Jew to decide when all blacks are not being misjudged. I’d say it’s up to the blacks themselves to decide. Would inverseliberal ever allow Muslims (or Turks, or Inuits..) to make that call about Israelis?
Please stop feeding the trolls.
But they look so cute with their hands held out… like that orangutan at the LA zoo.
Please stop feeding the trolls.
How else are we supposed to dispose of the shit they keep shoveling?
What’s more interesting from our perspective about this Glenn Beck phenomenon is that “The Folks in Control,” however one might characterize them in terms of race, status, class, wealth, geographic location or whatever, allowed our current situation to develop over arguably the last 50 – 100 years, and now there are complaints by a vocal group of concerned citizens.
Is it possible, as postulated by some, that the liberal, conservative, progressive, corporate and banking interests, and libertarian POWER FORCES in our society are laughing all the way to the bank, and that we minions with little money and power (the members of the Institute for Applied Common Sense included) are the ones complaining? And that because of new technological advances in communication and the power of the Internet, the voice of the minions is now being disseminated with greater force, essentially saying, “Stop! Enough is enough!”?
Furthermore, is this a case of the minions fighting for limited scraps at the bottom of the heap, while the real riches are controlled by a few? Have we at the bottom been pitted against one another?
Is this arguably a populist movement somewhat similar to the one led by “the Great Commoner,” William Jennings Bryan at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries?
Is what we are experiencing simply the most vocal expression of the perhaps 80% of we citizens at the bottom of the heap?
Kind of wondering whether any of the right-wing supporters here are ready to acknowledge that while no one really knows whatever MLK might have thought of Mr. Beck, intelligent people who are aware of him now agree that Mr. Beck is an idiot.
It’s not really debatable, is it?
It’s not really debatable, is it?
Not if “God” keeps working in mysterious ways. The plutocratic think tanks really knew what they were doing. Right-wing supporters will fight tooth and nail, swimming against all logic, as long as “God” is in control. Athiestic libertarians are just assholes.
Is what we are experiencing simply the most vocal expression of the perhaps 80% of we citizens at the bottom of the heap?
Ya think?
The problem is we’re not made to handle the concentrations of power we have to deal with now. Homo Sapiens is genetically hardwired to function in clan groups of up to 150 or so. Today power can concentrate and multiply thanks to technology and population. Wise people don’t instinctively know how to keep sociopathic self-interests out of positions of power. And fools are easily conned into doing whatever power wants.
Got an answer?
“Is this arguably a populist movement somewhat similar to the one led by “the Great Commoner,” William Jennings Bryan at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries?”
Gee, in the same sense that Beck is the logical heir of MLK, well, sure. In any sort of reality based sense, not at f*cking all. Read the wiki stuff you linked to, stuff about the populist party etc. You do know the difference between liberal and conservative, right?
“Among the Populist party’s platforms were: a graduated income tax, a working day of eight hours and Government control of all railroads, telegraphs, and telephones.”
Totally like the teabaggers!
MLK was a socialist.
No, really. Look at what he wrote. Look at the racist thugs who hated him and eventually managed to have him murdered.
They hated him because a) he was a black leader and almost as importantly b) he was a socialist by the standards of the 1960′s, but he was a raging Communist sympathizer by the standards of a racist buffoon like Beck and all other Teabaggers today.
He was all about social justice. He believed deeply in the need for the redistribution of wealth from the richest to the poorest in America. And his march on Washington was not called “MLK’s March on Washington,” it was called “The March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs.”
No, no. He wanted white people to be free from having to think about race anymore! That’s what that solitary quote he uttered was about! Ask Glenn! MLK was declaring everything even-stevens!
Slavery, segregation and whatnot. Pffft. Aren’t we over that yet? Can’t white people be left alone and be freed of the immense burden of reverse racism?
I was reading through these comments, thinking that it would be fun to ask InverseAllMenAreCreatedEqual to quote any other portion of the “Dream” speech, since most likely he doesn’t know any other part of it, and if he looked it up he would be embarrassed to repeat any part of it.
Jaim reminds me that all we would really have to do to send InverseGovernmentByThePeople fleeing is to ask him the full formal name of the event where Dr. King spoke.
Although actually, the trolls seem to have fled already. Funny that.
Eh, facts don’t work with these people. Honestly, they’re the dumb kids you knew in school or possibly college. Do they want to work harder in order to understand the complexities of history?
No. They’ll just start Liberty University and think that the earth is 6,000 years old.
Kibbutzing aside, I find it really f*cking offensive the way these clowns have coopted Martin Luther King to their cause of bigotry and stupidity.
Don’t worry, Becky. People are judging you on the content of your character.
I find it hilarious and pathetic that although you have switched Mr Beck for Gov Palin, your comments are virtually identical.
Is this what we can expect between Labor Day and Election Day?
lthough you have switched Mr Beck for Gov Palin, your comments are virtually identical.
Did anyone call Mr. Beck a quitter who can’t remember anything he ever read? Do we make jokes about Mr. Beck’s clothing budget from the GOP? Do we make jokes about Mr. Beck’s inability to speak his native language? Do we make jokes about Beck’s hypocritical family “values?” Do we make jokes about the diva demands in Beck’s contract rider for speaking engagements? Do we make jokes about Mr. Beck attending a lunatic church?
Well, yes to the last one, but it’s a DIFFERENT lunatic church. His doesn’t do exorcisms, but it does have a history of terrorism.
So no, you just made that accusation up.
Palin and Beck share a number of characteristics aside from incredible stupidity, but it is their incredible stupidity that commands most of the public’s attention, followed closely by their thin-skinned umbrage when presented with opposing views. Hard to say which one is stupider, but I’ll accept your determination if you wish to give one.
Surely you are not standing up for these cretins as decent, respectable Americans, capable of leading people to a better future.
Their is enough shit-headed stupidity in the world to account for the mind-numbing vacuity of Mrs. Palin and the racist fever dreams that haunt Mr. Beck’s pea-brain and those of his followers.
“I find it hilarious and pathetic that although you have switched Mr Beck for Gov Palin, your comments are virtually identical.”
Um, no, they’re not. Like, at all.
Come on, try harder, shithead.
Seriously Frank, in what way are the comments similar?
Show your work.
Even by your standards this is lame, and you know it.
In the case of Sherod, I find it extremely amusing that the media cared about “context”, yet on Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment we have yet to see the media play the clip in context.
Not holding my breath for a Media Matters clip on that soundbyte.
If “shithead” is all you’ve got, what can I say?
Read the comments yourself, dumby.
And that goes for the rest of you.
Talk about a “straw man”!
Beck isn’t running for anything, doesn’t call himself a leader ( he is less of a leader than Sharpton or Jackson pretend to be ), and you waste your time dissing him.
Does the saying “Whistling past the graveyard” mean anything to you?
The Dems are getting their asses handed to them in November, but you’ll call it a victory, even if they end up with a minority in each House.
Carry on.
Frank doesn’t know how to spell “dummy”? Seriously?
Then again, given that he demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of what the term “straw man” means when he was whining about people being mean old meanies to Beck I suppose it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Or for that matter, how he is incapable of distinguishing between “reporting on what someone has done or said” from “obsession”.
If “shithead” is all you’ve got, what can I say?
That they shouldn’t talk about your dead mother that way, that she loved you even though you were the meanest and least intelligent of her children.
Keep demonstrating the value of a Catholic education, Frank Deodorant Spray, you’re practically a Jebbie compared to the rest of the conservative commentators here.
Your prediction will go down in history with the following, Frank DiSmelly:
If “you’re obsessed” is all you got, what can I say?
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Ha!
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Once a smegmatic asslicker, always a smegmatic asslicker.
How’s your tax-payer provided health-care treating you, Frank?
Gee! You called me names ! Didn’t see that coming…
And a gratuitous insult of my dead mother – classy, D A. Shall I dream up a classless response to match yours, or just leave your stupid, pitiful, brainless remark in isolation so everyone can see the best their champion can bring forth.
Oh, and Brown , go back to the gutters of North Baltimore – there’s a refrigerator carton with your name on it (once a two-tone jive ass m*therf*cker, always a two-tone jive ass m*therf*cker).
My tax-payer provided health care is just fine, Jaim. How’s your stupid Korean job you got because you couldn’t get a teaching job anywhere in the United States , working out for you?
When you behave like this (“Frank De Smelly”? Are you fucking kidding me? How old are you ? Eight?) is it any wonder you support the stupidest, most oblivious, most erratic, most politically naive, most incompetent President we have ever had?
Remember, you all thought he was smart. That makes you dumber than posts.
Not one of you came up with one reason to say anything at all about Beck . You know why? Because you can’t. He has nothing to do with what is going on in America today. He is just riding it for the ratings, and he just might be a patriot.
But since you guys wouldn’t recognize patriotism if it bit you on your fat suburban asses, you don’t even know what’s going on.
Dumb( get the pun , now, Prodigal, you half wit?) as a bag of hammers.
If MLK was alive today, he would be reviled as a Communist by Mr. Beck. Indeed, Dr. King believed in the redistribution of wealth from the richest Americans to the poorest ones.
But in order to make more cash, he’s trying to warp the historical record.
I find that distasteful, to say the least. Many people have pretty much said the same thing.
What’s your response, Frank?
Shall I dream up a classless response to match yours, or just leave your stupid, pitiful, brainless remark in isolation so everyone can see the best their champion can bring forth.
Your responses are always classless, pitiful, stupid and brainless, Frank Deodorant Spray:
Link
Frank DiSalle: Hard to believe someone can be so pompous, and clueless at the same.
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Frank, when you assert something that is undeniably false as a truth, you not only lose the argument, you call into question all other arguments you’ve made which might not have been false. In other words, when you are in a hole, quit digging.
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When you behave like this (“Frank De Smelly”? Are you fucking kidding me? How old are you ? Eight?) is it any wonder you support the stupidest, most oblivious, most erratic, most politically naive, most incompetent President we have ever had?
You mean, he’s more obligious, erratic, incompetent like his predecessor, who had us invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and AQ?
Talk about being out of touch.
Remember, you all thought he was smart. That makes you dumber than posts.
“We know where they(WMD) are…..”
You’re dumber than dirt if you don’t think we remember what shit conservatives such as yourself supported 7 years ago.
Not one of you came up with one reason to say anything at all about Beck.
Poor Beck, all those millions and he still has to suffer the slings and arrows thrown at him here, with only the heroic Frank DiSilly to protect him from us big, bad, horrible liberals.
But since you guys wouldn’t recognize patriotism if it bit you on your fat suburban asses, you don’t even know what’s going on.
You couldn’t walk a mile at the pace I do everyday, fat ass, I’d probably have to give you oxygen at the half-way point so you wouldn’t card out.
is it any wonder you support the stupidest, most oblivious, most erratic, most politically naive, most incompetent President we have ever had?
You know, saying hyperbolic things like this doesn’t help your credibility.