The BEST Glenn Beck rant you will read this year, from Crooks & Liars...my PERSONAL guarantee.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Glenn Beck on the 99ers: "I bet you'd be ashamed to call them Americans"
By karoli Tuesday Aug 17, 2010 2:00pm

Before you go after me for giving Glenn Beck any attention again, please watch this:



http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/glenn-beck-99ers-i-bet-youd-be-ashamed-call

I am writing this post so that I can email it to my in-laws who watch Glenn Beck's show every single day and ask them how they can support this kind of heartless and inhuman spew. I am writing this post because it isn't right for him to be able to shout this kind of excrement out with no counter response. It offends me. No, it infuriates me. At this point, it's all too personal and too close to home and I'm really just damn sick and tired of letting conservatives get away with this crap while they roll in their moneybags and lowball bids on foreclosed homes of the people who aren't them.

Glenn Beck needs to be unemployed for at least 99 weeks, without benefits. He needs to lose everything he worked for all his life, his home, his status, his self-esteem, his overblown sense of self-righteousness and most especially, his damn microphone, pointer and chalkboard.

In 90 seconds, Beck goes for the double play: Demonize unions and the unemployed together, because they're not "regular Americans." No, they're so into sucking off the government teat that they won't even bother to look for a job.

C&L's posting standards prevent me from using the language I think appropriate to describe this man with a brain cell count lower than an amoeba and the soul of the devil himself. But as someone who has been employed and has been an employer too, listening to the venom in his tone and the hypocrisy of his hate was enough to make me run for the Tums. I'm also going to have to plaster the hole in the wall where my closed hand went through it while viewing the video for the first time.

This is what right-wing compassion looks like. View it up close and personal. There's nothing but a selfish, ugly, lying, shriveled piece of sh-t where a heart should be.

The transcript follows, but watch the video, because it's as much his tone of voice as it is what he says. Also, he's either lying in the video or he's lying here. But you knew that. It's his native tongue.

You have the 99ers. Have you heard of the 99ers? Oh, there they are. The Democratic Socialists of America. The 99ers. These people, some of which, frankly, I bet you'd be ashamed to call them Americans.

They think that 99 weeks on employment benefits just aren't enough. Last week they went down to Wall Street and they protested. 99er Connie Kaplan asked, "Are you going to tell us, President Obama and Congress, that our lives are not worth saving?"

Connie, here's an idea, I'll save your life. Don't spend your remaining money on travel to get to a protest, go out and get a job. You may not love the job. Work at McDonald's. Work at two jobs. There's been plenty of times in my life where I've done jobs that I've hated, but I had no choice.

Two years is plenty of time to have lived off your neighbor's wallet.

Awww, stop being so mean, these people are just regular people. Really? Are they really just regular people? She looks normal, doesn't she? (points to woman holding sign) Yes, there she is.

These aren't regular people. These are Workers of the World Unite, these are SEIU people, AFL-CIO, the Democratic Socialists of America -- that's not regular people. They're socialists and anti-capitalists.

Do you remember seeing this photo on The Drudge Report last week? (From sign) "A job is a right." By the way, here's the union label, right there. No. A job is not a right. In the former Soviet Union, it was a right. In Venezuela, it's a right, but not here.

How many weeks of unemployment are enough? Really? If 99 weeks is not enough, how much is? Is it 100, is it 200, is it a lifetime?

[arbusto_baboso]

1. And exactly where are these jobs that Beck so blithely suggests people get?

I work in a welfare agency. The vast majority of people here WANT to work, but can't for one reason or another. Mostly because the jobs DON'T FUCKING EXIST.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Agreed, 100%.

One of many weak links in the Republican chain is the fact that being unemployed SUCKS...it just SUCKS.

I've known people who have sat on their ass and collected unemployment / welfare / food stamps with NO INTENTION of EVER looking for work.

But I don't believe for a MINUTE that the majority of Americans are represented by that behavior.

Of course, Beck is theater. It's all an act. And I hope he burns in Hell for it.

[onethatcares]

7. thing is, the folks watching him agree with him

they don't have a clue as to what it's like to be unemployed and not living at moms house with her packing their lunches.

Americans are that stupid anymore, it's a shame.

[arbusto_baboso]

11. Is it really stupidity?

I think his fans just don't care about anyone but themselves and their own immediate circle of family and friends, and fuck everyone else.

[BrklynLiberal]

15. It seems to go hand in hand. The repuke mantra has been "I got mine, screw you" for a whle now.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. My sister is a fat freeper slob sitting on her fat ass in Colorado Springs...

...living in a house that she bought as a result of my mother dying and leaving her the money.

She's 100% on board with this.

My niece...her daughter...has never worked a day in her life, because she knew how to fill out the right fake disability paperwork. She owns a house in Colorado Springs that she never worked a day in her life to pay for.

And my sister...I guarantee...sees the unemployed as lowlifes who deserve to eat out of dumpsters.

:grr:

[BrklynLiberal]

13. The REAL idiocy is that there are some who ARE in that position and still go along with this

stupidity.

Did you see that woman in the wheel-chair, with an oxygen tank to help her breathe at one of the teabagger marches, holding a sign that said "GOVT: KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY HEALTH CARE"?
What are the odds that woman is not on some sort of govt assistance to pay for her medical care?

[Karia]

5. Those unfilled jobs are in Dubai

From the August 9, 2010, Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Helliwell speculates that Americans might be hesitant to move to Dubai, where the jobs are based."

[monmouth]

2. Glenn and his cohorts are upset with Jon Stewart for picking on him.

Says Jon is boring and tiresome pointing out his (glenn's) hypocrisy...Gotta love it.

[givemebackmycountry]

4. Great post - I read the same thing about 15 minutes ago

Beck is low life scum and it's only a matter of time, only a matter of time before he's gone.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. The wheel turns.

This worthless motherfucking crybaby fake-assed piece of crap sold his soul for a fat payday, but the TRUE payday is coming down the tracks, like an out-of-control train.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I hope I am around to witness that idiot getting the karma he deserves.

..and that it includes the words "Glen who?"

[Turborama]

9. K&R & The Crooks & Liars Link (which contains the video)

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/glenn-beck-99ers-i-bet-youd-be-ashamed-call

Thanks for the post.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. Thank you...

...I didn't think I missed the link but I went back and added it to my post as well.

:patriot:

[Quantess]

16. Thanks for posting the link, so I could see the video clip.

Glenn Beck is a scumbag.

[KamaAina]

10. Blame the victim. The very essence of repukelican philosophy.

:grr: :banghead:

[tblue37]

17. Often when a new McDonald's opens up these days, people line up around the block hoping to get one

of those crappy jobs they offer, but there are always way more applicants than jobs. Same with all the other crappy jobs. There just are not enough jobs--even crappy jobs--for the people who want to work!