The greatest danger to America isn't the Taliban. It's this guy.

[Initech]

That is all.

[Brickbat]

1. Disagree.

[Initech]

3. Why? Look at the people his mindless followers want to put into office.

[G_j]

4. then the Taliban are more of a threat to America

than Glenn Beck. I guess that's what are saying.
:shrug:

[Brickbat]

5. Hee -- I realized it sounded like that after I posted.

I don't think either Glenn Beck or the Taliban are the nation's greatest threat.

[Initech]

6. Maybe it's this then:

[Brickbat]

8. After the giant poo one took by the house two weeks ago, I'm inclined to agree.

[awoke_in_2003]

48. Bears are armed...

With biological weapons

[Brickbat]

52. Indeed.

This one was badass.

[awoke_in_2003]

53. We need to bring the troops home...

To take care of the bear poop menace

[Brickbat]

54. Support our poops!

:patriot:

[awoke_in_2003]

55. You are on the side of bear poop?

Terrorist :rofl:

[G_j]

12. thanks

actually, I don't either,

[rhett o rick]

33. I agree....with your disagreement. He is a threat like Hitler's Brown Shirts were a threat.

While you are watching Glen Beck's antics, your "friends" in the DLC will sell you down the river.

[Brickbat]

34. Are you using "you" to address me, or is it the rhetorical "you"?

[rhett o rick]

39. rhetorical you. As we pay attention to Idiot Beck's distraction, our pockets are being picked. nm

[Brickbat]

40. My hackles went up at the DLC reference.

:)

[howmad1]

45. Ya know:

Adolph Hitler started off as a common house painter. Do ya suppose Beck has further ambitions along the lines of Adolph?

[onehandle]

2. That's not me.

What's a guy got to do?

[liberalmuse]

7. Yes, we should truly fear this twit.

His ignorance and stupidity are being embraced by too many. All my Mormon friends just adore him. :eyes:

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[SargeUNN]

9. K&R

[Golden Raisin]

10. Beck, dangerous and the

worst sort of rabble-rouser, remains an employee of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. They pay his salary, provide him with his televised pulpit and also pull the dangerous puppet's strings.

[gordianot]

11. If not this asshat it would have been another, blame Murdoch. n/t

[Initech]

14. True, but he's the king of the Fux Ministry Of Propaganda.

You have your Hannitys, Limbaughs, and Coulters but they haven't attracted followers quite like Beck and Palin have.

[femrap]

28. because

he has an 'in' with Jesus. I just recently found out he is Mormon.

I didn't think that Fundies liked the Mormons???? I don't do organized religions so I don't know.

I still think of Mormons are some kind of weird sect with funny underwear. And not just to pick on them...the pope wears pretty dresses, but hates gays.

Organized Religion...what a bunch of crap.

But I thought it was cool that Jesus got really pissed off at the moneychangers. Too bad Christians don't act more like Christ.

[AlbertCat]

38. the pope wears pretty dresses

As a costume designer, I find the Pope's attire more frightening than a "pretty dress. He's still wearing, like, 5th century clothing!!!! This would be fine if he were in a play.... Oh wait! He IS! A milena long absurdist musical production. (the costumes and sets are good though.... and the music!)

[femrap]

43. And the jewels!!!!!! nt

[awoke_in_2003]

49. Jesus Christ: Superstar...

Had much better music :)

[ThomThom]

41. I thought they were all pretty much cults except Catholics and Anglican

First there was the Pope and his Bishops than the King of England wanted in on the deal so he started the Church of England, Anglican. Then other sects popped up that disagreed with some point in the teaching until today, we have so many different sects it is hard to keep them all straight as to where they differ.
Weren't they all started by charismatic leaders moving away from accepted teaching like what we call cult leaders today? I personally don't support any religion or believe in god so none of this is very important to me. I just try to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

[femrap]

44. I think all of these religions were

developed by really rich folks so to control the masses. It's all about social control and power.

I believe in Mother Nature. Daddy in the sky doesn't do much for me.

[handmade34]

13. not beck himself

but the ignorance and fear that follow him

[Mz Pip]

19. We've survived worse

and will survive Glenny and his band of idiot followers. Seriously, after a year of 24/7 hawking of his 8/28 revival all that could show up were 87 thousand and many of those were probably there just out of curiousity.

He's not at threat, he's a distraction. Yeah, he's got his followers but most of them are over sixty and aren't about to take up arms against the government. They may be loud but in the grand scheme of things they signify nothing that hasn't been there for generations.

We really shouldn't elevate them to some super power status.

[Brickbat]

21. Agreed and well said.

[handmade34]

24. yes, very true

I still believe that it is the ignorant and the apathetic that are a threat to a healthy society

[Mz Pip]

27. They have always

walked among us. If you lived through the 60s you know this. a lot of this is a backlash to the 60s. Just look at the age of the people Beck attracts. These were the same people who in their 20s and 30s hated the USSR, opposed civil rights, womens' rights and free speech. Really this is their last gasp. They are trying to pass on their legacy of fear, hate and nationalism on to their children and grandchildren. I think they will fail. They may go out with a bang but ultimately they will fail.

[ThomThom]

42. as you say they have been on the wrong side of history on everything

I don't believe they have gotten anything right yet.

[femrap]

29. Weren't the same words

said about some dude in Germany in the 1930's?

ETA: I never in my wildest dreams thought that the American people would elect a B-rated actor to the Presidency of the U.S. Never underestimate the stupidity or willful ignorance of the American people. NEVER!

[Orsino]

15. Beck is an assclown.

It's the rat-fuckers who pay him who are the threat.

[Doctor_J]

16. Indeed. He is much more of a threat than the Taliban

a Clear And Present danger to the nation, and should be treated as such.

[Boxerfan]

17. I expected Grover Norquist...He's done real damage to America

To the extent that ol cry baby has a long way to go to even get close...

Grover Norquist is #1 bad guy

[madokie]

18. He and his ilk for sure

[mix]

20. And these two:

Koch bros.

[Mz Pip]

22. There's only so much

two guys with money can do. It's not like they are the only ones writing this script. There are plenty of people with money on our side of the issues. For what it's worth these guys have been exposed.

This county is too big, too diverse for any one ideology to take over. I do believe that there are more of us than there are of them - 2008 kind of proves that. And those who came out in 2008 may be a bit too quiet these days but they haven't gone away. The likes of the Beckerheads may be loud but we are truly the silent majority.

Even if we lose this election cycle, we are not going to disappear into the woodwork. We'll be back.

[Xenotime]

23. Agreed. The next attacks will come from within.

[breadandwine]

25. Glenn Beck is the messiah!

How dare you besmirch one of our great leaders! He's the Fuhrer! The Duce!

Anybody who could get so many people together for, um, whatever that was, is a GREAT AMERICAN!

If YOU had written a book, could YOU turn an ordinary book signing into the greatest gathering the world has ever known?

Obama has big rallies. Why not white racists???????????????

Nuf said.

BUT let me say this:

Glenn Beck is the messiah!

Did I neglect to say that Glenn Beck is the messiah?

Here:



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[ChoppinBroccoli]

26. You Mean The Former Wacky "Morning Zoo" Host And Fall-Down Drunk?

The guy's not a threat to anything other than common sense.

I'm telling you, if we all start laughing at him instead of fearing him, he'll be out of our lives by the end of the year.

Just try this: every time Glenn Beck surfaces as a topic of conversation, just remind people of exactly what I said in my Subject Line. Until 5 years ago, he was the wacky morning host of a "Morning Zoo" radio program, as well as a fall-down drunk. He'll be marginalized before you know it. Just look what happened to Sarah Failin when we all started laughing at her. She's been drummed out of office entirely and is holding onto the bottom rung of the political ladder for dear life.

[dimbear]

30. If America's immune system was any good, we would

shake Beck off like a bad cold. That's the problem, something serious is wrong with our first line of defense against morons.

[Stevenmarc]

31. The Poster Boy for the Culture of the Mediocre

[Kievan Rus]

32. I would say right-wing instigators in general; violence has occurred...

when some of their less civilized followers take their hyperbolic diatribes seriously.

Dr. Tiller was murdered in Kansas. Two people were murdered at a Unitarian church in 2008 by a deranged wingnut that had been driven over the edge by right-wing propganda. Three Pittsburgh police officers were murdered by a racist right-wing nut that had come to believe in "FEMA camps" and an "Obama gun ban," both of which had absolutely no basis in reality. Some wingnut in California got into a shootout with police as he tried to launch a terrorist attack on the ACLU near Frisco. And I'm sure there's been additional acts of violence where the blame lies with right-wing instigators; these are just the ones I remember.

[Initech]

35. That's true - the violence is just beginning.

I'm worried the teabaggers will pull something catastrophic a la Oklahoma City.

[AlbertCat]

37. Only part of the problem.

Heres the man we really should be afraid of:



The media is already predicting "huge" wins for Repugs and them "taking over the House". This "news" of the FUTURE is a DELIBERATE attempt to a) get Dems to stay home on election day because they've apparently already lost and b) get those wishy-washy undecideds to go with who they think will be on top so as not to be with the "losers" and vote Repug.

Time to break up media companies even more than they did Ma Bell. Time to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.... with fines. Time to insist on accuracy in labeling of "News" vs "Opinion" with clear criteria spelled out..

[valerief]

46. Nope, it's the idiots who believe him. nt

[lonestarnot]

47. Lumkhead's audience also lame.

[activa8tr]

50. Have to agree entirely, he and Sarah P. Got to go to bed, but

wanted to K and R and comment.

That man is scary!

[dem mba]

51. this thread

is a joke, as is that man. this is like Free Republic saying Howard Stern is the anti-Christ. It's just laughable.

and neither the Taliban nor al Qaeda were ever capable of inflicting any lasting harm to this nation.

[Initech]

56. Scott Brown

In no other country would that man get elected. Thanks to teabagger insanity he did. And that's just one seat. Imagine if they do the kind of damage they said in their hilarious "rally" they put on last week. :scared:

[dem mba]

58. he's not the first himbo GOPer to get elected

and he shall not be the last.

ever notice how every right wing "movement" implodes after a certain point? They reach critical mass, and I don't know, they suffocate on their own bullshit or something.

Whether its Dan Quayle, Ted Haggard, Newt, Rush, or even W himself, all the RW heroes eventually come toppling down. Glenn Beck will relapse, or insult the wrong group on-air or something, and will join Imus and Dr. Schlessiner in irrelevancy.

[Initech]

59. Yeah I've noticed that.

It's like I keep saying - anyone that far to the right is hiding a deep, dark secret. Eventually they'll all get caught but it's just a matter of time.

[opihimoimoi]

57. The wannabe FUHRER...Beck, the miserable asshole who promotes HATE and DIVISION...ala GOEBBELS

[Initech]

61. Beck isn't the fuhrer - he thinks everybody else is.

[metapunditedgy]

60. That confuses the symptom and the cause. Beck is just a symptom. If he quit tomorrow,

someone else would just take his place. Murdoch probably already has two backup crazy-magnets in reserve in case Beck flames out.