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The arrogance of Glenn Beck to assume that he can plant the seeds for a "hundred year plan for America", is astounding. Does this tiny little idiot not understand that the majority of Americans view him as a mentally deranged charlatan?
I didn't see the clip but I do agree with you he is a fool and a charlatan. I can't stand this man and find it hard to believe that some Americans buy into his bs. He is a distraction to the real issues just like his friend $P.
ReplyDeleteA hundred-year plan, eh?
ReplyDeleteI, too, cannot bear to watch the clip though I thank you for making it available. I love Keith Olbermann, but cannot stand to hear Glenn Beck. His voice, thought not as strident and shrill as Sarah's, is so annoying. I expect drool to drop from his foaming mouth at any time.
Anyway, a hundred-year plan - is that twenty times worse than the five-year plans the Communists used to come up with?
We are being manipulated by a bunch of buffoons on TV and radio. Almost sounds like something from a very bad sci-fi movie.
ReplyDeleteNew York Times March 29, 2009
ReplyDeleteInterview with Glenn Beck:
When it was suggested in an interview that he sometimes sounds like a preacher, he responded, “No. You’ve never met a more flawed guy than me.”
He added later: “I say on the air all time, ‘if you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.’ ”
What a charlatan!
ReplyDeleteCan we start a fund to get the money together to buy Murdoch out and send him back to Australia for foisting this piece of crap on us?
Oh, wait, Australia probably won't take him back.
Okay, if we're lucky, maybe we can get them to take Beck (throw in Hannity). No one wants Bill-O but he's not the threat he once was.
A girl can dream, right?
Isn't the 100 year plan bs out of Beck from the Mormon Church? I used to work with a group of 6 Mormons (I and my assistant were the only 2 who weren't), and the CEO used to talk about that in the presentations all the time. Mind you, this was a financial planning type firm.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Chinese have a 100 year plan....
I almost didn't watch the clip because I couldn't stand to listen to Glenn Beck, but I took a deep breath and was rewarded by not having to listen to Glenn Beck! Thanks for that. This guy knows that the people who watch his show and pay attention to him are idiots, he even tells them so and still they give him their attention and money! Amazing.
ReplyDeleteI think we do need to plan ahead instead of letting the "stock holders" force the CEO's to focus on the immediate dividends. But I would never ever in a million years think that Beck could lead the reform in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteQuick! Somebody get the copy and marketing rights to the title: "THE PLAN"!
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget to own the website "THE PLAN"
ReplyDeleteSo, today's fanatical theocrats would have us believe that James Madison was sympathetic to their cause. Let's see. James Madison on religion:
ReplyDelete"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
"Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
OUCH!! Not much comfort for the wackos there. Maybe they'll do better with Thomas Jefferson?
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. [Do I hear chins dropping?] The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves. These clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ. The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly."
"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot ... they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose."
"It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one. But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests."
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."
"On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind."
"We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."
Well, o.k., maybe they didn't mean THAT Thomas Jefferson?
So how's that Christiany Nationy thing workin' out for ya' now?
Wow, Hoken!
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"Does this tiny little idiot not understand that the majority of Americans view him as a mentally deranged charlatan?"
No.
Once I learned that StarKist tuna advertised on his show I switched to Chicken of the Sea.
ReplyDeleteToday I learned that StarKist no longer sponsors Glenn Beckkk. I hope that my protest/small contribution, along with others brought about this change.