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I’m sure most of you do not need any convincing that Glenn Beck is little more than a con artist who has found a way to make millions by exploiting the fears of the feeble-minded people he calls his audience.  But this one was too good to pass up.

Beck has been on a rampage ripping into Feisal Abdul Rauf, the guy behind the Islamic center to be built two blocks from Ground Zero.  Beck has been portraying him as a terrorist sympathizer.  Specifically he has attacked Rauf for making the following statements.

A)  “I wouldn’t say the United States deserved what happened on 9-11, but the United States’ policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.”

B)  “When people said they hate us [the U.S.], well, did we deserve 9-11? No. But were we minding our business? No. Were we in bed with dictators and abandoned our values and principles? Yes. That causes problems.”

You can debate whether Rauf was right or not in making these statements but Beck has no such doubts and sees it as a direct attack on the country he loves and further proof that Rauf cannot be trusted.

Oops.  Did I say Rauf made both statements?  Sorry, my mistake.  Rauf made the first statement.  The second one (B) was made by no other than Glenn Beck himself on April 15, 2010.  If you can see any difference between the two, let me know because I sure as heck can’t.

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Via the DailyKos…

Flashback: Sometime Between 2001 and 2008

“Mom, can we talk?”
“Sure, dear. What’s up?”
“I’m really concerned about the deficit and stuff. I think the government’s spending too much money.”
“Oh, now, dear, I think you just have an overactive imagination. The president says everything is just fine.”
“Yeah, but…”
“Oh, go on and play now. Deficits don’t really matter, dear. Alan Greenspan said so himself. Here…go buy yourself some ice cream.”
“Gee, thanks, Mom.”

Flash Forward: Sometime Between 2009 and 2010

“Mom, can we talk?”
“Whaddya want?”
“I’m still really concerned about the deficit and stuff. I think the government’s spending too much money.”
“Yeah, well, you can blame that socialist America-killer Obama. It’s all his fault! He and those Marxist thugs Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and their socialist-Marxist commie giveaways. Unbelievable! They come waltzing into town and run up the deficit like they’re high on meth. Deficits matter, you know! They matter a lot! Deficits matter more than anything else! Just ask Alan Greenspan—he knows! As long as Democrats are in power, you are so screwed. Now go get me a beer.”

Flash Forward: The Next GOP Presidency

“Mom, can we talk?”
“Sure, dear. What’s up?”
“I’m really concerned about the deficit and stuff. I think the government’s spending too much money.”
“Oh, now, dear, you just have an overactive imagination like your older sister. The president says everything is just fine. So don’t you worry your pretty little head, Punkin’. He has everything under control. Besides, deficits don’t really matter. Even Alan Greenspan says so, and he’s 125 so that makes him very wise. Here…go buy yourself some ice cream.”
“Gee thanks, Mom!”

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O’Reilly’s words…

‘One more terror attack…because there have been three on Obama’s watch in the first year. One more on our soil, you know, a major one where you get dead bodies…he is done.”

And what exactly is it that Republicans and conservatives want more than anything else?  To take over Congress and the White House? Absolutely.

Would a “few dead bodies” almost guarantee that for them?  Probably.

From my last post…

“…a successful act of terrorism on American soil is exactly what some on the right secretly hope for.  In their perverted order of priorities, it would guarantee them victory in 2012.”

1 + 1 = 2

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Birthers, teabaggers and the religious right are the conservative’s trifecta of bigotry, hatred and intolerance.

Amanda Simpson, who was named by President Obama to be senior technical adviser for the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, has worked in the field for over 30 years. But prominent figures on the religious right are claiming that she was picked only as part of some transsexual agenda.

“Is there going to be a transgender quota now in the Obama administration?” asked Peter LaBarbera, president of the anti-gay group Americans for Truth. “How far does this politics of gay and transgender activism go? Clearly this is an administration that is pandering to the gay lobby.”

Matt Barber, associate dean at Jerry Fallwell’s Liberty University, said the appointment “boggles the mind” and said that while African-Americans might deserve special treatment, transgender people don’t.

Kudos to the president on this one for doing what’s right and choosing the best qualified person regardless of their sexual orientation.  As for the religious right, their phony shtick has gotten tiresome.  These holier-than-thou bigots and purveyors of hate wield a bible like a bludgeon attempting to squash anyone who does not fit into their narrow interpretation of decency.

The only thing that “boggles the mind” here is trying to understand how delusional evangelicals still have the audacity to call themselves followers of a merciful Christ.

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If you had any doubt that Rush Limbaugh is the Don of the Republican party, this might help.

October 16: Newt Gingrich.

“The special election for the 23rd Congressional District is an important test leading up to the mid-term 2010 elections.  Our best chance to put responsible and principled leaders in Washington starts here, with Dede Scozzafava.”

November 4: Rush Limbaugh on the Democratic win in NY-23.

“But, the right message; we cannot forget how this whole thing happened in the first place. There was not a primary. The right message here would indict the way party bosses, Republican Party bosses and these big thinkers like Newt screwed the whole thing up from the get go.”

November 4: Newt Gingrich.

“I think the nomination was a mistake. I wish that we had gotten involved earlier. And if we had, I would have done everything I could to make sure she had not been picked. And she clearly proved in the last few days that she [Dede Scozzafava] was in no way a loyal Republican.”

Gingrich becomes another repub willing to bow at the feet of Limbaugh as the fate of the Republican party rests largely in the hands of a pompous, lying, egoistic ‘entertainer’.

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Kos tackles the hypocrisy of Karl Rove and Fox News.
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Ok. It makes sense…except for this…
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Rove bitches about the tactics of the current administration in regards to Fox but the administration in which he was a key player did the EXACT same thing.

Their hypocrisy has no bounds, really.

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Here’s the tape.
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As is typical with anything concerning the president these days, the conservative media went nuts when the above tape came out last week.  They claimed the school was trying to indoctrinate the children. The school was temporarily in lock down when the principle began receiving death threats. Sigh.

My belief is that the teacher was wrong in having her students praise anyone, president or otherwise. It is not a teacher’s duty to impart her political beliefs on a bunch of 8 year olds.  As for the overreaction from the right, it’s just typical of their hypocrisy.

I give you this.
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Is anyone surprised by this?

Thursday’s annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and access to health care-the Bureau’s principal report card on the well-being of average Americans-closes the books on the economic record of George W. Bush.

It’s not a record many Republicans are likely to point to with pride. On every major measurement, the Census Bureau report shows that the country lost ground during Bush’s two terms. While Bush was in office, the median household income declined, poverty increased, childhood poverty increased even more, and the number of Americans without health insurance spiked. By contrast, the country’s condition improved on each of those measures during Bill Clinton’s two terms, often substantially.

The Census’ final report card on Bush’s record presents an intriguing backdrop to today’s economic debate. Bush built his economic strategy around tax cuts, passing large reductions both in 2001 and 2003. Congressional Republicans are insisting that a similar agenda focused on tax cuts offers better prospects of reviving the economy than President Obama’s combination of some tax cuts with heavy government spending. But the bleak economic results from Bush’s two terms, tarnish, to put it mildly, the idea that tax cuts represent an economic silver bullet.

Dismissing criticism of the current president by asking, “What about Bush?” serves no purpose…except this: where the hell were these tea party crazies for the last 8 years?  Why was it fine for President Bush to destroy the economy, start a phony war, make a mockery of the Constitution, grow big government, double the national debt by adding $5 trillion to it, use the Justice department for partisan purposes and more?

How do these yelling, hypocritical puppets (strings being pulled by Fox and the rest of the conservative media) expect the rest of the country to take them seriously when they sat there for 8 years without saying a word while the man they voted into office twice took the country to the brink of ruin?

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Nice to know that craziness has it’s limits.

Eight more Glenn Beck advertisers, including Wal-Mart — the world’s largest retailer — have confirmed to ColorOfChange.org that they pulled their ads from the controversial Fox News Channel broadcaster’s eponymous show. Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck.

Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Previous companies who pulled their ads include ConAgra, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Men’s Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Roche, SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, and State Farm Insurance.

Not to be outdone, radical conservative Redstate came out with this:

This left wing campaign is being orchestrated by a group started by Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones.  If they are successful, they will move beyond Beck to others.  Two of the companies, GEICO and Progressive, are run by liberals. But that’s not the case with all the others.

The best response is to remind all of these companies that there will be repercussions from our side if they are so willing to become pawns of the left.

Interesting how conservatives believe in a free market and freedom of speech as long as the free marketers play by their rules.  When they don’t, they’re “pawns of the left.”

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