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MediaMatters explains Beck’s latest bout with wackiness.

Seizing on an absurd claim spread by right-wing blogs that President Obama wants to ban sport fishing, Glenn Beck stated on his Fox News program that Obama is attempting to prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing on some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes “by executive order.” In fact, there is no evidence of any such order, but rather a task force which seeks to “better manage” — not ban — recreational fishing alongside other uses of ocean, coasts, and lakes.

In his words…

“A new report out today says it’s a move to appease the environmental groups, and just like before, without your consent, done in darkness by executive order. I told you a year ago this would happen. I’m not some prophet by any stretch of the imaginations. The New York Times said this man would do this.”

“The report claims that Obama will no longer listen to the public as he tries to prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing on some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, and great lakes, even some inland waters. No more fishing. Really? Yeah, apparently some environmentalists want to save the fish. Forget about the frickin’ fish. People are losing their rights. Who’s more important: the fish or you?”

I actually wasted thirty minutes of my life last night and caught this Glenn Beck segment live. Not only did he rattle on about Obama wanting to take away your fishing privileges but in his best performance of mock rage, he pounced on progressives for the high percentage of federal lands in the country.  He did his darnedest to make the case that Obama (or was it Mao…he uses the two names interchangeably) is to blame for this territorial takeover of America.  All quite bizarre.  Nothing quite pleases this man, including the teachings of Jesus Christ.

“I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes.”

Who exactly is this man’s audience and how long will this shtick go on?  I would think it’s wearing thin for even the most fervent teabagger.  And then again…maybe not.
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Stephen Colbert’s mocking of James O’Keefe and buddy Sean Hannity is sweet and well deserved.

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Another Daily Show takedown of Fox easily understandable by all except the sad little monkeys who watch Fox and are much too ignorant to know they’re being lied to day after day.
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This is sad.  Here’s Beck and O’Reilly doing their best to sound erudite and informative as they attempt to outdo each other.  Remember, these guys are not only superstars at Fox but they’re also heroes to a few million imbeciles who tune in regularly to Pravda News so they can do some real learnin’ ’bout dem bad libruls.

Beck said: “People don’t understand what ‘progressive’ really means. The difference between Marxism and progressivism is, Marxism has a revolution, like what Van Jones would like to do. Progressivism says, ‘bit by bit we’ll eat at the Constitution.’”

O’Reilly disagreed: “Progressivism wants to take your stuff. That’s it. That’s what it is. It wants to take your stuff.”

Beck asked: “They don’t want to kill you?”

“No! Because then they won’t have your stuff,” O’Reilly shot back.

Beck wasn’t finished: “I will go a step further. They don’t just want to take your stuff. They want to control every aspect of your life.”

O’Reilly demurred: “I don’t think Obama cares what you do in your spare time.”

It does not get any more pathetic than that…or this…

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Remember now, Obama wants to “take your stuff”…”your STUFF!!!!!”

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Here’s an explanation we don’t hear often enough on how conservative media plays their game.  Media consultant Joel Silberman…

To begin with, talk shows[..] are popular and powerful because they appeal to a segment of the population that feels disenfranchised and even victimized by the media. These people believe the media are predominantly staffed by and consistently reflect the views of social liberals. This view is by now so long-held and deep-rooted, it has evolved into part of virtually every conservative’s DNA.

To succeed, a talk show host must perpetuate the notion that his or her listeners are victims, and the host is the vehicle by which they can become empowered. The host frames virtually every issue in us-versus-them terms. There has to be a bad guy against whom the host will emphatically defend those loyal listeners.

This enemy can be a politician – either a Democratic officeholder or, in rare cases where no Democrat is convenient to blame, it can be a “RINO” (a “Republican In Name Only,” who is deemed not conservative enough). It can be the cold, cruel government bureaucracy. More often than not, however, the enemy is the “mainstream media” – local or national, print or broadcast.

Silberman expounds on “The Big Lie” (liberal media bias). Good stuff.
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(Hat Tip: Crooks and Liars)

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Can it get more disgusting than this?

At the health care summit, Democrat Louise Slaughter was making a case for the plight of the uninsured and brought up a story about a woman who was forced to wear her dead sister’s dentures because she lacked the means to purchase her own.  Here’s how the scum in wingnuttia responded.

Pigboy Limbaugh

“You know I’m getting so many people — this Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures? I’m getting so many people — this is big. I mean, that gets a one-time mention for a laugh, but there are people out there that think this is huge because it’s so stupid. I mean, for example, well, what’s wrong with using a dead person’s teeth? Aren’t the Democrats big into recycling? Save the planet? And so what? So if you don’t have any teeth, so what? What’s applesauce for? Isn’t that why they make applesauce?”

Glenn Beck

“I am wearing George Washington’s dentures right now. I’m wearing his teeth right now. I just like wearing dead people’s teeth. But in America — I’m sorry, I didn’t know that that was — I’ve read the Constitution before. I didn’t see that you had a right to teeth.”

“The environmentalists should be all over Slaughter. ‘How dare you say that?’ My gosh, they’re just recycling. They’re just reusing.”

When it comes to the point where mocking the uninsured is acceptable fodder for conservatives, you know you’ve reached dirt bottom in this debate.

As for Pigboy and Beck, they make it so easy to despise them.  And what does it say for Republicans and teabaggers when Limbaugh and Beck are their main respective spokesmen?

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Glenn Beck’s reached the point where he’s become a caricature of himself. Here’s the ass deriding Michelle Obama’s campaign to fight child obesity.

So now going all out to have government limit the food choices available at our kids’ school, to make sure that grocery stores pop up in what they are calling — and I’m not kidding you — food deserts. There’s no salad bars; it’s a food desert. Then we are going to put the grocery stores instead of fast food businesses.

They’ll limit what we can watch on TV, what ads we can run and how long we can watch. No doubt we’ll start mandating certain kind of activities as part of this wonderful government campaign.

This is torn from the pages of the progressive playbook. You’re too stupid. You need the government to fix your life, and they agree with you that government has no place in this business. But we’re just going to help make things better.

Yes. They’re coming and they are slowly but surely taking away your freedom under the guise of helping you.

Really, does it get any more dumb than this?  Every single move by the White House is now a tiresome rant on Obama’s evil plot to take away your freedoms.  And as long as he’s got teabaggers lapping up his every word, he’s going to keep on laughing all the way to the bank.

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Bugs Bunny, I believe, said it best when asked about his thoughts on Beck.
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Nothing Glenn Becks says should be shocking these days…and it’s not.  The man is a great self promoter and entertainer. Yet, he does need to be called out for his buffoonery from time to time if for no other reason than the fact that many of his intellectually-challenged audience actually believe this guy.

His latest lunacy was to show us all how President Obama is charting a course not unlike that of Venezuela’s dictator and resident crazy-man Hugo Chavez.  Crooks and Liars had this to say…

No, really.

Because Obama’s history is just like Chavez’s:

– Chavez first attempted to come to power through a military coup.

– Shortly after his election, he called for a constitutional convention that rewrote the Venezuelan Constitution.

– He survived a short-lived coup in 2002.

– He has called for an end to presidential term limits.

– He has shut down opposition press organs.

Amazing similarities.

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Presidents Bush and Clinton are doing the Sunday morning shows in their capacity as fundraisers for the Haiti tragedy.  When asked to comment on Rush Limbaugh’s idiotic claim that Obama was using the tragedy to gain support from African Americans, Bush replied…

“I don’t know if– what they’re talking about,” Bush declared during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I– I– I’ve been briefed by the President about the response. And as I said in my opening comment, I– I appreciate the President’s quick response to this disaster.”

Ok. And what lessons has he learned from Katrina?

“First of all, it takes time to get the supplies in place. That–shouldn’t deter them. In other words, there– there’s an expectation– amongst people that things are gonna happen quickly. And– and sometimes it’s hard to make things happen quickly. Secondly, there is a great reservoir of good will that– wants to help. And– and that’s why he asked us to help, and we’re glad to do it.”

It would be too easy to knock Bush here by bringing up his dismal response to Katrina.  But I’d prefer to give him kudos for doing the right thing and being presidential at a time of crisis for Haitians.  Good.

As for Limbaugh’s criticism of Obama, I love this comment.

Limbaugh nailed it. Obama is obviously trying to curry favor with the voters by organizing a quick response to the disaster in Haiti. It’s that do-the-job-right ploy, the oldest trick in the book. Obama is using competence for political purposes!

You wouldn’t catch the GOP stooping that low…

Too perfect!

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It does not get too much more idiotic than this.

And that folks is the type of top-notch news analysis you’ll find at Fox…and it works for them.  I read somewhere that Fox’s profits for the last year exceeded the total of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS combined. Yes, there really are that many twits out there who salivate and applaud every time a Beck or Palin opens their mouth.

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