I don't know what all the negative fuss about him is about. he's fairly harmless and pretty funny. its like the conservative daily show, only funnier than the daily show.
he had some good stuff pointing out how "scary" the peaceful tea party protesters were to Pelosi and the liberal press, but the violent climate protesters didnt get a peep.
He's the funniest emo crybaby drunk on TV. I just wish he would realize that his show is a comedy.
I don't watch the show but I listen to him on the radio, usually for half an hour here or there when I'm in the car. He talks about being a comedian all the time.
he had some good stuff pointing out how "scary" the peaceful tea party protesters were to Pelosi and the liberal press, but the violent climate protesters didnt get a peep.
good stuff i may watch more.
MEM, I know youre a staunch lemming, but I think youll enjoy it.
I haven't seen that G-man expresses much interest in Beck's opinion, pedo-rex.
And even for myself, I'd say two days out of five, Beck has an informative show that gives a lot of information and is worth watching for the full hour.
I've posted this one several times as giving a great overview of the Obama's deception, and the threat Obama poses to democracy as we know it:
When Beck is posting quotes of Obama staffers and what they actually said, exposing their radical anti-American tendencies, and stated views to overthrow our capitalist system and replace it with a state-controlled socialist system, I'm listening.
When Beck is just ranting and cynical, implying conspiracy without the facts to back it up, I flip the channel.
Beck also reports how Obama has printed 2 trillion dollars out of thin air, and how that inevitably will lead to massive inflation (as I pointed out in my topic about how Obama is burning the economic wick at both ends). Which is a danger to the nation that has gone virtually unreported, even on FOX News' other news and editorial shows. Beck has made the most lucid argument of how this threatens the nation's solvency.
Yes, pedo, beck is really good at stating facts. Its the fringe freaks like you clinging the last of your pathetic identities to his that scares me.
If you learn to write a coherent readable sentence, I might take you seriously.
And if you move out of your mom's basement. And if you get a job. And if you stop masturbating with socks (and bragging about it). And if you have a relationship with a real girl. And if you stop spending unnatural amounts of time with small children (i've thought all along that your projecting the pedo-label on me is just a re-directed projection of your own self-loathing on that charge).
And if you... well... given what I've already listed, there's absolutely no chance of ever taking you seriously, is there?
Its amazing how much time you spend bitching and moaning about me (or should I call it "glenn becking" me?) and you still have no clue about who I really am.
Its amazing how much time you spend bitching and moaning about me (or should I call it "glenn becking" me?) and you still have no clue about who I really am.
That's it, rex. Tell WB how upset you are that he can't see the real you. He'll reciprocate your advances yet.
I bought "Arguing With Idiots" last week, I've been working 10 hr shifts so I havent had much reading time but at 1/4 way through it's safe to say this book is full of awesome. I highly recommend it.
rex I think you might actually enjoy it as well, you should give it a look.
I haven't bought the book yet. But I've looked through it and I really like how he annotated the book with his sources so you can see this isn't just something he made up.
For that reason, yeah, I think rex might actually enjoy it.
It's a lot different than his show, not so much theater as factual dissection of things that are destroying the country and factual remedies for fixing what is wrong. I was really amazed, I was looking for a funny read and instead got a really informative book.
Last week's episodes were also good, focused on the roots of the progressive movement in Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and FDR. And how they diverted from the Constitution's intent. And how Obama is taking us on a similar and even more devastating path.
I'd also recommend reading Pat Buchanan's 2002 book Death of the West, in particular the chapter "Four Who Made A Revolution". Progressivism is Marxism re-packaged, with the intent to undermine democratic nations' faith in nationalism, religious faith, and the traditional family structure as well. In other words, destroying all the institutions that make us resistant to Marxism, make us distrust and despise them, so the public mindset will be open to a new socialist order.
Today's episode was informative in the first 15 minutes, about early 1900's progressivism and Calvin Coolidge. And hilarious in the second 15 minutes, mocking Joe Klein's condescending elitism, quoted from TIME magazine and elsewhere.
Some nice shots at Oprah and Bono too, for cheering Obama's taxing the rich and then protecting themselves by moving their capital out of taxed states.
Except that Beck has facts to support what he's saying, and isn't just insulting his political opposition factlessly.
And Beck also has very high ratings, at times approaching O'Reilly's (the highest rated program on cable). So obviously a large percentage of AQmerica disagrees with you.
And relatively speaking, Olbermann's ratings are at best less than a third of Beck's. And falling. Beck's ratings continue to increase and reach a larger audience. Olbermann's ratings are falling.
And by the way, it wasn't me who began this topic.
His show today is really pissing me off. His political scale is wrong in so many ways. He's claiming that far far right is anarchy and far far left is fascism. Fascism is the most extreme on either side not just the left. The far right has nothing to do with anarchy. That's a far left hippie thing.
His show today is really pissing me off. His political scale is wrong in so many ways. He's claiming that far far right is anarchy and far far left is fascism. Fascism is the most extreme on either side not just the left. The far right has nothing to do with anarchy. That's a far left hippie thing.
Anarchy is just the lack of central government. Lack of authority, where people are accountable only to themselves
The March 5, 2010 episode of Glenn Beck dealt with "Indoctrinating our Children", about how a leftist takeover of America's education system is teaching a false history to our kids, that discourages nationalism, indoctrinates globalism, and indoctrinates a hatred and shame in our history as a nation, through misrepresentation of actual history.
This is just the opening segment. But it still reveals the activism of openly anti-American groups at high school and college campuses nationwide. Including pro-Mexican nationalist movements to seize the U.S. southwest --including the Mexica movement-- which they regard as stolen from Mexico. As I quoted in an earlier topic, Los Angeles mayor Villaraigossa is a member of the group, who has never renounced his membership. Gee, why is Los Angeles so laden with illegals? (90% of the outstanding warrants in L.A. are for illegal mexicans)
A recent Associated Press article said 70% of all illegals in the U.S. are mexicans.
And as Beck points out (about 4 minutes into the video) the propaganda posters for all these groups are blatantly communist, and clearly patterned after Soviet and Chinese propaganda posters, with similar rhetoric as their predecessors, and inconsistent with issues for which they advocate. Other than advocating revolution and the destruction of the United States and capitalism.
I bet you you to wipe yourself off after watching that one.
you you write write much much rex rex?
And then you edited your initial post to hide the mistake you made when rattled:
Originally Posted By: rex
You rattled me so badly you had to fake edit my post?
Congratulations, rex. You're the new Whomod. Editing posts to hide your mistakes, rather than admit them. It was a very small error, if you'd been man enough to admit it.
Congratulations, rex. You're the new Whomod. Editing posts to hide your mistakes, rather than admit them. It was a very small error, if you'd been man enough to show me your throbbing cock.
Congratulations, rex. You're the new Whomod. Editing posts to hide your mistakes, rather than admit them. It was a very small error, if you'd been man enough to show me your throbbing cock.
Showing another man your cock is decidedly unmanly.
You can have rex's cock, Pro, throbbing or otherwise.
Thanks for finally admitting that you are "unmanly".
It was a hypothetical (imagined by Prometheus and he scripted it in a fake quote as my idea). So the hypothetical penis-showing is his unmanliness, not mine. Or alternately, he fantasized about you presenting your penis to me, so if penis-presenting to another guy is unmanly, then it's your unmanliness, not mine. Hypothetically.
About the deliberate attempts to intertwine the economies of the U.S., europe, Japan, and the entire developed world, so if one collapses, the rest collapse as well.
Beck points out how a number of his previous predictions over the last two years, dismissed previously as "paranoid", "crazy", and otherwise wild conspiracy theories, are now being said in public statements by Obama officials, Senators, Congressmen, foreign government officials, and even parts of the mainstream media.
Wednesday's program focused on the "Financial Reform Bill" and how it is, in fact, another step leftist/socialist power grab to have government take over our economy and squeeze our the private sector, so that government has complete control over every aspect of our lives.
And quotes comments from multiple Obama officials and close associates that this is exactly their intention. That it's not about "protecting" people with safer standards and regulations, but about authoritarian control.
That after this legislation is passed, the federal government will control 60% of our economy. Finally overtaking a majority of our economy.
Another informative episode, about progressives, the global economy, how the socialism and overt marxism that will destroy Europe will destroy the U.S. as well, if we don't stop it.
Beck does a good job of calling Democrats and other progressives on their rhetoric and clear ideology, who allege they were just "misquoted", and Beck proves beyond any doubt from the Dems' own radio and tv interview quotes that they are, in fact, marxists, and that they are, in fact, seeking to replace the Constitution and U.S. sovereignty inside an authoritarian socialist global government.
This is the first time I've been able to watch Beck this week.
A program that focuses on the Israeli blockade of ships to Gaza, and how the media and other leftists/socialists are falsely demonizing Israelis for protecting themselves with a lawfully declared blockade. While the media simultaneously portrays the violence of muslims --who beat up Israeli soldiers with pipes-- as innocent victims.
An interesting show, that contrasts muslim violence to peaceful protests such as Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. And gives some history of antisemitism and its ties to progressive socialism, and the parallels between the rhetoric during the 1920's and what liberal progressives are saying now.
Glenn Beck's new book club pick: Nazi sympathizer who praised Hitler and denounced the Allies June 04, 2010 5:21 pm ET by Eric Hananoki
Glenn Beck holding Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network.
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the leading American Nazi group and praised Hitler. Today, Dilling is heralded by White Supremacists and White Aryans who revere her "fearless" work against Jewish people.
As Media Matters' Simon Maloy noted, Beck had kind words for Dilling's 1934 anti-communist book, The Red Network, saying: "This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation that took this seriously, and they documented it." Maloy noted that Dilling has a long history of rabid anti-Semitism, such as calling President Eisenhower "Ike the Kike" and labeling President Kennedy's New Frontier program the "Jew frontier."
Professor Glen Jeansonne and writer David Luhrssen note in the encyclopedia Women and War that Dilling wasn't only anti-Semitic, but a sympathizer and supporter of the Nazis and Hitler:
When World War II began in 1939, Dilling was part of the national network of anti-Semitics, anti-Communists, and Nazi sympathizers such as Father Charles Coughlin, Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith, Reverend Gerald Winrod, and William Dudley Pelley. Material generated by Nazi organizations in Germany to inspire race hated and exploit dissatisfaction in the United States found its way into Dilling's publications. She spoke at rallies hosted by the leading U.S. Nazi organization, the German-American Bund, and had traveled to Germany, pronouncing the country as flourishing under Hitler.
Dilling called for appeasing Germany; she blamed the war on Jews and Communists and accused the Roosevelt administration of being controlled by Jewish Communists. ... After Pearl Harbor, Dilling resisted wartime rationing and denounced the Allies.
So Dilling "spoke at rallies hosted by the leading U.S. Nazi organization, the German-American Bund." Who's the German-American Bund? Let Glenn Beck, Elizabeth Dilling fan, tell you:
BECK: The Bund gathered socially and ran Nazi camps. The camps were advertised as summer retreats where you could escape the city, celebrate German heritage, dance, drink, at places like Camp Nordlund in New Jersey and Camp Siegfried in Long Island. The camps hidden as pro-German/pro- American were attended by adults and families.
On the outside, they looked like any other camp. But the children were indoctrinated in the ideals of Nazism, breeding young Americans to become full-fledged Nazis. They marched, performed drills in Nazi uniforms. And they were taught about their racial superiority, their potential as Aryan youth.
As media scrutiny of the Bund increase, so did anti-Nazi protests, including other Americans who hated the Nazi image and Jewish-American veterans. Instead of quieting down, Bund leader Fritz Kuhn decided to hold the largest rally in their history, Madison Square Garden. These American Nazis showed their true colors, beating a Jewish protester who rushed the stage. Kuhn and other speeches were nothing more than anti-Semitic rants wrapped in the American flag protected by the First Amendment. [Glenn Beck, March 11]
British Professors Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves wrote that Dilling was a "pro-Nazi anti-Semite" who disseminated Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The ADL describes Protocols as "a classic in paranoid, racist literature. Taken by the gullible as the confidential minutes of a Jewish conclave convened in the last years of the nineteenth century, it has been heralded by anti-Semites as proof that Jews are plotting to take over the world."
Dilling's Nazi sympathies have made her a cult hero among Aryan groups and White Nationalists/Supremacists. For instance, the group Women for Aryan Unity features Dilling in a publication whose purpose is "to honour Aryan Women past and Present." Women for Aryan Unity writes of Dilling:
She visited the Soviet Union in 1931, where she found impoverished people, diseased and ill dressed. She saw genocide. Barely clothed children, begging. Half empty stores. The houses were dingy; roads were cracked and badly kept. She saw state-run orphanages and abortion was rampant. The women of the Soviet Union were suffering badly; the government was raising harassment, grueling work, and their children. What Elizabeth was witnessing was the aftermath of Communism. The Soviet Jews had torn down Russian churches. But she was no pacifist - she believed it was time to fight the infidels.
She decided then to acquire as much knowledge about Communism as she can, and use it as her weapon to fight it. She spoke to large audiences, and did extensive research on Communism and the Jew. She wrote excerpts exposing the Communists in the U.S. The lady was not afraid, and worked endlessly for years to expose the followers of Communism. She spoke on the radio, and met with men such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Hudson, and others who helped support her cause.
[...]
Many positive words come to mind as a description for such an admirable woman, but I believe the gentleman she met in the dining room of that small Denver hotel used the best word. The gentleman was University of Illinois Professor, Dr. Revilo Oliver, and it was there, paying no mind to anyone else present, she mouthed her famous words at her friend, "Do I see an anti-Semite?" The word he used to describe Mrs. Dilling? Fearless. My sentiments exactly.
Infamous racist David Duke, meanwhile, excerpts Dilling's work on his website and states that as a 16-year old, he "found a book called The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today by Elizabeth Dilling." Stormfront.org, which describes itself as a "community of White Nationalists," features numerous posts in its forum praising Dilling. "The Official Website of The Knights Party, USA" lists Dilling as one of its "Important Christian Women in History" and praises her for "Knowing the Jewish roots of Communism."
Jeansonne and Luhrssen conclude their summary of Dilling by writing that she "had long been dismissed as a crank before her death in 1966." And now half-a-century after her death, Dilling has found a new audience thanks to Glenn Beck.
M E M, I slogged my way through that long rambling article. SPECIFICALLY, what did Beck say that was oh-so-terrible?
JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, was a Nazi sympathizer. Lindbergh was pro-nazi. Henry Ford was an ardent pro-Nazi. Arnold Swarzenegger's father served as an officer in the SS Errol Flynn. Many others.
So fucking what?
Many of these people did great things, despite their sympathies.
Barack Obama, in contrast, sat in a racist church for 20 years, is a radical marxist, and is marinated in other Marxist associates and ideology. From his teenage and college influences, to his early post-college years, to his time in Chicago, right up to a large ratio of marxists now in his White House administration. I'm a little more concerned about the people who are wrecking our country, and are quoted saying they INTEND to wreck our country, acting on the marching orders of Saul Alinsky, and Cloward and Piven.
Unless you can say something lucid, rather than just smear tactics, I don't take your source the slightest bit seriously.
WB where is the smear on Beck? What I posted didn't accuse him of being anything but just reported the facts. You on the other hand make several attempts to smear in your post. I'm willing discuss things with you politely despite you're constant attacks.
WB where is the smear on Beck? What I posted didn't accuse him of being anything but just reported the facts. You on the other hand make several attempts to smear in your post. I'm willing discuss things with you politely despite you're constant attacks.
You implied something about Beck without clearly stating it.
Nothing I said a few posts above about Obama or his staff is the slightest bit untrue. They are openly marxist and have repeatedly been quoted in print and videotaped praising Mao Tse Tung, Hugo Chavez, and other socialist/communist leaders and revolutionaries, and I've quoted and youtubed them here often.
That they are marxist is not in dispute. It's proven and undeniable.
Further, Barack Obama favorably taught Saul Alinsky in university classrooms. He is a student of Alinsky, as well as Cloward and Piven.
Hilary Clinton as well wrote her master's thesis on Saul Alinsky.
These are not people who have a vague exposure to these anti-American marxist thinkers. They are people who are true believers in it, and want to transform America into a marxist system. And have no reservations about stomping on personal freedom to do it. As has been abundantly manifest over the last 18 months.
WB where is the smear on Beck? What I posted didn't accuse him of being anything but just reported the facts. You on the other hand make several attempts to smear in your post. I'm willing discuss things with you politely despite you're constant attacks.
So instead of watching the show you read what someone else said about it? Do you have any idea how unbelievably stupid and weak that is?
WB where is the smear on Beck? What I posted didn't accuse him of being anything but just reported the facts. You on the other hand make several attempts to smear in your post. I'm willing discuss things with you politely despite you're constant attacks.
You implied something about Beck without clearly stating it. ....
Nope. It only stuck to the facts. Obviously you recognize that somebody can quote from a source without endorsing the whole person. The difference seems to be is if Beck had been a democrat this would have been issue. He's not so you feel it's unfair to say that he's gushing about a book written by a nazi sympathiser. If Beck was a democrat I think you would use that as a tool to accuse him like you do with other democrats as the rest of your posts does exactly that.
WB where is the smear on Beck? What I posted didn't accuse him of being anything but just reported the facts. You on the other hand make several attempts to smear in your post. I'm willing discuss things with you politely despite you're constant attacks.
So instead of watching the show you read what someone else said about it? Do you have any idea how unbelievably stupid and weak that is?
WB where is the smear on Beck? What I posted didn't accuse him of being anything but just reported the facts. You on the other hand make several attempts to smear in your post. I'm willing discuss things with you politely despite you're constant attacks.
So instead of watching the show you read what someone else said about it? Do you have any idea how unbelievably stupid and weak that is?
also, that's 'you're familiar' not 'your familiar'. leave it to someone who's bought into the 'all the smart people are liberals' bullshit to have such horrendous usage errors in every post.
"Don't tease the panther": An exclusive look at Glenn Beck's The Overton Window June 11, 2010 1:57 pm ET by Ben Dimiero & Simon Maloy
The opening lines of Glenn Beck's yet-to-be-released novel, The Overton Window, read as follows: "Most people think about age and experience in terms of years, but it's really only moments that define us."
In a quirk of convenience, this line also describes the best way to deconstruct The Overton Window, a copy of which Media Matters obtained and read -- nay, devoured -- with great relish. As we slogged through its many plot holes, ridiculous narrative devices, and long-winded limited-government sermonizing passed off as dialogue, we singled out ten moments that define The Overton Window as the truly and remarkably awful novel that it is.
First, a quick summation of the plot, such as it is. The protagonist, Noah Gardner, works for an impossibly powerful public relations firm in Manhattan that has been the driving force behind pretty much every political and cultural movement of the 20th century. Their latest and grandest scheme is the culmination of a lengthy plot to change the United States into some sort of ill-defined progressive plutocracy, and the catalyst for this change is a nuclear explosion that will occur outside the home-state office of "the current U.S. Senate majority leader," which happens to be at the same address as Harry Reid's Las Vegas offices. The nuclear attack is to be blamed on the Founders Keepers, a Tea Party-like group -- led by Noah's love interest, Molly Ross -- that is working to foil the plot.
1. Rule number one is: "Don't tease the panther"
Noah and Molly find themselves in bed together early in the book after a harrowing experience at a Founders' Keepers rally. They agree to sleep in bed together because Molly is too scared to sleep at home, but Molly insists that nothing sexual will take place. Noah agrees, on the condition that she "not do anything sexy." She presses her cold feet against his legs, and Noah responds:
"Suit yourself, lady. I'm telling you right now, you made the rules, but you're playing with fire here. I've got some rules, too, and rule number one is, don't tease the panther." ...
C'mon. Progressive is what left-wingers call themselves. Everybody knows that.
Until the full ideological connotation of "Progressive" is exposed, and then they go back to calling themselves "Liberal".
Until the full ideological connotation of "Liberal" is exposed again, and the full meaning of "Progressive" has been forgotten, and then they feel safe to call themselves "Progressive" again.
Until "Progressive" is exposed and they go back to calling themselves "Liberal" again... And so on.
As detailed in another recent Beck program. Two years ago Hillary Clinton described herself as a "proud liberal, in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson". But after Beck and others have vilified Woodrow Wilson's disregard for the Constitution and Wilson's undermining of democracy under the shadow cover of "progressivism", now Hillary's back to calling herself a liberal.
There were two episodes of Glenn Beck I found insightful this week.
The Tuesday (June 29th) episode covered the arrest of Russian spies, who were attempting to infiltrate at the grassroots level and rise to positions that influence federal policy. Which, Beck points out, is exactly the game plan of William Ayers, Wade Rathke, Jeff Jones, ACORN, SEIU, and Barack and Michelle Obama themselves! And was further explored on Wednesday's show.
Beck also points out how remarkably indifferent the Obama administration, and attorney general Eric Holder were to the arrests. As well as the media who focused on "isn't she HOT?!?"-variety coverage of a serious case of espionage, the most indifferent either the media or the government have ever been to a case of Russian espionage.
A segment where Beck goes into the support Exxon and BP have for Obama's Cap-and-Trade bill, because they would profit from it, and how they were just in the process of selling it to the American public when the spill occurred. And how the BP oil spill has been used by Obama as an excuse to harass oil drilling companies out of business with bureaucratic red tape, sending these jobs overseas, which hurts the U.S. and costs jobs, that will inevitably go to Brazil and overseas.
I wasn't even aware of the U.S. assets that Venezuela has seized in that country, that I haven't seen reported anywhere else in the media. Odd how a major event like the seizure of U.S. assets goes unreported. And how Obama is using the oil spill crisis in these and other ways to push through Cap-and-Trade.
Where Beck discusses how the remaining TARP funds, rather than be used to help Americans who have lost their jobs, are being used to pay for Obama's new "Financial Reform Bill". But that AIG's executive who appeared before Congress hearings said they are "still investigating the cause" of the financial collapse. So the Democrats' "financial reform bill" is being pushed as the solution, even as AIG still hasn't found the cause. (i.e., the progressive agenda for some hidden purpose is more important than finding the actual cause of the crisis.)
And how attorney General Eric Holder was out of the country when the Russian spies were arrested, while simultaneously Robert Gibbs said Obama had "no personal reaction" to the Russian espionage and arrests. And bizarrely, Vladimir Putin condemned the arrest of Russian spies as "an attempt to smear the president" by "racists". So for the first time, the Russian leadership is against the U.S. government, but for the U.S. president. You'd almost think they had a stake in Obama being president.
Elena Kagan in senate hearings, evades describing herself as "progressive", despite her clear history as one, because of Progressives' ideological contempt for the Constitution. And Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) showing his contempt for U.S. border security and sovereignty, as he mocks Minutemen sacrificing their time to patrol the border that the government should be --but is NOT-- defending. Demonstrating as well Stark's contempt for the opinion and safety of the American people.
More of Rep Pete Stark mocking his dissenters at a town hall meeting. Beck points out that despite Stark's slanders of "who will the Minutemen kill next?" there has NEVER BEEN ONE shooting by the minutemen. Another liberal activist quoted, saying of U.S. Border Patrol that one shouldn't be in the same room with them, that it would be "like having dinner with a KKK member." And discussing Obama's touted goal of "fundamental transformation", Maxine Waters (D-CA), a member of the progressive causus, says fundamental change means "the U.S. government will end up owning all our companies." This demonstrates the beauty of what Beck does, he doesn't imply anything or say it himself. He just thoroughly busts these people incriminating themselves on video, in a context that cannot possibly be mistaken. Their intent and ultimate goals are quite clear, Beck simply reports what no one else will.
From Tuesday's show, Beck discusses the debt that threatens to collapse our economy, and the arrogance of our political elite in their contempt for the middle class who are concerned about it:
..and a concluding focus on Robert Byrd, and the amazing chasm between the way Strom Thurmond was covered, as compared to Byrd's passing. Part E When Trent Lott simply made a toast and idle comment about Byrd's potential legacy, it rose liberal demand for the end of Lott's career. When Bill Clinton whitewashed Byrd's entire history as a Klansman and devoted foe of any rights for blacks, not a word of criticism from the liberal media. Especially hard hitting was the part about New York Times editorials written about Thurmond and Byrd-- written by the same guy, with a complete double standard, one lionized, one demonized, for the identical behavior.
Remember when whomod used to come here and spam keith olberman youtube clips?
At least 5 times more people listen to Glenn Beck than Olbermann.
If you ever even listened to Glenn Beck, you'd know that he was just as critical of George W. Bush's policies and he is of Obama's. Beck is not a Republican mouthpiece. Whereas Olbermann is a liberal-partisan shill, labelling as "racist" and so forth anyone who disagrees with him.
Olbermann just slanders people and vindictively calls them names. Beck cites sources, and quotes people --often videotaped-- incriminating themselves.
I have to say: Of all the idealogical overwrought talk show hosts, Beck does actually cite primary sources a lot, which puts him ahead of most commentators on both the left and the right.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010, Beck talks more about the Black Panthers voter-intimidation case, and Attorney General Eric Holder's evasive refusal to prosecute the case, that caused U.S. attorney Christian Adams to resign from a very successful career at the D O J, and go public with the true facts. As well as Bartyl Bull --a well-known civil rights attorney from the 60s, who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service, and was campaign manager for Robert Kennedy in 1968-- who also publicly opposed D O J's refusal to prosecute the case.
Glenn Beck's Monday show, that made some great points about how Obama is tightening laws for treason, but refuses to even identify muslim terrorists... as terrorists! But is tightening federal laws so he can incarcerate, hold without trial or evidence, or even execute without evidence, those the government deems to be treasonous or terrorist. Since only Tea Party protestors (rather than muslim terrorists) are portrayed as spreading fear, using violence, and potentially terrorist, it seems Obama's undemocratic new laws are aimed at a lockdown on all domestic dissent toward his presidency, rather than islamic terrorism. Beck points out how the Obama administration seems not the least bit worried about 2012 re-election, almost as if he has something planned to contain it.
And incredibly, far from being a right-wing talking point, some of the folks at MSNBC, the ACLU and other pundits and groups on the Left are making the same point !
Detailing the further deterioration of our freedom, and authoritarian takeover of our financial system and healthcare system, under incompetent appointed-Czar control, rather than the authority of industry experts who could save the system from further waste and inevitable collapse:
Plus you'll enjoy the time he devotes here to Weiner and his attack on Goldline, a major sponsor of Beck's. An attempt to deprive Beck of sponsor support:
And about 6 minutes in, a great perspective of the USDA lady's firiong by Obama and the Agriculture Department, and how the timeline she, the liberal media, and the Obama administration offer doesn't make any sense, because she was already fired before FOX News first reported it. And how this appears to be an orchestrated smear of FOX News and Breitbart, by providing them with a fragment of the full story.
The most significant part of the broadcast was the opening segment, though, about bureaucratic and authoritarian new legislation, handled by inefficient bureaucrats unfamiliar with the industries they will regulate, who will inevitably cause more failure, job loss, and federal debt (which gels perfectly with the ideology Alinsky, and of Cloward and Piven strategy, that Obama and his inner circle are deeply indoctrinated in) : Part A
Watch: Glenn Beck Calls Brian Urlacher a ‘Neo-Nazi’ Updated: Friday, 23 Jul 2010, 10:49 AM CDT Published : Friday, 23 Jul 2010, 8:45 AM CDT
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Chicago - Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck might not be the most popular guy among Bears fans after calling Brian Urlacher a “neo-Nazi.”
He was going over a website's list of the “blackest white people” in the news, and when he got to the Bears' Brian Urlacher's picture, he said, “I think this guy’s a neo-Nazi.”
Beck admitted he had no idea who Brian Urlacher even was.
Representatives for Urlacher and Beck had not commented on the issue.
Fox News Channel and FOX Chicago News are both owned by the same company.
It again underscores that Obama's administration is not only inspired by 1960s terrorist radicals such as William Ayers, Jeff Jones, Wade Rathke and others, but is working closely with many of these unrepentant revolutionaries, who continue to espouse marxism and the infiltration and collapse of America from within.
It also exposes that while an overwhelming majority of Arizona citizens support border enforcement, ACORN, SEIU and other socialist unions continue to import fake "astroturf" protestors in to oppose the Arizona border enforcement law.
Especially good is his quoting Pelosi and her tearful expression a few months ago of how frightening this awful rhetoric was that reminded her of the worst rioting and violence of the late 1960s. And yet she has no problem, none, with the fact that Obama is employing the very radicals that she expressed fear of.
These two parts are especially chilling. That while we have a monetary system that resembles the Weimar Republic or the U.S. in 1929 just on the precipice of a great depression, we no longer have the industrial base to pull us out of it.
This part in particular I would think liberals --if they would only watch it-- would see the catastrophic error of Obama's economic policy, and turn on him.
If the Obama Newspeak of ABC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and the other media would only report it.
Maybe they're not Communist agents from the Soviet Union, but actually neo-Nazis, just like the linebacker who plays for the Bears...it's really amazing that the Fourth Reich has infiltrated the NFL.
Beck quotes an auditor who normally just signs off on Congressional Budget Office numbers. But who in this case was deeply critical of the Obama Health Care plan, that the numbers are irresponsibly way off, and unsustainable.
Beck also comments on Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father and that the dreams of both obama's father and grandfather were destroying western colonialism with soviet-style marxism. And compares the evidence that Barack Obama's apple didn't fall very far from the tree of his two predecessors. And that Barack Obama's apple is deeply indocrinated in William Ayers, Saul Alinsky, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Cloward and Piven strategy, to collapse the system with unsustainable debt, to enact a redistribution of wealth amid the cover provided by the chaos and crisis:
And how William Ayers is retiring as a university professor this month, even as he receives a generous pension from the nation he hates, that he will likely use to continue his un-American political activism. Even as his pension contributes to collapsing the system with unsustainable entitlements and debt. From which beck segues into the fact that 46 of the 50 states have unsustainable unfunded debt and entitlements.
And concludes with some funny but very true points about how Obama calls for sacrifice, and then how he and his wife live like kings and queens at the taxpayers' expense, with trillions in deficit spending that --contrary to the cloak of "helping average Americans" that it is legislated under-- actually serves as a slush fund for endless bailouts and Democrat re-election funds (against the will of an American public that opposes these policies but are forced through taxes to pay for their lobbying and payoffs to unions and other Democrat allies).
Glenn Beck's own account of what happened at his Lincoln Memorial rally on 8-28-2010, commemorating the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.
Beck has been doing a "Crash Course" overview this week of the issues he's been covering for months.
His show yesterday (Tuesday) was an "all the President's men" overview of Obama's communist-indoctrinated staff, such as Ron Bloom, Mark Lloyd, Anita Dunn, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Obama himself.
And their direct links to 60s radicals such as William Ayers, Jeff Jones, and the head of SEIU Andy Stern, who are influencing or directly writing Obama's socialist debt-laden economic policy today.
And about George Soros, who funds Center For American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, and other progressive groups that are actively undermining U.S. economic policy, while enriching himself, as that policy moves us toward collapse of the U.S. dollar.
Scary stuff, that makes you wonder why the rest of the media isn't asking these questions or reporting on Obama's clear marxist/anti-American ideology, and that of his close associates.
Beck has been doing a "Crash Course" overview this week of the issues he's been covering for months.
His show yesterday (Tuesday) was an "all the President's men" overview of Obama's communist-indoctrinated staff, such as Ron Bloom, Mark Lloyd, Anita Dunn, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Obama himself.
And their direct links to 60s radicals such as William Ayers, Jeff Jones, and the head of SEIU Andy Stern, who are influencing or directly writing Obama's socialist debt-laden economic policy today.
And about George Soros, who funds Center For American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, and other progressive groups that are actively undermining U.S. economic policy, while enriching himself, as that policy moves us toward collapse of the U.S. dollar.
Scary stuff, that makes you wonder why the rest of the media isn't asking these questions or reporting on Obama's clear marxist/anti-American ideology, and that of his close associates.
Beck has been doing a "Crash Course" overview this week of the issues he's been covering for months.
His show yesterday (Tuesday) was an "all the President's men" overview of Obama's communist-indoctrinated staff, such as Ron Bloom, Mark Lloyd, Anita Dunn, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Obama himself.
And their direct links to 60s radicals such as William Ayers, Jeff Jones, and the head of SEIU Andy Stern, who are influencing or directly writing Obama's socialist debt-laden economic policy today.
And about George Soros, who funds Center For American Progress, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, and other progressive groups that are actively undermining U.S. economic policy, while enriching himself, as that policy moves us toward collapse of the U.S. dollar.
Scary stuff, that makes you wonder why the rest of the media isn't asking these questions or reporting on Obama's clear marxist/anti-American ideology, and that of his close associates.
Try watching Jon Stewart's show. It will answer many of your questions and it's funny too.
Why are you so defensive about the guy who likes wiener? Its not like what I say will affect your love of him...or will it?
If you've noticed, I don't care what you think. I just keep posting regardless.
Because as everyone here knows, nothing you post is to be taken seriously, and I'm pretty much the last one here to give you a serious response that the pure antagonism of your sniping responses doesn't warrant.
Why are you so defensive about the guy who likes wiener? Its not like what I say will affect your love of him...or will it?
If you've noticed, I dson't care what you think. I just keep posting regardless. Because as everyone here knows, nothing you post is to be taken seriously, and I'm pretty much the last one here to give you a serious response that the pure antagonism of your sniping responses doesn't warrant.
You don't care but you respond to all of my posts? Like I've said before, I make fun of you because you react. If you weren't such a cry baby bitch I wouldn't make fun of you. You are the one making yourself a target. You are the one who wants to get made fun of so you can victimize yourself and the people you worship. This is all about you and your mental instability.
You don't care but you respond to all of my posts? Like I've said before, I make fun of you because you react. If you weren't such a cry baby bitch I wouldn't make fun of you. You are the one making yourself a target. You are the one who wants to get made fun of so you can victimize yourself and the people you worship. This is all about you and your mental instability.
Aside from the multiple misrepresentations of what I've actually said and believe...
...you just admitted that you're just an attention whore, who will say anything, ANYTHING to get a response.
You don't make factual arguments, you just crank out the most vile and mean-spirited lies and personal attacks you can, until you can solicit a response.
Today's Glenn Beck "Crash Course" episode looks at revisionist history, and offers actual history to correct it.
About the unconstitutional authoritarian abuses of Woodrow Wilson, and how a rejection of Wilson's policies prevented a great depression in the early 1920's and established a period of massive growth for a decade afterward. How FDR's economic policy resulted in deepening the Great Depression and prolonged it, till war manufacturing finally ended the depression in 1940-41. The ugly marxist, racist and corrupt side of unions. And the real Margaret Sanger, who fully embraced eugenics and genocide.
Today's Glenn Beck episode looks at revisionist history, and offers actual history to correct it.
I've noticed a surge in republicans trying to revise history when it comes to FDR. Guess as more of the crowd that was alive back then dies off it gets easier to do. Calling the old history "revisionist" seems silly and sort of a red flag announcing Beck is truly doing the revising.
About the unconstitutional authoritarian abuses of Woodrow Wilson, and how a rejection of Wilson's policies prevented a great depression in the early 1920's and established a period of massive growth for a decade afterward. How FDR's economic policy resulted in deepening the Great Depression and prolonged it, till war manufacturing finally ended the depression in 1940-41. The ugly marxist, racist and corrupt side of unions. And the real Margaret Sanger, who fully embraced eugenics and genocide.
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So massive spending by the goverment pulled us out of a depression? Think about that one WB.
M E M, here's some stats I quoted a couple years ago when we discussed the liberal-indoctrinated delusion that FDR pulled us out of the Great Depression:
Again, please show me where FDR eliminated the recession. All opinions I've seen say that FDR actually prolonged and deepened the Depression with his policies, by inhibiting confidence and free market growth.
Again, what actually ended the Great Depression in 1940-1941 was war production supplied to Britain. The rest is liberal smoke and mirrors, and tea leaf reading.
His New Deal programs helped and gave relief to the many during the depression. If you haven't seen any opinions contrary to the conservative revisionism you haven't looked very hard. Heck even your own posts credit the spending during WW2 for ending the depression.
Again, what actually ended the Great Depression in 1940-1941 was war production supplied to Britain. The rest is liberal smoke and mirrors, and tea leaf reading.
M E M, how can you deny that unemployment continued virtually unchanged at almost 20% right on to the early years of World War II? The numbers (posted above)don't lie.
Your argument is Obama's: "well it could have been worse without [FDR/Obama]..." With no evidence to disprove that it was statistically the worst WITH both FDR and Obama.
Unemployment was at 6% when Obama took office, and has been at a steady 9.5% since he took office (and currently 9.6%, worsening).
Yesterday's "Crash Course" episode of Glenn Beck is titled "Controlling the Message".
Detailing the propaganda and suppression of freedom under Woodrow Wilson, and how these tactics and abuse of power are repeated in the Obama administration, in their attempt to shut down Fox News, Glenn Beck, and other dissenters and critics of Obama. It was actually --remarkably-- the liberal media who stood up for Fox News and broke Obama's attempt to bully Fox. Because the liberal media knew that if Obama was successful against Fox, the vice would be tightened next on the other networks as well.
Others highlighted in this show are Cass Sunstein, one of the main architects in Obama's staff of the strategy to shut down Fox News and Glenn Beck. (in comparison to George W. Bush, as bitter as the attacks got on him, Bush never went after MSNBC, Keith Olbermann or other critics at all). Sunstein also masterminded intimidating, slandering and infiltrating the Tea Party (if it can still be called masterminded, since the plan has not worked.)
Also spotlighted is Obama's FCC Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, who famously said of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chaves' state takeover of the media in his country: "An effective model, and a good one to follow." Very scary, that a man in charge of regulating our nation's media favors authoritarian takeover of our nation's media, and sees Chaves as the model.
And in conclusion is a comparison of Obama to Richard Nixon's treatment of the media, recorded from his own words, as compared to the words of Obama and his staffers. No insinuation, the exact words. And they are virtually identical.
Again, what actually ended the Great Depression in 1940-1941 was war production supplied to Britain. The rest is liberal smoke and mirrors, and tea leaf reading.
M E M, how can you deny that unemployment continued virtually unchanged at almost 20% right on to the early years of World War II? The numbers (posted above)don't lie.
If you take a look at them, you'll notice that unemployment dropped each year up till the time when FDR under fire from conservatives tried to balance the budget. Then it got worse. Plus do those numbers you cite include people employed under government works programs or not?
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Your argument is Obama's: "well it could have been worse without [FDR/Obama]..." With no evidence to disprove that it was statistically the worst WITH both FDR and Obama.
Unemployment was at 6% when Obama took office, and has been at a steady 9.5% since he took office (and currently 9.6%, worsening).
Your argument lacks facts to support it.
Actually I think the nonpartisan CBO backs up the positive effect of the stimulus has had.
As for the great depression, even you have to reallize it wasn't tax breaks and reduced spending that pulled us out of it but massive spending.
If you take a look at them, you'll notice that unemployment dropped each year up till the time when FDR under fire from conservatives tried to balance the budget. Then it got worse. Plus do those numbers you cite include people employed under government works programs or not?
They are total unemployment figures for each year, yes. And unemployment, as I showed, never got much below 20% under Roosevelt until W W II. There was no progress under Roosevelt. It was unquestionably World War II that stopped the Great Depression, not FDR. To say otherwise is just spin and propaganda, that unfortunately liberals are teaching in our schools.
Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Actually I think the nonpartisan CBO backs up the positive effect of the stimulus has had.
Yeah, that's why two of Obama's economic team just resigned, including Orszag, the most prominent face in the CBO.
What the CBO has been saying all along is that this debt level is unsustainable, and will bankrupt the nation. As I have discussed and linked quotes to often, from CBO officials.
Originally Posted By: M E M
As for the great depression, even you have to realize it wasn't tax breaks and reduced spending that pulled us out of it but massive spending.
No. It was manufacturing and war production that brought us out of depression in 1940.
To the extent that debt was incurred in the early 1940's, as long as we won the war it was guaranteed to be repaid. And an investment in industrial capacity is virtually a guarantee of return on investment, and not a "hail Mary" like Obama's stimulus has been. The problem is, now we're a service economy, and we can't produce our way out like we did in the 1940's. Back then, it really was shovel-ready jobs. But what Obama's doing is virtually no industrial investment, and just moving paper around, and paying off unions, ACORN, and other political muscle groups of the liberal-socialist power structure (i.e., corruption and waste).
In addition to the stimulus money Obama has borrowed from China and Japan, he has also printed another 2 trillion dollars to cover what couldn't be borrowed (i.e., "quantitative easing", printing money to buy our own treasury notes, that China and Japan previously did and now won't). What Obama is doing more closely resembles 1923 Weimar Germany than any rebuilding of economic infrastructure. And in FDR's time, we were a debt-free nation and the world's largest creditor-nation. We have since become the world's largest debtor-nation.
Add to that --as I've said repeatedly-- that Obama is heavily indoctrinated in Cloward and Piven Strategy and Saul Alinsky (i.e., economically collapsing the system, to enact social justice and a redistribution of wealth amid the crisis. ) Obama has never followed or believed in capitalism. And nothing he is doing makes me believe he is trying to save capitalism now. Quite the contrary, all Obama's actions manifest he is following Saul Alinsky and Cloward-Piven strategy, to destroy us.
The Office of Management and Budget has released its annual mid-session review that updates the budget projections from this past May.[1] They show that this year, Washington will spend $30,958 per household, tax $17,576 per household, and borrow $13,392 per household. The federal government will increase spending 22 percent this year to a peacetime-record 26 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This spending is not just temporary: President Obama would permanently keep annual spending between $5,000 and $8,000 per household higher than it had been under President George W. Bush.[2]
Driven by this spending, America will run its first ever trillion-dollar budget deficit this year. Even worse, the President's budget would borrow an additional $9 trillion over the next decade, more than doubling the national debt. By 2019, America will be spending nearly $800 billion on net interest to service this large debt.[3]
Bigger Government and Higher Taxes
Since World War II, federal spending has generally remained between 18 and 22 percent of GDP. During the Bush Administration, spending increased from 18 to 21 percent of GDP. This year, President Obama will spend a peacetime-record 26 percent of GDP. Even by 2019, spending would still be 23 percent of GDP--not even counting the President's proposed health plan.
The 22 percent spending increase projected for 2009 represents the largest government expansion since the 1952 height of the Korean War (adjusted for inflation). Federal spending is up 57 percent since 2001.
While the costs of the financial bailouts and economic stimulus bills are staggering, they are only a fraction of the coming costs from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that each year Medicaid will expand by 7 percent, Medicare by 6 percent, and Social Security by 5 percent. These programs face a 75-year shortfall of $43 trillion--60 times greater than the gross cost of the $700 billion TARP financial bailout.[4]
President Obama claims that "we have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade." This is not true. The President first creates a fantasy baseline that assumes the Iraq surge continues forever (which was never U.S. policy) and then "saves" $1.5 trillion against that baseline by ending the surge as scheduled. It is like a family "saving" $10,000 by first assuming an expensive vacation and then not taking it. Another $1 trillion in "savings" is actually tax increases (in other words, savings for government, not taxpayers). The President's budget figures exclude his health care plan, which could add another trillion dollars in taxes and spending.
Tax revenues have historically remained between 17 and 19 percent of GDP. This year, the recession has reduced them to 14.7 percent of GDP. The CBO has estimated that once the recession ends, maintaining current tax policies would keep revenues at around 17.6 percent of GDP (slightly below the 18.3 historical average). President Obama's proposed tax increases would push revenues up to 19.2 percent of GDP by 2019 (not counting his proposed tax increases to finance health care reform).
Federal spending per household (adjusted for inflation) remained constant at $21,000 throughout the 1980s and 1990s, before President Bush hiked it to $25,000. In 2009, Washington will spend $30,958 per household--the highest level in American history--and under President Obama's budget, the figure will rise above $33,000 by 2019.
As the budget deficit increases over the next decade, so will net interest spending, from $173 billion (1.2 percent of GDP) in 2009 to a record-level of $774 billion (3.4 percent of GDP) by 2019. In fact, net interest costs will account for 84 percent of the 2019 budget deficit.
President Obama's budget includes $1.4 trillion in tax increases, all of which would go toward new spending rather than deficit reduction. The 2009 Budget Deficit [5]
Since World War II, the largest budget deficit recorded was 6.0 percent of GDP in 1983. The Bush Administration oversaw budget deficits averaging 2.0 percent of GDP. The projected 2009 budget deficit of 11.2 percent of GDP would nearly double the post-war record. The White House budget proposal would keep the budget deficit above 3.7 percent of GDP indefinitely. It has not reached that level since 1993.
The mid-session review projects a $1,580 billion budget deficit in fiscal year 2009. While this is $261 billion less than the White House projected in May, the entire reduction stems from Congress not following the President's call for another round of TARP (which would have cost $250 billion in outlays), and $101 billion in savings from lower-than-expected deposit insurance costs. Excluding those two variables, the projected budget deficit actually increased.
The 2009 budget deficit will be larger than all budget deficits from 2002 through 2007 combined. More than 43 cents of every dollar Washington spends in 2009 will have been borrowed.
While President Obama claims to have inherited the 2009 budget deficit, it is important to note that the estimated 2009 budget deficit has increased by $400 billion since his inauguration, and the whole point of the "stimulus" was to increase deficit spending to nearly $2 trillion based on the unproven notion that would it alleviate the recession. This suggests that even if the President had not inherited a big deficit, he would have created one as a matter of anti-recessionary policy.
Future Budget Deficits
One would expect the post-recession deficit to revert back to the $150 billion to $350 billion budget deficits that were typical before the recession. Instead, by 2019, the President forecasts a $917 billion budget deficit, a public debt of 77 percent of GDP, and annual net interest spending of $774 billion.
The White House projects $10.6 trillion in new deficits between 2009 and 2019--nearly $80,000 per household in new borrowing. Since World War II, the public debt has ranged from 23 percent of GDP to 49 percent. Large deficits are estimated to drive the debt ratio to 41 percent in 2008 and 77 percent by 2019--a peacetime record.
The public national debt--$5.8 trillion as of 2008--is projected to double by 2012 and nearly triple by 2019. Thus, America would accumulate more government debt under President Obama than under every President in American history from George Washington to George W. Bush combined.
The White House brags that it will cut the deficit in half by 2013. The President does not mention that the deficit has nearly quadrupled this year. Merely cutting it half from that bloated level would still leave budget deficits twice as high as under President Bush. Furthermore, three upcoming developments--the end of the recession, the troop pullout in Iraq, and the phase-out of the supposedly temporary "stimulus" spending--would, by themselves, cut the budget deficit in half.
The coming tsunami of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid costs are projected to push the federal public debt to 320 percent of GDP by 2050 and over 750 percent by 2083.[6]
The White House underestimates future budget deficits by trillions of dollars by (1) assuming that discretionary spending will be frozen to inflation for the next decade, (2) assuming that cap-and-trade revenues will be available to finance a Make Work Pay credit (the House-passed bill allocates those revenues elsewhere), (3) assuming health care reform will be deficit-neutral, and (4) assuming certain tax increases that are unlikely to be enacted.
The White House also likely overestimates long-term economic growth. Its forecast for real GDP growth in 2010 and 2011 is reasonable but exceedingly optimistic after the economic recovery. The Administration forecast exceeds that of the CBO every year by as much as 0.9 percentage points as late as 2015 and by a cumulative 3.9 percentage points over the 2012-2019 period. In effect, the Administration is assuming a full year's additional growth over those eight years. The effect is to boost revenues significantly in each year and by as much as $160 billion in the 10th year and a cumulative amount of almost $680 billion.
Time to Stop Digging
The new budget spending estimates are alarming and absolutely unsustainable--and are the true cause of these appalling levels of deficit and debt. President Obama has proposed massive tax increases that still cannot keep up with the historic spending increases he has proposed. The result will be highest level of spending--and debt--in American history. Within a decade, Washington would have to spend nearly $800 billion annually just to pay the interest on the national debt.
In this budget context, the President's and Congress's brazen proposals to create a $1 trillion health care entitlement are reckless and unaffordable. Lawmakers should focus on capping federal spending, restraining entitlements, and eliminating wasteful and lower-priority programs.
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Brian M. Riedl is Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
And again, one of Glenn Beck's most important broadcasts, giving the macro-picture of Obama's past, the leftist plotters of America's destruction that have surrounded him for decades, and these leftists are enabled and an active part of carrying out Obama's enactment of Cloward and Piven Strategy today.
If you take a look at them, you'll notice that unemployment dropped each year up till the time when FDR under fire from conservatives tried to balance the budget. Then it got worse. Plus do those numbers you cite include people employed under government works programs or not?
They are total unemployment figures for each year, yes. And unemployment, as I showed, never got much below 20% under Roosevelt until W W II. There was no progress under Roosevelt. It was unquestionably World War II that stopped the Great Depression, not FDR. To say otherwise is just spin and propaganda, that unfortunately liberals are teaching in our schools.
I checked WB and those numbers don't count those people in those works programs. Counting those people the unemployment goes like this...
It does jump up in 1938 but then again FDR had tried balancing the budget in 1937. So you have steady improvement under FDR's New Deal for the most part. What would all of those people have done without it?
That would be like counting the temporary U.S. Census jobs that Obama "created"?
Temporary jobs, that disappear as soon as the stimulus money runs out, and are not self-sustaining.
If you "save" a teacher job or some other civil service job with temporary stimulus money, and then have to fire them in a year anyway when the stimulus funds that artificially sustain that job run out, what are you really saving or "creating". Nothing. You're just postponing the inevitable, and preventing market forces from eliminating inefficiency, and from creating real jobs in the aftermath with real growth. And creating more debt for an even harder fall in a few years when the stimulus ends. It's a temporary bandaid oon a gushing wound.
Likewise with all the government subsidies for real estate. These people are temporarily saved from foreclosure, but because they can't afford the home they're in that they never should have been qualified for, they will foreclose anyway in another year or two! So what has all this government intervention really saved. And many who can afford their homes are walking away from them anyway, because they're worth 40% or half now of what they borrowed at the time of purchase. I know a real estate agent in her 30s who purchased a two bedroom condo on a first-time homebuyer loan at %120,000, and just walked away from her condo because it's worth half the mortgage purchase price she owes. She told me if I want it, I can get it at $50,000 at short sale from her bank.
And it's the same with all these subsidized "created" jobs from the Stimulus spending. They were each created at 4 times the cost of what the jobs pay, and will be gone within 2 years.
That would be like counting the temporary U.S. Census jobs that Obama "created"?
OK first of all those Census jobs would have been "created" no matter who was president. Secondly those jobs are now counted and have been since the 40's I believe. I'm watching FOX Sunday right now and those temporary Census jobs that have ended this summer are being mixed into the private sector job growth now and the talk about them being temporary jobs that we heard this Spring is gone.
Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
Temporary jobs, that disappear as soon as the stimulus money runs out, and are not self-sustaining.
If you "save" a teacher job or some other civil service job with temporary stimulus money, and then have to fire them in a year anyway when the stimulus funds that artificially sustain that job run out, what are you really saving or "creating". Nothing. You're just postponing the inevitable, and preventing market forces from eliminating inefficiency, and from creating real jobs in the aftermath with real growth. And creating more debt for an even harder fall in a few years when the stimulus ends. It's a temporary bandaid oon a gushing wound.
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You still have to keep people fed WB. If the government hadn't held up the economy back in the 30's and now what would have happened to all those people?
Beck discusses the late-election attempt by Obama and the Democrat leadership to label the Tea Party as radicals, and compares what is by definition "radical" to the actions and stated ideology of Obama and his staff.
Continuing on a Tea Party focus this week, Beck compares the ideology of the Tea Party to the ideology of the Washington elite (in particular Obama's White House, but also including the agenda pushed by George W. Bush and progressives in both parties.)
I think this is a very important episode, because Beck points out the actions of Obama, and how it makes no sense, except through a socialist/anti-american/wealth-redistribution ideological mindset. It deals with the attempt to eliminate economic independence of the U.S., and make us dependent and at the mercy of foreign suppliers, and force us to send trillions overseas in wealth redistribution. Accelerating that has already been occurring since NAFTA and GATT were negotiated in 1993.
I was aware of the loans to PetroBras. I was not aware of 2 billion in loans to Mexican oil producers as well. So Mexico can drill exactly where U.S. oil companies are prohibited to drill. It makes no sense unless viewed through a wealth-redistribution mindset.
There have been a number of good Beck episodes in the last 2 weeks.
But one of the creepiest (Thursday, Sept 30th) was a show that focused on a book written over 40 years ago called The Road to Serfdom that focuses on how free societies are torn down and converted into authoritarian, brutal, and murderous dictatorships.
One of the guests was an Austrian lady in her 90s, who was 22 at the time of the "anschluss" (or "union") of Austria with Germany in 1937, where 98% of the Austrian people eagerly voted for pan-German union. She described how first the banks were nationalized, then the healthcare system was nationalized. Does that sound at all familiar?
In addition Obama has taken over student loans, and is attempting to further control private industry and individual citizen use of energy with "Cap and Trade".
E.U. member of parliament Daniel Hannan was also on the program, who has written a book titled The New Road To Serfdom, focusing specifically on the current social and economic refrms in the U.S.
In his words, Europe is now trying to move away from the socialist reforms we are drifitng toward, and said: "We've experienced the reform you are about to implement, and believe me, you won't like it."
Last night's Glenn Beck program was a good one, covering a lot of important material.
He begins describing "normalcy bias", a complacency that makes one unable to see the evidence in front of them in a crisis situation, and therefore renders one unable to act quickly enough to save themselves from disaster. Such as the socialist revolution and financial crisis that we're now in.
Beck talks about the global explosion of union strikes and union-led revolutions, in the Arab world, in Europe, and across the U.S., and the hand of communist radicals like the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), SEIU, AFL-CIO, Frances Fox Piven, William Ayers, etc., who have a direct hand in organizing these chaotic events. He also discusses how the (liberal/leftist) news media is reporting these as isolated events, and refuses to put together how all these isolated strikes and revolutions are connected.
(CNSNews.com) - China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury.
Treasury bills are securities that mature in one year or less that are sold by the U.S. Treasury Department to fund the nation’s debt.
Mainland Chinese holdings of U.S. Treasury bills are reported in column 9 of the Treasury report linked here.
Until October, the Chinese were generally making up for their decreasing holdings in Treasury bills by increasing their holdings of longer-term U.S. Treasury securities. Thus, until October, China’s overall holdings of U.S. debt continued to increase.
Since October, however, China has also started to divest from longer-term U.S. Treasury securities. Thus, as reported by the Treasury Department, China’s ownership of the U.S. national debt has decreased in each of the last five months on record, including November, December, January, February and March.
Prior to the fall of 2008, acccording to Treasury Department data, Chinese ownership of short-term Treasury bills was modest, standing at only $19.8 billion in August of that year. But when President George W. Bush signed legislation to authorize a $700-billion bailout of the U.S. financial industry in October 2008 and President Barack Obama signed a $787-billion economic stimulus law in February 2009, Chinese ownership of short-term U.S. Treasury bills skyrocketed.
By December 2008, China owned $165.2 billion in U.S. Treasury bills, according to the Treasury Department. By March 2009, Chinese Treasury bill holdings were at $191.1 billion. By May 2009, Chinese holdings of Treasury bills were peaking at $210.4 billion.
However, China’s overall appetite for U.S. debt increased over a longer span than did its appetite for short-term U.S. Treasury bills.
In August 2008, before the bank bailout and the stimulus law, overall Chinese holdings of U.S. debt stood at $573.7 billion. That number continued to escalate past May 2009-- when China started to reduce its holdings in short-term Treasury bills--and ultimately peaked at $1.1753 trillion last October.
As of March 2011, overall Chinese holdings of U.S. debt had decreased to 1.1449 trillion.
Most of the U.S. national debt is made up of publicly marketable securities sold by the Treasury Department and I.O.U.s called “intragovernmental” bonds that the Treasury has given to so-called government trust funds—such as the Social Security trust funds—when it has spent the trust funds’ money on other government expenses.
The publicly marketable segment of the national debt includes Treasury bills, which (as defined by the Treasury) mature in terms of one-year or less; Treasury notes, which mature in terms of 2 to 10 years; Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), which mature in terms of 5, 10 and 30 years; and Treasury bonds, which mature in terms of 30 years.
At the end of August 2008, before the financial bailout and the stimulus, the publicly marketable segment of the U.S. national debt was 4.88 trillion. Of that, $2.56 trillion was in the intermediate-term Treasury notes, $1.22 trillion was in short-term Treasury bills, $582.8 billion was in long-term Treasury bonds, and $521.3 billion was in TIPS.
At the end of March 2011, by which time the Chinese had dropped their Treasury bill holdings 97 percent from their peak, the publicly marketable segment of the U.S. national debt had almost doubled from August 2008, hitting $9.11 trillion. Of that $9.11 trillion, $5.8 trillion was in intermediate-term Treasury notes, $1.7 trillion was in short-term Treasury bills; $931.5 billion was in long-term Treasury bonds, and $640.7 billion was in TIPS.
Before the end of March 2012, the Treasury must redeem all of the $1.7 trillion in Treasury bills that were extant as of March 2011 and find new or old buyers who will continue to invest in U.S. debt. But, for now, the Chinese at least do not appear to be bullish customers of short-term U.S. debt.
Treasury bills carry lower interest rates than longer-term Treasury notes and bonds, but the longer term notes and bonds are exposed to a greater risk of losing their value to inflation. To the degree that the $1.7 trillion in short-term U.S. Treasury bills extant as of March must be converted into longer-term U.S. Treasury securities, the U.S. government will be forced to pay a higher annual interest rate on the national debt.
As of the close of business on Thursday, the total U.S. debt was $14.34 trillion, according to the Daily Treasury Statement. Of that, approximately $9.74 trillion was debt held by the public and approximately $4.61 trillion was “intragovernmental” debt.
"Intragovernmental debt" is a nice euphemistic phrase for the Federal Reserve printing trillions of dollars out of thin air to finance our national debt that other nations are no longer willing to finance. China is pulling out of U.S. debt financing. Japan, crippled by a massive earthquake, a tsunami and roughly 300 aftershock quakes, is no longer able to finance our debt.
And those are our two largest financers.
Quantitative Easing 3 (i.e. Weimar Germany hyperinflation), here we come.
Another prediction Beck made over 2 years ago, that has come to pass, and is being quietly reported outside the Obama Ministry of Truth liberal mainstream.
Detailing Soros' hand in virtually everything the Left does to undermine and overthrow the United States, funding a wide spectrum of leftist think tanks and activist groups.
I missed my buddy Glenn Beck, nice to hear him again. He thinks the U.S. is getting pretty close to the end of its options, as far as quantitative easing, DHS/FEMA authoritarianism, Republicans overplaying their hand in the current government shutdown, and "proxy war" in the mid east, ready to turn into overt war with Russia.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, I'm just amazed how William Ayers' vision for America is Barack Obama's vision, and it is happening: FEMA camps, DHS accumulating 1.6 billion rounds (enough for a century of hot war), controlling people through welfare and government-dominated healthcare, deliberately spiking energy costs, Cloward and Piven strategy to collapse the system under new overwhelming debt, using panic of a crisis to hide radical restructuring of government.
He mentions Comrade Andropov as the current president of the USSR. So this was slightly before Gorbachev was appointed, circa 1984-1985.
Along the 4 steps of transformation, what he says his Soviet leaders term "ideological subversion":
1. Demoralization - we're pretty well through phase 1, where the American Left has undermined confidence in the existing government and political structure, through indoctrinating a generation of students over 15 to 20 years, and through other grassroots leftist spread of organized propaganda and discontent.
2. Destabilization - setting the stage for an economic crisis, to cloak the real seizure of power (same concept as Cloward and Piven Strategy). We've been set up for this since the financial crisis began in 2006-2007, and now DHS has detention centers and 1.6 billion rounds to contain any dissent.
3. Crisis - ready now to unleash the pre-staged crisis, and amidst widespread panic and chaos, the public will mostly welcome any move that appears to restore order. Which is, precisely, an authoritarian seizure of power by the Left.
4. "Normalization". A declared end to the crisis, followed by quiet and systematic liquidation of all political opposition.
Building on the above clips, this commentary by Beck on the complacency toward Obama's radicals currently in the White House, and the historic lessons of similar "radical transformation" under the socialist banner, that have consistently gone genocidal in the nations transformed.
Certainly, the Obama regime is armed for such a similar purge.
About the abuse of federal authority of the DHS and NSA, making a list of everyone who dissents or informs in an organized or influential way about the Obama government.
Not unlike the way the Chinese hacked into the New York Times e-mail accounts to find informants. In its eagerness to harass, intimidate, or even prepare for mass detention of any and all political opposition. Even federal officials in DHS and other Federal agencies are subject to surveillance and intimidation!
An oldie but goodie from Beck, summarizing the Marxist radicalism of Obama himself, and the Marxist radicals in his White House, in their own self-incriminating words:
The facts of Obama's radicalism were so available, and yet the complicit Obama-fellating media absolutely refused to report them. Only by that blazing omission was Obama barely re-elected. The entire nation is paying for that now.
And going back even further, to Obama's father (Barack Obama Sr.), mother (Stanley Ann Dunham), his far-left grandparents who raised him from age 10-18, Frank Marshall Davis, and his radical professors Edward Said, and Roberto Unger. Then post-college, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, and the core ideology he inherited from them, a mix of Anti-Colonialism, Liberation Theology, and Social Marxism.
...I actually thought Glenn Beck did at least as good a job of explaining it, while also giving some background on some of the key people who created and promoted it. Including, scarily enough, Hillary Clinton.
Here's Beck from March 2012, just quoting what Obama himself, and his family, mentors and closest associates in politics have said, making the point how alien Obama's Marxist radical beliefs are from those of the overwhelming majority of Americans.
I'm continually amazed that this America-hating Marxist radical could ever have been elected once, but remained unexposed despite the overwhelming facts against him, and deceived his way through a second election.
This narrator's overview of Cultural Marxism is a bit more textbookish than Beck's, but is still a good overview of the transition from the global communist revolution attempted from 1917 to the 1930's, and after its failure, the founding of the Frankfurt School, and its evolution from the 1930's-1960's of what came to be termed Cultural Marxism.
It also shows photos of most of the influential members of the Frankfurt school, such as Lukacs, Adorno and Marcuse.
These were the heavy hitters of the movement, of whom Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, Wade Rathke, and the like built on in the 1960's (David Horowitz, interviewed here, was one of them until he turned on Leftism and became one of the most prominent conservative critics of the radical Left).
And that Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the next generation of.
I find reading the description of Cultural Marxism more digestible than above video, since a lot of the terminology is new for most. But the video gives faces to the key figures described in text articles.
The best description of Social Marxism is in Pat Buchanan's book DEATH OF THE WEST (2002), in the chapter "Four Who Made a Revolution".
SiriusXM has suspended Glenn Beck's syndicated show after a guest suggested citizens would have to take means that may not be legal in order to get Donald Trump out of office.
Last week, fiction author Brad Thor asked, "What patriot will step up and do that?" when explaining that Congress would not be able to remove Trump from office by "legal means" through impeachment.
The satellite radio network feels this could be viewed as "advocating harm against an individual currently running for office."
"SiriusXM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs. However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in the company's judgment, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which SiriusXM cannot and will not condone. For that reason, The Glenn Beck Program is suspended from our Patriot channel for the coming week. SiriusXM is committed to a spirited, robust, yet responsible political conversation and believes this action reflects those values," SiriusXM said in a statement.
Thor knew his comments were going to be controversial, starting with, "This is serious and this could ring down incredible heat on me because I'm about to suggest something very bad. It is a hypothetical I am going to ask as a thriller writer."
He continued: "If Congress won't remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitutional-granted authority, I should say, as president. If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office? And I don't think there is a legal means available. I think it will be a terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office because you won't be able to do it through Congress."
Beck didn't immediatly shoot down Thor's comments. When critics accused the rant of sounding like encouraging an assassination, Beck responded by discussing the topic at length on his show. He claimed the image in his head when Thor made the comments was not an assassination attempt.
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" — Jimmy Stewart standing there all alone on the Senate floor, saying, 'I'll just keep talkin'. Somebody's gotta hear me!' That's what I heard," Beck explained.
About the abuse of federal authority of the DHS and NSA, making a list of everyone who dissents or informs in an organized or influential way about the Obama government.
Not unlike the way the Chinese hacked into the New York Times e-mail accounts to find informants. In its eagerness to harass, intimidate, or even prepare for mass detention of any and all political opposition. Even officials in DHS and other Federal agencies are subject to surveillance and intimidation!
Wow. 6 years later, we now know about the weaponization of the IRS, FBI, ATF, OSHA and other federal agencies against Tea Party and religious groups to help Obama win in 2012.
And even more bold, the Democrat abuse of FBI, DOJ, NSA and the FISA court in an attempt to rig the 2016 election. And when unsuccessful in that, are still using these agencies to undermine and cripple the Trump administration.
