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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:22 AM
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...But If You Must Shoot Somebody, Please Ditch Your “I 'heart' Glenn Beck” Button First
Edited on Wed Aug-05-09 02:45 AM by Turborama
http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/04/but-if-you-must-shoot-somebody-please-ditch-your-i-heart-glenn-beck-button-first/">...But If You Must Shoot Somebody, Please Ditch Your “I "heart" Glenn Beck” Button First

By: Eli Tuesday August 4, 2009 6:01 pm

I guess this is what happens when one of your fans shows up at a National Guard base with two guns and 500 rounds:

Beck closed his show tonight with a bizarre message to his viewers: don't go messing up all the progress we wingnuts are making at derailing the Obama presidency with obfuscations, distortions and outright lies with any sort of Timothy McVeigh or James Von Brunn-type shit!

....Here Glenn Beck is just simply looking into the camera and imploring his audience not to murder innocent people — "Just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for."

Not, mind you, because killing people is bad and wrong. No, you must restrain your homicidal urges because that shooting spree you were fantasizing about would hurt The Cause. Have you considered the power of prayer instead? Nothing wrong with praying for those dirty liberal hippies to burst into flame, right? Besides, prayer totally pisses off their PC little minds because they hate Jesus!

Fox hired Beck to boost their ratings with the black-UN-helicopters-are-coming-to-fluoridate-our-womenfolk market segment, but it's dawned on them that if a violent, crazy viewer does something violent and crazy, it just might reflect poorly on their brand. That's why they made Beck recite a please-don't-kill-anybody PSA, to cover their asses with a G-string of deniability. It won't fool anybody, but at least now if some Beckhead goes off they can say, "He told them not to do it! If they were a real fan they would have listened!"

So, um, refresh my memory: When was the last time KO or Rachel Maddow felt the need to beg their audience not to kill anyone?

Embedded inks and video, here: http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/04/but-if-you-must-shoot-somebody-please-ditch-your-i-heart-glenn-beck-button-first/
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:32 AM
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1. Any day now Beck's fantasy will come true
Its called "Direct Action". It's McVeigh in SPADES

Fixed news has hired a raving lunatic, motivating other "RAVING LUNATICS" to direct action.

Mark my words.
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:38 AM
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2. I agree
I never would have guessed that I'd spend the latter half of my life fighting fascism here in America.

Funny old world, isn't it?
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:50 AM
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5. Yeah, if you find murder funny.
And I'm sure you don't. Just being sarcastic here.

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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:05 AM
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16. The Face of Fascism in amerika
Face of Fascism in amerika = Glenn Beck
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:43 AM
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3. the black UN helicopters are coming- to fluoridate our womenfolk
Isn't that the platform Obama campaigned on? Why do they insist on getting in the way of our grand plan?
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Nyquil Man Donating Member (189 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 04:35 AM
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8. Yes, it's why General Jack D. Ripper endorsed McCain.


"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indocrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy, to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." - General Jack D. Ripper
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:59 AM
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14. welcome to the site!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:46 AM
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4. this is too much
:rofl: :crazy:
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 02:50 AM
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6. K&R. Off to The Greatest Page! Yikes!
:wow: :kick:
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ezgoingrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:45 AM
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7. I think this comment by greenwarrior sums it up nicely:
"It’s the same vibe as during the last months of the presidential campaign, this sense that all the racism and hate and crazy is coming to a boil and something terrible is about to happen."
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 04:38 AM
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9. There ain't enough CYA on earth to cover an ass as big as Beck. (nt)
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 06:36 AM
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10. And why were we worried about coded video message from BinLaden?
Just turn to Fox for the latest instructions to your local Right Wing Terrorist Cell.

:shrug:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 06:37 AM
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11. key phrase.. (wink-wink).."not to murder innocent people"
key word "innocent".. These people leave the interpretation of THAT word, up to the gun-nut.

Each gun-nut will have his own definition of "not-innocent", and therefore "worthy of shooting".
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 06:41 AM
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12. What's amazing is that he says government will look for any emergency to cause panic
Oh, really Glenn? You just figured that out after eight years of blowing GWB????
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:56 AM
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13. .Beck: "It is not time to pick up guns" or "blow anything up"
Edited on Wed Aug-05-09 12:26 PM by Turborama
He adds: "But it is time to stand up. ... The question is: Which side will win?"

From the August 5 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908050013
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Nyquil Man Donating Member (189 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 12:00 PM
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15. I doubt Beck believes 90% of what he says.
Which, of course, makes him even more dangerous.

A crazy man who sincerely believes everything he says can be treated. A man who simply lies cannot be.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 10:14 AM
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17. I think it was Stewart and Maher that said that Hannity inferred that he
doesn't believe what he says, that he is doing it for the money.
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