Less than 40-years ago, presidential candidate Edmund Muskie was driven out of the U.S. presidential race for choking up briefly when he came to the defense of his wife, Jane Muskie. Today, that same incident might score him some political points, however, even today, considering Muskie's liberal politics, anything close to Beck's waterworks...curtains!
So, what if the weepy, Fox News host, Glenn "I love America" Beck hosted his show on MSNBC? And rather than exhibit his faux vulnerability over sentimental patriotic symbolism, he broke down over...oh, I don't know...the one in five American children who live in poverty; gay children and teens who commit suicide; people, sick and dying without health care; the chronically unemployed...?
Something tells me, Beck wouldn't be the only one referring to himself as "90 % ‘chick’ in that category" regarding his "biologically determined" tears. No, if Beck was a liberal, his displays of "pure" feeling that he uses to trump all reason and logic, in order to spread his politics, would surely crash and burn.
Remember, Beck was a former disc jockey, and radio host, who tearlessly trash-talked the very things that turn him into a sobbing mess today, yet his cheap theatrics and sentimental monologue works like a charm on angry, and maybe not-so educated American citizens.
When you are rioting for these tickets, or these ATM cards, the second thing that came to mind was -- and this is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year. And I had such compassion for them, and I really wanted to help them, and I was behind, you know, "Let's give them money, let's get this started." All of this stuff. And I really didn't -- of the 3,000 victims' families, I don't hate all of them. Probably about 10 of them. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, "Oh shut up!" I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them. And, again, it's only about 10.
But the second thought I had when I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims. These guys -- you know it's really sad. We're not hearing anything about Mississippi. We're not hearing anything about Alabama. We're hearing about the victims in New Orleans. This is a 90,000-square-mile disaster site, New Orleans is 181 square miles. A hundred and -- 0.2 percent of the disaster area is New Orleans! And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we're seeing on television are the scumbags -- and again, it's not all the people in New Orleans. Most of the people in New Orleans got out! It's just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they're getting all the attention. It's exactly like the 9-11 victims' families. There's about 10 of them that are spoiling it for everybody.-- Glen Beck
Even though Beck claims otherwise, vicious personal attacks on his "enemies" and their families are very common:
So, just how does Glenn Beck get himself so weepy for the cameras? Well, Vicks Vaporub is one method. In fact, he must use this tear-making agent so much he's becoming immune. He said, "I think it's getting used to it -- my eyes are getting used to it."
"I'm turning into a frickin' televangelist."
How does he get people to drink the kool-aid? He's not even that good... he needs some serious acting lessons.
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David Barton, a Texas Evangelical who appeared as an "expert" witness in the Texas Board of Education textbook hearings, a frequent guest on Glenn Beck's program, a "professor" at Beck University and who served as the chair of the Texas GOP, launched an effort with Newt Gingrich on behalf of Sharron Angle in Nevada, and stumped for John McCain in 2008 says homosexuality should be regulated.
"So if I got to the Centers for Disease Control and I'm concerned about health, I find some interesting stats there and this should tell me something about health.
Homosexual/bi-sexual individuals are seven times more likely to contemplate or commit suicide. Oooh, that doesn't sound very healthy.
Homosexuals die decades earlier than heterosexuals. That doesn't sound healthy.
Nearly one-half of practicing homosexuals admit to 500 or more sex partners and nearly one-third admit to a thousand or more sex partners in a lifetime.
I mean, you go through all this stuff, sounds to me like that's not very healthy. Why don't we regulate homosexuality?" -- David Barton,
I do believe Thomas Jefferson saw Beck and Barton in his crystal ball when he said the following:
“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”— Thomas Jefferson
Amidst Glen Beck's tearful patriotic schtick, and his dehumanizing talk of cockroaches, rats, viruses and disease, in one of his "lessons", he told his audience about the "three G system" he cooked up for survival should the United States face collapse, and that consists: "God, Gold, and Guns".
The third one is Collapse. That's 'Get out of debt and save,' plus, 'Have a fruit cellar,' plus -- I like to call the "three G system" here for this -- it's, uh, God, Gold, and Guns.
Now personally, you might take God and put him as an umbrella over the whole thing. And then you got your gun and your gold down here too. But that's your choice. -- Glen Beck
However, as much as Glen's devoted to words that start with the letter 'G', it appears he's not to keen on one 'G' word: gay. He "has surrounded himself with religious and secular figures who share a fervent opposition to the "homosexual agenda."Glenn Beck's anti-gay army of God
"Right. Well, his more recent controversies are pretty well known. But even going back to the '80s and ’90s, he was known for a racist, sexist shtick. He famously, or infamously, called up the wife of a competing DJ in Phoenix in the mid-'80s and mocked her for having a miscarriage live on the air. He made fun of a guy named Malik Jones in New Haven, who was an unarmed black man shot by a white police officer, and it was quite a big police brutality case at the time. He went on air that week making fun of Jones, talking about how he used to smoke crack with his grandmother. Stuff like this. So, you know, this Glenn Beck that is so divisive today has been there the whole time. And the idea that he had this, you know, transformative experience when he became a Mormon and became a good guy and is this sort of moral beacon is just ludicrous."-- Alexander Zaitchik
Beck said "People don't recognize Obama's version of Christianity", nevertheless, gauging by the numbers that follow Glen Beck, too many people recognize his twisted version, a version that takes everything Jesus stood for, and transforms it to promote the only person who matters to Glen Beck, that is, Glen Beck.
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