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A Very Special Book-Burning Glenn Beck Tea Party

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scarletmenace
04/11/09

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Marketing! Dammit, I always knew it was all Marketing's fault.

ZOMG I work in a marketing department...could I actually BE a communist plant? Maybe my DirectTV satellite dish is receiving brainwashing instructions from the international space station where a team of Soviet cosmonauts is actually keeping Comrade Stalin alive!
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Schm
04/10/09

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I love it when the dork at 1:14 starts giving himself applause.
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Sproing
04/10/09

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"This thing they're putting on our TVs -- it's a brainwash device!"

Why does my existing flatscreen brainwash device need an add-on brainwash device?
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Master Billy
04/10/09

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I will not burn these brainwashing books. I will instead sell them back to the bookstore at a significant discount at the end of the semester, and use the proceeds to purchase drugs.
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Sproing
04/10/09

@Master Billy: Tradition!
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Richard Lawson
04/10/09

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"If you've got your kids in college..."

crickets.
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Murph1908
04/10/09

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One psycho. One guy also there figuring out there is a psycho.

Both sides have their morons.
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Pareene
04/10/09

@Murph1908: right that bullshit false equivalence is precisely why i wrote that last paragraph there. maybe you missed the applause in the video? or the fact that the crazy ranting Bircher is NOT the woman who wants to burn the brainwashing books (that's two psychos!)? or the 19% of white evangelicals who still think barack obama is a SECRET MUSLIM? or the entire glenn beck program and his million-part series on growing your own apocalyptic paranoia at home?
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Mediahohoho
04/11/09

@Pareene: Pareene! Do not mess with my bullshit false equivalency! It's all I have. (Well, that, a shitload of guns, a media willing to take my sore loser gripes seriously, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to fan the flames, Bill O'Reilly to confirm my every paranoid fantasy, and Fox News to broadcast every hateful thought that ever entered my small, small brain.)
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Moff
04/10/09

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BURN THE INTERNET!!!
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Moff
04/10/09

@Moff: [Applause]
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/10/09

@Moff: Let the unclean be purged with fiery death!
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onebadclam
04/10/09

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"The People's Front of Judea!"
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onebadclam
04/10/09

@onebadclam:
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saythatscool
04/10/09

@onebadclam:

SPLITTERS!
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onebadclam
04/10/09

@saythatscool:
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onebadclam
04/10/09

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Beck is having a "very special episode" today. Can we liveblog it?
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ChillbearLatrigue
04/10/09

@onebadclam: Yeah. I caught the beginning of this show. He essentially said that if you can't dedicate the full hour to him, then you should just go watch something else. He said his message is so important that if you are too busy to watch his full show on what to many people is a very religious holiday, he would just rather you not participate. Glenn Beck vs. God. I refused to be bullied, so I am watched him (Beck, not God) sporadically. I just saw some footage of Adolf Hitler flash across the screen. I'm a little concerned about this conflation. I hope that God gets a show on CNN or something soon.
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onebadclam
04/10/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: O'Reilly will just send a producer/toadie to ambush interview God on the street if that happens.
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andyrobertson
04/10/09

@onebadclam: In the first violation of my policy on being bullied I've held in effect since the 3rd grade, I watched the whole thing, nuts-to-butts... I wish I'd just watched, I dunno, say, a video of some nuts and some butts instead, which as unpleasant as that would've been, at least nuttybutty-porn(™?) wouldn't have resulted in my IQ being lowered so forcefully over the course of 50 minutes, that I could literally feel the intelligence flash-evaporating from my body. However, as dumberer as I became after watching it as opposed to before, I still retain the intellect necessary to: perform single digit addition, aaaaalmost! tie a shoe lace, and spontaneously blurt the cognition, 'Glenn Beck is a fucking ratings whore, moron who's destined for a short-ass rocket ride around the moron-o-sphere of Fox News before the inevitable: His EPIC FAIL career zero-sums itself out of existence.'

... So there's that, @least.
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onebadclam
04/10/09

@andyrobertson: That Thomas Paine video at the end was truly sad. I can forgive Fox for abandoning journalism in favor of advocacy, but that video officially marks its transition to agitation. The movie "Hotel Rwanda" kept coming to mind.
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