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    Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    @Foster Kamer: Tremendous takedown.

    This should be the answer to pretty much anything a GOP politician says: "We call those cults"
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    11/21/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: i second this heartily. Excellent piece, Foster.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    By the way, that image above - aside from my dutiful filling in of what's parenthetically implied - is actually the image on Beck's site. Not joking.
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    11/21/09

    @Foster Kamer: i never realized the washington monument sat right behind the white house. or does he think they're cremation chimneys?
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    MY TWO-MINUTE, ONE-STEP PLAN FOR GLENN BECK:
    1) Jump into fire.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    We're all laughing now, but it's not going to be funny if these folks are in charge:
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    11/21/09

    @Lysergic Asset: 2nd try for YouTube embed...
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    I think the first iteration of this movement was much more stirring, original and effective. Fueled by classic idioms like Work Shall Set You Free, We Need Breathing Room and Lightning War, they set loins a-quivering so much better. To say nothing of their far superior costume designers.
    It's comparing fresh-squeezed to Tang, really.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Wot? A new world order? O.O
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    "limited government, maximum freedom"

    Whoa, so Beck is pro-choice and in favor of letting any consenting adult marry? I might have to rethink this guy!
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    11/21/09

    @SaraRueful: To paraphrase Jon Stewart, the Republicans are only opposed to government when the Democrats are in charge.
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    11/21/09

    @Lysergic Asset: And they don't want the government coming between you and your doctor unless you're a woman.
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    11/21/09

    @sarrible: Zing! There was a post this week on Gawker about a pill for female arousal, and they quoted a male doctor as saying it was unnecessary, because lack of desire is natural as women get older. (Oh, the irony.) Oh, and some health insurance covers Viagra, but not contraception. Bring on the babies! Just don't expect us to feed, clothe or shelter them.

    #tips
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    11/21/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Yeah, I couldn't find the energy to muster up a "fuck you" for that doctor when the post ran. Although now I'd like to say that I hope his dick rots and falls off.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    If Beck is so damn patriotic, why doesn't he do something really spectacular, like catapult himself into space with 4 roman candles jammed up his hoo-ha?

    I have a match.
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Yes, Glenn let's all take a great leap forward into the libertarian future.
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    "His entire multimedia empire is predicated on one, long, 100-year plot arc: that the main character will make viewers'/listeners'/readers' lives better so long as they're with him every step of the way. The man will make references to revolution, to change, to bringing everything back to a fundamental state."

    Do the Scientologists know Glenn Beck is stealing from them so flagrantly? Launch Tommy Davis! Tommy Davis v. Glenn Beck, for my amusement!
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Sheeeeeee-it! I can't wait until Beck has to address the 3/5th's of a person thing our founders valued.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    So he wants to spearhead the 2010 version of The Contract With (On) America to take back Congress. The problem with this plan is that, unlike Newt Gingrich, he does not hold political office. While this frees him up to be as crazy as he pleases, it also forces all but the absolute looniest right/libertarian fringe reps to distance themselves from him, lest they be branded with the C-word (cult).

    Newt knew well enough to make the Right's power grab seem as sensible as an auto dealer's post-holiday sale ad to the average sheep. The voters didn't have to do anything different, just vote Republican and then go back to their TV show. Beck's push may create more NY-23 scenarios on ballots, but that will generally help Dem candidates more than hurt them. Unless there are some extreme loony maverick righty Dems out there...other than Lieberman.

    Oh, and yeah yeah, he says he hates both parties, not just the Dems. Half the Fox Loons say that, and I call bullshit. They know who their friends are.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Beck's followers would be better served by TVLand. Ten minutes with any sitcom from the 70s -- Alice, Kotter, Mork, What's Happenin', etc and they'd realize the downside of mindless cults.

    (BTW: Amway is the evil pyramid scheme, Avon actually has products)
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    11/21/09

    @Magister: I believe Amway also sells lotions and makeup, though why the Avon ladies haven't rolled up to take them out, I have no idea. Maybe they're too busy dealing with the Mary Kay pink-Cadillac drive-bys.
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    11/21/09

    @CumaeanSibyl:
    Years ago, I was an advisor, mentor, banker or something another to a young married couple.

    Her boss invited them to an evening thing at some stranger's house in a nearby town, where they'd supposedly learn to make extra money and because I had a special place in their life, the young couple asked me to go along to read the fine print.

    It was an Amway recruiting thing. The focus was on finding other sellers and when I asked about the products, I was told they weren't important.
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/21/09

    @Magister: From what I understand, the main customers for every MLM are the distributors, who buy the products to run up their monthly numbers. Plus, they've all swallowed their own hype about how great their products are. I've heard horror stories from former Mary Kay reps about closets stuffed full of makeup bought during the end-of-month rush with vague hopes of selling it "at some point."

    I hope you bundled up that young couple and hustled them straight out of there.
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    11/21/09

    @CumaeanSibyl: I probably bought them dinner, but then it was right back to the den of iniquity, where I kept them for my own nefarious purposes.

    Weren't the 80s great?
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    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    I have officially wished my ear infection on Glenn Beck. Incidentally, over the last hour, I've started to feel way better.
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    11/21/09

    @Foster Kamer: Ow my ear. Damn your aim Foster.
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    11/21/09

    @BenGeck: #gotcha
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    11/21/09

    @Foster Kamer: Glad you're feeling better. Must have been the Stop Making Sense.

    The Talking Heads that is, not Glenn Beck.
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    11/21/09

    @unclevanya: "Stop" assumes a "start."
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    11/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Transforms Chuck Todd and Howard Kurtz into Idiots
    I take issue with the word "transforms," esp. in the case of Chuck Todd. He was pretty much already there.
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    11/20/09

    @RandomLunatic: I believe that is the point.
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