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BettyCrocker
10/23/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
It's probably not setting a good example, but I really love it when he cries. #glennbeck
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topsy
10/21/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
What I want to know is how do people like Beck with no education, no qualifications, no morality and no sense get to positions of influence? Maybe it's because his audience is even less educated, less moral and more stupid than he is. Does he even know what a slave owner is? It's probably not a good idea to get all of your information about the pre-Civil War south from 'Gone With the Wind'. This man obviously missed grade 12 history and probably all of grade 12. Ignorance is obviously very blissful for Beck. And very lucrative. #glennbeck
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applejuice
10/21/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
How warped are these people that they think that the LEFT are like today's equivalent of Nazi's and slave holders?

Backwards and delusional FTW! #glennbeck
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onebadclam
10/21/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
Tune in on Thursday, when Glenn will explain how Net Neutrality regulations will force our children to sing Obama songs in a FEMA death camp. #glennbeck
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ndhapple
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
He doesn't think that real unemployment rate in Detroit hovering between 38-50% has more to do with a dependence on government aid than some plot by a secret organization, lead by a janitors union (SEIU) and community activists (ACORN)?

This man is fucking nuts.

Maybe the reason they are dependent on government aid is because there aren't any jobs in Detroit. There aren't any jobs in the highly white suburbs of Warren or Pontiac or Auburn Hills either.

Does he know that people in those communities are depending on food stamps and welfare checks? Does he know that people who used to design, engineer, and manufacture transmissions, engines, airbags and computer chips - people with double doctorates - are flipping burgers at McDonalds because that's the only work they can find?

He's trying to make this a racial issue and I sincerely hope he fails.
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CLY
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
Good to see that Glenn Beck is not trying to use the "racial card" cause we all know only Liberals and Democrat play those cards.

Geez, him and Rush need to go on the road and ride that road until they reach a cliff, and then fall off it. #glennbeck
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atlasfugged
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
What's this Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program? Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses, are they still in operation? Besides, how is it anything but a privilege to call the streets and alleys of a major city in the Greatest Country in the World, EVER, your home?
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onebadclam
10/21/09

@atlasfugged: Glenn Beck us, every one! #glennbeck
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Unsolicited Advice
10/20/09

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You mean that large concentrations of money - federal, private, institutional - create power dynamic issues in government? Well, this is certainly news to absolutely no one. #glennbeck
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Excited_Utterance
10/21/09

@Unsolicited Advice: I have read this comment thrice. I have no idea what you're trying to say. #glennbeck
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MissNormaDesmond
10/21/09

@Excited_Utterance: That's okay, he or she doesn't, either. #glennbeck
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redqueenmeg
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
Well, I'm really old, so I remember when slave owners used to line up for their government stimulus checks so they could go buy more slaves. The comparison is obvious. #glennbeck
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redqueenmeg
10/20/09

@redqueenmeg: srsly, that star better come back soon. stupid site redesign. #glennbeck
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MissNormaDesmond
10/21/09

@redqueenmeg: Until then, allow me. #glennbeck
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redqueenmeg
10/21/09

@MissNormaDesmond: You are awesome. #glennbeck
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Mediahohoho
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
Um, Glenn, I'm from Detroit and I remember much much worse when Ronald Reagan was President and unemployment was around 20%. It must be nice to have the attention span of a fruit fly and the moral intelligence of a rock. #glennbeck
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Cam/ron
10/21/09

@Mediahohoho: Our friend spent the greater part of the 80's either stoned, drunk or coked up. Please forgive his fuzzy memory. #glennbeck
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VioletViolet
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
I love how he tries to play into our childhoods. No, I didn't think about stimulus checks, no kid ever thinks about stimulus checks. The closest I ever came to being political was when Weekly Reader ran their Presidental election issue and I drew faces over the candidates to make them into women. #glennbeck
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anonymousryan
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
The conservative plan is to address the desperate shortage of bootstraps among the poor, which is the only reason they can find to explain their situation. #glennbeck
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quotidian
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
I have read this post several times, and I still don't come close to understanding what De Rosa is trying to say. You can't really argue with the fact that this was a bunch of people lining up for a vague expectation of free money. How does "Didja, Pollyana" refute anything? Before you mock the "slave owners" stuff remember that people like Juan Williams are mocked by "progressives" for being on the plantation when they dare question the left-wing orthodoxy about race. And every time I see "progressives," I think, why not just say "the good guys"? I don't think Beck is too formidable a foe, but you have to do better than this. #glennbeck
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MissNormaDesmond
10/21/09

@quotidian: Gee, it seemed pretty clear to me. He was mocking the notion that these people are lining up for help from the government merely because they're shiftless, as opposed to there being nearly 40% unemployment in the area. Sometimes when people don't understand things, it's not because what they're trying to understand isn't clear, it's because they're not good at understanding things. #glennbeck
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BaconForTheSoul
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
I really wish the right wing extremists would stop pretending that marijuana is bad in any real sense. Especially when that right wing extremist is an alcoholic, and alcohol does infinitely more damage. #glennbeck
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Snowspot
10/20/09

In reply to Glenn Beck Compares 'Progressives' to 'Slave Owners'
Can we stop paying attention to glenn beck already? stop getting mad at what he says, that's why he says it. #glennbeck
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Matt Cherette
10/20/09

@Snowspot: Honestly, when it comes to IRL trolls, I think Beck is the type that actually believes everything he says and (subconsciously, at least) doesn't realize how vitriolic most of his statements are, therefore substantially lowering his troll cred.

Ann Coulter, on the other hand, is the HBIC of IRL trolls. She knows exactly what to say to piss people off, and she crafts her statements to do just that. Sure, she probably believes a great deal of what she says -- at least on a fundamental level -- but she also exercises hyperbole (and disguises it as honest, impromptu rhetoric) in the craftiest of ways.

Coulter is like 4chan (which posts child porn because it shocks people, not because it arouses /b/ members), whereas Beck is like a high ranking member of NAMBLA.
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Kakapo
10/21/09

@mattchew03: Read his GQ interview, and you may think differently. He essentially admits to being nothing more than an entertainer. He didn't make it as a standup comic, so he decided to do this nonsense. #glennbeck
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Matt Cherette
10/21/09

@Kakapo: Really? I had no idea. Thanks, I'll check it out. #glennbeck
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onebadclam
10/21/09

@Kakapo: It's a shame his comedy career tanked. He has such killer material. #glennbeck
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theysaidwhat
10/21/09

@onebadclam: I've often wondered if this is how he became a 'political analyst'. He knew he was joking, but his audience was taking him seriously, and dollar signs started dancing in his head. There's no other rational explanation for the madness that is Glenn Beck. #glennbeck
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