Comments on: Quote Of The Day: Is Glenn Beck Becoming A Patron Saint Of The Republican Party?

By: dstokes

dstokes — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:36:25 +0000

Paranoid much?

By: zzyzx123

zzyzx123 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:43:26 +0000

I'd say that the frequent usage of the word 'revolution' IS dangerous… and historically speaking, we've seen what happens when angry southern conservatives decide they've run out of political avenues to attaining their goals. See 1860.

By: davboz

davboz — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:29:28 +0000

What he is responding to (in an admittedly kinda screwy sounding manner with just enough over-the-top dramatization to validate some of the “scary”, “dangerous” tags) is a real and genuine spontaneous realization that it is too close to the majority of “Americans” whom are far removed from what used to make this country humdrum and genuine, boring and honest, compromising yet outspoken. There always seemed to be a solid middle as overwhelming majority that could be counted upon with your life ~ not to win you or the other guy the election ~ but to be sensible in its slow turning, reasonable in its self-correction, and to hold moral values that were not runaway leading indicators of the culture, in dragging it to extremes. I think Beck's a bit kooky but it is more than just “republicans” looking for salve to soothe defeat or reaching for the extremes in response to the election or whatever the perceptions are. There are genuine sensations of shock in the realization that there is not just a president, or an administration, or numerous politicos nationwide, or a significant minority ,or just a fleeting movement rounding up the whole party of neoliberals who have committed to abandoning the Constitution as a priority and a pre-requisite. It is not that they lost an election and maybe envision “the other guys” as owning the presidency for 8 yrs, the Congress for 8,…10,…12,…? yrs. There is the disorienting realization that “they”. not as Republicans, but as people – no, Americans – have lost their country. And although it is presented as mainly happening in the last year, the wind of truth on the inside, blowing through the breaks in the self-acknowledged wall of denial, informs them that WE – all of us – have arrived near the bottom of that slippery slope, the warning about which often sounded like a broken record over the years. The absolute manifesting of a process, most sensed continuing on for the previous 35, 40, 50 years of life, in the schools and universities. Like a pain you learn to medicate or ignore over the years forgetting that pain usually means something is wrong and “progressing” and/or forgetting that medicating the pain has its own consequences and will really take you out of the fight. This realization is the sudden shock of the past 2 generations of impressionable minds being subjected to that “educational” indoctrination who now seem to have made themselves at home and in control with an ideology that would and ought to be seen as that of an intruder's. It is, contrary to the prevailing wisdom, not the passing of a neanderthal-like mindset and the coming of a new evolved human outlook. This is not the cold shower on the sensibilities. That is true progress of thought that all humankind is part of.That it is the nature and cause of the dread is a strawman.
The dusky nature of this authentic and perfectly valid despair is beyond political parties (witness the similar efforts of both Bush and Obama to weaken the financial system and attain gov't control) although mostly under the scope of Democratic control.
Bottom line – Yes, the messengers (Beck, Hannity, maybe others) give cause to see the whole matter as laughable and goofy.
No, the actual sentiment and validity of cause for said concern (America within the framework of its Constitution) is not!

By: zookbert

zookbert — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:46:58 +0000

ifticar, I recommend a quick read of this definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_proj...

By: ifticar

ifticar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:24:20 +0000

Liberals have this nasty habit of labeling non compliance from conservatives as “dangerous.” Something that is dangerous is something that must be subdued before it hurts someone. We kill or isolate dangerous animals. We kill or isolate dangerous viruses. We kill or isolate dangerous fires. It is clear that killing or isolating conservatives is the goal of these liberals.

By: freeta_goodholm

freeta_goodholm — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:04:39 +0000

You seem to be in possession of the truth
please enlighten us.

By: hilts

hilts — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:27:07 +0000

Glenn Beck is a malignant media carcinogen. Everything he says on the air is a lie including the words "and" and "the".

Fox News has descended to a new low with the hiring of Glenn Beck.

Beck is a rabble rousing demagogue with delusions of grandeur.

Beck is not the patron saint of the Republican Party, he's the patron saint of tinfoil conspiracy nuts.

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:17:49 +0000

It's possible Obama will fail.

Will the Republicans really benefit if that happens?

By: Ron Beasley

Ron Beasley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:27:35 +0000

It appears the Republicans are only heading deeper and deeper into the wilderness. Glenn Beck makes Rush Limbaugh look sane and reasonable. As conservative Daniel Larison points out even should Obama slip the current Republican party is in no position to attract them. http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/04/09/pola...