Beck says Government is hiding something. Threatens to spill the beans monday.

If the government is as evil as Beck and other twits say it is why doesn't the government eliminate them?

 

Any beanos yet ?

 

Remember Martin Richard. He was there. He wanted to hug his father. He was killed. He was NOT guilty.

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2013/news/130429/martin-richard-1-600.jpg

 

This hatred and scapegoating of a Saudi national that is here to live the American dream is in reality the petty ravings of Blenn Geck, who choses to be despicable for a profit. He is evil incarnate.

 

Yeah, I heard him talking about something this morning. Who knows? Sounded to me like a ploy for ratings to try to regain relevance. And I say this as somebody who likes the man. I just didn't buy what he was selling here.

 

I loled at this. Because I can actually hear Alex Jones saying this. It doesn't even sound that far off from something he would seriously try to claim.

"Oscar Mayer is a false flag product. It's being manufactured by the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, and the Build-a-Bear Workshop."

 

Everything he does is a ploy for ratings, or selling something to his faithful and very gullible audience.

He's a carnival barker with a microphone, and he know how to play to the rubes, which are his entire audience.

 

Until Pat Roberson and Jerry Falwell teamed to market the idea of teaming evangelicals with Zionists in an attempt to broaden the appeal of the GOP to some Jews, this would have been accompanied by an offer to sell the listener the revealing expose of the international Jewish conspiracy!

 

Maybe he meant NEXT Monday?

 

Or you guys can look at his site to see what you are looking for. Posted at theblaze.com yesterday at 10:44 AM.

 

I miss the good old days when all we had to worry about was getting the dreaded white slip from the Post Office in your mailbox telling us that we had a package to pickup.

The package could be from the Unabomber or the postman behind the counter could go and pull his full automatic M-16 from under the counter and start shooting in all directions if you made a simple mistake like handing him the white slip facing down.

 

His bean spilling is basically him interfering with an ongoing investigation?

Watta maroon!

 

Steve Martin used that hot dog gag in the movie Parenthood. What year was that=)

 

All you can really say is what an idiot.

Hen Peck disagrees with these guys like Alex Jonestown and then comes up with even wackier theories that end up agreeing with PrisonPlanet and Infowars.

Only mouth-breathers listen to any of those guys.

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Sorry, but she was spot-on topic.

 

My guess is suspect 1 is not actually dead.

 

Would you say the same of Melissa Harris-Perry? I think that woman needs medical help because she's got PMS every day of her life. Crimminy.

 

I didn't realize that Beck selling gold on his program was the issue of the thread.

 

you're wrong - http://i.imgur.com/0U0ozqt.jpg

 

So, nothing, as usual...

lol

 

Glenn Beck’s Common Nonsense: An Interview With Alex Zaitchik

By Sara Robinson | May 23, 2010

America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge swaths of derangement and destruction in their wake. Aimee Semple McPherson. Father Coughlin. Joe McCarthy. Once in a while, when the cultural cross-currents intersect just so, they rise on the whirlwind, gather huge followings, and lead their followers on a furious high-velocity turn that blows across the countryside in desperate pursuit of a utopia only they can see. These maunderings are typically mercifully short and usually end in disaster, for both the people who started the storm as well as those who got swept away in it. And all is forgotten—until the next time.

The next time, in this case, arrived on 9/11/01; and the tornado took on the form of Glenn Beck. It only seems like Glenn Beck has been with us forever. It’s hard to remember a time when his endless rants weren’t filling hours of TV time on Headline News, and more recently dominating everything else on FOX. But Beck was basically going nowhere fast before 9/11—the event that saved his failing TV career, turned this know-nothing showman into a leading political theorist, and catapulted him into the very eye of the far-right’s always-churning cultural storm.

Who is this guy? A precocious former Top 40 deejay with a longstanding drug problem, no discernible book learning, and a mean streak a mile deep. A “morning zoo” radio host known for his ruthlessness in ratings wars, yet unable to keep any job for more than a couple of years. A Mormon convert who immediately gravitated to the farthest edges of that faith’s orthodoxy. The hottest host on cable TV. And soon, if all goes according to “The Plan,” America’s next great spiritual leader, stepping boldly forward to guide the Tea Party faithful in a complete re-making of this nation.

It’s high time somebody took a critical look at the full arc of Beck’s character and career. That somebody turned out to be Alex Zaitchik, who had already spent quite a bit of time covering the right wing. Zaitchik’s book, 'Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance', hits the bookshelves this week. (Some of the chapters originally appeared as articles at Alternet.) Besides being an engaging telling of Beck’s personal tale, 'Common Nonsense' examines Beck’s character and motivations in a way that might help progressives get a better handle on who he is, what he means to do to America, and what we’re really up against.

Sara Robinson: I guess the first question is: what possessed you to write this book? Where did your interest in Glenn Beck begin? What did your research process look like?

Alex Zaitchik: It came out of a conversation I was having with an editor at Wiley about a rather different project — about India, of all things. It could not have been more different. And we started talking about Glenn Beck shortly after his “we surround them” episode on Fox in March of last year. We were talking about how bizarre it was, and trying to figure where this guy was coming from — we’d never seen anything like it.

This is, of course, the famous episode where Beck started crying about how much he loved his country and feared for it and the rest of it. And the more I started looking into him after this conversation, the more I realized there was this culture forming around him, this “cult of Beck” with big viewing parties, meetups, this kind thing. And I sort of got fascinated by it, and wrote an article for Alternet, and the response was pretty overwhelming. There seems to be a lot of interest in this guy.

So I when brought the idea back to Wiley, we put the other idea on hold, and decided to do a book-length treatment on this phenomenon — Glenn Beck.

SR: There’s a lot in the book that’s extremely damning. One of the things that struck me was your description of Beck’s antics while working as a morning zoo DJ in Phoenix, which is one of the most over-the-top things I’ve read this year. But it also revealed the extent of Beck’s essential meanness, as well as the extent he’ll go to to win a ratings war. Can you talk about that?

AZ: One of the consistent threads running throughout Beck’s career has been this rather vicious mean streak that has changed over the years. It now sort of masquerades a sort of political argument — but in fact, at its base, it’s the same kind of gut spleen that’s constantly looking for new avenues of expression.

As a young DJ, he used to attack other people in the market for being overweight. Lately, of course, he’s attacking people like Rosie O’Donnell for being overweight — but now he says it’s because she’s a Democrat and a progressive, not just because she’s overweight, which is what he used to do back when he was doing Top 40 radio.

Probably the most famous example of this mean streak that I was able to track down is the time he called up a competing DJ’s wife on the air and proceeded to mock her for having a miscarriage the previous week. She had just come back from the hospital. He did this live on the radio, which is of course illegal — he didn’t notify her that she was on the radio — and then there’s the moral question involved. He was the bad boy of an already bad-boy genre.

SR: Did the local media cover any of this when it was going down? Was it widely known, or just known within radio circles around Phoenix?

AZ: It made him infamous in radio circles. He had quite a reputation nationally for being talented, but also a bit of a prick. So yeah, people were definitely aware of it.

He never lasted very long in any one market. I think his record was close to two years. He bounced around quite a bit; I think he had over seven jobs in the space of 20 years.

SR: One of the things that struck me about that whole description of his early career, Phoenix, Tampa, and elsewhere, is how vicious he gets when he’s backed into a ratings war. I’m looking at that in the context of his newest schtick, “The Plan,” which he announced last Thanksgiving and is planning to roll out this August on the anniversary of the “I have a dream” speech on the mall — having his King moment.

What can you tell us about “The Plan”? Is this just another ratings stunt, or does Beck really have the wherewithal to pull off a Tea Party 2.0 kind of movement?

AZ: That seems to be what he’s going for. It seems to be something quite on a different level than creating controversy for ratings. He sees himself now as not just a movement leader, but actually (if his words are to be believed) a conduit for the Word of God itself. The idea that God is giving him this plan for the saving of the Republic is, of course, a very Mormon idea — the Constitution hanging by a thread, and Mormons will come to its rescue, possibly led by Beck. That seems to be where he’s headed — the idea that he’s a sort of world historical religious figure who’s actually going to be saving the country.

His plan is actually a little bit less exalted than that — it’s basically just your usual list of right-wing think tank talking points. If you had the Heritage Foundation and Cato come together and put their best minds together, it would look something like The Plan. He wants an 11% flat tax, abolishing most federal departments, cutting social services, that kind of thing.

He originally advertised the date to coincide with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, but he’s since pulled back from that and now he claims that he picked that date just because it’s near Labor Day, and he wanted people to be able to bring their children and make it a family vacation. But clearly what happened is that somebody informed him that Martin Luther King was a famous progressive “cockroach” (in Beckian language), and of course he must have felt pretty embarrassed. He stopped talking about the King connection pretty quick.

SR: You also got several people on the record about Beck’s struggle with mental illness. In one of his books, he’s admitted to being a borderline schizophrenic; another is premised on his confession of multiple personality disorder. He’s also copped to having ADHD, and taking medication for it. And of course there’s this very long history of addiction. What did these folks tell you, and why do you think they were so forthcoming with this information? And what part does all of this play in his history?

AZ: One of the first things people used to say when Beck first arrived on the national radar is over the last few years is: This guy is obviously crazy. And, in fact, a number of his former colleagues said that they believed that Glenn was under treatment for some form of psychiatric problem. They didn’t know exactly, but many believed that it was bipolar disorder, and he used to take medication that one person believed was lithium, and all the behavior traits seemed to be lining up in that direction. That was in the early 90s in Baltimore. And then from New Haven in the mid-90s, I heard another colleague say that that sounded about right. One of his old bosses in Baltimore said he always used to remind Beck, “Don’t forget to take your pill.”

So clearly, he’s now or was at some point under treatment for something. But what that is is less important than the fact that he’s able to command such influence over so many people while putting forward a sort of political version of his personal mental illness.

SR: Another thing that struck me is the crass way he manipulates his own family stories to elicit sympathy. He uses his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, as one of his props; and he tells people that his mother committed suicide when all the evidence points to a very straightforward boating accident. Even for someone like me, who’s intimately familiar with the testimonial culture of the religious right, lying that your mom committed suicide for the sake of ratings is just beyond comprehension. You actually went out and tracked down the documents on that.

AZ: The police records record a drowning accident in 1979. His mother and a friend of hers were found dead in the water after they apparently went swimming. There was an empty bottle of vodka found in the boat; there was no sign of foul play; and there was no suicide note left that was left or referenced in the local papers or police records.

Family friends also seemed to think that it was just a tragedy. I tracked down one of Beck’s closest childhood friends who was actually a pallbearer at the funeral, and he said that there was never any sign or discussion of a suicide at the time. So while I don’t know for certain why the death occurred, it appears to be the case that Beck sort of embellished this tragedy to make a more compelling life story.

Which, of course, is one of his stock-in-trades. He’s constantly talking about his personal redemption narrative, which begins with the tragedy of his mother, and continues through this sort of 700 Club arc to his brother’s death, after passing through a valley of depression and despair.

continued: http://blog.ourfuture.org/20100523/glenn-becks-common-nonsense-an-interview-with-alex-zaitchik?q=blog-entry/2010052023/glenn-becks-common-nonsense-interview-alex-zaitchik

 

WTF clown? How about. WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT message or something?

 

How hypocritical of the left wingers to complain about character assassination while simultaneously posting an article assassinating the character of Glenn Beck.

 

who are you referring to?