Does anyone remember the last time that Glenn Beck was going to blow the lid off the corruption in the Obama administration. How he warned that "Something is very wrong and the future of the republic is at stake" How his claims of conspiracy was no longer a theory and how shamed Congressman Erik Massa was going to help him do it during special edition of the Glenn Beck show?
In case you don't recall how Glenn Becks full hour show with Rep Eric Massa turned out, HERE IS A LINK. Sorry that I have to post a link, but Viacom has forced YouTube to disable embedding of my video clip.
Well, now Beck is at it again and now he is going to blow the lid off another conspiracy if the government doesn't come clean about their cover up of the Boston bombing's ties to a Saudi national. Beck says that he's never been so ashamed of his country, although he's said that atleast a dozen times before. The similarties between Becks rhetoric in both of these clips is as amusing as it is scarry.
Oh, Glenn! - I can't believe that people actually pay $9.99 a month to watch your facakta internet show.
Glenn Beck Is About To Blow The Lid Off Another Government Conspiracy.
In Memory Of Glenn Becks Failed Fox News Show.
In spite of all the radical things that Beck had said during his 2 years on the Fox News Channel, I think it was his interview with Rep. Eric Massa that highlights just how despirate Glenn Beck was to bring down anything liberal or progressive.
After hyping a widespread progressive corruption conspiracy for days, Glenn Beck relied on scandal plagued democratic congressman Eric Massa to help him blow the whistle.
According to Beck, it was Massa that had the goods on all of this corruption and he would be dedicating an entire hour f his show to expose all of the evil wrong doing.
Thanks for all of the laughs Glenn.
Is Glenn Beck Getting High On His Own Supply?
This must be why we will all be spared today because May 21, 2001 will not be the end of the world. God has spoken and he or she has tasked Glenn with saving the promised land. It's either that or Glenn is getting high on his own supply.
Chico Brisbane.
Glenn Beck: One year from now the left will pray to Jesus for his 5 o'clock show on Fox News
Stephen Colbert Warns of Pending "Glennpocalypse"
Stephen Colbert prepares America for the pending "Glennpocalypse."
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Oh Magic 8 Ball!: Is Glenn Beck Fixin' To Get Fired From Fox News?
Way back in November of 2009, I pondered the possibility of Lou Dobbs replacing the train wreck at Fox News that has become Glenn Beck. I wrote in this blog post that my prediction is that Lou Dobbs will replace an already burned out Glenn Beck at Fox News and do so in Beck's timeslot.
While Dobbs is already slated to revamp is "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show at Fox, a later reassignment into Beck's old timeslot would be likely.
It would be similar to how Lawrence O'Donnell's show was allowed to get underway, but then shifted timeslots once Keith Olbermann was purged from MSNBC's line-up.
I'm sure Fox News Exec's are contemplating the worst case scenario of another presidential election cycle with Glenn Beck and a functioning microphone. I think it all began when Beck changed the format of his show from the traditional behind the desk news program into what it's become. A never ending revisionist history lesson complete with chalkboards and homework assignments. It's not surprising that Becks literary offerings to the world are the textbooks required to understand his convoluted message.
Even further back in July of 2009 in this blog post I was wondering if Lou Dobbs was 'screen testing' for Fox News. He seemed to be going in a conspiratorial direction similar to Beck when Dobbs started to embrace controversy by pretending not to embrace it. One of my favorites was how Dobbs would say that President Obama could put the whole birther thing to rest if he'd just show 'everyone' his 'real' birth certificate. Then he'd quickly clarify that by 'real' birth certificate, he meant the 'original' birth certificate.
Now there are rumblings of Beck's pending demise in the New York Times today that anonymous officials at Fox News are "looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck."
I have to say that I have no idea how this is going to pan out. I mean one can always hope, right? - Hang on a minute! - I got it!
SHAKE! - SHAKE! -SHAKE
Question: Oh Magic 8 Ball ! - Is Glenn Beck's goose cooked over at Fox News?
Answer: Doubtful :(
FUCK YOU MAGIC 8 BALL! - YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT!
News Corpse: Paranoid Style Of Glenn Beck
FROM NEWS CORPSE
The Paranoid Style Of Glenn Beck
From The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms–he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point.
Fox News: The New End Times Cable Network
A year ago Glenn was crying about his pending blindness, but as usual, his pittyful prognostications only suit the moment and never seem to materalize.
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MLK's Son On The Timing and Location of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Event
Today in the Washington Post, Martin Luther King III, wrote this atricle about Glenn Beck's gathering at the Lincoln Memorial this weekend.
"This weekend Glenn Beck is to host a "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial. While it is commendable that this rally will honor the brave men and women of our armed forces, who serve our country with phenomenal dedication, it is clear from the timing and location that the rally's organizers present this event as also honoring the ideals and contributions of Martin Luther King Jr."
King III said that he would like to be clear about what those ideals are. As I read through the article, I found these passages below that seem to be diametrically opposed to Beck's beliefs. I'm wondering how long it will take for Beck to suggest that Martin Luther King III doesn't know his own father as well as he thinks he does. No really! - I'm serious! - I can totally see Glenn Back suggesting such a thing.
"It is clear from the timing and location that the rally's organizers present this event as also honoring the ideals and contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. I would like to be clear about what those ideals are."
"My father championed free speech. He would be the first to say that those participating in Beck's rally have the right to express their views. But his dream rejected hateful rhetoric and all forms of bigotry or discrimination, whether directed at race, faith, nationality, sexual orientation or political beliefs."
"Although he was a profoundly religious man, my father did not claim to have an exclusionary "plan" that laid out God's word for only one group or ideology."
"My father did not claim that God was on his side; he prayed humbly that he was on God's side."
"I pray that all Americans will embrace the challenge of social justice and the unifying spirit that my father shared with his compatriots."
Now Glenn Beck Says That Progressives Are Terrorist
Glenn Beck said that progressives terrorists today on his Fox News Program. He played his usual 3-card monty with the fact by phrasing some comments in the form of a question. In other instances he begins a sentence with an emphatic assertion, and then slowly ramps down his rhetoric so that by the end of a sentence, he's let all of the air out of the emphatic and hyperbolic assertion that he started with.
Like when he said "I think this President, over and over again has exposed himself as a guy with a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." But then says in the same breath. "I don't know what it is." which is one of Becks trademark moves.
He'll begin by saying "I don't know what this means, but" and then proceeds to explain what it means after having just said that he doesn't know what it means. He did the same thing today when he said that "Progressives are terrorist." and then assigned the word "terrorist" everywhere it would fit within the paragraph. For example, Beck said:
“Fear is the way they get you to do nothing. It’s a tool. They terrorize you. They call you names. Many of these people are nothing more than terrorists, economic terrorists, free speech terrorists, religious terrorists, racial terrorists. They are attempting to silence you through terror. They have not gone to a flight school or strapped bombs to their chest, but they are terrorists just the same.”
Oh...so we're not that kind of terrorist, but we're terrorists just the same. Just the same as what? - The voices in Beck's head have him convinced that he can convince people that progressives are terrorist just the same as the 911 high-jackers, except we haven't gone to flight school or strapped on a bomb. Not yet at least. And you know what? - There will be people out there that can hear Glenn Beck's wingnut dog whistle loud and clear and he knows it.
Does his fear mongering drive me crazy? - Not at all. - It used to humor me greatly and there was a time when I would rush home to catch his show everyday without failure. But the self-proclaimed entertainer isn't all that entertaining anymore. Beck's crazy rhetoric has become so convoluted, that he's had to turn his Fox News set into a classroom just so he can teach enough revisionist history to fit the false narrative that he broadcast to his loyalist.
“The progressives are going to go crazy over this monologue. I don’t care. They will scream and whine about me calling them terrorists despite the fact that they do it to you and me on a daily basis. They’ll scream that there is nothing wrong with what Congress has done, or with this president and administration has done so far.”
Here is the irony of Glenn Beck and how his rhetoric is tailor made for the selective listeners that adore him. After calling progressives terrorist in about a half dozen different variations with a single paragraph. After telling his viewers that progressive are trying to silence them with terror. Beck tosses out a tiny jab at republicans on his way out the door as if that equals neutrality. Here's what Beck had to say:
"I can’t play that game. I won’t play that game. I still believe that there are people out there who are capable of not seeing the world through the us versus them mentality. There are still Americans who see the big picture of how the very fabric of our freedoms are destroyed when extremists on the Right and Left who insist on demonizing one another, and using scare tactics to gain supporters."
Poor Glenn. It must be absolutely draining to put on that show everyday while trying to remember all of the lies that he's told so they don't conflict with all new lies that are still to come.
The Best Assessment of Glenn Beck!
From NewsCorpse.Com
"It’s hard to tell whether Glenn Beck has completely given up trying to make sense of anything he says, or if he is actually working harder than ever to spin new mythologies and horror stories. The result is that his ravings have become more fantastical and less rooted to reality than ever before. Brace yourself for the fright of your life as Beck weaves his sinister tale of terror and treachery."
Glenn Beck Criticizes NAACP Over "Benefit of Doubt"
Glenn Beck criticizes the NAACP for not giving Shirley Sherrod the benefit of the doubt. He seems to be amazed that they didn't reach out to Sherrod first or even look at the full version of the video before criticizing her.
Fox News: The Reno911 Version of COPS from Chico Brisbane on Vimeo.
Digital DNA Connects Oakland Shooter To Fox News
In a pervious story posted here at ChicoBrisbane.Com, we pointed out how the actions and ideologies of some right-wing extremist are becomming easy to trace right back to Glenn Beck and his own extreme political rhetoric. Now in the matter of "The Oakland Shooter" case, a simple data search is connecting the dots between the shooter Byron Williams, Glenn Beck, and The Tides Foundation.
After an 8 minute gun battle between Williams and California Highway Patrol Offices, a CHP sergeant said:
"There is no doubt in our mind, given the body armor and the extensive amount of ammunition he had, that he was on his way to do a very serious crime against either someone or a group of people"
And sure enough, during an interrogation with investigators, Williams admitted that he was in fact on his way to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation. Now Mr.Williams either opened up the phone book and selected the Tides Foundation as a target knowing nothing about them, or his introduction and hatred for the Tides Foundation developed from some other source.
This is where data mining sources like Google and Lexus-Nexus can provide you with the digital DNA to conclusively connect the dots. Task #1 - Drill down the data for keyword "Tides Foundation" to see where it shows up other then the God Damn phonebook.
Searching - Searching - Searching - Searching - Searching - DING!
Okay, so searching back to January 19, 2009, the Tides Foundation was mentioned on Fox News 31 times. Twice on Sean Hannity's Show and 29 times on Glenn Beck's Show. During that same time frame, the Tides Foundation was mentioned on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and PBS a grand total of 0 times. Yes that is a zero and not a capital O.
Thankfully the CHP Officers shot his ass before he could carryout Glenn Becks subliminal messaging . This is exactly how Bill O'Reilly's constant ranting about Dr. George Tiller finally lead to some whacky Fox News viewer, picking up a gun, and going to Dr. Tillers church and shooting him dead right there in front of God and everyone. Literally! -
Glenn Becks Creepy Comments About Going Blind
In the video clip below, Glenn Beck tells his audience about being diagnosed with macular dystrophy and how he my go blind within a year. The excerpt is a roller coaster ride between laughter and tears as Beck shares this potential tragedy with the audience, but there is something real creepy about the manner in which Beck goes from sobbing and being hardly able to speak, to delivering a comical punchline without any signs of sobbing in the same breath.
What is also creepy, but not all too surprising is Becks inability to rationalize this situation in a way that common logic would dictate. In a long drawn out moment of sobbing while attempted to regain his composure, Beck said (about his potential blindness) while still sobbing
"I know what my wife looks like, I know what my children look like, I have a great imagination, I know what color looks like, ( long pause of sobbing) but I love to read. (long pause) And I thought to myself in that time" Beck said emotionally, but then instantly turned off the sniffiling and finished with a comical punchline: "I'm too darn lazy to learn braille." He said.
I was still stuck on the part where Glenn had basically admitted that not being able to read books would be a greater loss to him than not seeing his wife or watching his children grow up. As if those things would be easier to come to terms with. At least I think that's what he was saying weather he meant it to come out that way or not. It just seems that Glenn Beck lacks the ability to see things in the way that most people would.
Actually, the whole scenario seems odd how Rush Limbaugh has already lost his hearing and now Glenn Beck my go blind. Maybe it's a sign from God! - But I'll tell you what...If Sean Hannity should suddenly lose his ability to speak, I would be convinced that divine intervention was at hand. These three hateful people punished by God and turned into a set of those three little monkeys that can see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
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Glenn Beck's Race Baiting Easily Detectable Among The Fringe
Whenever you hear a political activist speculating about the intent of our founding fathers to rationalize their skewed political perceptions, it's a safe bet that Glenn Beck has played a roll in their doomsday view of common political transition. Most of the time it's laughable, but when you feed this type of political propaganda to someone that already posesses violent, racist tendancies, it's a recipe for disaster.
I came across an article from the Associated Press about a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a heavily armed militia of "minute-men" in the Arizona desert. Jason "J.T." Ready is taking matters into his own hands, declaring war on "narco-terrorists" and keeping an eye out for illegal immigrants. So far, he says his patrols have only found a few border crossers who were given water and handed over to the Border Patrol. But local law enforcement are nervous given that Ready's group is heavily armed and identifies with the National Socialist Movement, an organization that believes only non-Jewish, white heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn't white should leave the country "peacefully or by force."
Glenn Beck University T-Shirts Made In Bangladesh Sweatshop
Mr. Uber American Patriot Glenn Beck cries over his country and what he fears is becoming of it by day. However, by night his Beck University T-Shirts are being manufactured for pennies on the dollar in one of thousands of Bangladesh sweatshops. Beck has said many times recently that America is no longer a capitalist country, but how does he reconcile his non-capitalist rhetoric when his fetching $36.00 at GlennBeck.Com for one of his sweatshop, slave labor t-shirts?
The t-shirt itself sells for $20, but by the time that Beck is done racking you over the coals for shipping & handling fees, that t-shirt cost $36.00 - I wonder how much the person that actually sewed the t-shirt in Bangladesh was paid? - With the average wage being .10 to .15 cents per hour, it must have been only a fraction of that. I'm a t-shirt collector and as I look through my collection, I've noticed that very few are made in the USA. The ones that stand out are my OBAMA 08 t-shirt, which was less than $25 dollars, but made and printed right here in the good ol' USA. Even my pit-stained P.E. t-shirt from highschool was made in The City of Industry, California according to the label. So is Glenn Beck hurting so bad that he couldn't see to it that his University that deals with American History and the Constitution of the United States of America had their t-shirts manufactured, and printed right here by hard working Americans?
Are these the actions of a person that claims to love his country so much that he cries at the drop of a hat over perceived losses of liberty and freedom. What these people go through in Bangladesh to manufacture cheap apparel for wealthy American capitalist like Glenn Beck is not a perception, it's reality. Maybe Beck needs to go and find the sweatshop in Bangladesh where his t-shirts are manufactured so that he can see what life without liberty and freedom really looks like.
There are dozens of documentaries about the woking conditions in Bangladesh garment factories. Workers starting as young as 10-years old, 18 hour work days, very dangerous environments and for just a few pennies. This human slavery is not a secret to most Americans and particularly those in the "news" business.
Sure Glenn Beck can say that he outsources his online apparel business to an "American" corporation, but you know what? - When that apparel has your God Damn name emblazoned across the front while you're selling yourself to be some sort of heavy duty, industrial strength, labrotory grade class of American Patriot, you need to spend a little less time crying over silly bullshit on tee-vee and focus more on reconciling your walk to make sure that it jives with your talk. I'm just saying....
Chico Brisbane
Glenn Beck University T-Shirts Made In Bangladesh from Chico Brisbane on Vimeo.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Becomes Official Beckerhead
Glenn Beck has repackaged his Insider Extreme pod casting service as distant learning program he calls Beck University. Among those clamoring to enroll is none other than MSNBC's Keith Olberman. After paying the $79 enrollment fee, Olbermann became an official Beckerhead and went straight to class. In the video below, Olbermann shares a few tid-bits about his first day in class. - Now sit up straight Keith, and no talking after the bell!
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Glenn Beck's History Lessons Lose Viewer Interest
VIDEO: Having just a few sponsors and not much else left to lose, Glenn Beck has gone all in. He has transformed his hourly Fox News political commontary show into a daily history lesson complete with chalk boards and homework assignments to boot.
His new genre is based on recklessly misinforming and inciting false outrage among America’s most gullible and politically unsophistocated. And he’s doing a good job at it, or at least he was. But like most self proclaimed prophits and prognosticators, Beck is starting to become tangled up in his own woven web of bullshit.
While the GOP may make some modest gains in the midterm elections, let me state right here and now that once again the movers and shakers in what's left of the republican party will be looking the wrong way when the Obama fundrasing machine is switched to full power. The birth certificate nonsense, Bill Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezco, and all of the red meat from 2008 will be useless. By 2012, the gulf coast will be so fucked up that voters will be carrying toarches to thier polling place to seek revenge on any politician that has ever uttered the words drill-baby-drill or said anything that even remotely sounds in favor of big oil and particularly BP.
But here lies the fundimental flaw of the radical right. They would be much better served to understand history and embrace it as it was written in lieu of trying to rewrite it to hide things that they know to be true, but are unwilling or unable to accept. Thomas Jefferson not only owned slaves, he fucked them and even fathered a child with at least one that is known. I'm sorry if that historical fact upsets you, but all of the revisionism and lipstick in the world won't make that pig get pretty. Thomas Jeffersons quote about the tree of liberty needing to be watered with the blood of patriots any tyrants has long since been known to be the adopted mantra or domestic terrorist like Timothy McVeigh. He was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with that same quote as he lit the fuse that brought about the Oklahoma City Bombing. Yet once Beck adopted the same mantra, his followers begin to show up at Tea Party events wearing the same t-shirt that McVeigh was still wearing when he was arrested.
Nobody has done a better job of highlighting the silliness of Glenn Beck than Stephen Colbert. The video above is one of my all time favorites.
-Chico Brisbane
Glenn Beck Attacks Two Term, Democratic, Nobel Prize Winning Woodrow Wilson
"The Boy Scouts were used by President Wilson to deliver his message door-to-door." Beck said today on his show.
Well, let's take a look at our 28th. president who Beck claims was so terrible, he was elected to a second term. Whatever history has to say about Wilson, both good and bad has little to do with Beck's desire to discredit his legacy. It has everything to do with Wilson being a two term democratic president who also happens to a Nobel Prize recipient. Barack Obama is already two-for-three with one presidential term and the Nobel Peace Prize already under his belt. That is the motivating factor behind Glenn Beck's attack on Wilson.
If Barack Obama is re-elected to a second term, what will that say about Glenn Beck's effectiveness after four years of painting our first minority president as everything from a racist to a Nazi? - It will say that just because you host the most watched political commentary show on tee-vee, it does not mean that everyone is watching because they subscribe to your ideology hook, line, and sinker. While Fox News may be the most watched cable news show, it is most certainly not the most trusted name on tee-vee news. If it were, vice-president Sarah Palin would be handing in her resignation right about now. Isn't that the point were she usually loses interest. You know, when it's not the shiny penny that it once was? - It's either that or the halfway point or when the next best thing comes along. The one thing that it isn't is "Country First" and that's for God Damn sure!
Woodrow Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. In his first term, Wilson persuaded congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act, The Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. He was re-elected in 1916 around the campaign slogan "he kept us out of the war", but U.S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German government proposed to Mexico a military alliance in a war against the U.S., and began unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking without warning every American merchant ship its submarines could find. Wilson in April 1917 asked Congress to declare war.
In 1917, he began the United States' first draft since the US civil war, raised billions in war funding through Liberty Bonds. National woman's suffrage was also achieved under Wilson's presidency. In the late stages of the war, Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany, including the armistice. He went to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations and shaped the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires.
Largely for his efforts to form the League, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1919, during the bitter fight with the Republican-controlled Senate over the U.S. joining the League of Nations, Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke. He refused to compromise, effectively destroying any chance for ratification. The League of Nations was established anyway, but the United States never joined. A Presbyterian of deep religious faith, he appealed to a gospel of service and infused a profound sense of moralism into Wilsonianism.
These are the facts that Glenn Beck cannot allow to get in the way of the narrative the he wants to create in the minds of his loyalist. It's a Fox News mantra. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Was Wilson the most regarded president to hold office, no! - But he wasn't the worst, was he?
Forbes Says Glenn Beck Gets Audience With Outlandish Words
Glenn Beck insists that he is not political: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We’re an entertainment company," Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million.
"I don’t necessarily believe that [what Beck says] is reflective of his own personal politics — I don’t even know if he has personal politics," says Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers, a trade magazine devoted to talk radio. "I see him as a performer."
It’s all about the money for Beck, the entertainer, who made $32 million last year. I guess Beck said it best himself. "If you believe everything that I say, you're an idiot."
I don't believe much of anything that Glenn Beck says and particularly his portrayal of himself as a true-blue, all-American patriot. Beck is a money-grubbing charlatan who doesn’t give a "flying crap" about the political process and 32 million is a shitload of cash for a man who says that "We are no longer a capitalist society." Glenn Beck makes his money by deceiving the politically unsophistocated, and the plian old ignorant and paranoid.
Last week he attempted claim that the advertising boycott against him has had little effect and that somehow being featured in Forbes magazine is proof of that. It might not have much of an effect on him financially, but Fox News must be taking a loss now that his commercial breaks are filled with Fox News promos and ads from some of Uncle Ruperts enterprises. ie: Wall Street Journal and Harper Collins. All of the big national advertisers have gone away and been replaced by rightwing political ads, and some wingnut hocking seeds to grow veggies when and all of the super markets shut down as we prepare for the end times.
Only in America can a man make millions spinning yarns about the impending doom of the very country that provides him with such great wealth. What Beck does take little tallent, zero conscience, and a willingness to spend the rest of your days on earth surrounded by bodygards. There is a price for everything.
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