Bizarro Beck

[Mr.Fitnah]

Do you know why gays, mostly lesbians use the Pink triangle as thier symbol?

I learned why by watching Beck.

He's far from ill. He's very passionate and backs his talk up with fact after fact.

I really did not know they did use a pink triangle as a gay symbol and really do not care since it has no impact on me.
Is this a Teletubby thing?

But what does that have to do with beck rambling like a mentally ill person?
And yes the mentally ill are very pasionate about their delusions being fact.

Look at this thread:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/history/151769-i-had-no-idea.html

See how the ranchers bray?

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Pedaling hate is a business , like being a poverty pimp.

Sadly, that's true. And just for the record, I no more enjoy the rants of Al Sharpton than I do Glenn Beck.

I pretty much got through the first Video. My issue with Glenn is not his reason, but his immaturity. It is the Rodeo Clown, imitation, or the Howard Beale, or the Prophet, that come back and kick him in the ass, as it should be. That said, when he is on point, he has made some great contributions to the Society as a whole.

Rodeo Clown is how he describes himself, It is hard to fault his research staff.

 

[MaggieMae]

"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia

...

. He still considers himself a revolutionary, just a more effective one, who has realized that the progressive left's insistence on remaining a counterculture destroys its potential as a political movement. "One of my big heroes is Malcolm X, not because I agree with Malcolm, but because he wasn't afraid to change in public," he said.

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What's your deal with this?

Deal? So he once admired Malcolm X. So did Colin Powell for the very same reason--that he wasn't afraid to stand up to what he perceived as blatant racism. My "deal" with Van Jones is nothing other than pointing out that he was targeted by the RWNM, because of his unrelenting support for the black community. Did Van Jones ever display a "violent" side? No, he was apparently a "quiet" revolutionary, just like tea partiers. Why is one person's mission considered violent and the same type of mission coming from someone on the opposite side of the fence considered laudable?

 

[Avatar4321]

Glenn tries to educate people on the history of propaganda and you don't understand it. Im not surprised.

 

[liebuster]

Van Jones started a revolution?

He's an avowed Marxist with a stated believe in revolutionary communism.


My point is that violent rhetoric is distinct from mere incivility- and can be found across the spectrum.

Got a link to the comment about Van Jones? His is a situation that was targeted by Fox (specifically Beck doing the voice). There was a lot that was completely invented about his past, but some of you are simply unwilling to sort out fact from fiction.

The Smearing of Van Jones | Business | GreenBiz.com

1. The charge that Van Jones is a communist is laughable. Van was a political radical and a prison reform activist after he graduated from Yale Law School during the 1990s, but so what? Like many of us, he evolved. I first heard him speak about social justice to a conference of Business for Social Responsibility, a liberal business group, a few years ago and he wowed the audience. He then became a leading advocate for green jobs and environmental justice. He told me in a column in 2007 that the environmental movement has “to start talking the language of work, wealth and health, which is the language of everyday Americans.” he says. (”Work, wealth and health” could be a Republican slogan.)
He spoke last year at FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference, along with the likes of Bill Ford and Bill Clinton, and he wowed the crowd of well-to-do business people. He’s a progressive, like millions who voted for Obama. A communist? Give me a break.

Would FORTUNE invite a Marxist revolutionary to speak at a business conference?

Even more interesting are other Fox targets:

2. Glenn Beck has identified his next targets. In a message to his followers on Twitter last week, Beck wrote: “Watch Dogs: FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER. Do not link before burning to disc.”

Sunstein has been nominated to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Lloyd is associate general counsel and chief diversity officer of the FCC, and Browner is the White House climate change [advisor]...

Not surprising that Greenbiz.com would try to defend the "Green Jobs" Czar.

Beck was screaming at the top of his lungs that Van Jones was a communist and the white house had the audacity to call the producers of Glenn's show and correct Glenn that Van is not a "Czar" but a "special advisor"

Van Jones also has never EVER EVER EVER come out and say "yeah I once was a communist but I'm no longer one anymore"

"I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of the radical ends"- Van Jones

 

[AllieBaba]

Do you understand the impact of a nationally broadcast forum?

No shit. Look at everything that NPR is responsible for.

 

[MaggieMae]

He's an avowed Marxist with a stated believe in revolutionary communism.


My point is that violent rhetoric is distinct from mere incivility- and can be found across the spectrum.

Got a link to the comment about Van Jones? His is a situation that was targeted by Fox (specifically Beck doing the voice). There was a lot that was completely invented about his past, but some of you are simply unwilling to sort out fact from fiction.

The Smearing of Van Jones | Business | GreenBiz.com



Would FORTUNE invite a Marxist revolutionary to speak at a business conference?

Even more interesting are other Fox targets:

2. Glenn Beck has identified his next targets. In a message to his followers on Twitter last week, Beck wrote: “Watch Dogs: FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER. Do not link before burning to disc.”

Sunstein has been nominated to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Lloyd is associate general counsel and chief diversity officer of the FCC, and Browner is the White House climate change [advisor]...

Not surprising that Greenbiz.com would try to defend the "Green Jobs" Czar.

Beck was screaming at the top of his lungs that Van Jones was a communist and the white house had the audacity to call the producers of Glenn's show and correct Glenn that Van is not a "Czar" but a "special advisor"

Van Jones also has never EVER EVER EVER come out and say "yeah I once was a communist but I'm no longer one anymore"

"I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of the radical ends"- Van Jones

Can you prove that he ever was a card-carrying member? When 99.99% of all the material you can find distort the man's background as meaning what was true 20 years ago must be true today cuz I saw it on the Internet, it's no wonder 99.99% of gullible cons believe what they do about him.

Who Is Van Jones?

 

[MaggieMae]

Glenn tries to educate people on the history of propaganda and you don't understand it. Im not surprised.

Which is why he's such an obvious hypocrite. Glenn Beck is the poster boy for defining propaganda:

From the Wikipedia entry:

Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

Are you saying he DOESN'T do all of that every single day?

Then there are these definitions:

The Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA)
In 1936 Boston merchant Edward Filene helped establish the short-lived Institute for Propaganda Analysis which sought to educate Americans to recognize propaganda techniques. Although it did not last long, they did produce a list of seven propaganda methods that have become something of a standard.

Bandwagon: Pump up the value of 'joining the party'.

Card-stacking: Build a highly-biased case for your position.

Glittering generalities: Use power words to evoke emotions.

Name-calling: Denigrating opponents.

Plain folks: Making the leader seem ordinary increases trust and credibility.

Testimonial: The testimony of an independent person is seen as more trustworthy.
Transfer: Associate the leader with trusted others.

That's our Glennie!!