Just what we need..... yet another tool who thinks 'Media Matters' is in any way an unbiased source.
And, it's not even a good attempt to twist what he said. Here's an idea, blu.... instead of getting your opinions from Media Matters - why not listen to his fucking speech? Afraid you might not find anything to be outraged about?
It's pathetic when people take their opinions from the media. For some reason, I am not at all surprised that you do.
so in order to not take opinions from the media I should listen to glenn becks show?
No. I mean that you should find out exactly what he said, and the context in which it was said. One can only do that by actually listening to him and putting the media matters shit into context.
See how that works? No?
What are you talking about? What context? It was a continuous clip, it's not like it was pieced together. You get the context enough from that 1:10, and you know that Beck meant every word. You don't need to see much. Am I missing something? Please explain what you are saying instead of just being sarcastic and cynical to anyone who has something to say. Say something for yourself for once, instead just putting down others. That's all you do.
As for my opinion on this clip, what scares me is both the degree of radicalism that his message carries, and the degree to which people deem his opinion credible. On what basis? Simply because he has a strong opinion, and stands by it? I'll give him respect for that, but it doesn't make anything he says right, or healthy during a time of such ambiguity.
Universities give you information. You don't even have to go to class, and further, you CHOOSE the classes you want, so it's not like it is being rammed down your throat, unlike middle school or even high school. So, this is a lame argument he is making. Of course universities are going to be considered liberal, they are disseminating as much information as possible to young minds so they can do with it what they want. If the synthesis of free will, freeflowing information, and free choice scares Beck, then he is just as bad as Kim Jong Il. He seems to think that anything that isn't neoconservative argument is indoctrinated learning by a liberal mass media. He's literally insane as far as I am concerned. An extremely deluded individual who only divides this country as a time when we need to be coming together, as always.
His point is valid that universities are liberal, because they are, but so what. What is wrong with that? Isn't the point of being young to challenge the status quo, as opposed to blindly go along with it like sheep? To give you the tools and perspective to see things from an alternate perspective, other than that which you have been indoctrinated with since your birth. College is a time for you to forge your own opinion, to find your own voice, and Beck calls this bad. What an asshole... That is the essence of the freedom of this country, to dissent if you want to. Doing so is american, not simply to follow what the status quo, which I consider to be the party of the already established demographic, the white-middle class, aka the republican party... says we should do, think, say, and feel, else we be considered un-american. What happened to freedom in this country? Where, no matter what you said or felt, never meant you were more or less American? We all pay taxes, we all participate in this economy, we do what we can, we are part of this country. Just because we don't follow what fox says doesn't mean we are less American. This is the impression I get from all repub's. They remind me of the 'cool' kids in high school in some fifties film, making fun of all blacks, jews, and promoting this idea of ultra conformatism where anyone is punishable if an effort to conform is not deemed sufficient.
