maybe he can tell them how he is unemployed as well.

just wish the owner of the Allentown Metal Works, would come out a say well Mitt can i call you that (smiles better then DICK) if only we had more stimulus we could have been well on our way out of this mess, people like you Mitt put us in.

Wonder when the execs at msnbc are going to wise up and present some honest hosts.Can't believe that you replace one liar for another when Al Sharpton appears as a guest host for the other liar Ed Shultz ! I guess the folks at msnbc have forgotten "The Reverend's" Tawana Brawley fiasco.How many more hosts and anaylists are going to be fired or suspended before you execs wake up.

LOL,,,,

its good to have a laugh a day.

thanks.

You know absolutely nothing about economics. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

The reason government stimulate the economy with direct spending is because for every $1 the government spends, $1 is pumping into the economy. This causes production and consumption to go up, which spurs hiring in order to accommodate demand, meaning unemployment goes down.

It's simple demand-side economics. Unfortunately, we're a nation that has erroneously fallen into the belief that supply-side economics (e.g., tax cuts) works. Here's a little tidbit for you: both Reagan and Bush stimulated the economy with direct government spending no matter what conservatives tell you (war spending constitutes economic stimulus).

Do your homework before posting silliness, please.

More distraction, misinformation and projection by our little pet conservative. So what are your republicans going to do besides tax cuts for the wealthy and more gutting of the social safety net? Tax cuts have been tried for 30 years with very little job creation, so that ideals debunked. As well as cutting social programs while giving tax cuts have again produced no job's, so exactly what are your GOP plans to create jobs?

mikey22030/regressive tp. Remember, "kinder, gentler".

And Now Some Happy News:

Good Riddance Glenn Beck:

He is perhaps the most paranoid man in America and he makes anyone who has ever claimed to have been abducted by aliens seem sane by comparison. Hell, we should rename paranoid schizophrenia after him. And he has brought the Radical Right Wing closer to the mainstream than ever before. His name is Glenn Beck and for the last few years, he has made it his mission to create elaborate conspiracy theories to bring down Democrats, and more specifically, liberals..

Glenn Beck is by far the biggest hate and fear merchant in the media today. An alcoholic and drug addict for 15 years of his life, he now gets high on spreading lies, rewriting history, and spreading right wing propaganda. And in the spirit of this conspiracy spinner, let’s weave a conspiracy of our own, except this one has a basis in fact.

Beck began his career as a radio host at the age of 18 in Utah. He then moved on to a radio station in Washington D.C. and then to one in New Haven. While in New Haven, Beck would take one theology class at Yale who only accepted him upon the recommendation of Joe Lieberman. But Beck couldn’t cut it in college and dropped out soon after. That one class remains the extent of Becks post-secondary experience. He then went on to “self-educate” himself reading books by authors such as Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, and Friedrich Nietzsche. He would then work at a Phoenix radio station where he would spark outrage and controversy when he phoned the wife of a rival radio host and mocked her miscarriage on the air. He would then mock a Chinese American caller at another radio station. Beck would be fired multiple times throughout his radio career and would begin the Glenn Beck Program with a station in Tampa which still airs today. Beck then made the jump to television when CNN gave him his own program, and then moved to Fox News Channel.

Beck has made several other attempts to rewrite history, such as when he claimed that Civil Rights was ushered in by Republicans, which is a complete white washing of history. It was Democrats and moderate Republicans that passed Civil Rights. In reality, the radical right that Beck speaks for were totally against the Civil Rights Act and still are today. They just want to claim ownership of it so they can tear it down. Remember that racists are a large part of the Tea Party and extreme right wing movement that Beck is part of. Beck has also attempted to Christianize America. He and pal David Barton (who has been instrumental in rewriting Texas school books) partnered up to present the lie that the Founding Fathers were Christians who were against separation of church and state. Once again, Beck is lying through his teeth. The founders were mostly Freemasons and Deists that believed in a Supreme Being or Creator but not necessarily a specific God of a specific religion. And they absolutely believed in separation of church and state (see article, The Wall Between Church And State, for more on this topic). Beck has also claimed that racism had nothing to do with slavery which is also a lie. Southern whites believed African- Americans to be inferior human beings and many still do. Beck seems to have a problem with black people as well. Much of his most controversial rhetoric came about after President Obama took office. Here are just a couple quotes that Beck has made about Obama and the African-American community.

“This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture….I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” – on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009

“The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Glenn Beck has proven himself to be a racist and his followers love him for it. Beck has also proven his hatred for the families of the 9-11 victims even though he created the 9-12 Project to supposedly represent the unity between Americans the day after the tragedy. Beck claims this group isn’t political but it is. The group has been very active in conservative causes and is allied with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Beck doesn’t really care about 9-11 at all. The only thing he cares about is exploiting the tragedy for personal and political gain.
Of the victim’s families, he once said,

“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

In addition to obvious hatred of these families, Beck has also demonstrated his hatred of liberals by cheering for disasters that occur in liberal leaning states. For example, when forest fires raged in California in 2007 and destroyed many homes, Beck had the heartless audacity to claim that the people there had it coming. On his program he stated, “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” Just last year Beck opposed the Muslim community center that will be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Beck incited hatred and violence against American Muslims leading to the vandalism of mosques and attacks on Arab-Americans. But Beck has demonstrated his hatred of Muslims before. In 2006, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, and had this to say,

“I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. … And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

And if you didn’t think it could get any darker than that, it does. Glenn Beck has called for outright violence against liberals telling his followers that they should “shoot them in the forehead”. At least three would be assassins have pointed to Glenn Becks show as the inspiration for their actions.

On July 18, 2010, Byron Williams was stopped by the California Highway Patrol and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement. He later said he was on his way to murder individuals at the Tides Foundation and ACLU and that Glenn Beck inspired him to do it.

In October 2010, Charles Wilson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) with “violence” in phone calls to her office. The hate filled threats were in part inspired by Glenn Beck, according to Wilson’s cousin.

And finally, in December 2010, Gregory Lee Giusti was sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison for threatening to destroy former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home if she voted in support of the health care reform law. Giusti had watched Glenn Beck burn Pelosi in effigy and became inspired.

Beck has a history of inciting violence against Democrats. He has even fantasized about shooting Michael Moore, and be-heading President Obama. The message Beck is clearly sending to his followers is that he wants them to kill liberals, plain and simple.

The problem I have with Beck, is that sometimes I can’t tell whether he really believes what he says, or if he just does this stuff for ratings and money. He makes 32 million dollars a year. The idiots of the right wing have literally made him rich. When Beck talks about how much he loves America, he has to use Vicks under his eyes to make himself tear up. And as further evidence that his rhetoric is merely a gimmick, Beck, referring to fans, once said, “If you take what I say as the gospel, you’re an idiot.” And Beck is correct. His fans are idiots. Idiotic enough to believe any word that comes out of his mouth. But, why? Beck tells his followers exactly what they want to hear and he gives these crack pots a voice that they never had before. Their ideas and beliefs can now be spread nationally. The intellectuals of the Republican Party have lost control of their party to the ignorant who have no sense of history beyond what Glenn Beck has told them and he’s not even a college graduate. If he had not dropped out of school, perhaps Beck would be very different. Beck wouldn’t attack education as much as he does if he actually had one.

Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Cleon Skousen, and picking up the causes of the John Birch Society, Glenn Beck has proclaimed himself the voice of the right wing movement that seeks to distort history and force their beliefs on the rest of us. To them, if you don’t agree with them, you’re an enemy of the state that must be discredited and destroyed. Beck is losing his audience steadily, but it isn’t enough to stop the right wing. Even if Beck’s show is cancelled, the damage has been done, and it will reverberate across the country. If we allow the extreme right wing to brainwash people and rewrite the history books, America will end up going backwards. Imagine America going back to a time before the Progressive Movement. Minorities would be terrorized and women treated like slaves. Health care would only be available to the wealthy and people would be working for pennies. And these poor ignorant followers are cheering for their own future misery. Glenn Beck and the right wing are not patriotic Americans, they are a stain upon it.

Beck has made several other attempts to rewrite history, such as when he claimed that Civil Rights was ushered in by Republicans, which is a complete white washing of history. It was Democrats and moderate Republicans that passed Civil Rights. In reality, the radical right that Beck speaks for were totally against the Civil Rights Act and still are today. They just want to claim ownership of it so they can tear it down. Remember that racists are a large part of the Tea Party and extreme right wing movement that Beck is part of. Beck has also attempted to Christianize America. He and pal David Barton (who has been instrumental in rewriting Texas school books) partnered up to present the lie that the Founding Fathers were Christians who were against separation of church and state. Once again, Beck is lying through his teeth. The founders were mostly Freemasons and Deists that believed in a Supreme Being or Creator but not necessarily a specific God of a specific religion. And they absolutely believed in separation of church and state (see article, The Wall Between Church And State, for more on this topic). Beck has also claimed that racism had nothing to do with slavery which is also a lie. Southern whites believed African- Americans to be inferior human beings and many still do. Beck seems to have a problem with black people as well. Much of his most controversial rhetoric came about after President Obama took office. Here are just a couple quotes that Beck has made about Obama and the African-American community.

“This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture….I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” – on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009

“The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Glenn Beck has proven himself to be a racist and his followers love him for it. Beck has also proven his hatred for the families of the 9-11 victims even though he created the 9-12 Project to supposedly represent the unity between Americans the day after the tragedy. Beck claims this group isn’t political but it is. The group has been very active in conservative causes and is allied with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Beck doesn’t really care about 9-11 at all. The only thing he cares about is exploiting the tragedy for personal and political gain.
Of the victim’s families, he once said,

“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

In addition to obvious hatred of these families, Beck has also demonstrated his hatred of liberals by cheering for disasters that occur in liberal leaning states. For example, when forest fires raged in California in 2007 and destroyed many homes, Beck had the heartless audacity to claim that the people there had it coming. On his program he stated, “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” Just last year Beck opposed the Muslim community center that will be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Beck incited hatred and violence against American Muslims leading to the vandalism of mosques and attacks on Arab-Americans. But Beck has demonstrated his hatred of Muslims before. In 2006, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, and had this to say,

“I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. … And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

And if you didn’t think it could get any darker than that, it does. Glenn Beck has called for outright violence against liberals telling his followers that they should “shoot them in the forehead”. At least three would be assassins have pointed to Glenn Becks show as the inspiration for their actions.

On July 18, 2010, Byron Williams was stopped by the California Highway Patrol and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement. He later said he was on his way to murder individuals at the Tides Foundation and ACLU and that Glenn Beck inspired him to do it.

In October 2010, Charles Wilson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) with “violence” in phone calls to her office. The hate filled threats were in part inspired by Glenn Beck, according to Wilson’s cousin.

And finally, in December 2010, Gregory Lee Giusti was sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison for threatening to destroy former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home if she voted in support of the health care reform law. Giusti had watched Glenn Beck burn Pelosi in effigy and became inspired.

Beck has a history of inciting violence against Democrats. He has even fantasized about shooting Michael Moore, and be-heading President Obama. The message Beck is clearly sending to his followers is that he wants them to kill liberals, plain and simple.

The problem I have with Beck, is that sometimes I can’t tell whether he really believes what he says, or if he just does this stuff for ratings and money. He makes 32 million dollars a year. The idiots of the right wing have literally made him rich. When Beck talks about how much he loves America, he has to use Vicks under his eyes to make himself tear up. And as further evidence that his rhetoric is merely a gimmick, Beck, referring to fans, once said, “If you take what I say as the gospel, you’re an idiot.” And Beck is correct. His fans are idiots. Idiotic enough to believe any word that comes out of his mouth. But, why? Beck tells his followers exactly what they want to hear and he gives these crack pots a voice that they never had before. Their ideas and beliefs can now be spread nationally. The intellectuals of the Republican Party have lost control of their party to the ignorant who have no sense of history beyond what Glenn Beck has told them and he’s not even a college graduate. If he had not dropped out of school, perhaps Beck would be very different. Beck wouldn’t attack education as much as he does if he actually had one.

Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Cleon Skousen, and picking up the causes of the John Birch Society, Glenn Beck has proclaimed himself the voice of the right wing movement that seeks to distort history and force their beliefs on the rest of us. To them, if you don’t agree with them, you’re an enemy of the state that must be discredited and destroyed. Beck is losing his audience steadily, but it isn’t enough to stop the right wing. Even if Beck’s show is cancelled, the damage has been done, and it will reverberate across the country. If we allow the extreme right wing to brainwash people and rewrite the history books, America will end up going backwards. Imagine America going back to a time before the Progressive Movement. Minorities would be terrorized and women treated like slaves. Health care would only be available to the wealthy and people would be working for pennies. And these poor ignorant followers are cheering for their own future misery. Glenn Beck and the right wing are not patriotic Americans, they are a stain upon it.

Beck has made several other attempts to rewrite history, such as when he claimed that Civil Rights was ushered in by Republicans, which is a complete white washing of history. It was Democrats and moderate Republicans that passed Civil Rights. In reality, the radical right that Beck speaks for were totally against the Civil Rights Act and still are today. They just want to claim ownership of it so they can tear it down. Remember that racists are a large part of the Tea Party and extreme right wing movement that Beck is part of. Beck has also attempted to Christianize America. He and pal David Barton (who has been instrumental in rewriting Texas school books) partnered up to present the lie that the Founding Fathers were Christians who were against separation of church and state. Once again, Beck is lying through his teeth. The founders were mostly Freemasons and Deists that believed in a Supreme Being or Creator but not necessarily a specific God of a specific religion. And they absolutely believed in separation of church and state (see article, The Wall Between Church And State, for more on this topic). Beck has also claimed that racism had nothing to do with slavery which is also a lie. Southern whites believed African- Americans to be inferior human beings and many still do. Beck seems to have a problem with black people as well. Much of his most controversial rhetoric came about after President Obama took office. Here are just a couple quotes that Beck has made about Obama and the African-American community.

“This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture….I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” – on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009

“The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Glenn Beck has proven himself to be a racist and his followers love him for it. Beck has also proven his hatred for the families of the 9-11 victims even though he created the 9-12 Project to supposedly represent the unity between Americans the day after the tragedy. Beck claims this group isn’t political but it is. The group has been very active in conservative causes and is allied with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Beck doesn’t really care about 9-11 at all. The only thing he cares about is exploiting the tragedy for personal and political gain.
Of the victim’s families, he once said,

“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

In addition to obvious hatred of these families, Beck has also demonstrated his hatred of liberals by cheering for disasters that occur in liberal leaning states. For example, when forest fires raged in California in 2007 and destroyed many homes, Beck had the heartless audacity to claim that the people there had it coming. On his program he stated, “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” Just last year Beck opposed the Muslim community center that will be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Beck incited hatred and violence against American Muslims leading to the vandalism of mosques and attacks on Arab-Americans. But Beck has demonstrated his hatred of Muslims before. In 2006, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, and had this to say,

“I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. … And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

And if you didn’t think it could get any darker than that, it does. Glenn Beck has called for outright violence against liberals telling his followers that they should “shoot them in the forehead”. At least three would be assassins have pointed to Glenn Becks show as the inspiration for their actions.

On July 18, 2010, Byron Williams was stopped by the California Highway Patrol and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement. He later said he was on his way to murder individuals at the Tides Foundation and ACLU and that Glenn Beck inspired him to do it.

In October 2010, Charles Wilson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) with “violence” in phone calls to her office. The hate filled threats were in part inspired by Glenn Beck, according to Wilson’s cousin.

And finally, in December 2010, Gregory Lee Giusti was sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison for threatening to destroy former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home if she voted in support of the health care reform law. Giusti had watched Glenn Beck burn Pelosi in effigy and became inspired.

Beck has a history of inciting violence against Democrats. He has even fantasized about shooting Michael Moore, and be-heading President Obama. The message Beck is clearly sending to his followers is that he wants them to kill liberals, plain and simple.

The problem I have with Beck, is that sometimes I can’t tell whether he really believes what he says, or if he just does this stuff for ratings and money. He makes 32 million dollars a year. The idiots of the right wing have literally made him rich. When Beck talks about how much he loves America, he has to use Vicks under his eyes to make himself tear up. And as further evidence that his rhetoric is merely a gimmick, Beck, referring to fans, once said, “If you take what I say as the gospel, you’re an idiot.” And Beck is correct. His fans are idiots. Idiotic enough to believe any word that comes out of his mouth. But, why? Beck tells his followers exactly what they want to hear and he gives these crack pots a voice that they never had before. Their ideas and beliefs can now be spread nationally. The intellectuals of the Republican Party have lost control of their party to the ignorant who have no sense of history beyond what Glenn Beck has told them and he’s not even a college graduate. If he had not dropped out of school, perhaps Beck would be very different. Beck wouldn’t attack education as much as he does if he actually had one.

Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Cleon Skousen, and picking up the causes of the John Birch Society, Glenn Beck has proclaimed himself the voice of the right wing movement that seeks to distort history and force their beliefs on the rest of us. To them, if you don’t agree with them, you’re an enemy of the state that must be discredited and destroyed. Beck is losing his audience steadily, but it isn’t enough to stop the right wing. Even if Beck’s show is cancelled, the damage has been done, and it will reverberate across the country. If we allow the extreme right wing to brainwash people and rewrite the history books, America will end up going backwards. Imagine America going back to a time before the Progressive Movement. Minorities would be terrorized and women treated like slaves. Health care would only be available to the wealthy and people would be working for pennies. And these poor ignorant followers are cheering for their own future misery. Glenn Beck and the right wing are not patriotic Americans, they are a stain upon it.

Beck has made several attempts to rewrite history, such as when he claimed that Civil Rights was ushered in by Republicans, which is a complete white washing of history. It was Democrats and moderate Republicans that passed Civil Rights. In reality, the radical right that Beck speaks for were totally against the Civil Rights Act and still are today. They just want to claim ownership of it so they can tear it down. Remember that racists are a large part of the Tea Party and extreme right wing movement that Beck is part of. Beck has also attempted to Christianize America. He and pal David Barton (who has been instrumental in rewriting Texas school books) partnered up to present the lie that the Founding Fathers were Christians who were against separation of church and state. Once again, Beck is lying through his teeth. The founders were mostly Freemasons and Deists that believed in a Supreme Being or Creator but not necessarily a specific God of a specific religion. And they absolutely believed in separation of church and state (see article, The Wall Between Church And State, for more on this topic). Beck has also claimed that racism had nothing to do with slavery which is also a lie. Southern whites believed African- Americans to be inferior human beings and many still do. Beck seems to have a problem with black people as well. Much of his most controversial rhetoric came about after President Obama took office. Here are just a couple quotes that Beck has made about Obama and the African-American community.

“This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture….I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” – on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009

“The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Glenn Beck has proven himself to be a racist and his followers love him for it. Beck has also proven his hatred for the families of the 9-11 victims even though he created the 9-12 Project to supposedly represent the unity between Americans the day after the tragedy. Beck claims this group isn’t political but it is. The group has been very active in conservative causes and is allied with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Beck doesn’t really care about 9-11 at all. The only thing he cares about is exploiting the tragedy for personal and political gain.
Of the victim’s families, he once said,

“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

In addition to obvious hatred of these families, Beck has also demonstrated his hatred of liberals by cheering for disasters that occur in liberal leaning states. For example, when forest fires raged in California in 2007 and destroyed many homes, Beck had the heartless audacity to claim that the people there had it coming. On his program he stated, “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” Just last year Beck opposed the Muslim community center that will be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Beck incited hatred and violence against American Muslims leading to the vandalism of mosques and attacks on Arab-Americans. But Beck has demonstrated his hatred of Muslims before. In 2006, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, and had this to say,

“I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. … And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

And if you didn’t think it could get any darker than that, it does. Glenn Beck has called for outright violence against liberals telling his followers that they should “shoot them in the forehead”. At least three would be assassins have pointed to Glenn Becks show as the inspiration for their actions.

On July 18, 2010, Byron Williams was stopped by the California Highway Patrol and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement. He later said he was on his way to murder individuals at the Tides Foundation and ACLU and that Glenn Beck inspired him to do it.

In October 2010, Charles Wilson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) with “violence” in phone calls to her office. The hate filled threats were in part inspired by Glenn Beck, according to Wilson’s cousin.

And finally, in December 2010, Gregory Lee Giusti was sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison for threatening to destroy former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home if she voted in support of the health care reform law. Giusti had watched Glenn Beck burn Pelosi in effigy and became inspired.

Beck has a history of inciting violence against Democrats. He has even fantasized about shooting Michael Moore, and be-heading President Obama. The message Beck is clearly sending to his followers is that he wants them to kill liberals, plain and simple.

The problem I have with Beck, is that sometimes I can’t tell whether he really believes what he says, or if he just does this stuff for ratings and money. He makes 32 million dollars a year. The idiots of the right wing have literally made him rich. When Beck talks about how much he loves America, he has to use Vicks under his eyes to make himself tear up. And as further evidence that his rhetoric is merely a gimmick, Beck, referring to fans, once said, “If you take what I say as the gospel, you’re an idiot.” And Beck is correct. His fans are idiots. Idiotic enough to believe any word that comes out of his mouth. But, why? Beck tells his followers exactly what they want to hear and he gives these crack pots a voice that they never had before. Their ideas and beliefs can now be spread nationally. The intellectuals of the Republican Party have lost control of their party to the ignorant who have no sense of history beyond what Glenn Beck has told them and he’s not even a college graduate. If he had not dropped out of school, perhaps Beck would be very different. Beck wouldn’t attack education as much as he does if he actually had one.

Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Cleon Skousen, and picking up the causes of the John Birch Society, Glenn Beck has proclaimed himself the voice of the right wing movement that seeks to distort history and force their beliefs on the rest of us. To them, if you don’t agree with them, you’re an enemy of the state that must be discredited and destroyed. Beck is losing his audience steadily, but it isn’t enough to stop the right wing. Even if Beck’s show is cancelled, the damage has been done, and it will reverberate across the country. If we allow the extreme right wing to brainwash people and rewrite the history books, America will end up going backwards. Imagine America going back to a time before the Progressive Movement. Minorities would be terrorized and women treated like slaves. Health care would only be available to the wealthy and people would be working for pennies. And these poor ignorant followers are cheering for their own future misery. Glenn Beck and the right wing are not patriotic Americans, they are a stain upon it.

Beck has made several other attempts to rewrite history, such as when he claimed that Civil Rights was ushered in by Republicans, which is a complete white washing of history. It was Democrats and moderate Republicans that passed Civil Rights. In reality, the radical right that Beck speaks for were totally against the Civil Rights Act and still are today. They just want to claim ownership of it so they can tear it down. Remember that racists are a large part of the Tea Party and extreme right wing movement that Beck is part of. Beck has also attempted to Christianize America. He and pal David Barton (who has been instrumental in rewriting Texas school books) partnered up to present the lie that the Founding Fathers were Christians who were against separation of church and state. Once again, Beck is lying through his teeth. The founders were mostly Freemasons and Deists that believed in a Supreme Being or Creator but not necessarily a specific God of a specific religion. And they absolutely believed in separation of church and state (see article, The Wall Between Church And State, for more on this topic). Beck has also claimed that racism had nothing to do with slavery which is also a lie. Southern whites believed African- Americans to be inferior human beings and many still do. Beck seems to have a problem with black people as well. Much of his most controversial rhetoric came about after President Obama took office. Here are just a couple quotes that Beck has made about Obama and the African-American community.

“This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture….I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” – on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show, July 28, 2009

“The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

Glenn Beck has proven himself to be a racist and his followers love him for it. Beck has also proven his hatred for the families of the 9-11 victims even though he created the 9-12 Project to supposedly represent the unity between Americans the day after the tragedy. Beck claims this group isn’t political but it is. The group has been very active in conservative causes and is allied with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Beck doesn’t really care about 9-11 at all. The only thing he cares about is exploiting the tragedy for personal and political gain.
Of the victim’s families, he once said,

“When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.” – “The Glenn Beck Program,” Sept. 9, 2005

In addition to obvious hatred of these families, Beck has also demonstrated his hatred of liberals by cheering for disasters that occur in liberal leaning states. For example, when forest fires raged in California in 2007 and destroyed many homes, Beck had the heartless audacity to claim that the people there had it coming. On his program he stated, “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” Just last year Beck opposed the Muslim community center that will be built 2 blocks away from Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Beck incited hatred and violence against American Muslims leading to the vandalism of mosques and attacks on Arab-Americans. But Beck has demonstrated his hatred of Muslims before. In 2006, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, and had this to say,

“I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. … And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.”

And if you didn’t think it could get any darker than that, it does. Glenn Beck has called for outright violence against liberals telling his followers that they should “shoot them in the forehead”. At least three would be assassins have pointed to Glenn Becks show as the inspiration for their actions.

On July 18, 2010, Byron Williams was stopped by the California Highway Patrol and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement. He later said he was on his way to murder individuals at the Tides Foundation and ACLU and that Glenn Beck inspired him to do it.

In October 2010, Charles Wilson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) with “violence” in phone calls to her office. The hate filled threats were in part inspired by Glenn Beck, according to Wilson’s cousin.

And finally, in December 2010, Gregory Lee Giusti was sentenced to a year and nine months in federal prison for threatening to destroy former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home if she voted in support of the health care reform law. Giusti had watched Glenn Beck burn Pelosi in effigy and became inspired.

Beck has a history of inciting violence against Democrats. He has even fantasized about shooting Michael Moore, and be-heading President Obama. The message Beck is clearly sending to his followers is that he wants them to kill liberals, plain and simple.

The problem I have with Beck, is that sometimes I can’t tell whether he really believes what he says, or if he just does this stuff for ratings and money. He makes 32 million dollars a year. The idiots of the right wing have literally made him rich. When Beck talks about how much he loves America, he has to use Vicks under his eyes to make himself tear up. And as further evidence that his rhetoric is merely a gimmick, Beck, referring to fans, once said, “If you take what I say as the gospel, you’re an idiot.” And Beck is correct. His fans are idiots. Idiotic enough to believe any word that comes out of his mouth. But, why? Beck tells his followers exactly what they want to hear and he gives these crack pots a voice that they never had before. Their ideas and beliefs can now be spread nationally. The intellectuals of the Republican Party have lost control of their party to the ignorant who have no sense of history beyond what Glenn Beck has told them and he’s not even a college graduate. If he had not dropped out of school, perhaps Beck would be very different. Beck wouldn’t attack education as much as he does if he actually had one.

Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Cleon Skousen, and picking up the causes of the John Birch Society, Glenn Beck has proclaimed himself the voice of the right wing movement that seeks to distort history and force their beliefs on the rest of us. To them, if you don’t agree with them, you’re an enemy of the state that must be discredited and destroyed. Beck is losing his audience steadily, but it isn’t enough to stop the right wing. Even if Beck’s show is cancelled, the damage has been done, and it will reverberate across the country. If we allow the extreme right wing to brainwash people and rewrite the history books, America will end up going backwards. Imagine America going back to a time before the Progressive Movement. Minorities would be terrorized and women treated like slaves. Health care would only be available to the wealthy and people would be working for pennies. And these poor ignorant followers are cheering for their own future misery. Glenn Beck and the right wing are not patriotic Americans, they are a stain upon it.

Enough if the Republicans would only work with the President instead of always trying to screw him the country would stand a chance of recovery . If not everyone should realize that your life style is OVER China will soon rule what is left of the USA. If you think I am kidding just keep watching as the USA slips further down the scale. Put politics aside for awhile get the smartest economists and sort out the mess that you are in, if not enjoy the down fall to poverty. No more smart ass remarks about who is too fault. The wealthy could care less about the working class, VOTE VOTE VOTE in 2012

Bill M

FU-RTG

Good heavens could you write a bit more Blah, Blah...............

Glenn Beck has/had the highest rated cable show on TV and you hate that - what the fact that he draws in 5 times the rates of the ED show bothers you?

Everyone who is a Republican or NOT a DEM is suddenly and forever stamped a racist...how boring, can you or anyone on the Left come with another tag you would like to place on the right? 

YOU ARE FULL OF LIES AND THE ONLY WORLD YOU SEE IS:

Tea Party - racist

Republicans - racist

conservatives - racist

Glen Beck - racist

anyone on FOX news - racist

anyone against gay marriage - racist

gun owners - racist

cut the national debt - racist

The Republican Party is the party of "NO!" No government, because you see in this country the definition for government is "The People" - government of, by, and for the people. Not government of, by, and for the corporations. The Republicans and their masters (mega corporations) don't like - have never liked - that defintion of the government and have been at war for a very long time to defeat "the people" and redefine government as rule by the most powerful corporations with the goal of privatizing everything, where profit over people will be even more blatant and sadistic than it is now. If they can crush the voice of the people, they will have all the power - in their minds anyway.

Ah, but here is the thing, one can never really crush the voice of the people. It always has a way of surviving. So speak up all Americans who still believe in an American Dream for all - not just the wealthy!! Speak up and most importantly vote - not for those who proclaim the agenda of their greedy corporate masters, but rather vote for those who have a history of truly working for the people.

Quote from "save the republic"

If only Obama would reach across the aisle with the Republicans we could get something done,

Headline from the real world:

Budget Talks Near Collapse as G.O.P. Leader Quits

Question: How do you negotiate with people that act like little children, and walk out of meetings when they don't get their way, and then leave for vacations?

MAN UP CANTOR, DO YOUR DAMN JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Showdown over the debt ceiling not about economics or jobs
John S. Irons
June 24, 2011

It has been widely reported that House Republican leader Eric Cantor and Republican Senator Jon Kyl have walked out of the budget negotiations led by Vice President Biden. In public statements, they object to putting revenue on the table and to additional economic stimulus. House Speaker John Boehner has publically supported the departure—citing a list of demands that includes immediate drastic spending cuts, strict budget caps, and no additional revenue.

By now, it is more than obvious that the showdown over the debt ceiling has nothing to do with economics or jobs. As Matt Miller has repeatedly pointed out, the Republican Budget plan, as initially proposed by Paul Ryan, would add $5.4 trillion to the debt over the next decade—why not boost the debt ceiling by that amount as a common-ground approach? To be clear, all but five Republican Senators, and all but four House Republicans (97% of the Republican Congressional delegation) voted for this budget, which would necessitate a multi-trillion increase in the debt ceiling.

It is also clear what is driving the near-term deficit outlook. The Congressional Budget Office recently released their long-term budget outlook, which examines the deficit over the next 25 years. In short, the CBO report shows that if Congress simply did nothing new on revenue—in particular, if they did not extend the Bush-era tax changes nor other temporary tax reductions—then the deficit would be on a sustainable path over the 25-year horizon (with debt at a reasonable 84% of GDP in 2035). On the other hand, if we were to continue with current tax policy for the next 25 years, debt would spiral up to nearly 200% of GDP. (Over the long-term, rapidly rising health care costs are another prime driver of deficits, in addition to inadequate revenue.) The contention that revenue should not even be under discussion is at odds with economic reality.

As the economy continues to climb out of a severe recession, what is needed now is additional job creation, not premature austerity. With interest rates at historic lows, there is no indication that deficits are a drag on the current economy. Over the long-term, we need a balanced approach to realign revenues with spending in a way that preserves public investments.

Please join 3 Chics Politico in calling John Boehner’s office to ask where the jobs are: (513) 779-5400 (202) 225-6205 (937) 339-1524 (202) 225-4000

1. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending
2. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices
3. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for women
4. Beginning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
5. Families of fallen soldiers have expenses covered to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
6 Ended media blackout on war casualties; reporting full information
7. Ended media blackout on covering the return of fallen soldiers to Dover AFB; the media is now permitted to do so pending adherence to respectful rules and approval of fallen soldier’s family
8. The White House and federal government are respecting the Freedom of Information Act
9. Instructed all federal agencies to promote openness and transparency as much as possible
10. Limits on lobbyist’s access to the White House
11. Limits on White House aides working for lobbyists after their tenure in the administration
12. Ended the previous stop-loss policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date
13. Phasing out the expensive F-22 war plane and other outdated weapons systems, which weren’t even used or needed in Iraq/Afghanistan
14. Removed restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research
15. Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research
16. New federal funding for science and research labs
17. States are permitted to enact federal fuel efficiency standards above federal standards
18. Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants) after years of neglect
19. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 schools
20. New funds for school construction

Contact Eric Cantor:

Tell him to Man Up and Do His Damn Job:

Richmond Office | 4201 Dominion Blvd. Suite 110 | Glen Allen, VA 23060
p: (804) 747-4073 | Toll Free: (800) 438-3793 | f: (804) 747-5308

Culpeper Office | 763 Madison Road #207 | Culpeper, VA 22701
p: (540) 825-8960 | f: (540) 825-8964

DC Office | 303 Cannon House Office Building | Washington, D.C. 20515
p: 202-225-2815 | f: 202-225-0011

21 The prison at Guantanamo Bay is being phased out
22. US Auto industry rescue plan
23. Housing rescue plan
24. $789 billion economic stimulus plan
25. The public can meet with federal housing insurers to refinance (the new plan can be completed in one day) a mortgage if they are having trouble paying
26. US financial and banking rescue plan
27. The secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and elsewhere are being closed
28. Ended the previous policy; the US now has a no torture policy and is in compliance with theGeneva Convention standards
29. Better body armor is now being provided to our troops
30. The missile defense program is being cut by $1.4 billion in 2010
31. Restarted the nuclear nonproliferation talks and building back up the nuclear inspection infrastructure/protocols
32. Reengaged in the treaties/agreements to protect the Antarctic
33. Reengaged in the agreements/talks on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions
34. Visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office
35. Successful release of US captain held bySomali pirates; authorized the SEALS to do their job
36. US Navy increasing patrols off Somali coast
37. Attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles
38. Cash for clunkers program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars; stimulated auto sales
39. Announced plans to purchase fuel efficient American-made fleet for the federal government
40. Expanded the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children

President Obama Accomplishments 41-60:

41. Signed national service legislation; expandednational youth service program
42. Instituted a new policy on Cuba, allowing Cuban families to return home to visit loved ones
43. Ended the previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions
44. Expanding vaccination programs
45. Immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters
46. Closed offshore tax safe havens
47. Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals
48. Ended the previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs; the new policy is to promote in-sourcing to bring jobs back
49.. Ended the previous practice of protecting credit card companies; in place of it are new consumer protections from credit card industry’s predatory practices
50. Energy producing plants must begin preparing to produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources
51. Lower drug costs for seniors
52. Ended the previous practice of forbidding Medicare from negotiating with drug manufacturers for cheaper drugs; the federal government is now realizing hundreds of millions in savings
53. Increasing pay and benefits for military personnel
54. Improved housing for military personnel
55. Initiating a new policy to promote federal hiring of military spouses
56. Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military hospitals
57 Increasing student loans
58. Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program
59. Sent envoys to Middle East and other parts of the world that had been neglected for years; reengaging in multilateral and bilateral talks and diplomacy
60. Established a new cyber security office

More boring right wing spin

Bush "Accomplishments" Continued:

Sounds to me like blowing hot air.(post 279-1)

While it has been fun crapping in ilp's oatmeal, it is time to retire for the day. Good bye for now my right wing friend.

By we , you mean you and that turd in your pocket?

Ed can't take any more truthers. He is eliminating the blog feed. I can't say as I blame him it is getting hot in here. Maybe if he limits what people see they won't know what a arrogant tool he is. Flying around in his pvt Jet. Well, now maybe, but not for long it is going to be too expensive.

 The Republicans invented the Twist, not the dance named Twist, but a way they have of twisting things and telling lies to the public.

To the fellow who said Democrats were responsible for Viet Nam. Eisenhower sent 900 advisers in 1956 to assist the South Vietnamese government after the French were defeated at Bien Dien Phu. The French left and Eisenhower moved in.