Ok, who took Beck's meds this time?.

This is the 2nd LGF post in as many days that I wholeheartedly agree with...WTF is happening?

Wow. The devil, huh? He really does hate the troops.

Lionel Mandrake: This is the 2nd LGF post in as many days that I wholeheartedly agree with...WTF is happening?

LGF has become the sane, or at least the least crazy, of the right wing sites. They disagreed with the crazy of the Teabaggers too, claiming that extremists hijacked it.

When you're a right wing lunatic and even Little Green Footballs is calling you crazy, you should probably just eat a shotgun barrel.

The Bilderbergers run the planet.

GAT_00: Lionel Mandrake: This is the 2nd LGF post in as many days that I wholeheartedly agree with...WTF is happening?

LGF has become the sane, or at least the least crazy, of the right wing sites. They disagreed with the crazy of the Teabaggers too, claiming that extremists hijacked it.

well, if someone that insane can come back to something almost resembling sanity, maybe there's hope for the rest of the GOP.

My mother...an RN and a formerly even-keeled woman, is stocking canned goods based almost entirely on what Glen Beck has intimated or straight-up told her.

I tolerate idiot pundits on either side, but this guy is really beginning to piss me off.

The Right media just doesn't create listeners or ad dollars, folks. They create followers. It's their right to do so, but it still chaps my ass. It's farking irresponsible.

/dnrtfa
//no stomach for it, this afternoon

In the good old days, Glenn Beck would have been institutionalized, or perhaps sleeping in a puddle of his own pee in a sewer.

GAT_00: Lionel Mandrake: This is the 2nd LGF post in as many days that I wholeheartedly agree with...WTF is happening?

LGF has become the sane, or at least the least crazy, of the right wing sites. They disagreed with the crazy of the Teabaggers too, claiming that extremists hijacked it.

My personal theory is that LGF is primarily concerned with making sure brown people are being bombed somewhere, but can take or leave other conservative hot-button issues. Unlike the rest of the wingnutosphere, which buys the money-saving crazy bundle, they select their crazy a la carte.

/unamused.
//get off his lawn.

Weaver95: //get off his lawn.

he has a lawn?

SilentStrider: GAT_00: Lionel Mandrake: This is the 2nd LGF post in as many days that I wholeheartedly agree with...WTF is happening?

LGF has become the sane, or at least the least crazy, of the right wing sites. They disagreed with the crazy of the Teabaggers too, claiming that extremists hijacked it.

well, if someone that insane can come back to something almost resembling sanity, maybe there's hope for the rest of the GOP.

No, LGF is too far to the left for the liking of (what's left of) the GOP. Maybe they - along with everyone else who used to be in the GOP but was/is in favor of the stimulus bill, does not support waterboarding, thought the teabagging was stupid or does not have a problem with Obama's choice of burger toppings - can join the Libertarians or Modern Whigs, or perhaps start their own third party.

What ya'll don't realize is just *wipes tear from eye* how much Glenn Beck loves his country.

SilentStrider: Weaver95: //get off his lawn.

he has a lawn?

well he closed the piano bar.

Glenn Beck detests this country and most of its people. He always has.

He just wants to exorcise his right to free speech.

Every time one of these douchebags pushes the crazy bar like this I think it couldn't possibly get crazier. Seems I'm always wrong. I KNOW there are raving loons on the fringe but this is prime time major network mainstream USA crap.

chemical_angel: Every time one of these douchebags pushes the crazy bar like this I think it couldn't possibly get crazier. Seems I'm always wrong. I KNOW there are raving loons on the fringe but this is prime time major network mainstream USA crap.

I've been watching the Republican party go slowly insane for the past 3 years. When Obama took the white house, it only accelerated the process a bit. And I strongly suspect that the Republicans will lose still more influence once the mid-term Congressional elections are done. All of which will only make them MORE desperate and MORE insane.

I just don't see the Republicans taking the steps necessary to salvage their reputations.

I'm close to thinking that these idiot windbags like Beck and Rush guys don't really believe all this stuff, but that they have another endgame in mind. It almost seems like they're trying to push all the right buttons in the hopes that someone off their meds decides to load a sniper rifle and go "do something about it," to save the the good ol' U.S.A. from the wrath of the next Hitler or the Anti-Christ, or both.

But that would just be crazy talk.

eqtworld: Obama is a fascist (new window)

fascism...with a happy face?


wtf. seriously. wtf.

It'd be entertaining satire if people weren't taking him so farking seriously.

thejoyofpi: In the good old days, Glenn Beck would have been institutionalized, or perhaps sleeping in a puddle of his own pee in a sewer.

In the good old days, they would have done the same, to us.

i find it laughable that ANYONE gives this mouse turd the time of day.

he's my age and clueless.

-for gods sake...he's my age and he's farking totally clueless!

only in america...

eqtworld: Obama is a fascist (new window)

I watched about 2/3 of that, then closed it in disgust. I'm getting more and more convinced that he's just an extremely competent troll.

You know, I seem to remember him defending the government late last year.

I wonder what has happened over the course of the past several years that would make him change his mind so abruptly.

bulldg4life: You know, I seem to remember him defending the government late last year.

I wonder what has happened over the course of the past several years that would make him change his mind so abruptly.

Obviously, the fact that he belongs to a party run by a Negro has warped his mind

bulldg4life: You know, I seem to remember him defending the government late last year.

I wonder what has happened over the course of the past several years that would make him change his mind so abruptly.

Snark aside, you touch on an interesting/disturbing point. A lot of the more vocal wackos were very much in lockstep with the Bush regime. Anything you might have said or done that put Bush's actions in a negative light earned you a 'traitor to the country' label from these self appointed super patriot guardians of the Constitution.

Fast forward to today.

Now these very same super patriots have completely dropped their stance of unquestioning obedience to the President, and imply that this government is not THEIR government. And they hint that disobedience to authority might not be such a bad idea after all.

Granted, a lot of the blather is from asinine bloggers blowing hot air....but it's indictative of a dangerous mindset, or at least a potential cultural shift. If the relgious right starts to feel that their religion is in conflict with the demands of a democratically elected government...well, we've seen what happens to societies who go down that road and it never ends well.

If you don't like it you can get out!

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. I don't want ass prints on my new door.

Weaver95: Snark aside, you touch on an interesting/disturbing point. A lot of the more vocal wackos were very much in lockstep with the Bush regime. Anything you might have said or done that put Bush's actions in a negative light earned you a 'traitor to the country' label from these self appointed super patriot guardians of the Constitution.

I know, the Conservatives on this board couldn't stop lauding Bush's position on Amnesty for Illegals, and the expansion of government spending like with Prescription Medicine. Bush and the Republican Congress could do no wrong that whole eight years but now....

As for TFA - Holy Crap, Glenn Beck used a Metaphor! What a NuttBag!

met⋅a⋅phor
/ˈmɛtəˌfɔr, -fər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [met-uh-fawr, -fer] Show IPA
-noun
1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our God." Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def. 1).
2. something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.

When LGF calls you a nutbag, you know that you've rode entirely off the rails...

Then again, LGF has been really pulling away from the religious aspects of the GOP, which is really where we need to be heading as a party. Isolate the crazy, and if Beck can help concentrate them on a single branch to get sliced off, I'm all for it.

hubiestubert: Then again, LGF has been really pulling away from the religious aspects of the GOP, which is really where we need to be heading as a party. Isolate the crazy, and if Beck can help concentrate them on a single branch to get sliced off, I'm all for it.

I think the crazy people are going to win the fight for control of the Republican party. they're too well entrenched and have control of all the key positions. In fact, the nutball dittohead Limbaugh drones actually define 'RINO' as anyone who votes for small government and/or spending cuts. Can you imagine that? Being kicked out of the Republican party because you vote for smaller government and told you aren't a conservative anymore.

CygnusDarius: Ok, who took Beck's meds this time?.

Rush Lamebrain?
Keep it up, righties, WE LOVE IT!

He has surpassed Coulter for pure, schmaltzig hysteria.

I can. not. WAIT to see what the Liberal Bashing Industry has for us next!

.

sens: I'm close to thinking that these idiot windbags like Beck and Rush guys don't really believe all this stuff, but that they have another endgame in mind. It almost seems like they're trying to push all the right buttons in the hopes that someone off their meds decides to load a sniper rifle and go "do something about it," to save the the good ol' U.S.A. from the wrath of the next Hitler or the Anti-Christ, or both.

But that would just be crazy talk.

Well, if you look at what Karazic and Milosevic did...they didn't exactly order genocide against Muslims, all they did was mount a propaganda campaign. The army "got out of control" and were abetted by those in the populace who were susceptible to this type rhetoric. Thus, all Milosevic had to do was say he never instructed anyone to commit any acts--they did that stuff on their own.

So, for the guys who have already gone off the deep end and shot up a Unitarian church in Tennessee, with the officials finding the standard Liberal Bashing books and materials in his house afterward, all folks like Beck and Limbaugh have to do is say "we never expressly told anyone to go shooting things up."

.

veale728: I'm getting more and more convinced that he's just an extremely competent troll.

meh. Call me cynical, but i have no problem believing people can really be this stupid.

Stay Cool Babylon: My mother...an RN and a formerly even-keeled woman, is stocking canned goods based almost entirely on what Glen Beck has intimated or straight-up told her.

I tolerate idiot pundits on either side, but this guy is really beginning to piss me off.

The Right media just doesn't create listeners or ad dollars, folks. They create followers. It's their right to do so, but it still chaps my ass. It's farking irresponsible.

/dnrtfa
//no stomach for it, this afternoon

I hear ya.

I've got some family in town, went to breakfast with all of them, and among other things, the following findings were presented, according to my mom, dad, aunt and uncle...

* Obama is indeed a muslim and he always was.

* Obama is more interested in looking good to foreign people than to his own countrymen

* Joke: "Americans will never elect a black man until pigs fly. Well, swine flu!" (ok, I chuckled a little)

* Nancy Pelosi is evil and a lying tramp (well, okay I'll agree with part of that)

* Obama is gonna take away all of our guns and Montana, Idaho and Texas are the only states in the country left that are fit to live in (it must be true, the NRA says so!)

* The presidency is run by a bunch of spoiled children (who should get off our lawn)

* The breadbasket of California is being allowed to run dry because of an endangered fish (I looked that one up, appears to be the case)

* Michael Savage is a true patriot, if there ever was one in this day and age

* Obama may not be the Antichrist, but he's paving the way for the next guy, who certainly will be the Antichrist (sadly, this is actually an improvement over what I've heard from them in the past)

* The Teleprompter of the United States of America is teleprompter

...among others.

Yesterday when I went to see Star Trek on IMAX, the previews included an ad for Glen Beck's upcoming comedy show. It was odd.

make me some tea: ...among others.

And a couple years ago my Sister was convinced Bush was going to invade Iran so he could maintain his presidency beyond the normal term limits.

Stupid crosses party lines and exists in all families, what's your point?

DamnYankees: Yesterday when I went to see Star Trek on IMAX, the previews included an ad for Glen Beck's upcoming comedy show. It was odd.

Was it hilarious and enlightening?

Lionel Mandrake: DamnYankees: Yesterday when I went to see Star Trek on IMAX, the previews included an ad for Glen Beck's upcoming comedy show. It was odd.

Was it hilarious and enlightening?

The movie was. The ad? Not so much.

CanisNoir: make me some tea: ...among others.

And a couple years ago my Sister was convinced Bush was going to invade Iran so he could maintain his presidency beyond the normal term limits.

Stupid crosses party lines and exists in all families, what's your point?

Yup, I remember that stuff too. I think I believed it for a little while, but then I realized rather quickly that it was preposterous.

Point? I have no point. My family is brainwashed, yay.

DamnYankees: The ad? Not so much.

I have to admit, the idea of Beck doing stand up comedy just strikes me as "not a good idea". I'm really curious to see some though!

Lionel Mandrake: DamnYankees: Yesterday when I went to see Star Trek on IMAX, the previews included an ad for Glen Beck's upcoming comedy show. It was odd.

Was it hilarious and enlightening?

Not in the least. Showed stills of Beck crying, because he fears for his country so much!!! I saw it when I went to see Wolverine last night (seeing ST on the Imax tonight).

jimmyhaha: Wow. The devil, huh? He really does hate the troops.

Almost as much as the left who compared Bush to Hitler, called our soldiers baby killers and dubbed a respected general, General Betrayus. Almost.

I think he is unwell.

Obama is a Manchurian candidate.

Apparently Beck hasn't taken the advice...

VictoryCabal: My personal theory is that LGF is primarily concerned with making sure brown people are being bombed somewhere, but can take or leave other conservative hot-button issues.

My personal theory is that anyone who uses the term "brown people" is a self-important douche.

CanisNoir: DamnYankees: The ad? Not so much.

I have to admit, the idea of Beck doing stand up comedy just strikes me as "not a good idea". I'm really curious to see some though!

His show is an entertainment show, not a news show. It makes perfect sense that he would do stand up as well. He wants to be a Colbert but he tries too hard.

DNRTFA, but I'll assume that Beck is focusing on the scary _Satan_, rather than his traditional role (Satan's role, not Glen's).

If you consider Satan as the argumentative half to God, then this would actually make sense. Think back, if you will, to Job. In a perfect world, Satan (or the Gov't) would provide that sort of accusative position. Government would be the part of society that would say "So, down on your luck? Here's a stimulus check (or series of checks) to hold you over". Alternatively, it would say "Hmmmm. You seem to be selling poison as medicine. We should stop that".

You know, balance and check.

That said, I think he was going for more of the cloven-hoof, oooga booga Satan we're all familiar with.

/ooga booga!