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(Gawker)   Glenn Beck convinces his sheep to get a book of "coming-out" stories (meant to inspire courage for those who haven't done so yet) banned, citing "child pornography"   (gawker.com) divider line 276
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2010-08-04 04:27:25 PM
In an email to the library's circulation coordinator, Sweet asked: "How can we grab the books so that they never, ever get back into ccirculation [sic]. Copies need to totally disappear (as in not a good idea to send copies to the book sale)."

This says everything you need to know about these people. It's not "I will not allow my child to read this book." It's "I will not allow your child to read this book."
 
2010-08-04 04:38:06 PM
According to some, child pornography is a subject Glenn Beck has personal experience with, so he knows it when he sees it.
 
2010-08-04 04:48:57 PM
Hmm. that does seem awfully close to book burning and "now let us never speak of this again"..

Only the meager try to win arguments by hiding opposing evidence..
 
2010-08-04 04:53:28 PM
i236.photobucket.com
 
2010-08-04 04:54:56 PM
This is why I no longer teach. All it takes is one phone call from one ignorant, misguided parent (and every time I see it, it's ALWAYS some stupid Christian Fundie) to get a book banned. School systems & public libraries just don't want the hassle.

/Last book that I was asked not to teach was Macbeth because it had ghosts & witches in it.
//A friend works in a public library and she says they get requests like this once in a while. And every time, they heed the request for fear of losing funding or donations.
 
2010-08-04 04:57:34 PM
Not only "I disagree with this book", but this book is now unspoken.

But liberals are somehow the real fascists because they own bicycles.
 
2010-08-04 05:16:20 PM
Aren't these the same people crying about oppressive government intervention in every facet of their lives? My head hurts.
 
2010-08-04 05:18:33 PM
lajimi: i236.photobucket.com

Dude, NSFEyes!
 
2010-08-04 05:27:25 PM
DaWormyPimpsta: Aren't these the same people crying about oppressive government intervention in every facet of their lives?

Yes. But this is good Christian oppression, which is totally OK.
 
2010-08-04 05:35:00 PM
DaWormyPimpsta: Aren't these the same people crying about oppressive government intervention in every facet of their lives? My head hurts.

government is only oppressive if it's trying to help the less fortunate. it's cool when it's oppressing gays or anyone you don't agree with. duh.
 
2010-08-04 05:41:12 PM
GAT_00: Yes. But this is good Christian oppression, which is totally OK.

I'm I not my brother's keeper?
 
2010-08-04 06:04:38 PM
I live in this county, it makes us look like a bunch of rednecks.
 
2010-08-04 06:35:01 PM
phiwings: I live in this county, it makes us look like a bunch of rednecks.

Sounds like it. But then rednecks are everywhere.
 
2010-08-04 08:00:54 PM
Well, you know what they say about the ones who protest the loudest.
 
2010-08-04 08:09:00 PM
Lemme guess...

He's in it?
 
2010-08-04 08:09:04 PM
The Stealth Hippopotamus: I'm I not my brother's keeper?

I lol'd
 
2010-08-04 08:10:36 PM
Congratulations, Glenn Beck. Only a person like you could make Bill O'Reilly look like a Moderate in comparison. Unless you have killed O'Reilly and ate his still-beating heart in one gulp.
 
2010-08-04 08:11:21 PM
timujin: lajimi: i236.photobucket.com

Dude, NSFEyes!


img.youtube.com

/cant find the good one but you get the jist
 
2010-08-04 08:11:24 PM
Confabulat: phiwings: I live in this county, it makes us look like a bunch of rednecks.

Sounds like it. But then rednecks are everywhere.


"Would the person who lost a hearing aid please stop by lost and found in the north terminal..."
 
2010-08-04 08:13:00 PM
God Bless Glenn Beck. He is a true disciple of the Lord, and is a great example for the youth in today's crazy, secular, sin-filled world. Don't you people realize that if the gays are able to convert everybody, it means the end of our civilization? Wake up, sheeple!
 
2010-08-04 08:15:56 PM
Well, that book's going to be a lot more popular now. Was that the point?
 
2010-08-04 08:17:05 PM
The troll is strong in this thread... or trying to be.
 
2010-08-04 08:17:11 PM
Why isn't Glenn Beck responding to the allegations that he just wants all the copies of the book for himself, so once he gets the pages of one copy stuck together he can open a new one and start pleasuring himself again?

I'm just asking questions here.
 
2010-08-04 08:18:04 PM
NP-Complete: Well, that book's going to be a lot more popular now. Was that the point?

3.bp.blogspot.com
 
2010-08-04 08:19:32 PM
Let me chime in on something as a Christian...

1> There are some books that need to be prevented viewing by children. When I saw children I mean younger than puberty. After all, would anyone show the Heavy Metal movie to their 5 year old?

2> I know a few Christian fundies that I always find amusing. They refuse to watch Harry Potter because it's got the devil's magic all over... Now while I think the movies are ok, it is a work of fiction. Anyone that can shoot lightning bolts out of his arse would have to show me (and I'll pay!), otherwise a wave of a wand and shout "Expeliamous!" will not cause a plasma-like bolt to shoot.

3> Maybe we ought to put out a new ratings system for books?
 
2010-08-04 08:19:54 PM
Sad. Librarians are usually rather heroic in telling ignorant people to fark off.
 
2010-08-04 08:21:51 PM
Kids still read books?
 
2010-08-04 08:22:32 PM
Seriously, you people have to stop giving this asshole attention.

Yes, even for "teh lulz."

Beck needs to fall. Hard. Tuning into his show isn't going to cause that.
 
2010-08-04 08:22:53 PM
According to Beverly Marinelli, a member of the 9/12 Project in Burlington County, the content is much more sinister than that. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Marinelli called it "pervasively vulgar, obscene, and inappropriate." Marinelli maintained she's "not a homophobe," but called a drawing of Boy Scouts watching two men have sex, "the worst."

media.comicvine.com
 
2010-08-04 08:25:54 PM
Small government for some, the heavy fist of repression for the rest
 
2010-08-04 08:26:52 PM
anything that pisses off liberals is good for society.
 
2010-08-04 08:28:02 PM
bodyshots: anything that pisses off liberals is good for society.

Wow, derp much?

And to think you had the chance to be the real opposition here, and you blew it. Big.

Nice waste of a post, bodyshots.
 
2010-08-04 08:28:21 PM
Glenn Beck does whip people up, and he's obviously a homo . . .

. . . phobe. But TFA doesn't say anything about Beck being involved with this. She was just a Beck follower and "9/12 patriot" or something. Just because she is an idiot that has latched onto Beck as a patriotic savior doesn't really mean he had anything to do with this.
 
2010-08-04 08:28:25 PM
where ,in the article,did it say that Glenn Beck was behind this. Isn't this type of journalism the same kind that said that Obama had Acorn go door to door and register people for him. I mean, where is the actual connection to GB other than that this person claims to be a ( what ever the current group is)? Coulditnot be argued that "a member of a heterosexual union" got this book banned? Of course I am heavily (and heavenly) on drugs and can only vote on American Idol,read third grade and understand only sentences spoken in small bursts of short words. SO HELP ME OUT PLEASE and show me where GB is behind this?? Directly I mean...
 
2010-08-04 08:28:37 PM
ra-ra-raw: According to some, child pornography is a subject Glenn Beck has personal experience with, so he knows it when he sees it.

Didn't he force that little girl to pose for pornographic pictures before he raped and murdered her in 1990? That's what I heard at least.
 
2010-08-04 08:29:33 PM
Fallout Boy: Kids still read books?

What is this "reading" of which you write?

/ Here for the pics,
// Fundie approved pics to be sure
 
2010-08-04 08:31:20 PM
bodyshots: anything that pisses off liberals is good for society.

Conservative motivation distilled.
 
2010-08-04 08:33:38 PM
swangoatman: where ,in the article,did it say that Glenn Beck was behind this. Isn't this type of journalism the same kind that said that Obama had Acorn go door to door and register people for him. I mean, where is the actual connection to GB other than that this person claims to be a ( what ever the current group is)? Coulditnot be argued that "a member of a heterosexual union" got this book banned? Of course I am heavily (and heavenly) on drugs and can only vote on American Idol,read third grade and understand only sentences spoken in small bursts of short words. SO HELP ME OUT PLEASE and show me where GB is behind this?? Directly I mean...

The fark headline was misleading, for sure.

However, the actual article does not say Glenn was directly involved. All the author asserts is that the woman making the stink was a 9/12 chapter member (9/12 movement being founded by Glenn Beck)
 
2010-08-04 08:34:20 PM
I'm not much for Glenn Beck or book burning but I probably wouldn't want my kid checking out a book from the library that included a picture of Boy Scouts watching two men have sex.

A little sticker could probably prevent that though.

Problem solved? Everybody happy? No?

Well, go fark yourselves.
 
2010-08-04 08:34:24 PM
Ok... where are the parents when these kids are picking these books out at the library? If you're going to police the ideas your child can be introduced to, either move to a deserted island or take responsibility yourself and watch out for what they're introduced to on your own.

I can't believe how I can still be surprised at the idiocy of people. You'd think after this many years on Earth I'd be used to it by now.
 
2010-08-04 08:34:26 PM
Farkers...HA HA ..so easily fooled by idiots like OBAMA and the SUBBY of this article and the writer of this garbage. HA HA
The Writer of this article is clearly the socialist that loves to keep the local population from determining LOCAL standards. SO it is okay for local standards to put shiat in a PUBLIC PAID Library in one place and not another but not okay to remove shiat from the same PUBLIC paid Library ?
yea..back to the Lithium and my small small mind and prick.
 
2010-08-04 08:35:03 PM
Ultra-Christians run their lives according to a book full of sex, murder and violence, but they only raise a stink about it when it's in OTHER books. That's some good logic there, Lou!
 
2010-08-04 08:35:09 PM
swangoatman: where ,in the article,did it say that Glenn Beck was behind this. Isn't this type of journalism the same kind that said that Obama had Acorn go door to door and register people for him. I mean, where is the actual connection to GB other than that this person claims to be a ( what ever the current group is)? Coulditnot be argued that "a member of a heterosexual union" got this book banned? Of course I am heavily (and heavenly) on drugs and can only vote on American Idol,read third grade and understand only sentences spoken in small bursts of short words. SO HELP ME OUT PLEASE and show me where GB is behind this?? Directly I mean...

Put the bong down kid.
 
2010-08-04 08:35:53 PM
whidbey 2010-08-04 08:28:02 PM
bodyshots: anything that pisses off liberals is good for society.

Wow, derp much?

And to think you had the chance to be the real opposition here, and you blew it. Big.

Nice waste of a post, bodyshots.


so, i guess that other thread over there, where a liberal said 'anything that pisses off the religious is good for society" is derping also?

you cant have your cake and eat it too :)

ps - let me know how pissing off islam works out for you, ok?
 
2010-08-04 08:38:42 PM
Glen Beck's upcoming Book of Moron, a Tribute to my Listeners has plagiarized the child pr0n scenes and he doesn't want anyone to catch him.
 
2010-08-04 08:39:25 PM
People_are_Idiots: 1> There are some books that need to be prevented viewing by children. When I saw children I mean younger than puberty. After all, would anyone show the Heavy Metal movie to their 5 year old?

So is it the sex or obscene violence? I've met fundies who are fine with the latter, but not the former in any way, shape or form. They actually cut up all the bra ads in their mail and magazines, in the event that their son going through puberty actually begins understanding it.

2> I know a few Christian fundies that I always find amusing. They refuse to watch Harry Potter because it's got the devil's magic all over...

Same story with the same people. 18 year old daughter got scolded for watching Harry Potter. She could suck the magic out of someone, though.

3> Maybe we ought to put out a new ratings system for books?

We definitely should:
Z - Ziggy. So utterly devoid of humor and culture that absolutely nobody will be able to find it offensive.
Y - Youth Fundie. Can have violence and gore out the wazoo, but all women are fully-clothed and are purely in supportive roles.
X - XXX. Rotten liberal demonspawn filth that will send you straight to Hell.
 
2010-08-04 08:39:44 PM
bodyshots: whidbey 2010-08-04 08:28:02 PM
bodyshots: anything that pisses off liberals is good for society.

Wow, derp much?

And to think you had the chance to be the real opposition here, and you blew it. Big.

Nice waste of a post, bodyshots.

so, i guess that other thread over there, where a liberal said 'anything that pisses off the religious is good for society" is derping also?

you cant have your cake and eat it too :)

ps - let me know how pissing off islam works out for you, ok?


bodyshots,you seem to think liberals are a hive mind, like the Borg. We aren't, you prick. How would you like it if I said anyone who was conservative and religious is obviously an ass backwards neanderthal believing in an invisible sky wizard? Generalizations suck and don't work very well. So, if you'd kindly leave and let the adults talk, we'd appreciate it.
 
2010-08-04 08:40:58 PM
bugmn99: I probably wouldn't want my kid checking out a book from the library that included a picture of Boy Scouts watching two men have sex.

If some FOX viewer says the book includes a picture of Boy Scouts watching two men having sex, it's a safe bet the book does not include a picture of Boy Scouts watching two men have sex.
 
2010-08-04 08:41:11 PM
UltimaCS: People_are_Idiots: 1> There are some books that need to be prevented viewing by children. When I saw children I mean younger than puberty. After all, would anyone show the Heavy Metal movie to their 5 year old?

So is it the sex or obscene violence? I've met fundies who are fine with the latter, but not the former in any way, shape or form. They actually cut up all the bra ads in their mail and magazines, in the event that their son going through puberty actually begins understanding it.

2> I know a few Christian fundies that I always find amusing. They refuse to watch Harry Potter because it's got the devil's magic all over...

Same story with the same people. 18 year old daughter got scolded for watching Harry Potter. She could suck the magic out of someone, though.

3> Maybe we ought to put out a new ratings system for books?

We definitely should:
Z - Ziggy. So utterly devoid of humor and culture that absolutely nobody will be able to find it offensive.
Y - Youth Fundie. Can have violence and gore out the wazoo, but all women are fully-clothed and are purely in supportive roles.
X - XXX. Rotten liberal demonspawn filth that will send you straight to Hell.


I'll take every book in the X section please.
 
2010-08-04 08:41:12 PM

nekulor 2010-08-04 08:39:44 PM


bodyshots,you seem to think liberals are a hive mind, like the Borg. We aren't, you prick. How would you like it if I said anyone who was conservative and religious is obviously an ass backwards neanderthal believing in an invisible sky wizard? Generalizations suck and don't work very well. So, if you'd kindly leave and let the adults talk, we'd appreciate it.


uh, that sounds about right for fark honestly. i see it everyday in the politics section.

also, you derp derp'd too hard. 2/10. please try again.
 
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