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11/06/09
O is for Obama, and by the way he’s black
L is for the leftists who will stab you in the back
I is internationalist, ‘cause foreigners are scary
G is politicians’ graft of which we should be wary
A the Acorn organizers meaning death camps for us all
R the revolutionaries who want me first against the wall
C is for the commies, who hide under my bed
H for hidden agendas; oh! The secrets in my head!
Y you ask? I’ll tell you straight; my answer fills the void
It’s very clear my friends, I am a hopeless paranoid!
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He's playing a character, trying to stress his ideas. Sure, he comes across as manic, passionate, and a bit crazy, so most liberals dismiss him. But he makes some good points. Some of his logic stretches the truth, but not all. Some are things that need to be said.
I love Jezebel, but I think most readers are too liberal, too passive, and too idealogical to respond accurately to Glenn Beck's arguements.
Perhaps it's my Russian boyfriend's fears that the US is turning into a country that he can't be proud of, but I really believe that we are all too cynical to listen to what people have to say. We just automatically dismiss anything that sounds a little off, and we never question what we are told by the media. (I also fall into this category.)
( BTW I'm not a conservative. I'm just someone who is always in the middle of all these arguements. My friends and family fall into both extremes. And I'm always torn between my love of Stewart/Colbert and "liberal news"; and my understanding of Glenn Beck and real news programs on Fox.)
I think everyone should watch Fox News occassionally and NBC etc. to get different perspectives. Nothing is one way or the other. Too bad most people I know make fun of Fox News. Why? Because of the clips they've seen on Stewart and Colbert. Not because they've actually watched Fox news for themselves. #dailyshowglennbeck
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I think Beck has carved out a very nice niche for himself with people who feel they have no voice in democracy and government right now. But the more I watch and listen to him, the crazier he sounds to me. He often talks about how "they" are trying to shut him down or how "they" are against him. He says the sole job of Anita Dunn - the White House Communications Director - is to monitor his show. He says things that are blatantly inflammatory and possibly slanderous, and then says he was just "asking questions". And if he's not crazy, then he's just a performer. I don't know if that's better or worse for the people who believe what he says. #dailyshowglennbeck
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i also don't think it's fair to characterize jezebel readers as passive: only a small portion of them actually comment and, even then, i don't think any of them sound particularly passive. i don't know what "too liberal" means.
glenn beck is crazier the more you watch him not less (clips on the web).
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To use an anecdote: I've had my cousin legitimately tell me that he thinks - from watching Glenn Beck - that Obama is going to make every family in the US pay $116,000 in taxes on top of their other taxes, and when I tried to refute that my uncle (not cousin's dad, to be clear) called me a communist. He went on to state all the ways in which Glenn Beck is right and communist and socialist policies are evil and are destroying America; this particular uncle is on unemployment, welfare, food stamps, and is applying for Section 8 housing. And he doesn't see his ideas and actions as being at all discordant - he just has no real idea of what socialism actually is.
Glenn Beck is too unclear about where the news and facts end and where his persona starts, and that's where I have an issue with him. He's promoting radical - and sometimes, untrue and harmful - ideas in a radical fashion that many of his viewers are taking at face value*. Unfortunately, I kind of assume the worst of Fox News; they know who their target market is and cater to it with these crazy ideas and misinformation. To perpetuate stereotypes and blatant lies about Muslim beliefs, or the idea that a real American is the kind that carries guns in the direct vicinity of the president.... that's horrific, in my opinion. Beck in particular is using his persona and the unclear nature of his hyperbole to mix fact and opinion, and that is, quite frankly, dishonest.
*NB: Not to say this, or the essence of it, is only a problem with Glenn Beck. Too many people are allowing the analysis of pundits to form their ideas for them rather than thinking critically for themselves.
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You understand Beck and Fox News? Congratulations. You are one up on me since I can't understand why they are taken seriously when they misrepresent facts and promote lies.
To each her own, eh? #dailyshowglennbeck
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I don't watch CNN or MSNBC (well, I do watch Rachel Maddow sometimes) either, though, because I think they lean too conservative, don't challenge favorable politicians enough or on the most pressing topics, and tend not to report on things I care about. However, I don't see the hate speech that I see on Fox, so I hold these networks in slightly less contempt.
Anyway, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss us as too liberal or idealogical to question what's told to us in the media. The brand of "liberalism" I see on Jezebel (most of the time) is the kind that helps us to deconstruct what we're told, regardless of the source. That's what I love about it. #dailyshowglennbeck
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Of course, the coverage of that was so despicable that I still had to change the channel. I listened for five minutes to a general ranting about how the gunman was educated with American money, and this is how he repays us??? Oh god, man, seriously? I think he repaid us by serving in the military for years and it sounds like something snapped in his brain, man. He was trying to make it sound like the dude had been planning it since he was in med school or something. I'm terrified as to how this is going to translate for other Arab-Americans.
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Too liberal? No offense but hogwash! No-one is completely liberal or conservative. I think most people (if they weren't so rigid and caught up in labels) would see value in the ideas of both sides and fall somewhere in the middle.
Bottom line MSNBC, FOX and CNN are pathetic and shouldn't be watched by anyone. You're better off getting news from international outlets. If you're not sure which ones to read, Google News is sort of cool, they link to multiple outlets for each story and a lot of their links are to foreign outlets. #dailyshowglennbeck
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What the hell do you think I watch at the gym when I need to get my heart rate up? Either Beck or O'Reilly, I seriously burn at least 20% more calories when I watch O'Reilly, and maybe 25% more when I watch Beck. Thanks to them, I'll be running a half-marathon in no time at all. Rachel Maddow can't make me look that good in a bikini. #dailyshowglennbeck
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*hides face in hands with shame* #dailyshowglennbeck
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