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Beck to Couric: When I was an alcoholic, I was liberal; when I got sober, I dumped all that nonsense
Patriot Room ^ | September 23, 2009 | Bill Dupray

Posted on 09/23/2009 7:21:08 AM PDT by Bill Dupray

In the first few minutes, Couric asks him about his party affiliation (he leans libertarian), and he starts his answer by saying that when he was younger, he was socially liberal, but that he was also an alcoholic. When he got sober, he realized that liberalism was really not all it was cracked up to be. Couric didn't like that at all, but Beck just does an aw-shucks and gets out of it. It is a great.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: beck; couric; glennbeck; interview; katietheclown; libertarian; perkypig
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To: humblegunner

Are you Bill O’Reilly? Afraid he’s going to take your timeslot.


41 posted on 09/23/2009 8:39:13 AM PDT by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: bcsco
he deserves credit for speaking out

He's not speaking out. He's reading a script.

we can't even afford a good word for someone who has done what we've been unable to accomplish.

Don't know about that "we" pardner, but I never wanted to be a media glory hound.

42 posted on 09/23/2009 8:39:22 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Bill Dupray
Pretty good. It makes me feel worse about Mark Levin though. All that haranguing about one statement taken out of context from a 45 minute discussion. Very sad.

I liked what Beck said about Rush; and there were times when I just looked at Beck's face where I thought I could see Rush.

ML/NJ

43 posted on 09/23/2009 8:39:47 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: humblegunner
Don't know about that "we" pardner...

You're right. I meant you. I shouldn't have included myself.

...but I never wanted to be a media glory hound.

You made my day.

44 posted on 09/23/2009 8:41:44 AM PDT by bcsco (Hopey changey down the drainey...)
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To: matginzac
Flaming is irrelevent. "Sticks and stone..." and all that. I, at least attempt, to espouse a consistent message and I don't let personal attacks throw me (too far) off my message or dissuade me from carrying the torch of morality.

I don't pretend to be perfect...only consistent. Some behaviors are worthy of being condemned no matter which party a person happens to belong to, but the claim of moral equivalency is as ludicrous in comparing the two main parties as it is in comparing America's behavior in foreign policy to that of despotic or terrorist sympathizing nations.

Courage, mon amis.
45 posted on 09/23/2009 8:42:28 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: GOPJ
people get paid for what they produce not "according to their need"...

If that were really the case, folks who read scripts on TV shouldn't earn much then, huh?

46 posted on 09/23/2009 8:43:05 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: bcsco
You made my day.

Then it was time well spent.

47 posted on 09/23/2009 8:44:28 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Pardner, where did you learn to spell, it’s partner.


48 posted on 09/23/2009 8:45:14 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: humblegunner
Who continues to read a script and expect a large check for it.

Beck? What makes you think he has a script? My understanding is that he does not have a script; which isn't the same thing as saying that he doesn't have a plan or an outline of what he wants to say. But script? I don't think so.

ML/NJ

49 posted on 09/23/2009 8:47:41 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: bcsco
I just have no use for partisan obedience. Elected officials are supposed to serve their constituents not the party. People like Frum can scream and cry all they want but it means nothing to people who have had enough.

There are probably any number of things I disagree with Beck on but only a moron agrees with anyone on everything 100% of the time. If Beck has the slaves eying the fence on the Grand Old Plantation, so be it. He has plenty of democrats doing the same on theirs.
50 posted on 09/23/2009 8:47:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Bill Dupray
Perky wanted another Sarah smackdown. She is the one now flat on the ground. Maybe you should try chugging vodka, Katie...at least you'd then have an excuse for your lib stupidity.
51 posted on 09/23/2009 8:48:05 AM PDT by JPG (Obama...a 24/7 nightmare.)
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To: humblegunner; bcsco; cripplecreek; beefree

Yes, Glenn Beck’s expose’ did expose the self avowed commie ensconced in the affirmative action figure’s White HOuse, and the light made the cockroach scurry for Soros cover. I didn’t notice any of you obamanoid hemorrhoids exposing that Van Jones is straight out of the black nationalist radicals, that Van Jones founded the Apollo Alliance which brings together for power to change America the ‘social justice’ movement, the green movement, and the thuggish unions like SEIU and AFL-CIO, largely because you are of the same radical progressive, destroy America ilk, lying daily at FR with nothing but anti-everything and anything crap. You evidence that there really are enemies domestic.


52 posted on 09/23/2009 8:52:52 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: dangerdoc
Pardner, where did you learn to spell, it’s partner.

Not in Texas it isn't.

53 posted on 09/23/2009 8:53:06 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: MHGinTN
You evidence that there really are enemies domestic.

All this because I don't like Glenn Beck?

Wow!

54 posted on 09/23/2009 8:54:39 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
You think there should be a committee that makes the call on what people get paid? A business pays bases on how important that person is TO THEM. If they don't make a profit - if they make enough stupid calls - they go under.

FOX is making money hand over fist - and CBS is starting to "fade". I suspect FOX is making the right calls ( Beck's numbers are WAAAAAAY up, while Perky Pig's numbers are down. The company makes that call based on what that person is worth TO THEM. It's called capitalism.

I was in a discussion with a woman many years ago (Russian) who told me they could never figure out how we came up with prices for everything. So what they would do ( members of the Communist Party in Russia) was take the US Sears catalog and translate the prices into rubles. So she asked me how did people in the US come up with the prices... And I told her NO ONE set the prices in the United State - that everyone charged as much as they could get away with. She thought I was kidding... It's the same with wages. People try to get as much as they can - companies try to pay as little as they can get away with - and prosperity is the outcome. Free Markets work..

55 posted on 09/23/2009 8:55:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (When I hear "New York Times"-fair or unfair-what I hear is "New York Times Whore House"...)
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To: humblegunner

Perky tried to trap him every way she could. He totally embarassed her. Probably get her highest ratings ever. However, do you think BO does his own research or is he just a “mouthpiece” provided the telepromter is working?


56 posted on 09/23/2009 8:57:16 AM PDT by easttennesseejohn
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To: humblegunner

Perky tried to trap him every way she could. He totally embarassed her. Probably get her highest ratings ever. However, do you think BO does his own research or is he just a “mouthpiece” provided the telepromter is working?


57 posted on 09/23/2009 8:57:17 AM PDT by easttennesseejohn
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To: GOPJ
You think there should be a committee that makes the call on what people get paid?

Never said that.

I said I don't think reading a script is all that much of a big job.

58 posted on 09/23/2009 8:59:30 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

No, all that because you’re an ignorant liar who wants to mischaracterize a man you could never hoep to equal or even approach because you’re too dishonest and too steeped in hate. You may not know that Glenn Beck spends hours of preparation prior to coming on the air at FOX, but that wouldn’t mean anything to a spittlist like you who can’t stand that Glenn Beck is paid well for the hard sometimes tedious work he does. ... And that’s the last attention you’ll get from this poster because you lying pricks from liberal land thrive on being nasty trolls getting away with lying and mischaracterizing at FR. Buh bye, little nettle.


59 posted on 09/23/2009 8:59:59 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: easttennesseejohn
However, do you think BO does his own research or is he just a “mouthpiece” provided the telepromter is working?

Of course he is.

So what's the difference, other than content, between him and Beck?

60 posted on 09/23/2009 9:00:59 AM PDT by humblegunner
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