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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: MHGinTN

And you have a special day too, Clarabelle.


61 posted on 09/23/2009 9:02:28 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: laotzu

marked


62 posted on 09/23/2009 9:02:56 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Bill Dupray

Why no “right wingers” go before tribunals like Couric?

is it ego?


63 posted on 09/23/2009 9:03:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (Obama, you suck Bro and we are kicking your butt for now anyhow)
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To: GOPJ
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..

Minimum wage laws are incredibly foolish. If we did away with them today, wages would likely crash.......for about 10 seconds. The shop paying 20 cents an hour would lose all their employees to the shop paying 30 cents per hour and they in turn would lose their employes to the shop paying 40 cents and so forth. I suspect you wouldn't find too many places hiring at under $6 before long.
64 posted on 09/23/2009 9:06:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Bill Dupray

Did anybody catch the last sentense from Katie? She said something about Glen possibly being the vessel for the angry Republicans “ simmering hate or delusionalism”


65 posted on 09/23/2009 9:09:56 AM PDT by Married with Children
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To: humblegunner

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

Very true, same with playing football or swinging a golf club. Now, getting millions of people to watch you do it, that’s a big job.


66 posted on 09/23/2009 9:11:46 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Did he say something about abortion? The sound was very bad on my work computer besides having to keep it turned low. I gave up trying to hear what they were saying about 1/2 way through.


67 posted on 09/23/2009 9:14:35 AM PDT by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: humblegunner
I said I don't think reading a script is all that much of a big job.


I suppose it isn't that much of a job. Are you in the radio/tv business? I'm curious how you know this guy and the others are just reading scripts.
68 posted on 09/23/2009 9:14:42 AM PDT by Since 2009-07-21
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To: Barb4Bush

Yes, at the beginning of the interview. She asks if he things abortion should be illegal, he says yes.


69 posted on 09/23/2009 9:17:03 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Thanks. I’ll listen later at home.


70 posted on 09/23/2009 9:18:44 AM PDT by Barb4Bush (God bless Glenn Beck!)
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To: Sudetenland

The only thing you are being consistent about is misrepresenting Glenn Beck.


71 posted on 09/23/2009 9:20:12 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: humblegunner
He's not speaking out. He's reading a script.

No, sometimes he speaks off his own prepared text in a monologue, calling this reading a script implies someone else has written the text, this is not correct. It is done pre-show for time constraints, making sure he doesn't go over, but for the most part on TV and always on radio, he speaks off the top of his head, as I wrote yesterday (and Glenn confirmed my thought last night on TV), he is thinking out loud.

72 posted on 09/23/2009 9:20:33 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: dangerdoc
Pardner, where did you learn to spell, it’s partner.

It's *pardner* when you are using the vernacular.

73 posted on 09/23/2009 9:21:38 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: humblegunner
Reading a script?

Have you actually watched his show? From what I can see, I see him speaking on the fly, going with a train of thought, sometimes halting mid thought because something else just hit him, and he goes on with it.

Yea, he might have an outline, a general course of topics, and yes, they do plan out sound bites, and video, interviews etc. But when he's speaking, when he's up at the blackboard, it's all him.

He's asking questions; he's asking us to ask questions; he's pleading with America to wake up and take a good hard look at the big picture and what we are in great danger of losing.

I didn't initially like him when he moved to Fox. I'd never heard his radio show before, and I don't do CNN, and the first few times I watched him on Fox, I wasn't all that interested. But then a couple of weeks before the DC March, and because of some threads here, I started watching again.

More closely perhaps.

He genuinely loves this country. He's sees all the corruption, the lying, the cheating; the downright arrogant theft of the public trust and treasury and he's pissed

And you know what - SO AM I!

So go ahead a flame Beck for fighting for all those things that you yourself are here talking about if you want. For me I believe he's on our side.

We need all the weapons in our arsenal that we can get.

74 posted on 09/23/2009 9:25:24 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: MozarkDawg
I know, I'm pulling humble’s leg, he likes to ding people on grammar, capitalization and spelling.
75 posted on 09/23/2009 9:31:39 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: dangerdoc

Ah, okay — I’ll remember than from now on, thank you.


76 posted on 09/23/2009 9:32:23 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: JPG
Glenn did a good job. I think CBS, which is in financial trouble, was hoping to trick Glenn with race questions to run later to promote new Couric program. Glenn Didn't bite.
77 posted on 09/23/2009 9:35:11 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Bill Dupray

The site must be getting a lot of hits; I can’t access it.


78 posted on 09/23/2009 9:37:25 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: humblegunner
Or was he just the mouthpiece?

I'm curious. Who do you think is moving his mouth? Murdoch perhaps?

79 posted on 09/23/2009 9:56:41 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin is our Iron Lady of the North)
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To: hosepipe

In Glenn speak it might be...”...and you are?...”


80 posted on 09/23/2009 9:56:50 AM PDT by Anima Mundi
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