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To: ilgipper; All

Beck does a lot of good work, but if you can’t tell the difference between a Michelle Bachman and a Nancy Pelosi, Houston, we’ve got a problem. He paints with too broad a brush and makes the perfect the enemy of the good.


16 posted on 02/23/2010 4:04:41 PM PST by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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To: raptor22

If Glenn Beck’s broad brush “takes out” the Progressive Rinos likened to the McLame, PAINT,GLENN,PAINT !!!


17 posted on 02/23/2010 4:18:10 PM PST by So Circumstanced
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To: raptor22

If Glenn Beck’s broad brush “takes out” the Progressive Rinos likened to the McLame, PAINT,GLENN,PAINT !!!


18 posted on 02/23/2010 4:18:10 PM PST by So Circumstanced
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To: raptor22

I don’t understand why people like you can not see that when he speaks of the Republican Party, he is speaking of the people that actually run it and who decide what candidates are supported, what the platform will be, etc.

How could you think that he is speaking of individuals like Demint, Palin, Bachmann, etc.

He is speaking of the people who brought us McCain, Lindsey Graham, etc.

As long as the big R ignores the little r, Beck is right.

I would also point out that his expose of the communists, socialists and progressives surrounding Obummer, the Marxist now posing as a Fascist, have forced other news medias to report what otherwise never would have been reported.

Of course he is an entertainer and he does not pretend to be anything other than an entertainer with a mix of politics, news and history.

For instance, did your high school history teacher teach you what and who President Wilson really was? Mine certainly did not and I went to high school when they really taught history, when you had to memorize Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, etc.

Did either your high school history teacher or your local news paper ever discuss this:

“Under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, Wilson’s administration shut down newspapers and magazines at an astounding pace. Indeed, any criticism of the government, even in your own home, could earn you a prison sentence. One man was brought to trial for explaining in his own home why he didn’t want to buy Liberty Bonds.

The Wilson administration sanctioned what could be called an American fascisti, the American Protective League. The APL – a quarter million strong at its height, with offices in 600 cities – carried government-issued badges while beating up dissidents and protesters and conducting warrantless searches and interrogations. Even after the war, Wilson refused to release the last of America’s political prisoners, leaving it to subsequent Republican administrations to free the anti-war Socialist Eugene V. Debs and others.”

Beck deserves credit for discussing topics such as Wilson for the benefit of those who otherwise never would have known.


34 posted on 02/23/2010 4:54:36 PM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: raptor22

LMAO! If you are implying the party of lets elect John McLame is a conservative, then you need to put down your crack pipe.

The Republican are all about making government bigger and not smaller. They just dont want to grow it as fast as the Democrats. That’s all. They are democrat light in other words.

Michele Bachmann is great, but a minority in the Republican party. I would take Backmann over Palin any day.


35 posted on 02/23/2010 4:56:21 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: raptor22
He paints with too broad a brush and makes the perfect the enemy of the good.

I would say the same about at least one other in talk radio in regards to Beck.

I also don't think he has ever said there is no one in the GOP doing it right. As an organization, it is still screwing up - endorsing insider losers like Crist in primaries, dumping money for Scazzafava in NY, etc.

40 posted on 02/23/2010 5:25:41 PM PST by ilgipper
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