Posted on 03/08/2010 8:14:27 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Something very disturbing happened today on FOX. Glenn Beck who has, for the most part, steered clear of jihad, sharia and Islamic supremacism put his toe in the water and for the first time since I started fighting the long war, I got nervous.
Beck just called Wilders a fascist, and far-right.
He also mixed up Dominique de Villepin with Jean Marie Le Pen.
What is he doing?
Why would he stigmatize Wilders this way? Wilders is the embodiment of what our founding fathers extolled. Individual rights. Freedom of speech. Not sharia law.
Was Beck saying that the UK was right to ban Wilders in the interest of "community harmony?" And the fact that he was allowed to enter the UK last week was a dire sign?
He runs videos of the riots in Greece but never runs the Muslim rampages throughout Europe.
Beck is out of his depth in this. You cannot get up to speed on Europe in one crash course. The Islamic/left wing fringe is everywhere but what right fringe is he talking about in Europe? It can't be Le Pen, he is nowhere. Is this going after SIOE, the EDL?
Is this going to be be Beck's narrative? If so he is wrong. And he ought to be silent t until he learns everything.
Beck could destroy the freedom movement in Europe -- and the US -- if he erroneously stigmatizes it as fascist. The little green monster is one thing, and Glenn Beck is another.
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Hey Glenn, we know Prince Alwaleed owns __% of NewsCorp (Fox), but don’t go all Moslem on us.
If the Saudis push you in that direction, you’ll lose half your audience overnight. If you’re not sure about that, check the polls on national security / terrorism.
Nothing’s worse than a bunch of Moslems, except a bunch of Moslem’s owning __% of FoxNews.
Glenn bin-al Beck?
Yeah, I see the point flew over your head too.
Yup. Beck and his new drinking buddy O’Reilly have not been subtle enough with their dhiminitude act for their new Saudi bosses.
I cancelled TV so I “ain’t” supporing ABC/Disney, CNN, NBC/MSNBC/CNBC, CBS or Al-BBC. They all suck now. Fox was better than the others until the muslims flexed their pocketbooks.
Murdoch sold out England supporting Bliar who in 12 years when full force in his Islamification of the UK.
I think Murdoch got worse when he remarried the Chinese woman who pushed his kids pretty much out. He wanted the TV access to China so bad. I think Murdoch’s kids were decent but they are largely out of the picture now. So he is doing the Saudis and China’s bidding now.
He is. I was gung-ho when he was blowing the doors off of Van Jones and Acorn. Great work.
But he often comes from a place of hyper-populism rather than deliberate thought.
Sometimes his way is appropriate, but not always.
I like Beck, but he put his foot in it. Most of what he had to say was spot on, but he is very wrong about Wilders.
He was trying to make a point, but he went off the tracks when he used Wilders as his example. He also misspoke concerning Villepin.
I admire Wilders a great deal. Villepin, uh, no. But he’s a leftist. Like others, I think Beck probably meant to refer to Le Pen, in which case his remarks might make some sense.
But not with Wilders, who is one of the good guys. He is what we call a patriot. The world needs many more like him.
Good chance.
I have a feeling Beck will hear plenty about his faux pas. I expect to hear a retraction from him, or I’ll be very disappointed in him.
I snapped to attention when I heard him say that.
I wonder if we’re not beginning to see evidence of some influence of the muslim money men Murdock has brought into NewsCorp and Fox.
Then why did he make the same mistake for the third time on his show today? When he posted his recession employment rate curve (which plots employment rates by month from the start to end of post-WWII recessions,) he said that the rate during the Great Depression was comparable to the current recession.
But he's just wrong, and he has made the same misrepresentation in three separate episodes ... Unemployment during the Great Depression peaked at about 25% and didn't fall below 15% until WWII.
Unemployment rates are very bad in current recession, but they do not rival the Great Depression.
He also intimated that Debra Medina is a 911 truther and that Wilders is a fascist. But, there he has a weak argument. Well, to tell the truth, I'm not entirely sure about Wilders.
I also wish he'd spellcheck his chalkboards. They are occasionally embarrassing to his literate viewers.
“Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dr. Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck are men not God.”
They aren’t even prophets ... they’re entertainers, who often get it right.
Ohhh, I’ll take: Hitler sent the Jews to a concentration camps to isolate them for 800. IMHO, let Glenn Beck be entitled to his opinion, Allah..errr God damn it.
Does someone have a quote that says something like: The wise man listens to everything around him and draws his own conculsions.
There are faults with all the major news sources we have. We try to show each other where the bias may be. People do what they can do. They can’t do anymore. Thoughful people will understand what information can be trusted and what can’t — no matter where it comes from if the source is considered. Even Hitler was right sometimes.
Pay attention be alert and act where it matters.
I’m done with Beck because of this. Unfollowed him from twitter & removed him from the DVR.
Today he told a lie.
>> Glenn Beck is the only one in the media telling the truth.
He’s very off the mark labeling the Right edge as Fascist.
Fascism and Communism are the split ends of Leftism. Of center, the Right is a stubble little thing called Conservatism. It’s not that complicated, and it’s not that deep.
I like Beck, but cannot, and will not view the program for as long as he suggests Conservatives tend towards Fascism. I changed the channel 15 minutes into his program. Unlikely I will watch it for some time. I’ll stick with Greta.
Yep, and Cavuto even interviewed Alwaleed on his show, and Alwaleed basically jumped on Cavuto (verbally) and pimp-slapped him FOR NO REASON.
Cavuto was like “Okayyy then...”
That’s all I need. A bunch of freaking SAUDIS running FoxNews.
I really try to like Beck. I DVR him. But when I saw Beck call wilders a fascists because, like O’Reilly, he was searching for a vilan on the right to show that he “Beck” is in the middle and not like those “crazies” on the right or left, I thought to myself. “Beck’s finally jumped the shark.”
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