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Is Beck Right or Wrong About Tea Party Outfits?
The Blaze ^ | 16 Sep | Seidl

Posted on 09/16/2010 7:56:32 PM PDT by flowerplough

Glenn Beck is no stranger to public criticism. Usually, that criticism comes from entrenched critics. But today, Beck was chided by some of his most loyal fans. What’s got everyone so upset?

Beck’s stance on playing dress-up.

Recently, Beck started imploring Tea Party supporters to lose the costumes, and homemade signs, so as not to give detractors ammunition. ( ... )

He repeated the charge on this morning’s radio show, taking umbrage with one costume in particular: “What’s more effective, you as Betsy Ross or you as somebody who looks just like their neighbor, not dressed as Betsy Ross?”

( ... )

“I‘m not saying you can’t go dressed as Betsy Ross or the Statue of Liberty –that would be a totalitarian state … [But] if you want to truly make a difference, it is now time that the Tea Party takes the next step. … And first impressions make all the difference.”

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; teaparty
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To: kristinn

I could care less about the media and “our betters”. What I care about is giving the media the raw material with which they can convincingly make us look like a bunch of freaks such that not only the moderates and independents but also reserved conservatives that we need to win elections start to believe that the Tea Party, Freepers, and so on really are freaks. You have the freedom to donate money to Media Matters and MoveOn.org but that would be stupid. Helping the enemy is stupid.


81 posted on 09/16/2010 8:45:27 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: flowerplough

everyone should come wearing black suits and black dress


82 posted on 09/16/2010 8:47:27 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: flowerplough
I head Right to Life in my town. Pro-Lifers use signs to communicate, professionl quality signs, so I think they are appropriate, and potentially effective.

But the signs are deadly serious; media coverage of them promotes that deadly serious message.

Let's encourage each other to do the same: make a serious, truthful, professionally-looking sign. They will look great above the fold of the NYT.
83 posted on 09/16/2010 8:47:38 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Question_Assumptions

Maybe we should just preemptively surrender before we make anyone look bad?


84 posted on 09/16/2010 8:47:44 PM PDT by packrat35 (I got your tag line..)
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To: packrat35
Then why worry about it when you admit they are going to do their best to make us look bad anyway.

Because the more freaky they can make us look, the more credible their attempts to depict us as freaky will look to people who don't know any better.

I have never understood why so many people in life worry about what others think about them.

What's the point of protesting?

85 posted on 09/16/2010 8:47:49 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: packrat35

You made yourself a victim when you allowed Beck to control your emotions. He gave an opinion on strategy and you took it as personal. You seem to care a lot about what Beck thinks, because you are trying to prove him wrong. And you want to use his “attack” on you to get other people to agree with you. That is how victims act.

Too many people on this thread are starting to react like emotional liberals instead of listening to ideas from their own side.


86 posted on 09/16/2010 8:49:03 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Question_Assumptions

Maybe we should just preemptively surrender before we make anyone look bad?


87 posted on 09/16/2010 8:49:36 PM PDT by packrat35 (I got your tag line..)
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To: Raider Sam

“Way to completely ignore both points and give a personal rant. What strategy has Beck set up that has worked or has not worked?

I doubt that all 20 people dressed up or the 100 with signs put Beck where he is.”

Sir your math is faulty, all these rallies across this great land we are talking thousands and thousands.


88 posted on 09/16/2010 8:49:48 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: packrat35
Maybe we should just preemptively surrender before we make anyone look bad?

I sometimes wonder if the excluded middle fallacy is the only type of argument allowed on the Internet. Is it really that difficult for conservatives to look like the sort of people that normal people would want to associate themselves with? I wasn't aware that not looking like freaks and not scaring away families and normal people would be such a burden for conservatives.

89 posted on 09/16/2010 8:49:58 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: packrat35
When I heard Glenn and friend ridiculing someone in a Statue of Liberty costume the other morning on his radio station my stomach turned. Glenn wants us to without question respect his chosen "Imams, Pastors and Rabbis" assembled on his 8/28 stage yet he makes fun of the average "guy or girl" that is led by their convictions to purchase an costume representing a American patriotic symbol and wear it to a gathering. It takes guts to walk miles in a Statue of Liberty costume...it takes zero boldness to hold a martini glass in a "progressive gathering" and make fun of the little "people" and their signs and costumes. 10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
90 posted on 09/16/2010 8:50:12 PM PDT by happyhomemaker (That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children)
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To: jobim

I would agree with that idea.


91 posted on 09/16/2010 8:50:37 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: 4rcane

Men should wear top hats?


92 posted on 09/16/2010 8:51:29 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: happyhomemaker

Beck didn’t start the Tea Party movement - that was Rick Santelli - and I’ll bet he likes the costumes...


93 posted on 09/16/2010 8:52:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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To: Cheetahcat

And how many of them dress up?

If there are 20k at a rally, how many would you say dress up? How many have signs?

The comment was that the people dressing up and having signs put Beck where he is, and I dont think there are anywhere near enough people in those two groups to have that kind of radio and television power.


94 posted on 09/16/2010 8:53:48 PM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Raider Sam
Thanks, this is easiest the stupidest thing I read today. Beck, nor you control my emotions. I do NOT watch him, and I do NOT listen to him anymore for some time now.

Beck is about Beck mostly and is trying to make himself BOSS of the Tea Party. I have never claimed to wear costumes or even attend the Tea Party rallies. As far as being an emotional liberal, you are more like one talking down to people and telling them how to behave in "your" world.

95 posted on 09/16/2010 8:54:05 PM PDT by packrat35 (I got your tag line..)
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To: Kirkwood

I agree. It just seems there’s a 1% to 3% of people that feel the need to dress that way. More power to them. I just don’t like how the state-controlled media feels the need to feature that person on the front-page as an example of all of us. Most people are private, like me, and cringe that the average Joe thinks someone like that must be a kook.

I understand the passion behind the costume and appreciate it. Just adds fuel to the fire for the opposition. If the media was fair, go for it. But it’s not.


96 posted on 09/16/2010 8:54:55 PM PDT by mplsconservative (I stand with Israel.)
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To: Kansas58

Easy there bub. I think that’s “morale” you’re trying to talk about, not “moral.”

Beck’s strategy, wow, after watching him gather hundreds of thousands of people to Washington D.C. I’d have to say his strategies seem to pay off. I have to believe my lying eyes on this one.


97 posted on 09/16/2010 8:56:13 PM PDT by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: happyhomemaker

“When I heard Glenn and friend ridiculing someone in a Statue of Liberty costume the other morning on his radio station my stomach turned. Glenn wants us to without question respect his chosen “Imams, Pastors and Rabbis” assembled on his 8/28 stage yet he makes fun of the average “guy or girl” that is led by their convictions to purchase an costume representing a American patriotic symbol and wear it to a gathering. It takes guts to walk miles in a Statue of Liberty costume...it takes zero boldness to hold a martini glass in a “progressive gathering” and make fun of the little “people” and their signs and costumes. 10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

He had Muslims OUR Mortal enemy?? The guy is out of his mind! and he is worrying about a costume for Gods sake?? Screw him!


98 posted on 09/16/2010 8:56:40 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Question_Assumptions

So who gets to decide who is “normal”? You? Name calling (freaks comment) is such a dignified statement. So now, dressing as Betsy Ross make one a freak. I wouldn’t want to live in your world.


99 posted on 09/16/2010 8:57:11 PM PDT by packrat35 (I got your tag line..)
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To: 4rcane

“everyone should come wearing black suits and black dress”

Yep. A dress code for protesting. If we’re going to continue to worry about what the MSM and the libs think about us we’ll never accomplish anything.


100 posted on 09/16/2010 8:57:18 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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