Posted on 03/17/2016 8:43:00 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
During his radio broadcast Thursday morning, Glenn Beck outlined eight predictions he made starting in 1999 — all of which, he says, have come to fruition.
The first, Beck says, was in 1999, when he was a radio host on WABC-AM, and he predicted that the now-deceased al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden would attack the United States.
“In 1999, I said, ‘Are you ready to fight terror? It’s a completely different world. Osama bin Laden — there will be blood, bodies and buildings in the streets,’” Beck said.
From there, the conservative firebrand continued to build his list of past predictions.
Beck said he saw the “downfall of the GOP” coming in 2003 or 2004, when he started to feel “something isn’t right.”
“If anybody is a long-term listener,” Beck said, “they remember that I would talk on the air and say to everybody in Washington, ‘Do you realize what’s happening? Do you realize that you’re disenfranchising people?’”
During the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004, Beck said he was predicting the bursting of the housing bubble and the banking crisis, which came in 2008. The radio show host said he told listeners, “Don’t take out these loans.”
Beck’s radio show co-host Stu Burguiere chimed in, saying Beck was focusing a lot on radical Islam at that time, too. “Yeah, that was the rise of Iran,” Beck agreed.
“I was the only one — remember how everybody said that we were crazy when I said, ‘Wait. We’ve got to start talking about the Mahdi. We have to start talking about the Twelfth Imam,’” Beck said.
In 2008, Beck said he predicted what he described as “the hatreds of the ’30s,” the rise of Nazism and anti-semitism, specifically in Europe. Anti-semitism has been a growing problem in Europe since the start of the Syrian refugee crisis last year.
British Justice Minister Michael Gove said Thursday during a speech at an inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin, Germany, that “modern anti-semitism finds a home in far too many hearts.”
“Europe is on the verge of complete collapse,” Beck said.
Beck went on to say he also predicted the rise of socialism in the United States and the “unmasking of the Marxists.” Radio show host Pat Gray pointed to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a self-avowed democratic socialist, as proof of that prediction.
“In 2008, I said, ‘They’re going to start admitting that they’re Marxists and socialists,’” Beck remarked.
Beck then said he predicted the rise of the “Bubba Effect” — a common theme for the radio personality — in 2008. The “Bubba Effect” is when people begin to feel they have been pushed too far by an overbearing government and begin to respond in violence.
Beck credits the “Bubba Effect” for the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, along with last week’s violent protests in Chicago ahead of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s canceled rally.
Lastly, Beck said he predicted in 2010 the rise of the Islamic caliphate in the Middle East, which today is the Islamic State. “They mocked and mocked and mocked on that,” Gray said.
Now that’s funny right there!
“Glen Beck is Mr Haney with a show.”
Post of the night!
LMAO !!
That's funny!!!
He also predicted you would apologize to yourself.
Bow, lesser beings.
Good one!!!
+100 ;-)
Becks prediction- Food shortage in 2010. He was advising storing seeds and food.
More like a Nostrobama.
More like a Nostrobama.
And they wonder why the inverse response of the audience to their increasingly insane banter.
Guess what I haven't purchased the Limbaugh letter for gift for somebody since 1998. We've been listening and voting and we have ended up with:
Tired of the talkers especially these guys who have gotten fat off of all of us supporting them.
You know what is aging well though - Free Republic.
I'm giving them another week or so to stop acting like jackasses - especially Ben Shapiro, dude
That’s the one. The Great Carnac, was his title.
At least Johnny C. was in on the joke. I’m not sure Glenn always is.
“Balaam’s ass was wiser than Glenn Beck”
Absolutely. The ass knew what he was talking about, unlike the buffoonish Beck.
That would make Ted Cruz his Oliver Douglas character.
The educated, big city attorney, who takes the bait every single time.”Fresh air! Times Square!”
Yep....Glen Beck is a dumb ass and not a conservative
Rush Limbaugh is a dumb ass and not a conservative
Sean Hannity is a dumb ass and not a conservative.
Mark Levin is a dumb ass and not a conservative.
Ted Cruz is a dumb ass not a conservative.
But Trump, a life long Democrat just tells his suckers he is a conservative without an ounce of evidence and he becomes the epitome of conservativism...
He doesn’t mention the ones where he predicted the collapse of the stock market , riots in the streets, food shortages, and civil war... that was supposed to be in 2994
Nicely played
I'd be more sorry about the atrocious spelling ("CAPTIAN HIND SITE") - or do you wish to blame "spellcheck" plus the fact that you were thumbing your iPhone while motorcycling through a busy intersection? :-)
Regards,
no dyslixic
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