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The Left's Campaign To Destroy Glenn Beck
FrontPageMag.com ^ | 9/18/2009 | David Horowitz

Posted on 09/24/2009 12:57:09 PM PDT by SeattleBruce

The Left has launched a massive campaign to destroy Glenn Beck -- who right now, and along with Rush, is the most eloquent, fearless and effective warrior standing between Barack Obama and a collectivist state. The politics of personal destruction is what the left does best, and in many ways it is all the left does. "Purge" -- as in defame and then dispose of your political enemies -- is a term that leftists invented in the 1930s when Joseph Stalin staged show trials of his political enemies, defamed and demonized them, and then buried them. Witch-hunts are a leftist specialty -- identify your political enemy, freeze him, and isolate him by painting him as a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, nutcase -- whatever will work to banish him from the society of decent human beings and silence him. This is what the left is now trying to do to Glenn Beck, with its usual arsenal of malicious distortion, misrepresentation and made up "facts."

The new cover story in TIME portrays Beck as a Mad Man. (You want to see a Mad Man? Watch Keith Olbermann). A feature in today's Salon portrays Beck as a Mormon nut job. How's that for religious tolerance! (And by the way, the two or three sentences about me are inventions of the writer, as the interview he links shows, if you bother to read it.) As for Olbermann, he does a Beck lynching every night (and a Bachmann lynching, and a Coulter lynching, and a Limbaugh lynching... What we are witnessing is a political mob; its agenda is the destruction of anyone brazen enough to stand in its path and say "no" to its assault on Americans' freedom .

But it's not going to work.

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To: SeattleBruce

Glenn posed for that cover picture?


21 posted on 09/24/2009 1:14:43 PM PDT by Dooderbutt
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To: SeattleBruce
The eagerness of some conservatives like David Frum to throw Glenn Beck under the bus reminds me of Trotsky's observation about pacificists as people who don't want to get their moral principles wet. Although with conservatives it's more like they don't want to get their Armani suits wet. They don't want anyone associated with them to appear to be street fighters when we're in the middle of a street fight. It's the snob effect.Or more likely it's a conservative Stockholm Syndrome. Held hostage by a leftwing media, some conservatives think that by dissociating themselves from Rush Limbaugh under attack, or Sarah Palin, or Joe Wilson or innumerable others, they can get their enemies to like them. The spectacle is pathetic and disgusting and the hope fatuous.
22 posted on 09/24/2009 1:14:52 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: stockpirate

I noticed that both Mark Liven and Joe Scarbourgh were attacking Glenn to no end the last couple of days.
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What’s Mark’s beef? I notice he can be pretty particular...and he’s got some mega success under his belt, so perhaps he’s throwing around his weight/authority? But why - I’ve not listened to his critiques on Beck much - I do catch Mark on the radio now and again.


23 posted on 09/24/2009 1:16:10 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: grey_whiskers

The only one who could destroy Glenn Beck is Glenn Beck himself which I think he might admit. He is a great radio and tv performer, but I wouldnt be surprised to see him flip out on tv one day like the anchorman in the movie Network.


24 posted on 09/24/2009 1:16:33 PM PDT by mono
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To: stockpirate; holdonnow

Yeah, I love Mark, but he needs to lay off Glenn. We’re all on the same side, and our heroes shooting at our other heroes only helps Axelrod and company.


25 posted on 09/24/2009 1:16:54 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: SeattleBruce
The eagerness of some conservatives like David Frum...

Yeah, some conservative he is.

26 posted on 09/24/2009 1:17:15 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: SeattleBruce

2010 BACK TO WASHINGTON AGAIN!


27 posted on 09/24/2009 1:17:58 PM PDT by Recon Dad
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To: tips up

And even if it did work, Beck has factored it in and has gone to great lengths to make sure that he himself is not the message. So even if they got him they would win nothing. Beck has pointed his audience to the sources, facts and to their own reasoning and has encouraged them to continue no matter what happens with him.


28 posted on 09/24/2009 1:18:46 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (The trouble with trouble is it starts out as Utopia)
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To: SeattleBruce
You know, it's really time to stop worrying about the kiddies at Salon and elsewhere, they're on the ropes.

They're all out of moves...because...we're so polarized now, they're just preachin' to the choir.

Besides, after all the crop the dems have been into, they will be hard-pressed to top it with something on Glen or Rush.

Just do like eddie murphy and cover both ears and sing 'La-la-la-la-la-la, we're not listening, la-la-la-la". We really shouldn't even give them the satisfaction of posting it on FR.

Mom's advice was best, "Ignore them and they'll go away.".
29 posted on 09/24/2009 1:19:56 PM PDT by FrankR (We are only enslaved to the extent of charity we receive....INCUMBENTS OUT!!!)
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To: American Constitutionalist

RFK, Jr. called Beck a fascist, as in: “I missed my fascist bus; I have to work late, my boss is a real fascist; or, my fascist wife is making me mow the yard, so I’ll miss the game”; as Orwell put it, for socialists words that can be followed by “ism” now mean: “anything I find unpleasant or objectionable,” or as the Cheshire cat(?) said to Alice: `When I use a word, it means exactly what I intend it to mean.’
So Beck’s right: when they try to insult all they’re doing is saying, “My aching a**! “ and that’s your cue to steer them back on topic and resume flaying their skin.


30 posted on 09/24/2009 1:20:25 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: SeattleBruce

Beck is single-handedly saving taxpayers potentially 8 billion dollars that was headed to ACORN ... so several wobbly advertisers pull their spots from his show. They should be thanking him for orchestrating a populist funding veto that the Republican minority could never hope to accomplish.


31 posted on 09/24/2009 1:20:26 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: bboop

Hannity also.


32 posted on 09/24/2009 1:21:11 PM PDT by mel
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To: Dooderbutt

I think he did. Perhaps he figures, all publicity is good publicity?


33 posted on 09/24/2009 1:23:51 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: SeattleBruce
Witch-hunts are a leftist specialty -- identify your political enemy, freeze him, and isolate him by painting him as a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, nutcase -- whatever will work to banish him from the society of decent human beings and silence him. This is what the left is now trying to do to Glenn Beck, with its usual arsenal of malicious distortion, misrepresentation and made up "facts."

I actually think it goes deeper than this. The left is so unhinged that they are unable to finally implement their left-wing utopia that they have started to believe their own propaganda - they actually believe all this stuff they are making up about Beck, because it is pulled from their deranged and distorted perceptions of what makes up red state America. And when you start to believe your own propaganda, well, that is when you fall.

34 posted on 09/24/2009 1:24:24 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Liberty Valance

Beck is single-handedly saving taxpayers potentially 8 billion dollars that was headed to ACORN ... so several wobbly advertisers pull their spots from his show. They should be thanking him for orchestrating a populist funding veto that the Republican minority could never hope to accomplish.
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Hear, hear!


35 posted on 09/24/2009 1:24:55 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: SeattleBruce
. . all publicity is good publicity?

If your a good guy!

36 posted on 09/24/2009 1:25:23 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: FrankR

stop worrying about the kiddies at Salon and elsewhere
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Front Page Mag is a conservative effort:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/


37 posted on 09/24/2009 1:28:05 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: tumblindice
GLEICHSHALTUNG = DIVERSITY !!.....

Using the Race Card is the policy of = GLEICHSCHALTUNG !!!

ACORN = GLEICHSHALTUNG !!

SEIU = GLEICHSHALTUNG !!!

Main Fringe Media = GLEICHSHALTUNG !!!

Liberal News Papers = GLEICHSHALTUNG !!!

Indoctrinating the school children and have them sing Obama praises - GLEICHSHALTUNG !!!!

National Teachers Union = GLEICHSHALTUNG !!!

National Endowment of the Arts = GLEICHSHALTUNG !!!

Please, let's get the word out to RUSH, GLENN, MARK, MICHELLE NOW !!

This is what the leftist model is modeled after, the NAZI GERMANY GLEICHSHALTUNG ...
38 posted on 09/24/2009 1:29:17 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Yeah, I love Mark, but he needs to lay off Glenn. We’re all on the same side, and our heroes shooting at our other heroes only helps Axelrod and company.

I think Levin doesn't like Beck because he thinks Beck is like Savage, a performing dancing bear conservative. Jingoistic-ally sloganeering into the microphone but no real philosophical underpinnings. I do disagree with the great one on Beck, I think he is solid and effective with that 20-35 demographic. Its all well and good to wax poetic on Edmund Burke and Levin's bestseller is one of the best books out there but he can get petty and be a bit of a purist. Beck is a good guy, Savage on the other hand well he is as useless as nipples on a boar hog with his muddled BOR type populist drivel.

39 posted on 09/24/2009 1:29:25 PM PDT by pburgh01
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To: cripplecreek

Are they saying Glenn caused it?


40 posted on 09/24/2009 1:30:32 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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