Posted on 02/22/2010 12:15:34 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Glenn Beck has now supplanted Rush Limbaugh as the most influential broadcaster in America. He's the one the tea-party movement looks to. Beck wowed the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) crowd Feb 20 with his attack on progressivism, which he said must be "eradicated." "Progressivism is the cancer in America and it's eating our Constitution," Beck told the crowd.
Now that Beck has given his marching orders, expect to hear all the Fox Puppets echoing him. The goal is to discredit "progressivism" as they did "liberalism."
Beck fancies himself a historian; his patter is full of historical references that seem to have convinced his audience that he knows what he's talking about. Historians like Beck know that when they offer provocative ideas, they bear responsibility for what those ideas actually mean.
So let's look at what would happen if the "cancer" had been cut out when it first appeared, as Beck recommends. A world without the Progressive Era would be a world with:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.newsweek.com ...
They have never been able to knock out Rush so they try to artificially elevate someone they think they can destroy.
I have heard Beck warn that a character assassination attempt on him is imminent. I would take this article as support for that idea.
Nothing like half-arsed hitpiece “journalism.”
Another liberal rag. To think my father used to read it. Maybe in his day, the writers still had character and values - boy would he be surprised today - but, my canary still loves it:)
Amen!
I believe one reason we are in the condition we are in today is because of this amendment.
The founding fathers created the HOUSE to represent the people. The SENATE was meant to represent the STATES.
I do not believe we would have life long Senators if the states controlled who served.
Probably, lulz. Hell, I can’t remember the last time I picked up an issue of Newsweek, let alone read it.
I seriously thought this libtard rag outlet was defunct and heading to the grave yard with the rest of the other dead libtard rags. Go figure.
A world without the Progressive Era would be a world with:
The author seems to be under the false belief that just because something is new or changes the status quo, it must be "progressive".
Wouldn’t it actually be Socialism?
Beck is also a clown in his approach so they would rather paint Conservatives along that line.
>> Newsweak... average of of its subscribers has to be 68?
Age, or IQ? :-)
You've got that right. Beck focuses on the creation of the Fed, income taxes, etc., but the oh-so-bright Alter thinks that means he's against women's suffrage. That's where I stopped reading. Stupid article.
Liberal weenie alert.
What a MORON! Sheeze do some research assjack!
In 1982 the Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to break up AT&T into one long-distance company and seven regional "Baby Bells", arguing that competition should replace monopoly for the benefit of consumers and the economy as a whole.
A lot of liberal leaning people believe that “progressives” and “progressivism” means “progress”....It could not be further from the truth...
Progressivism actually means “change” or “reform”...It doesn’t say forward...It doesn’t have anything to do with progress which means “moving FORWARD”...
That's a tell-tale sign that you need to call the Dentist and get your teeth cleaned.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a PHYSICAL assassination attempt on him was imminent. He says he has bodyguards, and people like Andy Stern believe in using The Persuasion of Power (TM, ®, ©, etc.).
In late 2001, in the wake of 9/11, Alter wrote a column backing certain kinds of torture[3], arguing for the implementation of a psychological torture program in the U.S., as well as having prisoners in American custody shipped oversees to be tortured more severely elsewhere. Alter later regretted the column. "There is one column I'd very much like to have back--a column that to this day makes me wince at the thought of it. This column was not technically inaccurate, but it was still a mistake--a big mistake--to write it."[4]
Alter became a sometimes fierce critic of President Bush[citation needed], with a particular emphasis on what Alter considered his lack of accountability and his position on embryonic stem cell research. Alter, who is a cancer survivor, has written and spoken occasionally about his own bout with lymphoma and experience with an adult stem-cell transplant. The Defining Moment, which was reviewed respectfully, surprised some critics with its depiction of how close the United States came to dictatorship before Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, painting him as the savior of American democracy and capitalism. During an interview with 60 Minutes on November 14, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama said he had recently been reading The Defining Moment and hoped to apply some of Roosevelt's strategies that were outlined in the book into his own administration.[5]
I don’t consider the 17th necessarily a completely good thing.
Alter is a ‘tard, to put it in Rahm-like liberaleze.
By his logic, Beck dislikes FDR, and therefore was rooting for the Nazis in WWII.
If anything means progress...”moving FORWARD”, it is capitalism...moving forward to stay ahead of competition...which is the lifeblood of America...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.