[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Etc., etc.

Sounds like something from high school:

Beck likes hacks, neener-neener-neener...

[screaminsunshine]

Communist idiot from Newsweak.

[Nat Turner]

NewsWEAK is still around??

[mnehring]

Glenn Beck has now supplanted Rush Limbaugh as the most influential broadcaster in America.

Says who? They serve different roles. Rush is an educator, Beck is more of an entertainer. It is like comparing your professor (Rush) to a motivational speaker (Beck).

[RockinRight]

Only men voting: The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was the product of progressivisim. Beck thinks women are second-class citizens.

OK, show me a quote where Beck said that. Wait, you can't? Facts are stubborn things, aren't they?

[the long march]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

L is for LOSER.

[cranked]

Newsweek who again?

[Puppage]

with his attack on progressivism

Progressivism is what they call it when they're afraid to call it what it REALLY is: liberalism.

[Army Air Corps]

Beck thinks women are second-class citizens.

Of course, the author has proof to support this statement. Right? Right?

Nothing like half-arsed hitpiece "journalism."

[mylife]

Glenn Beck has now supplanted Rush Limbaugh as the most influential broadcaster in America.

Lol!!!

[chris_bdba]

Duh! Beck is not talking about wiping out technonly just the progressiveism in Federal government. I guess Jonathan Alter “fancies” himself as a writer?

[Nervous Tick]

Personally, I don’t think Glenn Beck is worthy to tie Rush Limbaugh’s shoes.

But if he’s pi$$ing Jonathan Alter off, he’s certainly doing SOMETHING right!

Go get ‘em, Glenn boy!

[Tarpon]

Rick Santelli spawned the Tea Party on Feb 19, 2009 while ranting away on CNBC.

Got that wrong, probably the rest of the article is "WE SURE WOULD LIKE YOU TO BELIEVE THIS", so we can start a fight.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Progressivism gave us cell phones.

But wait... don’t cell phones cause cancer?

Progressivism really does cause cancer! Beck was more right than he ever knew!

[ez]

Alter gets most of it wrong. It actually would be better if state legislatures still elected Senators. Cell phone would have been invented with or without deregulation. And women would eventually got the vote with or without progressives. However, it would have been better if they had kept the vote limited to landowners...the serfs just vote to spread their property around.

[CIB-173RDABN]

State legislatures electing U.S. senators: The 17th Amendment, part of the progressive movement, allowed for the direct election of senators. If you think the Senate is bad now, imagine what it was like when state legislators were the only voters. (They defeated Abraham Lincoln in Illinois in 1858 even though he won the popular vote for Senate). Beck likes hacks.,/b>

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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.

[mnehring]

Let's attack these:

A world without the Progressive Era would be a world with:

• Only men voting: The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was the product of progressivisim. Beck thinks women are second-class citizens.No, Conservatism is all about individual rights. The 19th Amendment is not a "Progressive" (ie Liberal) item. Just like Conservatives (Republicans) fought against slavery and racial discrimination, this is another right we would have fought for. In addition, as this was done as a Constitutional amendment, it followed the Conservative path of respecting the Constitutional process.

• No cell phone or low-cost long-distance telephone service: It was the breakup of AT&T in the 1970s under the progressive antitrust laws that allowed for today's telecommunications (and computer) systems. Beck thinks corporations should have no restraints at all. Again, they don't understand Conservatives at all. Anti-trust laws ensure a free market, something that Conservatives fight for. Liberals are the ones who seek to over-regulate the market to the point there is a monopoly based on Government interventionism in the markets. A freer market may have resulted in more competition without the need for this particular anti-trust action, but is in no way implying that this was a "progressive" action. Progressives would have the fedgov take over said industry.

• State legislatures electing U.S. senators: The 17th Amendment, part of the progressive movement, allowed for the direct election of senators. Again, this followed the Constitutional process thus, is Conservative by the very act of creation. This isn't a "progressive" law in the least.

  The author seems to be under the false belief that just because something is new or changes the status quo, it must be "progressive".

[GonzoGOP]

Glenn Beck and the Fox Puppets Want to Repeal the 20th Century

My God we might have to go back to being a self sufficient, optimistic, export financed country with a rapidly expanding standard of living, trade and budget surpluses, low taxes, a small government that while it didn't do much did what tasks it was constitutionally assigned well. Oh the horror of going back to a time when people were actually expected to work, and where everybody knew that their kids would do better than they did, as long as they were willing to work for it. How could anyone imagine going back to a time when immigration was controlled on Eilis Island and where once admitted those immigrants were proud of their new country. /sarc

[Mamzelle]

re: Sounds like something from high school:)))

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.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Liberal weenie alert.

[avacado]

"No cell phone or low-cost long-distance telephone service: It was the breakup of AT&T in the 1970s under the progressive antitrust laws that allowed for today's telecommunications (and computer) systems. Beck thinks corporations should have no restraints at all."

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.