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Glenn Beck the Progressive
The Conservative Funhouse ^ | 3/13/2010 | Tomer Israeli

Posted on 03/13/2010 5:03:27 PM PST by conservativefunhouse

Glenn Beck loves freedom. He loves freedom of speech, freedom of travel, and he fights anyone who tries to take away those freedoms.

Beck is also against labels of left and right. Just like O’Reilly, he wants the image of an independent centrist. Both men do it by criticizing the right at times. Both men, in my opinion, care more about criticizing the right than they do about facts or logic (I admit I made a driveby comment about Bill. Maybe I’ll expand another time).

Recently, in his March 8th TV show, about 13 minutes in, Glenn Beck started warning about the dangers of the extreme left and extreme right all over the world. He started out by speaking about the weakening of center-right French Prime Minister Sarkozi, and the rise of who he called “far right” Villepin.

Then Beck said this:

“Also, you have far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders. Last year he was banned from the UK. They said his presence could threaten community harmony and therefore public safety. Last week not only was he allowed into England, he was at the house of lords, where he screened a film on the quran.”

The right, and the left, are growing again in Europe. The left, listen carefully, the left in Europe is communism. The right is fascism, in Europe. Europe is making the same mistakes that they made at the turn of the century.”

And then: “Please, watch the crazy fringe groups in Europe and email, tweet them to me…”

Two points are to be made here...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: beck; christian; glenn; islam; lds; mormon; progressive; saudifox
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1 posted on 03/13/2010 5:03:28 PM PST by conservativefunhouse
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To: conservativefunhouse
"Glenn Beck loves freedom. He loves freedom of speech, freedom of travel, and he fights anyone who tries to take away those freedoms. "

God bless Beck!!!

2 posted on 03/13/2010 5:09:23 PM PST by dokmad
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To: conservativefunhouse

I’m pretty much fed up with Glenn Beck. It appears that he is only out to help himself, aka, the 9-12 Project which it appears he started because he could not control the Teaparty movement, in my opinion. Hannity is much the same, in my opinion. And BOR is the worst of all - nothing but an Obama door mat. Rush and Mark are the only two I count on.


3 posted on 03/13/2010 5:09:44 PM PST by Jukeman
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To: conservativefunhouse

His main connection to O’Reilly is his constant shilling for a buck.


4 posted on 03/13/2010 5:11:11 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: conservativefunhouse

Nice, another noob pimping his blog and bashing Beck...how original, not.


5 posted on 03/13/2010 5:20:54 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: conservativefunhouse
Fascists are considered right wing only because their ideological cousins, the communists, called them that to separate themselves from the fascists in their recruiting. The only real difference between them is one preaches globally, the other locally.

Jonah Goldberg did an excellent job of pointing that out in his book "Liberal Fascism" with a story about a British reporter going to Germany. In the years before the rise of the Nazis, the students he visited has commie propaganda all over the place. When the Nazis were coming in to power, but not in complete control, the Brit visited again and there was Nazi propaganda all over. Both are of the left.

6 posted on 03/13/2010 5:34:51 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: conservativefunhouse

Beck is all about freedom, then why criticize Geert Wilders, who is speaking out for it in Europe despite jail, threats on his life? As for DeVillipin a “rightwing extremist”—?? A French official who protested the WOT and stood for his government against Bush? He must have changed. Beck goes off half-cocked and shoots himself in the foot. Or elsewhere.


7 posted on 03/13/2010 5:38:08 PM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: conservativefunhouse
Also, you have far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders. Last year he was banned from the UK. They said his presence could threaten community harmony and therefore public safety. Last week not only was he allowed into England, he was at the house of lords, where he screened a film on the quran.”

I have been a fan of Beck, but he doesn't know what the heck he is talking about on Geert Wilders. He may need to actually go spend some time in Europe(like I have), and get a clue.
What Beck is doing here, is kinda like some guy sitting in Europe, and calling the Tea Party a "racist far right group", without knowing what the Tea Parties are really about. How would Beck like it if some European did that?

8 posted on 03/13/2010 5:41:09 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservativefunhouse

For all of Beck’s time spent at a blackboard — or whiteboard — and all the time he says he spends reading history, he sure gets some of the basics (some of the easy stuff) radically and ridiculously wrong.


9 posted on 03/13/2010 5:42:35 PM PST by samtheman
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To: molybdenum
Beck is all about freedom, then why criticize Geert Wilders, who is speaking out for it in Europe despite jail, threats on his life?

Pretty much.
Beck should be praising Geert Wilders, who is risking his life, to expose Islamo Facism. Let's not forget the several attempts that have been made on the life of the Dutch cartoonist who made an anti-Islamic cartoon. Geert Wilders is a very brave man. The last thing he needs, is Beck going out there, and encouraging even more Islamic crazies to go take him out, by essentially branding him a right wing kook.

10 posted on 03/13/2010 5:46:03 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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Perhaps Glenn Beck ( who is calling Wilders a fascist ) ought to spend a few months over in the Netherlands and Belgium as I have.
The Muslims just do not assimilate, but they sure do procreate. Interestingly, the Jews also live apart in their quarters (ghettos).
According to a Nixon center report - fully a quarter of jihadists are western European nationals who can travel visa-free to the U.S.
Wilders is doing us a favor.
And I’m really ticked off at Glenn Beck for slandering Wilders. Wilders is facing hate speech charges from The Hague and has to travel with a bodyguard. Beck should relate to that.
By the way, I hate Hate Speech Tribunals.


11 posted on 03/13/2010 5:47:00 PM PST by A'elian' nation ( A lie told a thousand times is more believable than a fact heard the first time.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Theo Van Gogh could also tell about the dangers of IslamOfascists except he was killed on the streets of Holland by one.


12 posted on 03/13/2010 5:49:59 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: SmokingJoe

“...calling the Tea Party a “racist far right group”, without knowing what the Tea Parties are really about. How would Beck like it if some European did that?”

Beck does that himself already.


13 posted on 03/13/2010 5:50:05 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Geert Wilders is fighting to take Holland and Europe back from the Islamofascists who have gone full bore with their insurrection in the last ten years.

Beck has a problem; he works for FOXnews, now partly owned by Alaweed bin Talal, the Saudi prince who tried to buy off the atrocities of his countrymen with a ten million$$$ check which Mayor Rudy tore up. FOX and Beck have changed now. See this-- http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1261/Should-Fox-News-Register-as-a-Saudi-Agent.aspx

14 posted on 03/13/2010 5:50:14 PM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: molybdenum

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1261/Should-Fox-News-Register-as-a-Saudi-Agent.aspx


15 posted on 03/13/2010 5:51:26 PM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: A'elian' nation
Beck either does little research, or he has been seriously infected by "work both sides of the street" Bill O'Reilly.

OR, he is actually just phony.

16 posted on 03/13/2010 5:55:06 PM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: SmokingJoe

“Geert Wilders is a very brave man. The last thing he needs, is Beck going out there, and encouraging even more Islamic crazies to go take him out, by essentially branding him a right wing kook.”

That is scary! But why is Beck so popular?


17 posted on 03/13/2010 5:58:08 PM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: IYAS9YAS

Bingo, we have a winner!!

Socialism and Fascism are joined at the hip, The difference between socialism and communism is the difference between Seduction and RAPE, in the end ya still got screwed.


18 posted on 03/13/2010 6:08:12 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: IYAS9YAS

Bingo, we have a winner!!

Socialism and Fascism are joined at the hip, The difference between socialism and communism is the difference between Seduction and RAPE, in the end ya still got screwed.


19 posted on 03/13/2010 6:08:13 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: conservativefunhouse
Last week Beck, relating New Deal history, said "FDR was wildly popular, just as Barack Obama is today".

Hey Glenn...FDR's popularity (and out of control spending) his first two years won Democrats 9 Senate seats and lost Republicans 14 House seats in the 1934 midterms.

How many seats ya think Barack's popularity will win Democrats this year?

Lots of what Beck says is great. Seen information I thought would never be on TV. But now and then...he's nuts.

20 posted on 03/13/2010 6:14:47 PM PST by Brugmansian
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