Posted on 04/29/2010 2:08:36 PM PDT by patriotgal1787
I tuned in to Glenn Beck's radio show this morning to hear him telling listeners how down and disappointed he is that not one, NOT ONE media outlet reported on the Puerto Rico Statehood Bill HR 2499 debate that was to be taken up in Congress today. Left unsaid by Glenn was any mention of Faux News, but to my ears, the omission was deafening.
It's evident that Glenn's not ready to cut that cord yet. And thank goodness for that, because we need him telling us what's going on. God knows NO ONE ELSE is doing the research and digging and reporting that he is.
Yet I wonder how long it will be before Glenn and Faux "News" part ways. Glenn has turned his radio show studio into a television studio, complete with six cameras that can pivot and focus as smoothly as any TV studio cam can. He's also producing video documentaries which are available to his premium website "insiders" for a nominal monthly fee. From there, it's a short step toward internet television, something I suspect a frustrated Glenn is savvy enough to have already thought of.
As the convergence of television and internet become more commonplace, Glenn will no longer need Faux "News" or any other "news" channel to get his message out to America. I wrote about it my Surfin Safari column this week at World Net Daily:
Buying an Internet-ready TV
Chances are the TV set you buy today is Internet-ready. So, why pay $75 to $90 per month for cable when Hulu streams TV for free?OK, so back to the action Congress is undertaking to slide Puerto Ricans onto the voter polls...Netflix streams unlimited movies for less than $10 a month, and Amazon offers 50,000 on-demand titles.
Internet-connected TVs can also provide news, social-media updates and video chat on a big screen using nothing but an Ethernet cord and a broadband modem. Here are some tips to help you figure out what you need.
Painesright at Free Republic posts this comment, which lays it all out very neatly. Tune in to Glenn's show on Faux this afternoon. As Painesright says, it might be the most important TV show we'll see in our lifetime. At least on Faux "News", anyway.
Glenn Beck is in the process of exposing possibly the biggest con in the history of the world.The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX): a potential $10 TRILLION “carbon credit” market created out of thin air (literally).
Who’s involved in the CCX in some way? Barack Obama, Al Gore and ... wait for it.... Goldman Sachs among others!
Beck laid the foundation for the story on his 4/26 show.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQitjq2CXS0
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zKCaSLISQ
Tonight Glenn tells us about Emerald Cities, the brainchild of Franklin “$90 Million Dollar Man” Raines of the notorious Fannie Mae accounting scandal.
Emerald Cities members and backers include the SEIU, AFL-CIO and every other wealth-redistributing marxist, socialist and communist organization in America. These left-wing radical groups are set to reap billions of dollars from the sale of carbon credits.
All they need in order to make this $10 Trillion payday happen is Cap and Trade... which, shocker, Goldman Sachs is sure to support too!
Once you understand what is going on with the CCX, there is no mystery whatsoever as to why Goldman is happy to support Obama’s financial reform. Getting a piece of the carbon credit action is well worth playing the pinata for a week at the kabuki theatre hearings in DC.
Watch or TiVo Glenn Beck tonight at 5:00 Eastern 4:00 Central Standard Time.
It might be the most important TV show in our lifetime.
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Fox had it up on their website all morning today.
Ive not been a fan of Glens but have started watching him the last couple of weeks. honestly Im jaw dropping shocked at what he is saying. He is like a history teacher. I think people are just sitting back and wondering what is going to happen next. WOW. Today’s tv show. once again shocking.
Thanks for that info - did they report on it on their news channel or the Fox Business News channel???
Beck is doing tremendous work at Fox News. Most people criticizing him either don’t know squat about the commie left or are lefties trying to silence him. Knowledgeable critics from the right do so only because he occasionally misses some important details.
The bill is a non binding vote.
PR has voted several times on whether to become a state, it always goes down to defeat. Why, because they get all the beniefits without paying federal taxes.
Interesting take. So if I criticize Beck I am a communist, stupid or don't believe in free speech.
Sorry, bud I can't stand him because he is a freaking cry baby, and I am convinced either mentally unstable or drinking.
I am so afraid for Glenn’s Life, and that of his family.....he is reaching Madam President’s level of danger....but he is helping her for sure by exposing these crooks and enemies of America
that’s funny, I heard it on Fox before I went to work...
Never heard of them before Glenn discussed this today. Anyone else out there covering this? Anyone?
http://www.emeraldcities.org/?q=board
I know where you are coming from. I had to take a break from Glenn. No one out there is connecting the dots like Glenn. No one. Why?
He doesn't breakdown like that much anymore. But I see nothing wrong with him, or anyone who greatly cares about the country, occasionally tearing up and getting emotional about what is happening. Also, a lot of what he does is pure theater meant to keep those with short attention spans and other learning disabilities interested long enough to learn something about what the commie left is trying to do to our country. He is putting out info that NO ONE in his position even comes close to.
Puerto Rican statehood today!
April 29, 3:21 AM · James Simpson - DC Independent Examiner
Apparently there is to be a vote later today on a bill regarding Puerto Rican statehood. They are calling it “non-binding” but it is not non-binding! It is a trap. The bill makes eventual Puerto Rican statehood a virtual certainty. This is despite the fact that statehood has been voted down repeatedly. The Puerto Rican people don’t want it!
But since when has that stopped the Left from ramming what they want down people’s throats? And why do they want it? The same reason they want everything, to further entrench their power. Statehood would mean two new senators, six or seven new representatives, and a whole slew of new voters. As Examiner.com’s Robert Moon points out:
Due to its dense population of poverty-stricken minorities, Puerto Rico can be counted on to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats and all their handouts, and their representation will also consequently outnumber that of 25 other existing U.S. states.
Meanwhile, with Puerto Ricans having an average income of less than half that of our poorest state, they will instantly become eligible for dozens of our welfare programs. Truckloads of taxpayer dollars will also have to be perpetually dumped into the territory, by federal law, to bring it up to American infrastructure and environmental standards.
Oh, and never mind us. We don’t get a say in this either. Puerto Rico, which doesn’t want statehood, is being forced to vote, while we American citizens, who have a vested interest in the outcome, will not be given the opportunity to vote! Simply incredible!
HR 2499, titled “A Bill, to provide for a federally sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico” follows a very devious, underhanded multi-step path to essentially force Puerto Rican voters to eventually adopt statehood. Here’s how.
The bill first authorizes Puerto Rico to hold a vote where they are given the following two choices only:
1. Puerto Rico should maintain its current political status.
2. Puerto Rico should have a different political status (Different political status. These vague words are exactly as in the bill.)
So citizens get to choose 1 or 2. Period, no ifs, ands or buts. Then the bill stipulates what comes next:
If the people choose option 1 – which they have chosen multiple times already – then the Puerto Rican government is directed to conduct more plebiscites every eight years for the foreseeable future. So in other words, Mr. Puerto Rican citizen, we are going to keep cramming this down your throat until a majority of you choose option 2.
Once the people choose option 2, then there will be a second vote with the following three options:
1. Full independence.
2. Sovereignty “in association with the United States…” not subject to the Constitution’s Territorial Clause.
3. Statehood.
For the record, the first two options will not get much support. So the entire structure of the bill is designed to funnel Puerto Rican voters into a predetermined outcome: Statehood. This despite the fact that Puerto Ricans have voted against statehood over and over again!
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a senior Democrat Congressman no less, just posted his views on this bill at Huffington Post. Here is what he has to say about it:
I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress, whose parents were born in Puerto Rico, and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career. This statehood bill is the opposite of self-determination.
It is designed to craft an artificial majority for statehood where none exists now (Emphasis, mine). Every time the people of Puerto Rico have been consulted on this issue through a plebiscite they’ve said NO to Statehood. NO to Statehood in 1967. NO to Statehood in 1993. NO to Statehood in 1998. This should be called the “Don’t you dare say NO to Statehood Bill”.
But he is just getting going. Listen to this:
When a similar Puerto Rico bill came up under Speaker Newt Gingrich’s Republican controlled Congress a decade ago, it was the product of lengthy and thorough hearings and an open and fair process. Then, I was given time to offer seven amendments. Then I was able to clarify the bill for the Puerto Rican people. Then, each of my seven amendments got 30 minutes of floor time for debate.
Flash forward to now. Now a Democratic Majority Congress is only allowing me two of the 16 amendments I offered in the Rules Committee on Wednesday. Now I only have 10 minutes to debate each one.
Now, under Democratic Leadership, we get one hearing, no forewarning, no companion Senate bill, and a debate only a few seconds longer than a NASCAR pit-stop…I get more time to debate renaming a Post Office than I will get to debate a bill that could make Puerto Rico the fifty-first state.
In my opinion, this bill is the political equivalent of a shady Goldman Sachs derivative: It’s secretive. It lacks transparency. It’s likely to blow up down the road and cause systemic risk to out democracy. And those who put this political derivative together don’t really tell you what this is really about and will play dumb when it explodes.
We all know now from the outrageous experience of Obamacare that leftists could care less what the will of the people is. For those of you who traditionally vote Democrat this should serve as a warning: that includes you! Even if it’s those poor, downtrodden Puerto Ricans the Left claims to want to help so much. Ram Obamacare down Americas’ throat; ram statehood down Puerto Rico’s throat.
Do I detect a pattern here?
And in case you think Democrats have any intention of reining in spending, Puerto Rican statehood would mean big bucks too.
This information needs to go viral. Congress needs to hear from all of us big time. Congress needs to be shut down with phone calls and faxes starting first thing in the morning. That is today, April 29, 2010.
All this is going on while everyone is distracted by the monstrous financial bailout bill coming out of the Senate. The timing was deliberate! And we now hear that despite losing support from lone RINO Republican Lindsey Graham, the Democrats are going to go ahead with illegal immigrant amnesty.
So now we have a pretty comprehensive electoral strategy mapped out:
1. Naturalize 12 million illegal aliens
2. Universal voter registration
3. Do away with Electoral College using state-by-state approach
4. Force Puerto Rican statehood.
5. Soros-funded Secretary of State project to help steal close elections
6. Cap & Trade, and Stimulus monies as political slush fund.
If you’re not sufficiently angry and alarmed now, there is no hope for you. These people are demonstrating right to our faces their willingness to trample our rights and defy our will. If they are willing to do this now, what will they be willing to do if they get the permanent majorities they want?
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So if I criticize Beck I am a communist, stupid or don't believe in free speech.
Look up the word "most".
Probably.
But is he incorrect? Is he wrong?
Stop looking at the surface of his antics which is just plain Glenn and look at the information he gives us. Who the hell else is reporting this? I don’t remember many other media outlets mentioning Van Jones and others...
You have every right to criticize Beck for his emotions, his weight whatever. But does that change the facts?
I’m curious about your reaction to post 13.
Do you find it informative? Anything written there that you were not aware of?
What say you?
No, no.
explains, a, lot.
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