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New Meme: Glenn Beck EXACTLY Like Dead, Forgotten Trash TV Host from the 80s (who was a Democrat)
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | January 31, 2011 | Kathy Shaidle

Posted on 02/01/2011 10:48:49 PM PST by Walter Scott Hudson

If progressives wonder why they began to falter at the end of the 20th century, I can tell them.

Analogies.

The great battles for black, workers', and female rights having been (mostly) won. So-called "liberals" started calling themselves "progressives" at the precise moment they began, perversely, living in (and off) the past.

As the stakes got smaller -- a side effect of the shift in the Left's locus from the streets and the factory to the academy -- the rhetoric became more comically overblown.

So a girl demanding admittance to an all-male military school was held up as the Rosa Parks of the Citadel. (After dragging the school through an expensive lawsuit, and winning, the stupid chick dropped out her first week).

Some New York transvestites at a Mafia-run bar got maudlin drunk after Judy Garland died then attacked some cops -- and "Stonewall" was held up as synonymous with "Selma." Baby seals were just like Bangladesh babies, with snow.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; mortondowneyjr; talkradio
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1 posted on 02/01/2011 10:48:58 PM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
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To: Walter Scott Hudson

Wow...the left is comparing Beck to ol’ Mort? Man...that’s so desperate that’s actually funny! I’m not a big fan of Beck, but come on...Morton Downey, jr? LOL!

For the youngins’ not aware of the circus that was Mort:

Mort versus schlock horror film maker Lloyd Kaufman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFtusuqoaMQ

Mort has the Guardian Angels on - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUNxvKqAIeY

Roy Innis and Al Sharpton get into it on Mort’s stage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_WryOg2oZU


2 posted on 02/01/2011 11:06:39 PM PST by DemforBush (I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name..)
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To: DemforBush

I remember him!

It’s mostly a vague fog but I watched him— he seemed mean and scared me a bit but I would still watch.

Was he on the new FOX with 21 Jump Street and all that?

Yikes it has been a while...he’s dead? What happened?


3 posted on 02/01/2011 11:36:44 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Irenic

The smokes got ‘im, Irenic. Downey died from lung cancer in 2001.


4 posted on 02/01/2011 11:40:46 PM PST by DemforBush (I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name..)
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To: Walter Scott Hudson
I watched him when I was a kid. It was a circus act and I don't recall anyone taking this buffoon seriously. It seemed as though he was irrelevant after a couple years deservedly so. If the left needs to question anyone's motives for doing their show, they should examine Ed Schultz. There is evidence that he does his gig strictly for DNC cash. Now there is a phony

Remember this stunt?

5 posted on 02/01/2011 11:59:59 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Walter Scott Hudson

Do the progressives know that most people either don’t remember or have never heard of Morton Downey Jr.?


6 posted on 02/02/2011 12:00:07 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: DemforBush

Belated but RIP...he scared but fascinated me or something... I watched.

How old was he, if you know? Thanks for the response. :)


7 posted on 02/02/2011 12:03:43 AM PST by Irenic
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To: DemforBush

Beck is clearly much more like Wally George than Downey. /s


8 posted on 02/02/2011 12:15:12 AM PST by DryFly
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To: Lazlo in PA

One year he sold out the 1,000 seat Club Casino in Hampton Beach NH. The next, his show was cancelled—because they had only sold 16 advance tickets.


9 posted on 02/02/2011 12:51:15 AM PST by raccoonradio (..)
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To: DemforBush

Letterman’s Chris Elliot spoofed him as the Chris Elliot Jr show. One moment had Chris picking at a zit on his face and eating it.


10 posted on 02/02/2011 12:52:12 AM PST by raccoonradio (..)
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To: Irenic
Was he on the new FOX with 21 Jump Street and all that?

No.  He had a nighttime talk show on WWOR Channel 9 in NYC, and before that he was on KFBK radio in Sacramento.  When he got canned at KFBK, the radio station hired Rush to take his place.

11 posted on 02/02/2011 1:01:06 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: DemforBush

Yeah, the comparison is silly. Mort was in a league of his own.


12 posted on 02/02/2011 1:03:07 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: Walter Scott Hudson

What an absolute crock of B***S***!


13 posted on 02/02/2011 1:07:10 AM PST by llandres
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To: Irenic

Downey was 63 when he was first diagnosed. The docs removed a lung (yikes!) and he made it to 68 before giving up the ghost.


14 posted on 02/02/2011 1:10:24 AM PST by DemforBush (I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name..)
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To: DryFly

Interesting thing about Wally George, he claimed Mort copied his act. LOL


15 posted on 02/02/2011 1:10:57 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: raccoonradio

LOL, I remember that! Elliot was a hoot!

(Maybe if Letterman had him back on he wouldn’t suck so much!)


16 posted on 02/02/2011 1:13:09 AM PST by DemforBush (I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name..)
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To: DemforBush
OMG! That video of Sharpton getting knocked down just got my day off to a great start! LOL! Still a jerk who never lets anyone else talk. I had forgotten about Downey. Just more attack propaganda from the left because they can't disprove what Beck says.
17 posted on 02/02/2011 2:44:46 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: Walter Scott Hudson
(I’ll leave it to fans of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity to explain why both men continue to uphold the fraudster Sharpton as a worthy debating partner/”great American.”)

Maybe because Ted Baxter and Vanity are clueless?

19 posted on 02/02/2011 4:38:53 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: Walter Scott Hudson

OMG my ex was a huge fan of Mort. He was frigging hilarious. Going a mile-a-minute with the mouth, and with the cigarettes. lol crazy


20 posted on 02/02/2011 4:39:11 AM PST by visualops (Proud Air Force Mom)
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