Posted on 08/30/2011 2:37:58 PM PDT by Adam Taxin
Monday, August 29, 2011. 6:24 PM
Toward the beginning of his radio show today, Glenn Beck responded to an effort this past Friday by the Washington Post to smear him and his Mormon faith by means of a skewed article with an even more misleading headline (“Mormon Glenn Beck: Hurricane Irene and East Coast earthquake a ‘blessing’ from God,”)
As discussed in an earlier article in the Philadelphia Jewish Culture Examiner space, the Post was successful if its goal was to spread the impression that Beck really believed that last week’s natural East Coast hurricane and earthquake were themselves a blessing. This is of course as opposed to what Beck actually pretty obviously -- to anyone who listened to his words without a predominating agenda -- meant, which was that there was a blessing in the need for preparedness these could-have-been-much-more-deadly disasters highlighted.
Near the very beginning of his discussion on this topic, Beck (who broadcasts on his own GBTV network and who can also be heard in the New York City area on 800 WLAD-AM) called out the Washington Post’s headline, saying: “So they smear immediately. It’s like saying 'Jew George Hilzig says'."
Shortly thereafter, Beck, who was in Israel during much of the previous two weeks for his “Restoring Courage” solidarity event, said, “Here I am, not playing into the fear, not telling you 'hey, freak out.' What I’m saying to you is: this is a good thing because it’s not going to kill a lot of people, and maybe a few people will remember “hey, maybe I should be a help to others..."
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JR is a much kinder person than I am.
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Me too. If it had been my choice his attacks would have gotten him zotted.
‘n00b’ is disrespectful? ROFLMAO. You need thicker skin.
Go read your bible.
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I do, every single day. Go through the entire thing every year for just devotional reading and again for work/study and ministry.
But you may want to try it, you might find Him, you need Him.
People who brag about having a lot of money, rarely do. And wealthy people don’t have your attitude, even the liberal ones support their causes you admit you don’t.
Jesus called people a lot worse things than ‘n00b’. If you opened a Bible you would know that.
Negative, that isn’t me, I am not married.
Religion did nothing for me. Christ however saved me.
And I enjoy bantering with people, no sin in that. That particular insult though is courtesy of my husband.
Why am I not surprised.
Go ahead and attack my belief systems some more, guy.
You haven’t had the experiences I’ve had, you haven’t seen what I’ve seen, and I don’t expect you to believe what I believe, and I’m not gonna tell you that you’re gonna go to Hell because you don’t.
This is my main problem with religious people, you can’t leave other people alone in their beliefs, you just can’t.
I believe Jesus Christ is my Lord, and I believe souls return to earth, and if that doesn’t jive with what Christ taught you, I don’t much care.
No, I didn’t blow it out of proportion, I took it as the insult that it was, and I don’t care if he says he didn’t mean as such, because it’s obvious that he did.
Because, I have been on this site for three years, and during that time I have considered donating to it a number of times and was moving much closer to doing so, but that isn’t going to happen now.
Go ahead and keep going, I ain’t goin’ nowhere ‘till tomorrow, pick on me all you want as your Lord Christ obviously taught you to do...
Nope, that’s what it is to me.
If it’s something else to you, more power to you.
Yeah, yeah I know, mormons flew planes into buildings and shot a bunch of people in India and blew up some trains and are trying to take over the world with mormon law blah blah blah...
Yeah, it is, and no, I don’t.
You’ve learned nothing.
Rarely doesn’t mean never though, does it?
This wealthy person has my attitude.
I support my causes, FR isn’t one of them.
Apparently your mommy isn't home yet.
Did you lose it up your...nevermind.
You're a person of rare intelligence; it's rare when you show any.
So then you admit the term “n00b” bears some amount of disrespect I see.
Glad you agree with me.
Nor did it do anything for me.
Tell your hubby he can insult me all he wants, I’ve come to expect it from God loving individuals such as yourself, but I ain’t jumpin’ on the mormon hate train as a result.
Chug along without me, bigots.
Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Super awesome insults!
No, I won’t be hating mormons as a result.
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