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Glenn Beck: Reading Between The Coded Lines
NPR ^ | October 10, 2010 | NPR Staff

Posted on 10/11/2010 5:43:06 PM PDT by dalight

In the book Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, Milbank says that line is a veiled reference to an obscure Mormon prophecy that Latter-day Saints will rescue the country from certain doom. It's known as the White Horse Prophecy.

Barlow, the Utah State professor, agrees that Beck's use of "hanging by a thread" is likely not coincidental.

But is he trying to deliver a secret coded message to his followers that an uprising is nigh?

Barlow says Beck is making conservative arguments by "drawing on this element that runs through Mormon consciousness."


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To: dalight

NPR has jumped the shark.


21 posted on 10/11/2010 5:55:25 PM PDT by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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To: dalight

Only lefty dunces fear Mormons more than Muslims.

Give me a Mormon any day...honest, hard working, and believes in God.

Exceptions of course, Mitt Romney is a RINO which completely negates any honesty and integrity given him by his church.

May liberals be transported to the Muslim hives of history and be forced to live under Sharia law.


22 posted on 10/11/2010 5:58:10 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: madison10

Go back and scroll through the posts on this site for the last hour or so, you’ll see what I mean.


23 posted on 10/11/2010 5:58:17 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremists use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: dalight

First they change all of the rules around vampires, and now this!


24 posted on 10/11/2010 6:01:32 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: dalight

There is a real conspiracy afoot. They have their puppet in the White House, and congress passes their laws without even reading them first.


25 posted on 10/11/2010 6:02:21 PM PDT by marron
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To: dalight

“Milbank says . . .”

Who? And why should I care?


26 posted on 10/11/2010 6:05:14 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (If you meet people with no brain, no heart and no courage, you're not in KS--You're in the Congress)
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To: dalight

hanging by a thread? are they serious. That is so common.

what next? use of the decimal point is a Masonic conspiracy?


27 posted on 10/11/2010 6:08:10 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: dalight
Any article that begins with a reference to Jon Stewart should never be taken seriously...


28 posted on 10/11/2010 6:12:32 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: jazminerose
"How fortunate that the left is on to the Mormofascist threat."

LOL!

29 posted on 10/11/2010 6:15:26 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: dalight

Beck is overt in his Mormon theology, which he expresses very little. Most of the time, he keeps it somewhat generic. His recent discussions on Satan, however, have inevitably delved into exclusively Mormon belief.


30 posted on 10/11/2010 6:16:12 PM PDT by Blogger
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ping


31 posted on 10/11/2010 6:35:26 PM PDT by ponygirl (TEA people: First we take out the RINOS. Then we finish off the Socialists.)
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To: dalight
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

Muslims hide rape and murder behind freedom of religion.

Liberals hide vicious slander and depraved lies behind freedom of speech.

BTW - the title is the entire point of the book. The idea is that the typical latte-sucking liberal zombie will see it in the new books section of Barnes and Noble or Borders, remember the nasty insult of the title to use for social aggression purposes, and move on. Antidepressents kill the concentration necessary to read an entire book, so the industry has defaulted to bumper-sticker titles attached to bulk buy-back contracts bailed out by tax writeoffs. Your tax dollars at work.

32 posted on 10/11/2010 6:36:58 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: dalight

Set your secret decoder rings for:

L-Green-7-N

That is all..............


33 posted on 10/11/2010 6:45:35 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: dalight
"Hanging by a thread" is a secret Mormon code phrase? The same secret phrase that every sports commentator uses when a team is down to its last game in the playoffs? All I know is that Glenn Beck sent me a personal secret message: "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
34 posted on 10/11/2010 6:53:16 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Grblb blabt unt mipt speeb!! Oot piffoo blaboo...)
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To: dalight

John has a long mustache..... John has a long mustache....


35 posted on 10/11/2010 7:02:27 PM PDT by njslim
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To: dalight

John has a long mustache..... John has a long mustache....


36 posted on 10/11/2010 7:02:39 PM PDT by njslim
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To: MindBender26
L-Green-7-N

"Drink More Ovaltine"?

37 posted on 10/11/2010 7:11:34 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Why are you posting this crap here?

&&
IMO, quite telling that the original poster had no answer for you here.


38 posted on 10/11/2010 7:15:07 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: dalight

Excuse me, but with all due respect you forgot the mandatory NPR “Barf Alert”.


39 posted on 10/11/2010 7:26:44 PM PDT by BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL (Onward thru the smoke, mirrors, and B.S....)
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To: Bigg Red
IMO, quite telling that the original poster had no answer for you here.

I hear ya....funny to see what happens here a few weeks before an election!

40 posted on 10/11/2010 7:29:17 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremists use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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