Posted on 09/29/2009 9:01:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You know, the last time I heard from someone who wanted me to take him and his opinions seriously, found out he was simply a guy *turned blogger*, it was that goof-ball, Perez Hilton.
I think a lot of people on our side (or even not on “our side”) cannot believe ANYONE would want communism or a dictator or a big-overly-powerful federal government.
A lot of us cannot understand the mentality of worshipping power hungry thugs.
But I do know A LOT of us are awake and ready to fight.
And DC, although they try to deny it, dang well knows it, too.
My point remains. Your loyalty should not be to one talker above another, so that you advertise your disdain in such an overt manner.
Each talk show person has his or her faults. They're all fallen human beings. And I'm guessing they all have pretty big egos.
But what they are ALL doing is pointing out the specifics of the battle we're in - the battle for the survival of America.
Don't take sides in petty arguments. Fight the enemy.
Elitist Republicans do not want Cpservatives to unify and take back the Republican PArty. And they will act to do the same to Palin as they attempt to do to Beck.
You will hear no apologies from us conservatives Mr Riehl about who we are and what we will do.We are coming for you. Take the back seat, or get out of the car and go join your progressive friends. You cannot shape us any more.
Beck has put forth his evidence, which is a lot more than most people in politics and the media do these days. I dont find it an unserious charge. I think it merits discussion.
Beck Explains 'Racist' Comment
Obama has made other comments that disturb me, such as his claim that fixing education and healthcare will disproportionately benefit the black community. I have to wonder about a president who thinks in terms of disproportionately benefitting one group over another.
I believe I also saw that clip on Beck's show, although it is not included in the above commentaries.
I like both of them.
After what Beck and Breitbart have uncovered about ACORN alone tells me that people who Criticize Beck are liberals themselves at best and communists at worst. Beck has done good work, I am a relative new watcher to Beck, having only been watching him for about 3 months, but see none of the “clownishness” that some attribute to him. He lays out his facts and presents them, yes, he uses a little drama sometimes but this only enhances the facts he is trying to get across.
But that concern didn't turn to FEAR under Bush---it turned to FEAR under Obama.
And who says a racist can't simultaneously have self-guilt? Some of the biggest "gay bashers" were . . . well, homosexuals.
What I do know is that Beck gets results that independently some of these other movements and or videos would NOT attract. No, he didn't start the Tea Party movement, but he did successfully publicize it. And his show kind of became the media vehicle for the movement.
I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH BECK'S SILLY NOTION THAT "IT'S ABOUT BOTH PARTIES." IT IS NOT! There were no mass marches against Bush, not even against the bailouts. Bush's policies were bad, but they were not motivated by a hatred of America as are Obama's and the SOONER BECK GETS OFF THIS "BOTH PARTIES DO IT" CRAP, the more effective he will be.
Bingo!
Beck takes on serious subjects with, yes, bombasity, but his style of a serious/silly showman is just that. Beck is not the be-all-end-all and yet he is now not insignificant. While he plays himself as must-watch tv it is obvious that he knows that he is just one (now) heavyweight in a growing movement of center-right media that includes a potpouri of talent from Rush to Laura to Levin to Malkin to Coulter to....etc.
The only significant mistake he made IMO is to flatly say Obama is a racist in such a blunt way. The very same thing could have been said by highlighting Obama's belief in core affirmative action principles and then highlighting those programs/principles as race-based, ie., racist.
Exactly!
IMHO, the Beck/Levin comes down to this.
Levin wrote a defining book, one which will be remembered.
Levin is not an off-the-cuff guy, he’s a plodder, he works very hard for what he produces.
Levin is also a lawyer, so, as a professional, he can’t imagine not sighting source material.
Levin’s work has purposely been blacked out by the media, because they are justifiably threatened by it.
Beck is a showman.
While I agree with a lot of what Beck says he often says it in a manner so overdramatized that I find myself tuning out.
Beck also does subtly co-opt other people’s work.
This is just his manner and the way he conducts himself as a showman, right or wrong.
However, when Beck, the showman, subtly co-opts the work of Levin, the professional plodder, I can understand Levin becoming justifiably upset.
Levin’s work is pivotal and it is ignored.
Having someone with a microphone as big as Beck’s use that work and use it uncredited IS a big slap in the face.
If everyone is supposed to be on the same side then I would submit that it is upon Beck to invite Levin on his show and interview him about his book and how important it is.
If Beck does not do this then the people who consider him a loose canon in the movement are more correct than not.
Just my opinion.
Palin/Beck 2012
>I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH BECK’S SILLY NOTION THAT “IT’S ABOUT BOTH PARTIES.” IT IS NOT!
I disagree. The Republican party has only given lip-service to its stated platform. In the past decade, wherein the Legislature and the Executive were Republican-majority, the only real progress on ending abortion (which is part of the stated platform) was the Mexico City policy — And that was just denying federal funds to be used on promoting foreign abortions. The stem-cell research ban on embryonics was merely holding the line.
Similarly, while the deployment of National Guard to the Southern border [Operation Jump Start] was a good first-step it is over now and NO additional ‘steps’ were taken.
Honestly, can you tell me based on actions/events what differentiates Republicans and Democrats when they had the power to be relevant?
Trust me, I’ve seen defeat snatched from the Jaws of Victory... the Republican party could EASILY do that, and it’s appearing moreso that the Democratic party can as well.
if you think that is “debunking” you are a lost soul, watch this http://www.campfema.com/ and tell me the camps are debunked, Beck is a banker tool, designer to lead the quoate un quote ‘right” to the slaughterhouse
The most important person behind a journalist is a good editor.
Don't take sides in petty arguments. Fight the enemy.
You may be in the battle for the world.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
NAsbU Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces
of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places.
Riehl has the right to remain silent. But why does he feel that he is under arrest?
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