Glenn Beck vs. C. Edmund Wright

The American Thinker ^ | February 23, 2010 | C. Edmund Wright

[A'elian' nation]

“Gubmint schools have been teaching some strange mix of capitalism and socialism for decades that doesn’t resemble anything our Founders envisioned. “

Why not FINALLY just abolish the position of Secretary of Education and the whole federal education boondoggle ?
Hey, I’m a teacher, and I don’t see any need for federal involvement in education - and that includes loans for college.
We are always agonizing, “What to cut?; What to cut?” This one is easy and would be the shot across the bow; like Reagan firing the air controllers.
Yeah, I know, Reagan suggested doing away with the Dept. of Ed. too, but NOW really is the time.

Also appreciated your long sensible piece. Thank you.

[Dapper 26]

You again?

[Dapper 26]

So, according to Beck, prior to the clarification of his CPAC speech which I never heard before, all Republicans are the same as Democrats and President Bush is no different than Obama. Is that what you believe? That when a Republican doesn’t vote the way YOU think a conservative should than he’s a RINO, never mind his basic core politics? So now, Scott Brown, recently touted as a Republican presidential possiblity, is a RINO even though he has stated he is against ObamaCare and Cap N Trade? I guess I won’t “wear the shoe that doesn’t fit” and will not agree to your naive version of a conservative because I would rather lose a battle and win the war.

[chuckles]

I agree. Since the Education Dept was created, every measurement possible has gone down. The government has achieved this monumental calamity with a relatively small amount of money. For just a few billion dollars, they get to destroy the minds of our children.

The particular year I became aware of this money, Texas received about $7 billion from the Feds. This allowed them to tell us that God is dead, no prayer, evolution is all that can be taught, here's your condom and banana, get busy, we'll kill your baby and you don't have to tell mom and dad, Che was a good guy, Washington was a slave owner, Columbus was a mass murderer, Indians were good people that never ate their enemies and lived in harmony with nature, Uncle Stalin just wanted to help his people, and on, and on, and on. None of this would have been allowed in Texas schools if we weren't afraid of losing about 5% of our total budget.

What if a politician had said he would put prayer in school and stop abortions in school if we would just fore go the federal money? He would be blasted for taking the 5% cut. Instead, our children are trained into some cult like pagans for 5%.

This is just the Dept of Education. It goes on with the Energy Dept that produces no energy, and many others that soak up $trillions for almost no reason. The whole thing could be avoided by just following the Constitution that they all took an oath to defend. It was formed over many years and only passed when the 10 Amendments were added to safeguard the States that the Feds wouldn't be a strong central government. Power is money and money is power. We must cut off the money some how, but I doubt the masses are willing to survive this. IMHO, we will commit suicide rather than cut $5 from our "entitlements".

[Brugmansian]

I was using his hearing loss to mark a point in time when the show started going downhill in quality, obviously audio acuity has no bearing on intelligence

That isn't what you wrote nor implied about Rush. You wrote :

"he is not a source of news as since his hearing loss he relies on others exclusively for gathering his info"

There is no way to finesse or deconstruct that.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Ozzymandus sez:I had never heard of C. What’s-his-name, but he seems to think he’s pretty important. I would note that Beck was the keynote speaker at CPAC, not him, and maybe he should put a sock in it.

Now this is a fascinating comment. Did I ever say I am important? The editor chose the article title — not me.
Now, could some of this what’s his name status maybe change in the future? Was there a time that Oz had not heard of Beck? How about Obama? Things change.

OR: Is it possible I do work under NOW another name that Oz HAS heard of? I actually do write for folks he has heard of. Hmmm. You just never know, do you. But rest assured, I won’t put a sock in it. But you can always just not read what I say. But thanks so much for playing.

[Neidermeyer]

So you think Rush is just as good since he stopped actually doing the majority of show prep himself? He seems clueless at times. You can act offended if you want but that point in time (when he lost his hearing) is when his show went downhill, get over it, I didn’t say he couldn’t be a bit more involved with his show and make it worth listening to again, he has chosen the path of mediocrity. The fact is he now gets an “executive summary” and knows nothing beyond that where before he saw quite a bit more and had a better understanding of the peripheral bits of more issues.

[Brugmansian]

So you think Rush is just as good since he stopped actually doing the majority of show prep himself

I rarely listen to him. As I mentioned, he confirms what I know already. Tuned in after Beck's CPAC debacle because I saw some people going ga-ga over the speech and I did not. Rush, Levin and others confined my reaction was correct.

Surprised you monitor Rush so closely considering you said he is clueless at times and hasn't had an original idea in years. If you know he hasn't had an original idea for that long, it means your listened to ...oh....hundreds of hours of Rush. Wow...

[Neidermeyer]

I listen because he fills a void on the local radio ,, the good talk shows in my area all start earlier and end between noon and 1pm or are on in the evenings. Every once in a while you get a nugget of useful info but most days a few minutes perusing Drudge gets you more info than 3 hours of Rush. The music stations are pretty much unlistenable here.

[ozzymandus]

Oversensitive and condescending at the same time? Now there’s an artiste. Keep that sock handy,C. And thanks for the childish “thanks for playing”. Suspicions confirmed.

[Pan_Yan]

So this thread will be comments about a commentary on an alledged television reply to a previous commentary about a speech that actually DID discuss matters of import.

I fully expected this to be linked from PerezHilton.com, not American Thinker.

[itsahoot]

his CPAC speech which I never heard before

And yet you seem so knowledgeable on the content, amazing.

If you think the Republican party is "Progressive" free, then you are deluded. Beck has never contended that all Republicans fall in that category, but he has pointed to the obvious ones.

[Dapper 26]

I never said the Republican party is progressive free. It is for that reason that I am no longer a registered Republican in my district.