Posted on 04/07/2011 6:27:47 AM PDT by shortstop
>>Now; if he had NOT told you that it was untrue; and you found out from a different source that it wasn’t; THEN you might have a reason to doubt.<<
Exactly!
This is my biggest beef with the “Beck is a liar” crowd.
He had films of people speaking their own words, quotes from books (showed the books, gave the chapters), he presented the facts FROM the people themselves.
One could hit Google as the show went on and verify every word. Yet, there are FReepers who watched one show and slam him. Amazing.
Yes; FActs and Quotes are damning; but there is a VAST crowd that will ignore them; choosing instead to believe something else - in face of the EVIDENCE.
Thank you!
>>Yes; FActs and Quotes are damning; but there is a VAST crowd that will ignore them; choosing instead to believe something else - in face of the EVIDENCE. <<
You have just described my Sister-in-law.
She said Beck is a liar in front of my 13-year-old that has read the Beck books from cover to cover, over and over.
My girl took the lady on, politely and with respect, calling her on the subject. The SIL became a screaming maniac. To the point that my husband had to step in. (had I been there, I would not have been as polite)
They are irrational.
>>If you did not recognize it; it is from George Orwell’s 1984. <<
I did! And you reminded me that my kids need it on their reading list!
Teaching used to be considered a big part of parenting. Even when my great grandmother went to her one room school near Mancelona Michigan, the bulk of the basic teaching was done at home.
Thank you. That’s a gold mine. I didn’t know I could get entire episodes online. And I don’t even have to register or pay a fee.
Glenn Beck is not a coward. He probably had the most death threats of any body in the news business and kept on going, albeit finally, thank God, moving away from the windows of the street level broadcast room. Those windows scared the s out of me.
Glenn wasn’t a fraud. He lined up his topics and brought facts to back up the conclusions, often the actual words out of the mouths of the people he was exposing. No one else in the business had the guts to expose the communist network of people running the Democrat party and the White House, excuse me, Saul Alinsky Marxists, post modern commies, but still commies. He took the American people on a step by step journey to realize what they were up against which no other person in the news business had the guts to do. Fraud? B.S., he’s a HERO!
If he didn’t tackle the birth certificate issue it was because he didn’t have enough proof about it, and he dealt in facts, not conspiracy theories. When any conspiracy theorists brought him proof about something, like sting tapes on Acorn and Planned Parenthood, he went out front with that. So, he’s a professor/news journalist, not a coward, fraud.
He was floundering in the ratings because he was becoming too redundant in his reporting of facts he’d already exposed and discussed a lot, and because most of the stuff he was discussing ad infinitum, was scary and gloomy and who needs that ever day in their living room.
No, he needed either to widen the scope of his program, like having a Congressional report once a week on what our Congress critters were doing and not doing and a foreign affairs report once a week on who was doing what to whom and why, and a voter fraud show occasionally with experts discussing the facts of how this or that election had been rigged, and how to organize poll watching on a state by state basis to guard against voter fraud.
Or he needed to wash his hands of the constraints of Fox and quit a regular format and become more activist (i.e. leave and start backing people to run for offices and helping them get the volunteers and money to make credible runs.)
I think he also needs more time with his family.
What he definitely should not do is start another network, as that will financially suck him into a black hole. Fox special reports like Stossel does would be a way of keeping in touch while he builds a national army to get out the anticommunist vote to save the American dream.
No problem at all!
Exactly.
When parents tell me they can’t homeschool, not for financial reasons but fear of failure, I tell them that they homeschool now.
Any parent who made it through potty training, passed bootcamp.
(Glad I don’t have to go through THAT again!)
The sad fact is a lot of “freepers” are not conservatives.
They are just faceless, anonymous keyboard cowards with an account here.
Being a snide, sneering, floodposting creep has nothing to do with conservative ideals.
That was worth a repeat. Spot on.
Blinded by their own vision bump.
Animal Farm as well...
We gotta remember; Rush got out of TV, too.
No shiitake mushrooms!
Glenn Beck is a coward and a fraud. I stopped listening to him when he showed his cowardice regarding the natural born Citizenship issue.
Ya know Reagan did the EXACT same thing.
The difference is.. what Reagan and Beck were talking about at the time was not important. Both were about baseball.
I DO trust both of their sincerities when it comes to things more important like.. global politics.
Here’s a diet dish made with those sweet devils! Things like this served on the patio on Friday July 22 to the early birds coming to the picnic. Are you shiitakien me?
Shiitake Angel Hair Pasta
Ingredients
6 ounces angel hair pasta
6 ounces fresh sliced shiitake mushrooms
1 clove garlic, minced
½ onion, chopped
¼ cup white wine
1 tablespoon olive oil
¼ cup chicken broth
½ cup heavy whipping cream
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Directions
Sauté garlic and onion in olive oil over medium heat; add shiitake mushrooms as the aroma develops. Add chicken stock and wine, and cook until mixture is reduced to ½ volume. Blend in cream, and reduce to desired thickness. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook Pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until done. Drain pasta, and toss with sauce until coated. Serve topped with grated Parmesan cheese and parsley.
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