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Glenn Beck’s New Year’s Resolution: No One On My Show Can Mention ‘That Man’ Obama Anymore
Mediaite ^ | 1/2/13 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 01/02/2013 1:47:25 PM PST by Nachum

We’ll see how long this pledge lasts. As part of his New Year’s resolutions, conservative talk host Glenn Beck returned from the holidays with a new policy: no one can mention President Obama anymore on his show.

“Anybody who brings him up, besides me, is fired,” Beck said of the new policy. Astonished by the severity, co-host Stu Burguiere asked if staffers could get by with just mentioning that “the president said,” to which Beck said it would be evaluated on a “case-by-case basis.”

Instead choosing to refer to the president as “that man” or “that guy,” Beck explained the very loose definition of what counts as “mentioning” the president in his mind. After much back and forth with his colleagues, Beck said:

“You can allude to him. You can play Joe Biden. But I don’t want to hear the man’s voice. I don’t want to hear him. I don’t want to know about him. You want that information? Go any place else. There’s thousands of outlets, you can have all the information you want. I am not talking about that man.”

Burguiere joked that Obama is now like the villainous Harry Potter character Voldemort in that the novel’s protagonists referred to the evil wizard as “he who shall not be named.”

“Why summons that?” Beck said. “You’re just asking for trouble. Why bring that on? Don’t speak his name.”

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Who Dat?
1 posted on 01/02/2013 1:47:31 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

What about Hussein?


2 posted on 01/02/2013 1:49:48 PM PST by fso301
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To: Nachum

He who shall not be named.


3 posted on 01/02/2013 1:50:01 PM PST by old republic
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To: Nachum

ROTFL.

Glenn has adopted the policy at my house.

DrO does not permit the Marxist’s voice in our house. He is muted at all times and the channel is changed whenever his ugly face appears on the screen.

It’s been this way for months.


4 posted on 01/02/2013 1:51:48 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Nachum

The Communist!


5 posted on 01/02/2013 1:52:05 PM PST by Casie (Chuck Norris 2016)
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To: Nachum

How about ‘Barry’ or ‘Virginia Sunahara’s Stand-In’?


6 posted on 01/02/2013 1:54:19 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Nachum

I don’t know if this is Beck’s point, but I applaud it as an escape hatch from the trap of personifying the opposition. Obama is just one man. The problem, which among other things is socialism, is much bigger, almost planetary. It’s nearly as much in the Republican Party as the White House, which itself is chockfull of people who aren’t Obama. Obama isn’t even the worst example, not by a long shot. Edwards or Gore would have been worse, probably.


7 posted on 01/02/2013 1:57:15 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: onyx

We’ve gotten more use out of the remote in the past 4 years than ever before-with the same guidelines.


8 posted on 01/02/2013 1:57:56 PM PST by Pat4ever
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To: Nachum

Why not just call him Zer0. We don’t call him Zer0 for nothing.


9 posted on 01/02/2013 2:00:40 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Nachum

I have not seen Obama on TV since the election or have muted him on every occasion and changed the channel til he has finished.


10 posted on 01/02/2013 2:01:12 PM PST by vicar7 ("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
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To: Nachum

I dont mention the schmuck’s name in my house either..I either refer to him as The Marxist, The Commie big eared freak..or Adolf..in fact, whenever I hear his voice on TV I immediately change the channel..just the sight of him makes me physically ill


11 posted on 01/02/2013 2:02:55 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: onyx

Same here. As long as we can still turn off the telescreen comrades...


12 posted on 01/02/2013 2:04:14 PM PST by Argus
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To: onyx
It’s been this way for months.

Only "months"? In my house it has been that way for years.

13 posted on 01/02/2013 2:08:04 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: onyx

My house too!


14 posted on 01/02/2013 2:09:23 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Nachum

Beck gets more inane with every appearance. He’s his own worst enemy.


15 posted on 01/02/2013 2:09:23 PM PST by Ron C.
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Looks like Beck will still cut and run from Obama Eligibility


16 posted on 01/02/2013 2:10:30 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Fiscal Conservatives are Neither)
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To: Nachum

I enjoyed Glenn’s TV show, and was disappointed when I first tuned into his radio program. I now enjoy it. Everyone has to kick back once in a while, especially in these stressful times. Glenn, Pat and Stu all have a great sense of humor.


17 posted on 01/02/2013 2:11:02 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: fso301

We should make some creative anagrams....


18 posted on 01/02/2013 2:11:02 PM PST by Nachum (The List is off the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: jonrick46

I’m calling it Zerocare instead of Obamacare....because that’s exactly what we’ll get, and it was never about healthcare anyway.


19 posted on 01/02/2013 2:11:38 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Pat4ever

That’s the unvarnished truth!

We each have a remote!


20 posted on 01/02/2013 2:12:41 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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