Posted on 01/15/2014 2:22:14 PM PST by lbryce
After she wrote a critical review of the new Mark Wahlberg film, Lone Survivor, Glenn Beck offered to fly LA Weekly reviewer Amy Nicholson to his studio in Dallas so that she could read her review to Marcus Luttrell, the former Navy SEAL on whom the movie is based.
“I mean this sincerely -- I will fly you first class,” Beck said. “I will put you up at the Four Seasons … You will dine on the finest possible food, and you will come in here and you will sit down and speak these words to Marcus Luttrell. If you have the bills to say what you just said to Marcus Luttrell and back it up, go for it.”
In her review, Nicholson described Lone Survivor as a “jingoistic snuff film” that preaches “brown people bad, American people good.”
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Because people would rather follow Queesnbury rules and lose rather than fight and win.
Then come on websites and bitch.
I have to LOL at that. Beck was never big on Romney, although many here on FR accused him of running an insurgent, secret campaign to undermine the other candidates on behalf of his fellow Mormon. I recall VERY early in the 2012 campaign season, Beck and his on-air cohorts joking that Romney's strongest campaign slogan should be, "He's not a communist!". "I oppose his nebulous and possibly mormon related floppery on gays."
As I noted, the only support I've ever really heard of him for gays out of his own mouth has been objecting to throwing them in ovens or mercilessly prosecuting them. On those counts, I tend to agree. If, as others have written, he's come out for gay marriage, then yes, that's one area I vociferously disagree with him on.
"I oppose his BC BS which seems to me to be ratings driven." "I oppose men who cry on command for sympathy. I oppose men who use their past alcoholism for the same reason. And I are one so it’s not an abstract concept."
I are one too. I never got the impression Beck was using his recovery for sympathy, but to illustrate redemption and overcoming personal challenges. Not much different than I hear regularly at meetings. Yes, Beck gets emotional, but as a I previously stated, I do believe he is sincerely passionate about a lot of his beliefs.
"Would you personally trust him with the life of your family based on his public actions? I wouldn’t."
I wouldn't trust the life of my family to anybody but me. I do think Beck strives to lead an honorable life.
"Personally when I total my scorecard, he isn’t in the black. There are far worse out there to be sure. But he ain’t helping."
Then, as I stated in my very first reply, if he isn't perfect (or merely good) enough for you, ignore him.
I can’t ignore him. He often keeps injecting himself into things he either doesn’t take enough time to grasp or is on the wrong side of.
Were that otherwise, I’d be a big fan. And until he puts the brakes on the idiot side of his public offerings, I am all to glad to oppose it. When he does something right, I’ll acknowledge that as well. As I did on my first post here.
But I refuse to pretend he isn’t entirely dualistic in his ‘conservatism’.
White, blond, very RED lipstick, young-ish (early 30s?), USC and University of Oklahoma.
I don't think there's any other high profile *conservative* talker about whom the same thing couldn't be said.
Cruz. Palin. Trent Franks. They exist.
Sorry. you said talker.
Palin.
And she will probably want her lawyer and /or Jesse Jackson to go with her.
And yet Palin thought enough of Beck to keynote his Restoring Honor rally, and has always had very positive things to say about him and his work...
I’ll gladly put the number of times I have disagreed with thee actions of each side by side. Palin’s side totals about 3. Becks is somewhat higher than that.
Contrary to popular opinion, I in fact go by the old 80% rule. She’s well above, he’s well below. No one is pure. Some are closer than others.
For almost 7 years, I ate no meat.
I almost pity ‘vegans’ now because I cannot over-emphasize the terrible physical changes from a no meat diet.
You become weird, spacy, ‘floaty’ and believe wonderfully stupid things without question.
I suspect your brain starts to die off due to lack of proper nourishment.
There are those who say I ‘did it wrong’.
Not so.
I took all the supplements, vitamins and so forth and balanced my amino acids like a chemist.
I still ‘went wonky’.
It’s unnatural.
I would not try and feed my snakes potatoes nor would I subject my dogs to a vegetarian diet.
That is cruelty.
Many years ago at the local fair, we ran across a Dobe who was ‘not owned’ (?) by two stupid hippies who were feeding him a vegan diet.
He ran loose at the fair, scarfing up every little fragment of meat he could find.
Hot dogs, burgers, sausages...anything that missed the trash can toss.
We bought him several burgers of his own and when we left, we *almost* had him out the gate when one of the hippies called him back and poor malnourished, loyal dog listened.
Even the gate-cop who’d watched all this looked sad.
Nothing he could do about it, though.
I love animals.
I feel bad that I must eat them.
I despise vegans who inflict their madness on their pets.
World’s shortest pay-per-view event.
:D
Somebody did a spoof of it actually happening.
I’ll try to find it.
“You become weird, spacy, ‘floaty’ and believe wonderfully stupid things without question.”
You were a liberal? ;)
(Ducks and runs...)
Worse.
I was pagan.
Totally went stupid for a while.
Still was conservative as hell which made me really unpopular with all the other little Wiccan/pagans.
Things you’d never guess about Salamander, eh?
;]
We’re thinking about feeding a BARF diet, along with some dry food. Our breeder is feeding Bone And Raw Food (BARF) and dry food to our new puppy to be, and we’re not only thinking of continuing that, but switching our other dogs to it.
The dry food we feed does not contain grain. I’ve never done the vegetarian diet, but it has never made sense to me, either.
SICK THINGS!!!!
;)
Unless you feed raw food with the HAIR ON, I consider it too dangerous.
Anything other than *whole* raw food is a half-assed simulation of “wild dog diets” and little more than a fad.
That is my opinion, FWIW.
My dogs’ health insurance, however, will not cover *any* gastro issues if I were to start feeding any kind of “raw” diet.
The real veterinary statistics prove that it unnecessarily dangerous.
My snakes eat a true “raw” diet.
Whole prey items.
All that comes out is balls of fur and sometimes, a bit of bone, just like you’d find in coyote scat.
Check your mail
That is to funny. thank you.
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