Posted on 02/20/2010 8:53:41 PM PST by woofie
Glenn Beck, the Fox News personality and chalkboard scrawling libertarian hero, gave the marquee speech Saturday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
Swapping out a teleprompter for his famous chalkboard, Glenn Beck wowed the faithful with an hour-long presentation that defended conservatism, praised the Founding Fathers and lampooned Washington, D.C. as an addict in need of immediate treatment. He looked to history to predict that without an immediate course correction and reduction of the federal budget deficit, America is headed for "an economic holocaust." Beck began by praising Ronald Reagan, whose famous campaign ad "Morning in America" envisioned America's best days as still being ahead of it. "It is still morning in America," Beck said. "It just happens to be kind of a head-pounding, hung-over, vomiting for four hours kind of morning in America. And it's shaping up to be kind of a nasty day, but it is still morning in America."
Beck blamed Washington politicians for the country's poor condition, and accused both parties of growing the size of government, spending beyond the country's means, tolerating corruption, and embracing an array of liberal policy prescriptions that he equated with a cancer in American society.
Republicans, he said, are just as guilty as Democrats. "It's not enough just to not suck as much as the other side," he said. "The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I have not heard people in the Republican Party admit they have a problem and when I did hear them say they have a problem, I don't know if I believed them."
The Republicans' problem, he said, is the same as Democrats' problem-- an addiction to spending, a willingness to place the judgment of the government ahead of the rights of individuals,
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Have you read he Book America For Sale by Corsi? In his book, among other things, he discusses the notion of One World Govt with the UN in charge..in his book he points out that the democrats are globalists and some Republicans are also but for different reasons.
I don’ think Beck was painting the whole republican party as at fault but let’s face it, many of us here were screaming our heads off about Bush and the spending going on there despite the fact we respected Bush as a good and decent man. I think this is the message Beck was trying to get out. His comparison to Tiger was interesting.
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~LOL~ we need to pray all those snowbirds who are disgusted with McCain remember to take out absentee ballots...our turnout that time of year is normally pitiful.
We're all a little on-edge these days and our patience tested, as the crap coming out of DC makes our heads spin and stomachs turn. Hard not to be testy / short / snarky sometimes!
I know people who are functioning and bi-polar...you’d be surprised how many people are who don’t know it as well.
This does not mean Beck is not correct in what he states...so he needs medicine or goes nuts on the screen...his facts remain that despite his delivery.
Most politicians have personality disorders as well...or are alcaholics , druggies or whatever. So I can’t disavow folks who have issues different then the rest of the ones we all have. Who doesn’t have problems today that require attention or have had in the past.
That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking!
I’m sure JD knows about them and has lists, but the “Zonies” as we called you all, also need absentee ballots if they’re going to be lounging on the beach in August!
“I think he only does so he can claim he’s ‘nonpartisan’ in front of the FCC”
Why? He’s a news-commentator. They aren’t subject to election laws. They fall under the banner of The Press, which are corporations but not Evil Corporations. Anyway, even if the FCC went after personalities like Beck, the PR war over why Olbermann is okay and Beck is evil would be one battle we could win. Too big a double standard.
Cable news is not like talk radio. It’s more akin to satellite radio, wherein given the variety there is little plausible excuse for controlling content beyond basic decency. Certainly not for “equal time”. How does one possibly counter the following argument? “You want equal time? We got Fox and MSNBC. You don’t want Fox? Go to MSNBC.” Unlike on the radio airwaves, there are people (who aren’t the government, hint-hint, NPR) willing to throw money away on leftists in cable news.
AM talk radio is another matter, and Beck’s one of them of course. But I don’t see Dems trying it outright, and even then it’ll be a trojan horse, for instance demanding “diversity” in ownership.
Thanks; well worth repeating.
I hear that my fellow-Texan, Dick Armey, didn’t do too well; just a lot of Obama dissing with no real plans to offset. Really juvenile presentation.
We must be careful to not be the party of just “opposition” but we must offer some alternatives.
“As bad as they are (and I’m an Independent), they’re the only thing standing between our current state of misery and TOTAL FASCISM.”
No, actually, the Democrats themselves are (or were). Unless you count the conservative members of SCOTUS as Republicans (which they aren’t, really). Dems had 60 votes. Republicans were irrelevant, except insofar as they stood together and forced the Dems to have to use all their votes.
Various angry old people and a few “blue dogs” recently stood between us and fascism, not Republicans.
I “love” third parties when they’re on the Left!
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Yeah; when’s the last time you saw one of those?
Oops, my bad. I forgot about Ralph Nader and the Green Party in 2000; gave Florida to George W. Bush by getting 98,000 votes Gore would have gotten.
ACORN got Franken elected.
Beck is like a high school kid who likes to be cute and funny for some attention.
He really has grown more tiresome and preachy and ridiculous.
The whole Dem and Repub are the same is just a bold face lie but Beck peddles that so he can act like he is not a partisan and above it all blah blah blah....
His radio show isn’t on Saturday.
Yes, that’s the one I always cite. :)
Run, Ralph, Run. LOL.
“pubs are stupid and nieve and a few are sinister, but they are patriots compared to any dim”
The Lesser of Two Evils thing allows Republicans to get away with an awful lot, based on how low the base sets its expectations. And why shouldn’t expectations be low, given that the other choice is a bunch of commie, socialist, Big Governmnent, race-baiting, baby-killing, surrender-monkeys? If they are—and I’m willing to concede it—what does that make Republicans? Remind me, again, what is so darn different about Obama’s foreign policy. Remind me what Republican is actually in favor of overturning Roe. Remind me when Republicans don’t call Dems on PR slip-ups regarding race (turn-about is fairplay, but not necessarily great strategy). Remind me what wasn’t Big Government about Bush, besides the (progressive) tax cuts (which are set to expire soon).
Would it surprise people around here to learn that spending rose under Nixon (the man who gave us the EPA, OSHEA, an “open” China, and wage and price controls) faster than during the War on Poverty and the height of the War on Vietnam? Would it surprise anyone to learn that Bush out-spent Clinton by a mile, and that though Obama’s budgets are a “reductio ad absurdum” of deficit financing, his unprecedented drunken spree was made much more likely by Bush’s wild overreaction to the 2008 meltdown. You know, with the Fed-bailouts, the TARP, auto-bailouts, and all.
If we get a Romney out of Obama’s Jimmy Cartah-ness instead of a Reagan, it won’t be Beck’s fault. That’s all I’m saying.
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