I think he only does so he can claim he's "nonpartisan" in front of the FCC....
idiot....
pubs are stupid and nieve and a few are sinister, but they are patriots compared to any dim....
My main beef with the Beckster is how loosely he throws around the phrase “Republicans are JUST AS BAD as the Democrats.”
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.
That's not good enough.
We need to raise the bar, and not accept the bare minimum.
Voting for a Republican just because he is not a Democrat gets the country DEAD in 12 years. In 2022, the money we have to pay to service our debt.....just pay the interest on it, will be equal to the tax revenue projected. IOW, IMPOSSIBLE to survive as a nation. It is time to take over a party as true conservatives, and cut spending by 2/3rds. Radically change the taxing structure, to get away from income taxes, and observe the spirit AND the letter of the Constitution. Will Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, or Hucklesberry do that?
“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.
“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.
How can you say that? Beck keeps pointing out how stupid the GOP is. He keeps them honest. Last nigth speech was a rallying call for all conservatives to hold the GOP to the values of America.
So he should just keep toting the RINO line and keep getting the same old Spectors, Collins and Snowe Republicans elected just because they are republicans and never mind the fact that they are /were pro abortion, pro big spending? If you stand for that, then the GOP dont need you. America dont need you. Join the Paulites and start your own third party. We will take back the GOP and you can just wallow.