Posted on 02/21/2010 1:44:57 PM PST by amabokcarab
I hate to beat a dead horse, but I just invited my friend over here to watch the CPAC speech. He is black (and so am I). Not surprisingly, he has been a democrat all his life. I asked him to watch the Glenn Beck speech as a favor to me..he owes me several. It wasn't 20 minutes into the speech when Glenn started talking about being down on his luck and because of his failure he could be there at CPAC..my friend teared up. I'm telling you- I might not have him yet-but eventually I'm going to convert him. At least now he doesn't think Glenn is a racist!
The reason for this post was to tell you all- please send this to your friends even if they are democrats..if they have an open mind and are still thinking for themselves, they will be able to relate to Glenn in this speech.
Thanks to FReeper JoeSeales, here is a good place to watch it in HQ with no ticker or anything on the screen.
http://www.watchglennbeck.com/cpac2010
God bless, Danny Lawson (Proud Black Conservative)
(Excerpt) Read more at watchglennbeck.com ...
I'm glad as hell he provided a platform by which to expose
the truther nutcase Debra Medina. He remains highly suspect however.
I give high praise to whichever staff member wrote the question he asked.
I retain the right to say mean things about him from time to time. ;-)
But his recent claims that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats is wrong and harmful to conservatism.”
In many ways, there IS no difference and their ARE progressives in both parties. If we don’t start recognizing it and pointing it out wherever it exists, we are doomed to continue repeating it. For example...John McCain...WORST progressive Rhino in the party...YET, he managed to become our Presidential candidate, was voted for... AND..... continues to be endorsed by so-called ‘conservatives’.
I don't believe the spirit of the tea party folks are extreme at all, and though I think the Republicans keep slipping into Democrat-lite, I still think we need to fix and elect them, not third party people.
Just my opinion.
But I am glad he had a positive effect on your friend.
“Even if you don’t like Glenn, give him props for what he is doing to wake people up in this country- he has people starting to think for themselves.”
That is, unless you happen to think that the president should demonstrate his eligibility through proper documentation. In that case, he attacks you with slurs.
I don’t do television anymore (playing DVD’s, old VHS tapes, and watching the two shows I miss from when we had cable on Hulu and the CBS site doesn’t count), so I’m curious why you think Beck jumped the shark.
Sure, Beck’s always had an over-the-top style that rubs some folks the wrong way, but I’ve got a close colleague (ex-New-Left type who’s now probably the furthest right member of our mathematics department other than me, unless you count some who grew up under Communism in Eastern Europe) who swears by him. Evidently Beck has popularized Jonah Goldberg’s critique of the “Progressive” movement from back in the day when that’s what they called themselves (W. Wilson et al.) up through the present. My colleague actually dug up books by Woodrow Wilson that sound Nazi over 20 years before Hitler’s rise to power, all because Beck pointed him in that direction.
So, since ‘jumping the shark’ usually refers to a catastrophic failure of taste the signals the decline of a creative endeavor, how did Beck jump the shark?
I will admit that his doomsday preaching gets a bit old, and if I have to see another Gordon Liddy commercial I will KILL MY TELEVISION!
What he is saying is that both parties have bought the same Narrative, which he calls “progressivism.” So we get, for instance, Gorge Bush’s efforts to federalize public education and to pump more money into a system that is already overfunded but badly managed. The Federal government has no authority to spend tax money on local schools but it does. But this sort of thing comes naturally who the feeling of noblesse oblige that belongs to the class in which Bush was reared. But who gave him/Congress the right to spend public funds for this purpose?
I just watched it for the first time. I thought it was a darn good speech.
"Throw a rock at a pack of dogs. The one that yelps is the one you hit."
A lot of RINO's are yelping today.
I'd say Beck's aim was dead on...
Being a sexual deviant hardly qualifies one as a conservative. Most male homos are also pedophiles, another behavior that would not qualify as a tenet of conservatism.
You Beck Bashers are REALLY, pitiful!!””
Hear, hear. Beck is a conservative and he is on our side. What did Ronald Reagan say?
They don’t bother me as long as they don’t insist on using government power to push their personal agenda.””
This is precisely what they have in mind. I seriously doubt more than handful ever vote republican or for any conservative. Their goal is recognition as something other than a deviant entity.
Certainly you have that right. That's not to say you are correct in doing so, but you do indeed have the right.
But you gotta fight, to retain the right, to pahhhh-tee... whoops...got carried away there. ;-p
You need to get off your high horse of religious intolerance. Beck’s religion or your religion or my religion are irrelevant for what we want in a president. For crying out loud no one is running for arch bishop of United States.
What really matters to every day hard working Americans is how the government can get out of their way and give them the opportunity to succeed. And that includes big government forcing someone’s religious beliefs down our throats.
Beck never said he wants his religion to be the guiding principle for the president. His main message is get away from progressivism.
I am not on a high horse or religious intolerance. I view the LDS’ers quite differently than you do. I see them every summer as they populate my town for the Hill Cummorah Pageant.
You should read the LDS literature before you accuse someone of being intolerant. I have read it, and compared it to the teachings of other Christian sects (i.e Seventh Day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses) and have serious disagreement with their teachings. Also their teachings are are incompatible with factual, provable, history.
I’m not advocating Beck for Archbishop or anything else. But the more you understand the LDS church, the less supportive you become of its adherents.
...and they have been squealing like little piggies all day...
With ALL that is going on, and is coming down the road, THIS matters, why?
Unless ---> Phelps > Topeka > Westboro???
I believe that you directed this to the wrong poster....
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