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NBC wants Fox competitor Glenn Beck fired. Ah, liberal tolerance. »
Posted By alanocu 5 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
As long as this place is called America, Beck can say whatever the hell he wants, just as liberals wrote and spoke about their fantasies of assassinating George Bush.
If NBC thinks America will only achieve greatness if it were Cuba, then they're the ones that need to pack up, get in a boat, and row row row....south of Miami.
Stupid. And the execs at NBC wonder why they're sitting at #7 below The Food Network in the ratings.
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alanocu5 months, 1 week ago
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mesodude5 months, 1 week ago
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RNC Threatens David Frum for Asking, “Where’s Sarah’s Clothes?”
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Conservative David Frum, of NewMajority.com is taking serious heat from the RNC for asking where Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe has ended up:
The RNC repeatedly has been asked for its own version of events, but has rebuffed all questions about the location of the clothes or any timeline for making the donation.
New Majority Editor David Frum said that over the months since the end of the campaign he has spoken to many donors angry about the use made of their money – but that they are reluctant to make public comment. Reaction to NewMajority’s story may explain this reluctance. Frum said: “The RNC initiated a conversation with me today. The conversation was off the record, so I won’t quote it, but I think I can characterize it as threatening.” Frum added: “I said I was eager to hear of any inaccuracies in the story. I said that their denials would be a lot more convincing if they could name even one thing in the story that was wrong.”
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Goppy5 months ago
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Yes ... Libs CAN dream ... as can every reasonable American who values AMERICAN media ... as opposed to FOREIGN media ... which is what FOX is ...
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Founded by an Australian ... FOX has never valued traditional American Values.
FOX HATES traditional American values.
Should we permit organized hatred?
In Germany ... you are not allowed to claim that the Holocaust never occurred ... that's not censorship ... its protection for raving lunatics preying on the ignorance.
When Glenn Beck rages on about our President being a Racist ... or our President not being an American Citizen ... it's not unlike organized attempts to prey on the ignorant ... be it you ... or any other citizen who is so bereft of a conscious ... the can only be moved by Loud ... Crass ... Talking Heads.
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That said ... I don't think Glenn Beck should be censored.
I actually think he should be pointed out for the Morally Vacant ... desperately Greedy individual he is ... in a sort of National ... DAILY Reconciliation ... which ... as luck would have it ... is not unlike the Jon Stewart DAILY SHOW. -
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mesodude5 months, 1 week ago
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Joe Scarborough: Glenn Beck Now Worse Than the Dixie Chicks
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The MSNBC host wasn’t in the studio today when his show’s pundits pulled apart Glenn Beck’s remarks that President Obama is a “racist” with “deep-seated hatred for white people.” (Beck also smeared “green jobs czar” Van Jones as a “communist.”) But he’s tweeting about it:
"Conservatives attacked the Dixie Chicks for saying much less about President Bush than what Beck said about President Obama."
Scarborough has some credibility here, because he wasn’t always so sanguine about the Dixie Chicks “controversy.”
At a 2003 concert in London, the Chicks’s lead singer/songwriter Natalie Maines said that they were “ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” That controversy coincided with the opening weeks of the former congressman’s first show, “Scarborough Country,” and Scarborough pounded the country singers relentlessly for having the audacity to attack George W. Bush. From the March 14, 2003 edition of the show:
http://washingtonindependent.com/53069/joe-scarbor...
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mesodude5 months ago
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Well, it's a good thing cons always embrace alternative points of view, colby ;-P
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Dick Cheney: Colin Powell Not Republican, Cheney Powell Feud
Powell stated in his speech to national security executives last week that the party needed to move away from figures like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter because they were polarizing to moderates. Powell has been echoing sentiments expressed by popular moderates like Meghan McCain.
For his criticisms of the party, Dick Cheney stated today on Face the Nation that Powell is no longer a Republican.
As I reported here, the Republican party is attempting to reshape its image in the wake of the 2008 election. The Cheney-Powell feud further shows that the conservative party is in the middle of a deep ideological battle that may result in its split in the near future. In one corner, we have Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Dick Cheney, who are strong social conservatives who appeal to the Christian base for their views on issues like abortion, immigration and gay marriage.
On the other side are the so-called “RINO”’s like Colin Powell, John McCain, and Michael Bloomberg, who do not have the same views on social issues, but joined the party mainly because of their fiscal views (small government, low taxes).
Frankly, I suspect there will be a split in the party soon. The social conservatives simply will not rally again around someone like McCain. Sarah Palin will likely take over that wing of the party because she inspires the Christian base. Moderate, fiscal conservatives will not rally around Sarah Palin because they view her as a step backward. Like Powell states, moderates believe that social conservatives are increasingly outnumbered in this country and conservatives need to reshape their image to appeal to the center.
Will the Republican party survive?
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=3889
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mesodude5 months ago
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Glenn Beck Loses His Mind, Shrieks LIke a Deranged Bitch at Caller
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-KGukuety0
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Hhussk5 months ago
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We need to mount an effort to keep Glen Beck where he is. The more wack nut righties that are speaking out on idiotic topics the more the nation will see what going back to Republican leadership will bring,
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The basis of your statement is that people need to be confined, or limited, when they disagree with you. Then, you contradicted your point by showing that it is better to let "idiotic" people talk.
If you were really believe Beck is a nut, you should hope that more people hear him, and ultimately agree with you. Even your second sentence supports my point.
And yet, your first reaction was certainly one of totalitarianism.
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Commodore15 months ago
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Well Beck has obviously done something to garner NBC's attention. His fame and his bankroll will only increase now. Does anyone listen to the Nazi Broadcasting Channel anyway? Glenn Beck and FOX News. A shining oasis of free speech in a desert of nazi liberalism and arrogance. I love it.
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Georgia505 months ago
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I listen to ABC, CBS, and NBC all the time. I'm not sure I've missed anything ever spoken on their networks in my lifetime.
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I hasten to add here that I did miss several days last Spring, but once the flush handle on my toilet was fixed, audio was instantly restored with each pull of the handle.
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mesodude5 months ago
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"Still, the rhetoric is softer than what was espoused in 2007, when Ensign and others pushed Craig to step down after he was charged with soliciting sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom."
"Of all those accused of such hypocrisy, Sanford certainly stands out. His holier-than-thou calls for Bill Clinton to resign during the Lewinsky era have rightly come back to haunt him, especially given his decision, at least so far, not to take his own advice and step down immediately as South Carolina's governor. Clearly this is a man whose Bible study class passed over that business of throwing first stones."
"Vitter has long been a Clinton foe, calling on President Clinton to step down in 1998 because of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. In 2007, Vitter also revealed that he had been a client of the D.C. Madam’s escort service, but refused to resign."
"Newt Gingrich is calling for Nancy Pelosi to resign because he says she dishonorably accused the CIA of lying to Congress.
What Gingrich doesn't include in his hypocritical diatribe agains Speaker Pelosi is that a Republican member of Congress, Rep. Peter Hoekstra’s (D-MI), also accused the CIA of lying, but Gingrich was nowhere to be found, back in 2007, demanding Hoekstra's resignation for saying so."
"Republican Newt Gingrich, who led the U.S. House of Representatives as it prepared to impeach Bill Clinton in a sex-and-perjury scandal, acknowledged in an interview released on Friday that he was having an affair at the time." -
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Wolfie20075 months ago
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NBC wants Beck fired for calling Obama a racist now why does that sound hypocritical? Oh yeah, do any over at NBC remember calling George Bush a Nazi or comparing him to Hitler. How many people watch NBC and it's satellite stations anyway and do they think if Beck was fired their would be an increase in their ratings? Yeah, dream on.
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skyking2p5 months ago
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I first remember Beck when he was on a Fla. radio station in 2000 or 2001. He was a very moderate repug then. At least I don't remember him being anywhere near the level of the dr shopping Rush Cottonballs. He had a short stint on CNN light and was a little worse. Then he must have had a talk with Roger Ailes and he told him how much money he could make exciting the tin foil hat crowd and he remade himself into the cartoon he is today. Ailes knows his watchers. They will pay good money to anyone that can get there rage on.
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Glen Beck : viagra for the hate group -
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wtagg5 months ago
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Beck is interested in one thing, who will be interested in him at contract renewal time. Do not feel surprised if he ends up on a network like NBC. He will go with the highest bidder and his views will modify to fit that new environment.
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It is all about entertainment. The real issue is that so many view this as journalism. You can't really have a Beck without an Olbermann, You can't really have an Olbermann without a Limbaugh, etc.......... It would not surprise me if they all go drinking together after their shows and talk about the exploits of that day's show. -
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Charlson5 months ago
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The far right raving lunatics in our great nation have so many far right raving lunatics to choose from in the media that their little minds might explode. Glen Beck is another addition to the litany of hate-driven, bigoted and racist media personalities. I do not think Beck should be fired, no, a boycott of his sponsors would be appropriate. Use the free enterprise system to clean up the excess in the media. Shades of the Dixie Chicks. lol.
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djn3nunez35 months ago
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just as liberals wrote and spoke about their fantasies of assassinating George Bush.
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How about publishing the names of some of these strawmen?
As far as I know it's only the liberal commentators that loose their jobs when the critizise the President or his policies.
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Klarissa5 months ago
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Propeller stories about Bush and a reference to Nazi
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