Dan Riehl thinks that it’s quiet….too quiet:
Why Does The Left Want Beck To Lead The Conservative Movement?
Don’t pile on me. Just a link to Brian Mahoney at Radio Equalizer, who is always more than a fair man in his analysis. Some of his links and quotes are rather troubling. Given the liberal media’s tendency to ignore, or impugn so many conservative personalities who have had great success, it is something of a puzzle while they seem so intent on propping Beck up. Is it only because he has prominent liberals handling his business and image? I wish I knew. But it has always been cause for alarm given how little I trust liberals and the liberal media.
Riehl commenter “Bob” connects the dots:
My position:
1. the Left wants to win. They plan ahead.
2. put in place a conservative sounding pundit–smooth him out on CNN, move him to FOX. Promote him over all media: books,TV, radio, magazine covers, rallies. Start a boycott! That will get them riled up. Have the president sneer about the 5 o’clocker!
3. It doesn’t matter what he says, how anti-Left he sounds, what conservative ideas he supports, as long as he does ONE THING–push, push push for a third party. Promote the meme that both parties are the same.What a bonus for them if the consevatives fight amonst themselves over this guy.
I would like someone (Dr. Helen?) to talk about the sophisticated methods of manipulation now in use. I’m sure they’ve gotten very clever with opinion swaying.
They’re on to us. Ix-nay of the oycott-bay.



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Oh, good idea. Let’s get Dr. Helen to analyze the “sophisticated methods of manipulation.” Heh, indeed.
Just watch “Network” again.
Then all will be clear.
Nice hover caption.
Glenn was a bargain given that you can wash both his brain and his hemorrhoid with one spritz.
Why don’t you relax and play a little solitaire?
Fapfapfapfapfap…
Promote the meme that both parties are the same?
At the end of the day, I would like to believe that Obama and the Dems will prove otherwise, but:
Health care is not reformed until you take the profit out of caring for sick people. Public Option or Bust.
Adding more troops in Afghanistan is pointless, anti-intellectual pandering to the military industrial complex (much of corporate America). An historical blunder unworthy of a man with a Nobel Peace prize. Declare victory and withdraw – See Nixon)
There is no true justice in America anymore, until some folks get charged with torture. Most notably, the ones who show up on TV so often bragging about it. Waterboarding KSM a gazillion times is one thing, but authorizing the torture of toddlers testicles, in an attempt to get their parents to admit to the whereabouts of WMD’s you made up, is beyond the pale. Jesus loves the little children. Now there is a meme with some real provenance!
Throwing money at bankers stimulates nothing but their egos. How about student loan forgiveness, or forcing banks to lower interest rates on all their usurious loans? Things that would make an immediate difference in the economy of Main Street instead of Wall Street.
But the parties ARE different. The Democrats at least pretend they give a crap about the Gays. That is a pretty big difference I guess.
Enjoy.
I would like to see ANYONE on this forum refute Glenn Beck’s positions. His transcripts are available on his websites. I have NEVER seen them refuted. Until someone does so, he is RIGHT people who do not believe as he does are Islamo-Fascist/Marxists.
Aieee! By the Beard of Mohammed! He’s on to us, comrades! Stubbornestgeezer has found that we cannot refute the ironclad logic of Beck. We must flee! Flee before the glaring light of the Geezer’s intellect and his complete inability to punctuate a simple sentence in the English language!
We’ll rendezvous in the mountains of Pakistan. I’ll bring the Koran and the Glenn Beck transcripts. You guys bring Mein Kampf, The Communist Manifesto and some potato chips. We will search in the writings of our masters to find some way to answer Beck’s formidable genius.
Oh, this is perfect! Another 20 minutes and we’ll have the entire conservative movement breaking up because NOBODY is really a conservative–they’re all just left-wing shills and spies trying to convince conservatives that they’re conservative. But they’re not. And neither are you!!!!
Yep. Somebody explain this manipulation, please! Michelle? Can you do it as a cheer, perhaps?
Because I don’t have all day to waste…..
From Fact Check
Cash for Clunkers
Q: Fox News’ Glenn Beck said that the government will get complete access to your computer and all of your files when you log on to Cars.gov for the Cash for Clunkers program. Is there any truth to this?
A: This claim is false. Beck quoted from a security message on the site for dealers, not the site for the general public.
He is refuted. Therefore under your criteria (as far as I can tell from the wierd sentence)he is WRONG.
El Fail-o
Stop being so stubborn, Stubbornestgeezer. Embrace the light which is O-ba-ma.
Um, Beck had several shows in which he insisted that uber oil tycoon, ultimate capitalist, Standard Oil founder Rockefeller was himself a huge marxist/facist/commie. Geezer, if you actually believe that, I’m honestly surprised you can remember what the potty’s for.
Oh, yes—and Glenn’s anagrams that always either borrow, leave off or simply aren’t made from the original words should be evidence enough of his “intellect”.
On the other hand, if they know about Becky, do you think they’ve figured out Sarah’s our mole, too?
Hahahaha, a conspiracy on the Left. We can’t get our own President or majority in Congress to actually implement the progressive agenda but we CAN destroy the Republican Party by….oh, dear Lord, enabling the most idiotic and insane elements of the radical right (cultivated since Reagan, btw). They deserve Beck and the tea-baggers. Maybe a lesson will be learned: when you fuck crazy people, the crazy people fuck you right back.
All data on the computer tied in to cash for clunkers was subject to audit and confiscation under the Cash for Clunker bill. The data therein (which could have been personal data about customers was also subject to investigation and confiscation). It was allegedly to protect against hackers. Refutation refuted. You are WRONG again!
Bwahahahaha! The conservitards will NEVER figure out who are among the 25% of influential right-wingers that are actually liberal/commie sleeper agents! Sure, they hit all the correct GOP notes (anti-tax, anti-HCR, etc), but that’s because they were trained so well.
Too bad the teabuggers will NEVER figure out the secret recognition signals. Never!
Why am I not surprised that I am wrong?
It’ll be great when there are two parties on the Right. Their campaigns will be just like pro rasslin’.
Shhh… we’re kinda there already. Look at the majority of democrats in congress right now — they’re not exactly dirty f’ing hippies or rabid Islamo-Fascist/Marxists (thx, geezer, love that term), are they now? More importantly, their politics are about as bland and mainstream as they can get. Essentially the kabuki for the unwashed masses boils down to the choice between republicans who lie about being compassionate, and democrats who lie about being democrats. Consider it pro rasslin’ without the babes in the background or the cool tattoos.
Well yeah, maybe on policy. I’m talking about the delightful one-upmanship in the areas of religiosity, anti-intellectualism, paranoia, and that weird hyper-patriotism/anti-government thing.
To borrow the meme from last week’s post on “ReFounders”, these people are truly regeniuses.
Haha. Ur reeely kkklever, I hope ya know.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Curses, they are on to us. Let’s hope that the don’t catch on about our Palinbot.
You cannot “refute” insanity, you can only ignore it.
*looks up from the open chassis of the BeckBot where he’s refilling the tear reservoir* Oh shit, they’re on to us!
Puh-lease, don’t even try to argue with them for they are never wrong about anything. They never make mistakes, never have doubts about what is good and true and right. They have all the answers.
Look at the record. The Republicans were right about Social Security, about Civil Rights, about gays and communists taking over everything, about the mortal threat to THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE by the Islamo-Fascist/Marxists. Hell, in the last eight years they were right about Iraq and Afghanistan, about the economy, about New Orleans. The Republicans have always been right.
Most of all, stubbornestgeezer, you, sir, are a supremely magnificent spokesman for the Republicans. You so eloquently state the obvious that we, the left, are hopelessly lost in the wilderness and all we need do is embrace the likes of Rush, Beck, Hannity, and Palin and, walla, we’ll have been saved.
So consider us saved. Your work here is done. Go spread your message of hope here:
http://www.scatlovers.com
shhh. be vewy, vewy quiet. We’we hunting wight-wingers
I know. But sometimes I like to poke at em to get them riled up.
Your hero has some explaining (or re-explaining) to do: http://foxnewsboycott.com/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-raped-and-murdered-a-girl-in-1990/
So “Bob” thinks Beck is a lefty plant?
Excellent! Just what we want them to think! Or is it? Mwahahahahaha….
Some kind charitable soul should nudge Dan Riehl to read Taibbi’s latest column.
I’d do it, but I don’t want to come in contact with Dan’s psychosis. It might be contagious.
I’m a bit confused. Are you saying that the cash for clunkers website was designed to copy every single file off your computer in the blink of an eye, or are you saying that if you filled out the form to get your $4000, then the government could find out your name, address?
Herr Glenn’s only having a bit of fun…
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/11/glenn-beck-not-joking-anymore.html
Also. “Are you saying that the cash for clunkers website was designed to copy every single file off your computer in the blink of an eye…” geezer doesn’t want the gubmint to steal his porn.
Beckerhead and The Teabaggers to go on the road
Great Freakin’ Job, Bogg!
You used to be such a reliable lieutenant in the “Underground Manchurian Media Mob” (UMMM.)
Now, you might as well put our plan in your column for all to read.
Josh Marshall was right. We should have elected Drum “Security Services Sergeant” (SSS).
But, no. “T-Bogg’s got the right experience to rig the voting machines, T-Bogg can teach us to surf.” (I never understood why he was so hung up on that.)
I don’t think it’s that bad though. No one knows Mary Cheney is one of us, do they?
T-Bogg can teach us to surf.
I don’t WANT to learn how to surf. Can I have fries instead?
Come the Revolution, you’ll do as you’re told!
Meanwhile, while you’re all arguing about this, the world may be about to enter a period of truly earth-shaking (as opposed to ass-shaking) crisis. I hope TBogg is prepared…
I love it when the paranoid start getting paranoid about the other paranoids.
Psst: the voices in Glenn Beck’s head are being transmitted by George Soros. Pass it on.
hhhhhh-shay already!
After losing twice in NY-23 the teabaggers are well on their way to world domination:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/hoffman-concedes-ny-23-to-owens-again.php?ref=fpb
Dobbs/Palin/Beck 2012!!!1!1! Also. Too.
Is your real name Gary Ruppert?
Now that Beck’s “11/3″ and “KILL SMURFS” projects have been unearthed by Our super-duper investigative Liberal Media Newshounds he (Beck), IMO, has been tossed on the dung heap of History and I’ve stopped stop watching and frankly don’t give a….for your viewing pleasure:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project
and: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/funny/south_park_parodies_glenn_beck_143033.asp?c=rss
Once Cartman plays you you’ve then become a joke.
Gary Ruppert no longer has a real name. “Gary Ruppert” has passed into the realm of legend, the halls of dubious glory, the castle of opiate dreams.
Giggly Geezer can’t hold a candle to…
Wait.
Have you noticed how a lot of ordinary household items have phallic connotations? Oh, you have?
Okay, then.
So “Bob” thinks Beck is a lefty plant?
Excellent! Just what we want them to think! Or is it? Mwahahahahaha….
“I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the candidate in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the candidate in front of me…”
If you cannot refute Glenn Beck then you LOSE.
I don’t know “gary Ruppert”…but then, Who is John Galt?
Like Rush, I shall not quit until We have convinced all of you that the only Free Way is the USA way of capitalism and limited government…
If you cannot refute Glenn Beck then you LOSE.
And if you cannot dance the fandango in the deep midnight, YOU lose.
Hey, I guess wishing DOES make it so!
There’s a man in my town who often stands on a street corner waving his arms and yelling incomprehensible gibberish at passing cars. No one can refute him.
OK, stubbornestgeezer. You win. We all concede. You’re the smartest guy in the room. Yay, Rush, capitalism, limited government.
Now, can you go someplace else and spread the gospel of Random capital Letters and illiterate punctuation? I am sure there are many that remain to be converted out there in the mission field who can hardly wait to be showered with your spittle.
Great. So exactly what do I lose? My sanity? No, that comes from listening to his bullshit. My fortune? No, that comes from listening to his economic advice. My country? No that comes for following his lead. Can’t think of anything of significance that I lose by totally ignoring the asshat lunatic.
Hi Lil’ Stubby!
This Rush you speak of?
Would this be the same Rush who stopped denigrating the ACLU after they stood up for his rights in his doctor shopping/drug scam? That Rush is a fuckin’ hypocrite. But yet he is your hero.
Or would this be the drug-addled gasbag, multimillionaire who plays dumb fucks like you and laughs each and every night because you are his rube?.
And now you and he (“WE” as you put it) seem to be quite tight. Wow! Are you going to bust out with a radio show before The Holiday Season (I know, I know, it’s CHRISTmas to you)? I can hardly wait! What’s your hook going to be? The Stubbornestgeezer Show? How about Rush’s Rube?
Good luck with that. Sounds like background noise in your bingo hall….
Why does Beck not refute the fact that there is no evidence that he did not rape and murder a girl in 1990?
YOU LOSE!
Now go look at your pictures of Todd and Sarah Palin again and work over your little geezer. You know you want to……
does this involve the evil plot to take over the universe that we’re supporting at DailyKOS
you know, the one where we all kow tow to our evil overlord Markos
or is this somebody else’s department ???
one of Markos’ mindless minions wants to know