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Herculosis, I didn't say Beck espoused Mormonism. I said he claimed to be getting his ideas directly from someone higher, GOD perhaps, and that he was told by this "higher voice" to hold this rally to "restore honor" to our country. And what does religion have to do with "restoring honor" to our country anyway? And what are these "traditional values" he's referring to anyway? Does he mean "traditional WHITE values"? His crowd was mostly made up of older white Americans.“It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That's been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”
So what Beck's saying is that if Americans don't turn to a God or church, our country is going down the terrible road to Marxism or Socialism? That's what the coded "liberation theology" remark directly refers to here. And the only person that would be politically aimed at is Obama. Despite what Beck claimed he told people, to not bring signs to his rally, they still appeared. Another quote from the above link:AP wrote:One woman from the Beck rally shouted to the Sharpton marchers: "Go to church. Restore America with peace." Some civil rights marchers chanted "don't drink the tea" to people leaving Beck's rally.
Now why do Americans think Obama's not a proper American religious person that would extol "traditional values", other than the fact he's black?AP wrote:Beck had appealed to those attending not to bring signs with them. But Mike Cash, a 56-year-old Atlanta businessman, found a way around that. Over his polo shirt, he wore a T-shirt that read "Treat Obama like a used tea bag, toss him out now!"
Maybe THIS is why Lothar:Lothar wrote:I'd definitely agree that Glenn Beck is a religious nutcase. He's also a Mormon, but I repeat myself.
It's funny that Glenn Beck would criticize Obama for having beliefs that are "not Christian beliefs". I guess that means Obama isn't going to get into the Celestial Kingdom or be exalted to godhood where he can take on multiple spirit wives and populate his own planet... HEH
Spidey wrote:Lol…spell check wants to change “Obama” to “Osama”
Exactly. He provides fantastic Daily Show fodder, but the fact that millions of people think he's legitimate terrifies me.Gooberman wrote:It is not Beck that scares me, it is the amount of drones who watch him and take him seriously.
No, but it was a entertaining jab. All these TV 'personalities' are just entertainers after all. I don't take Olbermann any more seriously than any of the others out there.CUDA wrote:So your going to use Olberman to criticise Beck???? ROFL
LOLtunnelcat wrote:liberals don't own guns!
Perhaps Beck is has a right to be concerned about those wimpy libs:tunnelcat wrote:
But seriously, what does this tell you about the state of politics in the U.S., that Beck felt he had the need to wear a bulletproof vest! What, all those little wimpy liberals are going to come out in droves and shoot him for his crazy talk? Make an effing martyr of him? I thought that was the purview of the right wing crazies. Besides, according to the right wingers, liberals don't own guns!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... rally.html
At least Al Gore has some credentials: the man enlisted to fight in Vietnam, was in Congress for 24 years, served as vice president, ran for president, (lost because of some shady backroom deals,) won a Nobel Peace Prize, etc.ThunderBunny wrote:You know...he kinda reminds me of another false prophet...
Al Gore anyone?
Oh? Where do I sign up?ThunderBunny wrote:LOLwon a Nobel Peace Prize, etc.
They hand those out to anyone these days.
You simply have to have a friend with credentials to sign you up. For example Rush Limbaugh was also up for a prize that year because some people with the ability to nominate him wanted to illustrate how Al's nomination was turning the value of the prize into political fodder.null0010 wrote:Oh? Where do I sign up?ThunderBunny wrote:LOLwon a Nobel Peace Prize, etc.
They hand those out to anyone these days.
His stint in congress is equally full of self serving hypocrisy. He mouthed off about the environment and at the same time used his power to have the Dept of the Navy release their oil fields in California to a company his father owned stock in Occidental Petroleum, stock that was passed down to Al which he put in his mothers name in a trust for his retrieval later. So, yea, all that and he's an all around ★■◆● of the highest degree.According to Michael O'Hara, Gore's closest army buddy, "We never pulled guard duty in the field because we weren't part of those units. The only place we stood guard was back at Bien Hoa," the secure base where Gore lived. "It was the equivalent of being a school crossing guard. I know guys that didn't even take their rifles with them." (The National Review, November, 1999) Other soldiers with long experience in Vietnam said that Gore was treated differently from his fellow enlistees. H. Alan Leo, a photographer in the press brigade office where Gore worked as a reporter, said soldiers were ordered to keep Gore out of harm's way. "It blew me away," Leo said. "I was to make sure he didn't get into a situation he could not get out of. They didn't want him to get into trouble. So we went into the field after the fact [after combat actions], and that limited his exposure to any hazards." (Los Angeles Times 10/15/99) Leo described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where "I could have worn a tuxedo." (Newsweek, 12/6/99) Gore's story changed to the more "accurate" version in his October 1999 interview with Talk magazine, though he wasn't asked why the story has now changed.
approve of one draft dodger, disapprove of another.woodchip wrote:TC, you forgot to mention Herr Klinton and his out of country college to avoid the draft
A Canuuker speaks out from the bleachers.Ferno wrote:approve of one draft dodger, disapprove of another.woodchip wrote:TC, you forgot to mention Herr Klinton and his out of country college to avoid the draft
isn't hypocrisy fun?
Yep, I forgot about his own little military skip out. I guess that explains why he screwed up his little 'wars'. By the way, just because I'm liberal leaning, I've never approved of spoiled brat party boy Clinton either. In fact, we've had a long set of liberal presidents that haven't had any stones or showed any leadership AT ALL.woodchip wrote:TC, you forgot to mention Herr Klinton and his out of country college to avoid the draft
