Glenn Beck Wonders Why He's Resented as a Bigot

I am calling on a nationwide [or international] boycott of fox news and of any company that advertises with them.

They get not one thin dime. Not one. Let them starve shivering in the dark for what they have done to this country.

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Maybe the gentleman had heard Beck joke about "Mexinol" - a fuel made out of Mexicans. This guy is terrible.

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from his statements, one would think beck doesn't look in the mirror very often..

but then i consider the ego.....

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we have to answer ....yes.............the right wing poisens the mind, and if one objects to the tactics, they ridicule and taunt..just like all bullies.The right wingers are basically cowards, people that only want to be a part of the group, afraid to think for themselves. Glen suffers from the ignorance of ignoring.

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Boycotting FOX News is a good idea. Another best bet is to get our legislators in Washington to restore the Fairness Doctrine which requires equal time for worthy opponents of an opinion. Reagan annulled the fairness doctrine in the 1980s. It was effective before that.

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It's not surprising that conservative pot-stirrers are hated by many so-called liberals.

Conservative listeners aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, so it's easy to convince some slack-jawed lowbrow that the conspiracy du jour is about to manifest itself.

We liberals have to couch our arguments in terms aimed at intelligent, educated, experienced, articulate folks and that's a tough audience. We liberals envy the ease with which conservatives are able to dupe their supporters.

Not only that, but we're transfixed, like deer in the headlights, when those supporters stay duped despite mountains of evidence that we were right and the conservatives were wrong.

We're convinced that conservative supporters aren't voters, but zombies. That's the ursprung of our envy and our hatred.

It's not what the conservatives say; it's their Borg-like adherence to what is so obviously false that infuriates me---and, by me, I mean us.

A truly functioning democracy demands debate, but how can one debate with robots who can vote? Who wouldn't hate such a situation?

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Glenn Beck is posing this rhetorical question to "liberals." He isn't including himself in that question... which is exactly where it needs to be directed.

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The "fans" of Beck, Limbaugh, et al. are not called "dittoHeads" for nothing. Nonthinking wingnut boobs! See, it's easy to call people names. Just the same as the stupid wingnuts constantly do.

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It is what Beck IS... It is time these hateful individuals realize they can be made to suffer consequences for their hatefullness... CHANGE is upon them. All of them!

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Glenn Beck is a piece of human garbage, and I've written to him and his producer and to his syndicator to get him off the air.

I have yet to hear anything but wrongheaded-ness from his walnut sized cerebrum.

And, his denial of global warming is astonishing.

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I'm glad Mr. Beck has moved from CNN to Fox News. He was giving CNN a bad name, but at Fox News he'll fit right in. One can only hope this is a first step in CNN rebuilding its credibility as a news organization. It has slipped badly over the last decade or so.

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HIM AND RUSH ARE COMMIE BASTARDS WHO DO NOT SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT ELECT.

Sorry. I just wanted to see what it felt like. I don't see what the wing-nuts found so satisfying in that.

Of course, they would rather watch cars go around in a circle than a good hockey game.

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AlterNet really should get rid of that ad with Lieberman's face stuck to it.

I'm fine now, but I have to click away. I can't scroll up.

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Him. Period.

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...is the American al Qaeda. An enemy of everything good, progressive and prosperous.

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Keith Olbermann has had him as a "Worst Person" many times for hateful thing he has spewed.

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the little boy who cried fox(wolf) one too many times.

Listening to this imbecile is like taking an EEG of a brain dead person.

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It's because he's never really listened to himself. Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilley, Savage and their whole ilk haven't seemed to have caught on to the idea that everything they say on their shows is recorded, analyzed, rebroadcast and online for the world to see. When they say anything hateful or really stupid (which is almost everytime they open their mouths) they can't credibly claim they didn't say it or that their words were "taken out of context".

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What is impressive to me is that a truck driver would accost him like that! Things are looking good when the working class is finally waking up and realizing that Republicans have NEVER been on their side.If people like Glenn Beck are being confronted, they have only themselves to blame. Hate mongering has become a right wing specialty.

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You are actually quite charitable in your evaluation. At our site, we express a bit of skepticism about the entire incident.

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You are actually quite charitable in your evaluation. At our site, we express a bit more skepticism about the entire incident.

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Are you trying to say the Truck Driver was justified, he is not?

No-way boycott Fox News, the greatest TV channel.

I like Beck. He has an opinion and is honest in his reporting.

This contrasts Beck with MS NBC, CBS, and CNN … These network commentators are uninformed, goofy, and I think lack understanding of man. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, and Mao Se Tung are out and out murders. MS NBC, CBS, and CNN would talk about these scum-suckers and their healthcare program for the children. They (NBC…) are fools!

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Only a few times have I let the channel settle on this little pile of crap. It is like watching a smart ass 13 year old 8th grader who has been given his own TV show. That in and of itself is unbelievable but equally so are the morons who apparently watch this jerk. The truck driver (who obviously has more brains than Beck does) should have run him down. As my little Irish grandmother used to say about people like Beck - "It would be good of God to take him."

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"Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

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Read history. This sort of hate speech, speech calling for members of the opposition to be killed, was the norm in the press in pre-Nazi Germany during the years leading up to the Hitler's takeover. Is this what Americans want America to become?

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Beck comes off as an outraged, angry man, his broadcast persona. His character is riddled with frustration and resentment very much akin to his audience. Though most of his viewers have been raised on lies and absurd notions, usually voting against their own economic self-interest, Beck makes millions catering to their powerless frustrations and serving as a public outlet for their anger. He is a liar and, like all of his ilk, a total phony. While quite willing to create an atmophere of war love and a veneraton of violence which will consume many, though certainly not himself, he also, apparently by his own admission, is a wimp.

The so-called "family values crowd" rales against sex and the deteriorating "morality" of America and exalts in violence. Sex has the effect of mellowing folks out. Not a good thing for the agenda of the Right and particularly the Religious Right. Mellow, satisfied people are far more difficult to manipulate.

Inuration of a population to violence is a key component for empire, and especially by disingenuously blending violence with unreality and fantasy--video games, movies, Tee Vee, etc.--the population is saturated with an atmosphere of violence that is easily and mistakenly believed by its consumers to have no direct effects. Thus, the mayhem in Iraq by contrast is perceived as somewhat of a bore. And associating violence with a supposedly noble cause--Soldiers for Jesus or Super Patriotism--provides added appeal and justification.

Turn on a Tee Vee and there is almost a constant stream of cop shows, gunfights, fist fights, car chases, more guns, often fantastical weapons that do not even exist, and sanitized death. Yet still to this day, there are the seven words you can't say on television.

You have to wonder how many of these young Muslim teenagers, those other fundamentalists, would be buying into the deal for seventy virgins if they were getting laid regularly?

Killing is okay, death not so bad, and sex verboten--unless it is used to sell a truck or a soft drink.

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Glen is an example of what happens when neo-cons take over our media. They give us morons with their bigoted, ignorant, dishonest, exploitive (hateful) editorial "insights". They then appeal to their large audience with their lowest common denominator emotional self interest appeals as a hook for their exploitive anti-social agenda. This is why we need a strong FCC inforcement of the '34 FCC Act.

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said: "There is only one thing worse than being talked about...not being talked about." Glen is winning. We're talking.

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Just before reading this thread, which mentions that Beck has gone from CNN to FOX, which I did not know because I cannot stand to look at Beck and never watch him, because he makes me sick, I read in my morning paper that Alan Colmes is leaving the Sean Hannity Show. Presumably Colmes' therapy has finally kicked in. Are these two changes in some way connected? Is FOX undergoing some kind of adjustment?

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Fox News is an oxymoron. Fox Network, maybe; news, never!

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There is nothing good I can say about Beck, who is one of the nastiest, puppet of the failed right wing world. The day he compared Al Gore to Hitler was probably the bottom and the lowest of the lowest. He is not just a problem, he needs to be removed from TV. I would continue to fight Fox, now that he has moved over to their den of thieves. We, as a group complained to CNN over and over, and they finally listened, when Keith Oberman announced that he had trounced Beck in the ratings. The people have spoken and they don't want Beck on the air. He is a menace, mean and has a personal political right wing agenda. Let's hope he ends up out of work and back to that "hitleresqe" bar tool he came from. The man stated that he was once a drunk, an addict and his life was saved. Saved for what purpose, other than to ruin our lives and country with his christian, pro-life, reagan trickle down misguided personal beliefs. This is the kind of person, if he gets a following, can lead people to no good end. Send piles of garbage to Fox, until they remove his stench from their channel.

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What is wrong with the angry right-wingers?

Are they zombies who don't realize they are being openly hateful where everyone can see and hear them? It is more than clear they wish everyone not in their own circle of friends would just drop dead.

Enlightening these shock jocks would be quite a job for strong psychiatrists!

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Glenn Beck was shocked at the level of hatred from the truck-driving verbal assailant? Is that why Glenn takes a security team with him wherever he goes?

Don't be fooled, kids: Beck knows who he is, and he knows that his words can result in violence and even death; but what he knows most of all is that his brand of hate speech makes him a lot of money–which also makes him – and Shaun and Rush and Bill-o, et al. – members of a cynical class of people who will do anything for money; you know, like thieves, pimps, hookers, con artists, etc. Nice company, Glenn ...

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I watched the first few programs Glenn Beck did on CNN. Then I called all of his sponsors and told them I could not buy their product as long as they were supporting such bigoted, damaging, inaccurate diatribes as I had been hearing on his show.

Mr. Beck and his ilk constantly carry so much anger within them that it oozes out of their pores. Mr. Beck has a pattern he used frequently when I watched. He makes a connection with his audience by telling an ancdedote about himself in which he made a mistake then reformed, and he's very self-effacing about it. Then he lays out the position that he wants his listeners to take on the person or issue that's his subject. He draws his audiance into his view because he had bonded with them earlier and they saw that he was a decent person and they know they are, therefore their view on any topic must be the right view.

That is troublesome to me, when people willingly become "dittoheads" - I know wrong program, but same phenonemon. Then, with the audience primed, Mr. Beck makes a exaggerated, emotional introduction to the topic to give his audience a signal as to what to think. At this point it would be a uncomfortable for a person to disagree because Mr. Beck is so forceful in directing the proper way to view the issue.

The second thing Mr. Beck does, or does not, is worry about facts and nuances. He presents the issue about a person or an issue in absolutes and then he begins to use that awful, back of the neck-hair raising, gag inducing Republican humor to belittle the person or issue being discussed. This is where you'll get the derogatory nicknames of which the Republicans are so fond. The humor is so smarmy, so juvenile, and so very, very nasty, that it shines a spotlight on that sub-dermal layer of anger mixed with hatred that appears to drive a Republican.

Then, when someone takes a different position and holds to and supports it, they are designated by people like Mr. Beck as being hateful. The word "hate" pops up quite often in the Republican lexicon. Since they carry that layer of anger/hatred with them all the time, that's naturally what they expect other people to be feeling.

Sorry Mr. Beck, I don't hate you. But I would like to see you taken off television if you continue to present misinformation as factual news. I see that as being quite irresponsible in our democracy and I will continue to push for hosts who will present correct, useful information over our public airwaves, be that truth more helpful to the Republicans or the Democrats.

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for me to realize I never wanted to watch it again. I was just suprised he was on CNN rather than Fox where he belongs. my current fantasy is the next time a right winger calls a left winger a traitor on tv, that the falsely accused consider that to be fighting words and smacking that well compensated slanderer.

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Glenn Beck, you dumb-ass you, you and your ilk have been spewing out hatred for the last 27yrs, beginning under St. Reagan and his veep, daddy Bush.
Now you have the audacity to call for civility. Exacty when are you and the rest of the Rethugs going to act civil. And the same goes for O'Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, Limbaugh, Cavuto, Russert, Matthews, Scarborough, Malkin, D'Souza, Novak, Ingraham, Savage, the Bushes, the Cheney's, Scalias, Gonzaleses, Rumsfelds and all of the rest of your hate spewing friends, cronys, criminals, killers and corrupters.

Give the rest of us 27yrs of respect and then we can begin to talk about civility. We are waiting...You can begin anytime now.

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