Glenn Beck is an idiot - Page 3

ChineseCheckers · 08-17-09, 06:18 PM

He was ok when he first started at CNN but has since been a long quick slide down

sracer · 08-17-09, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Mirice99

Actually the sad part is that some people think it's schtick.

sracer · 08-17-09, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by crazyronin

Harold Ickes was Roosevelt's oil czar (Time even referred to him as that.)

Chester Davis was Roosevelt's food czar (see here at the St. Petersburg Times.) Roosevelt accepted his previously tendered (and refused) resignation when he balked at Roosevelt's food subsidy scheme.

Just because you don't know them, doesn't mean they never existed.

Thanks for that link. That was indeed helpful. I wasn't able to find any documentation from that era that referred to them as "czars".... only contemporary articles looking back.

JasonF · 08-17-09, 07:03 PM

For anyone who cares about the history of American czars:

http://www.slate.com/id/2207055/

Mirice99 · 08-17-09, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sracer

Your right he and David Duke don't believe what they say it's just to make money.

sracer · 08-17-09, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mirice99

Your right he and David Duke don't believe what they say it's just to make money.

Glenn Beck puts out whatever his audience demographic will want to listen to/watch. His ratings shape his ideology. I thought that was pretty obvious.

Patman · 08-19-09, 08:27 PM

Sounds very Clinton-esque.

RoyalTea · 08-19-09, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by chuckd21

If Beck is supposed to be a fictional character, then he shouldn't be on a news station.

to me, there's a difference between anchor/reporter and commentator.

wendersfan · 08-24-09, 12:32 PM

It looks like Beck's psycho-moron schtick is starting to backfire:

Attack on Obama riles Beck's advertisers

DeltaSigChi4 · 08-24-09, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by kvrdave

But if Al Franken can become a Senator, I wouldn't be surprised if Glenn Beck could as well.

That's like saying since Ronald Reagan can become President than Danny Devito could as well. Well, it's worse than that; Beck is a raving lunatic without insomuch as a grasp on reality. Devito might make a better President than Reagan for all we know. He's a better actor, afterall.

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DeltaSigChi4 · 08-24-09, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by wendersfan

Attack on Obama riles Beck's advertisers

Spoiler:

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DeputyDave · 08-24-09, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaSigChi4

That's like saying since Ronald Reagan can become President than Danny Devito could as well. Well, it's worse than that; Beck is a raving lunatic without insomuch as a grasp on reality. Devito might make a better President than Reagan for all we know. He's a better actor, afterall.

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Did you ever listen to Franken's show? He's at least as nutty as Beck.

DeltaSigChi4 · 08-24-09, 02:17 PM

Snl?

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DeputyDave · 08-24-09, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaSigChi4

Snl?

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His Air America radio show. He did the same schtick as Beck, just for the other side.

DeltaSigChi4 · 08-24-09, 02:57 PM

Never heard it, although I very much doubt he was as much a monumental douche as Beck.

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slop101 · 08-24-09, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DeputyDave

Did you ever listen to Franken's show? He's at least as nutty as Beck.

Nutty, but not nearly as dumb - Franken did graduate from Harvard.

VinVega · 08-24-09, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DeputyDave

Did you ever listen to Franken's show? He's at least as nutty as Beck.

I don't think Franken's show reached even a small fraction of the audience as Beck's does. So while it's not necessarily comparing apples to oranges, it's like comparing an apple seed to complete apple.

DeputyDave · 08-24-09, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by VinVega

I don't think Franken's show reached even a small fraction of the audience as Beck's does. So while it's not necessarily comparing apples to oranges, it's like comparing an apple seed to complete apple.

So he's not as bad because he was poorer at his job? I would much prefer Beck in office than Franken (but then I am a conservative who wants Obama to fail).

Bandoman · 08-24-09, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DeputyDave

(but then I am a conservative who wants Obama to fail).

Why do you hate America?

DeltaSigChi4 · 08-24-09, 04:09 PM

Where did Beck graduate from and what are his qualifications for holding office?

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Red Dog · 08-24-09, 04:16 PM

What are anybody's qualifications for holding office besides the constitutional rqmts?

cpgator · 08-24-09, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaSigChi4

Where did Beck graduate from and what are his qualifications for holding office?

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What qualifications does Franken have that Beck doesn't?

DeputyDave · 08-24-09, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaSigChi4

Where did Beck graduate from and what are his qualifications for holding office?

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I don't judge what school someone went to as the only qualification to hold office. Bush graduated from Yale after all. I agree with Beck 98% more than I agree with Frankin, therefore I feel he would make a much better senator. I will not vote for the "smarter" or "better educated" if I am completely opposed to their agenda.

DeltaSigChi4 · 08-24-09, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by cpgator

What qualifications does Franken have that Beck doesn't?

A fucking functional brain. And he's not a blatant rabid racist. I dunno. Those two are fairly necessary in my book. I don't know about in other's. Maybe brainless rabid racists don't mind the above listed basic qualifications.

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DeputyDave · 08-24-09, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaSigChi4

A fucking functional brain. And he's not a blatant rabid racist. I dunno. Those two are fairly necessary in my book. I don't know about in other's. Maybe brainless rabid racists don't mind the above listed basic qualifications.

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Where has it been shown that Beck is a racist? I loath Obama and his policies, does that make me a racist? Just because he is a self described “rodeo clown” with a loud and successful entertainment shtick does not make him an idiot. I, and a lot of other smart people, agree with Beck’s basic message, just maybe not his choice of delivery.

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