Glenn Beck: The pope is Person of the Year because ‘progressives are fascists’

[DonViejo]

By David Edwards
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 16:28 EST

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday reacted to Pope Francis being named Time‘s 2013 Person of the Year by naming Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as his “Man of the Year.”

“It makes me nervous about the pope, quite honestly,” Beck said, drawing a comparison between the head of the Catholic Church and President Barack Obama.

“He makes me a little concerned on his Marxist tendencies,” he explained. “When you’re not on prepared remarks, Marxism starts to creep into your language. When you’re asked questions by people, you start to say, ‘Look, I don’t want to hurt you, I just think that redistribution of wealth isn’t so bad.’”

Beck argued that both Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Cruz would have made better choices because the implementation of the president’s health care reform law would affect “every life on the planet.”

“The reason why they didn’t pick Ted Cruz is because they don’t want to give him any more power,” he opined. “I mean, they’ll put Hitler on — they did make Hitler and Mussolini the Man of the Year.”

As Right Wing Watch noted on Wednesday, Mussolini was never named Man of the Year by Time magazine.

“Remember, progressives are fascists, they are for fascism. Congratulations,” Beck added. “I can tell you right now that they may have put Ted Cruz in the little pool to have his name looked at but nobody considered him.”

“That’s why The Blaze has selected — unbeknownst to The Blaze — Man of the Year, Ted Cruz.”

Watch this video from The Blaze, broadcast Dec. 11, 2013 at:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/glenn-beck-the-pope-is-person-of-the-year-because-progressives-are-fascists/

Full article posted with permission.

[frylock]

1. the president’s health care reform law would affect “every life on the planet.”

this fuckwad knows that just about every other industrialized nation has socialized healthcare, right?

[Enrique]

5. which planet is he talking about?

Earth or Cobol?

[NightWatcher]

2. does he ever accidentally come down on the right side of an argument/issue?

His position is that which is the polar opposite to whatever the correct position is. It's the first rule of being a good repuke. Rule 1: Take the asshole position.

Between him and Palin... Oh never mind. They just vomit words that have no meaning

[lob1]

3. So we've gone so far right that fascists are the progressives.

And the media is liberal.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. Don't bother listening to him he is crazy

[lightcameron]

6. Ha! I love how he basically argues that Ted Cruz is in the same

category as Hitler and Mussolini.

Does this guy ever really know what he's saying?

[el_bryanto]

7. He should pay more attention. The Pope is clearly a misogynist, homophobic asshole

Or so I've read.

Bryant

[Gore1FL]

8. I wonder if that was the reason Khomeini was PotY in 1979

Progressives were probably equally as fascist back then.

[okaawhatever]

9. And yet if there were an award for Fascist of the Year I don't think a progressive would win....nt

[YOHABLO]

10. This man is insane .. completely insane. Why Why do people listen to this tripe?

[Swede Atlanta]

11. Glenn...

You believe in a pre-world planet that triggered creation of the world. Then you believe that we all chose our families even before we were born. Then you believe if you are married in the temple you are married forever and that if you are really good Mormons you and your wife will get your own planet where she will be eternally pregnant to populate her planet.

When you have stopped smoking crack come back and we can have a discussion of the pope. j

[LWolf]

12. Does he have any clue what fascism is?

This man is, at the least, an ill-informed bigot. I think he's mentally ill. Dangerously so, since so many seem to hang on his words. Why do propaganda spewing media talking heads have so many members of their cult?

[hobbit709]

14. Is his Nazi Tourette's acting up again?

[Skittles]

32. OMG STOP IT HOBBIT709

[hobbit709]

41. I take it you've seen that Lewis Black video.

[Skittles]

46. love love LOVE Lewis Black

[NuclearDem]

43. Why I think you're quite riGOEBBELS!

[Vashta Nerada]

15. The Pope said gays are going to hell and he doesn't want women serving in leadership

positions nor to allow women to have access to birth control.

I would think the Pope and Beck would be great friends.

[struggle4progress]

29. ... “If a person is gay, seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis said. “They should

not be marginalized” ...
Pope Francis comments on gays stir debate among Catholics
July 29, 2013
By Tracy Wilkinson
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/29/world/la-fg-wn-pope-francis-comments-gays-20130729

[Vashta Nerada]

33. I have this:

Pope Francis is a conservative who is anti-gay marriage and anti-gay adoption. He has described same-sex marriage as the work of the devil and a “destructive attack on God’s plan.” He has also said that gay adoption is a form of discrimination against children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/pope-francis-gay-marriage-anti_n_2869221.html

[struggle4progress]

37. I doubt the Catholic Church will change its PoV that "sex is for procreation" but I would add

that a Catholic lay-group was one of the first religious groups I ever encountered who were pushing non-discrimination against gays and that the first time I ever heard an anti-homophobia sermon was when visiting a Catholic church

[Jamaal510]

31. They would be great friends,

until it comes to money issues. Remember GB (like other RWers) doesn't want to pay his taxes.

[Brigid]

16. Beck just lost every Catholic stupid enough to listen to him.

I hope.

[ZombieHorde]

34. I doubt it. Politics trumps religion.

There are lots of Catholics that strongly support gay marriage and abortion.

[rppper]

17. Someone was drinking during civics class...

....as a progressive by definition leans towards the dreaded "socialist", fascists lean right....but I'm sure that to was lost on all of Becks drooling minions...

[Prophet 451]

38. Conservatives have rewritten the political spectrum

They now declare that fascism and socialism are essentially the same thing and both are on the left.

[Johonny]

18. RW started to hate the Pope as soon as he wasn't a white guy from Europe

hmm...

[shenmue]

19. Glenn Beck needs to lock himself in his compound

Wasn't he building his own loopy community or something?

[NuclearDem]

20. Oh, Glenn, 60 seconds of basic research too much?

Mussolini was never Man of the Year.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

21. Damn the Salad Shooters, full dissociative breakdown ahead.

Marxo-Pelosian Communism! Give me a dry erase marker and I'll prove it. All three.

[lonestarnot]

22. His piehole still attempting to insult liberal intelligence.. I thought he died.

[Rex]

30. His brain did, sadly the Pukers discovered you could shove an airhose up his ass

turn on an air compressor and the EXACT SAME SHIT comes out of his mouth as when he was alive! As for why the body is still healthy looking, I believe I read that evil takes an extremely long time to decay.

[lonestarnot]

45. A most accurate observation!

[mstinamotorcity2]

23. He's going to

need more bodyguards.

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. How is Becks dopey little fantasy town coming along, anyway?

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/glenn_becks_visionary_two-billion_dollar_ayn_rand-inspired_survivalist_amus

Haven't heard much about that lately.

[struggle4progress]

25. "I bet this will drive my ratings up!"

[upi402]

26. yeah and obama is a socialist

Beck opens upper vent hole.
Noise and odor are expelled.

Continue until all cattle are in the gate.

[Lifelong Dem]

27. Just another one trying to get attention bullshitting

[lpbk2713]

28. Is BecKKK still around?

I would have thought he would have cracked up by now.

[raging moderate]

35. um, a word of defense here.

I am almost 66 years old, with very little tech background. Any online research I try always takes more than sixty seconds. I don't know what I've done to my computer, but it's full of glitches. And then I always somehow hit the wrong button before I can see what the right one would have been. Plus my keyboarding is awful. Probably Beck has the same problems.

You younger people have some advantages over us older ones, and I thank God for them. As a group, I believe you are much better than we were. Of course, there are always exceptions, but you guys overall have more understanding and expertise in different areas. When I talk to different ones of you, you don't seem to realize how smart you are, all of you, not just a few. Don't listen to the propaganda. You do too deserve to run the world. You should have seen these guys when they were your ages! I was there watching them, so I know. Wait for your chance to assume authority, and do not hesitate to take it.

[freshwest]

36. Merry Christmas Glenn!

[Fearless]

39. Oh teh stoopid! IT BURNS!!1!

[Prophet 451]

40. Glenn thinks everyone to the left of Goebbals was Marxist.

Why does anyone waste time on this gibberingly insane fascist?

[Ganja Ninja]

42. Marxism = Fascism!

Come to think of it has anyone ever seen Karl Marx and Il Duce in the same place at the same time? Glenn might want to ponder on that for awhile.

[JHB]

44. It was Fortune magazine that lauded Mussolini. You know, "Fortune 500", that one.

Like Time, it was founded by Henry Luce.

The July 1934 issue was a special lauding Italy's tenth year of fascism under Mussolini. Keep in mind that at this point the Nazis were still the new guys, having taken over Germany the previous year and Hitler was still consolidating power. Mussolini was still the Grand Old Man of fascism, not yet relegated to "Hitler's comedy sidekick"-status.

Fortune took a shine to Mussolini as a "decisive leader" who "remade Italy". They liked the way he suppressed unions and created what today is called a "business-friendly environment". It wasn't exactly an infomercial for fascism (which Mussolini described as "the merger of state and corporate power&quot , but it wasn't far short of one either.