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ck4829

(35,045 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 02:01 PM Jan 2014

Glenn Beck joins the White Truffle! Defends Tom Perkins after criticisms of Kristallnacht letter

It has been a while since Glenn Beck dedicated his opening monologue to misrepresenting disparate global events in order to weave together an incoherent explanation of just how America has turned into a tyrannical communist/fascist/Nazi dictatorship.

But that was his message again last night, spurred on by his outrage over the fact that people were offended by a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal in which billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins compared the "progressive war on the American one percent" to the demonization of the Jews during the Holocaust.

Perkins has since apologized and Beck is outraged over the fact that Perkins has been "savagely beaten in public" for simply telling the truth.

"We are Germany 1930," Beck said. "You can deny it all you want, but the socialist revolution is here," As proof, Beck pointed to the fact that Perkins' company, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, sent out a tweet distancing itself from his comments:

Tom Perkins has not been involved in KPCB in years. We were shocked by his views expressed today in the WSJ and do not agree.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-criticism-tom-perkins-proves-socialist-revolution-here

"We are the White Truffle, we* will fight them from our yachts, we will fight them in the country clubs, in the closed door meetings with our fellow millionaires and billionaires, and in our meetings with our Senators who we have on speed dial. As God and the Dollar as our witnesses, we will not stand for genocidal progressive taxes, we will take a stand against the poor saying bad about us and actually refusing to avert their eyes from our glory, and we will NEVER EVER pay 35% in taxes!"

We - Meaning somebody else from a much lower class.
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Glenn Beck joins the White Truffle! Defends Tom Perkins after criticisms of Kristallnacht letter (Original Post) ck4829 Jan 2014 OP
When was he savagely beaten in public? el_bryanto Jan 2014 #1
If this was actually happening sharp_stick Jan 2014 #2
Bring back the Eisenhower tax schedule. Downwinder Jan 2014 #3

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
1. When was he savagely beaten in public?
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 02:02 PM
Jan 2014

I thought people just kind of made fun of him and disagreed with him.

Bryant

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
2. If this was actually happening
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 02:33 PM
Jan 2014

self important shitheads like Glenn Beck and Tom Perkins would be hanging from lamp posts, not mocked on social media sites.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
3. Bring back the Eisenhower tax schedule.
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 02:54 PM
Jan 2014

What was good enough for Ike should be good enough for the 1%.

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