I am requesting that every single DU'er watch this clip from the "Glenn Beck Show."

[Bicoastal]

I know, I know. Glenn is a moron, a lunatic, a master manipulator, an out-and-out trainwreck. I agree completely.

But I want you all to watch this so you can see EXACTLY what the RW of this country are watching these days.

I want you to see who they're getting all their oh-so-informed opinions from. I want you to see what they find acceptable rhetoric on an American "news program."

You may think you've already seen the worst of Beck, but you're wrong. When he started in on the Mercury Dime, I just about lost it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x291600

THIS--this is the most over-the-top scaremongering propaganda I've ever seen on an American TV network. And it scares me to my foundation.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Perhaps someone with connections could clue-in both Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann?

This is frightening. I know right wingers - but even my flavor of family right-wing nuts are NOT this far gone. :crazy:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

7. HE IS INSANE, GOD HELP US.

[redqueen]

2. I can't.

I tried, but I can't sit through it. The stupid is just too much to take... and those comments. *sigh*

I find it interesting that this blowhard is now trying to co-opt progressive protests. The nerve of that guy... how someone so blatantly stupid and wrong stays on the air is... well it's really no mystery at all, is it?

[dolo amber]

3. That was fuckin' funny as shit

:rofl:

[Aloha Spirit]

4. thanks for posting. While I don't share your concern, it's good to know what's out there.

Except concern for education.
One would have to be pretty uneducated to swallow that whole, but then, he does say that people need to educate themselves... lol.

Thanks for posting!
It definitely left an impression.

[cyndensco]

5. It is scary a person like this has a forum to spew his agenda.

It is more frightening he has an audience who buys into this shit.

As one who embraces freedom of speech, I think this guy should not have access to public airwaves. What he does is akin to shouting fire in a crowded theater.

[abluelady]

8. You took the Words Right out of my Mouth. n/t

[PA Democrat]

6. What specifically was he pointing to on the dime?

The bundle of sticks which is termed a "fasces"? Check out the entry on Wikipedia on the widespread use of the fasces. Glenn Beck is insane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces