Beck is on comparing Obama to Hitler and Mussolini

[Windy]

Progressives compared with those who brought them to power....

[OKNancy]

1. Beck is an idiot and so are those who compare him to Bush

I've seen that here and it's disgusting.

[Windy]

3. Yes, unfortunately, it is getting ugly in DU also. We are in scary times.

If you don't disagree with Obama totally, you are an apologist, a cheerleader... unamerican... etc...

Not just Beck. A lot of people in this blog have fallen down that rathole.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. The objections of DUers to Obama's recent actions are completely different

from those of the right wing media.

[Towlie]

26. Right. My analogy is if you're disappointed in the police, it doesn't mean you like the criminals.

[FiveGoodMen]

29. Precisely.

Obama's been bashed lately with some of the most ridiculous, over-the-top, bat-shit crazy accusations from Bush's former cheerleaders, but at the same time, he's losing the left because he doesn't seem to want the change we're all desperately waiting for.

Let me repeat one phrase there loud and clear: doesn't seem to want

I think we can all agree that he's got an uphill battle to fight.

I think we can all agree that whatever Beck and Limbaugh have to say is utter, unforgivable bullshit.

I think we do all agree that the change we want can't happen overnight.

But appointments, public statements, policies that he's already committed to aren't pointing in the right direction and the short time he's been in office doesn't excuse those.

As I posted elsewhere, Obama is...

* Against looking into BushCo's crimes
* Against ending the War On Drugs
* Escalating the war in Afghanistan
* Against the only form of health-care that works
* Continuing the border fence that Bush started
* Continuing signing statements
* Continuing Warrantless Wiretapping
* Possibly helping the financial sector rob us of the last few bucks in the treasury

That's not a matter of having too little time or too little cooperation. Those are all bad decisions.

[Starry Messenger]

7. And if you don't agree with Obama totally

you must be a Palin-lover/PUMA/Naderite/supportedsomeoneelseintheprimaries/racist/paid right wing operative/Freeper...

We could play this game all day.

[Windy]

11. Oh please. that is totally ridiculous and you know it.

I hope the hell all of you angry idiots who fail to take proper steps like phoning or emailing congress and the whitehouse when you have a problem with policy like I do as opposed to kicking up the anger in the populus keep in mind that this man has two small children. I'm so damn fed up with this idiocy. I thought we were better than rightwingers on the left!!!

[Zodiak]

15. If you do not see the irony of your post, you cannot be helped

If you do not like your position given the cartoon character treatment, then you should not have started off that way.

Furthering your vitriol by calling people idiots and right-wingers does not help your case, either. In fact, it is against DU rules.

[Starry Messenger]

16. Oh, so we're child-haters too.

Awesome! No, I've seen people called all those things here. Most of the people doing it have made my ignore list. I'm sure most of the "angry idiots" as you so generously characterize them are also activists. Thanks for your concern.

You're going to spend a lot of time angry if you don't toughen up. Sorry but it's true.

[Windy]

20. Think about your posts before you make them. Take constructive action,not destructive action.

Act in a mature manner. Act like intelligent, thoughtful democrats/progressive. I thought reason is what we were known for on the left.

[Starry Messenger]

21. Lulz.

bye.

[Zodiak]

12. That is a gross mischaracterization

Please be more honest about your fellow DUers instead of creating cartoon characters of them so you can compare their criticism to the rantings of Glen Beck. Hyperbolic and intellectually dishonest attacks against fellow DUers contribute nothing to this community.

[Windy]

17. You need to look around a bit before making such statements.

Sorry. There is a lot of inflammatory, angry and over the top posts here.

[Bluebear]

22. Cite them, please. Where on DU is Obama critique reaching Beckian levels?

[Zodiak]

28. Yes, there are

But it is you I chose to focus on this time because you are the first I saw. I have gone after many others on both sides of this DU divide. And just because others do it is not an excuse for you to do it, too, as you know.

You should law low if you wanted to avoid this type of criticism. Otherwise, the argument is valid. You are over the top, not being helpful to this community, and in violation of DU rules, and I ask that you reconsider your tone.

And as a pre-emptive defense, I know I am a sanctimonious prick, but I am also correct.

[Political Heretic]

32. Three cheers for correct sanctimonious pricks!

The best kind of sanctimonious pricks, in my view! :hug:

[citizenbfk]

19. Yes, very incendiary and dangerous

I have a close neighbor who's just put up 'Obama is a Tyrant," poster.

I fear there is a deliberate whipping up of a popular frenzy. Our mainstream media makes confrontation and such wild accusations the daily news. The fact that it is all far removed from facts doesn't seem to matter.

[Windy]

23. Have you looked at the Fox website recently. Frightening. Its NOT news.

and they should stop labeling themselves as such.

[Political Heretic]

31. That goes both ways

If you disagree with Obama even a little your a poutraging anti-obama hate monger. :)

[C_U_L8R]

2. I don't know if Beck will make it to the 15th for the teabagging circlejerk

he may just implode
from the immense vacuum between his ears

with a sickening pop, just like the beastly baby

[tridim]

4. Satan comparisons are coming next week.

I don't know where Beck can go from there.

Is there anything worse than Satan? Maybe Beck himself?

[Windy]

6. This is so irresponsible. I have already called fox. You should too!

[phone]

they are endangering a man with two small children.

[Forkboy]

8. Oh sure, NOW these fuckers worry about fascism.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Again?

Can't he come up with something with more imagination?

[Windy]

13. He's got a panel of "historians" on to discuss the similarities.

You can say, just don't watch it, but the problem is, he has an exorbidant number of viewers, one of whom just blew away three cops in Philly last week. This is serious stuff in my opinion.

[krispos42]

38. The only similarity is that they were authoritarian

You know, kinda like Bush.

[baldguy]

10. It's obvious that "Hitler" and "Mussolini" and just words to him.

He has no clue who they were, what they stood for, or what they did - and he doesn't care. He just needs some noises to scare the fools who watch him & has been told "Hitler" and "Mussolini" are very scary noises.

Of course, when he's shown their political views and their statements - without their names attached - he wholeheartedly agrees with them.

[Windy]

14. Maybe we can take up a collection to send him to Dachau or Auschwitz.

I went there last summer, along with the nazi documentation center in Nuremburg. I think he needs a lesson in ACTUAL history and the meaning of facism!

[baldguy]

25. Dachau & Auschwitz would be like Disneyland to him.

"Gee! D'ya think we could fit all the gays & liberals into those ovens?"

[mitchum]

36. I would be more than happy to do so, but it's 64 years too late

[Iris]

39. I don't either, but I'm pretty sure they didn't get the power they had in a span of 4 months.

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. It's no wonder he's always in the center of the circle.

He's a perfect fit.

[Mari333]

24. Michael savage does that every night

its kind of amusing.

[ErinBerin84]

27. lol

I turned it on, and Beck was showing a clip of Hillary Clinton from a debate, saying "America is at its best when we're working together". Yes, this is the quote that Beck found terrifying, and he went into some rant about how the world was flushed down the toilet with American progressivism. Oh, and that turd Jonas Goldberg is there too.

[blublu]

30. History

where did beck learn Political History? He is so dumb I wouldn't let him teach German History to my Audi.

[LynnTheDem]

33. Beck, the rightwingnut, comparing Pres. Obama to TWO RIGHTWINGNUTS.

Ya just cannot possibly find ANYTHING dumber than a rightwingnut.

Ya just can't.

[sakabatou]

34. I call Godwin!

[mitchum]

35. That fuckwit puts the Moron in Moroni

[krispos42]

37. He needs this chart tattooed on his forehead

Backwards, so it comes out right in the bathroom mirror:





Fascism and communism are political opponents... there's a reason the Soviets hated the Nazies and vice versa during World War Two.