Has Our Honor Been Restored Yet, Glenn Beck?

[babylonsister]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=2543

Has Our Honor Been Restored Yet, Glenn Beck?
Posted by: Mark @ 1:15 pm



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If I had spent several hundred dollars on transportation and lodging to hear an alcoholic, drug abusing, former morning zoo radio shock jock, tell me that I should heed the word of the Lord, I would feel somewhat disappointed right about now. Especially if I was expecting some premium Obama bashing and anti-government blather. :cry:

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One of the most frequently expressed themes articulated by Beck was that we have been spending way too much time on what’s wrong with America and that it is now time “to concentrate on the good things in America, the things that we have accomplished – and the things that we can do tomorrow. That would be refreshing if Beck were able to sustain it for more than a heartbeat.

Ninety-five percent of his show was about what’s wrong with America. He hates the government. He hates the people. He hates the Democrats. He hates the Republicans. He hates health care and the environment and unions and churches and Social Security. To Beck we are a crumbling empire awash in debt, ruled by Marxists and estranged from God. And this guy is lecturing the rest of us about concentrating on the good things? A few days ago he expressed his thoughts on the future in a more foreboding tone that is common on his radio and TV programs:

“I’m begging you to get down on your knees. What is coming is not good. I don’t know how things end. I should rephrase that. I do know how things end. But I know how things end after a long struggle. I don’t know how that struggle is going to work out. I don’t know how much time each of us has. I don’t know how much time the country has.”

How does he expect his flock to concentrate on the good while he is advising them to liquidate their assets and hoard gold and guns? It will be interesting to see if Beck’s new-found evangelistic optimism can be maintained for even the next week of his broadcasts, or if his familiar doomsday fear mongering will continue to dominate his message. Either way, I’m still waiting for evidence of his Miracle on the Mall. And for the record, my honor never needed restoration in the first place.

[Raschel]

1. What a freak!!! Fear, fear fear!!! I guess there's a sucker born every millisecond.

[opihimoimoi]

2. A GOPer Pig Trying to clean his act with cheap talk of goodness while wallowing in

shit

[Beartracks]

3. I remember when the doom & gloom guys could be found...

... only on local-access stations way back in the early years of cable, at, like, 2 A.M. I remember watching a guy describe how a crack in the wall of an underground passage of one of the Egyptian pyramids could be used to foretell the future, and when no one called into his show with breathless questions, he pulled the plug and the station went to dead air.

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[babylonsister]

4. Ha! The good ole days, before we knew there were so many

whackos out there!

[quaker bill]

5. Where did "honor" go?

Did we ever have it? If so, who took it away?

Did "honor" exist when women were second class citizens and people held slaves?

Did "honor" truly exist before child labor laws?

Did "honor" truly exist during legal segregation?

Did "honor" truly exist during the McCarthy era?

Did "honor" exist during the Vietnam war?

Did "honor" exist during watergate?

Did "honor" exist during the "greed is good" 1980s?

Did "honor" exist during the resulting saving and loans collapse?

Did "honor" exist when we invaded a country that was no threat and possessed no WMD?

Which supposed "golden era" are we trying to "restore"? When was that pristine moment?

Did it exist when the Declaration if Independence was written, but was then lost when the Constitution was formed leaving women without a vote and blacks as slaves?

Perhaps I am confused, but I think there is more "honor" now, having elected our first non-white male President, than any place I can think of in our history, if you consider all the facts.