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Showing posts with label Glenn Beck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glenn Beck. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
George "The Joker" Soros responds to Glenn Beck with accusation against Rupert "The Thing" Murdoch
George Soros has been taking a lot of hits from conservative commentator Glenn Beck lately. Soros used CNN's Fareed Zakaria to air his response to Beck's accusation of the currency speculating billionaire being an evil, manipulative "puppet master."
The first thing Soros says in the video is, "I would be amused if people saw the joke in it."And the first thing I thought was how much Soros looks like The Joker!
Soros then counter-accused FOX News' Rupert Murdoch of using Orwellian mind control techniques.Rupert Murdoch! He looks a hell of a lot like The Thing!
Is this a real life battle between a creepy, meglomaniacal bad guy versus an ugly, bombastic good guy?
Or does this mean I spend too much time reading comic books!?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
If Sarah Palin caused the Arizona shootings, then Heavy Metal causes teen suicides.
In the aftermath of crazed killer Jared Loughner's murder of six people and wounding of many others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there has been a rush to exploit the tragedy for political purposes.
Without any actual evidence that Loughner was influenced by or even listened to any of Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck's "right-wing rhetoric," Democrats leaped upon the opportunity to lay blame on their political and ideological opponents for the act of a mentally disturbed individual.
But the facts that we do know are that Palin, Beck, and Rush Limbaugh never had any direct contact with Loughner. They never told him, or anyone, to go out and commit acts of violence.
This brings to mind the people who try to lay blame for teen suicides on Heavy Metal bands that the perpetrators of their own deaths listen to. In those cases, some conservatives exploited an opportunity to attack something they disliked with absurd allegations. As one empirical study observed to discredit such contentions, " it seems more plausible that those angrier after listening to preferred music were individuals with some combination of personal characteristics and/or life situations that have resulted in a general proneness to feeling angry, and that these characteristics and situations are tied to reduced reasons for living."
Now the tables have turned and the left is engaging in the same absurd, expolitative hysteria. What Jared Loughner did was because of what was going on in the warped mind of Jared Loughner and not because of American political rhetoric.
In a case brought against Judas Priest following the suicide of two young men who listened to their music, the Heavy Metal band's lawyer said, ''the risk that ideas may cause undesirable behavior'' in a small and unstable segment of the population ''is a small price to pay for a free society.''
There is no proof that in the Loughner case it was the ideas espoused by Republicans that inspired his actions, just as there is no proof that music causes suicides. Even if there were, the principles of the First Amendment and that of personal responsibility should matter even more.
Without any actual evidence that Loughner was influenced by or even listened to any of Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck's "right-wing rhetoric," Democrats leaped upon the opportunity to lay blame on their political and ideological opponents for the act of a mentally disturbed individual.
But the facts that we do know are that Palin, Beck, and Rush Limbaugh never had any direct contact with Loughner. They never told him, or anyone, to go out and commit acts of violence.
This brings to mind the people who try to lay blame for teen suicides on Heavy Metal bands that the perpetrators of their own deaths listen to. In those cases, some conservatives exploited an opportunity to attack something they disliked with absurd allegations. As one empirical study observed to discredit such contentions, " it seems more plausible that those angrier after listening to preferred music were individuals with some combination of personal characteristics and/or life situations that have resulted in a general proneness to feeling angry, and that these characteristics and situations are tied to reduced reasons for living."
Now the tables have turned and the left is engaging in the same absurd, expolitative hysteria. What Jared Loughner did was because of what was going on in the warped mind of Jared Loughner and not because of American political rhetoric.
In a case brought against Judas Priest following the suicide of two young men who listened to their music, the Heavy Metal band's lawyer said, ''the risk that ideas may cause undesirable behavior'' in a small and unstable segment of the population ''is a small price to pay for a free society.''
There is no proof that in the Loughner case it was the ideas espoused by Republicans that inspired his actions, just as there is no proof that music causes suicides. Even if there were, the principles of the First Amendment and that of personal responsibility should matter even more.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Draft Glenn Beck campaign may not be getting off on the best foot..
The Huffington Post describes the video commencing the effort to draft Glenn Beck as a Republican Presidential candidate:
"A group called Main Street Bites Back is organizing a petition to encourage Glenn Beck to run for President in 2012, and they've released a bizarre and terrifying video to promote their cause.As far as their description of it being "terrifying," I'm a bit inclined to agree. See for yourself:
It features an extreme closeup of the group's spokeswoman, Robin Potwora, wearing a straw hat and a borderline absurd amount of makeup, as she touts their goal of putting Beck into the Oval Office in a sickly sweet voice. "
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