I too will be generous and say maybe he was unable to express himself , maybe he meant to say

" I beheld the document with my own eyes "

"Reclaiming" the civil right movement includes Bull Connor, fire hoses, and snarling German Shepherds.

¿Donde?

He couldn't see that he was not holding the inaugural address because he was spraying Vicks in his eyes to make himself weepy.

This lie isn't going to make much difference to Beck's fans. Why should it? Nearly everything he says is invented anyway.

Beck is viewed by his fans the same way professional wrestling is viewed. Sure, everyone knows the "matches" are all fixed and rehearsed in advanced, but it doesn't matter because they enjoy the narratives that the matches tell.

Some fans believe Beck is accurate and some don't. The ones that think they are getting accurate information are outraged by what they hear. The ones that don't really think the information is accurate don't care as long as he supplies them with a narrative they want to hear. The truth of what Beck says doesn't actually matter any more than the fixed professional wrestling matches matter.

Thats the problem with revising history to suit your ideology or political aims. It makes you look the fool you are and tells people they cannot trust you or what you advocate.

It doesn't matter who is doing it, which side is pushing their revised history or for what purpose, its a bad idea because it displays your dishonesty.

And dishonesty is what America has had far too much of and is currently rejecting.

Some background info for progressives:

In 2008 the Plutocrats, the two tenths of one percentile running the Republican party, wanted Mitt Romney on their ticket. The Christian right blocked his candidacy. Republicans don't even like Mc Cain. Mc Cain called Rush a buffoon. Palin was put on the ticket to appease the right wing Christian block.

Proposition 8 in CA was funded by the Mormons to make peace with the Christian block. To show the Christian right that Mormons are OK and share the same values. The end game is to make peace and get Romney on the ticket in 2012.

Glenn Beck is a Mormon and is becoming bigger than Rush. Beck is being funded and promoted by the Plutocrats to make peace with the Christian right. Again, it is all about Romney in 2012.

Romney is Mr. Corporate America. Problem is that he was raised Mormon. Question is - will the Christian right every support Romney, a Mormon? My read is no way in hell.

The Republicans/Plutocrats went to bed with the Christians years ago over the abortion issue, simply to get their votes. What they got was a sexually transmitted disease. The disease is spreading and becoming more virulent in the form of the Tea Party. The Frankenstein monster is reborn. Who will be able to control this Palinesque monster?

'Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."

-Niccolo Machiavelli-

Machiavelli's observations couldn't provide a more true description of Glenn Beck's followers.

This tidbit must be the result of the infantile left after it has been crushed by a bulldozer.

"I have here, in my hand, a list........"

Beck is the modern-day equivalent of Father Coughlin practicing neo-McCarthyism.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/compare-and-contrast-glenn-beck-and

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201003110064

Beck vs MLK:
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Can we call Glenn a Becker head?

Beck is a monster who lies. Everyone here always tells the truth, has perfect political philosophies, and loves their fellow man.

"Here on stage, I hold in my hand my incredibly small flaccid penis...everybody look at me!!" - G Beck

I cannot fathom the draw of a paranoid, racist ex-morning radio talker with minimal education and zero experience in national issues.

Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."

Chris Wallace's Fox McNews interview with Glenn Beck the day after his staged pablum was far more revealing than anything said at the event itself. You can find a link to the video of this interview on huffingtonpost.com

Beck publicly stated that he disagreed with Martin Luther King's economic message of uplift for the poor. He repeatedly tried to simplify MLK's message to limit it to "content of character" as being all that is sufficient for all Americans to be "given a shot" economically. This is equivalent to Newt Gingrich's early '90s GOPAC bloviation that all Americans "have the right to PURSUE happiness but not necessarily to achieve it." Newt didn't define what he meant by "happiness" and Beck doesn't define what he means by being "given a shot."
Beck's call for America to "return to honor" and other "traditional American values" is equivalent to the Newtzis' calls for a "return to family values." Different decade; same empty rhetoric.

For every adherent of Republicanism and Libertarianism I've ever encountered, economic happiness means affluence. For most liberal and progressive working-class folks they would be happy just to have the basic necessities for even a very frugal life without having to exhaust or ruin their body and mind to have them. The true Left understands the difference between needs and wants. Not so the capitalist right and far-right. They insist for themselves on economic and cultural dominance and that requires sufficient affluence not just to live luxuriously but to buy controlling political and media power.

Beck also said that he doesn't believe in any economics that is understood in terms of economic oppressors and economic victims--notwithstanding the fact that all of human history is replete with countless, exhaustively detailed examples of economic oppressors and their victims. This is a key part of the self-serving fairy-tale mythology that is Libertarianism--along with the fictitious "free market" (that has never existed from the time governments first began to levy taxes and control the issuing of money--thousands upon thousands of years ago).

Ask any right-winger or Libertarian about traditional liberal economics and they will go on about how you "can't give everything to everyone" even as they serenely ignore the obscene, god-like, uber-hedonistic "lifestyles" of the plutocrats who over-concentrate political power, industrially rape natural resources and exploit cheap labor on a global scale in order to hoard vast wealth and devastate our planet. They do this while they luxuriously ignore the chaos, outrageously cruel & needless human suffering and destruction they leave in their god-like wake. Of short, medium or long-term ramifications they could care less.

Many on the right simply do not believe that the poor, no matter how poverty stricken or blameless for their poverty, deserve an America that ensures that they have even the basic necessities to survive, let alone the things necessary to prosper enough to comfortably afford to rent a small apartment, let alone own a home. They have no valid religious or moral grounds for this. For every scripture in the Bible whose meaning they will twist to support things like slavery or indifference to poverty there are a hundreds more that refute that contrivance. Over 300 anti-poverty verses in the New Testament alone. Luke, Chapter 11, versus 1-13 is just one of them. You can look to Amos, Elisha, Isaiah and Jeremiah for others.

Most sinisterly, Beck used economically and politically coded "spiritual" language referring to "individual salvation" versus "collective salvation" to try to assert that Obama believes--as a tenet of black liberation theology--that "individual salvation is dependent on collective salvation."

First of all, there is an enormous difference between concept of spiritual salvation and the idea of worldly or material "salvation." Beck self-servingly conflates these ideas in his rhetoric in order to wield this language as a politicized, deliberately vague, all-purpose economic AND spiritual generality. A long oppressed group like black Americans might understand a third meaning for the language "collective salvation" in terms of freedom from broad racist cultural oppression of which economic repression is only a part.

That said, a case can still be made that physical "collective salvation" of a people from the cultural and economic device of slavery (in economic terms: forced free labor) is ALWAYS LINKED to broad economic repression based on race or religion (or other identity factors) by definition of slavery as an institution. In the Bible's Old Testament the ancient Israelites received "collective salvation" from slavery in Egypt. That physical salvation from slavery may be what enabled them to continue to survive as a people culturally united by their religion to this day in order to continue pursuing spiritual salvation, both individually and collectively.

"Ptips September 2nd, 2010 2:07 am

Beck is a monster who lies. Everyone here always tells the truth, has perfect political philosophies, and loves their fellow man."

Okay, I see that you are agreeing : 'Beck is a monster'who lies'.

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