Yesterday Glenn Beck had whacko Democrat ex-congressman Eric Massa on his Fox News Channel program. Before he started the show he went through his machinations on the blackboard almost predicting that the show would be a gigantic waste of time.
That wasn’t a hard prediction to make. I don’t believe that Glenn Beck thought for a second that Massa would bring anything new or deep to the table. Massa is obviously a bonafide buffoon who makes Rod Blagojevich seem sane by comparison. How Glenn Beck could actually believe that Massa, who has been a member of congress for a little bit over a year, could give him the “inside scoop” about the seedy backroom dealings of congress is beyond me. How Beck could have expected anything more than the insane ramblings and generalities that he got from Massa is mind numbing.
In my humble opinion, Glenn Beck knew exactly what he was going to get from Mr. Massa. His apology at the end of the program for wasting the viewer’s time was at the very least disingenuous.
There are only three reasons for Beck having Massa on his show yesterday.
They are:
- RATINGS
- RATINGS
- RATINGS
I don’t begrudge Glenn Beck or any other television personality for wanting high ratings. The problem is that Glenn Beck has spent at least the past year trying to project the image that he’s above it all. When he apologized to his viewers last night he was doing so in order to protect that image from the charade that he just aired.
According to the Drudge Report, Beck almost beat out The O’Reilly Factor last night falling just 94 viewers shy of being the highest rated Cable News program. The O’Reilly Factor had 3,499,000 while Beck had 3,406,000. Sean Hannity came in third with 2,901,000.
I simply don’t believe that Glenn Beck didn’t realize that the whacky Eric Massa, with his loony stories of “tickle fights” with staff and nude shower encounters with Rahm Emanuel, would be a ratings sensation. What gem did Massa reveal to Beck during his private interview with him and/or his staff prior to being on his program that he then withheld as soon as he got on the air?
Please Glenn – I know that you’re the all-knowing savior of our country, but everyone isn’t as dumb as you seem to think they are!
There’s an old trick that’s been used for centuries by sociopaths, criminals, tyrants, and those on the far left of the political spectrum.
Quite simply, the trick is to accuse someone of doing what you do, or what you plan on doing. For instance, a ruthless dictator may accuse his opposition of killing innocent people right before he goes on a genocidal rampage. Then there’s the crooked employee who is stealing from the company putting out rumors about how another employee is a thief.
Then you have Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and most of the Democrat Party.
Yesterday Reid made the following ridiculous statement in response to the recent jobs report.
“Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.”
After receiving criticism for his asinine remark, he went on to say the following:
“I encourage my Republican friends to remember this critical context before their political reflexes lead them to make claims they know to be false. And I warn them, once again, that this country has no place and no patience for those who root for failure.”
Harry Reid and the Democrat Party accusing Republicans of rooting for failure – now I’ve heard it all!
This is the same despicable liar who went to the Senate floor and said that the “war in Iraq is lost.” He said this in April of 2007 during the height of the troop surge that began to ultimately turn the war around. This reckless and disgusting statement was made at a time when our troops were most vulnerable, and when the enemy most needed encouragement. I recall a part of the war when the Democrats and their lapdogs in the media couldn’t help gushing when the troop fatality level was approaching 1000, then 2000, then 3000…….I remember a left-wing scumbag who I worked with being downright giddy when it was announced that the 2000th U.S. troop had lost his life.
I also recall how during Bush’s last couple of years in office, the Democrats did nothing but constantly talk-down the economy. This was being done at a time when the unemployment rate was still around the 5 to 6 percent mark. I also remember the Democrats pooh-poohing job gains of 200,000 per month. I remember Democrats claiming that the Bush economy was the worst since the great depression. Later it actually became worse than the great depression!
Harry Reid is a despicable human being. He is an out and out liar. He has no conscience. He has no shame. He has no honor. He is sleazier than any Hollywood caricature of a politician could ever hope to be.
Unfortunately for Harry Reid, and fortunately for the rest of us, he will be unceremoniously booted out of office this coming November. This scumbag will only be the second majority leader voted out of office since 1952. The other was Reid’s predecessor, and fellow liar and cheat, Tom Daschle in 2004.
I predict that when Reid is thrown out of office this November he’ll say two things.
- He’ll accuse the people of Nevada for being too dumb to know what’s good for them.
- He’ll blame the news media and claim that there’s a rampant conservative bias.
What else would you expect from one the most disgraceful politicians in the history of our great country?
For some time now I’ve wanted to post my opinion on Glenn Beck and his constant droning about how there is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans. The best way to explain my procrastination on the subject is “so much to say – so little time.”
I actually liked Glenn Beck when I first discovered him on CNN before he joined the Fox News Channel. I thought that he was interesting and different. I also liked his views and focus on the U.S. Constitution in regards to today’s issues.
After a while, I sensed a difference in Beck. At first I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it made me uncomfortable. Then I finally realized what was happening. Beck’s head was growing at an alarming rate. He started lecturing his viewers and radio listeners. He started believing that he alone had all the answers to the country’s problems; everyone else was too stupid or too corrupt to see what he was seeing.
By the time the town-hall protesters and the tea-party movement was in full force Beck made his move to become the unofficial leader of the opposition movement to Obama’s socialist takeover of America. All of a sudden Republicans were just as bad as Democrats. There was no difference whatsoever between the two parties. Beck suddenly started researching the progressive movement in America; acting like he was the only person in the country who had this information. People like Rush Limbaugh who used the word liberal were dead wrong. It’s not Liberal – it’s Progressive. It’s not Liberal Republican – it’s Progressive Republican. Beck had stumbled upon a new discovery; Progressives were far worst than Liberals, Socialists, Marxists, Communists, etc.
I believe that Beck’s sudden obsession with Progressives, or Progressivism was simply a way to distinguish himself from his top two competitors, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity. Otherwise, he was just another Conservative on talk-radio and Fox News.
When Beck claims that Republicans are just as bad as Democrats, and that there is no difference between the parties, he really loses all credibility. The facts, figures, and reality don’t back his claims.
I would like to humbly ask Mr. Beck and others who agree with him the following questions:
Who is/was the Republican version of avowed Communist and former Obama administration Green Czar, Van Jones?
Who is/was the Republican version of far-left radical Cass Sunstein, Obama’s Regulation Czar?
Who is/was the Republican version of Obama’s radical homosexual-rights School Safety Czar Kevin Jennings?
Who is/was the Republican version of Obama’s former White House Communications Director, Anita Dunn, who publicly stated that Mao Zedong was one of her favorite political philosophers?
Who is/was the Republican version of Obama’s FCC Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd?
Glenn Beck fans should be very familiar with Jones, Sunstein, Jennings, Dunn, and Lloyd. To Beck’s great credit, he has done much to educate the American public about these dangerous clowns. However, I don’t seem to remember George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan having people like this (Progressives, Marxists, and Communists) in their administrations.
Is there really no difference between the two parties?
The American Conservative Union (ACU) is a conservative political organization founded in 1964 that advocates and lobbies for conservative policies in government. They have come to be best known for their ratings of members of Congress. The ratings are on a scale of zero (0) to one hundred (100) with 100 being the most conservative and 0 being the least conservative. The ratings are based on the member’s individual votes on legislation coming out of the House and Senate.
According to the ACU, for the year 2009, House Republicans received a combined rating of 91.19, and Senate Republicans received a combined rating of 88.63.
In contrast, the House Democrats received a combined rating of 6.79, and the Senate Democrats 8.63.
No difference Glenn?
Last year when Obama and the Democrats passed the insane 800 plus billion dollar stimulus bill that Glenn Beck rightfully rails against, not one Republican member of the House voted for the bill. On the Senate side only 3 “Republicans” voted for the stimulus. One of the votes came from Arlen Specter who later defected to the Democrats. The other two were Olympia Snowed and Susan Collins of Maine – of course.
Hey Glenn – why would all of these Progressives in the Republican Party vote against the Stimulus?
During last year’s vote on comprehensive healthcare reform only 1 of 178 Republican House Members voted for the bill. (H.R. 3962) Affordable Healthcare for America Act.
On the Senate side of the healthcare bill, every single Republican Senator voted against it while every single Democrat Senator voted for it.
Still no difference Glenn?
Beck has on more than one occasion stated that the Tea Party is not a Republican or Conservative movement, but rather an Independent movement. Really now! Does he mean the same independents who voted for Obama in 2008? The fact of the matter is that the Tea Party movement is a Conservative movement, and the vast majority of its members are in fact members of the Republican Party.
Hate to break it to you Glenn, but so-called Independents are the biggest political whores out there. These are the people who show up to vote every election day based on their current personal predicaments. Far from the above-it-all, salt-of-the-earth, principled patriots that Beck, O’Reilly, and Dobbs would have you believe they are; many Independents are nothing more than personal grievance voters with no real core political principles. Sure they’re also against Obama……. now that his radical policies have hurt them where it hurts most – their wallets and pocketbooks. Also, are we to believe that if a politician is an independent, or not affiliated with the two major parties, that this will make him or her immune from back-room politics, corruption, and dishonesty? Give me a break already!
I’m not saying that there aren’t bad Republicans who just don’t get it – there sure as hell are. I rail against them on this blog every chance I get. I became a registerd Republican for two reasons. One is that in NY you must be registered to a Party in order to vote in that party’s primaries. The other is because the Republican Party is still the one and only political home for Conservatives. If the Democrat Party was the home for Conservatives, I’d sure as hell be a Democrat. But to say that there is no difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat Party is just so ridiculous that I have a hard time believing that Glenn Beck and others who parrot this ridiculous line really believe it.
The fact is that the two parties are just logistical organizations used to market political ideas.
The fact is that there is a bigger difference between the two parties now than there has been in a very long time. The Republican Party is still pretty Conservative while the Democrat Party has tilted far to the left in recent years.
The fact is that the base of the Republican Party is still overwhelmingly Conservative, and so are the vast majority of the Republicans in the U.S. Congress.
The fact is that the base of the Democrat Party is now at the very least Socialist, and so are the vast majority of the Democrats in the U.S. Congress.
The fact is that there is still a humongous difference between the two parties, and anyone who say’s otherwise is either ignorant, or driven by some other agenda.
The imbecile known as Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, is at it once again.
Yesterday he embarrassed himself and the dummies from the state of Nevada who voted for him by stating with a straight face that unemployment leads men to abuse their spouses.
If the same Harry Reid were a Republican he would not only be lambasted by the mainstream media as an unqualified hack, but he would be the brunt of jokes from every two-bit comedian in America. Saturday Night Live would probably dedicate half of its weekly show to his asinine antics.
Lies and idiotic statements are the only two things that seem to come out of this clown’s mouth. Remember last December when this buffoon said that tourists coming into the capital stink of body odor.
Reid is such an incompetent embarrassment that he’s on the verge of finally being kicked out of office this coming November. Reid is trailing all three potential Republican challengers in the polls. Thankfully to statements like the one he made yesterday, he’s digging his political grave deeper and deeper.
Keep on yapping Harry. Please keep on yapping.
Newly elected Senator Scott Brown (R) from Massachusetts has voted with the Democrats along with 4 other so-called Republicans for a $15 billion boondoggle referred to as a Jobs Bill. Most sane people know that this bill will do little to create jobs. The bill is a smokescreen to convince ignorant Americans that Obama and the Democrats are doing something about unemployment. We already had a “jobs bill” – a much larger one. It was referred to as the “stimulus package” and it cost us about $800 billion with little to no results.
How could Scott Brown do this?
Wasn’t Scott Brown supposed to be the new Ronald Reagan?
Is this the same Scott Brown who many already support for the Republican nomination for president in 2012?
I’m not really that surprised. I just didn’t think that he would pull this so soon – especially on a fiscal issue. Glenn Beck is already on the warpath calling Brown a “progressive.” Beck is adamant that Brown is not a “liberal” Republican, but a progressive Republican. As opposed to an unnamed woman that Beck spoke of today that works for him and calls herself a liberal libertarian – an asinine statement that Beck accepts at face value.
More on Beck later……..
Three of the four other Republicans who voted for this $15 Billion increase to the budget deficit are the usual suspects; Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, and George Voinovich of Ohio. The fourth and only real surprise is Kit Bond of Missouri.
Is Scott Brown a conservative? Of course he isn’t – never was. The only people who convinced themselves that he was were either overenthusiastic conservatives who were blinded by the dramatic circumstances of his election and the supposed death of healthcare, or left-wing idiots like Chuck ‘the schmuck’ Schumer who called Brown a “right-wing teabagger.”
Is Scott Brown still far better than Martha Coakley or Ted Kennedy?
You bet he is!
Will he occasionally piss off conservatives by voting with the Democrats?
You bet he will!
That’s the reality of Scott Brown and the reality of being a Republican from Massachusetts. Only time will tell just how conservative, moderate, or progressive he really is.
On Friday Tiger Woods held a controlled “press conference” in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida where he supposedly apologized for his well publicized extramarital affairs. Like most things that Tiger Woods does, the event was tightly scripted. He read from a prepared text and did not take any questions from the press.
Who exactly was Tiger Woods apologizing to?
It sure wasn’t for my benefit because I could give a damn what Tiger Woods does; I have a lot more important things to think about. I think the same goes for most of the American public. Most people really don’t care how celebrities act in their private lives. For others who regularly tune into top rated shows like Desperate Housewives, The Real Housewives of….., The Bad Girls Club, Real World, etc. Tiger’s lifestyle is no big deal.
Make no mistake Tiger Woods was apologizing and sucking up to past, present, and future corporate advertisers. After all, Woods didn’t become the first pro sports billionaire by just sinking birdies. In fact, compared to the average golf pro Tiger Woods doesn’t really play that much golf; often skipping out on “minor” tournaments. Even at his level, Woods could probably only pocket several million dollars per year by just playing golf. It’s Buick (GM), American Express, and Nike that made him a billionaire. I still don’t quite understand how an athlete or a celebrity can make someone purchase an item that they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in.
Gee……..I was really considering a Mercedes E-Class, but because of Tiger Woods, I think I’ll go with the Buick Park Avenue!
Much like our President, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods is at his best when he and his people have total control over his environment and public image. Like Obama without his teleprompter, the real-life Tiger Woods falls short of the naively grand expectations of many people.
Speaking of apologies, I would much rather get an apology from Barack Obama for exploding the national debt and the budget deficit, for trying to destroy our healthcare system, and for basically trying to turn the greatest country in the history of man into a colder version of Venezuela. I won’t hold my breath waiting.
Many rational free-thinking people realized long ago that science has very little to do with the global warming movement. I have always looked at Global Warming as a strange combo comprised of a left-wing political movement mixed with a religious cult.
For all of us who never bought the BS that an evolving mankind was the main cause of global warming and the destruction of the planet, we’re pretty much well on the path to total vindication. The phony house of cards built on Marxism, public ignorance, and media corruption has slowly but surely fell apart over the past several months. You almost have to feel a little sorry for the political left; decades of propaganda, lying, cheating, and bribing all seems to have been for naught.
Over the weekend one of the golden boys of “climate change” science fessed up to the BBC and basically admitted that his research has been a total sham. Professor Phil Jones was the director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. The CRU is the corrupt organization that was rocked by the Email-gate, or Climate-gate scandal in late November of 2009 when hackers broke into the organization’s e-mail accounts. It was discovered that researchers, including Jones, were “fudging” their data in order to support the man-made climate change theory. Jones resigned from his directorship shortly after Email-gate/Climate-gate became a big story.
After Professor Jones resigned from his post at the CRU, he continued to defend the group’s research claiming that the incriminating e-mails didn’t disprove their research. However, this past Saturday Jones did a complete 180 during an interview with the BBC.
Some of Jones’s new admissions are:
- Conceding that the climate may have been hotter during the medieval times.
- That his record keeping is “not as good as it should be” and that he has trouble keeping track of information.
- That there hasn’t been any significant warming since 1995.
Some say that Jones is now coming clean in order to save what little reputation he still has in the scientific community. He probably sees the writing on the wall and wants a chance to be on the right side of the issue.
Although the global warming crowd is back on their heels, they aren’t giving up that easy. In the aftermath of the recent snowstorms that have plagued the entire eastern part of the United States, the Global Warmers attempted to blame the record snowfall on what else… global warming. What a powerhouse of an intellectual argument – tails I win – heads you lose!
It wasn’t long ago that one of the Godfathers of the extreme environmental movement, Robert Kennedy Jr., wrote a column for the Los Angels Times (9/24/08) where he blamed global warming for the lack of snow in the Washington D.C. area. He lamented the times that he and his brothers and sisters used to build igloos in their backyard and go ice-skating on Washington’s C&O canal. These childhood memories supposedly proved that the earth is warming and that man is the main culprit.
A couple of weeks ago Washington D.C. and the surrounding areas were buried by over two feet of snow. Now the Global Warmers contradict their beloved Robert Kennedy Jr. and blame the snowfall on………that’s right – global warming!
The global warming movement is in such turmoil that they no longer care how stupid they sound. They are so desperate that they’ll now say just about anything in order to defend their untenable positions. They’re still confident that their old friends in the corrupt mainstream media will give credence to their dishonest and illogical ramblings.
Why are the Global Warmers so desperate in clinging to their stance on man-made global warming?
The political leaders cling because they understand that global warming is an express path to implementing their Socialist/Marxist agendas. Some in the business world cling to global warming because they stand to make billions of dollars from it. GE (General Electric) is a prime example of that. Wall Street is another example; they would rake in billions from the proposed Cap & Trade legislation being pushed by Obama and the Democrats.
How about the average rank and file believers of Global Warming?
This part would probably be best analyzed by a professional in the mental health sciences industry. Why would well-to-do yuppies cling to the false theory of man-made global warming when their lifestyles would be most affected by global warming legislation and regulation? In fact, it’s kind of funny, but these same people absolutely love it when a real warm day appears in the middle of the winter. I know because I live and work amongst them! After such a day, they’ll glowingly talk about how great the weather was – how warm it was. Shouldn’t a warm day during the middle of winter be upsetting to them if they’re in fact true believers of global warming?
Another psychological phenomenon affecting the rank and file Global Warmer is the disturbing fact that they so angrily react to what should be good news. If one genuinely fears that global warming is destroying the planet, why then wouldn’t one be ecstatic about new facts or research that seriously questions the global warming hypothesis? Why do these people react to news that should be welcomed as positive with rage and anger? Shouldn’t they be relieved? It’s kind of like reacting with anger to the fact that a second and third medical opinion has determined that you aren’t suffering from terminal lung cancer after all. This is where the religious cult aspect of the global warming movement comes in. These people react the same way that religious zealots react to someone questioning their beliefs. It’s like cult members reacting to proof that their leader is a fraud; if adequately brainwashed, the cult members will blindly defend their cult leader at all costs regardless of indisputable proof or logic.
As far as global warming goes it’s not Charles Manson or Jim Jones, but rather our education system and media. For over a couple of decades now, children and young adults have been indoctrinated by their teachers and college professors. These views have also been blindly pushed by the media and the entertainment industry. Students who dare question this indoctrination are often humiliated and vilified by their teachers and fellow students. Many times it’s easier to go along to get along then to rock the boat. When these young people grow to adulthood, many retain these beliefs, often by default.
Unfortunately, it won’t matter to hard-core “believers” and radical leftists like Obama and most of the Democrats in Congress what the research does or doesn’t show. The Obama administration is hell-bent on ramming through some sort of “Climate Change” initiative. If they can’t do it through Cap & Trade legislation, they’ll do it through the EPA and by use of executive orders. These Statists, Liberals, Socialists, Progressives, Marxists, etc. know that radical environmentalism is the lynchpin of their movement to control economies as well as individuals.
Make no mistake – the true color of the Green Movement is and always has been Red.
This past Monday, Meghan McCain appeared as a guest host on the View in place of Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Hasselbeck is a pretty feeble conservative, but compared to Meghan McCain, she’s the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
The View gals were ‘discussing’ the recent Tea Party convention held in Nashville, Tennessee with their usual depth and intelligence. Not wanting to be left out, Meghan McCain joined the rest of the geniuses in blasting the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
That, in and of itself, was no surprise, but McCain managed to really put her foot in her dumb mouth. While in the process of trashing former Congressman and Republican presidential wanna-be, Tom Tancredo, who was a speaker at the convention, she said the following:
“I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English.”
It’s one thing if she wants to criticize Tancredo, but to bring up age is just plain stupid!
After all, wasn’t her father, John McCain, 72 years old when he ran his pathetic campaign against Barack Obama in 2008? If McCain could have somehow pulled off a miracle and won the presidency, wouldn’t he have been the oldest elected US president in our history?
Not only is Meghan McCain a complete phony and an opportunist, but she’s also a dimwitted hypocrite!
