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Glenn Beck...
Acts Like Our Savior Against What is Clearly an Authoritarian Government, Calling Americans To Arms
- Beck imitates Obama pouring gasoline on “average American”; says: “President Obama, why don’t you just set us on fire? … We didn’t vote to lose the Republic”
- Beck: “You can’t convince me that the founding fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede”
- Beck: “Whether it’s torture,” Miss California, or “global warming, we need to protect the right to speak one’s mind freely. Is this America or Soviet Russia?”
- Beck rants about “power grab,” claims “they are going to silence voices like mine”
- Despite claiming he isn’t “advocating that people should not pay their income tax,” Beck asks whether Americans “have the guts” to do so
- Beck: “If we don’t have some common sense, we’re facing the destruction of our country… it’s coming”
- In Beck’s “long line of people who have been destroyed by our government”: Sarah Palin, Gerald Walpin, Joe the Plumber
- Beck: “We’re all going to be living under a bridge soon, fending off bums with a beer bottle”
- Beck asks Bachmann “the odds” the gov’t will fine those who don’t complete census, says he’s “considered” not filling it out
- Beck warns that U.S. “about to be” like Indian caste system “unless the people stand up”
- Beck says his book is not “dangerous” like one by “anonymous group from France” which “calls for violent revolution”
Openly Mocks People Trying to do Something Good
- Beck blasts studio lights “to show that I am such a supporter of Earth Hour”
- Beck “wants to hear from” people who “cut some trees down tomorrow to celebrate Earth Day”
- Beck giddy over caller hunting and cutting down trees on Earth Day: “This is like nirvana here … This is eroticism”
Points Out Paranoid Theories or Connections With No Factual Basis
- Links Obama administration’s swine flu public health emergency declaration to already scheduled Sebelius confirmation vote
- Beck claims “the global warming movement… is about population control”
- Beck declares phrases “lives in the real world,” is “compassionate” and “understands social justice” are really “code language for Marxism”
- Beck on ACORN “brownshirts” and “their henchmen” at SEIU: “[T”>hey break kneecaps… Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, I don’t know”
- Beck claims his former ACORN guests are “in danger” for opposing further ACORN funding
- Beck suggests ACORN may kill him for his coverage of them
- Beck claims struggling states are in danger of “los[ing”> their sovereignty” because federal gov’t will “nationalize” them
- Beck’s Red Scare: Sotomayor appointment more evidence of a Marxist “hostile takeover” of the U.S.A.
- Beck anti-ACORN conspiracy video asks: “Is the crisis exactly what ACORN wants us to be in?”
- Beck: “I’m not saying that Obama has an enemies list, but I wouldn’t put it past him either”
- Another Beck conspiracy theory: Maybe Treasury is “selling black market bonds”
- Citing “connections” that “no one’s even looking for,” Beck declares ACORN and AmeriCorps “branches of the same tree”
Points Out People Apparently Want Him To Run For Office?
Tosses Godwin’s Law around like it actually makes sense.
- After stating, “I am not saying that Barack Obama is a fascist,” Beck compares auto bailout to actions of German companies “in the early days of Adolf Hitler”
- Beck says he’s not “comparing” banks who took bailouts to “people of Germany,” while comparing TARP to “exactly what happened to the lead-up with Hitler”
- Beck compared Gore’s global warming “lie[s”>” to “Goebbels or Hitler”
- Beck on disputed claim of White House “threaten[ing”>” hedge fund: “It’s Brown Shirt stuff”
- Beck cites Hitler example to state that “empathy leads you to very bad decisions”
- Beck compares car dealership closures to Nazis; warns “Gang, at some point, they’re going to come for you”
- Beck attacks Wal-Mart for joining CAP, SEIU on health care, compares to “what happened in … Germany … under Hitler”
Pushes “Grassroots” Efforts, That He, the Host of a Major Show On a Major News Network, Hosts and Supports
Even Other Fox News Pundits Think He’s Crazy
- On O’Reilly, Miller mocks Beck and his “nine prophecies of the twelve sarcophaguses”
- Beck Makes O’Reilly Look Sane when talking about Fascism
Glenn Beck forgets people record what he says
- Beck on Clinton: “[S”>he’s the stereotypical bitch”
- Followed by…
- Beck smeared ABC colleague Rosie, claimed “I never said that Hillary Clinton was a bitch”
- Beck wants audience to call GOP members “Wanted” for “being a cap and traitor” Followed by…
- Days after calling “some” cap and trade supporters “treasonous,” Beck says such depictions “over the top”
Crazy Theatrics That Don’t Fit Anywhere Else
- Beck: “I’ll kill him with a lightbulb! I’ll do it right now!”
- Beck: “In this scene, think of our government as Indiana Jones…”
- Beck uses toys to explain slippery slope from same-sex marriage to polyamorous marriage
- “This show’s a circus”: Beck breaks out juggling Uncle Sam to illustrate point
- Beck’s “ComЯade Update”: “The American pigs are bowing to our every whim without even knowing it”
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