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This is a fantastic rant from Glenn Beck. Put your preconceived notions aside.

It's about the individual.

 

 

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Fri, 07/13/2012 - 10:24 | 2612656 monad
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FC: 15

Sheep: 44

Enough to insure that beck's food will never be 'clean'. BwahahahaaAaaa

 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 00:47 | 2608987 Midas
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Anyone want to disagree with something he said, or just call names?

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 09:22 | 2609541 monad
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Glen Beck is a con man who preys on ignorant people. He preys on stupid prople because any reasonably intelligent person sees that he's a disinformation tool. The 'facts' he copies, parrots, mimics & plageurizes are window dressing for his propaganda. And you buy his shit. Study grammar, I did not call him names.
The astroturfers 
and their zombie cohorts have arrived @ ZH. 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 09:56 | 2609684 knightowl77
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ummm you called him a "con man, a mimic, a plagarist and a disinformation tool"....those would be names...

You are attacking the messenger without an argument against the message he brings....You should look in the mirror, you are the astroturfer you were looking for.....

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:41 | 2609842 Lord Koos
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No, those would be descriptions.  Names would be like, asshole, fake, etc.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 07:59 | 2609374 Doubleguns
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They would need an argument to disagree with something he said. Since they have none they resort to the typical extreamly idiotic out of touch position of name calling. I might add that this position seems to be all the rage these days with the far left but the opposite end is quit capable of going there too.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 01:21 | 2609032 mharry
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Midas, thank you.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 01:08 | 2609000 Vic Vinegar
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I don't.

For Christmas this year, I'm getting my five year-old nephew an official Glenn Beck: My First Doomer doll.  It's the perfect gift for children, and grown-ups who like to be angry about everything but can't face reality. 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 01:15 | 2609027 Midas
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Here are some Glenn Beck reality-facing ideas:

Get yourself some Gold because the financial system is screwed,

get yourself some food,

move to a state without so many looters,

and take responsibility for yourself, because no one else will.

That is more good advice than the rest of the TV pundits put together can dish out.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:35 | 2609796 monad
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Are you serious? What you are proposing is that instead of participating in your representative government and preserving the nice place you call home, you should sell out at slashed rates to Glenn's cronies and crawl off to some hole, stock up on doritos and ammo and hide. Be afraid, be very afraid. Buy our medicine, you must. That's the Beck message. Thats the msm message.

Move to a state without so many looters? Name a single state the looters and moochers haven't taken over, or aren't moving on.

Stand your ground. Use your time well, or be enslaved. How's that for an idea?

 

Wed, 07/11/2012 - 23:20 | 2608817 DaylightWastingTime
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i still had more respect for GB when he was a total asshat and did things like call convenience stores in the cities of football matchups and ask the employees questions he would use the answers of as a leading indicator of what football team would win. now, he's just a republican shill. i don't trust him any  further than my dead grandmother could throw him and i don't think he should be showcased on ZH.

Wed, 07/11/2012 - 23:12 | 2608806 rufusbird
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The dude is growing up. He is catching on...

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 00:22 | 2608923 LowProfile
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Agreed.

I remember hearing him 12 years ago on the radio and thinking "This cat seems a lot more reasonable than the typical Right-Wing douchnozzle.".

Over time, he seems to have been putting the puzzle together piece by piece.  I think he's smart and principled enough to figure the whole mess out.

Haven't followed him except for the rare odd clip that someone posts here and there, I wonder if he feels he can truly speak his mind.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 09:44 | 2609649 mess nonster
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Glenn Beck is on TV only because he has already sold out. This sort of thing is merely an opposition-by-design scheme. Sure, what he says is true, but.

But, those that act on what he says to speak out and agitate for some sort of reform are marked, watched, and then either co-opted or taken out.

The real resistance os to develop a conscience, and then refuse to do anything that violates one's own conscience. That is what is absolutely forbidden by TPTB. Develop that conscience, and act according to it, even if you say not a peep, and you willl see the anger of the Beast innon uncertsain terms.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:22 | 2609780 knightowl77
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Without being crass and calling names GB is NOT on TV...He was kicked off Fox for telling what he saw as the truth...Fox couldn't handle it....

GBTV is Online only and you have to subscribe or you can't see it....He is doing this on his own, free to say what he chooses....

..............."Sure, what he says is true, but."  IF what he says is TRUE, who cares, and why is there a BUT?????????

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 01:28 | 2609039 Bindar Dundat
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The negative comments from the lazy trolls  on this site  has just changed my mind about the average IQ of the trolls.  It is even lower than I thought!   Tyler is it possible to screen out the Liberals and the media?  The are angry tonight!

Only guilty people are angry people and the anger I see here about self reliance tells the whole story about how pathetic these trolls are.  Beck tells the truth and these parasites are afraid their gravy train may come to an end and the Government may stop sending them their checks and food stamps if Beck has his way.   Get a life and stop complaining about Beck.  He only wants you to look after yourself.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:43 | 2609829 Lord Koos
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So you advocate censorship, how charming, how American.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 03:43 | 2609130 AnAnonymous
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Beck tells the truth

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The tale that US citizens want to hear is generally not the truth.

And once again, with US citizens, it is clear from the start, big lie to swallow in order to be a member of the group.

Anytime it is read about the quote of Ben Franklin, one knows it is for another US citizen ride.

So, historically, Franklin's thoughts were not focused on big governments, democracy.

Franklin knew that the 'American' government type was established in a sea of monarchies and that monarchies were the primordial risk.

The best is that the question that called the answer is unambiguous about this situation.

From the simple question, monarchy or republic to which Franklin stated that 'American' government would have to overcome monarchies to keep going, US citizens make it an entry pass to their propaganda, fantasy based clubs. The quote should have no historical context, it should be about big government, the risk of democracy...

What a story. A US citizen story.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 08:41 | 2609489 ronaldawg
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That's some whacky shit!!

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 06:43 | 2609207 michigan independant
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Must be shift change I sense a prose change with this one since the force is weak.  Are you the one who shoots nuns or works overtime in the red market buthering falun gung monks for spare kindneys and livers for failing party members? I really liked the phone bug that targeted the death squad executions. 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 03:15 | 2609111 LowProfile
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Most of the trolls are from accounts created ~1.25 years ago and mysteriously activated in the last few months.

Wed, 07/11/2012 - 23:07 | 2608796 A Lunatic
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Not enough people want to be individuals. The truth is not gratifying. Somebody should do something.

 

 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 00:35 | 2608963 Liberty2012
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People want to be individuals. People also want to belong.

Our culture has been sabotaged by offering false choices. Be in this group. Look down upon these groups. Don't consider other choices. Don't see the individual. Abdicate responsibility.

We the People create the world we live in with every choice we make.

Truth is simply beautiful.

Choose to see the individual. Choose to be responsible. Pay it forward.

Truth => Individual => Responsibility => Freedom

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 09:06 | 2609561 barroter
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Corporate individuals as well?

 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 00:17 | 2608925 LowProfile
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Not enough people want to be individuals.

It only takes 3%.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 07:25 | 2609305 Cloud9.5
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As I recall, roughly a third supported the Revolution, a third was against it and a third sat it out.  It takes but a little spice to season a soup.   We need to go back and reread the original documents beginning with the Declaration of Independence.  Then we must remember once again why the Bill of Rights has a special name as opposed to the other Amendments.  We must understand that Congress has abrogated its position and allowed the Executive branch to legislate. We must understand the limitations of government.  These last few weeks most in Washington should have come to realize that the government cannot even keep the lights on in a summer storm.  In a real emergency the myriad of agencies we have created will be a greater danger to us than roving gangs in the streets.

 

We must begin a serious campaign to break the backs of the two ruling parties.  The incestuous relationship they have developed over the last half century is collapsing the system.   They cannot change so they must be broken up.  The way to do that is to pull support from them and run independents of every stripe. Whether you are on the left or right makes little difference at this time.  Your voice and views have been sold out by the Party on the Potomac.

 

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 09:59 | 2609706 Bullionaire
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"In a real emergency the myriad of agencies we have created will be roving gangs in the streets."

 

Fixed it.

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 03:44 | 2609132 AnAnonymous
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US citizen top 1 pc will have to recruit a bit of suppletive troops, then.

They have the means.

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