Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/glenn-beck-recycles-x-fil_b_175068.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...068.html</a> We've been told by some on these boards that Glenn Beck is a reasonable, good right-wing talk show host. He's not like Rush or Hannity or Coulter. But lately Beck is spewing this conspiracy theory that President Obama has set up FEMA concentration camps to imprison right-wing Americans to set up a totalitarian society. So what's Beck's rationale? Well, he can't *disprove* the existence of the camps, so while he's not 100% sure they exist, it hasn't stopped him continuing to assert they are real. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, etc., are merely loud mouthed vomit spewers. Beck takes it to a new level. He's truly psycho. Coulter might be psycho too, though.
Originally Posted By mawnck Don't worry about Coulter. She was the first one we dragged to the concentration camp. It took 8 Marines in HazMat suits to subdue her.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I really love the way this guy is trying to incite the fear of a "totalitarian" state with Obama? There was no fear from Beck about governmnet spying on its own citizen's under Bush's Patriot Act? No outrage over the dismantling of habeas rights at Guantanamo Bay? Quite ironic.
Originally Posted By donnyaz Glenn Beck is a good man.I watched the video twice listening for him to use the word concentration camps. He does not yet the Article says "FOX News personality, Glenn Beck, has been using his airtime to broadcast a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Obama administration setting up 'concentration camps,' as part of a secret plot to establish totalitarian rule." watch the video Beck just wants to know why President Bush set them up ?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I want to watch this clip, but don't have time now. BUT, I understand now where my mom is getting ideas like this. I keep telling her to turn off the noise machine, but she insists on watching, and believing, FOX news. She told me weeks ago that we are all going to end up in concentration camps. I'm so glad to hear that I won't be among them since I'm not right-wing.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo Beck is a nutball and an egomaniac. Here's his weeping segment and Shep Smith classic response. Beck: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ebo4UhloU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...bo4UhloU</a> And here's Shepard Smith's, the one Fox News anchor I enjoy watching, response: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9JE5SBm9UU&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
Originally Posted By donnyaz tigertoo did you know that I cried the Day I was sworn into the Air Force I also cry when I see the flag retreat at Disneyland so I guess I am a nutball to for loving my country.Its stuff like this that tears our coutnry apart.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***tigertoo did you know that I cried the Day I was sworn into the Air Force I also cry when I see the flag retreat at Disneyland so I guess I am a nutball to for loving my country*** No, of course not. But you're also not a TV personality nutcase with an angle and a flock. ***Its stuff like this that tears our coutnry apart.*** I agree. Glen Beck and his ilk and their rhetoric is the very stuff that tears our country apart.
Originally Posted By donnyaz Mr. X are you saying if your famous you cant have very real feelings for our country ? And is Glen Becks intetions evil ? I think your veiw is skwed because you dont like him,I dont listen to him but from what I have been shown on this thread he is a normal,no evil intent guy.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Mr. X are you saying if your famous you cant have very real feelings for our country?*** Of course not. ***And is Glen Becks intetions evil?*** No idea. But are his intentions politically and/or ratings motivated? Definitely. ***I think your veiw is skwed because you dont like him*** No. ***I dont listen to him but from what I have been shown on this thread he is a normal,no evil intent guy.*** You are basing your opinion of the guy on what you've read on this thread? Geez...I guess I do know a bit more about him than you do.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Mr. X are you saying if your famous you cant have very real feelings for our country ? And is Glen Becks intetions evil ? I think your veiw is skwed because you dont like him,I dont listen to him but from what I have been shown on this thread he is a normal,no evil intent guy." Beck is a lot of things, normal not being one of them.
Originally Posted By Mr X "Would you kill someone for that {for $50 million dollars}?...I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore...I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it,...No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong?" Yeah...totally normal.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Beck is an entertainer, but he's also not a fake when it comes to real love for our country and concern for the direction it's going. It's kinda fun to read the liberal haters rant on about him.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "It's kinda fun to read the liberal haters rant on about him." "SingleParkPassholder You provide no facts on why he is not normal." You two guys want to explain his remarks about concentration camps, for starters?
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Beck is an entertainer, but he's also not a fake when it comes to real love for our country and concern for the direction it's going. It's kinda fun to read the liberal haters rant on about him.<< It's equally fun to read the stereotypical conservative response when [insert your favorite wacky commentator here] says something truly stupid, then the defense is, "Well, he's just an entertainer!" Yet it's these "entertainers" where plenty of right-wingers get their news. And Glenn Beck is dead serious about his latest conspiracy theory (he's floated more). Which is why Josh can only come back with such a lame response. Beck's words are indefensible, so why try and defend them?
Originally Posted By utahjosh Glenn Beck says many outlandish things, and I can't defend every one of them. I don't listen to his whole show nor do I watch his TV show often. He's also frequently talking about the possible futures, which can sometimes be extreme - he'll tell you that, too. However, I read one of his books and when I do hear him on the radio, I agree with him. I believe he is sincere, and cares deeply about the country, probably more than ratings - no matter how much you think differently.
