113 Replies to “But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One”

  1. I wrote about that a couple of days ago, too. (Used the same video – you’re stalking me!!). The hilarious part was that the CBC referred to the crowd as “far right”, while Gillespie actually went out among the crowd and found out they were quite a mixture of folks. But, as we all know, CBC sucks and has a limited vocabulary to go along with their limited analytical skills which go along with their narrow world view.

  2. But of course every good little soldier of the collective indoctrinated in statist socialism in our pblic education gulag knows that religion is the enemy of the state — the opiate of the people
    God is in direct competition with the socialist leadership.

  3. Looks like the violent bigots of the right fooled them all again. Not one person in that mammoth crowd got caught being violent or racist. They are very sneaky about that stuff … I guess.

  4. “Inarticulate” “Religious Event” “Non Political” ?
    There was a comedy routine I just saw a little while ago that addressed TV News Shows titles and how they’re named inappropriately opposite of what they do or are.
    Larry King for instance is old and in failing health, the oldest “news” personality still going, and the reason people tune in is to see if Larry’s still “alive”.
    “Really, he’s alive, just checking.”
    Anderson Cooper only looks at issues from his one dimensional view of the cloistered Lberal, gay, son of Gloria Vanderbilt, from the limousine window perspective so he calls his show, inappropriately 360.
    Reason TV is likewise all hat and no cattle.

  5. The CBC is just being rational from their perspective because they are so far left that this rally appears to them to be far right. They never talk to anyone who would go to a rally like that.
    Obama is like Carter, he creates conservatives out of thin air… he really is a Messiah.
    The only question now is …who is the next Reagan? Maybe it’s that guy on Reason TV with the Freedom Czar t-shirt … you would never see that image on CBC. It’s the power of images that conservatives have been missing and images are Beck’s greatest contribution to conservatism; we need images to counter surge the progressive images.

  6. Then Beck spoke those magical words “We’ve been wandering in the darkness for far too long”,
    I wept. “Yes, far far too long…….”

  7. I just love the answer given by the black woman. It needs to be screamed to the world from the top of someplace very high, to quote “Luigi” in Cars. 🙂

  8. Posted by: Mark Peters >
    “just love the answer given by the black woman”
    Well if you were indeed a black American and liked to gripe about the country as so many do, saying you are “African American” is not the brightest way to win your position.
    Obamba fails on that count again by association “God Damned America”, “The first time I’ve been proud of America”………. “I am an African American president”.

  9. One nation under God.
    Uh huh.
    I see a lot of young people, I see black people (“I am NOT African American, I am a black American, and, yes, I’m very comfortable in this crowd”), I see tattooed people, I see ex-prisoners, I see people of faith, I see hundreds of thousands of people wanting to take back the U.S.A.
    Without a vision the people perish. This rally was all about taking back the American vision: One nation under God.
    Amen!

  10. The MSM has to report on this, they can’t ignore but they are just choking on their own bile having to do so.
    Their real pain is that all those talking turds at CBC/CTV/CBS/NBC/ABC know they couldn’t attract a crowd big enough to fill a small school bus and Beck can get 500k plus out for him & Sarah.
    So sweet.

  11. Like I saw on twitter this morning that Ezra retweeted,
    “The media is judging Glenn Beck’s followers by the colour of their skin and not the content of their character”
    I wonder who said that last part originally? 😉

  12. Part of the reason that the MSM don’t take Beck seriously is that he has admitted that he is in the entertainment business. His company is an entertainment company and he is the creator and director.
    This is partly why the “educated” media whores who have shelled out their fiat money to attend some marxist / socialist journalism school, have no respect for a man like Glenn Beck.
    But the MSM are still really pi**ed that he can move a crowd with his words and the media hucksters are left with their pathetic intellectual mouse droppings on the editing floor at the end of the day. They know they can’t inspire, only criticize and make funny faces!

  13. Louise said: “The hilarious part was that the CBC referred to the crowd as “far right”, while Gillespie actually went out among the crowd…”
    Yep. And that’s why I don’t get TV anymore. CBC does not “report”, it uses events to push an ideological agenda. In truth that wouldn’t be so bad, except their agenda is deeply destructive, essentially anti-human.
    I have to say, that this August has been very, very -restful- for me not watching any TV or listening to any radio. Zero socialist propaganda, zero back-to-school ads, and best of all, zero “summer is almost over” drivel from announcers. I can actually ENJOY the time I have without constantly having it impressed upon me that its all going to end soon.
    Applied to the Glen Beck rally, I can see that there was a -lot- of people there, the announcers talked about religion a fair bit, and of particular note the idiots tempting fate around the edges with their “counter demonstration” were allowed to be the rude, deliberately provocative, offensive imbeciles that they are completely violence-free. That says a lot about who’s at the rally. Even the guy with the prison tattoo or the weird, scary looking construction worker dude didn’t pound any Lefty freaks who torqued them off.
    Try being a counter-protester at a Code Pink rally. Or being the guy with the Israeli flag at a Palestinian rally. Whole different ball game. Funny how that bit of truth never makes the CBC.
    So I think Louise’s comment is extremely well taken. CBC consistently and deliberately mis-represents conservatives in a bad light. They also consistently and deliberately mis-represent liberal/lefties in a positive light.
    I should be paying money for this?

  14. Pretty much invariably the MSM noted that the beck crowd was largely white. None of them noted that sharptons rally was as far as I could see 100% black.

  15. I always feel a bit embarrassed with the religious fringe of the small-c movement. The same way, I guess, a lot of liberals feel embarrassed with the “green” fringe of the left.

  17. Posted by: Alan >
    The problem with that view Alan is that you divide politics into black and white sides without borders, grey areas or other colors of any kind.
    Me thinks political, moral and philosophical views are much more varied, and there is no reason to be embarrassed about your particular color varient. Unless you’re a flaming lefty retard that is. 🙂

  18. “Looks like the violent bigots of the right fooled them all again. Not one person in that mammoth crowd got caught being violent or racist.”
    Depends on how acceptable stereotyping certain groups are. Somewhere along the way “not all muslims are terrorists” has turned into “all good muslims want to kill christians”. He said it, not me.

  19. There were very few blacks at the Beck rally….
    Interestingly enough there were also very few Blacks at the Sharpton rally.
    I guess they must have been busy this weekend with other things.

  20. Alan @11:32: first of all which religious fringe are you talking about…there’s a lot of diversity there. Do you mean the religious folks who think God is guiding their life or the ones who want to behead you?
    Then assuming you mean the mild religious fringe, you might want to do a calculation as to how much they are going tax you and compare that cost to the “green fringe” cost.

  21. “all good muslims want to kill christians”. He said it, not me.
    Posted by: devil’s advocate at August 30, 2010 11:38 AM
    If you had read your Koran this morning – not sure if that is before or after your early morning prayers – then you will note that that is exactly what you are to do to the infidel.
    That makes it pretty clear to me and those who are open minded about what the Koran says.
    They said it, not me!

  22. Alan, I’ve heard that a lot in small-c conservative circles.
    Generally its considered bad form to talk about religion and church and stuff. Kind of like necking in public, you can do it but people think you have no class.
    Unless its some imported religion of course, then its considered “interesting” or “colorful”.
    Example, Sikhs having a parade behind the Guru Granth Sahib is a fun outing, but Catholics having a parade behind the Virgin Mary on Easter Sunday is just embarrassing.
    Which just goes to show how pervasive the propaganda blanket smothering us really is. Its like a fishbowl that’s never been cleaned, the fish don’t understand why they feel horrible all the time.
    Try turning off the TV and the radio for six months, see what happens.

  25. “I am not African American! I am a Black American!”,/i>
    THANK YOU!!!!
    Finally somebody said it!

  26. Devil’s advocate said: “Depends on how acceptable stereotyping certain groups are.”
    Well as we all know, negative stereotyping is only acceptable when it is done by CBC presenters to white conservatives. Otherwise its perilously close to a crime.
    In fact, we have a whole government department that decides when its a crime and when its not. Canadian Human Rights Commission.

  27. Knight 99: The way they behave, not their ‘color variant’. The religious fringe often scares centrists away from the conservative-leaning parties and policies. The moderates who act discreetly help us. But the other ones, the activists who display their beliefs too openly and go too far with their slogans, their rhetoric and their crucifixes, well in practical terms they become a liability.

  28. // Part of the reason that the MSM don’t take Beck seriously is that he has admitted that he is in the entertainment business. //
    “I’m a rodeo clown,” he said in an interview, adding with a coy smile, “It takes great skill.” […]
    He added later: “I say on the air all time, ‘if you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.’“
    And a clown shall lead them.

  29. “If you had read your Koran this morning – not sure if that is before or after your early morning prayers – then you will note that that is exactly what you are to do to the infidel.”
    You will note that that statement was a response to a claim that there were no racists or bigots in the crowd. The gentleman who stated that also made it clear that islam “does not factor” in the future of America, which I assume means that muslims have no role in America.
    Sounds like America is for all types of people – except muslims. Alright I suppose. Perhaps we should start deporting them now? Why leave them to roam around the country when they are, in fact, out to kill us and all that? Since I am a fervent equal opportunist, the only thing I ask is that you include white, black, asian, latin and other supremacists, as well as gang members, in this mass deportation.
    Frankly speaking, I still find gang members a lot scarier than the average muslim on the street.

  30. Alan, like I said. Letting the other side set the agenda is a recipe for losing. Turbans are ok but crucifixes aren’t, that’s the Left setting your agenda for you.

  31. Here are some estimates from Canadian and US mass media.
    First the semantics:
    Note that many of the articles will print, “thousands”, “tens of thousands”.
    If thousands, would that mean something from 2K to 10K?
    If tens of thousands, would that mean something from 10K to 99K?
    These are the numbers from your professional “journalist”.
    Thousands of Americans…
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/glenn-beck-lauds-cardinals-at-dc-rally/article1688891/
    Note the picture; if you like low turnout, that picture gives you the perspective you may like.
    Several hundred thousand people rallied….
    http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Palin+Beck+urge+return+rally+Martin+Luther+King+anniversary/3456994/story.html
    A more likely figure was at least 300,000…..
    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/853930
    Thousands of people from around the country converged on a hot summer day at the National Mall to watch Beck and Sarah Palin talk about what they called “restoring honor.”
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/glenn-becks-restoring-honor-rally-draws-hundreds-thousands/story?id=11504349
    Tens of thousands of people have attended a controversial rally in Washington DC organised by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11114172
    ….tens of thousands….
    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20100829glenn_beck_rally_signals_election_trouble_for_dems/
    ….A sea of people…
    Crowds at Mall demonstrations are notoriously difficult to estimate, with no official source for such figures since the National Park Service stopped doing counts in 1997….
    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/29/beck_palin_call_for_restoration_of_traditional_values/
    An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck….
    AirPhotosLive.com gave its estimate a margin of error of 9,000, meaning between 78,000 and 96,000 people attended the rally.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014993-503544.html?tag=pop
    …..Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast,…..
    The crowd….was a sea of people standing shoulder to shoulder across large expanses of the Mall.
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2648182,glenn-beck-dc-rally-082810.article
    Huge crowds…
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/28/thousands-expected-glenn-beck-rally-civil-rights-leaders-protest-event/
    ….the tens of thousands….
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38895645/ns/local_news-orange_county_ca/
    ….Officials estimated that more than 100,000 people….
    http://mobile.newsweek.com/s/2499/370;jsessionid=0728D611F903E124751E8A28D57F1D8D?itemUriVal=15e8d2662d6552d87c94a094da083a68%2F12495513213122140131431521110&HeaderTltle=
    Tens of thousands….
    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2014336,00.html
    ….respectably large 87,000….
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/was_the_glenn_beck_rally_turno.html#more?hpid=topnews
    USA Today noted, there were some “157” here, some “900” there. There were some people here and there.
    Summary, more or less, if CNN is your cup of tea (npi). http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/29/wildly-conflicting-reports-about-beck-rally-crowd-size/?iref=allsearch

  32. …I still find gang members a lot scarier than the average muslim on the street. ~ devil’s advocate
    How do discern which of the Muslims on the street are “average”

  33. dizzy said: “And a clown shall lead them.”
    Yeah, a clown shall lead them to not beat the hell out of offensive people who disagree with them at their rally. Can’t say the same about DemocRats can you dizzy?
    Btw, have you seen the picture of Obama made up like the Joker? Its a beauty.

  34. No, turbans are *not* OK. But oversized cruficixes and t-shirts with christian slogans are not either. Keep it for yourself and out of politics and the public place please. I don’t want my people to become opposite to the Muslims by acting like them (bar the violence of course).

  35. Yeah, 87,000 people were at Glenn Beck’s rally this weekend.
    ~Mkelley at August 30, 2010 11:58 AM
    Yeah, but you would have a hard time finding those 87,000 among the other *213,000 that attended.
    *apparently the permit to assemble was issued for a maximum of 300,000 so even if there were more than 300,000 the top figure was only 300,000 just to be within the permitted limit

  36. Alan, are you phobic or something? I myself do not attend church, but come on man. Do you go into a cold sweat when you see a fish on the back of a car?
    Turbans are not OK either? You going to ask Mohinder to take it off? He’s got a kirpan to go with it, y’know. In fact, that’s the whole reason why he’s got a kirpan to go with it. So you can’t make him take his turban off.
    I’ve suggested to some of my Sikh associates that upgrading to a Glock might be in order. They said the Glock is nice too, but the kirpan never jams.
    Good guys to have around in a fracas. Christians likewise. There are even [gasp!] Muslims who vote conservative and like less government and less taxes.
    If you want to defeat the Left and take your country back, I suggest expanding your tolerance zone to include more people Alan. Its not like they are going away, right?

  37. Alan this is a free country. There is nothing wrong with a turban as long as you don’t insist on wearing it to join the Mounties and insist on replacing the icon the Mountie uniform (But there is something wrong with covering your face with a Burka in an open society)
    As MLK said: don’t judge people by their colour, judge them by their content of character. Ditto don’t judge them by their religion, judge them by their actions.
    I would agree that politicians must not quote their religious passages to support values, they must always use reason. But they can wear a turban while using reason, who cares?

  38. Alan,
    I know what you were trying to rely; I think you may have missed my color metaphor a little. Not a good example when mixed with racial discussions, but I was alluding to the color spectrum of ideas not race on this point.
    Yea, everyone hates the silly uncle at the party. What can you do if common serious issues bind you and bring you together? Build another party with your own ideas that exclude the ideas of certain individuals whose ideas you don’t like.
    Eventually they and others will follow if things look better on your side of the fence, but at the end of the day it’s a numbers game and base conservative’s at this stage and into the future of America could use all the help they can get.

  39. Please do not…, do not waste your time and ours by trying to converse with the trolls. They are leftards and as such have been brainwasted for the last fifty years by believing everything that the Liberals and CBC have been telling them. Multiculturalism doesn’t work. We are seeing the results in Europe and to a lesser extend in North America. Mankind has been engaged in religious wars since the dawn of history and by the looks of it we’ll continue for the next few hundred years at least. The “Holy Koran” as the might ‘O’ calls it is nothing more than an early edition of “Mein Kampf”. Failure to recognize this fact and to dress up this failure as tolerance will only lead to a major confrontation in the future. Unfortunately the Liberal elite are not astute or erudite enough to come to grips with what they have accomplished and it will be up to the small c, conservatives to once again save their ass just as we did when Hitler smooth talked them at Munich. So don’t waste your time with the trolls just get ready to get’r done.

  40. Conspicuous displays of Christianity, middle class values and perhaps even maleness are the natural consequence of the atmosphere created by progressives over the last few decades. At first playing on Christian guilt, white guilt, class guilt and male guilt was successful. Those groups attempted to appease progressives. Finally, the appeasers have realized that the demands and accusations by progressives only increase – they will never stop, only grow. Now these groups have given up trying to please their social betters and feel free to express their real beliefs – smaller government, lower taxes, the importance of The Constitution, national pride and religious faith. Obama was not the cause but his overtly progressive policies, apologizing for America and reverse racism are the final straw. Of course the MSM, unaware that the jig is up, will continue to condemn this resurgence and all protests as “overwhelmingly white” (meaning racist)activity, making the MSM look even more foolish.
    While I am not religious, I do not feel the least bit embarrassed. The biggest concern is that Christian wing will stop listening to other parts of the Tea Party movement.

  41. On a side bar with the Restoring Honour (Beck/Palin) rally it was one of those moments when we could juxtapose the cost of cleaning up after this rally with the cost of cleaning up after the mighty ‘O”s inauguration. The leftards keep making a mess and we keep cleaning it up.

  42. Posted by: devil’s advocate>
    “which I assume means that muslims have no role in America”
    You’re right on the money there DA. Except to expand your statement, they have no role in western society’s period. As a matter of fact they have never played a roll of even minute significance in western society aside from nifty souvenirs on mantels from old wars against them.
    Remember we are not talking about individuals, we are talking about ideologies, and the Islamic Sharia ideologies do not mix with the western values of freedom, democracy, and liberty for all. Period.
    As a true Muslim they are forbidden to stray from their Islamic values. That makes them incorrigible.
    Deportation absolutely, certainly for all convicted criminals. Supplement that with closing the borders to further Islamic immigration, and mandatory integration into western culture by forced western education & the language of the land, for those the legal process cannot deport.
    The practice of Islam should be every bit as chastised and outlawed in the west as Nazi ideology is.

  43. People at the rally were openly conspiciously Christian?
    On MLK Day?
    Gee, it’s almost as though Martin Luther King jr. was a Baptist minister or something!
    How dare all those Christians show up and be open about their faith on MLK Day.

  44. No, turbans are *not* OK. But oversized cruficixes and t-shirts with christian slogans are not either. Keep it for yourself and out of politics and the public place please. I don’t want my people to become opposite to the Muslims by acting like them (bar the violence of course).
    End quote:———-
    It might surprise you to learn that most Conservatives consider you nothing more than a Red Tory or a Liberal in atheist drag Alan. Your posts reek of intolerance and bigotry thus you sound like a closet leftard Alan.
    Alan a wise man wrote the following words, heed them. An unknow Monk was the author of Deserata.
    Therefore be at peace with your god, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labours and asperations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all it’s sham and drudgery and broken dreams, it’s still a beautiful world. Be careful. Take care. Strive to be happy.

  45. I must vociferously speak out against all of you that are insinuating that “All Muslims Are Out To Kill Us” or anything of that ilk. It’s simply not true folks. I have a number of Muslim friends & acquaintances, all of whom are good hearted, hard working, Westernized citizens of Canada and the U.S.
    If you’re going to imply they’re not and insinuate some sort of conspiracy theories about a hidden agenda of theirs, then you’re truly as nuts as the Radical Leftists you & I constantly complain about.
    Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not Mr. Kumbaya, not politically correct, and hate Radical Islamists as much as anyone. But grouping all Muslims under one banner is neither true nor helpful. All your words do is feed the enormous Leftist propaganda narrative that conservatives are bigots. So if you want to help the Liberals & NDP up here and the Democrats in America then keep it up!

  46. So, Alan, what’s the difference in your mind between “oversized cruficixes and t-shirts with christian slogans” and Muslim women walking around in public in niqabs and burqas? Are you embarrassed by this “religious/cultural” display?
    I’d say you’ve drunk the progressives’ propaganda Kool-Aid telling you to be embarrassed by Christians freely expressing their faith in public. COME ON. In the Charter, which I strongly dislike but it’s the law of the land, everyone has the right to freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and freedom of association, so what’s your problem?
    I detect religious bigotry here. Tsk. Tsk.

  47. @ 6:24, the lady with the black t-shirt: That’s my main man, the great anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard, Enemy of the State. Rothbard morphed from libertarian to anarcho-capitalist when he concluded that if you concede ANYTHING to the state, you’re lost; that there’s no way to limit state expansion which contention is irrefutably proven by what happened to those great foundng documents! Mere words on paper.
    God-bless that black lady — she gave me the shivers. I feel vindicated, having never ever used that ugly hyphenation “African- American” without quotation marks. Any American black who actually takes the time to visit Africa would probably drop that unfortunate hyphenation as he would stop whining about the slavery of 150 years ago.
    Provocation:
    Some folks are freaked by the “Jesus” thing. Not me. I get squirmy about the soldier worship as I find myself gradually moving toward a radical isolationist position — the position, btw, of the founding fathers.

  48. @batb and others: ANY religious display (you obviously have a preference, I don’t, but I AM the bigot according to you?). You think that activist Christian slogans are OK but the Muslim niqabs and burqas are not? I say: it’s all the same! Religious beliefs should remain a private thing, and at church, temple or whatever, but not in the street nor in politics. Clear now?

  49. Robert W. (Vancouver) at August 30, 2010 1:30 PM
    He said “good muslim” not all muslims.
    Similarly a Catholic who is OK with abortion is not a “good Catholic” even if he/she continues to self-identify as one.
    If your “muslim” friends (assuming they’re not using taqiyya) don’t want to subjugate/kill infidels, they aren’t “good [devout] muslims”. They’re jahalia. (may be wrong form of the word).
    Remember muslims are also against killing “innocents” which soothes many westerners until they learn that non-muslims aren’t innocent. They are guilty of leaving Islam — remember we were all muslims once! They will regain their innocence when they become reverts and will no longer be subject to the wrath of the Mohammedans.

  50. Robert W. (Vancouver)
    A word of caution. In some cultures (Particularly New Guinea) to befriend someone than turn around one day & kill them, than eat them. Is considered a form of virtue.
    (Read Peace Child) If you doubt me.
    The Koran means what its says, as did Mien Kampf.
    No one took the later real. Which meant a bloodbath. Neither do leftists or decent folks the former.
    Yet amazingly the fanatics of both books follows, or followed, the script to the letter.
    Yet people like you seem to think they don’t believe what they advocate. You immediately like a Stockholm syndrome victim, come to their defense? I find it peculiar, if not disturbing.
    Your friends must be infidels, because according to the Koran you can have no real Infidel friends.
    Ask them what they think of Hamas or if old MO. was right in having sex with a nine year old. Just ask them. Than get their opinion on Jews.
    JMO

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