Day: 12/12/2013

Glenn Beck Names His “Man of the Year”

Posted by on December 12, 2013 at 4:39 pm. 4 Comments :

America has been on pins and needles waiting to find out who Glenn Beck regards as the person who had the most impact on the world in 2013. Suffice to say that he does not agree with Time that it was Pope Francis, the Marxist, anti-capitalist, who advocates for the poor in defiance of the principles of Jesus.

Oh no. Beck has his own honoree, and it’s someone who has distinguished himself in a particularly notable manner. So, to end the suspense, here is the news you’ve been waiting for – Beck’s choice for Man of the Year: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

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Beck immediately lashes out at Time for selecting the leader of the world’s Catholics who has shaken up the church with pronouncements opposing trickle-down economics, and refusing to continue the church’s historical obsession with social issues like homosexuality and abortion, at the expense of ministering to those who are truly needy as their savior did. Beck is convinced that Time passed over Cruz because “they didn’t want to give him any more power. They don’t want to make him into anything. I mean they’ll put Hitler on, they did make Hitler and Mussolini the man of the year.”

There you have it. Beck wants Cruz to be recognized in the same way that Hitler was. After all, if Hitler was worthy of the honor of being on the cover of Time Magazine, then surely Cruz is worthy of the same honor. And Beck wants to make sure that the world knows that Cruz and Hitler are in the same category.

Beck also wants the world to “Remember, progressives are fascists. They are for fascism.” Of course, if that were true, then according to Beck’s own logic, they would have given Cruz the Man of the Year award, just like Hitler. The problem is that Cruz has proven himself to be an embarrassingly inept Tea Bagging blowhard. He has accomplished precisely nothing in his freshman year in the senate. Other than making frequent appearances on Fox News, the only thing that Cruz has done that anyone can recall is his fake filibuster (which was not a filibuster at all, and had a designated end time), that failed to rollback ObamaCare or achieve any other goal that he had articulated.

So Beck has compared that record of failure with the Pope’s profoundly consequential doctrinal transformations and concluded that “[Cruz] is the guy who is going to affect our life, your life, much more than anybody else.” That’s true, so long as your life is confined to Tea Party rallies, Apocalypse parties, and Ayn Rand reading groups in the basement of a WalMart on Loop 289 outside of Lubbock.

Fox News Escalates Obama Selfie Into An “International Incident”

Posted by on December 12, 2013 at 12:05 pm. 7 Comments :

Having failed to ignite a fire under Obama’s presidency with such memorable pseudo-scandals as Benghazi, Solyndra, Fast & Furious, gun confiscations, the climate change hoax, Sharia Law, death panels, pallin’ around with terrorists, and the Kenyan nativity, Fox News has latched onto an innocent moment of human behavior that took place at the memorial for Nelson Mandela.

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As ludicrous as it was for so much of the media to focus attention on this dab of triviality, leave it to Fox News to escalate it into an international incident. If they could they would surely find a way to turn it into an Archduke Ferdinand moment that will precipitate World War III (Don’t laugh. Glenn Beck’s been doing it for years).

The article associated with this absurd headline did not in any way support the matter-of-fact declaration that Obama had created an international incident. There was no author identified and it was filled with erroneous assertions and commentary from partisan pundits like Fox News contributor Erick Erickson. Not a single reference to any diplomatic agency or individual was included. So how did this qualify as an international incident?

Well, obviously, it was because Fox could manufacture lies and fling them feverishly at the President they so fervently despise. Never mind that it wasn’t Obama taking the selfie, it was the Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning Schmidt. And forget that British Prime Minister David Cameron was also in the picture but the white guy has not been accused of creating an international incident. And don’t bother mentioning that the photographer dismissed all the hyperventilation about whether the First Lady was upset in a blog post he wrote saying that “photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance.”

But if you think that fabricating an international incident is the worst that the propagandists of the Murdoch empire can do, you clearly don’t appreciate the depths of their determination and depravity. Fox’s community website, the lie-filled Fox Nation, has had three stories on this so far. And Murdoch’s New York Post weighed in on the matter with an article titled “Flirty Obama owes us an apology.” The article was filled with gratuitously insulting and sexist remarks such as…

  • [The President] lost his morality, his dignity and his mind.
  • [The President] made a damn fool of himself at first sight of Denmark’s voluptuously curvy and married prime minister.
  • The Danish hellcat hiked up her skirt to expose long Scandinavian legs covered by nothing more substantial than sheer black stockings.
  • The president leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake.
  • The president’s cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart’s.

That’s the Prime Minister of Denmark that they are calling a hellcat, a cupcake, and a tart, and implying is a conniving slut. And they say that Obama is creating an international incident? Obama owes us an apology?