{"id":1382,"date":"2009-08-27T20:55:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T03:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2009-12-19T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T20:56:36","slug":"glenn-beck-is-still-a-dirtbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck Is (Still) A Dirtbag"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>This is day four of Glenn Beck’s special, “The New Republic.”<\/em> In today’s sermon, Pastor Beck sought to inspire his flock with tales of his own decrepitude. He started with a reminder of his past as an alcoholic:<\/p>\n

“After I sobered up I admitted that I was a dirtbag, man, I was DIRTBAG!<\/span><\/p>\n

I have tried my hardest to not be a dirtbag anymore.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s going to have to try harder, because the latest raving installment of his Acute Paranoia Revue is a downhill skid into utter dementia. The premise is that President Obama is recruiting a force of civilian troops that Beck speculates<\/a> will be aimed at his parishioners, Sarah Palin, Tea Baggers, and most frighteningly, himself. However, A quick glance at the non-partisan Factcheck.org<\/a> tells us that the “civilian national security force”<\/em> Obama referenced is not the dark conspiracy imagined by Beck. In fact, Beck appears to have deliberately misrepresented Obama’s remarks on the subject. In the following quote from Obama, note the highlighted snippet in the middle, which is the only part that Beck cited:<\/p>\n

“We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, and to be there for our military families. And we’re going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.<\/span> We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.<\/strong> We need to use technology to connect people to service. We’ll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where American can browse opportunities to volunteer.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously Obama was not talking about a military force. He was talking about AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, the USA Freedom Corps (a Bush initiative), and the Foreign Service. Just as obviously, Beck knew the complete quote but chose to play only the bit of it that he could frame as scary. This could not be more dishonest if Beck just declared that Obama was the Queen of England. And this was not an incidental segment, Beck devoted the whole hour to this fabrication even though he knew it was a lie.<\/p>\n

At one point Beck asks why no one in the administration is answering his questions. It’s probably the same reason that they wouldn’t answer questions posed by Charles Manson or Fred Phelps. Paranoid schizophrenics are not entitled to have presidents respond to their delusional queries.<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that more and more major American corporations want nothing to do with this nutcase? Today, Color of Change<\/a> announced ten more companies pulling out of Beck’s show. Here is a the complete list<\/a>. And for a good laugh, check out the list of advertisers remaining with Beck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox News is pretending that the boycott has no had effect on their business. They’ve said that any advertisers that pulled out of Beck’s show just shifted their ads to other programs on Fox. Even if that’s so, it doesn’t erase the fact that the telemarketing ventures that now make up Beck’s ad clientele are certainly not paying the same rates that Procter & Gamble or GEICO did. And the best evidence that the boycott has drawn blood is Beck himself. He is too cowardly to directly address the matter, but today he made a thinly disguised reference to “powers”<\/em> that are trying to “drum him out.”<\/em> And, dagnabbit, he’s not backing down…<\/p>\n

“I will use American ingenuity and my ingenuity and I will will pull myself up. And I will find another way to get this message out on a platform that will be a thousand times more powerful. Because of my faith, I know how this story ends. The truth shall set you free. America, you prepare to witness mighty and powerful miracles in your lifetime.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I’d like to know is, what is this platform, to which he refers, that is a thousand times more powerful than what he’s currently using? And if he can use it to get his message out, why isn’t he doing so now? And just what is he alluding to when he talks about the “mighty and powerful miracles”<\/em> we’re about to witness? If I didn’t know better, I’d think he is prophesying the Apocalypse<\/a>. Nah…He’s no messianic cult leader. Is he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is day four of Glenn Beck’s special, “The New Republic.” In today’s sermon, Pastor Beck sought to inspire his flock with tales of his own decrepitude. He started with a reminder of his past as an alcoholic: “After I sobered up I admitted that I was a dirtbag, man, I was DIRTBAG! 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