{"id":1569,"date":"2010-02-21T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2010-02-21T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:19:25","slug":"the-morning-after-glenn-becks-cpac-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After: Glenn Beck&#8217;s CPAC Wake Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just thought I&#8217;d leave you with some of the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck at CPAC. I am so tempted to leave the rest of this post blank, but&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The man who identifies himself as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/content\/articles\/article\/198\/23656\/\" target=\"_blank\">rodeo clown<\/a> also says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;America is not a clown show. America is not a circus. America is an idea.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beck&#8217;s idea of America is pretty depressing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. And for a long time nobody would listen. Aw, he&#8217;s a crazy crackpot just trying to stir people up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beck finds it tedious when no one listens to him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of feeling like a freak in America and I know so many of you are too.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His problem isn&#8217;t that no one is listening. It&#8217;s that they hear him all too well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will be so tired. But when we put our head down on our pillow to go to sleep again that night, we can be happy because we know tomorrow it will again be morning in America.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome! We can all be happy because after we go to bed at night we will wake up and it will be morning. Who&#8217;da thunk? The problem is that Beck&#8217;s morning after is a continuation of the nightmare:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It just happens to be kind of a head-pounding, hung-over, vomiting-for-four-hours kind of morning in America. And it&#8217;s shaping up to be kind of a nasty day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for the inspirational sermon, Glenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just thought I&#8217;d leave you with some of the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck at CPAC. I am so tempted to leave the rest of this post blank, but&#8230;.. The man who identifies himself as a rodeo clown also says this: &#8220;America is not a clown show. America is not a circus. 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