The Glenn Beck Report

Glenn Beck knows when he’s behind the 8 ball in the internet game. With sites like StopBeck.com, Glenn-Beck-Sucks.com, and this one, he can’t even sneeze and let a little gas out at the same time without one or all of us all over it like a big dog. He was totally unable to control the message on his 8-28 Rally, which by many estimates was a colossal flop. For example, Beck tried and failed to sneak Ted Nugent off of the speaker list after someone pointed out to Glenn that Ted is a foul-mouthed, misogynist, racist, bondage-loving freak that had the potential to turn the Rally into a Geek Show.

So here comes Glenn with his own “news” website. Guess who’s going to do the “news” for him? Why, it’s Scott Baker, formerly of Breitbart TV! Why not? They sure are known for their journalistic integrity. Breitbart never met a lie he couldn’t amplify and repeat, so I’m sure Baker will fit in just fine with the Beck machine. The photo to the left is Beck and Baker from 10/9/09 discussing a wild and totally made up conspiracy theory involving Wade Rathke, Deepak Bhargava, and Barack Obama. Ohmigod, they gush, Deepak Bhargava and Obama were at Harvard at the SAME TIME! It’s another plot to overthrow the government and turn us into Kenya!

Quinlan and I would like to take this opportunity to repeat our challenge to Glenn Beck to debate a topic we agree upon with a partner of his choice. It will be a judged collegiate Lincoln-Douglas format. We know he won’t take it because he’s a craven coward who can’t defend his own bullshit when confronted with the truth.

Oh, and welcome to the newest right-wing propaganda outlet “The Blaze”. Look for plenty of religion, lots of propaganda that would make Goebbels proud, Obama-bashing, conspiracy theories, thinly cloaked racism and classism, AND another source for our extremely popular Glenn Beck Lies page. Keep ‘em coming, Glenn, we’re on it like brown on rice.

If you are one of those people who are wondering what in the blazes Glenn Beck is talking about when he demonizes progressives, be assured he has no clue.

However, YOU can arm yourself with real facts about progressives as opposed to the cloyed mouth-droppings of a walking, ranting,  meatball stew.  Please visit our new page, History of Progressivism.  There is handy chart for your perusal.

Aside from other reasons, Glenn Beck’s 8/28 hate and liefest is getting a lot of publicity because of one of his main guests – Dr. Alveda King. Alveda King is the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Junior. And she is off her rocker. Many people seem to think that just because she signs off on Glenn Beck’s “let’s pretend we like black people” day, that means that this rally really is some sort of neo-civil rights thing. It really couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Alveda King is NOT Martin Luther King Junior’s legacy. Relation means nothing if the opinions aren’t the same. And they certainly are not. Many people, including REAL civil rights leaders, were marching in a counter-protest across the National Mall today, led by the Reverend Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton really does work for Martin Luther King’s goals, and really does embody many of the values that King held.

Alveda King grew up running from racists and such, and for that reason I really can’t understand why she’s doing what she is. Is she just as ignorant as so many others in thinking that the Tea Party really isn’t racist? In that conservatives at large really have no problems with intolerance? Well, of course, Ms. King really is no stranger to intolerance herself. She’s spoken out against gay marriage and abortion, as well as of course all of the intolerance that comes built in with being a conservative.

It seems that for many, sadly including his own misguided niece, Martin Luther King has become somewhat of a Jesus. And by that, I mean a great figure whose words and meanings are misconstrued by people and twisted to fit their own evil purposes. Can anybody really look at me with a straight face, and tell me that MLK would have supported Glenn Beck? That he would have supported Fox News, and all of the racism and lies that it’s purported over the years? Would have invited people like Ted Nugent to do anything at all, whether or not it was canceled at the last minute?

Are you having fun yet? Because here comes the doozy. Coretta Scott King, wife of MLK, has spoken on issues in direct opposition to her niece. So, let’s see here. Who do you think you knew Martin Luther King, Jr. better? His wife, friends and those that marched alongside him? Or his rabid niece and a bunch of lying, intolerant racists and liars? If you sided with the former, then you are most likely a relatively smart person that can tell history from BS. If you chose the latter, then if you weren’t at today’s rally, then you probably wanted to be; and I’m sure that you would have fit right in with all of the Teabaggers and Beckerheads.

Alveda King has spoken out against both gay marriage and abortion – and Coretta Scott King has spoken in favor of both of these things. So have many former civil rights leaders, if not always for women’s rights, then certainly for gay rights. Alveda King is a generation, several IQ points, and a good deal of honor behind her uncle and those that surrounded him.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an honorable man, and did more for this country than people will ever realize. His wife and those that stood beside him, such as Rev. Al Sharpton, have done a great job of carrying on his legacy. Glenn Beck is a liar and a hypocrite, and wouldn’t know honor if it slapped him across the face. He and those that follow him have done more than many know in the name of indoctrination, hypocrisy, racism, and  intolerance. This disgusting soiling of King’s name by Glenn Beck is completely unacceptable. He is trying to become the next MLK, and any time that he or anybody else say otherwise is a complete lie – as proven by himself.

The next thing we know, Ted Nugent and his skinhead buddies will be trying to reclaim Abraham Lincoln. Or hell, maybe in a few decades NOM will attempt to reclaim Harvey Milk. Well guess what? You fail. You all fail. The next time you’re a civil rights leader is the next time that I’m a Mormon and love Faux News. Screw you, Glenn Beck. You’re a liar and a disgrace to the species.

Is it Earth or Planet of the Apes? Does God have the power necessary to help Glenn fix everything? Is George Soros going to sic MediaMatters on poor Glenn again? You can find out the answers to these questions and much more by reading Quinlan’s program breakdown linked below!

Click HERE to read the entire succinct dissection…

Ted Nugent SCRUBBED from 8-28 Rally

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What happens when you put 3 of the most insane, babbling, politically polarizing people on the National Mall and national TV for a day?  Hold onto your hats, we’re going to find out.  I predict that this will have a boatload of unintended consequences for the TeaBaggers, the GOP, and most of all, Glenn Beck.

Update 8/30: Estimates for the size of the rally that I heard were 80,000 (from Lawrence O’Donnell on KO’s show) to 1 million by Michelle Bachmann.  Do you think she has any idea of how long it would take to get 1 million people into and out of the National Mall?

Update 8/29: Here’s a link that somebody posted over at MediaMatters where Beck and his stooges are contemplating what to think about radical socialist Martin Luther King.

Update 8/28: Vendor hawking “Obama’s Card” to people standing in line to get into Glenn Beck’s rally. If you turn this up loud enough, you will hear him say “Obama’s card says ‘Trust me, I’m not a Kenyan born lying arrogant communist that hates America, really I’m not.’ Then on the bottom it says ‘The Ultimate Race Card’. $5 dollars for a deck of cards.” Again, let’s play “Find the Negro”, shall we?

Update 8/28: News and pictures are starting to dribble in from the site.  Here’s a video from YouTube.  Let’s play a game, shall we?  Let’s play “Find the Negro”.

Update 8/27: I just watched a heartbreaking program featuring Brian Williams that documented the reporting on hurricane Katrina in the first 5 days after the storm destroyed one of our nation’s cities.  Some of the people in the film were the exact people that Glenn Beck called “scumbags”.  And this dude is going to do what tomorrow?  Restore what?

Correction: Earlier I reported that the page from May 26 shown below was scrubbed. Apparently there was some issue with that particular page on Glenn’s site.  Although I was getting OTHER pages to load, that page came up with a blank screen.  My apologies for any inconveniences this error could have caused.  Or, on the other hand, my thanks to the staff at Glenn Beck’s website who were able to contact Glenn and get a decision to put it back up.

Update 8/27: Jon Stewart, who has already made his feelings about Glenn’s insanity quite clear, had a few words to say about the rally HERE. Priceless.

Update 8/26:  Glenn compares Restoring Honor event to the moon landing, Rosa Parks, and Iwo Jima. Yes, Glenn, you’re out in orbit somewhere, you’re the cracker telling Rosa Parks to get to the rear, and you’re the right wingnut voting to de-fund NASA.  We get it.

Update 8/26: Ted Nugent SCRUBBED from event

Last night on Countdown I heard KO say that besides being the Worst Person in the World, Ted Nugent was NOT going to be at the “Restoring Honor” rally.  This morning I got curious and started digging around for information about this, because I spent a lot of time researching Ted Nugent for this post and I wanted to see if this could be true.  So, I grudgingly went to Beck’s 8-28 website and found the following:

The last time I looked at this page the list included Ted Nugent.  It is all over the internet that Ted Nugent is on the speakers list.  Including on Glenn’s own website, a fact which he apparently hasn’t realized yet….

UPDATE: THE FOLLOWING PAGE WAS SCRUBBED AROUND 6:00 PM CDT ON 8/27. And then returned about 3 hours later.

There is a movement to revise history in the making!  LOL you silly fools.

NewsBusters -- idiots extraordinaire

Coralville Courier -- mental midgets, must think we’re blind

I will list other revisionists as they dare to poke their little heads out of their foxholes.

Update 8/25: Martin Luther King III says that the Beck 8/28 Rally does not reflect his father’s views… and he proves it, too. Citing Beck’s racism, attitude towards the poor and churches who provide for the poor, his intolerance, and bitter war against social justice, MKLIII just thinks Beck is not the dude. This is regardless of what his cousin Alveda King might say.

Update 8/25: Glenn Beck tells his audience that he’s not going to write a fancy speech. Heck no, he’s just going to write a few bullet points and let the Good Lord do all the work. That figures. Even though he stands to make millions of dollars off of this he’s STILL too lazy and/or incompetent to actually work for it. I wonder how Beck feels when he eats a tomato. I mean one picked by some illegal who stood out in the blazing southern California sun for hours to make a couple of bucks a bushel for picking tomatoes. What a big man you are, Glenn. I hope Mormon God is taking his afternoon nap and you get Mormon Satan instead.

Restoring Honor. That’s the title, or subject, or cover story, more likely,

for whatever is going to happen at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of one of America’s most quoted speeches. The speech was  given by Dr. Martin Luther King on the issue of civil rights, a speech delivered with passion and love to 200,000 hopeful civil rights activists jammed wall to wall at the Lincoln Memorial. But the Restoring Honor event will have a different cast of people on the stage and in the audience, not working for civil rights, not working for “honor” as they claim, but instead trying to exploit the racial hatred reinvigorated by the election of a black President and the people’s general fear of being crushed under the weight of our failed economy, still reeling from years of conservative mismanagement and undue corporate influence over governmental economic policies.

Glenn Beck’s frequent claims that God speaks to and through him have led him to state that the coincidence of this rally being held on the 47th  anniversary of King’s speech is actually divine intervention.  How does it happen that this event is on 8/28/10 instead of 9/12, the day that Glenn has claimed as his own with the 9.12 Project? Well, think about it. 9/12/10 is a Sunday, not usually a good day to get people out, especially since school has started up everywhere. You don’t want to schedule things like this on Sunday during NFL and college football season, either. Plus, by Labor Day most people have burned their vacation time and are done traveling until Thanksgiving. So, go short. After discovering that 8/28 was the anniversary of the famous March on Washington Beck explained it as “divine providence”.  Glenn likes to compare himself to Dr. Martin Luther King as well as many other great historical figures. This “coincidence” or “divine intervention” or just plain cynical business planning  fits nicely with his claim that “we did civil rights”,  a complete fabrication which I debunked in an earlier article on this website.

When you cut past the commercial garbage (books, hats, tees, posters, and did I mention books?)  that comprises the bulk of this event, you are left with a short list of topics that are likely to be run past the throng of non-ticket holders (the event is free).   You can expect to hear Obama demonized in every way imaginable up to but not including advocating for somebody to shoot him (Nugent has, in effect, already suggested just that in the venues full of neo-Nazis and skinheads that follow him around).   As Nugent looks over the sea of faces he will be pleased that it is mostly if not all white, as he noted a few weeks back at one of his shows.  Expect to hear totally false accusations that the Obama Administration is planning to take away citizen’s guns.  Expect to hear that liberals, socialists, and especially PROGRESSIVES have the nation on a highway to hell where everybody’s hard-earned money will be taxed away from them and used for black reparations or maybe even FEMA concentration camps.  Expect to hear that God has told Glenn Beck to announce that He has a Plan, although Glenn still doesn’t know what “The Plan” is.  (I can tell you but I will do so in a different post).  Expect to hear the TeaBaggers sucked up to by anyone from the GOP that sets foot on the stage.  True Americans, that’s the story line.  But the liberals… It’s socialism, socialism, socialism.  But this is  not politics, of course.

There are many unanswered questions about the business practices of this so-called “charitable” event hiding behind the details of the IRS tax code (see Contributions to Nonqualified Organizations) about tax free fundraisers and politics. Questions abound regarding the beneficiaries’ role as a non-political charity, the claimed “non-political” nature of this event with at least 3 of the most polarizing political figures in American politics as key speakers, the bookkeeping, the many independent concessions who are supposed to be donating “the proceeds” of their sales to the charity, the cost of the event vs the facts regarding the value claimed for free promotion and advertising, speakers waiving fees, and so on. I sent an email to the Special Operations Warriors Foundation (SOWF) which has been described as a “reputable charity” asking them to address some of these points along with a few others. Not surprisingly, I received no response.  I will keep pursuing financial information about this event as it becomes public information.

The Rally

In contrast to hearing Dr. Martin Luther King, the most eloquent speaker of his generation who was slain by an assassin’s bullet in 1968, there will be a short parade of fools stepping up to the podium.  Glenn Beck’s mission: to redefine history, English words, the basic idea of citizenship in 21st Century America, and all the while defy common sense, commonly accepted truths, and common decency. Glenn Beck is actually hiding the full speaker list from the public. It has been suggested that representatives of the SOWF will be on the stage; it’s interesting to speculate if someone from the Board of Directors will dare set foot on the same stage with Glenn Beck. By now they must have realized that their entanglement with Beck is a colossal mistake that will cost them credibility from every corner of the US.  They’ll probably put some pathetic-looking family or a great all-American success story that shows just how great their charity actually is.  Beck has announced that Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent will be on the stage, and of course Beck will speak, no doubt about that.  I predict that a few of the more hysterical right wingnut TeaBagger pols, e.g., Steve King and Michelle Bachmann, may show for a cameo.  Also, the GOP will not pass on this so I will not be surprised if the Heavy Guns show up, maybe even Mitch McConnell.

There has been continuous free promotion for this rally on Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts stations since it was announced in early July. There are also 501c sponsors who are organizing bus rides, emailing their lists, and supporting in any other way they can. Since the tickets are free, one might expect that there should be a pretty good house. There are still enough fools, racists, gun nuts, crackheads, and haters left in America to fill the venue. It is still unclear how the turnout will be. 47 years ago the civil rights movement was grassroots driven. This rally is definitely coming from the top down. Beck will undoubtedly draw some of the faithful, but how many will really want to give up their Saturday when they can stay home and watch it on TV?

Sarah Palin

I have to wonder what exactly Sarah Palin might have to add to any discussion that revolves around the words “Restoring Honor”. MS Palin has a few problems of her own to avoid on that topic. Running as a neo-GOPER on the wedge issue of “abstinence only” education, she had her nose rubbed in it by being forced to stand onstage during the 2008 election campaign next to her pregnant teenage unmarried daughter. Her administration as Governor of Alaska has left skid marks all the way from Anchorage to Washington DC. She was embroiled in a multitude of scandals that can best be explained by Sarah confusing her official job title as “Queen of Alaska” rather than “Governor of Alaska”. With the hounds closing in on the chase, she bailed out on her term as Queen, er, Governor and took refuge among the crackhead TeaBaggers and the studios of Fox News, where she functions as window dressing, a Token TeaBagger, and a freak show all at the same time. Palin has given us a multitude of clues about her clueless world view that may surface on Saturday. She tried to claim foreign policy expertise by the physical proximity of her house to Russia. She coined and continues to use the lying phrase “death panels” when discussing health care reform even after admitting that her own family went to Canada to take advantage of their Single Payer system. She asserted that the Vice President’s role, which would have been her own if elected, was to run the Senate.  These are just a few examples; there has already been a book of Palinisms published which you can buy and place next to your Bushisms tomes.

When Palin takes the mic, she will reflect decades of grabbastic, ignorant, self-serving, conniving, manipulative behavior off of the gleam of her “hillbilly” charm. This banal woman, who arguably cost John McCain the 2008 election and has quite possibly ended his political career, has no idea of what “honor” means. She didn’t honor the values that she told everyone made her better than other candidates. She didn’t honor her oath to uphold the laws of the state of Alaska as she failed in a clumsy attempt to use state office to exact revenge in a family squabble. She didn’t honor her commitment to the GOP and the McCain campaign to work on their team and not for the future of her own political and monetary gain. And she didn’t honor her commitment to the citizens of Alaska who were stupid enough to trust her to finish out her term of office instead of running off to greener pastures. She will posture, she will pose, she will postulate, but she can’t deliver. Not one bit of it.

Ted Nugent

Next we move onto Ted Nugent. I have been aware of Nugent since 1968, since I was in a garage band and we played the Amboy Dukes’ single Journey to the Center of Your Mind. As an aside, the rabidly anti-drug Nugent swears that he didn’t know that the song was about drugs. Hmmm. I knew it was about drugs. The guys in my band knew it. WTF, Ted, you were 3 years older than most of us and living in Detroit. Who are you trying to kid?

Ted Nugent has no platform whatsoever from which to speak about honor. None. He is a depraved, openly racist, angry, misogynist whose only use for civilization is as a target at which he aims his foul invective. His sole claim to fame in the world of music is longevity; he has managed to hack out a career (literally) by pandering to a group of driveling headbangers, white supremacists, gun freaks, and heavy metal fans. His music is mediocre, puerile, egotistic, artless, and violent. His themes often include thinly disguised sexual commentary in which he expresses his mighty phallic power over the disgusting woman he is screwing in a new degrading way. He’s an opportunist who has grabbed onto whatever was passing him by and rode it as far as it would take him. What exactly would that be that he’s riding?

Well, he discovered through his somewhat Freudian obsession with guns that the NRA loves hippie-types who turn gun freak. If a long-hair musician  advocates for guns then maybe some of the weak-minded who like their music will come along in tow. It’s always good to make the NRA appear to have diversity, even though everybody knows it’s just a white man’s conservative lobby. The NRA is so happy with Ted Nugent that they have made that ol’ hippie a board member. But Ted’s not your run-of-the-mill hippie. I’ve known hippies all my life and none of them would have said just about anything that Ted said HERE.

The hippies were loosely organized around the ideas of peace and love. Ted is about as far as you get from that. His answer to everything involves a gun. He believes in a legal code far stricter than Sharia law; Ted thinks that the death penalty should be applied instantaneously without hesitation or reason to anyone who is in the act of committing a crime or even for just being a political adversary. As an example, he’s wondered aloud during an interview why he can’t just shoot a Hare Krishna person in the spine. (Quotes on this too numerous to list.  Just Google “ted nugent quotes”). Survival of the most heavily armed.

His attitude towards anyone who is not a white male is infamous by the candor of his own foul mouth. He told the Detroit Free Press that South African blacks (in the context of a discussion on Apartheid) “still wear bones in their noses…[and] wipe their butts with their hands”. During a 2007 performance on his “Love Grenade” tour, he screamed into the microphone “Obama, he’s a piece of shit, and I told him to suck on my machine gun”. He announced recently at a performance in a Dubuque, Iowa casino that he was happy “there’s a lot of white people in this crowd—I like that!” and went on to congratulate Dubuque for being “a white town”. In 1994 Nugent said about Hillary Clinton in an interview with Westworld Newspaper: “You probably can’t use the term ‘toxic c*nt’ in your magazine, but that’s what she is … This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” His opinion of Hillary Clinton and other women in the Democratic party hasn’t changed much since the 1994 interview. During the “Love Grenade” performance cited above, he called Clinton a “worthless bitch” and while waving an assault rifle suggested that she should “ride one of these into the sunset”. He also referred to Senators Feinstein and Boxer as “bitches” and “whores”.

The “Love Grenade” CD has a misogynist story all its own. The pre-release cover shows a nude brunette woman with her hands tied behind her back kneeling on a platter of vegetables (imitating the presentation of a roast pig dinner) with a hand grenade hanging out of her mouth. Nice. A nice honorable bondage photo on your CD. Did Glenn Beck know about that? It kind of fits into the Mormon model of how women are regarded. Later, it was “toned down” from a photo of an actual bondage model to a cartoon of the same photo. Then still later it was changed to a hand grenade with a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon on it. (Apparently Ted thinks women are inferior, filthy creatures that have breast cancer comin’ to them.)

Just as an aside, Hillary Clinton is the United States Secretary of State, one of the most powerful women in the world. Ted Nugent is a washed-up hack who has to resort to race-baiting to get a rise out of the drunken gambler crowd at Diamond Jo’s Casino in Dubuque, Iowa. Suck on THAT, Teddy.

Nugent has been attempting to put up a smokescreen of legitimacy as a strong advocate of conservation and responsible wildlife management as well as the very weird charity operation of providing hunting experiences to disabled people. He’s also been involved in the “D.A.R.E.” anti-drug campaigns you’ve seen all around on billboards. (If your town is doing these you might want to let them know you don’t believe that Ted Nugent belongs anywhere around young girls). But you don’t have to look too deeply to discover that Ted operates a “canned game farm”, a place where you go to “hunt” exotic animals in a cage. The cage is 340 acres, but the animals can’t get away, so this is similar to the Monty Python Twit Of The Year hunting event.

And just to put the icing on the cake, on August 10th (a couple of weeks ago) “ardent conservationist” Ted Nugent was busted for poaching in California. Poaching! Come on, man, poaching? He pleaded No Contest to baiting deer and hunting without a license. This guy has been a sitting board member of the NRA for 15 years! It’s OK, though, because he has apologized on his website. “To my Fellow Outdoorsmen…. You may have read the news that I pled [sic] no contest to two misdemeanor game violations. I should have been better informed, more aware and I take full responsibility.” What a weenie copout.  What responsibility, hotshot? Your $1700 fine? Don’t make me laugh. Any decent person would resign from the NRA Board of Directors, then and sit down and STFU.

Glenn Beck

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Expect Glenn Beck to be at the top of his game, smearing populists, progressives, liberals, socialists, communists, Marxists, and Nazis, and all the while accusing all of his political adversaries of being one or all of those at the same time. You can be sure that as a Cleon Skousen wannabe he won’t be able to resist accusing members of the current Administration of being communists who are (or were) plotting to surrender America to somebody. (North Korea? al-Qaeda? Who knows?) Glenn will implore Christians to rise up in one voice and fight the godlessness of a socialist government. (This overlooks the fact that he’s a Mormon, a fraudulent cult that uses the word “Christ” in its name but is heretical in a number of ways as documented here.) Oh, and let’s not forget that the country is crumbling, despite your efforts to Restore Honor, so get rid of your worthless currency and buy plenty of gold. Yes, gold, the new god of Glenn Beck.

There will be plenty of book plugs, of course, and announcements about future revelation of The Plan, which is really just a device to keep the rubes on the hook and tuning in to buy Goldline products. Expect plenty of self-congratulatory back-patting, thanking everybody for all the hard work they do to Restore Honor.  Glenn will thank Sarah, who will thank Ted, who will probably call her some kind of demeaning name, who will then thank the NRA, and so on.

Restoring Honor

If Glenn discusses the topic of the rally, you will hear some whoppers about how it was the Progressives who ruined everything in America and caused all of our problems of today. He will claim that it’s today’s Progressives who are destroying the country, even though the last Progressive movement achievement was running Nixon out of DC and that was only with the help of the Democratic Party. I am working up a page about the Progressive and neo-Progressive movements (they have a few things in common) and I have a recommendation for you. If you just would like some historical perspective on the bullshit you are going to hear coming out of Glenn Beck, please do a bit of reading on what was happening to Americans in the decades of 1890-1910. There was no middle class. The economy was dictated to the worker class by a few extraordinarily rich people at the top of the food chain who could do anything they pleased. The worker class was virtually powerless.

The Progressives changed that, making the modern economy of the US possible. The Progressives introduced public education, secured woman’s right to vote, created the professional class, established educational standards for the professions (you couldn’t just start calling yourself “Doctor Beck” and start a “University”), created the middle class, started the union movement which led to people working for living wages and having some workplace rights, created food safety standards, drug standards, workplace safety standards, and so on. Further, the Progressives recognized that our society’s greatness is defined by how we treat the least among us, not how the top 1% live. Progressives believe that America is an organism, we are all part of the same social and economic experiment, and as such we all rise or sink together.

One thing you can count on NOT hearing from any of the speakers is any acknowledgment that the Bush Administration damaged America’s honor in ways that were unprecedented.  Never before has any Executive branch ignored statute and Constitutional laws in ways that killed and injured millions of people.  Never before have we had a President and Vice President casually admit to approving the torture of prisoners, some of them to death.  Never before have we seen a city wiped out by a combination of natural disaster and man-made incompetence.  Never before has the US suffered a terrorist attack when the President was doing a photo op after being too lazy or too stupid to comprehend the implications of a Presidential Daily Briefing, even one that said “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” Never before has any Administration worked against civil rights by instituting domestic spying under the dubious guise of “Homeland Security”.  Never before has the President been so eager to attack the wrong country that he instructed his intelligence apparatus to manufacture lies.   These are the true travesties that have sullied the honor of America, while emptying our treasury, devastating our economy, preying on those who cannot fight back, and shipping living wage jobs out of the country by the millions making jobs our biggest export (behind military weapons).

Since Glenn never has any facts to support his assertions about Progressives during his radio and TV shows, it follows that he will not have any facts at the rally, either. He just makes things up. He may have factoids, but that is not proof.  You can’t take one detail and concoct an elaborate conclusion about a complex issue based on that one detail.  Look for fallacious arguments. Look for revisionist history, which means he is a plain liar. Look for him to quote from “authorities” who have no real standing in their claimed field of expertise or the mainstream educational system, which he will demonize as being liberal. (If you want a non-liberal education you can sign up for Beck U online).

Above all, take a step back and enjoy the humongous irony of having three of the most absurdly partisan, insane, and fatally flawed individuals up on the national stage pretending to tell you what “Honor” is.  OMFG.  This is the irony of the century, or maybe even the millennium.   This is like having Charles Manson giving an address to the national annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association.  This is like Evel Knievel giving lectures on safe driving.  Or maybe Larry Craig ranting on national TV about the sin of homosexuality.  It’s going to be a good one, as phony as it gets, rotten to the core, a jaw-dropping spectacle of political insanity that stands a chance of  causing the biggest popular backlash in American history.  But not against the President, instead against those who are trying to stall, derail,  and screw up solutions to the myriad of problems out there on the streets of America. Sometimes even the worst of intentions have unintended consequences.  Glenn Beck’s weird attempt to consolidate his power among traditionally GOP groups has “blow up in your face” written all over it.

This post will be updated on a continuous basis as new information becomes available. Please check back often for these updates, and we welcome your comments on this post, as long as they are in better taste than Ted Nugent.

Second update, 8/12/10: Prop 8 decision is NOT  stayed. Beginning 8/18 LGBT marriages will be allowed to resume unless an appeals court intervenes before then.

Congratulations to all who fought so hard to overturn this hideous attack on human rights, right here in America.

Update 8/12/10: The reason why Glenn Beck has been silent on Prop 8 is…. he doesn’t care about it. OR so he says. This is a highly unexpected break from his Mormon cult. People as high up in the organization as he is would not be expected to say

“Honestly, I think we have bigger fish to fry. You can argue about abortion or gay marriage or whatever all you want. The country is burning down…I don’t think marriage, that the government actually has anything to do with…that is a religious right.”

Quinlan and I have been engaged in a lengthy thread over at Liberty University’s blog. I joined a thread trying to determine why fundamentalist Christians would have a Mormon give their Commencement address. The discussion quickly turned to abortion and gay marriage which are extremely hot button issues for the fundies. Another fault line emerges.

Update 8/6/10: As reported last night on Rachel Maddow the conservative pundits have been strangely silent on Prop 8. We should have expected something from Beck by now, but perhaps he doesn’t want to call attention to the fact that his cult’s $32 million smear job has FAILED. The information in this post (donuts and M&Ms) dates back to a Glenn Beck show where Prop 8 was being “analyzed” by Beck, “attorney” Jay Sekelow, and author Jonah Goldberg, who wrote the book “Liberal Fascism” which discounts him as an authority to do anything more than wet his pants.

My partner Quinlan has written a satirical piece (previous post) about the Perry case and its ruling which overturns Prop 8. Judge Vaughn Walker stated in no uncertain terms using 138 pages that the people cannot vote away the rights of their fellow citizens. Read the full ruling below at your leisure.

Glenn Beck has made his position on Prop 8 clear, or as clear as his thinking allows. He thinks a good analogy is if the people of California decided to ban donuts and M&Ms and wanted to put that in their Constitution. According to Glenn, they have the right to put it in their Constitution, because they can put anything they want into their Constitution. So, they DID put it in the Constitution, only it wasn’t about food, it was about defining what a marriage is. Then, because people filed lawsuits to question the Constitutionality of Prop 8, the Constitution is under attack by gays and oooooo, Progressives!

I wouldn’t expect that Glenn Beck would know the difference between buying donuts and M&Ms and getting married. I do, however, think that readers of this site can clearly see that they are not the same thing. Further, putting something in the Constitution doesn’t make it sacred or legal or anything. It’s just a concept that has to be proven within the framework of other laws.

GLENN BECK FAIL

I always love it when the Teabaggers and other vermin (like the Oathkeepers) say “The Constitution is under attack”. Why? Because they are the people who are always trying to take away people’s rights! The right wing is the movement that fought against civil rights, that passed Prop 8 which takes away the civil right of marriage for LGBTs, push for totally ridiculous and incorrect interpretations of the First Amendment regarding separation of church and state, and making wild claims about what the 2nd Amendment meant when it CLEARLY states that gun ownership is necessary in the context of “a well-regulated militia”.

I have an upcoming page on the Progressive movement where I will skewer Glenn on his inaccuracy and sheer stupidity in his constant mischaracterization of Progressives. But since the topic is Prop 8, I will school Beck and his followers on how the law really works.

First off, Glenn, it is an inalienable right that every person has to choose their own spouse. This is not only a right guaranteed by our US Constitution which demands that no person shall have special rights or privileges over others. It’s also a basic human right that is recognized by many nations around the world (with a few notable exceptions. Get with it, Europe, you’d think the Frenchies would be all for it, wouldn’t you?) Correction: I should not have been so judgmental on Europe for a number of reasons, including that 7 nations protect gay marriage as a human right. Germany, France, and the UK are the exceptions. -Wexler So since it’s a right, that means that you don’t get to vote on it. It doesn’t matter what you think about it, it’s not the same thing as banning donuts and M&Ms, Glenn. We’re not talking about some hypothetical ban on junk food, we’re talking about someone’s right to marry someone they choose.

Second, it makes no sense AT ALL to assert that the “Constitution is under attack” when there is a legal challenge to it. The Constitution is a living document, Glenn, how do you think that Section 7.5 of the Declaration of Rights got there? As it happens, that restriction on the rights of California’s citizens has been proven to be illegal. That’s not an attack. It’s just the law. If anyone had the standing to say there was an attack, the LGBT community can say that they were attacked by Prop 8 and the Mormon Cult who put $32 million that they largely coerced from their sheeple into this blatant attempt to deny civil rights.

Since Glenn Beck’s Mormon Cult pumped a reported $32 million into passing Prop 8, so I’m sure that Glenn will be hacked off enough to create a series of programs that suggest that progressive gay activists are going to rape your children and make them take showers together. He’ll say that progressives will throw out all the textbooks unless they praise gay people and the “gay lifestyle”. He’ll probably make a lot of comments about gay bondage and references to anal sex. This seems to be OK with the Mormons, conservatives, and their ilk.

Well, it’s not OK, Glenn. You’re not OK. You’re just a hack on his way out. You are on the wrong side of this issue just like you’re on the wrong side of every issue. You can spin up all the conspiracy theories you like, you can sound the bogus clarion call that the world is coming to an end, you can fearmonger to your heart’s content to your scared, rabbit-like audience. You can pull in all the right-wing lawyers you want. They will make the same arguments that have been carefully and totally disintegrated by Judge Vaughn Walker in his 138 page ruling.

I know you read this, Glenn. So maybe you want to take Quinlan and I up on the debate challenge now? You effing, money-grubbing little coward. You could never have an argument with anyone without having a kill switch on their microphone.

In a landmark decision today, Judge Vaughn Walker decided to uphold Proposition 8, a 2008 measure passed in California banning same-sex marriage. Proposition 8, passed by an unusually large margin of 52%, has been long understood to be widely supported by the country at large and California in particular.

“We couldn’t be happier,” says an official statement obtained from the National Organization for Marriage. “We’ve always done our best to impose our religious doctrine on the nation, and this is a victorious day for us and our homophobic message.” A later statement obtained from the same source is quoted as “wait, did we really say that?”

Many happy supporters of the ruling are also targeting United States President Barack Obama. Various interviewees said that they wouldn’t have won at all if it wasn’t for the Obama administration infringing on their right to lose once in a while. Some dedicated readers may recall a similar 2006 ruling when many supporters thanked then-president George Bush for no apparent reason.

An official spokesperson from the group Campaign from California Families had this to say:

This is a monumental decision for our group, our nation, and our message. Proposition 8 has never been about hatred, homophobia, or religion. From the beginning, our entire campaign has stemmed from nothing but a simple denial of facts. By denying scientific and observable fact, a person may find God, they can expand their mind, and they can pass landmark laws such as these. And this, my friends, is a great day for denial of fact.

“We weren’t involved at all,” said a spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. “Many people have the idea that we donated to the law, or even passed it illegally, more or less single-handed. Well that’s a lie. That’s the biggest lie since the idea that we’ve ever been polygamists.”

Judge Walker, in a 138-page statement, explained his decision. “…I don’t care if the constitution is against it…as a judge, my job is just to tell the voters that they were right.” The statement goes on to say that “…honestly, I don’t even care if there were special circumstances. So maybe there were some illegal donations here and there, maybe some false advertising…maybe some voters were misinformed about what they were voting on. I don’t care. As a person whose job it is to judge things on their legality, it is my job to just put my name on whatever the voters said…I don’t know why you’re making such a big deal out of this.”

Video obtained by Glennbeckreport.com shows elated supporters all over the country. However, many supporters have never taken part in real politics in their lives, and thus were not able to find their way to their respective city halls. Many YouTube videos can be found, however, of supporters using key tag phrases such as “I hate fags,” “I want to lynch people who disagree with me,” and “have some morals.”

Dissenters to the decision are apparently used to these kinds of rulings. “We’re no strangers to being discriminated against,” says Jason Molina, who has been engaged in a monogamous homosexual relationship for over 15 years. “I mean, love thy neighbor, establishment clause, basic human respect. People just don’t care about these things anymore. Seriously, why do we even…have a constitution if all we’re going to do is going to let misinformed people walk all over it? The entire thing is garbage anyway, the way that people are saying that homosexual couples are uncommitted and unloving. It’s not like any of those people manage to quote statistics for straight couples.”

“That thar queerosexual is just a sore loser,” said Billy-Bob Hanson, Molina’s confederate neighbor.

More on this story as it develops.

Writer/reporter Quinlan Ryan is an expert on LGBT and other topics. You can reach him at qu1n1an@glennbeckreport.com

UPDATE 7/29/10

Shirley Sherrod announced Thursday that she is suing Andrew Breitbart for posting a video that led to her firing from the USDA. Breitbart is a well-known right wing fraud whose name keeps popping up whenever a smear campaign against a politically active black person hits the headlines.

Following the last in a series of media-generated political crises, namely the firing of Shirley Sherrod over totally false and deliberately manipulated videotape, President Obama put on his “Decider” hat and wheeled into action. This is exactly what the progressives have been waiting for, a President who is Fired Up and Ready to Go. This is the man for whom millions sent in their pennies in campaign donations, stood on frozen street corners handing out flyers, knocking on doors, and spending hours in phone banks urging people to vote for Change You Can Believe In.

In a tersely worded statement read in the Rose Garden late last night, President Obama appointed Glenn Beck to be his administration’s HR Czar.  The appointment takes effect immediately and the duration of it was not stated.  Obama walked up to the microphone and read the following:

By the special powers left to the President by the last administration, I am hereby declaring a political emergency.   During an emergency the President may create new positions  by Executive Order.  Tonight, I signed an Executive Order creating the position of White House Director of Human Resources.  This position will be responsible to make sure that all hiring and firing decisions are carefully weighed for their political effect before being executed.  I have entrusted this critical national political security job to Dr. Glenn Beck.  His political HR expertise is well-documented, having been directly involved with Van Jones, ACORN, Cynthia McKinney, and lately, Shirley Sherrod.

There will be no questions.

Glenn Beck was unavailable for a statement, but Stu was reached via telephone. When asked about the appointment, he said “Wha… who is this? Glenn’s in trouble again? Look, ah, this isn’t the best time…. I’ll get back to you. Gimmie a sec… I’ll get something to write on. What time is it? Are you with the government? How’d you get this number… hang on…” After that the connection was lost.

The Glenn Beck Report would like to congratulate Dr. Beck, the President, and of course we must also give a BIG SHOUTOUT to the jello-spined lazy-ass media who can’t be bothered to fact check a story from proven liar Andy Breitbart. You may remember Andy’s tromp onto the world’s stage by feeding the media frenzy over James O’Keefe’s doctored “pimp” video. This totally unbelievable video, which supposedly “proved” that ACORN was tampering with voter registration and welfare fraud for illegal immigrants, was a fake. Never mind that the video was proven to be doctored and the California Attorney General dismissed it as non-evidence of anything. Nonetheless, the video sent the herd of Democrat mastodons right over the cliff. Breitbart sent his Boy Wonder James O’Keefe out again, this time to tap the phones at Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. O’Keefe was busted, then arrested on January 25, 2010 on felony charges. O’Keefe got lucky… he was sentenced to 3 years probation, 100 hours of community service, and a $1500 fine for the same offense that G. Gordon Liddy and others served years in federal prison after Watergate. Breitbart was caught again in June 2010 with another doctored video that purported to expose census fraud. This one was so bad that even Faux ignored it.

So when the Shirley Sherrod story “broke”, and it was sourced to Brietbart, did anyone in the media or the White House even bother to think about the track record and motives of Brietbart and Faux News? Of COURSE not. That would require some common sense and a tiny bit of courage. Faux News picked up the story and started repeating and amplifying it into a fake furor of epic proportions. It is being reported that the White House pulled the plug on MS Sherrod because of the threat of Glenn Beck doing an entire show on the Obama Administration’s racism. I guess we know who the most powerful man in the world really is, don’t we?

If the White House is unwilling or unable to take on Glenn Beck over a proven falsehood, what are they good for? What would happen if there was a real crisis that required immediate attention, such as a terrorist attack? Would they pull another “READY, SHOOT, AIM” stunt like this? Are we living in an age where people like Tom Vilsack can demand your resignation from you while you’re driving your car? Without even 5 minutes of face time? Over your friggin’ Blackberry? These are sad and dangerous times, indeed. I wonder what would happen if we had a serious confrontation with Iran or North Korea; would the President anticipate Faux News’ coverage of his actions and then act accordingly? Or would the White House team actually wait until they have enough facts to make a decision?

What does it mean for America when your government can’t even wait a few hours to get the facts out of fear of a pack of known liars and buffoons? I guess that means you’ll have to rely on sites like this, and the links I posted at the right, and the links on those sites. You know damn well you will not get it from the “lamestream” media (thanks for another new word, Sarah). They have sold out and sent their reporters packing. Now we have a few craven executives sitting around a table with their accountants trying to figure out what the story line is and how it will affect their viewership and advertising revenue. Now we have “liberal” news and “conservative” news.

When I was a kid I got a small transistor radio and I was amazed that I could get skip radio from all over the nation at night. I dreamed of the science fiction days of instant communication everywhere on the planet. Well, we have it. Our species took the age of instant communications and created the most uninformed and misinformed society our nation has ever seen.

And to me, this is disgusting.

UPDATE 7/27/10

On Faux News Sunday July 18, Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich got into it about whether or not Faux News had caused the Shirley Sherrod firing. Chris Wallace appeared to stun Howard Dean when he pointed out that nobody on Faux had uttered Shirley Sherrod’s name before the firing. But that’s not really the point, Chris. Faux has been pushing the “black racism” story line ever since Reverend Wright or even back to the Iowa Caucus. Why do you think Van Jones resigned and ACORN was ruined? I’ll tell you… because Democrats understand that there will be a race-based food fight every chance the right gets and we all know what the narrative is. Black nationalist Marxist wealth redistribution reparations. Coloreds. These are the words that Faux uses to discuss racial issues.

The White House got word that Beck was planning to do a show on black racism and passed it along to Sherrod that she was going to be on the Glenn Beck show. It is unknown HOW they got the information, but Beck’s protest that he was not going to do a show on her is pure bullshit. Here’s the story on Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/27/glenn-beck-howard-dean-co_n_660322.html

The fact is that he indeed DID do a show on her, and called her a racist and told his audience that she should not have been fired, she should have been offered another job as some kind of czar because she fits right in:

Those are obviously racist comments that deserved to be condemned. But Sherrod was forced to resign before even being allowed to give her side of the story which, allegedly, is that she was just telling a story of an event that took place 24 years ago and, in fact, she is now friends with that farmer and she was only telling the story to show that she’s learned her lesson that it’s not about race, it’s about who has and who has not….

So, it’s about rich vs. poor. Based on that belief, Shirley shouldn’t be fired, she should be promoted in this administration. Make her green jobs “czar.” Make her the regulatory “czar” or manufacturing “czar” or the energy “czar” or director of Medicare/Medicaid. She fits right in with nearly all of Obama’s appointments. Why didn’t the USDA and Barack Obama wait until they knew all of the facts?

Here’s a link to the actual show. I can’t stand to watch it in very large doses because I get nauseous. But it proves that Beck calls her a racist and says she’s all about redistribution of wealth. Those are the two key points in the Faux narrative about race. If they can get in a few words about “coloreds” from some enlightened right-wingnut moron like Mark Williams, even better:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,597263,00.html

Glenn Beck, the most disgusting excuse for a human being on the planet.

Update 7/28/10

I was hoping that somebody would do this.  Here is the complete timeline for the Shirley Sherrod firing as reported by our friends at MediaMatters.org

Radio and TV multi-gazillionaire Glenn Beck could lose his sight if everything turns out just right. Or so he says. According to Beck, he paid a doctor “a thousand dollars to tell him something he already knows”. Well, he knows everything, so shouldn’t he just save his money?

Beck says he has some kind of oddball disease called macular dystrophy. His condition has not prevented his eyes from tearing up, however, as he openly wept about his plight before a throng of hundreds. He told God that if he “needed [his] eyes, he could have them.” Yeah, like fat chance God would a) need Beck’s eyes, and b) Beck would have any say in it. They have eye banks, doesn’t God know about those? Don’t these Mormons get it? Not everything is negotiable. Besides, it says in plain English right on the jar that you’re supposed to keep Vapo-Rub out of your friggin’ eyes.

The sheer irony of this is not lost on anyone. Beck has been operating with “special” eyesight for a long time now, being able to see what everyone else can’t. “Huh?”, we asked. He’s been telling us about these conspiracies, oh, the humanity, can’t you SEEE…. like some kind of demented, rabid animal. He sees things that nobody else would notice. For example, “socialist art” in the Rockefeller building.  God DAMN, we’re surrounded by socialism, everywhere!

There is no doubt in my mind that Beck’s condition is treatable, and even though he has a $32 MILLION dollar a year salary, he had the balls to make a comment about getting “good health care while he still can”. This was a cheap shot and an insult to 32 million Americans with no health insurance AT ALL who can’t get treatment unless they go to an emergency room. All right, Glenn, please read this while you can still see, since you say you’re “too lazy to learn braille”. STFU. You piece of human garbage, with your distaste for your fellow man, I hope you get treated by socialists who know what to do with people like you.

I read a story about this over at the San Francisco Chronicle this afternoon, and of course they get lots more hits there than we get at our little website. I would recommend you go over there and read the comments. Those folks in SF can come up with a few good ones, to be sure. Some samples…

“I’ll bet God meant to hit mute but just missed the button”
“I’d recommend that he stop masturbating and drinking wood alcohol immediately.”

It’s no laughing matter when somebody goes blind. Usually. But this SOB is the same person who has mocked the homeless, the downtrodden, the displaced, the unemployed, the disabled, the disfigured, and the disadvantaged. He’s the guy who said “… little Sally Muckenfutch who has a finger where her eye should be so she can’t pick her nose”.

You know what, Glenn? I HOPE you go blind. You need another life lesson, one that you apparently never got as a child, or while you were driving around in your DeLorean snorting coke off the steering wheel and laughing at all the heathens and homos on your radio show. Hell, you don’t NEED to GO blind, you already ARE blind.

I don’t know what gets into me.  I’m going to lift the Mike Wiener “Savage” curse on you and ward it off for ANOTHER 90 days.  You don’t deserve it, because by all rights you ought to be selling Gold Bond powder door-to-door.  But somehow your Mormon lunacy, smears, phony conservatism, theocratic, paranoid schizophrenic smears and conspiracy theories remain on the air.

For more information on the story, check here, here, here, and here.  I have received a lot of email about these gestures of magnanimity,  both pro and con. I’d like to think I’m just helping a Mormon boy to make something good out of himself.

Remember the story about King Midas, Glenn?  Think about it.