Archive for the ‘Glenn Beck Fails’ Category
Glenn Beck Hopefully Going Blind
Beck hopes to go blind so he can get your sympathy dollars
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.
If Gawd even took an eye from Jezus, what chance does Glenn have? Glenn better hope the Lawrd doesn't need a slippery, forked tongue.
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.
Main Street Bites
Just when you might have thought the Becktardosis had reached its peak, by Beck fantasizing about having nookie with his sister and claiming that he owns civil rights, it gets BETTER! That’s what I love about having a Glenn Beck website…. there is an unending fountain of bubbly, crazy goodness!
In the video below, some woman named Robin Potwora, spokeshole for a group that calls itself “Main Street Bites Back”, postulates that Glenn Beck would be a good President because since HE doesn’t want to be President, and GEORGE WASHINGTON didn’t want to be President, ergo, Glenn Beck would be as good of a President as George Washington! LOL this is totally priceless! Enjoy!
Now I am definitely not a slave to fashion, and I would be the first person to stand up and defend anyone who is being criticized over that which is ‘skin deep’, namely the way somebody looks. However, I just have to ask: are we sure that this person is an Earthling?
Thanks to reporting at Huffington Post by Nicholas Graham.
Update 7/15/10
After I wrote the above, I felt that I was missing something by not making a visit to the website mentioned above. So to do the best reporting I can, I put on my noseplugs and hit the site…
This unfortunate alien-type (thank you, Devo!) won the bronze in Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Persons In The World” segment last night. Geez, Keith, I think she’s cracked, and her logic is hopelessly broken, and so on. But that’s just because she misses her family back on Planet Zorkon.
I went to visit the site http://www.mainstreetbitesback.com/ and I was left with the impression that it was created by unemployed conservative comedians and animation workers who have a lot of racial angst on their hands and too much time to express it. The site automatically starts playing a cartoon of Barack Obama talking about how he’s their unlikely pitch man but he’s going to be needing a job in 3 years so he’s trying to build his resume. (Oh, that’s pure hilarity!) “Barack” goes on to say that he wants everybody to do shout outs. I’m not sure WTF he means by that. I think it’s something Sarah Palin made up, and since there are a certain number of Palin-loving idiots I can see how the phrase would gather a small following.
If you feel as if you would like to contact them, (and I would HIGHLY recommend that you do), their email address is at AOL…
MainStBitesBack@aol.com
They have a phone, too! Call it, it’s toll free! (860) 618-3927
Or if you would like to visit, they are in Torrington, CT. You should probably call for an appointment first. They will send you a free T-Shirt if you send them 50 signatures for their petition. If you send them 100, I’d bet dollars to donuts that alien-lady will meet with you personally.
On the “Save the USA Tag Sale” link, you can buy what appears to be a number of Gucci knock-offs for extraordinary prices. Extraordinarily HIGH, I mean. I am not sure what the connection is between Gucci and Glenn Beck, but I will be emailing this to StopBeck, who is handling the Beck Boycott (and doing a fine job of it.)
OMG. Next link… “Defend Your Party”, a reality show “in development” by Ms. Potawatamie or whatever. Her own description is priceless…
In Development
A
Reality Game Show
‘Defend Your Party’ is a reality game show featuring everyday Main Street Americans going beyond the protest trail to compete for a cash prize that could help their political party win in 2012. A series of competitions ranging from jello wrestling matches to graveyard haunts will test the loyalty, nerves and whit of Americans willing to do just about anything to prove just how red or blue they really are!
Filming Schedule and news release to be posted here soon.
To be a contestant in a coming episode email us:
DefendYourParty@aol.com
LOL I love how she’s going to “test the whit” of Americans. If she tests herself, it will only take half as long. That will save some time.
The Webcast Show link takes you back to the same inane and amateurish “satire” animation of Obama “pitching” MSBB.
Oh, groan. The News Release link “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE” is headed “Glenn Beck Stands up in 2012″. The headline implies that Beck has decided to run. The story below it just talks about how these hosers have taken the name of the 9.12 Project and incorporated it into their own business. I can’t imagine Glenn would be very happy about any of this, if he ever finds out about it.
The next link, Mission, is a link to the video above. Then they have a Contact link which asks for more money.
OK, now I’ve been there, I can tell you that the site is nothing more than a blatant moneymaking scheme running off of Glenn Beck’s name. Call it a “cottage industry”. The site is utterly devoid of any real content; there is no explanation given about why they think Beck would be a better candidate than anyone else. Oh, I know, it’s because we’re groupies! LOL, please call them today and let them know how much you appreciate and support their idea of Beck for President. Think of the gift to all the other candidates! Beck has more walking-around money than it takes to run. He’s got the Mormons behind him. He’s got the Xtians behind him. He’s got about 1 million viewers behind him. He’s going to beat Obama. What could go wrong?
LOL
Beck vs Temple of Doom: Extend?
This foul-mouthed idiot cursed the Glenn Beck tent to fold by 2009. Can't do it, Mike, there's more incest stories to be told.
Michael Weiner, aka “Mike Savage”, cursed the bee-jeezus out of Glenn Beck which I first reported about in October 2009 HERE. During the curse Dr. Savage (Doctor of Wienerology?) called Glenn a “hemorrhoid with eyes” and cursed him to be “gone from the airwaves” in 90 days”.
Well, I’m not a HUGE fan of Dr. Wiener/Savage, but you know the old saying “Is the enemy of my enemy my friend”? Well, no. Doc Wiener is never going to be my friend, because I don’t befriend fascist, reactionary, ignorant, loud mouths who lie like dogs and write their own history as they go along. However, since he did curse the subject of this blog, it must be taken into consideration.
The original curse expired January 21, 2010. I graciously granted Beck a 90 day extension, because I didn’t think he’d be off the air by then. It’s hard to get this cursy-worsy thingie down to an accurate science, so we shouldn’t be too hard on Dr. Wiener for missing it by 90 or 180 days.
Anyway, I’ve been debating it, mulling it over, so to speak, and I just want to let Glenn know that The Glenn Beck Report is 100% behind you, Glenn, so look behind you wherever you go. We will probably extend your show so you don’t have to be off the air like Dr. Wiener says you do. He’s a nasty old Gentile anyway, not a wholesome Mormon boy like you.
Beck’s Incest Fantasy
If Glenn Beck had a sister, and if he had his way, these might be his twin sons. Who knows, they might be anyway.
I am not exactly sure how I missed this but you have to see it to believe it. Click the link below…
Glenn Beck riffing about doing his sister.
Oh, but it’s to make a point, see, that it’s perfectly normal to be a homophobic bigot.
This video and topic will be explored in an upcoming page that Qu1n1an is working on. This is jaw-dropping. It’s No. Effing. Way. It’s ho-lee scheiss, Bat Man.
It’s Glenn in his own words. Enjoy, if you can keep from laughing and hurling at the same time.
-Wexler
Glenn Beck Fail: “We own Civil Rights”
Glenn Beck has made a colossal misjudgment by attempting turn the most pivotal speech of the 20th Century into an attempt to hawk his moronic books.
This has nothing to do with Mormons, GOP white power and homophobia, de facto racial caste systems, and especially not Glenn Beck
Forty-seven years ago this August, as we neared the end of legal racial discrimination in this nation, the civil rights battle was being waged in the trenches. Black and white marchers were being attacked and sometimes killed in the streets by mobs of white supremacists and the KKK. College students organized and disrupted business-as-usual in selected towns across the country. The intellectuals, socialists, anarchists, musicians, and clergy across the spectrum of left politics joined with black civil rights leaders to pressure the US Government to intervene on behalf of racial minorities to pass national legislation to outlaw racial discrimination in employment, public services, and elsewhere.
Into this rich sea of civil disobedience, protests, riots, lynchings, music, murder, and mayhem, a new historical revision is being trotted out by Glenn Beck and a few others who are shameless enough to try it. Here’s how it goes, according to Beck:
I have to tell you something. I believe in divine providence. I believe this is a reason, because whites don’t own the founding fathers. Whites don’t own Abraham Lincoln. Blacks don’t own Martin Luther King.
I tell you right now, we are on the right side of history, we are on the side of individual freedoms and liberties and damn it, we will reclaim the civil rights moment. We will take that movement because we were the people that did it in the first place.
Oh, so let’s see now, you’re saying that since nobody “owns” Abraham Lincoln or Dr. King due to being the same race, then the reactionary white racists of today led by the TeaBaggers, the GOP (former Dixiecrats), the 2nd Amendment pukes like the OathKeepers, homophobes and religious fanatics, can now take credit for civil rights???? Not only take credit for it, not only own it, but be the guardians of civil rights!
Beck says that his people, whomever they are, are going to “reclaim” the civil rights movement. He says they will reclaim it because “we were the people that did it in the first place.”
Let me interject one thing here. This is a partial rewrite of what I posted last night, and I didn’t have a couple of those quotes I used above. But let me assure you since I was THERE, I can attest to the plain truth that Glenn Beck and anyone who is like him today, if they were involved at all, were on the other side of the barricade.
Al Sharpton was the guest on Keith Olbermann’s show tonight (July 1) and the topic came around to the Glenn Beck book sale in the general area of the Lincoln Memorial scheduled for August 28. This coincides, not by any coincidence, with the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, one of the most powerful and best-remembered speeches in American history. 200,000 civil rights movement supporters heard the speech live, jamming the Memorial and the reflecting pool mall with a sea of humanity that has only been outdone by Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address.
Mr. Sharpton pointed out that Beck’s thesis that his people are the heirs to the civil rights movement is so flawed as to be ridiculous. And he did it without even bringing up the racial issues (such as the fact that Mormons believe that black people are cursed by God and refused to let them enjoy the privileges of male membership until forced to in 1978). First, according to Sharpton, the TeaBaggers and such are the people who are always railing against Big Government, and now Beck is revising that to say that they were in favor of the national government of the US intervening in every aspect of Jim Crow to stop it. How effing stupid would you have to be to swallow THAT? Second, the people that Dr. King ran with were socialist, liberals, commies, and other people who are the political opposite of what the Becktards believe in. They constantly scream about “liberal elitists” and see “socialist plots” in any action that the government takes.
Dr. King had a dream; Glenn Beck has a scheme and it's to grab every goddam dollar he can get his money-grubbing mitts on
Thirdly, and probably most importantly, is that the GOP, the TeaBaggers, and their ilk, are the Party of Grabbasticism. They are not “anti-socialism” they are ANTI-SOCIAL. They have no idea whatsoever, no concept, of living in a community, a nation, with the commitment to each other that we all sink or swim together.
Grabbasticism is the term I like to use for “I got mine, SCREW YOU.” They never gave a crap about any person of color, back in 1863, 1963, or today. The only use they have for Latinos is doing yard work and working in nursing homes cleaning shit out of the diapers of their parents, whom they have no use for whatsoever once the inheritance is decided. The only use for blacks, well, they have NO use for them now that slavery is illegal. The GOP looks at black people as The Enemy. They will never vote GOP, never.
I will write more on Beck’s cracked thesis that he now leads the movement that “owns” civil rights as the August 28th date approaches. I believe that this is a HUGE miscalculation on his part; although there is no planned counter-demonstration at this time, I predict that August 28 will be a national day of humiliation that will generate so much anti-Beck backlash that even Fox will have to pull the plug on it.
Glenn Beck is going to play his hand. For a cheap chance to gather up a few complete idiots willing to part with their money, he is going to open up the wounds that were healed by the Civil Rights Act or 1964. He is going to make America relive the ugly truth, he is going to make us look in the mirror. Some of us will not like what we see.
Stay tuned….
-Wexler
Update 7/8/10
Today Glenn tried to prove a couple of idiotic points about a dead person. (Just a thought, Glenn… I know you think you’re going to live forever, but what do you think people are going to say about you and your sister-screwing ass after you’re gone?)
OK so here’s the scoop. Beck thinks that it’s a “liberal media plot” that there is no film of Senator Robert Byrd filibustering the Civil Rights Act in 1964. First the fact, then the assumption.
The FACT is that no cameras were allowed in the Senate except for special occasions until 1974. Um, what’s the word I’m looking for here… um, IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, you DO ALL YOUR OWN RESEARCH, DO YOU???? Has anyone told you about Google, Glenn?
Now for the assumption. The assumption here is part of Glenn’s bigger argument that Byrd filibustered Civil Rights, and Byrd was a Democrat, and THEREFORE, (are you paying attention, Beck U students? This will be on the FINAL!) the GOP especially Glenn Beck OWNS Civil Rights!
What did Robert Byrd actually say about his positions on race?
Bernard Shaw interview, 1993:
Q: What has been your biggest mistake and your biggest success?
A: Well, it’s easy to state what has been my biggest mistake. The greatest mistake I ever made was joining the Ku Klux Klan. And I’ve said that many times. But one cannot erase what he has done. He can only change his ways and his thoughts. That was an albatross around my neck that I will always wear. You will read it in my obituary that I was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
The NAACP “report card” gave Byrd a 100% voting record for 2003-2004. This may affect Beck’s report card at the University of Truth.
Glenn Beck Program Breakdown – 6/29/10
Hi everyone – this is my first post on the main page of the site. I’m very excited to be contributing over here, and hopefully I can help to bring the site to its full potential. Anyway, today I’ll be posting the first entry in what I hope will become a regular fixture on the site – The Glenn Beck Program Breakdown. In this feature, I will review an entire episode of the Glenn Beck Program, and call him out on his crap minute-by-minute. Note however, that there’s simply too much BS in every episode for me to note it all, so without further ado, let’s begin!
Glenn Beck Program – June 29th, 2010
Minute 0: Accuses the entire New York Times staff of being communists. The media only has a liberal bias, Glenn, because truth has a liberal bias as well.
The only person who loves Canada more than Michael Moore is Glenn Beck. Now he's worried that hockey pucks will have a steep price increase.
Minute 1: Talks about the money that Canadian taxpayers are spending on the G-20 summit. Oh, so now Beck cares about Canada! And here I was thinking that he hated it, and its commie health care system.
Minute 2: He’s showing a hand-drawn chart displaying various countries’ GDP per capita. IT’S ERRONEOUS. You’re full of crap Beck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
Minute 7: Just listen to him, going on about the rich keeping their money. He never mentions the poor. He clearly doesn’t care about the lower class.
Minute 8: “America, I don’t think you’re stupid. But when a guy gets into a ‘scissors’ lift…” He repeats the term again at 10 minutes.
Minute 8: He’s going to make a solemn swear – and he puts his left hand up to his right side. Oops.
Minute 9: Discussing a phony timeline that he’s made, says “before Christ”. You can’t bring religion into news. This is entertainment, plain and simple. Religion is just another lie anyway.
Minute 12: “This guy in Cambodia… this general area.” He’s unable to pinpoint Cambodia on the globe – he’s not even in the right region.
Minute 12: He’s talking in a mock Russian accent now, clearly intending to be an “evil” character. What’s the purpose of this? Does he realize that the Cold War ended 20 years ago? Xenophobe.
Minute 14: Now he’s talking about Obama wanting to stop drilling for oil. Beck says we should continue to drill, and keep it all for ourselves. Well, yeah, keeping it all four ourselves is the only way that we’ll have enough to last a significant amount of time.
Note: There’s a long break here in which Beck goes in circles, repeating points that he made before.
Minute 25: He’s making an argument that government spending doesn’t work – and, oh, he just lost his own argument. He demonstrates that after WWII, after all the big spending, everything was relatively fine. Unintentionally beating down his own argument, the fool.
Again with the circles. This is how he fills his time apart from lying.
Minute 44: Oh! What do you know. He’s touting his new book in the middle of the show. This is a fiction book by the way. He’s not even using it for excerpts, he’s just giving it airtime.
Minute 45: Talking about the protests at the G-8/G-20 by people wanting to end capitalism. He calls them anarchists despite visual signs advocating communism and socialism. He also displays quotes calling these people servants of the community. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t like them.
Minute 46: He’s referring to that story where Mao was on an ornament on the white house Xmas tree. No, Obama did not put that there – they got community groups to decorate the tree. But I’m sure Beck knows that.
Minute 52: Oop, now he’s slandering the late Senator Robert Byrd. Leave it Beck to disparage the dead.
Minute 53: Talking about Byrd’s former KKK affiliation (which he apologised for on multiple occasions). Really Glenn? Somehow I think that you would have been first in line behind him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tgvWxC_6A
Minute 59: “White people of America: Warning! you’re going to learn stuff about our country that you didn’t know, but you need to see it. African-Americans: I warn you – you’re gonna find heroes, American heroes, that for some reason have been erased.” I like how he narrows the whole thing down to these two races. Any Korean or Spanish viewers can just forget about it.
Well, there you have it! Hope you enjoyed it, or at least learned a little something about the brilliance that is Glenn Beck. Look forward to more in the future!
Wexler sez….
Thank you for the EXCELLENT work on deconstructing Beck’s program. What patience! Amazing!
Sorry about putting up the Michael Moore picture. I take full responsibility for it, feel free to take it down! 
Beck Wails While Ratings Plummet
Glenn Beck FAILS
You would cry too if it happened to YOU...
On to the facts:
According to TVByTheNumbers, Beck’s show lost 25% of his total viewership in May and 23% in the demographic. This is despite his claims that he actually increased viewership in May.
The dispute about Beck’s ratings came up after it was reported (correctly) HERE that Beck had lost 1 million viewers in the last 9 months. So, whatever he had left just dropped by another 25%.
Who can say for sure why Glenn is flopping like a crappie? Is it his constant stream of lies? His growing insistence that there is a government conspiracy out to “get” him? His channeling of Cleon Skousen, infamous Mormon crackpot who never met a conspiracy theory that he didn’t invent and saw a commie behind every bush? Is it his cracked “history” lesson on “Founders Friday” which is more like Fractured Fairy Tales from Rocky and Bullwinkle? Is it his unholy alliance between the Mormon cult and Falwell’s Liberty University?
Who knows? But as Americans see Glenn Beck as more cracked and less relevant, I have to wonder if I’ll have to renew this domain name next September. By then, perhaps Rupert Murdoch will have figured out that Beck is dragging his already un-credible network into La-La-Land and that he can’t afford him… either the cracked ratings or the black hole of a money pit the show has become.
If Anthony Wiener’s attempt to regulate hawking gold on TV bears any fruit, Beck may well be completely out of sponsors. Then what?
Ratings drop; Bush “Progressive”
Just a quickie…
With ratings dropping, next time he's going to have to start the fire
Glenn Beck’s ratings have dropped. Everyone has their 15 minutes, Glenn, I just hope yours doesn’t run out before the year I took this domain name out for. BTW, I’d be interested in selling it to you, Glenn. Have your people call my people, we’ll do lunch. I’m thinking maybe 1/32nd of what you made last year?
UPDATE 4/29: Here is an article that has the full information about Beck’s ratings drop. He’s lost a million viewers in 9 months. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004150032
George Bush is a Progressive?
I just about dropped my beer when I heard that one. Holy shit, Glenn, not even you can twist that one around. OK, now I suppose you have to have SOME explanation as to why the Nazi Communist Marxist Fascist Socialist half-cursed man in the White House is carrying on with pretty much the same policies that Bush did. But calling Bush a “progressive” defies even the most active imagination of a hyperactive mind like yours.
I guess all of us who thought Bush was acting like Hitler were right after all, seeing as Hitler was a progressive according to Glenn
Progressive? Since when do progressives start illegal wars, give tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations, gut environmental protections, de-ball OSHA, push for fossil fuel consumption, run around the world like a bully, ignore both Constitutional and statute law, and that’s just what he got done before breakfast?
Anyone who is calling Bush, ANY Bush, a “progressive” obviously does not know their ass from a hole in the ground.
But that was obvious already. Maybe by calling Bush a “progressive” you can get your ratings to come back up…?
Stay tuned, the lunacy is just beginning….
Beck Craps on the Faithful
Glenn Beck has followers who hang on his every word and swear he’s the only one in media who is telling the truth. He hates to disappoint, but quite honestly, he’s not interested in politics unless there’s money involved.
An article penned by Lacey Rose to appear in the April 26 Forbes magazine states what should be obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention. Of course, Beck’s faithful are not paying attention, so they aren’t going to like this one bit. Glenn says “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” In fact, the only thing he appears to give a crap about is turning everything he touches into gold at the expense of gullible people who believe that he’s just some ordinary populist guy who got mad as hell and can’t take it any more.
We're only in it for the money
According to the article, Beck’s business concerns took in $32 million (yes, 32) in the year ending March 1 2010. His primary stock in trade is paranoid delusional conspiracy theories, character assassination, outright lies, and fighting buzz words designed to put the deranged on the street with loaded weapons. Anyone reading this from a foreign nation may be surprised that Americans would spend this kind of money on this kind of bullshit. But you have to remember our history.
During the last half century we have undergone a massive upheaval of so-called “traditional values”. Those values still have a lot of support among certain groups, for example, Glenn Beck’s Mormon “church”. Racism and sexism are coded into their religion. Black people are cursed by God, and women know their place… or else. The Anglo population is predicted to become a minority during the first half of this new century, which is frightening to White America who identify this nation’s institutions, history, Founders, and so on as being lily-white as the driven snow. Just as America believes in American exceptionalism, white America believes in white exceptionalism.
Glenn Beck has figured out how to tap into this fear and loathing of change. Electing a half-black President couldn’t have come along at a more perfect time for Beck. Think of what he was doing just 2 short years ago at CNN. Sucking wind, for one thing. Now he’s such a darling for Fox that Rupert Murdoch is financing his show out of his own pocket.
All of this is transparent to the Beckerhead consumer. They don’t care about anything other than Beck offers an explanation for their misery and keeps stoking their fear. We like violence in this country. Don’t be surprised if there’s violence on the streets of Washington DC on April 19, the day that Beck’s TeaBaggers are going into the streets armed to celebrate the anniversary of Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Anyone killed or injured in this process is just collateral damage. As long as it brings in more money, it’s good. All good.
Earth to Beck/GOP
Glenn Beck, moderate GOPERs, the very very few that are left, revile you and your insanity
Here’s what David Frum says to YOU… (Listen up, Glennie-boy, he’s talking about YOU).
“No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?
We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.
Hmmm. “The most radical voices in the party and the movement.” I wonder WTF he could be talking about.
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Weiner Savage, Laura Ingram, John Boehner, Michelle Bachmann, Steve King, Eric Cantor, Virginia Foxx, Gretchen Carlson, Bill O’Reilly… the list is seemingly endless.
Frum is exactly right. The intellectual, moderate conservative movement has been shoved out the door by radical politicians and talk show hosts and the radical political entrepreneurs who host them on the airwaves. Rupert Murdoch and Gold Bond powder.
You tried everything you could to kill health care. You made up lies about it. You hired slick PR firms to come up with half a billion dollars worth of negative TV about it. You chatted it up endlessly as socialism, communism, baby-killing, anti-American, un-Constitutional, unnecessary, invasion of privacy, and so on. You lied. Oh, the lies were grand, the conspiracy theories were exquisite, and the whole lot of it did no good for you at all.
FAIL.
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To be continued….