The Glenn Beck Report

UPDATE: 2/27/10

Glenn Beck’s slash-and-burn schtick fired up the CPAC loony bin by repeating lie after distortion after smear, the most comforting material that he could present to America’s dead political party. It’s hard to imagine how so much crap could come out of a human being in a short period of time.

Beck (with Palin and the rest of the GOP) is attempting  to drag the TeaBaggers into the fold,  kicking and screaming, but they are so thick that most of them have yet to realize it.  Some of them are getting suspicious. (Hmmm… both of them are paid contributors to Faux News, the official propaganda organ of the GOP. Palin was the Vice Presidential candidate for the GOP in the last election. Glenn Beck has never said one nice thing about any Democrat.  Sarah Palin has repeatedly stated that she has no use for the “liberal elitists” and would rather be chasing down animals in a helicopter and shooting them with weapons designed for war than serving as Governor in a corrupt system.   Hmmm. D’ya think…?)

Tonight we hear that Beck and Palin are going on a 2-stop tour to TeaBagger-land, the first stop in Oklahoma, the intellectual center of gravity in America and also home to lots of fancy dancing by men in cowboy hats with shit-kickers that never saw any shit. Watching these two on the same stage reminds me of the dance scene with Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein, doing the soft shoe to “Puttin’ on the Ritz” for a thrilled crowd until an explosion casts a flash of light on them.

At that moment the monster goes wild and runs amok. Surely whatever they say or do cannot stand the light of scrutiny by a critical press. Why else would Sarah Palin try to shut them out of their events? My other question… would Gene Wilder consider impersonating Glenn Beck for a parody remake of the scene?

The Beck CPAC speech lies and abuses have been well-documented by Ryan Witt in the Des Moines Register at the following link:

http://www.examiner.com/x-5738-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m2d21-Video-Commentary-and-fact-check-of-Glenn-Becks-CPAC-speech?#comments

I am looking for an “official” transcript of the speech and will try to get one up on a separate page. Ryan has done a great job of detailing the lying sack-o’-doody, but in case he’s missed any I’ll be doing my own fact check as well.

BTW, you should be careful when you search for Beck transcripts. I put this into Google and it spit up a link that tried to infect my computer. If this happens to you, please press Alt-F4 (the Alt key and the F4 key simultaneously) until all the windows related to your browser close. In this process, you may reboot your computer if you press the combination after all windows are closed; this is still better than having to disinfect your browser.

I am not sure who would want to discourage you from reading a transcript of Glenn Beck’s CPAC speech, which is why I will post a clean copy here when I get one.

Temple of Doom: Savaged, the sequel, extended version

Glenn Beck, who was cursed to be gone from the airwaves on or before January 21, 2010 by Michael Savage (see story here) has been graciously granted a 90-day extension by the Glenn Beck Report.

This gesture of good will on my part is not entirely magnanimous; I took out a 1 year hosting plan and domain name registration, and if Glenn were to go off the air before then I would have wasted part of my $60. In times like these, we have to watch our pennies. Therefore I am granting Glenn a 3 month extension; this, too, is an arbitrary amount of time pulled out of my ass so it may be extended again should Glenn still be on the air 3 months from now.

Should Glenn do anything stupid, this extension may be withdrawn at any time. (ROFL)

NOTE to my regular visitors….

I must apologize for not keeping this site updated. Glenn has been chumming the planet for bloggers since November, when health concerns have caused me to take a break from posting updates. I would like to say that the situation is resolving, but unlike Glenn, I don’t like to lie.

So, if anyone thinks they would like to submit material, please let me know via email and I will create a posting account for you.

Cheers,
Wexler

Is this the “Fair and Balanced” aspect of Faux “News” or is it the “nobody here bothers to read anything” aspect?

Thanks for the link, Glenn.

It’s appreciated, I’ll try my best to say something nice about you once in a while. Maybe to help me out, you could stop being a psychotic mess of a right wingnut conspiracy-theory-promulgating, racist, cult-member, fear-mongering, bat-shit-crazy, crocodile-tear-shedding, money-grubbing, and so on, person.

I would really, REALLY, enjoy having a formal debate with you as I have challenged you to do in a post elsewhere on this site. Please, PLEASE, let’s do this. You can have Stu or anyone you would like to help you out. How about William Kristol? Have you pissed him off lately? Or this would be cool, wait for it… Sarah Palin!!!!! Perfect!

I’m a busy man, Glenn, but I will make time in my schedule to prepare for this debate. There are few conditions, it’s just got to be a fair fight and when you use the tape you have to be fair about it.

Whaddya say, Glenn? C’mon, you might even get in a couple of sound bites!

When I started this website I thought it might be fun to take a few verbal pot shots at the King of Clowns. However, he’s turning out to be so damn easy that I just don’t know if I can stand it.

For example… yesterday the news was that he had booked the Harlem Boy’s Choir for one of his “cult events” (as reported by Keith Olbermann, who probably doesn’t realize how close to the truth his choice of words was). So why did Glenn try to hire these gents in the first place? It is just a PLAIN FACT that he despises black people and his cult religion, Mormonism, believes that it states in the Bible that black people are cursed. So there wasn’t any purpose to have them there other than window dressing or to somehow try to obscure what most people know about Glenn. He hates The Negro.

So the Boy’s Choir apparently pulled out when someone pointed out that Glenn Beck has called the President a “racist”. But where were they for the last 6 months? This is old news, I realize that young people are out of touch and so on, but for crying out loud. Beck’s people say it was a dispute about money.

Gotta run… more later.

LATER…..

So again, I read that James Rucker and Color of Change persuaded the organization to drop out of Beck’s “Christmas Sweater” tour, citing Beck’s racist comments and beliefs. I just have to wonder how any black person in this country could not already know what Glenn Beck has said about black people. It astonishes me.

The choir says it backed out for financial reasons. That’s hard to believe, given Beck’s estimated $18 million a year salary plus the millions of dollars he’ll pull in from the gullible on his Christmas Sweater tour. By the way, the Christmas Sweater is a book that Glenn wrote that is sentimental garbage designed to make himself look like a regular Joe.

He’s NOT a regular Joe. He’s not even a CHRISTIAN. He’s a Mormon. Mormons are NOT Christians, even though they trot out the Bible at Easter and Christmas. To be a Christian you have to hold to certain dogmatic beliefs. One of them is NOT that Jesus and Satan are twin brothers, which is what Glenn Beck believes. The Mormons are FRAUDULENT when they call themselves Christians, in fact, they are the people that the Bible warns Christians about. You know, people who make up their own scripture and follow false prophets? For Glenn Beck to be running around the country pulling in the Christian Fundies to his “Christmas Sweater” tour is supreme irony, and I predict that there are going to be a passel of sermons given about Glenn Beck and the Mormons before this is all over.

Meanwhile, if you want a nice break from Glenn Beck, please pick up one of the many fine recordings of the Harlem Boys Choir at this link: http://www.boyschoirofharlem.org/home-nosound.html

They are a wonderful group and definitely worth seeing. Especially if you don’t have to sit through 2 hours of Glenn Beck Bullshit to hear them.

I have been over to the 912 Project site (guilty pleasure, kind of like staring at an impending train wreck).

They had a link to an article about the “true” meaning of Thanksgiving… and it’s not what you might expect. The story is that the TRUE meaning of Thanksgiving is celebrating the Pilgrims’ freedom to practice… wait for it… capitalism after escaping European socialism!

I can’t find the link to the story and it’s not showing up in Google, but I swear I saw it with my own two eyes. If anyone finds a link to it, please email it to me… wexler@glennbeckreport.com.

OK, it’s Thanksgiving and my wife and I just prepared and ate a very nice dinner which we made with our own 4 socialist/secular humanist hands. I’ve done some thinking about that friggin’ article that was even too WHACKED for the 912 Project. Here’s my response to the notion that the Pilgrims came here to escape socialism.

You’re ignorant LIARS. The Pilgrims came here so that they could practice their own religion, not to practice capitalism. But they DID practice capitalism, and how! And if you want to know how American capitalism works, the indigenous people that sat with the Pilgrims during the first Thanksgiving dinner provide us with a PERFECT illustration. American capitalism works by using power and deception to take whatever you want from those who don’t have the means to defend it, and if they get in the way just go ahead and wipe ‘em out.

To whoever wrote that dumbass article, and also to whatever racist fool at the 912 Project website thought that it was a good idea to link to it because it had the word “socialism” in it:

Who do you think was living here BEFORE Europeans came and established American capitalism? Where did they end up, how did they benefit from capitalism? They were wiped out in a savage and shameful series of genocidal wars, exploitation of military power, even germ warfare. This is the DISGRACE of capitalism, it shows what it does to the people at the bottom.

Happy Thanksgiving, warpigs. Are you happy yet? Not quite, I suppose, there are still a few of us in the middle class hanging on.

http://www.firstpeople.us/photographs/Children-of-Quanah-Parker-Comanche-1892.html

Glenn Beck Humiliated by WIPO Loss

This is a story I’ve been meaning to get around to writing about for a while, now. I’ve had an email exchange with one of the principals, because I wanted to see if he had a comment or would like to have the story treated in any special way. In light of the menacing, bullying, yet cowardly acts of the self-proclaimed defenders of the Constitution who bring guns to public meetings and make anonymous death threat calls in the middle of the night (been there, answered those), I thought I’d give “Name Withheld” a chance to nix this story or at least give me his viewpoint on the whole thing. He declined to comment, but gave me a load of information with which to use as reference for this post.

If you have ever watched or listened to Glenn Beck you have heard him insinuate something that is totally unsubstantiated and then claim it must be true because nobody is denying it. For example, How do we know Obama isn’t turning AmeriCorps into a secret, armed police force? The White House hasn’t denied it. Beck uses this tactic on a continuing basis to create straw man conspiracies. Of course nobody’s denying it, Glenn, because you’re the only dicktard stupid enough to say it, and who cares what you say?

didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com

In case you’ve not heard about this, here’s the nutshell version. Some posters over at Fark.com’s forum, a satire and news site, had a rapid series of free associations and determined that Beck’s routine was actually very similar to how Gilbert Gottfried performed at Comedy Central’s roast of Bob Saget which took place on August 3, 2008. During this roast, Gottfried begged people to stop accusing Saget of rape. So, this guy named Isaac Eiland-Hall, fed up with Glenn Beck’s frequent use of guilt-by-insinuation (aren’t we all?), claimed the domain name http://didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com and set it up as a parody website. A parody of Glenn Beck’s character assassination and smear techniques. However, Eiland-Hall was deadly serious about Beck’s smear tactics and also his own First Amendment rights.

I should interject here that the website took flak from everywhere as “serious” liberal commentators were quick to “condemn” it as they were covering the story. Even Keith Olbermann took a swing at it, while giving it free PR at the same time. It’s hard to know what goes on in the editorial rooms of MSNBC but I’ll bet they were LTAO as they were deciding how Keith should handle the story.

Eiland-Hall stated (later) that the tipping point for him was Glenn Beck’s interview with Minnesota’s Congressman Keith Ellison, to whom Beck confessed he was nervous because of Ellison’s Muslim faith. “And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview because what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.” Watch:

So because of Glenn’s ignorant, racist, flapping gums and some high-spirited posting in the Fark Forum, didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com was born.

The site went viral and soon Glenn Beck was on it with legal threats trying to get it taken down. The site went down briefly when the webhost changed nameservers, but it stood with unflinching valor as Isaac and his attorney Marc Randazza held their ground against the most popular screwball in the Fox News bullpen of screwballs. Having failed to bluff the website out of existence, Beck chose to take the fight to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Switzerland. (I forget, is that Old Europe or NEW Europe?) The complaint was based on an alleged trademark violation. However, WIPO ruled in Eiland-Hall’s favor as this is clearly not a trademark issue; the website is political in nature and not an effort to profit from the name (re-read that last statement, Glennie-boy). After winning, Isaac said his point had been proved and graciously gave Glenn Beck the “keys to the account” and told him he could take the website down at his leisure. It’s still there as of today. There is a lot of information about this controversial case on the ‘net, and Eiland-Hall’s new website is www.GB1990.com if you would like to check it out.

Naturally, I have taken an interest in this case since I operate a website with Glenn Beck’s name in the domain name. Also, I know the schizoid freak reads this and it probably keeps him up nights trying to figure out how he can shut it down. Glenn, sadly for you, this is political commentary, and you’re a public political figure so you are fair game. I am not selling anything here, just documenting your lies.

There is a larger issue here and I hope it’s not missed. In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled in effect that money = free speech in Buckley v Valeo. The ruling was that the state couldn’t limit political ad buys by candidates or anyone because that would be limiting their free speech. Soon the Supreme Court will review whether or not corporations have free speech rights. I predict that the mostly corporate-owned SC will rule that they do. There you have it. Corporations with money and free speech rights. The perfect hatchery for fascism in the media.

The significance of the WIPO ruling is that somebody like Isaac (or me) can spend about $75 and take on a giant media doofus backed by the mega-cult Mormon church and prevail. I have operated www.stopdubya.com for 9 years, even as the Bush Administration threatened us with domestic spying and forum posters threatened me over the phone. But despite the reach of Bush’s network my little part-time budget site stayed put, because they knew that regardless of how bad I made them look, I wasn’t lying. Further, if they would have made an issue of my site (or any of the hundreds of other anti-Bush sites) it just would have given that site the spotlight in the national media.

As long as we have true net neutrality we’ll have free political speech. Even if others can buy it by the boatload.

Glenn Beck has won the title of “Fearmonger-in-Chief” from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), snatching the coveted award from the formidable jowls of former Vice President and un-indicted war criminal Richard Cheney.

The ADL has spent most of its life as an organization since 1913 defending Jewish people against Jew-baiting and hate speech. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary efforts, however, which prompted them to do a special report on the anti-government hate speech and conspiracy theories spun by crackpot melon-headed assholes like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck is well known in rational circles for being a dry druggie (allegedly dry), Cleon-Skousen-spewing Mormon bigot, and self-made millionaire. He’s only in it for the money. Maybe. Or maybe he really believes the crap he says? Who knows?

Congratulations, Glenn, you little maggot. You deserve everything you get, including this award.

Prologue

The Teaparty movement is composed of a diverse collection of groups that focus some of their energy in the same direction.  If you ask teabaggers what defines the group you will get a variety of responses mostly centered around a primitive view of the Constitution, a few Libertarian ideas regarding taxes and specific policy issues  (such as the stimulus package, 2nd Amendment,  health insurance reform, GM bailout, AIDS research,  unemployment benefits, etc., etc.), strong nationalism and anti-immigrant loathing, anti-abortion, homophobia, white-is-right on any issue regarding race, anti-liberalism, anti-communism/socialism, and a Christian theocratic view of governance that is heavily weighted towards so-called “Bible churches” which have no qualms about claiming control over their congregations’ lives based on their literal and bizarre interpretations of the Bible.

Anger is a major center of gravity that pulls teabaggers together. Anger against the “liberal media” and Democratic Party runs deep and wild. Anger against Muslims and other foreigners in places such as “Old Europe” has been stoked for years by the Bush Administration and still thrives today.  Right wing anger, racial and social prejudice, jingoism and American Exceptionalism, populism, and greed are the red meat of radio gasbags like Rush Limbaugh, who spew sarcastic hate speech, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by the hour.

Until Glenn Beck came along, media shock jocks took very few excursions past the boundaries of the GOP talking points. However, since the 2008 election in which Americans elected Barack Hussein Obama as President, the 24 hour right wing political babble has caught up with the GOP. (Is this possibly the verbal equivalent of “How many monkeys with how many typewriters…? I will have to explore that in a future post).  Glenn Beck has determined that Democrats and liberalism do not comprise the entire problem; the GOP is also part of it.  His redux is that the GOP has become too liberal, and that’s why America now has a Black Nationalist President who is busily hatching a steady stream of socialist-fascist plots to get reparations for slavery, among other things.  Barack Obama didn’t win the election, the GOP lost it.  Beck,  along with a few disgraced and rejected GOPERs including Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Dick Armey, are trying to build a 3rd party movement out of the teabaggers and New York’s 23rd Congressional district became the test tube for their experiment.  In a confused and hurried attempt to thrust a lame, unknown, and unqualified candidate into the race, they botched it and now a seat that should have been a GOP gimme is occupied by a Democrat. I wrote about that righty fiasco at length last week.

How PC is too PC?

Religion is a delicate topic among liberals but it’s newsworthy due to its powerful influence over the politics of the groups that are involved.  But before I dig into the topic, I would like to say a few words to liberals.

Modern liberalism has embraced many ideas and trends from pop culture over the last 3 decades. This has been a mixed blessing, as there have been numerous adoptions of over-simplified notions derived from larger initiatives such as ending institutionalized prejudice.  As is normal in human nature, we overreact when making corrections and then have to come back the other way.  One group of behaviors where we’ve overreacted is collectively named “Political Correctness”, or “PC” for short, a name that has itself become a focus for derision from all 180 degrees of the political scale.  This brings me back to the topic at hand, which is Mormonism, Glenn Beck’s religion.

To clarify my vantage point,  my own religious beliefs waffle between atheism and agnosticism, so any criticism of religion you hear from me is definitely not prejudicial because I regard all religions to be equal. Equally wrong, that is, in the fundamental claim they all make which is to know the unknowable. However, the “PC” nature of liberals has allowed the Mormons to sneak under the radar, as criticism of a religious group is considered to be intolerance.

I don’t wish to discuss the Mormon belief system except as to how it relates to politics.  The plain fact is that the LDS church contains a political activist group that has an agenda and is successfully pushing it through the political system.  Two blatant examples of this are the special ballot initiatives in California and Maine, where millions of dollars came from the Mormon front group NOM (National Organization for Marriage) which overturned equal marriage rights for LGBTs, and also the previously mentioned election in NY 23rd, where NOM was a major force against Dede Scozzafava.

Mormons are quick to deny that their church has any political affiliation, but the facts say otherwise. I have tried and failed to get a statement about Glenn Beck from the Church headquarters in Salt Lake City. I did get through 3 layers of the organization to a phone that is apparently never answered, at least not when I’m calling it. The best I could get was someone who refused to be quoted by name who told me that each LDS member has free will to do whatever they want as long as they attempt to follow church doctrines. I pointed out that Glenn Beck has called the President a racist, fantasized about killing Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi, and lies on a continuing basis about matters that are important to the nation.  The response was dogmatic:  Any statement regarding Glenn Beck would have to come from “the Leadership” (which means The President and The Apostles, who speak to and for God on earth). Apparently God must think Beck is OK, as they haven’t made any attempt to distance themselves from his antics.  This doesn’t mean that Mormons universally support Beck.  On one chat board, a courageous Mormon fellow wrote an article under the subject line “Glenn Beck An Embarrassment To Mormons–Perpetuates Harmful, Untrue Stereotypes”. Wow, that is speaking to power, can I get an “Amen!?”

My point here is that we should not regard the Mormon church as ONLY a religious organization. They are more than that, the church is functionally a political activist group.  The Mormons would be of little interest to me other than their cult-ish beliefs and secrecy were it not for the fact that they are an international organization with a political agenda and $billions if not $trillions in assets to push it.

NEXT: Not just about fresh-faced boys and a great choir

In an amazing but not surprising turn of events, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch has been caught on videotape PURPOSELY saying that Obama is a racist. And then he’s not a racist, OK?

If this seems familiar to you, it should. Glenn Beck started the controversy that has led to 84 advertisers boycotting his radio and television shows by calling Obama a “racist” and then immediately saying “I didn’t say he was a racist” when it’s obvious that 1) Glenn DID say it, and 2) Glenn IS a racist.

Here’s Rupert Murdoch doing the same racist dance.  This ought to ignite another round of outrage that spreads the boycott from just Beck’s absurd daily hate speech to the entire hate-filled Fox network.

Here’s a FYI: this clip from MediaMatters does not include the backstep dance that each of them made after the “racist” charge was leveled. Also, to be clear, Murdoch never did identify what specific remark he was claiming that Obama made which he considered to be racist.

Glenn Beck is a lot of things to a lot of people. To most, he’s an opportunistic, money-grubbing, phony clown of a Mormon millenialist meat puppet. Beck uses his own ignorance as a foil while he poses simple hypotheses about complex questions and then allows “expert” crackpot guests on his show to conjure up facts out of thin air or their rectums to support Beck’s crackpot conspiracy theories while he fawningly agrees with him, nodding like a bobblehead with wide-eyed amazement about how Obama has done/is doing the most dreadful things.

To one man, however, Glenn Beck was something much more. Glenn Beck could reach through his empty head and grab hold of his shallow heart. That man would be Doug Hoffman, “staunch conservative” from out of nowhere, who got talked into running against Dede Scozzafava, who fell out of favor with Fox News and other conservative media. Michelle Malkin called Dede “an ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend radical Republican.” Rush Limbaugh accused her of “bestiality”, proclaiming that she had “screwed every RINO in the country”. (This was so unbelievable that I had to include it in this post. I realize that including comments from other right wingnuts besides Glenn Beck is a bit off-topic, but sometimes it’s good to have them for a complete context. Think of it like an artist’s palette of stupidity from which you can savor the meaning created by the meaninglessness, greed, stupidity, and grabbasticism of the morally bankrupt and politically corrupt right wing nut movement of Beck and the Becktards, Rush and the Dittobots, Michelle Malkin and the perverts, Michael Savage and the Wieners, and so on and so on.) But, as usual, I digress. Here’s the Rush Limbaugh quote where he says Dede practices bestiality:

Glenn Beck took a few swings at Dede Scozzafava himself. He bashed her in the video below for being “pro-choice, pro-stimulus”, ACORN-endorsed (and also “for the working families party”), and “the Democrat is basically the same as the Republican”. Glenn also managed to flail away at Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP, and Newt Gingrich.

Glenn’s cure? Stop the insanity! (He can’t resist citing Einstein’s “definition” of insanity. Note to Glenn Beck: you’re no Einstein.) He says the GOP should have chosen Doug Hoffman, who collected the endorsements of Sarah Palin, Steve Forbes, former US Senators Rick Santorum and Fred Thompson, and “The former House Majority Leader Dick Armey are [sic] also behind him”. Hmm, there’s something kicking around in the back of my mind… what do all of those endorsers have in common? Well, I guess it’s that none of them are from New York? Oh, WAIT A MINUTE… What Glenn Beck probably didn’t notice is that each of these endorsements comes from a failed and/or disgraced former GOPER who have fallen from power by running almost as right as Glenn is.

Watch:

So what’s the ONLY problem Glenn sees? The GOP continues to back the “Obama lite Republican.” Oh, that nasty Newt Gingrich! He’s one of the (great big finger quotes) “Republicans” supporting the Obama Lite candidate although Glenn has “nothing bad to say about him.” LOL! Glenn disagrees with Newt because Newt says that the local party has the right to choose their own candidate. Oh NO YOU DIDN’T! Glenn Beck says you’re WRONG on that, Newt, you vote for the person you agree with MOST! So in Glenn Beck’s world, the local party should vote for who, exactly? The candidate HE SUPPORTS. After all, how can you sleep “night after NIGHT” knowing you voted for the “ACORN-supported candidate”?

Well, before I forget, I want to go ON THE PUBLIC RECORD as supporting Glenn Beck in his effort to keep doing what he did last night, over and over, in 2010, in 2012, as long as he still can. PLEASE keep trying to pull the GOP to the brink of the lunatic fringe where you are and then push them over! PLEASE!

I couldn’t find much of anything about Doug Hoffman on the 9/12 website except a link to a story where he gets Fred Thompson’s endorsement. Only the link to the story and the story itself, from October 28, says Fred is endorsing Doug THOMPSON. This was so unbelievable I had to take a couple of screenshots for you. Talk about having some powerful NAME RECOGNITION, eh, Glenn? LOL.

So who is Doug Hoffman/Thompson? Turned down by the GOP Congressional Committee. Endorsed by lunatics. He’s an accountant from Saranac Lake, not even in the 23rd District. He claims to have been fighting for the heart and soul of the GOP which is waaaay too liberal. He says he’s going to “take America back” by “revolution”, which is just white nationalist code words. He doesn’t know anything about local issues in the 23rd District, but he says that “I think that this district is so wide and vast that ALL THREE CANDIDATES aren’t familiar with local issues in each different sector”. Really? So what are were voters supposed to do? Just TRUST you because you say you’re honest? You say you know about taxes, spending, and liberals so people should just vote for you because of that and because a pack of GOP has-beens says your OK?

Here’s the deal. I am sympathetic to the idea of 3rd party candidates, in fact I was a Nader supporter and even put a Ron Paul sign in my yard last fall along with the others. I even agree with Beck’s thesis that major party candidates should not have a lock on the process. There is no reason why people shouldn’t be able to file and run for any office and I favor making that easier rather than harder. The more the merrier.

But I would never support any candidate who has no specific policy positions, local or otherwise, except that he can spew the specific political/religious dogma such as “Obama-lite”, “tax and spend”, “RINO”, “take our country back”, “revolution”, and other meaningless gibberish. Doug Hoffman was the 9/12 Project candidate, in fact he was even listed on http://912candidates.org/gold-list/, the “unofficial” 9/12 website that has since taken his name down because even they realized that being associated with Glenn Beck was killing Hoffman’s chances. (Or maybe they took it down because they were trying to avoid the humiliation of backing a candidate who got his ass handed to him last night.) Doug Hoffman never looks very bright in any of the video clips I’ve seen, and the audio clip of him on the Glenn Beck radio show sucking up to Glenn and even calling him his “mentor” makes him sound like a driveling stooge.

Listen:

So congratulations, Glenn, and to the 9/12 Project, and to all the “take our country back” race-baiting “Patriots” from all over America who poured money and support into a non-resident candidate to defeat the “liberal” Republican. Glenn, you can put Dede Scozzafava’s scalp on your wall.

And you can also chalk up another GREAT BIG FAIL, Glenn, because what you’ve accomplished is to further divide the conservatives along the faultline of crazy. I think it’s wonderful, heckuva job, Glennie.