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If “The Islamic Brotherhood” Takes Power In Egypt, “Then It’s World War III”?

According to FOX PAC talking circus performer, Bill O’Rilley (aka Bill the Clown), “If the Islamic Brotherhood takes power In Egypt, then it’s World War III”. Really Billo? It’s World War III? How do you people at FOX PAC sleep at night? Between your gloom and doom 24/7, and lying through your teeth for 99.9% of that time, how can you sleep?


It appears FOX PAC is wishing and hoping that Egypt not only becomes President Obama’s Iran, but that it also becomes the next world war. You’ve got Reverend Beck proclaiming this is the real Archduke Ferdinand moment he’s been warning us all about (we’re up to the seventh so-called moment since President Obama took office), and now Billo the Clown is proclaiming it becomes the third world war if the Islamic Brotherhood take over the government in Egypt. But, have you noticed? Not one of the gloom and doomers at FOX, not Rush, nor any of the right wing talking bovines or politicians who have been, and continue to be, so critical of the President have offered one concrete suggestion of what he should have done, or of what he should do know.

I understand the right-wing crazies got used to the Bush Doctrine (well, all except Sarah Palin who doesn’t know what that is) and I’m sure their solution would be to invade Egypt, or at the very least start bombing Cairo and Alexandria if the Islamic Brotherhood takes over; how sad for them we now have a President who doesn’t share their view that America can, and should, preemptively invade or bomb anyone we choose.

Besides talking to Mubarak on the phone and giving him advice that he really needs to step down, that the United States gravy train is not running any more, what more can the President do? And, oh, a by-the-way right wingers, Mubarak is a dictator. You know, the same kind of person you yelled and screamed had to be pushed out of Iraq. “But he was our dictator!” “He was our kind of guy!” They would all no doubt collectively shout. But, what can the President do, that he isn’t already doing? We – as a people – would never stand for another nation interfering in our internal affairs. We – the United States – do not own the world, even if it’s true we are the only true super power in the world today, we don’t have the legal the authority, or the right, to tell other countries what to do, or to invade and bomb because we can. We, like the rest of the civilized world (basically anyone not glued to FOX PAC, and listening to right-wing talk radio all day) must watch as these events unfold, and then see what has filled the vacuum in Mubarak’s absence.

 

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How Christians and Muslims Should Relate

Christians form a ring around Muslims to protect them during their prayers at demonstrations in Cairo, Egypt.

In Cairo, Christians protect Muslims while they pray; in America, Christians protest Muslims building a Community Center. Makes one ponder the question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

 
 

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Could Bring Down the Republic?

The day after the terrible murders at a Congressional event in Tucson, Arizona, the Reverend Beck sent an e-mail to the ex-governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, according to Beck he wrote:

“Sarah, as you know, peace is always the answer. I know you are felling the same heat, if not much more on this. I want you to know you have my full support.”

He then encouraged her to get some protection because an “attempt on you could bring the Republic down.”

Excuse me? An attempt on Sarah Palin’s life “could bring the Republic down”? Really? It could “bring the Republic down”?

If one ever needed evidence of the delicate state of the sanity of those involved here, one wouldn’t ever have to search any further. To think, much less to say, that if someone attempted to kill Sarah Palin it could “bring the Republic down”?

Reverend Beck, just who do you think Sarah Palin is? In the 200+ year history of the Republic there have been 13 Presidents of whom we know there were assassination attempts, and at least four Presidents have been assassinated, and through all of that the Republic has remained strong. Through the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Republic remained solvent. But you believe if there was an attempt on Sarah Palin’s life it could “bring down the Republic”?

I ask again, who do you think – believe – Sarah Palin is? She isn’t a Messiah any more than President Obama is the Messiah. She isn’t someone who is on an equal with the “Founders” of the nation.

You Mr. Beck are sadly delusional in her worth to the Republic and in your own worth to this country. She is a former mayor of a one horse town, and ex-governor who quit when she couldn’t take the heat, and you are a two-bit charlatan who can only remain popular as he feeds his fans one more lunatic idea after another. If an attempt was made on either of your seemingly self important, self indulgent, pathetic little lives; I assure you sir the Republic would not fall. It wouldn’t gasp, and it wouldn’t even shudder. It would remain strong and vibrant, and keep plugging along. If the deaths of men like Lincoln and Kennedy, and the attempted murders of Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Reagan and Obama haven’t brought down the Republic, your deaths would nary even send a ripple across the surface.

Take a look in the mirror Glenn; you ain’t all that and a bag of potato chips; and neither is she.

 

 
 

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Progressives are “Enemies to God”?

According to Reverend Beck, progressives are now “enemies of God”. It simply wasn’t enough ( meaning he had to up the ante to earn better ratings) to call progressives socialists, communists and Nazis – which of course is a complete oxymoron, but then again so is Beck – now progressives are labeled “enemies of God”. And of course if Reverend Beck says it, well, then it must be so.


On his 21 Jan 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Glenn Beck Program, Beck stated the “Founding Fathers” sought to promote enlightenment, empowerment and entrepreneurship.

“There are another set of founders in America — the founders of the progressive movement. They know this system as well,” Beck said. “And they also know all thought is creative. So now let’s just quickly look at what they’ve (progressives) done. They have distanced God from people. They have discredited him, distanced him, made him into a joke, denied his existence or, at best, just confused him with social justice and everything else — just confused him.”

This is the whole; they’re “enemies of God” stuff. After all progressives – according to Beck – have “discredited” God, “distanced” God, made God “into a joke”, “denied” God’s “existence”, or the best, progressives have “just confused” God “with social justice and everything else.” The “social justice” and “everything else” of course would be those evil parts of the progressive movement where we’re all supposed to help each other, help pull each other up and lift one another, nothing like the conservative view of Christianity, which is screw your neighbor, if you want to find a righteous man look for a rich man, after all if he’s rich God must have blessed him with it, and of course that means if you’re poor you must be sinful. Let’s just forget about the whole Sermon on the Mount, and that camel fitting through the eye of the needle nonsense.

Reverend Beck is as obtuse as they come when it comes to the subject of God or religion. He chooses to ignore all the best tenants of Christianity because they get in his way, just as they get in the way of Limbaugh, Hannity et al. If the top 2% (meaning those who have the majority of the wealth in our country) spent more time creating jobs and helping to take care of the poor, then the government wouldn’t have too. Unfortunately their credo is becoming more and more, (in my very rudimentary Latin) “Ut quod mei est mei, quod ut quod vestri est mei, sic combibo is sursum” or “That which is mine is mine, and that which yours is mine, so suck it up”.

 
 

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Egypt is Obama’s Iran?

So, the latest right-wing gimmick is that Egypt is going to turn into President Obama’s Iran, alluding to the horrendous foreign policy disaster of the Carter Presidency.

Of course, this is just one more “this is Obama’s” in an ever lengthening list of “this is Obama’s” …

We’ve had “Obama’s Vietnam”, meaning of course the fact he had to get the country out of the mess Bush/Cheney got us all into. You remember? We invaded Afghanistan following the attack on 9-11, ostensibly to catch Osama Bin Laden. But the all seeing, all knowing, all wise Bush/Cheney duo decided it was best to sort of just put troops there, and leave them for six years holding the bag while they chased a squirrel into Iraq.

Then there was “Obama’s Waterloo”, multiple times, including Health Care and the BP Oil Spill.

And then we had “Obama’s Watergate”, which was the mythical Sestak scandal. This was the charge, which no doubt the GOP House will investigate, that the White House offered Sestak a job (a bribe according to right-wing talking bovines) not to run against SEN Specter in PA.

So, you’ll please pardon me while I yawn at the latest “this is Obama’s”, as in, Egypt being “Obama’s Iran”.

 
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Posted by on January 31, 2011 in Politics, Right Wing Crazies, Right Wing Radio

 

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Making a Difference in the Life of Our Nation?

“If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child—become a teacher.” ~ President Barack Obama, State of the Union address 2011

OK, let’s get this out before Rush and the other conservative lemmings begin parroting each other like the sea gulls in “Finding Nemo”. When President Obama spoke last night during the State of the Union Address about people making a difference in the life of our nation by becoming teachers he wasn’t saying teachers should replace parents as the most important people in our children’s lives. And yes, I’m already hearing people “pointing out” how parents are more important, blaah, blaah, blaah …

First, some, it would seem, need to wake up to the fact that for far too many of our children in this country there are no adults who seem to give a flying fig what happens to them, and for many of them teachers fill that great big empty void.

And second, when was it ever bad for our children to have multiple good adult roll models in their lives?

 
 

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Propaganda …

 
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Posted by on January 17, 2011 in Politics, Right Wing Crazies

 

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There’s no tie to right wing rhetoric and violence in America?

In 2007, Lou Dobbs – then at CNN – prominently backed a sweeping law against undocumented immigrants in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.


Fourteen months later, and just 20 miles from Hazleton, Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old Mexican, was murdered by teenagers yelling racial slurs and “this is America, go back to Mexico” as they kicked him to death.

According to a New York Times report, “Many people believe the debate fueled by Hazleton’s actions helped create the environment that led to Mr. Ramirez’s death.”

 
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Posted by on January 12, 2011 in Immigration, Lunatics, Right Wing Crazies

 

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Patriotic Idolatry

As a good friend said of the GOP staging of the reading of the Constitution, “They draw near the Constitution with their lips, and with their mouths they do honor it, but their hearts are far from it.”

During the 2008 Presidential election President Obama was attacked by the right-wing talking heads because he wasn’t wearing a US Flag on his lapel. He wasn’t being very patriotic. For a few very short months all the FOX PAC personalities proudly wore the US flag on their lapels, but soon nothing could be seen there any longer. Now we read the Constitution to prove how much we love America. And if you don’t think it was wonderful then you’re not very patriotic.

The conservative right in this country is moving dangerously close to patriotic idolatry.

 
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Posted by on January 7, 2011 in Constitution

 

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Tax Dollars Funded An Art Exhibit Actually Paid For By Private Donors?

Professor Beck appears to be displaying his ignorance of facts yet again, but I think he’s deliberately lying to his audience, many of whom appear to be either incapable, or just too disinterested to ever check his facts. Thankfully, we have the hard working folks at Media Matters who look out for the rest of us.


“And Then You Have The Tax Dollars Funding This Wonderful Art Display. It’s Christmas At The Smithsonian.” The Professor claimed during his FOX PAC show on 30 Nov 10 of an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, which is titled “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.”

“And then you have the tax dollars funding this wonderful art display. It’s Christmas at the Smithsonian. Here’s this wonderful — oh, look, it’s Jesus with ants on him. They describe it as the first major exhibition to focus on the sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture,” Beckster continued.

Now for the reality check. Ready? The Smithsonian Institution “Receives Public Funds” But “Does Not Use That Money for Exhibitions.” The Washington Post reported that the exhibition, which opened Oct. 30, which cost $750,000, was funded by the largest number of individual donors for a Portrait Gallery show.

“As part of the Smithsonian, the gallery receives public funds. Overall, the Smithsonian gets about 70 percent of its annual budget from the federal government, but it does not use that money for exhibitions.” [The Washington Post, 11/30/10]

Earth to Beck and his Kool-Aid drinking followers; while the Smithsonian receives “about 70 percent of its annual budget from the federal government” … “it does not use that money for exhibition.”

Clear enough?

Probably not; but, hey, we tried.

The Smithsonian doesn’t use government funding for exhibitions because it doesn’t want the prigs in the GOP controlled House to dictate what is and what is not fit to be shown in the national gallery. That would be called censorship Herr Beck.

 
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Posted by on January 5, 2011 in Lunatics, Politics, Right Wing Radio

 

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