Glenn Beck and an army of Teabaggers are going to march on Washington on the anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech this weekend for some reason or another. Basically somebody at Beck headquarters said, “Let’s get some of those yelling people to yell about things on the National Mall, but let’s put Glenn in front of them.” Now conservatives are actually starting to realize that Glenn Beck is just doing this to stoke his own cult of personality. It turns out the march was originally planned to help launch Glenn Beck’s latest book, but wingnuts are just now picking up on this.
Influential conservative blogger Erick Erickson said Beck won’t be able to answer what Erickson has called lingering questions about “whether he’s doing it for himself or doing it for the movement,” even with a successful event this weekend.
“People are going to want to see what comes out of this weekend long term — is it a flash in the pan or is it something longer term?” said Erickson. “Part of the problem is that he didn’t hold onto the 9-12 stuff and it’s kind of descended into competing factions and chaos. He is going to have to be careful, I think, to make sure that he perpetuates this in some way or it’s going to start becoming a punch line.”
Yes, as part of this thing, Glenn Beck started the “9.12 Project,” which apparently tried to replace slashes with decimal points in how we write dates post-9/11. Or something like that? Anyway, Glenn Beck did not do a good job keeping these people inflamed with hatred and such, so they started to get bored, and that upset activists.
Meanwhile, at least one tea party group rejected Beck’s entreaties to assist with the march, concluding he was offering little in return for its organizational know-how and credibility, while giving preferential treatment to FreedomWorks, which is paying to sponsor Beck’s radio show. The group’s leader, who requested anonymity to avoid antagonizing Beck, said, “All he’s doing is trying to use us to promote himself.”
Haha, this guy is afraid of Glenn Beck. GLENN BECK IS VERY VIOLENT. HE WILL CRY ON YOU.
At the request of Beck’s team, which lacked the organizational infrastructure or logistical know-how to pull off Saturday’s march, asked for assistance, Tea Party Patriots agreed to help promote the march among its 500,000 email subscribers and to provide 400 volunteers to staff it, a requirement before the National Park Service would issue a permit.
But when the Patriots were deciding whether to help with Saturday’s rally, Dodge said there was internal queasiness over the M.L.K. link and Beck’s inflammatory rhetoric, including his blasting of Obama as a racist.
Wha? But Erick Erickson said Beck didn’t inflame Teabaggers enough. Calling Obama a racist Muslim socialist thug goon is the best, most intelligent part of criticizing our president.
Surely these Teabagger Tea Party Nationalists Patriots just felt used by this multi-multi-millionaire, used to sell his dumb books. But isn’t that the most important part of being a Teabagger, hating taxes against the rich because you want rich people to have more money? [Politico]
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Looks like the teabagger sac is splitting in half.
I have a scheme!
“People are going to want to see what comes out of this weekend long term — is it a flash in the pan or is it something longer term?”
Uh, Erick? That’s really bad writing.
Glenn Beck will be the new Profit Maroney, here to gather the Lost Tribe of the Israelites (Tea-baggers) for whatever the hell is next in the Book of the Mormonz.
The teabaggers feelings are hurt because they’ve discovered that Beck is really just disingenuously using them for his own profit? Wait’ll they find out about their Queen Sarah.
Jesus Christ, the whole conservative movement is little more than a scam to sell books, newsletters, club memberships and other such crap to ignorant rubes while enjoying the fringe benefits of lower tax rates for you and your wealthy buddies. So what’s different about what Beck is doing? Is it stepping on teh toes of some money making scheme that Erickson was orchestrating?
“But isn’t that the most important part of being a Teabagger, hating taxes against the rich because you want rich people to have more money?”
Yeah, just like hating immigrants for doing the jobs you won’t do because you’d rather get checks from the government, which you hate for its socialisms. THE TEABAGGERS DILEMMA
Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare.
Someone came sayin’ I’m insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don’t believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin’ all your food stamps and burnin’ down the trailer park
Soy un perdedor
I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?
Funny. Whenever I see a picture of Glenn Beck, I think, “Hemorrhoids.”
In honor of this post I’ma gonna sport my just arrived Wonkett “Don’t Teabag on Me” tee to the pub tonight while I hoist a few beers.
But they are all scrota…
Beck’s bookalooza or the start of Beck 2012? Shesch either way and apologies for any nasties in the back of your throat those thoughts may have brought up!
Do hope our Wonkette will be there to video and blog.
To me, the birth moment for Teabagger Nation was that woman who proudly carried the sign that read, “Our zoo has an African lion, and WE have a lying African.” That was a defining moment. Could you find that picture and find some excuse to run it again? Will that woman appear at the Glenn Beck rally wearing a Burger King paper crown?
The thing is, Beck’s too smart to launch into a full-blown racist tirade on Dream-day, so he’s going to have to deliver a bunch of platitudes about the beauty of the rainbow and how markets see no color before he gets into his normal soshulism schtick. It’s going to be unintentionally hilarious watching the the rhetorical contortions.
You don’t understand. Glenn Beck is going to TAKE BACK the civil rights movement. Do you hear me?? TAKE IT BACK.
But he doesn’t say from who. There’s so many things fucked up with what he’s doing that you may actually need PowerPoint to get the inherent wrongness of it all across.
These people are finally catching on to the idea that Glenn Beck manufactures his hysterical paranoid fairy tales solely for his own self-aggrandizement? Jesus H. Christ in a threesome with Muhammad and a French tranny hooker — should we tell them about Santa Claus or just spend the next five or six years getting ready for the inevitable meltdown when they figure it out?
[re=644563]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: [re=644566]Dingus McHatred[/re]: If your not into the whole brevity thing.
Why doesn’t he get students from Glenn Beck U to do it for him? Lord knows all college students need is a pizza & a 12-pack & they’ll do anything. Oh, that’s right–Glenn Beck U students are all fat, lazy, racist slobs who can’t be bothered to get off the couch & quit watching NASCAR.
http://www.facebook.com/prayforglenn Go there and say anything you like about being “over 40 and afraid of black people.” Easy laughs.
[re=644576]Joshua Norton[/re]: There’s so many things fucked up with what he’s doing that you may actually need PowerPoint to get the inherent wrongness of it all across.
Or a chalkboard.
So CNN ‘special’ correspondent Erick Erickson is just now concerned that Beck might end up becoming some sort of punchline? Way to go, CNN. You’ve really found a guy with his finger on the pulse, there.
The Tea Baggers just got their Glenn Beck 9/.12 Golden Secret Decoder Rings. He gave out the secret message, in code and each wingnut huddled in the shelter quivering as they decoded the message. Two-B twenty-U twentythree-Y….. Sixteen-K….(reads) BUY MY NEW BOOK. Fuck!
[re=644584]greenpatches[/re]: There’s also a ‘sister’ site: The Daily Beck on Facebook:
The Glenn Beck Show- August 20, 2010: We’ve covered a lot of history over the last few days- everything from the Indians and pyramids in Ohio to indentured servitude and the first slave owner in America being a black man.
Every time I see Glenn Beck’s book at the Giant, the one with him wearing a Nazi uniform on the cover, I turn it around. I used to put Ted Kennedy’s book in front of Beck’s, but the senator’s sold out.
Also:
[O]n his show on Wednesday, Beck discussed an obscure archeological find, the Bat Creek Stone, that Beck believes has been hidden from the public by the Smithsonian Institution and others because it is evidence of ties between ancient Israel and Native Americans — which, although Beck did not say this explicitly, would also be evidence for claims (albeit recently disputed within the LDS Church) made in the Book of Mormon.
I knew those bastards at the Smithsonian were in on this! Once Beck can prove the First Americans were actually part of the Jewish diaspora the whole lid will come off!
Beckapalooza.
[re=644593]ella[/re]: It was on sale (30% off) at my local Safeway. Took a picture.
It made my day to see a sale sticker on that smug face. (I can barely fight the urge to punch him in the throat.)
I cannot see how having a race-baiting fearmonger holding a rally a few monuments down from an actual Martin Luther King, Jr./I Have a Dream rememberance can go wrong.
True story — an acquaintance of mine was a good friend of Beck’s when he lived here in Houston. Beck would get drunk and pass out on my friend’s sofa to sleep it off. I kind of wish Beck would do more of that now.
No one tell Beck about MLK’s sermons decrying our uniquely American form of capitalism. He (Beck) will simultaneously shit himself and bawl like a Teabagger who sees a Muslim in DC.
Or do tell him. Whatever.
[re=644557]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: That’s a win, right there.
[re=644576]Joshua Norton[/re]: Ha! I’m old and now I’m going to tell you a story about “take back.” I was living in Vermont when the right wing launched it’s “take back Vermont” campaign which they took back when a local news show asked tourists what they thought it meant, and they thought it meant buy stuff like maple syrup and cheese and take it back with you.
hahaha! I forgot that was this Saturday. My marathon team has an 18 mile training run around the National Mall that day. I’m going to pin a flag on my back with the sign “THESE COLORS DON’T RUN”
The 9.12 project, to remind us how good we felt the day after 9/11.
[re=644576]Joshua Norton[/re]: They want to take it back from the people who are willing to call someone a racist just because they said a racist thing, instead of sitting back and admitting that racism ended in 1964 and there is none left in America at all so there’s nothing to complain about.
Hey Teabaggers, as Barack Hussein Obama’s Muslim father once said:
“Ya been had!
Ya been took!
Ya been hoodwinked!
Bamboozled!
Led astray!
Run amok!
This is what Beck does…”
“whether he’s doing it for himself or doing it for the movement,”
Well GOOOOOOD MORNING TEABAGGERS! Look around NUTTERS, “THEY” have been doing it for themselves for decades and you’re still following them thinking they are doing “IT” for YOU or for the fucking “movement.”
Tax cuts for the wealthy were for you = Jobs
NAFTA was for you = Cheap goods (good bye jobs)
Deregulation of Wall Street was for you = cheap goods and jobs jobs jobs
Seeing a pattern here?
[re=644605]Work in Progress[/re]:
“THESE COLORS DON’T RUN THE WORLD”
/fixed
[re=644593]ella[/re]: I do that too- but at Borders! I just put any other book in front of it- although I find it hard to believe anyone at my Borders is buying it.
The Glen Beck “I have a Scheme” Rally, 2010.
Location by Dr. Martin Luther King
Contents from Nuremberg
[re=644590]Mickey7[/re]: Erick Erikson, opportunist member of the fractious right, wonders if perhaps the right is turning on Glenn Beck! Unfiltered, unbiased reportage, here.
They should have had a clue that Beck was really just out for himself when he started recommending they all buy gold from a company that was paying him and in which he had an investment.
[re=644563]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: He got two tea baggers and a microphone.
The Leader is good, the Leader is great, I worship the Leader as of this date!
I smell jealousy from the other CONservative Movementarians.
such a mess of a nation the descendants of the tired, the poor, and the wretched refuse have made.
And, of course, Erick son of Erick, is wrong, even when he is almost right. There is no question here, Beck is doing this for himself. Beck does everything for himself. The greater Beckian good is all that he lives for…., well, that and stomping minorities and anyone that dares to think differently than him like some hippie chick at a biker festival.
Fox News has kept its distance from the rally, announcing it will not air the event, but will instead cover it as “a news event.”
Fox executive Bill Shine told POLITICO that the network does’t even plan to carry Palin’s speech live. And he said that, though Beck has talked about the event on his Fox show, “there is no organized promotion planned for the rally on Fox News and the network has nothing to do with it.”
In other news, FOX has announced that they are going to represent Glen Becks triumphal entry into Washington DC by showing old footage of the Apollo Astronauts ticket-tape parade from 1969. And plan to digitally insert him over President Obama from the Inauguration whenever they show crowd shots.
FREEDOM ISN’T FREE AND NEITHER IS GLENN BECK’S CRUSADE TO LOWER HIS PERSONAL TAX BURDEN.
Boy, these wingnuts sure are slow on the uptake. Next thing you know, they’ll suddenly realize that (shock!) Sarah Palin is only in it for the money and fame.
And no matter the turnout, it will be reported by Faux Noise as “the millions”. I fully expect a Photoshop job of Glenn Beck speaking before the MLK “I Have A Dream” audience.
[re=644618]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: [re=644557]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: Tie!
Well this should be quite the event – Teabaggers now nervously suspicious of other Teabaggers, all of them armed to the gills, and the GOP suddenly pointing at them and whining, “I never touched her, officer! I’ve never even MET that tramp!”
Teabaggers bore me to death, but they can still redeem themselves if – upon finally realizing they’ve been totally bamboozled by Beck – they actually EAT him.
[re=644559]chascates[/re]: That could explain the type of stuff Beck’s been saying and writing about, that he’s basically been reading history books through a seer stone in the bottom of a hat.
[re=644594]chascates[/re]: I read somewhere online that Beck has been dipping more and more into crazy Mormon theology but in such a way that it’s not quite obvious to his listeners/viewers and that he might be actually doing some sort of long con to convert his fans to Mormonism. The story went on that he’s risking losing all of his fans when they realize that the religious stuff he’s referencing isn’t the right kind of Jesus.
[re=644570]weejee[/re]: According to one local ‘bagger, who works w/ my S.O. and has told him of his plans to attend 8.28, they’re asking attendees not to bring any signs or dress in any patriot gear. Supposedly to minimize the drama and, acc. to him, to easily discern interlopers who show up thus attired. Also added that guns would be prohibited — at which point I a.) have doubts that these stipulations any Bagger worth the salt in his wound could take seriously; b.) presume they really did fall for Beck’s underhanded motive to deflect the spotlight onto his own book.
I’d still like to see a Venn diagram of TP|Becktards. Until now I’d assumed they more or less all overlapped.
[re=644649]Mumbletypeg[/re]: That should make it easier for them to disclaim all the racist signs in the crowd. “But none of our people brought signs! We asked them not to!”
“… it’s going to start becoming a punch line”
Yes, and soon plants will start to use photosynthesis.
[re=644649]Mumbletypeg[/re]: No gunz, no signs, no costume? WTF? these folks take gunz to church.
If Liz Glover makes the scene, she’ll find all three. You betcha!
Glenn Beck promoting himself? Say it isn’t so!
In addition to selling his book, will Glenn be purchasing our old gold and coins.
[re=644554]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: They’re may be a little teste now, but I’m sure they’ll find a way to patch up their vas deferens in the end.
[re=644593]ella[/re]: [re=644614]finallyhappy[/re]: Bless you both. You are doing the world a great service.
The only 9.12 project accomplishment that I’m aware of is getting a book about teh ghey young’uns removed from libraries in one Pennsylvania county. Just as the Founders intended.
[re=644614]finallyhappy[/re]: HA! Well done! It’s not exactly flying off the shelf at the Giant either. I would do the same with Laura Ingraham’s book but it’s on the top shelf and I can’t reach it. Not even in heels. (Maybe they’re on to me.)
And this is why there are 37 different brands of “Baptist” church.
And that’s just counting Alabama.
You know, I think Glenn Beck’s choice of day and location is kind of insensitive to the many people beaten and killed in the civil rights struggle. Now, while I can’t stop him from speaking, and recognize that it’s certainly his right to do so, couldn’t he pick a place and/or time further away from I Have a Dream? I think that anything that’s at least 183 days away from August 28th would be acceptable, honestly. Think of it as a “racist demogogue asshole exclusion zone”, if you will.
Erick either believes Teabaggers have some sort of serious and useful attention span or that people will endlessly reflect on this event as the years pass. I am sure it will change lives, but we’ll see if this pans out in the long term. That’ll be the real test. Can’t wait till the jury’s in on this one.
[re=644631]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: “In other news, FOX has announced that they are going to represent Glen Becks triumphal entry into Washington DC by showing old footage of the Apollo Astronauts ticket-tape parade from 1969. And plan to digitally insert him over President Obama from the Inauguration whenever they show crowd shots.”
Couldn’t they digitally insert him into the reflecting pool? Preferably face down.
[re=644561]Serolf Divad[/re]: I blame Billo-O’Reilly for this, he’s been hawking crap and clubs and worthless books for years,then came Hannity, then Snow Billy, now Beck. Will this morons ever wake up and realize how badly they’re being used? At least as a lib, all’s I have to do is throw a few bucks at Sierra Club now and then, they don’t hammer me to buy all this crap.
Tea he he.
See Beck make a fool of himself.
See the usual fools join him.
See the rest of America not give a shit.
@ Lionel Hutz Esq,With all due respect:
“In other news, FOX has announced that they are going to represent Glen Becks triumphal entry into Washington DC by showing old footage of Axe Hhandle Saturday from Jacksonville in 1960.”
http://www.rodneyhurst.com/
err, isn’t hijacking this famous date & location of MLK Jr & the Civil Rights Movement, sort of like putting a ‘mosque’ near Ground Zero and opening it on 9/11/2010?
[re=644787]carlgt1[/re]: No no, there’s an enormous difference between the two things.
See, Glenn Beck, and most teabaggers, are white people. White people who feel that they’re oppressed by virtue of their whiteness, their majority status, and the fact that they’re not able to absolutely impose their values on everyone else. This is not hyperbole, this is one of the more common refrains from Beck’s radio show: “whites are worth less than blacks nowadays,” etc.
The Muslins who want to have a place to worship, on the other hand, are minorities, of the brown variety. Everyone knows that the only people capable of “insensitivity,” and the only people who should be forced to alter their behavior based on that aforementioned “insensitivity” are minorities, towards members of the majority. This is why when black people complain about government buildings flying the Confederate Flag, or naming schools after the founder of the Klan, that’s just black people going and trying to oppress white people by complaining about things, again. You know, just like they oppressed white people by trying to live in their neighborhoods and attend their schools.
It’s not racism, it’s just shifting the blame for everything to minorities, while complaining about how minorities are secretly oppressing white people by quietly pointing out the starkest, most unvarnished examples of overt racism.
[re=644594]chascates[/re]: If he’s going to start promoting Mormonism hard, he’ll lose all the fighting fundie prots in his audience.
Oh my People of the Book’s God! I just figured it out. He’s Joseph Smith reincarnated. Damn you Great Wheel!!
“it’s going to start becoming a punch line.”
I got news for you. Hosting a Dog Whistle White Waddle Fest on MLK Day . . . already a punchline.
[re=644910]Darkness[/re]: Dog Whistle White Waddle Fest! Stop it, guys, or someone might think you don’t take the TP’ers and their agenda seriously!
I, of course, respect all sides of the political debahahahaha – HAHAHAHAHAH – sorry, I don’t think I can go on, I am making noises similar to hysterical laughter.
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BUT WHO WILL BE THEIR LEADER WHEN GLENN BECK IS GONE?? WHO, I SAY!
You lost me at “Conservatives Think.”
[re=644929]oneoclockjump[/re]: Liberals are so mean for not respecting the opinion of the willfully stupid!
Call me when the Teabaggers cease to be anything more than mindless slaves to fearmongering by the neocon too-spoiled-to-pay-taxes-or-work-for-a-living pseudo-aristo class that’s screwing the country over. Dick Armey should get the Orwellian Lifetime Achievement award for getting these loons to froth and chant: “Net neutrality is a threat to free speech.” I have deep respect for him and his ilk, even attempting to push such an idiotic message, no matter how zombie your followers, takes some serious balls.
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