
Radio talk show host and author Glenn Beck is actually a funny guy — or so goes the premise of Unelectable 2, his nationwide standup-comedy/mock-campaign tour that will make a stop at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center June 9.
Beck, now a legend of conservative cable-news commentary, actually got his start as a wisecracker, hosting local non-political morning radio talk shows in markets from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Louisville, Ky. The original Unelectable Tour coincided with the 2008 presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain.
Salon.com writer Steve Almond has described Beck as "a wildly imaginative performer, a man who weds the operatic impulses of the demagogue to the grim mutterings of the conspiracy theorist."
Beck himself has this to say about the tour on his website:
If politicians said the kinds of things that Glenn does—you know, the truth—they’d never get into office. That’s why Glenn Beck is unelectable—he can’t help but tell it like it is. No one is spared Glenn’s wrath…Democrats, Republicans, law makers and law breakers…everybody gets what’s coming to them in this incredible live comedy show. Election Day is coming whether we like it or not, so you might as well laugh before you cry.
Sound like a good show to you? Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 27, and cost $40 to $80 plus fees.
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Could you give me an example of Mr. Beck's "humor". I listen to his radio show occasionally and all I hear are his cronies and he laughing uncontrollably at their own remarks, but never anything funny.
Maybe he should have Newt on his show, put him on the other end of the stage so it doesn't tip over.
Just listen to The Glenn Beck show for an hour. If you have great. Come on give it a shot. I think you will hear some points that you will see hes not what you might assume. In any case, Glenn is not a backer of Newt, at all,. In fact he is adamantly opposed to Gingrich, so i kinda doubt they would share a stage.
artrogue -you are asking folks who are liberals to be objective and listen to what people are saying rather than blindly hate them without actually knowing their positions. You ask way too much.
I'm saving my money for Rachel Maddow's "Your a dummy if you don't agree with me" tour.
She'll be headlining the Round Room at the Holiday Inn with a full slate of angry know-it-alls, including Keith "Does he still have a show?" Olbermann, and Client Number Nine, Eliot Spitzer. It's a four dollar cover charge happy hour show with a free taco bar. Not to be missed. Come early before the sour cream is gone.
Contrary to the belief of some on here, you can be conservative and open minded. I listen to and/or watch just about everything I can. From Punkarama ( early 80's local music radio show) to Rachel Maddow, From Rush to Howard Stern, I certainly believe in freedom of speech and i like to hear what everyone has to say.
artrogue - most conservatives understand that, it is liberals who don't because they are typically not open minded. I, too, do not sit in front of Foxnews or listen to Limbaugh podcasts all day because I understand that getting information from a wide variety of sources makes it possible to have an informed opinion.
Why be open minded about ideas and policies which are outdated, deprecated, and discredited?
I mean, should I believe sacrificing virgins will bring the rain? No. Does that make me closed-minded? No. It just means that, like most people, I've moved away from atavistic and backwards ideas about the world.
There's no way you can say that conservatives are any better at being open-minded but, as an added bonus, they're typically just wrong about everything.
Apparently i'm wasting a lot of time. Next time i need some answers, i'll just cut out the middleman and ask matt.
"But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain french lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said "I don't know how it happens, Sister but I meet with no body but myself, that's always in the right — Il n'y a que moi qui a toujours raison."
- from Benjamin Franklin's final speech to the Constitutional Convention.
I didn't say I was always right. I said that certain Right Wing Entertainment Clowns are always wrong.
artrogue - no matter how much truth and evidence you dump in the laps of liberals (and I am not necessarily talking about what Beck says) if it does not fit into the mantra that they are given by their liberal standard bearers they are incapable of looking at it rationally and forming their own opinion. They are fed lines and repeat them so much that they believe them without actually looking at all sides of an issue and coming up with a well thought out and well informed opinion and if presented with hard facts like numbers and data that disproves their claims they deny their validity.
Perfect example is right now where there are 27 pieces of legislation that the House has passed and are pending action by the Senate. Not that have been voted down, not that are in committee negotiating, but are sitting there waiting for the Senate to do something. If they are opposed to them they should register a vote or if they are something that they can come to a happy medium through negotiation pass it. Just letting it die on the vine is acceptable for liberals.
The last payroll tax reduction bill, the sixty day one, could have been for an entire year as the Congress had passed but the Senate wouldn't negotiate and went home for Christmas and while the Congress was sitting there saying come to the table the Senate liberals were saying that they had done all they could. Ask any of the liberal sheeple and they will tell you that the Congress was to blame, which doesn't make sense given that they passed a bill that would provide a tax relief for a year and the Senate could only get 60 days worth and stopped working.
If you want to do anything to help people by letting them keep what they earn and helping them lift themselves up and not be dependent on government for everything in their life you are an anachronistic throw back to an evil past. You can only be an intelligent person if you believe that the government can make better decisions for you and your life than you can and that anything that comes from the other side is backwards and probably racist. The exception is that if you believe in legalizing pot, then the government is intruding too much into your personal life. And, that is absolutely true because that is what they have been told to believe and there is no way that it could be different no matter how much contrary information there is.
1006, number of days since the Senate has passed a budget. That number is bad enough but when you consider that the left had control of everything for better than two thirds of that it is unacceptable. But, you will never hear a left winger criticizing them for it.
"1006, number of days since the Senate has passed a budget. the left had control of everything for better than two thirds of that it is unacceptable."
Don't throw facts out there, Next thing you know your discussing the fact that there are no such thing as facts...or that facts can be used to support only one side. Even though that fact you simply added at the end is true, very simple and straight forward.
Why anyone would continue to support Harry Reid is beyond me. Talk about completely discredited!!
"There's no way you can say that conservatives are any better at being open-minded but, as an added bonus, they're typically just wrong about everything."
I never mentioned conservatives being more open minded. I think that is no faith who
posted that.
Since you mentioned "wrong about everything" i just assumed that means
your right about everything.
Hence the quote from Benjamin franklin.
I'd sure like to see some specifics where Beck is wrong? Since he is wrong about everything that should be really easy.
nofaith, you are doing the same thing that Glenn Beck does. You take one fact in isolation and pretend that it means something that it doesn't. You look at the 27 bills passed in the House and pretend that proves the Democratic Senate won't negotiate in good faith. You conveniently ignore the fact that the Republicans in the 111th Congress have used the filibuster to prevent negotiation more than any Congress in history. You refuse to acknowledge the fact that only 43% of Obama's judicial and cabinet level appointments have been confirmed and the fact that the next lowest percentage was Bush I who got 79% of his appointments confirmed. When you look at the these facts together, it should be clear to any objective observer that it is not the Democrats who are obstructing legislation. Those 27 bills were never intended to become law. Everyone knew they were dead on arrival before the House voted on them. They are what is known as political posturing.
Conservatives don't understand nuance. They can't be trusted to reliably interpret facts. If it snows somewhere in October or April, they believe this is a fact that disproves global warming. Mitch McConnell said that his "single most important" goal was to prevent a second term for Obama. Joe Wilson yelled out "you lie" during a State of the Union address. Jan Brewer stuck her finger in the face of the President of the United States of America. The FACT is that Republicans have no respect for the office of the President and are doing everything they can to obstruct legislation that will improve the lives of Americans in an attempt to grab political power.
Fish Pimp,
Are you arguing for the US Senate to have primacy over the US House of Representatives?
The fact that the House passed 27 bills that were "doa" in the Senate does not prove that the House never wanted those bills to become law. Rather, it indicates that the Senate is unwilling to have an up or down vote on the people's desires (which is why the jackasses leader, Harry Reid, won't schedule a vote). If you'd study the Constitution, you will see that the House represents the people, through our individual districts in our states, while the Senate represents the interests of the States themselves (or at least it did before the 17th amendment).
Yes, there were more filibusters than ever before. That was one of the few tools available to the minority party (in both legislative bodies) to slow down the stimulus act and Obamacare, which are still wildly unpopular among the people. Remember the "shellacking" in 2010? Obamacare is so controversial, the Supreme Court is taking the case to determine if the law is Constitutional. Of course, you might not want your representatives to act in opposition to laws they feel are unconstitutional and might bankrupt the country. I do.
If you think it is proper for our representatives in the house to cede power to the senate, perhaps we should just abolish the house altogether and concentrate power in the hands of even fewer men and women. Hell, why spread the power around even that far? Let's just abolish the entire legislative branch and crown Obama emperor for life.
I know we conservatives "don't understand nuance" like you smarty pants progressive types, but we do understand the Constitution, and we do understand that you're full of shit, because when your side is out of power you will be encouraging them to use the exact same tactics against the right.
Better to be thought a silent fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt......
You have removed all doubt, IP. You are a fool. Your argument is exactly the opposite of nofaith. His argument was that the Senate Democrats were obstructing legislation. Your argument is that Republicans were justified in obstructing all legislation. Since you failed to support your argument with facts, I'll give you some. This Congress that you claim represents the wishes of the people had the lowest approval rating of any Congress in history. It also passed the fewest pieces of legislation. By two separate measures it was the worst, most dysfunctional Congress of all time. Congratulations.
You conservatives are such cowards. Scared shitless of every two bit dictator around the world. A Napoleon complex about your lack of intelligence. And zero decorum or respect for the country. Stay in your little bubble and tell each other ghost stories about the scary socialist Muslim President from Kenya. I'm sure if you pay Glenn Beck $100 he will let you sit in the PAC while he slowly writes it all down on his chalk board so you can follow along. It's so fucking pathetic.
Excellent job Fish Pimp, your ideological idiocy has shown through again as usual and proves my point that liberals are incapable of looking at both sides in a rational manner and coming up with an independent thought. Rachel Madcow and Paul Krookman would be proud of you as a standard bearer of the liberal prattle that you believe to be fact without even looking at the whole picture. I love how you do your same argument saying that you have 'the facts' and that when given facts that dispute them you don't believe them.
I just wish liberals would stick to making pretty pictures and singing songs, that is something they are good at. You sure as hell have proven over the last three years that even with a big blank check you can't run anything.
Day 1007 without a budget from the Democratic Senate.
From Politico.com, for what that's worth: "Asked about the GOP’s complaints about the lack of a budget, Reid suggested Republicans were feigning outrage. The Budget Control Act, passed on an overwhelmingly bipartisan 74-26 Senate vote last August, not only raised the debt ceiling but also set spending levels for two years, capped discretionary spending for the next decade and, unlike a budget resolution, has the force of law."
For the Democrats version of this,
http://democrats.senate.gov/2012/01/24/fac…
And, for an interesting take on the deficit,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/eco…
Fish Pimp,
You are a joke. You can't respond to the facts I state, so you attack me with more lies. News flash, you stupid fu@# - Republicans didn't obstruct legislation, Democrats did. Remember, Republicans AND Democrats passed 27 bills in the House, while Democrat Senate majority leader Harry Reid (doing the bidding of Emperor Obama) declared them DOA, and refused to put them up for a vote. The reason he would not put them up for a vote is because he couldn't guarantee his own caucus would vote against them in an election year. There are a number of Democrat Senators in tight election races who would love the opportunity to vote for a balanced budget amendment or a provision that would strip abortion funding from Obamacare.
Why are you unwilling to answer a simple question? I'll restate it again.
R e a d r e a l s l o w s o y o u d o n ' t g e t c o n f u s e d.
Do you think the House of Representatives should cede power the Senate?
Answer the question, dumb-ass.
I know you won't, because you can't win the argument with facts. That's OK. It's nice to know there are still enough fools so far up Big Ed's ass that the rest of us can be saved from the malodorous effluent which emanates from that place.
Here is another question for you, genius:
Does the Democrat majority led Senate share any of the blame for Congress' low approval ratings? C'mon, don't disappoint us. Tell us that it is all the Republicans fault for the low ratings, and that Anthony "Let me send you a picture of my" Weiner (D) and David "Check out my tiger pj's while I sleep with a donor's teenage daughter" Wu's (D) resignations had nothing to do with it.
It would be nice if you would read and understand the Constitution before commenting on legislative matters.
Perhaps you should hang up your pundit's hat and stick to fish mongering.
FCB,
Wow. I feel so much better about the debt and deficit, now that we're only borrowing and spending a mere trillion dollars more per year than we collect in revenues.
Sunshine and lollipops. Only thirty cents of every dollar is now borrowed or printed.
Thanks for the "good" news.........
"I'd sure like to see some specifics where Beck is wrong? Since he is wrong about everything that should be really easy."
I guess its just easier to say he has never been right and be done with it?!
Heres one easy quick point Glenn has been right about.
The price of gold today is 1,736.30 an ounce. Had you bought an ounce when Glenn suggested it and all the pundits called him a nut, you would have made over a thousand dollars an ounce. And yes one of his sponsors is a gold selling company, so he did have a motive but that hardly would effect the world wide commodity price. I would say thats a big right!
You know, my biggest problem with Glenn Beck is that he has never answered the allegations that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.
I mean, if it weren't true, he'd say that...wouldn't he?
I find it humorous that conservatives love to use stereotypes until the stereotypes are applied to them. They see all Arabs as terrorists, all Hispanics as illegals, and all blacks as lazy criminals who don't want to work, but as soon as someone points out that conservatives are racist morons they get hysterical. If you're going to support the profiling of people, you can't complain about the profile that emerges. All stereotypes contain a grain of truth or they wouldn't be stereotypes, right?
nofaith, it easy to understand why you would want to ignore the fact that Obama has created over 3 million private sector jobs over the last three years. That fact doesn't fit the narrative you'd like to promote.
I Douche Yuengling, I have no desire to follow your pea brain down some irrelevant worm hole about the history of the 17th Amendment. If you weren't such a retard you might have recognized how the Republicans are perverting the intent of the Founders with regard to their use of the filibuster. Was it the Founders intent to require a 60 vote super-majority to pass legislation in the Senate or did they believe in a simple majority? Maybe you could have quoted us some Hamilton from Federalist No 75. “All provisions which require more than a majority of any body to its resolutions have a direct tendency to embarrass the operations of the government and an indirect one to subject the sense of the majority to that of the minority.” This is a much more relevant and interesting discussion in the current context. It's a shame you are too dumb to understand it.
Obama has lost a total of -1,633,000 net jobs since he entered office. Not one new net job has been gained since the year 2007. The percentage of unemployed, plus marginally attached and discouraged workers stands at 10.5% as of December 2011, versus an average of 5.5% to 7.0% during the prior eight years. The civilian labor force has contracted by -739,000 workers since February of 2009, for an average loss of -246,333 per year, versus average growth of 1,304,500 per year in the eight years prior to Obama.
Seriously, come on, At some point we have to hold the person that occupies the White House to his own actions and words. I don't care what party or political bent. The time for excuses and finger pointing has long passed. He works for us. On my own job, If i had a record that he has,after 3 years, and was blaming the previous occupier of my job, I would be in the unemployment line.
I'd consider voting for plenty of other Democrats at this point, They sure couldn't do any worse.
“I will be held accountable,” Obama said. “I’ve got four years and … A year from now, I think people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress, but there’s still going to be some pain out there … If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
- Not one new net job has been gained since the year 2007.
- About 302,000 new homes were sold last year. That's less than the 323,000 sold in 2010, making last year's sales the worst on records dating back to 1963.
-- The new year has greeted Americans with the highest January gas prices ever, and some analysts say prices could get close to $5 a gallon in some areas during the warm-weather driving season.
- State of the union 2012 falsehoods.
President Obama said “the Taliban’s momentum has been broken” in Afghanistan. But targeted assassinations continue, and at least one independent foreign policy expert says the enemy may just be waiting until the U.S. leaves.
- The president said a get-tough tariff on tire imports from China has saved more than 1,000 U.S. jobs. But tire industry officials say Chinese imports have simply been replaced by imports from other countries.
- He took credit for putting “more boots on the border than ever before.” That’s true, but the big increase was under George W. Bush. And a decrease in illegal border crossings is due mainly to the lack of jobs in the U.S., experts say.
I thought "experts" were automatically disqualified in conservative thought because they are "educated elites".
Oh it is so fun when the 2-party folks get the tails wagged. The WWE is less fixed than the 2 party game. They laugh at the public for buying into the 'political divisiveness' while having the ability to give themselves raises. A vote for D or R is a vote for both. They help each other survive.
Nevertheless, Mr. TheBicep, it is unwise to let misinformation and poor logic go unchallenged.
While I certainly agree with your assessment, I think there's plenty of evidence floating around that the GOP has certainly lurched much further to the right relative to the Democrats in the least ten years or so. Both parties continue to occupy a fairly narrow spectrum of the center-right, but the continued Republican assault on personal, political, and economic freedom is one that cannot be left completely unchallenged simply because the Democrats offer an only slightly better alternative.
The real assault on economic freedom is coming from the left!
"President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, “We can't go back to this brand of you’re-on-your-own economics." Throughout my professional career as an economist, I’ve never come across the theory of “you’re-on-your-own economics.” I’m guessing what the president means by -- and finds offensive in -- “you’re-on-your-own economics” is that it’s a system in which people are held responsible for their actions, that they take risks and must live with the results, that people can’t force others to pay for their mistakes, and that they can’t live at the expense of other people.
President Obama’s vision was shared by our Pilgrim Fathers of the Plymouth Colony in modern-day Massachusetts. They established a communist system. They all farmed together, and whatever they produced was put in a common storehouse. A certain amount of food was rationed to each person regardless of his contribution to the work. Many Pilgrims complained that they were too weak from hunger to do their share of the work. As deeply religious as the Pilgrims were, they took to stealing from one another. Gov. William Bradford, writing his history of the colony in “Of Plymouth Plantation,” said, “So as it well appeared that famine must still ensue, the next year also if not some way prevented.”
In 1623, after much debate, a new system was set up, in which every family was assigned a parcel of land, and whatever they produced belonged to the family. Gov. Bradford then observed, “The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.” After Gov. Bradford’s establishment of what Obama calls “you’re-on-your-own economics,” harvests were so bountiful that Bradford is credited with establishing what we now call Thanksgiving.
There are several seemingly immutable, hard-wired characteristics about humans that socialists, liberals and progressives find difficult to deal with and would like to change. People tend to work harder and produce more when they own what they produce. Property is better cared for when it is privately owned. People love to exchange, what Adam Smith called a “propensity to truck (and) barter.” To suppress these characteristics requires brute force.
President Obama also told the Washington Hilton crowd that “we are not a country that was built on the idea of survival of the fittest.” Obama is not by himself, but “survival of the fittest” is one of the greatest misunderstandings of Charles Darwin’s pathbreaking work “On the Origin of Species.” When Obama and most other people use the expression “survival of the fittest,” they suggest that a bunch of people or animals are competing with one another and the strongest, smartest or cleverest survives. That’s not what Darwin and evolutionary biologists have in mind. Instead, what they have in mind is that those who survive have characteristics that make them better-equipped to survive and hence reproduce themselves in a particular environment. They are not laying waste to their competitors.
Let’s try a few survival of the fittest questions. Which companies do you think should survive and expand, those that can meet the changing wants of their customers in a least-cost fashion or those that cannot do so? If the means of communication become cheaper through fax machines, the Internet and telephones, should subsidies be expended to help the U.S. Postal Service survive? Years ago, typing was done on a mechanical typewriter; milk was delivered to doorsteps via horse and wagon; slide rules were used to make calculations. Should any of these products and practices have survived, or was it OK for natural selection to consign them to the dustbin of history?
Try cornering the president or his supporters, and ask them whether they believe government should ensure that the unfit survive and rather than “you’re-on-your-own economics” there should be “you’re-on-somebody-else economics.”
- dr.walter williams 1-18-2012
It's very funny to see a right-winger correctly define "survival of the fittest" when it was the right-wing that used it to debase humanity all the way back to Malthus.
Nice cut-and-paste by the way. What's next? Some hot and steamy Von Mises porn?
Cut and Paste is an excellent tool and it works. You read the post, which is the point of course. Knowledge is power.
Interestingly you never post a serious rebuttal of any post, just a snarky remark or a personal attack. I have to assume that Dr Williams is correct!
Feel free to cut and paste.
Actually, I read it enough to know it was a cut and paste. Then I checked its source. Then, I rolled my eyes and tried not to herniate myself from the strain of not laughing out loud and/or howling out to the heavens for some sort of divine intervention to please pick me up off of this godforsaken hellhole filled with such miserably annoying people such as "Doctor" Williams and the people who think it's funny to cut-and-paste his tripe without the least little bit of irony and probably without fully understanding just how seriously out of touch right wing economics is from the rest of the functional planet.
And, I almost went back to it to disassemble it point by miserable and ignorant and discredited point and then it dawned on me that it would be an absolutely pointless effort. At the end of my troubles, I'd only get you or one of the Clarkie sockpuppets dragging me down by claiming my reasoning was faulty, even if it isn't. That is, after all, how all "debates" on the Internet work now. You present your horseshit, someone calls you out on it, and you stick your fingers in your fucking ears and scream "NYAH NYAH NYAH CANNOT HEAR YOU! YOU MUST BE STUPID!"
So, it's pretty pointless to get into a debate over a cut-and-paste hackjob from townhall.com. Even though I could probably point to any number of instances of communal arrangements benefiting a society (you'd just poo-poo them as not valid) and I could probably find a lot of evidence from biology and anthropology to show you that not only are cooperation and communal arrangements normal among humans, but that they are absolutely necessary to explain our evolution (at which point, the religious right wingers would just go apoplectic and stain themselves with scorn), I just don't see that there's any point in it.
Mainly because, as I've said before, the right wing in this country is completely and totally intellectually bankrupt and culturally irrelevant. Your policies are so atavistic and inane that quite often even your own leadership don't understand what they are talking about. Your economic models have been so thoroughly discredited as to be laughable that you still discuss them with a straight face, and your moral arguments are so unbelievably unbearable as to cause most people with even a modicum of intelligence intense physical pain when they are brought up in public.
Speaking of which, I need to go get some more headache meds.
Better continue to take your meds and just ignore my posts.
I'm not going anywhere. :)
4 paragraphs of name calling and expletives doesn't do much to support your position. I'd love to read anything you want to post about conservatism. Pros and cons. As well as leftest thought pros and cons. Links or cut and paste makes no difference to me. I enjoy the knowledge.
We will always disagree,apparently, thats fine. The discussion is what will drive the republic forward. I hope.
Unfortunately. because i do believe that President Obama will be relected, we shall all see what a push to the far left does to the Republic in four years.
First hand and up close.
And Mat yet again proves my point that liberals are incapable of objectively looking at issues and forming their own opinion. If you had said that you don't read anything on huffingtonpost because they are a bunch of twisted, whacked out liberal idiots he would have accused you of being a moron and incapable of understanding their brilliance. Walter Williams has a PhD in economics but since he is capable of absolutely destroying liberal arguments with a few stabs at a keyboard he must be wrong. It is this type of closed mindedness and misguided arrogance from liberals that has completely screwed up Washington and unfortunately there is no end in sight.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/2/187
Another study that finds those with lower cognitive ability gravitate toward right wing ideologies.
if there was a god workers prayers would be answered Nimrata HALEY would resign in disgrace Glenn Beck would be hospitalized in Mormonland psyche ward out west
Still more evidence that conservatives are booger eaters
http://deadspin.com/5882485/somebody-in-ro…
