People send me Glenn Beck clips all the time. I'm the resident Beck hater, and now that he's on Fox, he's doing crazy shit every single day. It's impossible to keep up with. But as I mentioned earlier, I'm not posting more Glenn Beck because he's just trolling. He's the 2009 Jerry Springer, and there will soon come a point, like in the mid 90s where you'd meet someone who believed the Springer show to be real and it would blow your mind, where we'll almost all be on the same page of realizing that Beck is ridiculous. The best part about Glenn Beck's new popularity is that it really pushed Lou Dobbs right off the radar, and Bill O'Reilly is next.
The counter-point to Glenn Beck being a big phony is that he's got lots of fans. Rabid earnest fans being called to action about vague points that no one can agree on, but they're mad and fat as hell. When Beck announced the 9-12 project, he cried on the air, and told everyone to start feeling like they did on 9-12, that great time.
mark: Get ready to feel like you did on 9/12
mark: Sad and horrified?
Sanitario666: Yeah, despondent, beaten
mark: Who felt good about that day who wasn't in the talking head business?
No, PROUD AND AMERICAN AND UNITED AND ANGRY!
So this unfocused anger has resulted in "tea parties" where the whitest white people leave their suburban homes and get together to express their frustration over the problems that affect them. Sometimes they sign a piece of paper. Other times they hold placards at the side of the road. Common complaints are that socialism sucks (and it's right around the corner) taxes are too high, and the government spends too much. They're also upset about the government spending $600 billion on the Iraq War. Haha just kidding, they're totally down with that expenditure. That's money under the bridge!
So worm sends me this video the other day, and it's a 9-12 meeting in a pub somewhere. Possibly Ohio, as that's where the poster is from. After some food and the Pledge of Allegiance, they go to the back room and get down to brass tacks. Ranting. This video really kicks off at 2:00, so stay with it past the neckbeard libertarian who fails to start his own applause. Also stay with it past the camerawoman not pointing the camera at anything for the first 30 seconds of the crazy man's speech.
- This began when the Communist party infiltrated all aspects of American life in the 50s
- George Soros is behind Obama's success
- Media won't tell the truth except Fox
- Even Fox wouldn't show up to this meeting though :(
- Marketing is the answer to all of this
- Digital TV cable boxes are actually brainwashing devices
- There's no time
- Stop paying taxes
- Take your kids out of college
- This is a battle for our survival
And then the camerawoman shouts "Burn all the books!" which even a fellow 9-12er can't believe. Once she clarifies that she just means the evolution crap, things are smoothed over. It's amazing.