Hilarious

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Via Sullivan, David Weigel puts his finger on it:
The Democrats are in worse political shape than they were a year ago because unemployment is at 9.8 percent, the war in Afghanistan has grown less popular, and the bailouts of struggling banks are seen as wastes of money that haven’t worked. Republicans benefit when they talk […]

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Honestly, how stupid do you have to be to be a Glenn Beck fan?
Looking straight into the camera, and in all apparent seriousness, Beck warned that progressives have been working for years to strip Americans of their individual rights, and that in earlier times they would be called “tyrants” and “slave owners.”
Hmmm… no, Glenn, the […]

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Sullivan gets a letter indicating why Glenn Beck seems to be pining for 1979 and the presidency of Jimmy Carter:
According to Wikipedia, in 1979, the date of the commercial that made Glenn Beck cry, his mother drowned in a mysterious boating accident. His parents had divorced in 1977 and he then had to move to a […]

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Hooooo-boy…
So DemocracyCorps, the firm run by James Carville, among others, and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research has just completed a study titled “The Very Seperate World of Cosnervative Republicans: Why Republican Leaders will have Trouble Speaking to the Rest of America.” It shows, among other things, that the Republican base’s dislike of Obama dwarfs the left’s hatred of […]

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Ya gots to be kidding me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_G6Lq9jWQ

This pretty much proves Ryan Sager’s point below - about Americans yearning for this mythical past where everything was so wonderful, and it’s all gone to pot today, and if we could only recapture the innocence then we’d all be all right…
I mean, the Mean Joe Greene commercial was 1979. Are […]

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Long but fascinating post over at Naked Capitalism on whether banking actually contributes to the good of society. Yves isn’t talking your local bank branch - she’s talking the finance sector, the Goldmans of the world. She cites a piece by Bill Black laying it all out:
The financial sector functions as the sharp canines that the […]

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Sullivan reads him some Glenn Beck, then the rest of an issue of NewsMax, and concludes:
Interesting, if somewhat bizarre, stuff. Clearly leaning toward isolationism. But as an emblem of what now passes for “conservatism” in America: incoherent, paranoid and a strange mix of optimistic boosterism about anything American and total disgust at the modernity America […]

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I can’t stand it:
I have known countless people who have no worse medical problems than I do, but they sit home and collect welfare and Social Security. It’s people like me that find this appalling that you are asking about. I find it appalling when a government makes it’s people dependent upon it. I find […]

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Whew. Glenn Beck:
Corruption tops our list of concerns because we believe that government is here and it’s not helping, it’s making things worse. And you have to ask yourself: Is it intentional?
I’m not a journalist. I’ve joked that I’m a rodeo clown, but you know what? I’m not. I am a dad and I’m frankly […]

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Frightening piece by David Glenn Cox, and in one very important respect I think he’s absolutely correct:
When you overlay a 1930’s style depression on our current society you begin to see just how important the New Deal was. It cooled tempers and gave hope to the poor. Today, however, the New Deal was issued to […]

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I know: Ew.
But David Brooks makes some excellent points in how Democrats -but also and more importantly, Republicans - kowtow to Rush and Beck and O’Reilly:
They pay more attention to Rush’s imaginary millions than to the real voters down the street. The Republican Party is unpopular because it’s more interested in pleasing Rush’s ghosts than actual people. The party […]

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So Chicago - like many American cities - suffers from appalling instances of black-on-black violence, Drudge falls over himself to link it, the insinuation being that hey - Obama is from Chicago, and Chicago wants to host the Olympics and black people are killing each other in Chicago and this is all Obama’s fault! Or something.
This would be Glenn […]

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Funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nB0Lr7Izo4

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Glenn Beck, hero to millions.

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What percentage of these teabaggers, do you think, watch Fox News, and maybe Fox News exclusively?
99 percent? 99.5 percent? OK, OK, maybe that’s overstating it.
98 percent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASS1qFAIQ8

As Hendrik Hertzberg notes here, the teabag movement is unique in American history because its leadership is entirely comprised of conservative media pundits:
The protesters do not look to politicians for […]

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Gets it completely wrong. As if there was ever any doubt.

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Glenn Beck inveighs against political violence:
“But here’s the thing I’m concerned about,” Beck said. “Your interaction with them needs to be respectful, polite, forceful, and peaceful. I’ve been warning Congress for a couple of years, and the time has come and passed for them to be able to learn from this. I’ve been telling them, […]

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My favorite thing about the White Folk - like Glenn Beck - who accuse Obama or Sotomayor of racism is the sanctimony, the veiled insinuation that 49 years ago - why, Glenn Beck would have been along for the Freedom Rides, because he’s just so concerned about equality between the races.

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On the Glenn Beck program. Natch.

But catch the tail end of this - Osama must come save America with a bomb that blows lots and lots of us up, because only that will teach America that we need to go kill more Muslims. Then Beck follows with: Which is why, if I were [bin Laden], […]

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