{"id":7044,"date":"2009-03-13T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2009-03-13T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:21:26","slug":"glenn-beck-is-in-the-clock-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7044","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck is in the Clock Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t wait to see what Dave Neiwert has to say about this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

BECK: But as I\u2019m listening to him. I\u2019m thinking about the American people that feel disenfranchised right now. That feel like nobody\u2019s hearing their voice. The government isn\u2019t hearing their voice. Even if you call, they don\u2019t listen to you on both sides. If you\u2019re a conservative, you\u2019re called a racist. You want to starve children.<\/p>\n

O\u2019REILLY: Sure.<\/p>\n

BECK: Yada yada yada. And every time they do speak out, they\u2019re shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?<\/p>\n

O\u2019REILLY: Well, look, nobody, even if they\u2019re frustrated, is going to hurt another human being unless they\u2019re mentally ill. I think.<\/p>\n

BECK: I think pushed to the wall, you don\u2019t think people get pushed to the wall?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, to summarize: Glenn Beck believes that being told you’re wrong means it’s okay for you to start shooting people.<\/p>\n

Funny, I don’t remember any liberals going nuts and shooting people in 2004, when we were in a war that we hated, run by a president we disdained, who was supported by a Congress we despised. Liberals were called traitors, and told to “get over” being in the minority. We weren’t listened to. We were pushed to the wall. And we didn’t go on a shooting rampage. Why? Because going on a shooting rampage is not an acceptable way to express one’s political opinion.<\/em> Going on a shooting rampage because of your political beliefs is, in fact\u00a0terrorism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t surprise me that there eliminationist streak that runs through the conservative movement is rearing its ugly head again; last time the conservatives were out of power, the patriot movement was at its zenith. If you listened to Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s, you heard advertisements asking whether David Koresh was targeted by the government because he was a “gun-collecting tax protester,” rather than a child rapist and murderer.<\/p>\n

Now, a decade-and-a-half later, with an African-American president, a liberal Congress, and a nation turned off by eight years of conservative misrule, we come to a point where the crazies, the Glenn Becks of the world, are up against the wall. One would hope that they would respond by arguing forcefully for their opinions. But one fears that Beck’s opinion is shared by all too many of his fellow travelers on the right — and that all too many of our conservative friends view terrorism as acceptable, even desirable, if that democracy thing leads to the “wrong” outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t wait to see what Dave Neiwert has to say about this: BECK: But as I\u2019m listening to him. I\u2019m thinking about the American people that feel disenfranchised right now. That feel like nobody\u2019s hearing their voice. The government … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}