Posted on 03/13/2010 5:03:27 PM PST by conservativefunhouse
Glenn Beck loves freedom. He loves freedom of speech, freedom of travel, and he fights anyone who tries to take away those freedoms.
Beck is also against labels of left and right. Just like O’Reilly, he wants the image of an independent centrist. Both men do it by criticizing the right at times. Both men, in my opinion, care more about criticizing the right than they do about facts or logic (I admit I made a driveby comment about Bill. Maybe I’ll expand another time).
Recently, in his March 8th TV show, about 13 minutes in, Glenn Beck started warning about the dangers of the extreme left and extreme right all over the world. He started out by speaking about the weakening of center-right French Prime Minister Sarkozi, and the rise of who he called “far right” Villepin.
Then Beck said this:
“Also, you have far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders. Last year he was banned from the UK. They said his presence could threaten community harmony and therefore public safety. Last week not only was he allowed into England, he was at the house of lords, where he screened a film on the quran.”
The right, and the left, are growing again in Europe. The left, listen carefully, the left in Europe is communism. The right is fascism, in Europe. Europe is making the same mistakes that they made at the turn of the century.”
And then: “Please, watch the crazy fringe groups in Europe and email, tweet them to me…”
Two points are to be made here...
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God bless Beck!!!
I’m pretty much fed up with Glenn Beck. It appears that he is only out to help himself, aka, the 9-12 Project which it appears he started because he could not control the Teaparty movement, in my opinion. Hannity is much the same, in my opinion. And BOR is the worst of all - nothing but an Obama door mat. Rush and Mark are the only two I count on.
His main connection to O’Reilly is his constant shilling for a buck.
Nice, another noob pimping his blog and bashing Beck...how original, not.
Jonah Goldberg did an excellent job of pointing that out in his book "Liberal Fascism" with a story about a British reporter going to Germany. In the years before the rise of the Nazis, the students he visited has commie propaganda all over the place. When the Nazis were coming in to power, but not in complete control, the Brit visited again and there was Nazi propaganda all over. Both are of the left.
Beck is all about freedom, then why criticize Geert Wilders, who is speaking out for it in Europe despite jail, threats on his life? As for DeVillipin a “rightwing extremist”—?? A French official who protested the WOT and stood for his government against Bush? He must have changed. Beck goes off half-cocked and shoots himself in the foot. Or elsewhere.
I have been a fan of Beck, but he doesn't know what the heck he is talking about on Geert Wilders. He may need to actually go spend some time in Europe(like I have), and get a clue.
What Beck is doing here, is kinda like some guy sitting in Europe, and calling the Tea Party a "racist far right group", without knowing what the Tea Parties are really about. How would Beck like it if some European did that?
For all of Beck’s time spent at a blackboard — or whiteboard — and all the time he says he spends reading history, he sure gets some of the basics (some of the easy stuff) radically and ridiculously wrong.
Pretty much.
Beck should be praising Geert Wilders, who is risking his life, to expose Islamo Facism. Let's not forget the several attempts that have been made on the life of the Dutch cartoonist who made an anti-Islamic cartoon. Geert Wilders is a very brave man. The last thing he needs, is Beck going out there, and encouraging even more Islamic crazies to go take him out, by essentially branding him a right wing kook.
Perhaps Glenn Beck ( who is calling Wilders a fascist ) ought to spend a few months over in the Netherlands and Belgium as I have.
The Muslims just do not assimilate, but they sure do procreate. Interestingly, the Jews also live apart in their quarters (ghettos).
According to a Nixon center report - fully a quarter of jihadists are western European nationals who can travel visa-free to the U.S.
Wilders is doing us a favor.
And I’m really ticked off at Glenn Beck for slandering Wilders. Wilders is facing hate speech charges from The Hague and has to travel with a bodyguard. Beck should relate to that.
By the way, I hate Hate Speech Tribunals.
Theo Van Gogh could also tell about the dangers of IslamOfascists except he was killed on the streets of Holland by one.
“...calling the Tea Party a “racist far right group”, without knowing what the Tea Parties are really about. How would Beck like it if some European did that?”
Beck does that himself already.
Beck has a problem; he works for FOXnews, now partly owned by Alaweed bin Talal, the Saudi prince who tried to buy off the atrocities of his countrymen with a ten million$$$ check which Mayor Rudy tore up. FOX and Beck have changed now. See this-- http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1261/Should-Fox-News-Register-as-a-Saudi-Agent.aspx
OR, he is actually just phony.
“Geert Wilders is a very brave man. The last thing he needs, is Beck going out there, and encouraging even more Islamic crazies to go take him out, by essentially branding him a right wing kook.”
That is scary! But why is Beck so popular?
Bingo, we have a winner!!
Socialism and Fascism are joined at the hip, The difference between socialism and communism is the difference between Seduction and RAPE, in the end ya still got screwed.
Bingo, we have a winner!!
Socialism and Fascism are joined at the hip, The difference between socialism and communism is the difference between Seduction and RAPE, in the end ya still got screwed.
Hey Glenn...FDR's popularity (and out of control spending) his first two years won Democrats 9 Senate seats and lost Republicans 14 House seats in the 1934 midterms.
How many seats ya think Barack's popularity will win Democrats this year?
Lots of what Beck says is great. Seen information I thought would never be on TV. But now and then...he's nuts.
Beck has done great work in exposing 0bama’s Marxist agenda, and watch his program often. It just happens that he is wrong on this one. Islamo-facism has to be crushed whenever it rears it’s ugly head. Fighting Islamo-Facism is NOT “far right” anything.
Beck, relating New Deal history (and the Red cells in his Adm)
He relates this new information that has been feed to him.
Sad, I knew of this back in the late 1960s when I was in my early 20s through my own reading and research.
Beck is too busy with his mantra, no difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint are the same as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Who knew.
I’m sick of Beck constantly saying that, “It’s not just the left. The left and the right both stink on ice.” He always has to put out a disclaimer. Same as O’Reilly. Oddly enough, the left hates them both, and many of the right dislike them for that stance. McCain is no day at the beach, but I’m sure we wouldn’t have socialized medicine had he won the election.
Beck did not call Wilders a fascist. He had him on his show and treated him well. And what is with the wondering about Glenn’s feelings re: Israel? He has had Bibi Netanyahu on THREE TIMES (HLN and Fox) and praised him to the moon! This author is a moron.
His point is a warning about the danger of the size, scope and control of their governments. It is precisely why our founders chose a limited government with a balance of power and feared massive, all powerful governments like the Euros have and ours is turning into.
Limited government means when a far left or right candidate wins office, such an individual doesn't have the power to become a dictator. But, when you combine massive government power with a national crisis and a charismatic far left or far right individual who promises to solve all the nation's problems, those are perfect opportunities such an individual can become communist or fascist Savior/dictator respectively.
That's the history lesson and history's warning and is precisely why our founding fathers were so wonderfully wise creating our limited government with all the checks and balances. We should listen to them now. Beck's trying to warn us that the conditions are right for history to repeat itself...again.
Instead of getting caught up in the "our side is better than their side and whose side is Beck on?" BS, we should take that warning to heart and dismantle what's been built on top of our Republic, Both sides are dangerous with too much power!
Beck’s a hypocrite. At the same time he’s whining and moaning about socialists using Saul Alinsky tactics against him, he’s using the same approach against anyone who demands BO/BS obey the the Constitution by proving he is a natural born citizen.
Beck is for progress but he is NO progressive...
I like Beck, but he must have meant Jean Le Pen the far-right figure and not Villepin who was Chirac’s prime minister. Sloppy research on Beck’s part.
Anyone that is still looking for the perfect spokesperson for all of their views is looking on the wrong plane of existence.
He's a mormon. Whenever he mentions anything about God or religion, I cringe. Dude is so misguided; it is so very sad.
Geez.
So I really can’t get the 5 minutes of my life back which was spent reading this article?
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