Beck quoting MrArbitrage (minus the citations)

This was written over a year ago (February 2009) but it is remarkably similar to the language of Glenn Beck on today’s program.

“…As much as I would like to believe that people now in power who use the misnomer of Democrat are simply too ignorant to understand this, I know better. If you stop and consider who is actually governing our country, those America protesting, drugged out, insolent hippies pictured in those Woodstock photos – it is obvious that none of this is coincidental. Don’t be fooled by the mere fact that they now take showers, cut their hair and wear business suits to the Capitol. They are still the same America hating zealots they were back then and their agenda is still the same. They don’t want you to call them communists because they know that there are still enough Americans alive who will reject them if they allow themselves to be referred to by that odious name.

I refuse to call them Democrats, progressives or even “socialists”. Socialist is a euphemism for these people. Their world views and most every other view they espouse are harmonious with Marx. These communists have thus far taken over our country without so much as a shot having been fired – so far.

As I look at the communist revolution taking place in this precious land right before my eyes, I am amazed by the prescience of Karl Marx. Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto, explicitly called for the "abolition of the family." He knew that the family is a microcosm of the nation. When the family is strong, the nation is strong. When the family is weak, the nation will crumble. Marx knew we would literally hand over our lives and liberty to government if the family could be undermined. The lack of morality makes a nation in need of “masters” as the society will be incapable of self government. We are seeing it everyday as we can no longer trust corporate America, our elected scoundrels or one another. There will be order under the communist regime; however, the scoundrels will rule with an iron fist - as communists always do.

Most will be miserable except for those governmental scoundrels we once elected. And to think that we abrogated our liberty in exchange for the promise of free healthcare and free college indoctrination! They will be worth the price of admission. As we have seen, they like all communists RULERS in power will live prosperous lives. As their mentor Nietzsche told them, we are the scaffolds – existing for the sole purpose of propping them up on our backs. THEY are not subject to the onerous rules and regulations like paying their taxes. That’s just for the little people. Wonder why the cretins in Hollywood would be so stupid as to support the very people who will take their wealth away? Most of them are indeed completely ignorant but some no doubt believe they will be a part of the ruling class. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. Communists need to be entertained too; so they may be regarded as useful idiots and get a seat at the table. Even the Nazis kept some Jews alive for their amusement (artistic or carnal).

I don’t want to sound fatalistic nor do I intend to cede this power to the left. There is no doubt that we need more than a band-aid to fix this wound. It’s going to take more than the traditional strategies that have failed the Republican Party since President Reagan left office. Government cannot and will not fix our problems because they cannot fix US. They cannot make husbands and wives commit to their marriages and raise their children.

Right now we have to prevent the government from – being - the problem. They exploit the wounds that ail our nation for the purpose of procuring perpetual political power. They encourage the pollution that has permeated what has become the most important “environment” of our nation - entertainment. The greenhouse effect taking place in the atmosphere of our nation is the magnification of ignoble behavior, course language, and sexual innuendo in every venue of media including commercials by fortune 500 companies advertising the most innocuous of products.

This is a different country than it was even in my childhood. I can no longer watch a football game with my child. My 5 year old boy LOVES football but I have had to cover his eyes many times throughout the Super Bowl. It's disgusting and offensive.

The NFL is run like a typical left winged organization. They dish out fines and penalties when players celebrate a first down, touchdown or a sack - because it's a "bad example for the children". They could put stipulations on the networks - protecting their product (the game itself) with decency requirements - but these hypocrites don't CARE. Their games have so much explicit sex and violence permeating them that it is an embarrassment watching them with family around. But GOD FORBID any player get excited and do a DANCE in the end zone! During the Super Bowl, even Doritos aired a sexually explicit commercial as they demonstrated how the chips are so crunchy, a young man bit into one in public causing a supermodel’s clothing to fly off as she stood there in her lingerie. That’s just a small sample. It was also laced with violence and murder. CBS Criminal minds commercial showed a family of murderers with the line "the family that slays together stays together". That’s great NFL & CBS. I remember the good old days when I was a child and could watch an NFL football game with my family - without being violated.

The same is true even with the Fox News Network. Morning, noon and night, I cannot watch it with my son around because every commercial break is about “4 hour long errections”, about a Vermont Teddy Bear full of double entendre like how the women “can’t believe it’s so big” and telling us “guys” that “it’s a sure thing”, or a Pajama-Gram that is the gift “guaranteed to get a women to take her clothes off”. There used to be a day when things like these were considered private. There was a day when major companies had respect and decency toward consumers and their families.

We point the finger at Wall Street but the immorality can be found in every aspect of our lives. Our sanctimonious legislators hold hearings grilling athletes asking them why so many of these professionals cut corners by taking steroids. They are just a high profile sample of our “new morality”. Nobody is talking about the enormous percentage of college students who when polled, admit that they cheat on tests to get ahead. Immorality is an epidemic throughout our nation. These are signs of corruption. These are signs of pending destruction. These are the fruits of liberalism. The alarms are sounding. Does anyone CARE? Immorality has fostered our selfishness hedonism. The Darwinistic morality has caused us to abandon our commitments, our families the things essential to a free nation and self government. Government wants to fill the void. Government -IS- filling the void – with tyranny. Like the heroin dealer they want to give you your first fixes for free. They tell you its ok. They are pretending to be your friend – until they own you.

The tyrants want to raise your children like Fidel Castro is raising Elian Gonzalez. Just remember: “the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world " said- William Ross Wallace.

In life there are peaks and there are valleys. Some believe that our nation is now in the valley of the shadow of death - and for good reason. There has not been a more propitious time in the past 20 years to clean the bacteria of liberalism from the GOP house. We have got to get it all out - now. The coming Republican revolution is going to make 1994 pale in comparison. Those who oppose our fundamental principles must get out of the way. The message to them is ASYLUM - NOT LEADERSHIP…”

Source: Great Depression Predictions may be too Sanguine” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2184342/posts This is where I posted this TableOfWisdom.com piece in February 2009.

Some other recent Beck quotations of MrArbitrage without citation. (There are others but I haven’t located the video archives yet.)

I was enjoying Glenn Beck’s show on Friday (Feb 5, 2010). The subject was of California’s budget debacle (vs. the polar opposite - Texas).
It brought to mind a column on this very subject I wrote at TableOfWisdom.com called “No Bailout for Sodom”. (It’s still located there but I will just paste it below). Like many viewers, I wished I could chime in when Glenn was asking questions of his panelists. So to satiate that urge to discuss the topic, I decided to write an updated intro to my blog and post it at Freerepublic.com
As I was writing the intro, Beck’s show was still airing and as has happened on other occasions, he verbalized what I had written as –MY- parting joke about “forced secession” for California - in the column below - which was written over a year ago (and which I posted at FoxNews.com back then).
Here’s where I wrote those words at FoxNews.com in 2008:
http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2008/10/08/lets-hope-california-isnt-the-model-this-time/ - Thursday, October 09, 2008 at 12:22 PM
I ALSO quoted myself on this just a week before this show In the below linked column titled “Loonie will hit parity with U.S. dollar in few months”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/canadas-loonie-on-bumpy-path-to-us-parity-2010-01-26#comment3499446 (See page 2 of Comments, 4th comment down written under my pseudonym “Thurston Howell” I wrote:

“I have long been a proponent of a “forced secession” policy in the case of California. Can we do that? There is no US precedent for kicking someone OUT of the union.”

February 5, 2010 Glenn Beck uses this material as the parting joke at the very end of the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNlDJ6zSFA (Statement at approx 9:46 of this linked video segment).

(Marketwatch.com is a sister company of Fox News. Fox news is promoted there as well as other News Corp properties.)
I am starting to think perhaps one of his producers is plagiarizing because I used to post my blogs, including this one, at FoxNews.com (I know that sounds delusional so here is a link where I posted it here on someone else’s thread (5 replies down) back in 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129775/posts )
Without further ado:
October 9, 2008

No Bailout for Sodom
by MrArbitrage

The headlines read: “SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — You’ve got to give California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger credit for being the first to stick his hand out. Even before the vote on the $700 billion bailout bill last week, the wily Terminator of fiscal discipline had a letter on the desk of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson making the case for a $7 billion loan to keep the nation’s most populous state running past October...”
I am outraged by the impertinence of Schwarzenegger and his state to come forward expecting my tax dollars to pay for the consequences of their extravagance. They are a textbook case in the tragic consequences of leftism and they should wither on the vine so they may be a shining example of what the Democrats have in store for the entire country when they control all 3 branches of government.
The leftists of this state, for all of their crying about the “environment” have made fortunes as Hollywood dumps their toxic waste into our culture. The ramifications of their toxic waste are far more measurable than the dubious claims of “An Inconvenient Truth.

The inconvenient truth is that for decades this state has given the proverbial “bird” to the vast majority of Americans, our values and our faith. They have wasted their money on left winged programs encouraging such things as illegal immigration. Still lingering in my mind are the recent images, tens of thousands of militants at “gay pride” parades marching through the streets of San Francisco dressed up as our Savior Jesus Christ as they mocked everything that is sacred to “fly over country”.

Now you dare ask me for my money? I thought “gay marriage” was supposed to save California from destitution? Listening to the glowing reports by ABC, NBC & CBS led me to believe that this celebration of sodomy was going to single handedly balance California’s budget as homosexuals traverse the United States to get “married”, no?
Is California “too big to fail?” In my estimation, this albatross is too odious NOT to fail. There is plenty of wealth there already. If they want a bailout, they need to go to the Hollywood elitists and make them practice what they have preached. The fortunes of Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner and David Geffen alone can balance California’s budget. It’s time for California to “take” the “excess profits” from their own citizens. What about the “fairness” doctrine leftists have been ramming down our throats this election season? Let’s see how eager Spielberg and Reiner are to be plundered to support the causes to which they are owing.
That’s the beauty of federalism. There is healthy competition between the states; so if a state governs poorly, there are 49 others from which to choose. I know there are some very good people living there and those good people can vote with their feet. Eventually they will.

By the disgraceful way this state is run, they may deserve to be the first state to be forced OUT the union, “forced secession” if you will. Nobody will be stuck there if they go bust. The only thing that may be stuck there with a little luck is Hollywood and that my fellow Americans would be a good thing. For Hollywood to be plundered by the state treasury into extinction would be the best thing that happened to this country in the past 100 years.
You want to really spark some outrage the likes of which we have not seen since 1861 – go ahead – make our day; force decent Americans to bailout Sodom.

I have on several occasions submitted resumes to Fox News and Fox Business positions such as News Writer or Associate Producer. I never received a response but on several occasions have heard the content of my blogs on Fox programs without attribution.

It is frustrating as one who has long hated his Wall Street career and dreams of making a living writing. It’s not as though I have no experience. At my website www.TableOfWisdom.com (the “My Track Record” link) I have links to 3rd party, time-stamped blogs I wrote 10 years ago predicting the GM debacle, lambasting Time-Warner for agreeing to the AOL take-over while the financial media had nothing but accolades and other such predictions years in advance (while the info was still “actionable” unlike most financial media where it is after the fact.)

That’s what I thought too at first but some of the quotes were too unusual and made it on to the show in every case, within days of being posted at Marketwatch.com (a Fox property). Then suddenly, a few weeks ago, he did it -again- made some remarkably similar comments and what blew me away was he quoted a Marketwatch column in the next breath and even had the web address on his “lower third” (Chyron). If you ever read Marketwatch, the reader posts are always right below each column prominently displayed. MrArbitrage has been posting there for over 10 years, the last 2 under the name “Publius123”.

I know it sounds delusional but I have been compiling specific examples for the past year. Of course other people in many cases think of the same concepts. My documentation demonstrates it in too many cases to be coincidental and more importantly, the similarities in -style- of delivery, combined with too many instances of the similarities - in every case his following MrArbitrage, not the other way around.

I like Beck a great deal. I do not think he is a plagerist (sp?). I know for a fact that he has producers and I suspect that perhaps it is the PRODUCER who is a fan of Marketwatch and the PRODUCER is getting paid while having hard working bloggers do his or her work. I know, as one with TV news production experience that the producer does most of this grunt work, including loading the content into the system.

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