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Did Glenn Beck ‘jump the shark’? (Video)Continue reading on Examiner.com:
Examiner.com ^ | February 4th, 2011 9:37 am ET | Ryan Witt

Posted on 02/13/2011 6:48:22 AM PST by llandres

Glenn Beck has always been known as someone to make some fairly bold and strange predictions, but the protests in Egypt may have given birth to a Beck prophecy on a whole other level. Beck has said that the Egyptian uprising is not merely about an oppressed and impoverished people fighting for their rights, but instead, Beck sees the uprising as an effort by radical Muslims and socialists to establish a one world government called a caliphate. Under Beck’s theory, the caliphate will eventually lead the “end of the Western world as we know it.” Beck has warned his viewers that the revolution is not merely about Egypt, but about their own towns, homes, and way of life...

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To: llandres

Jumped the shark or jumped the gun? He’s been right about many predictions people called him crazy for when he made them. Whatever his personal quirks, he doesn’t ask people to believe, he just asks them to look at the same facts, listen to the same words out of peoples’ mouths that he does to draw the conclusions he’s made. Give it a try before calling him crazy. Between 60 and 70 percent of Egyptians want a caliphate rather than an independent country on its own called Egypt. Are they all in on a conspiracy? The Mohammadan world was once fairly recently one political unit, or much of it was - the divisions in it we see as independent countries were in very large part impositions of the European colonial powers in the last century. Beck might not be expressing it that way, and he might not have gotten the right degrees from the right places and belong to the right think tanks and the right associations for the establishment to look to him for quotes on this subject. But can’t, for instance, a plumber be right about predicting where the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning without a degree in astrophysics?


21 posted on 02/13/2011 7:06:44 AM PST by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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To: WellyP

Me too!!!


22 posted on 02/13/2011 7:06:56 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: llandres

If in 2 years Egypt is threatening to break peace with Israel bringing the whole Middle East to the Brink of war - will the same media look back and say, “Glenn was the only one who got it right”? Don’t hold your breath.


23 posted on 02/13/2011 7:07:41 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: humblegunner

Really Rachel Madhow.


24 posted on 02/13/2011 7:08:12 AM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: bert

bert, we got it.
You don’t like Beck.

You make it clear on every thread.


25 posted on 02/13/2011 7:08:18 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: Bigun
If Beck has “jumped the shark” on this then put me right there with him because I believe him to be EXACTLY right!

Meanwhile; Rush blathers on about football and golf...I actually can LEARN some things from Beck...

26 posted on 02/13/2011 7:08:50 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: silverleaf

Mark Levin played a clip on Friday of some of the reaction, in NY, to MB’s ‘stepping down’ and there was a guy, sounded arabic, yelling “this is the end for Israel, this is the end for America!!”. Sounds completely democratic to me /s

With that said, GB is pushing the limit on the predictions. People are fed up with being scared crapless for 3 hours plus an hour on TV. He’s done a lot of good and has been critical in opening eyes with his research but predicting what is going to happen in such detail is careless and foolish and irresponsible as well (imo). No one ‘knows’ what is going to happen; only God knows.


27 posted on 02/13/2011 7:08:50 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: llandres

The islamists and the radical left are in a marriage of convenience to bring down the West as we’ve known it. They both believe they will rise to the top in both of their spheres. The muslims believe the socialists are idiots, and will be their next target.


28 posted on 02/13/2011 7:09:12 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: llandres

29 posted on 02/13/2011 7:09:12 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Oh of course islamic fascist have been saying this themselves for decades. For Beck to repeat does not make him “divine”.
30 posted on 02/13/2011 7:09:47 AM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: WellyP

Just search the term “Day of rage” with the name of virtually any middle eastern nation and you’ll be amazed. They’re going on all across the mideast and elsewhere and they all want “Change” and “Social Justice”. (Uganda seems to be the new one)

Looking at the history of “The day of rage” is also interesting. It was first used in 1969 Chicago by the weathermen and SDS.

Those who refuse to pay attention may as well consider themselves marxists because they’re either with us or against us.


31 posted on 02/13/2011 7:10:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: llandres
I'll support Glenn at every opportunity possible.

He's being attacked from every imagineable quarter.

32 posted on 02/13/2011 7:12:42 AM PST by blam
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To: NavyCanDo

Exactly.

And when the Copts, who have been there for 2,000 years, are given the 24 hour warning to leave or die, what will the MSM say?

That is what is happening in Iraq now. The Christian population in Iraq has been cut by 2/3 since the fall of Saddam. The sectarian cleansing is now accelerating. The church bombings are just a warning to leave. And they are. After 2,000 years, the last holdout Christians are being cleansed from the M.E. And we are watching it happen.


33 posted on 02/13/2011 7:13:07 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: Marty62

Regardless of who runs for President in Egypt, if Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t condone them, again, we will see riots in the square, forcing all those they don’t approve of, to back out..leaving the one they want, to win.

Regardless, all of our Allies must be quakin in the boots to see US turn on Mubarek.

It’s odd, didn’t Obama say in 2009 regarding the President in Honduruas that US couldn’t support a military coup? He labeled the Honduras removal of a President, ignoring rule of law, as “illegal”....but yet, called for Mubarek ousting....


34 posted on 02/13/2011 7:13:22 AM PST by Engedi
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To: llandres

I no longer watch Beck because I got rid of Cable TV (including Fox News—which was about the only thing I watched anymore). Even so, I think he’s done the country a great service by exposing some of the cockroaches under the rock, including: ASoros, Van Jones, Cloward-Piven, and the ACORN crowd. He is very good at describing the purpose, structure, and operating practices of these networks. Its the first step toward dismantling them.

On the flip side, I think he does go overboard at times. But, overall, he is doing a great job.


35 posted on 02/13/2011 7:13:44 AM PST by rbg81
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To: llandres

This author hasn’t been to Michigan where football practice was moved to after dark so as to not upset the fasting (and drinking fluids) part of Ramadan would not be disrupted.

Now either non-muslims were having midnight football practice or the entire football team is muslim. Either way, it’s not good.


36 posted on 02/13/2011 7:15:24 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
But predicting something big and apocalyptic shouldn’t, in itself, discredit him. He could be right, you know.

Here's the bind we Cassandras inevitably wind up in:

If we're right, and not heeded, we die with everyone else.
But if the warning's heard, and we defend ourselves so it doesn't happen, we're wrong:
"SEE? It didn't happen"

37 posted on 02/13/2011 7:15:26 AM PST by tsomer
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To: Semper911

I can’t stand to watch him either although I have email friends who hang on his every word.


38 posted on 02/13/2011 7:17:47 AM PST by moondoggie
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To: bert
"He is out of his depth. He is out of his depth. He extrapolates an extrapolation then inserts the result into an equation that results in an asymptotic trend"

So you missed the part where he tells his audiance to 1. believe nonone, including him; 2. do their own research before believing anything; and, best of all, 3. he hopes he is wrong?
39 posted on 02/13/2011 7:18:33 AM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: bert
"He is out of his depth. He is out of his depth. He extrapolates an extrapolation then inserts the result into an equation that results in an asymptotic trend"

So you missed the part where he tells his audiance to 1. believe nonone, including him; 2. do their own research before believing anything; and, best of all, 3. he hopes he is wrong?
40 posted on 02/13/2011 7:18:41 AM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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