Glenn Beck Radio Thread Thu. 2/3/11

Thanks for the ping. Listening now...but off to work in 1/2 hour.

HOORAY Glenn Beck! Glenn Beck is OUTSTANDING!

Muslim Brotherhood...collectivist/totalitarian community organizers...tethered to the ultimate Totalitarian System.

Denigrate, defund, dismantle, destroy anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectives.

Good thread, Tex

Another Choudary video, in the UK. Notice the alliance between ‘pro-’democracy’ movement, and how Choudary phrases the use of the ‘democracy’ movement to advance Islam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMFIC-r0IA&playnext=1&list=PL101EBA52CD450839

Hannity’s confrontation with Choudary last night. Notice the moments when Choudary smiles: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fncs-hannity-confronts-radical-cleric-over-plans-for-islamic-uprising/

Does anyone know why Beck and Hannity are no longer on WPHT 1200 in Philadelphia?

I know Beck’s getting boycotted from Van Jones and other affiliated groups, but I hadn’t heard anything about Hannity.

Holy cow. How does Code Pink get away with this stuff?

Is Glenn Beck the only person aware of Code Pink’s ties to these violent organizations?

No, but the LSM won’t report on them.

Beck is talking about the 60’s radicals.

They’re accurately explained here:

Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Left Wing Fascism: Different Strokes for Different Volks
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2011/02/left-wing-fascism-different-strokes-for.html

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I remember a particular patient who was maybe a decade older than I, and who was a young adult by the end of the ‘60s, whereas I was still a young teen. He was a deeply alienated man, and quite hostile to religion. Interestingly, he frequently articulated his alienation in the form of nostalgia for the 1960s, which, you might say he missed out on. He was more a witness than participant in the dionysian frenzy of that decade, which made him feel as if that is what was missing in his life. If he could only go back and relive the ‘60s, but this time do it right — completely obliterate his ego and live some sort of communal life with no tension, instant sexual gratification, no boundaries, etc. For him, it was as if there had been this giant, boundary-less party taking place, but he had been on the outside looking in. (The film American Beauty also explores this theme.)

But again, this was just a symbol of my patient’s current alienation, which could only be resolved now, not by dreaming and fantasizing about the past. The blogosphere is a pretty sorry place, but some of the sorriest people of all are the ones like my patient, who are now in their 60s and posting on dailykos about how much they miss the 1960s, and how the Obamessiah is going to bring back that sense of community and oneness.

Again, this is anything but progressiveism; it is pure romanticism, which is always backward looking — and not just backward looking, but backward to an idealized past that never existed to begin with. It is pure projection of present existential pain, and escapism into the past. No one is more conservative than a progressive. It’s just that what they want to conserve is childhood and all of its privileges, e.g., irresponsibility, dependency, entitlement, rebellion against the grown-ups, polymorphous perversity, weak boundaries, etc.

Which is perfectly understandable. For someone who lives without any religious telos, the denial of impulses seems stifling and arbitrary, because it “leads nowhere” (since God does not exist), and merely becomes bourgeois respectability or rank hypocrisy.

Thus, as Veith writes, “If objective knowledge is alienating, subjective experience is liberating and healing. Authentic experience comes from unleashing the emotions, cultivating the subjective and irrational dimension of life.” So never ask why the left is so hysterical and irrational, because that is the whole point. It is a way of life. You will look in vain for the “rational end” they are seeking, because the emotional irrationalism is its own end. I am quite convinced that leftism is simply a “way of life” — or, more precisely, a way of managing one’s emotional life, of dealing with the pain and conflict of existence. It will be with us so long as cosmic alienation is with us, as an alternative to religion.

In Hitler & His God, Van Vrekhem goes into considerable detail about the “volkisch movement” that was a big part of the appeal of Nazism — or which Nazism co-opted, to be precise. At the root of this movement was the idea that Christianity was a foreign influence superimposed on a much deeper reservoir of primitive beliefs. Christianity unifies people through a common belief system, but “volk” indicates “a tribal unity of blood, unmodified by ideas of a common humanity. Religious in the intensity of their beliefs, volkists had had no real equivalent in other Western nations.”

The concept is especially difficult for normal (non-leftist) Americans to comprehend, being that we are the first nation explicitly created around abstract and universal principles instead of more primitive modes of blood, soil, mythology, etc. But here again, we can see how the modern doctrine of multiculturalism is in reality a quite primitive reversion back to earlier ways of life. Multiculturalism is specifically a rejection of American principles, what with its obsession with blood and race instead of ideas. This is why when you criticize Obama’s ideas, they accuse you of being a racist.

For Americans — and for Christians — “essence” is in the individual. That is, we are created in the image of God, so that our deepest personal essence partakes of divinity. But for the volkists — and for the multicultural left — essence is in the group: “Volk is a much more comprehensive term than ‘people,’ for to German thinkers ever since the birth of German romanticism in the late eighteenth century, Volk signified the union of a group of people with a transcendental ‘essence.’ This ‘essence’ might be called ‘nature,’ or ‘cosmos’ or ‘mythos,’ but in each instance it was fused to man’s innermost nature and represented the source of his creativity, his depth of feeling, his individuality and his unity with other members of the Volk. The essential element here is the linking of the human soul with its natural surroundings, with the ‘essence’ of nature.”

Now, why do you suppose “global warming” has become the left’s new religion? Here again, you need only scratch the surface of their irrational rhetoric to appreciate a reservoir of primitive, volkisch-like sentiments of “unity” with mother earth, of healing the planet, etc. Never mind that premodern humans were the worst stewards of the planet imaginable, in part because they were so fused with it that they didn’t know the environment existed. Ironically, we only know about the environment because in the Judeo-Christian metaphysic, man transcends nature. But again, in the absence of a truly integral religious framework, this transcendence will be experienced as alienation, as if human beings have been exiled from mother earth, and need to come back down and re-merge with her like the prodigal mama’s boy.

For (non-left) Americans, the individual stands above the state, and derives his inalienable rights from the Creator. But for the volkist, the group is the supreme identity that stands above or behind the state. Truly, in Nazi Germany, there was only one individual, Hitler; but in turn, he was merely the “embodiment” of the volk, which is rooted in blood and soil. Thus, “it was the genius of Adolf Hitler to wed the volkisch flight from reality to political discipline and efficient political organization.”

To be continued....

More here: http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/

February 03, 2011

On Today's Program

Media still doesn't get it

The media still thinks that the protests in Egypt are simply freedom loving Egyptians seeking self determination, and Mubarak supporters starting violence to quell them. That's as deep as the media will go - but does anyone really believe thousands of years of turmoil in the Middle East can be boiled down to just that? Glenn's theory - which must be on to something because the left has rapidly sprung into action to discredit it - offers context and in-depth analysis. Get the 3 main points of Glenn's theory HERE.

Hannity confronts radical cleric

Sean Hannity confronted radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary on his program last night over his plans for an Islamic uprising, and instituting sharia law in the UK and elsewhere. Choudary unapologetically hopes for the Muslim Brotherhood to use this opportunity to gain control amidst the Egyptian turmoil. This confrontation serves as proof of what Glenn has said is coming - get the details HERE.

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The 7...Live!

Tomorrow at 2pm ET, Dr. Keith Ablow once again is LIVE and helping another person on their journey to press the reset button. This week it's Ron Usner, a 26 year old heroin addict. He's been in and out of jail since high school, causing untold damage to himself and his family. Ron has tried to get clean in the past - will this time be different? Watch the episode for FREE tomorrow at 2 pm EST. Get all the details and an overview of last week’s show HERE.

Another 'peaceful protest' from the left

Code Pink, the leftist group the media routinely applauds, has not only been working with the Muslim Brotherhood, they have been active in America as well. Their latest peaceful protest saw members saying they wanted to hang Clarence Thomas, kill Fox News executives, and one even challenged Glenn to a duel with her 'Glock.' Imagine if a Tea Partier said this? Game over. Glenn has more on Code Pink and their role in Egypt HERE.

Amanpour, Cooper attacked by Egyptian protesters who 'hate' Americans...WATCH

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