Saturday Night Beck (Bill Bennett)

National Review ^ | February 21, 2010 | Bill Bennett

[LibLieSlayer]

michael subs for bill on occasion... and he guest hosted quite a bit when steele was running for rnc chair. bennett allowed him the radio show to promote his candidacy. steele also stated that we needed to become more diverse, embrace a big tent and realize that the era of Reagan was over... that we had to change... and there was big bill bennett smiling and nodding in total agreement.

LLS

[newportnewz]

Gambling addict Bennett climbs aboard his teetering soapbox and scolds alcoholic Beck who readily admits is disease.

Bennett still bets on the GOP Beltway Boys because he is one.

Beck is correct about one party taxing and spending and the other spending and taxing less.

Either way we’re screwed.

No change equals no recovery.

[LibLieSlayer]

Good advice!

LLS

[plain talk]

Tea Partiers are just as mad at the Republican leadership as they are at the rest of the DC establishment

Just as mad? That is emotional nonsense.

[mazda77]

Yea, right.

[zeugma]

Bill Bennett has always been an apologist for the police state. I'm not surprised he didn't like Beck's speech.

BTW: does anyone know where a decent quality video I can download of that speech? I'm not interested in a stream, but want a file that I can share.

[Brian Allen]

Mr Beck is most certainly way off the reservation with his constantly claiming to be the product of having found his way to AA and parading his “recovering alcoholic” status.

AA’s Big Book says: “To show other alcoholics PRECISELY HOW WE HAVE RECOVERED is the main purpose of this book” (page xiii) And says recovered scores of other times, too. And AA also includes “anonymous” in its name — and in its tenets. That is so those sufferers of the disease who haven’t found AA yet, don’t have to look at those who trumpet their membership and think, “Hell, Man, I’d rather be drunk than be a Glenn Beck!”

“Recovering alcoholic,” meanwhile, is the invention of the fraudulent “treatment” center industry and of those statisticians who prefer we call them “psychologists.” And of those “drug and alcohol” “councilors” and “therapists” who lump the disease of Alcoholism (that has a diagnosis and recognizable symptoms) together with the consequences of bad choices and worse actions those who’ve made them and taken them prefer we call “addiction.” Yet another bullsh*t word invented by those who make their living defrauding insurance companies.

As for the “libertarian” Mr Beck’s take on any real similarities between actual Republicanism and the vast criminal enterprises that prefer we call them by their street name, the “Democratic” potty?

In my judgment Mr Recovering Beck’s a better front man for the touchy-feely health-insurance-company robbers than he is for we lovers of America’s Founding Law.

Glenn Beck - a buffoon by any other name!

PALIN/BOLTON/2012!