Sounds like something from high school:
Beck likes hacks, neener-neener-neener...
In late 2001, in the wake of 9/11, Alter wrote a column backing certain kinds of torture[3], arguing for the implementation of a psychological torture program in the U.S., as well as having prisoners in American custody shipped oversees to be tortured more severely elsewhere. Alter later regretted the column. "There is one column I'd very much like to have back--a column that to this day makes me wince at the thought of it. This column was not technically inaccurate, but it was still a mistake--a big mistake--to write it."[4]
Alter became a sometimes fierce critic of President Bush[citation needed], with a particular emphasis on what Alter considered his lack of accountability and his position on embryonic stem cell research. Alter, who is a cancer survivor, has written and spoken occasionally about his own bout with lymphoma and experience with an adult stem-cell transplant. The Defining Moment, which was reviewed respectfully, surprised some critics with its depiction of how close the United States came to dictatorship before Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, painting him as the savior of American democracy and capitalism. During an interview with 60 Minutes on November 14, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama said he had recently been reading The Defining Moment and hoped to apply some of Roosevelt's strategies that were outlined in the book into his own administration.[5]
Alter is a ‘tard, to put it in Rahm-like liberaleze.
By his logic, Beck dislikes FDR, and therefore was rooting for the Nazis in WWII.
THis would be an excellent idea. The republic was much stronger when the states had this power....
Wow. That piece would be dripping with red ink even if it were to be turned in by an 8th grader. I’m toying with the idea of tacking on a couple of weekends of detention.
Beck is interesting at times, incomprehensible at others. He is certainly no Rush Limbaugh.
The bloodiest centrury in human history? Why not.
No serious person would mistake Jonathan Alter for a newsman.
HA! Beck still can't hold Rush's jock strap after a round at Pebble Beach!
“The goal is to discredit “progressivism” as they did “liberalism.”
Liberalism discredited ITSELF, Mr Alter! Even with 24/7 cheer leading and covering up by the MSM, liberalism was exposed as the dangerous fraud it had always been. Why do you think you people had to change your name to “progressive?”
Other than spelling Limbaugh’s name right, I’m not sure there is a factually accurate statement in the entire hit piece.
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Where to start?
This guy is pretty much wrong, on everything.
Alter lost his brains years ago. We know he lost his rug.
Was this really penned by Alter, or one of a certain number of FReepers?
Beck hasn’t whined about ANY of these examples:
* Only men voting: The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was the product of progressivisim. Beck thinks women are second-class citizens.
* No cell phone or low-cost long-distance telephone service: It was the breakup of AT&T in the 1970s under the progressive antitrust laws that allowed for today’s telecommunications (and computer) systems. Beck thinks corporations should have no restraints at all.
* State legislatures electing U.S. senators: The 17th Amendment, part of the progressive movement, allowed for the direct election of senators. If you think the Senate is bad now, imagine what it was like when state legislators were the only voters. (They defeated Abraham Lincoln in Illinois in 1858 even though he won the popular vote for Senate). Beck likes hacks.
Whomever wrote this has not a farking clue what Beck is about.
News w....who? Is that the “climbing” magazine? he he he he he....
Partisan media shill Jonathan Alter, writing in Newsweek. Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.