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the_ignored
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 Posted - 07/20/2009 : 15:33:29
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Ed Brayton has the story on that, as well as the video.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
Edited by - the_ignored on 07/20/2009 15:33:58
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/20/2009 : 18:44:56 [Permalink]
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It's intellectually difficult for me to understand how a man like Beck, filled only with venom and lies, makes any impact at all on his listeners.
How can people listen to the incoherent hateful ravings of a man who seems psychotic? I suppose the only answer must be that like attracts like. Thinking of the millions who listen to Beck's bullying tirades truly frightens me.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 07/20/2009 : 20:12:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
I suppose the only answer must be that like attracts like. |
Are you saying that Glenn Beck is homeopathic? |
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Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/20/2009 : 21:51:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
I suppose the only answer must be that like attracts like. |
Are you saying that Glenn Beck is homeopathic?
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If you mean, are his brain cells so diluted with water that his cranium probably contains none of them, then yes.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/21/2009 : 08:21:57 [Permalink]
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Beck is an idiot and his faithful listeners a waste of intestinal flora.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/21/2009 : 11:07:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Beck is an idiot and his faithful listeners a waste of intestinal flora.
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That's a good one  |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2009 : 12:32:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by astropin
Originally posted by filthy
Beck is an idiot and his faithful listeners a waste of intestinal flora.
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That's a good one
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Indeed, and a true one.
Only distantly related, but related nevertheless: 7/21/2009
Right Wingers Ready for Violence to Defend the Rich, White Way of Life:
Lost amid the sublime delights of hearing Glen Beck totally lose his shit and screech like a wounded weasel in a bear trap on his radio show was his suggestion on the July 13 edition of his Fox "news" show, The Cleveland Steamer with Glenn Beck, that people should arm themselves for a coming revolution. No, really. In a conversation with NRA CEO Wayne "That Is a Gun in My Pants and I'm Not Happy to See You" LaPierre over whether Sonia Sotomayor would interpret the 2nd Amendment the way they believe it ought to be interpreted, Beck offered, "Would you say that our president or our government's stock market really is gun sales. That when gun sales go down -- everybody wants to say, 'Well, I protect guns for hunters,' even though -- I mean, look, I came from a family of hunters. I get it. But that's not -- the Founding Fathers weren't like, 'Well, we might want to go out and, you know, shoot some squirrel.' They did it because of an out-of-control government. And as gun sales go up, that's because we don't trust the government. That is -- that is the fundamental guttural understanding of the Second Amendment. People don't trust the government, they go out and buy a gun." |
And so forth. The whole thing is worth a read.
Anyone who doesn't know what a "Cleveland steamer" is, will have to lookitup 'cause it's disgusting enough that even I don't care to talk about it. Unfortunately, it represents exactly the outpourings of the right-wing media as represented by FOX Nooz and their affiliates, and of some more or less free-lancers such as Limbaugh and the Savage Wiener all too well.
They are a blight on the national discourse; a festering, fungal infection on nation's intellect. They are deserving of nothing but scorn and, as we no longer do public pillorying, vicious ridicule every time they slither out from under the conservative dung heaps wherein they dwell. They should, as the Rude Pundit would so delicately put it, be sodomized with their own microphones. Sideways!
They are unworthy of any respect whatsoever and certainly no attention other than that described above. Further, those brain-spavined fools who actually believe in their verbal defections need to go into reality therapy in order to get their heads back straight -- they've been bent into weird shapes ever since the total ass, Reagan, was in office, and that's too way long.
But I'm sure that for as long as Beck and the rest continue to felch Reagan's once-rotting-now-dessicated corpse for their corporate masters, the information we recieve, not just from FOX, but from it's diluted counterparts as well, will continue to suffer the lies and deceit they spew forth in their semi-coherent hysteria.
Oh, and if anyone doesn't know the meaning of "to felch," they can look that'n up as well.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2009 : 19:59:24 [Permalink]
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| Well, if we got to flimsily related bitching about fox News, here is a clip from Fox News were the analyst recommend to let the Taliban kill a captured US soldier. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 07/21/2009 : 20:19:53 [Permalink]
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| While I do think FOX news and right-wing radio talking heads are awful, I do disagree with the rude pundit including Olbermann and Maddow in the list of awful shows in purgatory. Olbermann and Maddow are both generally informative, I'm not sure there is any educational value in watching FOX. |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2009 : 01:39:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
While I do think FOX news and right-wing radio talking heads are awful, I do disagree with the rude pundit including Olbermann and Maddow in the list of awful shows in purgatory. Olbermann and Maddow are both generally informative, I'm not sure there is any educational value in watching FOX.
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There is great educational value in watching FOX Nooz. It teaches you all about how propaganda works. There's just no informational value in it. Maddow and Obermann too, are propagandists albeit more truth-oriented than the rest. Which was pretty much the point of RP's screed.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2009 : 07:52:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
While I do think FOX news and right-wing radio talking heads are awful, I do disagree with the rude pundit including Olbermann and Maddow in the list of awful shows in purgatory. Olbermann and Maddow are both generally informative, I'm not sure there is any educational value in watching FOX.
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I think the Rude Pundit's point was about partisan reporting, regardless of the degree and orientation.
Also, in my personal biased opinion, it would be difficult to find as dishonest as Beck or O'Reilly on the left. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2009 : 11:42:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Originally posted by podcat
While I do think FOX news and right-wing radio talking heads are awful, I do disagree with the rude pundit including Olbermann and Maddow in the list of awful shows in purgatory. Olbermann and Maddow are both generally informative, I'm not sure there is any educational value in watching FOX.
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I think the Rude Pundit's point was about partisan reporting, regardless of the degree and orientation.
Also, in my personal biased opinion, it would be difficult to find as dishonest as Beck or O'Reilly on the left.
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Yes, that was also my take on the inclusion of Olberman and Maddow. It wasn't that they are bad or dishonest like the NeoCon talking heads, simply that they are representative of there being too much opinion presented as if it were news. Of course, most of that is purely in the control of GOP/Fox. There needs to be some real journalism going on, with dashes of diverse opinion on the side.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2009 : 12:40:26 [Permalink]
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| You mean there was a time when Glenn Beck wasn't nuts? |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 07/22/2009 : 20:17:34 [Permalink]
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And now, for your heavy metal dancing pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3yn3SelVCs |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
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Glenn Beck goes nuts?
