Comments on: Beck: CA wildifires hitting some ‘people who hate America.’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:45:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: TC-12 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4130455 TC-12 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:57:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4130455 E-mail I sent to CNN-Main and CNN-Beck: GLENN BECK: “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” The "Magic Fire" in California originated yesterday just 2 miles from my house. Apparently if my home had burned, this would make Beck happy. How could CNN wrap their arms around such a pathetic little prick like Beck? And why would you want a weasel like him representing CNN? And with his last-place ratings, no less! -- you're not even getting anything out of your deal with this devil. E-mail I sent to CNN-Main and CNN-Beck:

GLENN BECK: “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” The “Magic Fire” in California originated yesterday just 2 miles from my house. Apparently if my home had burned, this would make Beck happy. How could CNN wrap their arms around such a pathetic little prick like Beck? And why would you want a weasel like him representing CNN? And with his last-place ratings, no less! — you’re not even getting anything out of your deal with this devil.

]]> By: Willy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4129847 Willy Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:31:38 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129847 What a despicable bastard. Anyone who is happy when American's homes are burned, <strong>obviously</strong> hates America. What is ironic about this moronic statement is that the worst fires are in the San Diego which is mostly a Republican part of California. This moron not only hates America but he also hates Republicans. What a despicable bastard. Anyone who is happy when American’s homes are burned, obviously hates America.

What is ironic about this moronic statement is that the worst fires are in the San
Diego which is mostly a Republican part of California. This moron not only hates America but he also hates Republicans.

]]> By: Tender Chicken http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4129812 Tender Chicken Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:04:00 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129812 Sung to the tune of the Green Acres theme: Glenn Beck is so very looney Water carryin' the life for he Brown nosin' the republican side TV and radio, hearin' him countrywide Padded cell is where he oughta stay Not on U.S. air making hay Gonna give him a jailhouse view Glenn old boy nobody's in love with you Nothing more! Bush whore! Dead air! That's fair! Glenn is a loon Getting' rid of him soon Obscurity he'll be there! Sung to the tune of the Green Acres theme:

Glenn Beck is so very looney
Water carryin’ the life for he
Brown nosin’ the republican side
TV and radio, hearin’ him countrywide

Padded cell is where he oughta stay
Not on U.S. air making hay
Gonna give him a jailhouse view
Glenn old boy nobody’s in love with you

Nothing more!
Bush whore!
Dead air!
That’s fair!

Glenn is a loon
Getting’ rid of him soon
Obscurity he’ll be there!

]]> By: bernard quatermass http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4129329 bernard quatermass Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:42:36 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129329 Like most people of his ilk, Beck is completely and utterly incoherent. His ramblings make no sense except as the rumblings and emotional farts of a stunted emotional system. If you try to diagram the "thought" behind this slab of words, you will go insane. There is no "thought" there. Like most people of his ilk, Beck is completely and utterly incoherent. His ramblings make no sense except as the rumblings and emotional farts of a stunted emotional system.

If you try to diagram the “thought” behind this slab of words, you will go insane. There is no “thought” there.

]]> By: WoosterLibertarian http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4129315 WoosterLibertarian Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:36:22 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129315 I think Glenn Beck needs to get that huge stick out of his ass. I think Glenn Beck needs to get that huge stick out of his ass.

]]> By: Jane E. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4129301 Jane E. Schneider Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:50:18 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129301 What Beck forgets is that in saying that America-haters' homes are being burned, why are the America-lovers' homes being burned as well? I have friends in that area whom I'm concerned about - I'm even concerned about Mighty Aphrodite/Valiant Venus, she lives there, too. I may disagree with her, but I wouldn't want her to lose her home. What Beck forgets is that in saying that America-haters’ homes are being burned, why are the America-lovers’ homes being burned as well? I have friends in that area whom I’m concerned about – I’m even concerned about Mighty Aphrodite/Valiant Venus, she lives there, too. I may disagree with her, but I wouldn’t want her to lose her home.

]]> By: TC-12 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-5/#comment-4129286 TC-12 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:10:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129286 The latest of the fires, the “Stevenson Ranch / Valencia” fire, erupted just as I was leaving for work today, and about 2 miles from my house. My home wouldn’t likely be touched by flames due to its more urban location, but if it did burn, apparently this would make Beck happy. May that pathetic little sh*t rot in hell. The latest of the fires, the “Stevenson Ranch / Valencia” fire, erupted just as I was leaving for work today, and about 2 miles from my house. My home wouldn’t likely be touched by flames due to its more urban location, but if it did burn, apparently this would make Beck happy. May that pathetic little sh*t rot in hell.

]]> By: Willy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4129281 Willy Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:53:53 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129281 The way this works is that the wildfires are a by-product of intelligent design such that the fires have just enough intelligence such that they only burn the houses of liberals who hate America. See how simple this is. ** eyes roll ** The way this works is that the wildfires are a by-product of intelligent design such that the fires have just enough intelligence such that they only burn the houses of liberals who hate America. See how simple this is.

** eyes roll **

]]> By: Bluestocking http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4129260 Bluestocking Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:16:52 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129260 All Beck's comment serves to do is add one more piece of evidence to the ever-growing pile demonstrating that the phrase "compassionate conservative" is indeed an oxymoron. All Beck’s comment serves to do is add one more piece of evidence to the ever-growing pile demonstrating that the phrase “compassionate conservative” is indeed an oxymoron.

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4129251 Keith Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:46:35 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129251 Those are your constituents! And that’s YOUR attitude! Learn something on the topic, or STFU, ok junior? Comment by republicans hate facts — October 22, 2007 @ 9:41 pm Are you getting me mixed up with Keltoi? I'm on your side. I have agreed with everything you have posted. You mentioned how the Vatican was wrong and Galileo was right. I said it was only a few years ago that they admitted they were wrong. Then I mentioned two other crazy ideas that rightwingers have today---that humans lived with dinosaurs and that the Earth is fixed with the universe revolving around it. Friends? Those are your constituents! And that’s YOUR attitude! Learn something on the topic, or STFU, ok junior?
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 22, 2007 @ 9:41 pm

Are you getting me mixed up with Keltoi? I’m on your side. I have agreed with everything you have posted. You mentioned how the Vatican was wrong and Galileo was right. I said it was only a few years ago that they admitted they were wrong. Then I mentioned two other crazy ideas that rightwingers have today—that humans lived with dinosaurs and that the Earth is fixed with the universe revolving around it. Friends?

]]> By: Xisithrus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4129238 Xisithrus Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:10:08 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129238 Would the media please stop repeating what these inane controversialists say. It wont make me watch Gwynn Blechhs show or listen to the audio. Would the media please stop repeating what these inane controversialists say. It wont make me watch Gwynn Blechhs show or listen to the audio.

]]> By: lefty http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4129120 lefty Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:08:50 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129120 It truly amazes me that conservatives are never embarassed. Beck is a moron. I think my dog is smarter. It truly amazes me that conservatives are never embarassed. Beck is a moron. I think my dog is smarter.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4129117 pete Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:06:51 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4129117 I don't think most American Christians hold no truck with no Papists! That there Gally Leo is Burnin' in Hell right now. /sarc off I don’t think most American Christians hold no truck with no Papists! That there Gally Leo is Burnin’ in Hell right now. /sarc off

]]> By: Jackie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128994 Jackie Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:00:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128994 The people in the area hit by fires pay high taxes to the Federal Treasury. Now the Bush Family and the GOP felt that the victims of Katrina didn't count because they were poor but now the GOP is telling those with multi-million dollar homes and income that don't count either. One home was valued at 17 million dollars I guess the White House thinks that a cheap home. Millions are losing their homes because of sub-prime, millions are losing their jobs now all the taxpayers money is going to Iraq/Afghanistan/Halliburton profits. Americans need international help as the fires, health care and Americans suffering from stolen economy. Can the Saudi King give a little help as he is best friends with Bush. The people in the area hit by fires pay high taxes to the Federal Treasury. Now the Bush Family and the GOP felt that the victims of Katrina didn’t count because they were poor but now the GOP is telling those with multi-million dollar homes and income that don’t count either. One home was valued at 17 million dollars I guess the White House thinks that a cheap home. Millions are losing their homes because of sub-prime, millions are losing their jobs now all the taxpayers money is going to Iraq/Afghanistan/Halliburton profits. Americans need international help as the fires, health care and Americans suffering from stolen economy. Can the Saudi King give a little help as he is best friends with Bush.

]]> By: Keltoi at Night http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128933 Keltoi at Night Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:33:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128933 Oh please, just because you’re TOO STUPID and IGNORANT to know, don’t project that ignorance on me - moron! Comment by republicans hate facts — October 22, 2007 @ 7:57 pm You're an angry little guy, aren't you? Was that you in Bill Maher's audience the other night? Oh please, just because you’re TOO STUPID and IGNORANT to know, don’t project that ignorance on me – moron!
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 22, 2007 @ 7:57 pm

You’re an angry little guy, aren’t you? Was that you in Bill Maher’s audience the other night?

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128919 Keith Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:28:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128919 Comment by republicans hate facts — October 22, 2007 @ 8:19 pm I agree. It was only a few years ago that the Vatican said Galileo was right and apologized for his excommunication. There is a museum in Kentucky that says humans lived with dinosaurs. One of the top legislators in Texas hands out a pamphlet saying the entire universe revolves around a fixed Earth. Comment by republicans hate facts — October 22, 2007 @ 8:19 pm

I agree. It was only a few years ago that the Vatican said Galileo was right and apologized for his excommunication. There is a museum in Kentucky that says humans lived with dinosaurs. One of the top legislators in Texas hands out a pamphlet saying the entire universe revolves around a fixed Earth.

]]> By: barfly http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128903 barfly Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:19:28 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128903 "Of course calling us ‘complicated apes’ (a term meant to imply we have very little capacity to do big things - how demeaning from a not so complicated monkey) doesn’t account for our ability to shove almost 30 billion metric tons of CO2 into the air annually, not to mention the other greenhouse gases! " And when the methane clathrates begin to melt, they'll look back at the present, nostalgic for "the good old days" when they could just willfully ignore the truth. “Of course calling us ‘complicated apes’ (a term meant to imply we have very little capacity to do big things – how demeaning from a not so complicated monkey) doesn’t account for our ability to shove almost 30 billion metric tons of CO2 into the air annually, not to mention the other greenhouse gases! ”

And when the methane clathrates begin to melt, they’ll look back at the present, nostalgic for “the good old days” when they could just willfully ignore the truth.

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128901 Keith Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:18:38 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128901 The reason Venus is much hotter than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, is due to Venus' greenhouse effect. The reason Venus is much hotter than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, is due to Venus’ greenhouse effect.

]]> By: Keith http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128892 Keith Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:11:05 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128892 Keltoi at Night, It is true that you and I and ralph and republicanshatefacts have not spent our lives studying earth's temperatures. But of the scientists who HAVE, all but a very tiny percentage agree with Al Gore or what I am saying. This tiny percentage who does not agree that we are now experiencing severe man-made climate change are mostly paid large amounts of money to say the things they are saying. Look at where Heritage/Hudson gets its money. Of course ice ages have come and gone on the Earth before there ever were human beings. But it is also true that there are records in Antarctica's ice that go back 600,000 years. When they are studied, they say we are really experiencing something unusual today. Keltoi at Night,

It is true that you and I and ralph and republicanshatefacts have not spent our lives studying earth’s temperatures. But of the scientists who HAVE, all but a very tiny percentage agree with Al Gore or what I am saying.

This tiny percentage who does not agree that we are now experiencing severe man-made climate change are mostly paid large amounts of money to say the things they are saying. Look at where Heritage/Hudson gets its money.

Of course ice ages have come and gone on the Earth before there ever were human beings. But it is also true that there are records in Antarctica’s ice that go back 600,000 years. When they are studied, they say we are really experiencing something unusual today.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/comment-page-4/#comment-4128887 pete Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:08:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/beck-ca-wildifires-hitting-some-%e2%80%98people-who-hate-america%e2%80%99/#comment-4128887 I'm not going to jump in the middle of another GW fight but, here's a quick factoid. The CO2 content of the atmosphere is, as nearly as science can estimate, the highest it's been in, at least, 800,000 years. Give or take. This level has increased, exponentially, since reliable records have been kept. This fact is beyond dispute. And I'll leave it to you all to choose how to use it in your arguments. I will offer one quick opinion though. Messing with the composition of the Earth's atmosphere has unknowable consequences. I hope we, as a race, don't eff it up! I’m not going to jump in the middle of another GW fight but, here’s a quick factoid. The CO2 content of the atmosphere is, as nearly as science can estimate, the highest it’s been in, at least, 800,000 years. Give or take. This level has increased, exponentially, since reliable records have been kept. This fact is beyond dispute. And I’ll leave it to you all to choose how to use it in your arguments.

I will offer one quick opinion though. Messing with the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere has unknowable consequences. I hope we, as a race, don’t eff it up!

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