Beck: ‘Rick Santorum Is A Winston Churchill’
Beck: ‘Rick Santorum Is A Winston Churchill’
This morning on NPR, host Steve Inskeep asked right-wing pundit Glenn Beck who the “rising star” is in the conservative movement. Beck’s response? Defeated senator Rick Santorum. “I think the guy is a Winston Churchill in many ways,” said Beck. From the exchange:
BECK: You know, there’s really only one guy that I’ve talked to that I really really like. I think the guy is a Winston Churchill in many ways. He blew his Senate campaign because he spoke the truth. His advisers kept saying, “Don’t say this, don’t say this, this is going to hurt you.”
And that’s Rick Santorum out of Pennsylvania. I think this guy really has it. I think he really understands the world we live in right now.
Listen to it:
Santorum would probably like this comparison. Whereas Churchill was actually battling Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in World War II, Santorum likes to pretend he is fighting a similar foe. In 2005, he blasted Democrats blocking President Bush’s judicial nominees and compared them to “Adolf Hitler in 1942“:
Some are suggesting we’re trying to change the law, we’re trying to break the rules. Remarkable. Remarkable hubris.
I mean, imagine. The rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm judges. Broken by the other side two years ago, and the audacity of some members to stand up and say, “How dare you break this rule?”
It’s the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942: “I’m in Paris. How dare you invade me? How dare you bomb my city? It’s mine.”
This isn’t the first time that Beck has compared Santorum to Churchill. In 2006, Beck hosted Santorum on his CNN Headline News show. “I’m going to be ripped apart for calling you Churchill,” said Beck. Santorum happily responded, “It’ll be a pleasure.”
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February 26th, 2008 at 10:26 amGlad to see Beck is keeping his streak of being completely wrong still going. Rick Santorum is to Churchill as Beck is to Kronkite.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:26 amOld Winny would laugh his drunken ass off at the comparison with a pampered twit like Santorum. Beck’s been sniffing his magic markers again.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:26 amAnybody recall that good ole Ricky was a theif that was getting a free education for his kids in the wrong state at the expense of taxpayers? Yeah, Churchill makes me think of petty, slimy, theivery…..right………………..
February 26th, 2008 at 10:28 amSantorum is “a Churchill” only if the comparison is made in real time — Ricky being the doofus he is today, and Churchill being a rotting corpse.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:31 amI would compare Santorum to the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
February 26th, 2008 at 10:32 amBeck’s correct, in one sense. Santorum blew his campaign because he did speak his mind, and the voters of Pennsylvania realized that the dude was batshit crazy.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:33 amYes, Santorum is Churchill, and next week he’ll be George Orwell with a side order of Willie Mays. Smarter idiots, please . . .
February 26th, 2008 at 10:33 amAnd, I might add, with political instincts like this, Beck would make a truly fabulous campaign manager for John McCain. Go, Glenn!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:34 amSo glad I was here (in Pittsburgh) and able to help rid this state of this complete and utter Nazi!
My favorite anti-rick site:
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/
The frothy mix… funny stuff! ;)
February 26th, 2008 at 10:35 amMr. Sanitarium: You are no Winston Churchill!!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:36 amRick Nazi of the Sanitarium fame.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:36 amor is it of the crematorium fame?
February 26th, 2008 at 10:37 amI’ve always thought Santorum sounded and looked a bit like the bloviating, conservative gasbag, Stephen Colbert. I think that’s the best Ricky can aspire to.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:37 amI know what Santorum is… but what is a Winston Churchill??? Beck is way more up on his naughty slang than I thought…
February 26th, 2008 at 10:37 amMaybe Blech was comparing speaking style.
Quotable Churchill: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Quotable Santorum: “Man on dog”
Hmmm. Maybe not.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amGlad that his nazi butt was driven out of congress. Hooray for the Senate - one less demented criminal representing us.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amMy favorite anti-rick site:
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/
The frothy mix… funny stuff! ;)
Comment by TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong — February 26, 2008 @ 10:35 am
Ahh- you beat me to it, RRRW
February 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amWinston Churchill? Maybe a Winston cigarette, but no Churchill.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:39 amI thought Santorum was that nasty mixture of…. well you know.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:39 amOMG - I can’t stop laughing. This man on dog “Rooster” WAS my Senator. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition that he is no longer in the Senate. A more appropriate comparison would be to choose someone from the Spanish Inquisition. I don’t have any names at hand right now, but I’m sure I could find some if I used “the google” to serf the tubes of the Internets.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:41 amCLEVELAND — The Democratic presidential debate inside the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University tonight, Feb. 26, promises to be every bit as stormy as the winter weather outside, and the consensus seems to be that Sen. Hillary Clinton needs a decisive victory against Sen. Barack Obama.
“She’s got to throw some pretty hard punches and hope she lands some,” said Christopher Duncan, chairman of the political science department at the University of Dayton. “He’s ahead on points. His job is to avoid getting hit too hard.”
ccokzblog
February 26th, 2008 at 10:41 amWell, duh! This one’s a natural! Doesn’t anyone remember Churchill’s famous rally cry in 1941?
“If Hitler and his armies of darkness claim Europe, then civilization as we know it shall be upended, and men will fornicate with their domesticated animals.”
February 26th, 2008 at 10:41 amspreading santorum. damn funny site. Quite the visual definition of santorum as well.
I’m now going to bleach my eyes.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:42 amSure, Rick (gee your hair smells terriffic) Santorum is Winston Churchill.
Bush is Lincoln right . Of course he is, and how darling he looks in the giant hat.
Cheney is Satan. (Hey it’s possible.)
And Glen Beck aspires to be as blatantly out of touch with reality as Bill Kristol. It’s a lofty goal but what a start he has already.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:43 am“I’m going to be ripped apart for calling you Churchill,†said Beck.
Santorum happily responded, “It’ll be a pleasure.â€
a pleasure to see beck “ripped apart”?
February 26th, 2008 at 10:45 amIn reading about Churchill on Wikipedia, I immediately saw ALL the similarities. NOT!! Beck is a certified nut…he has also compared those concerned about global warming with Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
February 26th, 2008 at 10:47 amLast night, Beck compared Barack Obama to Putin and repeatedly reffered to Obama’s ideas as “soviet”
I wonder how many people have stopped watching CNN because of this guy? If i was a comedian, i would watch his show religiously. How he avoids constant embarrassment from the likes of the Daily Show and Colbert is beyond me.
He went in for butt surgery a few weeks back and had to take so long off because as anyone knows, a TV pundit is useless without the orifice from which they speak.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:53 amComedy gold Beck. This is schtick right.
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. –Lady
Astor to Winston Churchill Madam, if you were my wife, I would
drink it. — His reply
I’m pretty sure if he were Santorum he’d drink the poison too.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am“Ahh- you beat me to it, RRRW”
Comment by belac — February 26, 2008 @ 10:38 am
;) true, but I liked your play on the “what’s a winston churchill?”
I used to keep a link to all of those “nick-names” But then they were all starting to remind me of repug politicians so I had to burn that conputer. ;)
February 26th, 2008 at 10:54 amComment by Abdul Hassan — February 26, 2008 @ 10:52 am
Flag the troll.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:55 amhe may be right… it’s possible Santorum would’ve also sent the Black and Tans to terrorise the Irish in their own country… people who think Churchy was a hero only know part of the story…
February 26th, 2008 at 10:55 amComment by Abdul Hassan — February 26, 2008 @ 10:52 am
You were busted yesterday troll, be gone.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:56 amAbdul you sound like a moron who’s been here before.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:00 amSir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. –Lady Astor to Winston Churchill Madam, if you were my wife, I would
drink it. — His reply
I’m pretty sure if he were Santorum he’d drink the poison too.
Comment by Shayne — February 26, 2008 @ 10:54 am
SNAP!! I love it.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:00 amChoos a side!
Comment by Abdul Hassan — February 26, 2008 @ 10:58 am
I’ll choose to flag. Thanks anyway.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:02 amIt’s a troll, alrighty! My Troll-darâ„¢ is going off like crazy.
Flag away, folks.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:02 amJust keep flagging it over and over again. It will be gone.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:05 amI’m not a troll. Do you have a problem with a Muslim American posting his thoughts? Many on this board agree with me and are against the Zionist-Crudader Cabal. Where do you stand? Are you with the Progressives and Muslims or with the Zionist Crusaders?
Choos a side!
Comment by Abdul Hassan — February 26, 2008 @ 10:58 am
You’re neither Progressive nor Muslim. You are at best an offensive stereotype of what the Little Green Footballs/Michele Malkin crowd thinks a Muslim or Progressive is. Kindly go back to those places and take your phony politics with you.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:05 amFocus, people. The thread is about an idiot saying idiot things about another idiot.
Do you think Beck knows anything about Churchill besides almost losing against Germany?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am100% correct, toasterhead. Flag, flag, flag away!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:07 amDo you think Beck knows anything about Churchill besides almost losing against Germany?
Comment by Juan C. — February 26, 2008 @ 11:07 am
I would bet anyone $1 that the only thing Beck knows about Churchill is that he bears a striking resemblance to The Penguin from Batman. ;)
February 26th, 2008 at 11:08 amI aplogioze if anything I said has offended anyone here. However as a Muslim-American I find this to be one of the few places that understands what my community is going through.
Comment by Abdul Hassan — February 26, 2008 @ 11:04 am
What is your community going through, exactly? And which is your community? The experiences of American Muslims of, say, Pakistani descent are rather different than those of Palestinian descent or Indonesian descent, no? In fact, surveys show that most American Muslims are doing quite well in this country - they feel far less isolated and have far higher social and economic standing than their counterparts in Western Europe, where Muslims face almost Naziesque discrimination.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:09 amLady Z, he’s back…..Is it patrick, michel, mr. right or ma in drag…..Just another freaky day that nurse betty forgot to hand out the troll med’s…Well no problem, just flag the fruit cake….
Beck? Does anyone watch this wacko.?..He and Santorum belong together like cheney/bush, limpbaugh/o’lilie, kristal ball’s /coultergist…Their all the same slime……Blessings all….
February 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am“Focus, people. The thread is about an idiot saying idiot things about another idiot. ”
And how long can one thread be milked, when the topic is so udderly banal and boring?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:11 amreally, though… WHY is beck on CNN ? …
he is definitely fox material… why CNN?
sumpins up wit dat…
February 26th, 2008 at 11:12 amFocus, people. The thread is about an idiot saying idiot things about another idiot.
Comment by Juan C. — February 26, 2008 @ 11:07 am
I had the unfortunate luck to have this interview be the last thing I heard before I got on the train this morning. I had to listen to two Radiolab podcasts just to clear the stupid out of my head.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:13 amIf Ben Gleck thinks Sanctorum = Churchill then it would follow that Bush = Queen Victoria.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:13 amZoo, what do you mean by resemblance…? I thought that… OMG!!!
:)
February 26th, 2008 at 11:14 amAbdul:
Your comments were offensive to Christians, Jews, Atheists, and others - although I don’t thing flagging you is appropriate. Your opinion is as valid as any other.
Please keep in mind that all religions are equally false, and that your assertion that Islam is the only “real†church is ridiculous in addition to being the height of intellectual dishonesty.
The pot calls the kettle black.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:15 amBeck is a double agent, sent to make Republicans look stupider. Hilarious!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:16 amBeck is really stroking this pathetic loser. With those comments you don’t have to look hard to see who the real Nazis are. Abdul, it’s nice to see a Muslim standing against tyranny, too bad the ones in the Middle East and Asia don’t.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:18 amtoasterhead,
The FBI is monitoring all phone calls of Muslim Americans. We are harrassed at airports. This website has fought against this. That’s why I’m shocked at the hostility to me here. I have respected Progressives as standing up for Muslims against a socity that would lynch us, if given the opportunity. I am sad at the hostility here.
Comment by Abdul Hassan — February 26, 2008 @ 11:12 am
And it’s purely a coincidence that every time you start posting here, someone named “Crusader” shows up at my blog and starts posting that Muhammad was a pedophile and threatens to report me to the FBI, right?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:18 amInteresting. Lost because he told the truth? Did he tell the truth about tort reform?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:18 amI thought he lost because he was a creepy Bible-thumper who claimed to be against the trial lawyers until he decided to sue some people. I thought that the people of PA saw that he had no real moral values and that he would say something, and then do the opposite when it suited his purpose.
That’s the problem with being for tort reform. Even people who claim to be your friends will turn on you in an instant.
Guido, unlike Colbert, Beck doesn’t know it.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:19 amOh lord. Just when I thought Blech couldn’t get any stoopider, he goes and gets even more stoopider.
Poor man. His parents must be so ashamed to see him defecating on himself on television every day…
February 26th, 2008 at 11:20 amBeck is santorum.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:21 amYa Skeet, it’s like telling the truth is something bad to Beck, I can’t stop laughing.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:21 amRick SantorumWinston Churchill? Now that is some crazy shit.
Abdul Hassan? Just annoying and a sort of lame cry for attention
February 26th, 2008 at 11:22 amI was convinced that Beck was just another lower-tier right-wing idiot.
This Santorum=Churchill rap is making me reconsider.
No one could say something that stupid and mean it. I’m starting to think that Glenn Beck is Stephen Colbert on steroids: a right-wing parody so subversive, so spot-on that he’s escaped detection for years.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:22 amIf Ben Gleck thinks Sanctorum = Churchill then it would follow that Bush = Queen Victoria.
Comment by RUCerious — February 26, 2008 @ 11:13 am
Everybody knows Bush = Caligula. Yeesh.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:24 amAw shucks Abdul is gone…
February 26th, 2008 at 11:24 amI say less Beck more Robin on Headline News.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:24 amIf Winston Churchill was like Santorum…England will be still under Germany.
Not even close to a pack of Winston’s cigarettes.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:25 amBeck is a double agent, sent to make Republicans look stupider. Hilarious!
Comment by Guido OBGYN Lover — February 26, 2008 @ 11:16 am
Well then he is extremely successful.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:26 amI see not everything that gets sent gets posted, I should’ve used better judgment. Sorry.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:28 amDid Churchill believe homosexual couples is equivalent to bestiality? I may have missed that quote.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:34 amThat is the exact reason why reich-wingers are heading towards permanent minority status….they keep speaking their minds.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:35 amThe only use Churchill would have for Santorum is as a rough surface to scratch a match across so he could light his cigar.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am#43 toasterhead,
you are 100% correct
This guy so called Abdul Hassan sounds like a fake Arab to me..
He just posts to create ugly and dirty debates; enjoys putting one side against the other.
Just put him on ignore.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:36 amIt is the best remedy for people like him.
The ONLY proper response is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
February 26th, 2008 at 11:46 amI agree with Santorum - it would be a pleasure to see Beck be “ripped apart” Why doe this guy get interviewed on NPR?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:48 amAs a Pennsylvanian I would like to remind the world that at the start of the campaign Santorum was 17 points down. Over five million dollars later, he lost by seventeen points.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:53 amI have never watched or listened to Beck before this morning, but he obsessed on his alchoholism, was incoherent, and frankly sounded like a lunatic. If this is a major spokesman for the right wing I pity the movement.
gag…cough….choke….cough….puke.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pmBadmoonman 10:37-
February 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pmYou DO know that Colbert is a parody of a bloviating conservative, right?
BECK: And that’s Rick Santorum out of Pennsylvania. I think this guy really has it. I think he really understands the world we live in right now.
He “understands” everything so well , how come he got trounced in his re-election bid , nitwit ?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pmBaby in a jar!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:30 pmBeck: Rick “man on dog” Santorum is a “rising star” is in the conservative movement.
Um, Glenn, the people of Pennsylvania just gave Little Ricky the heave-ho, and he won’t be making a comeback.
Thanks to the conservative movement’s proclivity for picking standard bearers like Smirky the Chimp — the Worst President Ever — all their “rising stars” appear to be setting — and not a minute too soon.
Next for conservative Newspeak: Down. It’s the new Up.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pmHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My god… I knew that Beck was a comedian (you know, like Rush he’s an “entertainer”) but THAT is funny.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:52 pmBECK: And that’s Rick Santorum out of Pennsylvania. I think this guy really has it. I think he really understands the world we live in right now.
You mean the same imbecile , when asked by AP reporter Lara Lakes Jordan if homosexuality should be outlawed , replied that the right to privacy “doesn’t exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution” ?
Yeah , he’s a real Renaissance man , isn’t he ?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pmSenator, I served with Winston Churchill: I knew Winston Churhill; Winston Churchill was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Winston Churchill.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pmI’m starting to get convinced that Ben Gleck sees how succussful Mr. Colbert is, and is moving in the direction of parody. Nobody could recommend Sick Rantorum with a straight face. Nobody.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pmWhen he was known as ‘Butcher of Gallipoli’?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:17 pmCAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY NPR (the supposedly “liberal” public broadcaster) IS GIVING ANY MORE FREE PUBLICITY AND AIR TIME TO THE LIKES OF GLENN BECK?!?!?!
February 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pmDoesn’t Beck have too much publicity already?
Rick Sanscrotum is always smiling. You just can’t trust someone that smiles constantly while they talk. Or is it his new vibrating butt plug?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pmIsn’t it about time for Rick to have a sex scandal so we can pretend to be shocked and be rid of him once and for all?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pmSantorum is another Churchhill? Yeah, right. And Glenn Beck is another Edward R. Murrow.
http://newsprism.wordpress.com
February 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pmAnd I’m Henry the VIII I am.
-AF
February 26th, 2008 at 1:59 pmSounds like Beck has a man-crush on Santorum.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:15 pmSo those Doctors weren’t able to extract Glennnnn’s head, were they?
No wonder he was upset with his outcome (or lack thereof)
At least he’s got a few pals left, like Rick, who suffer from the same condition (recto-encephalopathy) - they make a cute support group.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pmLittle Ricky Scrotum, the next Winston Churchill?? LOL! This must be a April Fools Day joke. No, Glenn, you are not another Edward R. Murrows.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pmSantorum is more like Bob Ford, the coward that shot Mr. Howard, in the back.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pmThe inane posts regarding Glenn Beck’s comments only underscore the lack of comprehension of the posters. Clearly none of you realize that Beck’s comparison is predicated upon Churchill’s warning to Europe long before its entry into World War II of the dangers posed by Hitler and the Nazi movement. Much like the Obamas of today who think that they can sit down and reason with the likes of Iranian President Ahmajdinejahd, then Brittish Prime Minister Chamberlain instituted a policy of “appeasement” with Hitler. Churchill tried to warn of the folly of that type of policy to no avail and lost an electon for it. Similarily, Santorum has attempted to explain the true dangers of radical Islamic beliefs.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:38 pmAfter the 2008 election, provided that the GOP/neocons/Diebold doesn’t steal it again, people like Rick Santorum, Bill Kristol, Grover Norquist, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Karl Rove, Monica Goodling, Alberto Gonzales … should all be rounded up and detained indefinitely.
These people are dangerous and the current administration has established a dangerous precedent - for these people. These people are subversives, willing to usurp control of our nation and subjugate its citizens. For this reason they should all be rounded up and detained indefinitely because they will again plot the overthrow of our constitution. They are a danger to the security of our nation - no need to explain this.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:26 pmDon’t even put a picture of Churchill on the same page as that of sanitarium, um, Santorum.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pmGlenn who? Former sen Rick who? LOSERS !!!!!!!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pmBWAHAHA! Rick Santorum couldn’t hold Winnie’s jock strap.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pmYou’re absolutely right , WiWi! Who would care or listen to what Beck says, other than a CNN executive defending hiring him to compete with “Faux News?”
February 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pmSantorum is a Winston Churchill in many ways. And I’m a mighty warlock. In many ways.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm