Beck: ‘Is Obama the Antichrist?’
By on Mar 4th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Beck: ‘Is Obama the Antichrist?’
Today on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck asked Pastor John Hagee whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is the embodiment of evil:
There are people — they say this about Bill Clinton — he might be the Antichrist. Odds that Barack Obama is the Antichrist?
Watch it:
In 2006, Beck also called Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) the anti-Christ, stating, “I think we may have found our Antichrist and our next president.”
(HT: Chris Achorn)
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If your looking for the anit-Christ Glenn, just look in the mirror.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:36 pmGlenn Beck and John Hagee need to be disappeared. They are a plague to rational thinkers everywhere.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:41 pmWe know from hard evidence that George W. Bush is the anti-christ
March 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pmYou’ve gotta be kidding me. We need to write more letters to CNNHN about this guy.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:45 pmThere are people — they say this about Bill Clinton — he might be the anti-Christ. Odds that Barack Obama is the Antichrist?
In 2006, Beck also called Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) the anti-Christ, stating, “I think we may have found our Antichrist and our next president.â€
As opposed to the grinning , braying , stupid jackass that has fouled the Oval Office and our reputation throughout the world , Glenn Speck(of shit) ?
Jesus friggin’ Christ ; what exactly is it that these morons actually see in Chimpy the Wonder Monkey that all others are insignificant at best , and make them laughably and hysterically view a moronic , colossal absolute FAILURE as the 2nd Coming ?
March 4th, 2008 at 9:45 pmSo, in Beck’s opinion, everybody is ‘the anti-Christ?” And they just happen to be Democrats, eh?
Look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…
March 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pmFREAK SHOW!!
March 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pmSeems like antichrists are cheap in the non-reality based community but then again, this is their area of expertise. On the other hand, if I had a dog as ugly and stupid as Beck, I would shave its ass and teach it to walk backwards.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pmThese kooks amaze me! Just how many “anitchrists” are there. They keep looking for one everywhere. And have you ever noticed that it’s always a democrat or liberal. If there are “antichrists” they are all the total idiots that believe that an antichrist exists.
To Glenn Beck; if you need an antichrist so fu(king bad pick me. I’ll gladly be your anitchrist. I’d love to rain down upon you pestilence, famine, blight, hellfire and eternal damnation. You are a pathetic excuse of a human being. I guess you’ll have David Motari, the puppy killing marine, on your show soon to congratulate him on what a great man he is. You suck!
March 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pmAnd after the piece, Beck and Hagee went to the dressing room to compare their Rapture stiffys.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pmTo a walking canker like glen, the clinton years of peace and prosperity probably DID seem apocalyptic.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pmThe clear decline in viewership is reflected in the desperate measures that right-wing conglomerate CNN has employed to try to compete with slack-jaw favorite FOX.
Who is idiot enough to watch either one? Betcha the sale of pork-rinds is inextricably tied to the prime-time of both nutworks…
March 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pmWhere is Tom Delay’s extermination business when we really need it?
March 4th, 2008 at 9:56 pmWell I suppose it is better than a large and moving Torg or a giant Slor
March 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm#15 – that’s hillarious! I am the gatekeeper!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pmI hope that the FCC will be looking into this on “The Most Trusted Name in News”. God what a laffer!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pmI made the statement way back when GWB was Governor of Texas and was scamming the S&L that he’d be the nearest thing to an anti-Christ that I’d see in my lifetime. I underestimated my youthful wisdom.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:02 pmThis kind of crap should NOT be on the “public” airwaves.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pmThe antichrist, if there is such a thing, will come bearing a cross and a flag.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pmThese guys are missing the point. Satan wins souls by appearing to be an entity of reason. He will not be evidently evil.
2 Corintians 11:13-15
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pmThe antichrist, if there is such a thing, will come bearing a cross and a flag.
Comment by erock — March 4, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
i’m pretty sure he (or she) will be a troll too.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:16 pmi’m pretty sure he (or she) will be a troll too.
Comment by joe cantwell — March 4, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
Nah, its too easy to tell that they’re pure evil.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm“The Evangelical Vote”… Sign in front of Beck.
The evangelical vote is a joke in the November election. That Beck is exploring the “major role” these nut cases will play, is testament to his irrelevance.
And as further testament to his zero value, his seeming preoccupation with the “anti-christ” nails him to the cross. Can’t you see him with pencil and steno pad, dogging christ and his disciples bugging them with a whole lot of meaningless questions, like the paparazzi?
March 4th, 2008 at 10:19 pmOh fer fu(k’s sake.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:19 pmThese guys are missing the point. Satan wins souls by appearing to be an entity of reason. He will not be evidently evil.
2 Corintians 11:13-15
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Comment by ddubs — March 4, 2008 @ 10:15 pm
Hail Satan!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pmHE’S not saying that, of course–he just reads in his email inbox and feels professionally compelled to pass that information along! HE would never call Obama the Antichrist just because Obama emerged as the presumptive nominee.
Will someone please cry bullshit on these transparent tactics? Beck always does this! The incendiary horse manure he peddles on a daily basis is not his own–he’s hearing it on the street or from his countless dozens of viewers.
It’s a race to the bottom between CNN and Faux News. What a shame.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pmRonald Wilson Reagan – 666
Exhume and search for the mark of the beast!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:21 pmComment by ddubs — March 4, 2008 @ 10:15 pm
Sure whatever. A large and moving Torg is still way cooler
March 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pmI thought Bush was the antichrist because he fooled all the
March 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pmchristains in to thinking he was good, but it turns out he is
destroying america and the world.
To dbadass@29:
LOL! Props to you! Nothing better than Ghostbusters shout-outs on a cold night…
March 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pmNext up –
CNN’s miserably failed sop to POX Spews submorons to porcine, bloated Elmer Gantry:
“Could Obama be the Easter Bunny?”
“Could Obama be the tooth fairy?”
“Could Obama be Snidely Whiplash???”
Paddy Chayefsky’s Network come true.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pmJust returned from Dallas Democrat caucus where, in a predominately Repuklican neighborhood, there were 250 people in our small precinct on hand. Of course, the requisite blue hair, sand-baggin’ Repukes were there to vote for Hillary cause “she’d be easier for McCain to defeat” according to one sweet old senior who confided in me!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:26 pmPretty damn impressive showing for a Red state.
Glenn Beck and the rest of the tools at CNN and FOX are nothing but vile, rancid smegma puddles the rest of humanity has to try to avoid on a daily basis.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:27 pmAnd yet the Un-Global Warming conference is the second coming ? Obama, Clinton, and all the other antichrists had better hurry up it they’re going to fulfill all their prophecies before the end of the Un-warming conference.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm34. –
That’s an insult to smegma.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pmThere is a very small possibility that Obama is the anti christ.
There is a 100% possibility that Beck is an idiot.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pmThis is so appalling, I don’t know how to respond other than to say that CNN has outdone Fox. One can only hope that hate will not win this time around. But that’s only a hope. If you have that, then I think the MSM needs to examine its audience–because they will tune this crap out. I hope.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:40 pmAll right — how come whenever we point out any similarities between our current leaders and fascism under Hitler, we’re beyond the pale? And yet these clowns can call presidential candidates the antichrist?
Ah — IOKIYAR.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:41 pmso far this post is the anti-troll.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:41 pmi mean it.
where are you guys?
c’mon out and defend this beck guy!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pmya pussies!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pmCould it be that Glenn Beck is the Antichrist? Makes sense to me.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pmNo offense, but would someone translate what the hell ‘obama is the antichrist’ actually means to someone who isn’t a fear mongering bible thumper?
March 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pmI’m sure John Hagee is enjoying his newfound national notoriety. However, judging by the recent history of other nationally known evangelists, his day in the sun should soon descend into a morass of twisted, perverted sex and pedophilia. Better check those computers Pastor John!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:46 pmGlenn Beck … bumbling idiot. How the f#%k did that guy get a job?
March 4th, 2008 at 10:47 pmNeither one of these two morons would know an antichrist if one snuck up behind them and crammed a pitchfork up their arse.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:48 pmBen Gleck, the anti-pundit.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:49 pmtp use to have “trolls of courage” but now?
March 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pmpussies!!!
Comment by missmolly — March 4, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
I agree, missmolly. And, it should be quite obvious to everyone, Beck was lying when he claimed to get “so much e-mail” about whether or not Barack Obama is the anti-Christ. I challenge CNN to produce those e-mails and reveal their sources. (After all, when you write to them, you agree to allow your name and home town to be used.) Tell us these people are that are sending Beck “so much e-mail” about this.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm#45 Johnnie.Flea: You know the terms, tolerance, change (for the better), hope, etc. Horrible, evil aspirations that no American should ever have the chance to attain according to “fear mongering bible thumpers.” They only love you if you are a witless zombie automaton that pays them regularly.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:54 pmComment by Johnnie.Flea — March 4, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
Haven’t a clue. The only thing I’ve ever read about the Anti-Christ was satirical (Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman’s “Good Omens”), but I believe that the Anti-Christ is supposed to bring about the Apocalypse.
Perhaps Darryll (how many rs and ls?) will stop by and elaborate.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:56 pmPerhaps Darryll (how many rs and ls?) will stop by and elaborate.
Comment by Jane E. Schneider — March 4, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
omg daryll… there’s a “troll courage”
he’ll be by soon,
don’t be left behind daryll!
(did i spell his name right?)
March 4th, 2008 at 11:00 pmI watched part of a debate the other night between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Noam Chomsky, and while Buckley was a conservative, he was not an idiot like Beck. While I would have disagreements with Buckley, he had a vocabulary, participated in civilized debate, and actually used his brain once in a while. Then I look at someone like Glenn Beck, and realised how far we’ve fallen.
I find it absolutely disgusting that a bastard like Beck has a talk show to spew out this idiotic bile. This country’s discourse has been so degraded by people like Beck and CNN for putting people like Beck on.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pmComment by JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin — March 4, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
good comment. buckley knew how to debate and while he may have hated your ideas that didn’t mean he hated you. i’m afraid his legacy is lost. there’s no one like him on the conservative side to take his place.
beck is an obscenity. cnn should be ashamed.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:14 pmThe clear decline in viewership is reflected in the desperate measures that right-wing conglomerate CNN has employed to try to compete with slack-jaw favorite FOX.
Who is idiot enough to watch either one? Betcha the sale of pork-rinds is inextricably tied to the prime-time of both nutworks…
Comment by hanshiro — March 4, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
Who knew a network once devoted to quick news needs I Am Glenn and the Bizzaro Republicans/the Injustice Religious Blowhards, the woman who thinks the Star Chamber was the greatest judicial device in Nancy Grace and the narcissistic “professionals” who always have nothing to add and something to plug for her show. But I guess throwing out slanderous opinion and not claiming to be anything more than a hack and nitwit or a miracle mom hellbent on imprisoning half the civilized world has to count for boffo ratings in those demographics that used to belong to Jerry Springer, but need something to watch at night after Muarry and Judge Judy.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:29 pmDon’t waste your time trying to appeal to CNN’s senses regarding Beck’s obtuseness. What your really want to do is to deluge Beck’s sponsors. Just tell them that their products are no longer desired and will no longer be purchased.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pmHaven’t a clue. The only thing I’ve ever read about the Anti-Christ was satirical (Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman’s “Good Omensâ€), but I believe that the Anti-Christ is supposed to bring about the Apocalypse.
Comment by Jane E. Schneider — March 4, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
That’s pretty much all you need to know. The Antichrist was switched at birth by the nuns of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl. And he has a dog.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:03 amThat’s pretty much all you need to know. The Antichrist was switched at birth by the nuns of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl. And he has a dog.
Comment by toasterhead — March 5, 2008 @ 12:03 am
is the dog’s name “gg”?
March 5th, 2008 at 12:08 amI find it absolutely disgusting that a bastard like Beck has a talk show to spew out this idiotic bile. This country’s discourse has been so degraded by people like Beck and CNN for putting people like Beck on.
Comment by JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin — March 4, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
I think Glenn Beck is just the end result of the fall of TV journalism in this country. Coincidentally, it also started with CNN.
They started the 24-hour news cycle, and soon realized that 24 hours is a lot of air time. Filling all that time with actual news is expensive and unprofitable, so they had to fill the air time with more and more fluff. “Newsworthy” soon began to mean “visual” rather than “important,” and objectivity soon began to mean “get the two loudest voices on either side of this issue and let them at it.”
And that’s where we are today. Network TV news has long outlasted its usefulness. Luckily, blogs, independent radio, and YouTube are picking up the slack a bit and actually help keep people informed with the stuff that’s unprofitable to Viacom, GE, and Time-Warner-AOL.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:13 amAh, toasterhead, my fellow Terry Pratchett fan. Only Pratchett could make the Apocalypse hysterically funny.
Closer to ‘on topic’: I can’t help feeling that someday those two (Beck and Hagee) are going to open their mouths and cockroaches are going to come spilling out.
And on that note, I’ll say goodnight.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:14 amis the dog’s name “gg�
Comment by joe cantwell — March 5, 2008 @ 12:08 am
It was Dog, if I remember correctly. The Antichrist isn’t too creative with names.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:14 amis the dog’s name “gg�
Comment by joe cantwell — March 5, 2008 @ 12:08 am
No, it’s “Dog”.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:14 amNo, it’s “Dogâ€.
Comment by Jane E. Schneider — March 5, 2008 @ 12:14 am
big help if it gets lost.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:29 amHow do these hateful people stay on the air?
March 5th, 2008 at 12:40 amThis is all Howard Stern’s fault.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:45 amHe wrote the book on shock jock rock and all the rest of the idiot ratings whores jumped on board the good ship Hate/Bigotry.
Is Glenn Beck the biggest idiot on our planet?
March 5th, 2008 at 12:56 ambeck is such a bad example to people who want to quit booze and drugs
March 5th, 2008 at 12:57 amGregor, at last report it was a dead tie with the chympident.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:00 amstill no trolls?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:05 amRUCerious,
Yes, I know -it’s a tough call! lol
Let’s not even bring up the runner-ups (Limbaugh & Co.)
March 5th, 2008 at 1:06 amI think they meant “Auntie-Christ”, you know, “Uncle Tom’s” cousin.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:14 amstill no trolls?
Comment by joe cantwell — March 5, 2008 @ 1:05 am
March 5th, 2008 at 1:41 amAll watching the returns at psyops.
toasterhead
Actually, what Headline News used to be is a far cry from what it is now. Some network executives looked at ten too many focus group suggestions and decided to cut the “News” from the network header and put all the emphasis on the “Headline” part. That whole bloc of Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace and Showbiz Tonight starts at 7 p.m. ET and goes until 3 a.m. So the network basically puts a third of a days worth of programming behind this utter crap. Then before that, the news anchors will interject opinion into stories that run in a display or start a confrontation with a guest that borders on the ridiculous. They don’t report the news, but they are satisfied with making it as they go. And that is a total lack of journalistic integrity.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:45 amGlenn,
Let’s hope no doctor will treat your next round of ‘roids. You need to suffer from unceasing rectal pain, whether it’s in a hospital, or in prison.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:46 amAnd he has a dog.
Comment by toasterhead — March 5, 2008 @ 12:03 am
Was the dogs name Barney?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:46 amIf Obama is the anti-christ to the likes of Beck and Fat Slob then perhaps he is the savior to rational folks.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:50 amI refuse to acknowledge inane controversial lapel pin “media” nor waste my time arguing about such goofy statements.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:50 amein volk ein reich ein bag of cheetos
March 5th, 2008 at 1:54 amWow…First World.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:59 amHail Satan!
Comment by Mr. Evil — March 4, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
“Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!” -Anton LaVey, the 9th Satanic Statement
March 5th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Just stop and think for a moment. The company that owns one of the largest cable news organizations in the world allows this venom to be spewed over the airways night after night by this hateful human being. And, without rebuttle. He’s a dirty little coward. Oh, and by the way, why don’t they just cease calling themselves CNN/Headline News during the prime time hours. There is no NEWS there at all.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:09 amHaven’t a clue. The only thing I’ve ever read about the Anti-Christ was satirical (Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman’s “Good Omensâ€), but I believe that the Anti-Christ is supposed to bring about the Apocalypse.
Comment by Jane E. Schneider — March 4, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
That’s pretty much all you need to know. The Antichrist was switched at birth by the nuns of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl. And he has a dog.
Comment by toasterhead — March 5, 2008 @ 12:03 am
I think the whole Disc World is inspired in the Republican Party.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:10 amToday on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck asked Pastor John Hagee whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is the embodiment of evil:
There are people — they say this about Bill Clinton — he might be the anti-Christ. Odds that Barack Obama is the Antichrist?
Is Beck THE village idiot or A village idiot?
March 5th, 2008 at 7:15 amPredictable as the day is long. On ‘60 Minutes’ Sunday a dimwit said he “heard Obama is a Muslim.” I commented Monday on a blog that soon Obama will be portrayed as the anti-Christ and people like him will believe it. It happened! I think Beck and that intelligence challenged nitwit were separated at birth. Pitiful.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:21 amAs a result of the perennial bad behavior of Christian imperialists down through the ages, most of the planet is rapidly becoming anti-christ…
March 5th, 2008 at 8:36 amNo wonder there is so much HATE in America today,these kinds of remarks are digusting and hurtful.Shame on Mr .Hagee who calls himself a Christian and one who supposedly knows the Bible , Jesus never would have stood for this kind of crap and both these guy know it. I view this slanderis typical REICH WING fear-mongering with a little touch of God fearing Fire amd Brimstone trown in. Same on both these IDIOTS.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:06 amObama the antichrist…=))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
March 5th, 2008 at 9:48 amBeck: ‘Is Obama the Antichrist?’
Well, if one blindly believes that Bush is Christian, and fully supports his motives and faith, then yes, Obama is the “antichrist” in that he is the polar opposite of Herr Dubya.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:50 amJust another reason CNN never appears on my television, and never will. MSM is complete bullshit.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:10 amAs a result of the perennial bad behavior of Christian imperialists down through the ages, most of the planet is rapidly becoming anti-christ…
Comment by Nevar — March 5, 2008 @ 8:36 am
If Jesus were to come back and see all the horrible shit that people continue to say and do in His name, He’d be “anti-christ” too.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:12 amAnd this man STILL has a voice on a national news network?
Look, if the only qualification for a political show on CNN – or on talk radio for that matter – is to sit there and spew forth every little stupid thing that pops into one’s head, then GIVE ME A JOB! It sure would beat the hell out of working for a living.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:17 amI pray to Dog that I get a chance to vote for the Anti-Christ in November. I will even make calls and knock on doors to get the Anti-Christ elected.
What kind of a country do we live in that gives these religious freaks the time of day, much less air time? Head first into the wood chipper boys, and lead your flock to the promised land.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:23 amFYI Colbert pwned Hagee good on his show last night. At least, by proxy through WIlliom Donohue. :)
March 5th, 2008 at 10:29 amWow. Props to Mr. Evil for correctly using the word “smegma” in a sentence!!!
*applause*
~Hussein Annie
March 5th, 2008 at 11:42 amWow maybe they should call Glen Dreck’s show Dumb and Dummer .
At least viewers will realize he is a complete farce.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:03 pmThe hypocrisy these nut jobs to have fascists like Bush and Cheney in the oval office, then call Obama the anti-christ.
I suppose to them the last 7 years have been the making of paradise, it would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that a good chunk of people in my area actually buy this crap.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:02 pm… and just who might Glenn Beck be?
“I could while away the hours, conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain…”
Cheers,
March 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pmThere are people — they say this about Bill O’Reilly — he might be a child molster. Odds that Glen Beck is a child molester?
March 5th, 2008 at 3:01 pmIsn’t it funny how CNN went into full defend mode for Obama when right wing nut Bill Cunningham dared to mention Obama’s middle name, yet CNN pays Glenn Beck millions of dollars to say things that are much, much worse than what Cunningham had said?
March 5th, 2008 at 5:10 pmGlenn Beck needs to join the Ex TV Journalists Club. Seriously, CNN needs to put a muzzle on his silliness and absurdity. He has gone from bad to worse, and is definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to say.
My question is: Is Glenn Beck the anti-Christ?
March 6th, 2008 at 9:41 pm“Sure, a SCUMBAG like Beck calls presidential candidate the “AntiChristâ€?
Good thing THAT’S not hateful, huh???”
The same thing could be said for every single one of you hypocritical numbnuts every time you call George Bush “Satan, the Anti-Christ” or whatever else you can come up with to insult someone. Am I really the only person who noticed that Glenn was LAUGHING as he asked the question? Am I the only person here with the intellectual honesty to admit that Beck WAS NOT BEING SERIOUS when he asked it? AM I THE ONLY PERSON HERE WHO SAW IT IN CONTEXT AND HEARD HIM JOKE ABOUT IT IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS, HEARD HIM PREDICT THAT IDIOTS LIKE THE PEOPLE HERE WOULD TAKE IT OUT OF CONTEXT AND POST IT AS IF HE WAS BEING SERIOUS!
March 7th, 2008 at 10:56 pmWhat is wrong with you people??? Are you all so dense you can’t recognize humor? Glenn Beck rocks!! And as for our prosperous Clinton years, we were “prosperous” because Clinton robbed our Social Security fund of it’s monies to pay down the deficit, leaving social security in the sorry state it’s in now. If I didn’t love this country as much as I do, I would pray that Obama gets the nomination and wins, and when our country goes completely to hell, I could say you got what you deserve. Say what you want about President Bush, but our country has not been attacked since Sept 11….What do you think it means when communist dictators and jihadist (sp) muslims are supporting the likes of Obama and Clinton? I can promise you that the majority of our VOLUNTARY military personnel are praying a republican gets back in the White House, they have dealt one on one with the enemy, and know the risks and danger we are under.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:21 pmUm, just so you all know, Beck wasn’t remotely serious in asking that question. Call him whatever you want, I’m all for verbally beating down those who I think deserve it, but the guy wasn’t even close to serious. He was actually making fun of the question itself.
Anyone who thinks he WAS actually serious needs to be publically flogged for being to amazingly stupid.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:12 pmFirst, what is wrong with all of you!? I’ve read through most of these 100+ comments and almost all of them agree with the HEADLINE – very few called attention to the fact that he is making fun of the people who really think that way. . .
Second, this site is called THINKprogress.org – have any of you stopped log enough to THINK for yourselves before hopping on the bandwagon? Just because you criticize others for being sheep, doesn’t mean you aren’t one on the other side of the fence. . .
Finally -Just a word of advice – when criticizing someone as “stupid” – it helps if you use correct grammar, spelling, or at least make an effort at clarity.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:04 pmThey are more like lemmings….. Wake up people ! Glenn would not be on CNN if no one agreed with his views… or better yet how does a book make it to the best sellers list ?
March 10th, 2008 at 10:23 pmTo all the people who are up in arms about what Glenn said: did you actually watch the friggin’ video? Do you have a sense of humor? To recap the video for all the idiots who can’t be bothered to actually watch the video and just follow along with the rest of the lemmings: Glenn said that he gets e-mails from people who think that Obama is the anti-christ. He then asked in jest if the preacher thought that Obama was the anti-christ. But I guess conservatives aren’t allowed to have a sense of humor or to make jokes. Jeesh!
By the way, everyone knows Obama isn’t the anti-christ (665, 667 maybe). Now, as to Hillary…
Lighten up, people! You’ll give yourselves an ulcer!
March 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pmMost of the bloggers did not watch the video with Glenn Beck. Research before communicating; I would like to see the percentage of people who do this. I’m guessing less than 10%.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:46 amWhat the?!?! did you guys even watch the Clip?! First of all the he didnt even say ‘Is Barak Obama the Antichrist’ he said (with an extremely sarcastic tone) “Odds that Barak Obama is the AntiChrist”
Beck isnt looking for an Antichrist people wise up.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:22 amReading these comments all i can think is
you ‘progressives’ are freakin zombies!
do you people even know where progressives come from?!?!
WANNA KNOW WHATS COME OUT OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY?!
ill tell you FASCISM NAZI NATIONALISM SOCIALISTS REVOLUTIONS pretty much everything and anything Totalitarian. Seriously guys?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:29 amBeck was frakking making fun of people who would call anyone the anti-Christ.
Paraphrase: “I’ve got lots of idiots writing me saying Obama’s the anti-Chrsit. Pastor, what do you think?” “No chance” “Whew, that almost had me worried there”
For those who didn’t actually watch the link, here is the complete, unedited transcription
[Beck] Let me ask you, I just get so much email on this, I think a lot of people do, and I’ve only got a couple of seconds
[Beck, in hysterical voice, gesturing with hands] They say “Glenn! you in the media! You’ve got to wake up! Barack Obama’s making people faint and cry and everything else and he’s drawing people in”
[Beck] There are people, and they said this about Bill Clinton, that actually believe, that he might be the anti-Christ. odds that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ?
[Hagee, smiling] No chance
[Beck, laughing] No chance!
[Hagee] He has a lot of charisma
[Beck] Whew!
[Hagee] The media have a love affair with him right now, he is a very formidable political person
[Beck] Pastor
[Hagee] But i believe the best leader for America in the future is John McCain
[Beck, laughing] Thank you very much Pastor, back in a second, that’s good news, at least were I stand
March 12th, 2008 at 3:49 ami JUST WANT TO SAY IT was a freaking joke because other poeple emailing him thought he was the anti christ and glenn was sarcastic about the whole thing people take things way to seriously and yes i am gonna say it liberals take things way to seriously
March 12th, 2008 at 10:42 amPlease, pleeeeeassssssse, do yourselves, and everyone else for that matter, a favor: before you fly off the deep-end on anything that is posted, be sure that it is acurate. I have read the transcript, and it is sooooo far from what it is being portrayed as. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best: “The root and seed of democracy is the doctrine Judge for thyself…” Hmmm, that may sound like a strange doctrine, what with political polarization, self-righteousness and correctness (which sounds a whole lot like something from Orwell’s book 1984), but if you give it a try..you just might find that you can actually think outside any box. Hmmmmmmm, another strange concept, evidently.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:01 pmYou were all asking where the trolls were to defend Beck, well, we’ve been here for a few days now and not a SINGLE post of a rebuttle to one of us trolls’ comments. I’m shocked. It’s like there’s a bunch of 14 year old posting on this site. I love it.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pmHow hillary is losing to a guy that gets endorsements from the likes of The New Black Panther Party and ‘Ludacris’ is beyond me. This is pretty funny – http://nationalsquib.com/index.php/barack-obama-ludacris/
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 pmAs I began reading these posts, I got to about 36 and had couldn’t take it anymore. Thank god there are some people who really saw it for what it was. It was a joke!! He is definitely making fun of those who ARE calling Obama the anichrist. Sheesh, if any of you actually WATCHED the video, and came to any other conclusion, (1) you need to have your ears checked, and (2) you take things WAY too seriously.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pmFor those of you that jump all over Glenn Beck and his comments about obama being the anti-christ. It would serve you well to research all the facts before you are so quick to judge. You automatically take what the media says as truth, that is your first mistake, it rarely is. If you would have happened to actually watch the entire episode you would know that at the end Mr. Beck stated that media matters would probably jump all over him joking about obama being the anti-christ, distort the truth, it would be picked up by other liberal media centers, repeated as fact and that they would make him out to be a bigot. Sure enough exactly that happened, media matters only showed what they wanted people to see, Keith oberman then picked it up and did a bit on it, and it eventually made its way to the new york times. This happens constantly by the media. Do not trust what information you get from the media, be smart, think about it and research all the facts.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:55 pmInteresting I came across this comment. I have discussed this topic within the past week with several groups all with different political and religious viewpoints both ultra liberal to conservative. There are prophecies and signs that seem to run parallel with this statement. This may not be so farfetched.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pmDon’t you hate when someone turns the table and uses your tactics to slam your candidates? How annoying is that?
June 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pmDoesn’t it just make you want to spit your latte’ across the room, rip your Che t-shirts and stomp on your Mao posters?
ahhhhhhh! waaaaaaaaa!
He interviews this clown Hagee and asks a stupendously absurd question like that? We were supposed to be all scared about that kooky Rev. Wright, but Hagee is the authority you bring on your show to ask who might be the Anti-Christ??
September 29th, 2008 at 12:41 amIsn’t every current American President accused of being the Antichrist until they’re out of office? Wait a gosh darn second. I thought Bono was the Antichrist. He isn’t American OR President. I’m just confused now. Just plain confused.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pmP.S.) W.W.J.B.T.
(What Would JEFF Beck Think)
hmmmmmm…….
December 17th, 2008 at 8:27 pm