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DDDRUM

Hello? Hello?

He shrugs, switches off the light as he pushes through the door, which swings both ways.

Exeunt

CURTAIN

One Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

I predict mostly silence.

My question to you dddrum is this; how is it that the liberals and liberal media has become so darn predictable? And do they even realize that they’re so transparent?

I think that insofar as the Internet has helped the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy open the Liberal playbook for all to behold, and considering that said playbook seems to be more of a pamphlet… well, I’d say the jig is up, except that some kneejerk brickhead would probably call me racist. Let me say instead that I believe the Kitchen Light of Truth has started a massive skittering scurry back underneath the Refrigerator that is the DNC… and it has only just begun.

(Thanks, Al Gore!)

My question to you dddrum is this; how is it that the leberals and liberal media has become so darn predictable? And do they even realize that they’re so transparent?

I have just scrolled though, and tried my best to digest, 107 comments, while holding high my Diogenesian lamp (it’s actually a Pak-Lite, but hey, it’s 2008).

All the while I’ve been patiently seeking the truth, I have, truth be told, been diligently seeking truth-seekers (and I mean true truth-seekers) as well, of any and every stripe (liberal, conservative, progressive, regressive, menthol, and sugar free). I perused 103 entries before encountering any true substance beyond the sheer corrosive vitriol that comprises most of them.

I see many references to Mr. Beck as a drunk, a joke, a bad, unfunny bigot, a stale, dumb, hateful, preening, effeminate, vile, mentally unbalanced, nutty, feckless, blithering idiot, a Grand Wizard of the KKK (!) and… oh yes, my personal favorite: “a turd with lips.” There are some less insulting references to the man as a “Neocon” (as Inigo Montoya observed, “I don’t think that word means what you think it means”), a Mormon (true, although the poster seems hazy on the doctrine), and a hemorrhoid sufferer (also true, and it seems inevitable… perhaps obligatory… that some of us must go there). What those references lack, however, is a point… beyond “Well what do you expect from a _________?”

In fact, all that most everybody seems to be saying is “HOW DARE HE?!” Here and there, posters like Cameron stick their heads above the battlements and request some actual dialogue on the subject, only to be labelled “trolls,” and have brickbats lobbed at them by the friendly neighborhood Progressive Thinkers. Then the “conversation” goes back to general consensus that Glenn is The Worst Person In The World, studded with little gems like the limerick about which the funniest thing is the attempt to rhyme Mount Vernon with “deservin’.” Seriously folks, the Algonquin Club, this ain’t. Nevertheless, I slogged on through the frothy-mouthed slurry, wondering just exactly what this man has done to merit this level of sheer, artery-busting hatred.

Let’s see…

He poked fun at the loosely-shingled religious nuts (always unquestionably fair game for the likes of Stewart, Colbert, Maher and Franken) who see every political heavyweight as a potential player in a New Testament End-Time Showdown. Then, reflecting upon the disturbing political stance that holds the speaker totally responsible for the listener’s gross misunderstanding, he voiced the opinion that the Media Machine might try to grind him in their grisly gears through just such a convenient misreading.

That he predicted what would transpire to such an exact degree came as a surprise, in my opinion, as evidenced by his producer’s amazed laughter. (Which, when heard through a haze of antipathy, I suppose might be described as “chimping”… though that seems a bit childish, nesty pass?) I know I was surprised, anyway, and amused to boot. What I was not, however, is consumed with such incredibly disproportionate rage as I have witnessed here today.

I will gladly discuss this further with anyone who is willing to have a rational conversation, and I truly welcome the refutation of any single point that I have made here. What I expect, however, is a smattering of rudely-worded personal speculations as to my I.Q., manhood, or method of potty training. I’ll shut up now, and see which way it goes. Any predictions?

Beck wasn’t joking, he’s one of those “Book of Revelations” Mormon whack-jobs.

Asking about the anti-Christ is par for his course.

Beck wasn’t joking here either…

BECK (voice-over): Is the apocalypse almost upon us?

REV. PAT ROBERTSON, “700 CLUB”: The Bible does indicate such a time will happen in the end of time, and could this be it? It might be.

BECK: Are the cataclysmic events of 9/11, Katrina, tsunami, famine and the threat of global pandemic signs we`re living in the end times?

One world government, one world economy, one world vision. Are we creeping even closer to the Book of Revelations` countdown to doomsday? And does an age-old prophecy foretell a Russian-Iranian alliance against Israel as well as a nuclear showdown? Apocalypse now?

We`ll search for answers with Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, the authors of the wildly successful “Left Behind” series and acclaimed author Joel Rosenberg.

Tonight, honest questions about the end of days for the full hour.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/30/gb.01.html

No problem with some being offended, there are many humorless liberals (well, humorless unless it’s a liberal doing a joke about a non-liberal) but this collection of tex and TV tirades and hate messages isn’t fact based, it’s all emotional.

Are you offended that Beck uses sarcasm (so does Olberman) yet think liberal sarcasm is funny (Daily show, Late night talk shows, etc.). Why is it that only liberals can use sarcasm?

This is why Ann Coulter notes that liberalism is a religion, and liberals are believers, and anyone who isn’t a believer should be killed (in the press, on blogs, etc.) Is this what liberals really believe, is liberalism that intolerant and humorless?

Wake up, all this hate and misunderstanding produces nothing but more hate and misunderstanding. Lighten up, learn to listen, and be wary of things you read on blogs, or hear from late night comedians or Keith Olberman (a lefty to the core).

Dr. Rogers

He doesn’t, that’s why he was making fun of people like you.

Post #13 “Does anyone, except for the retarded right, even listen to this blithering idiot?
Beck is nuts, plain and simple. Why he is still on the air is mind-boggling.”

Yea, his radio show is #3 in the country and his tv show is the fastest growing show on any news outlet. Sorry.

Post #15 “Looks like ThinkProgress has made the grade. If the bigot Beck has to speak ill of ThinkProgress, then he must be afraid. He must be very afraid.”

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Post #45 “Uh Cam, bud, you must have mistook us for people who give a shit about Beck.”

Which is why you all have made well over 100 responses to his ONE joking question? C’mon man. Make all the back-handed comments you want, you’re still reacting to what he said. Just don’t sit there and say you all don’t care about what he says or does. you obviously do enough to come in here and comment on it.

The rest of you all sound like annoyed 3rd graders. “No Mr. Beck, YOU’RE a joke!” Wow, clever. He says he wasn’t serious, and if you watched him ask the question, there’s no way you can’t see he’s kidding. but I mean really, at least have a better response than calling him a turd or whatever names you can call him.

Finally, post #103 First, Beck was serious when he said Olberman was just repeating what this blog and Media Matters said about him. He didn’t play the audio or the tv footage because he knew it’s obvious that Beck wasn’t serious. Second, the left can yell all the insulting names that they want but Beck can’t make fun of a question about Obama in this way? Lighten up. third, Beck understands why he thought it was funny which is EXACTLY why he even made mention of it, to show what stupid question it is. This part of your post I take exception to; “he did not make any real attempt to make it clear in the transcript that he wasn’t making the suggestion seriously”. THAT’S EXACTLY THE REASON WHY HE MEMTIONED IT AGAIN AT ALL. He said again how he wasn’t serious, and he said on his radio show the DAY AFTER the tv interview question that there will be people like Media Matters that will think the question was serious. Turns out, he was right on the money.

In exactly what alternate parrellel dimension of unrealty such a statement about our next potential President is “Funny” – I don’t know.

Beck was indeed laughing as he made the statment, not because it was funny – but simply because he *thought* it was funny which are too entirely different things, and that is really the point the Beck will never get.

Whether seriously or not, he did make the suggestion – he did not make any real attempt to make it clear in the transcript that he wasn’t making the suggestion seriously – he then went on the predict that Thinkprogress and Media Matters would pick up his comments and report them seriously and there we find Beck’s true goal.

This is a game the Louis Farrakhan loves to play. Make an outrageous statement that can be easily taken out of context, then predict that your “Enemies” will deliberatly misrepresent what you said, and then when they begin to quote and condemn you start proclaiming …”See..see… I don’t you so!”

Glen Beck, the Louis Farrakhan of CNN.

hahahah. those flaghumping @sshats quoted me, sarcastically calling me “enlightened”

hey you neaderthallic fetushugging fl@gfookers this unelightened guy is going to make sure alot of your heroes end up exposed and behind bars some day very soon..you’ve got my word on that

The right-wing TV/Radio hosts are entertainers. It is the easiest thing in the world to be mean. Anyone can do it. It take no real skill. And they — and their producers — have found it to be something that attracts an audience; much as car crashes do.

The real joke is, though, that a great many people believe what these right-wing jokers are saying.

It’s sad really, truly sad. — Mr. Frazzlebottom

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While I agree that many people believe what the right-wing commentators say, I personally don’t think that it stops there — I think most of the commentators themselves believe what they say, even when they claim that they’re “only joking”. Perhaps it’s simply a side-effect of the fact that so many of my psychology professors were Freudians — but as I said in an earlier post, I firmly believe that a lot of mean-spirited “humor” is actually intended (even if only unconsciously) as a form of emotional guerrilla warfare, a way of displaying hostility in passive-aggressive fashion so that the person can avoid taking responsibility for and facing the consequences of their own hostility by saying “I was only joking.” Personally, I don’t think that Beck, Coulter, et al. are joking at all…I think that deep down, perhaps even without fully acknowledging it themselves, they’re filled with a tremendous amount of hostility which would get them kicked off the air if they acknowledged it openly — especially Coulter, who’s been quoted as saying that the only way to make your point with a liberal is to use a baseball bat. Yeah — advocating aggravated assault against people who don’t agree with your opinions is so very funny…NOT.

I don’t like to make accusations with no proof to back up those accusations. However, if you read the articles here and have been paying attention at all over the last few years it’s hard not to come to that conclusion. — EvilPoet

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In hindsight, I think I’m more inclined to lay my suspicions at the feet of corporations — especially since they’re the ones who own the media. However, there’s no doubt in my mind that our governing officials are accessories to this considering the fact that many of them are (at least metaphorically speaking — perhaps even literally in McCain’s case!) in bed with corporate interests.

I came across a very good video segment on YouTube the other day of a speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about why he believes that corporations have become a problem in this country. The speech is unfortunately broken up into several segments which must be viewed piecemeal — but I was quite impressed and agree wholeheartedly with many of the sentiments he expressed. Here are links to the segments in the order in which they should be viewed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00zf8gfBGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CnV_Z3ATHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgW1bewMbxU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcaLo-vjrvg

Castelcomerkid you are wrong. Please visit jesuschrist.lds.org for the “tenets of Mormonism” in regards to Jesus Christ.

God Bless All

The right-wing TV/Radio hosts are entertainers. It is the easiest thing in the world to be mean. Anyone can do it. It take no real skill. And they — and their producers — have found it to be something that attracts an audience; much as car crashes do.

The real joke is, though, that a great many people believe what these right-wing jokers are saying.

It’s sad really, truly sad.