Beck Dons Soviet-Style Hat With Obama ‘08 Logo
Beck Dons Soviet-Style Hat With Obama ‘08 Logo
Yesterday, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck joined in on the right-wing meme that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) may be a Marxist. As proof, Beck showed his guest, National Review contributing editor Jonah Goldberg, some things he had “found on the Internet.” These “things” included a poster of Obama that looked like “revolutionary art” and one of his campaign workers allegedly with a Che Guevara flag.
But perhaps the most ridiculous moment came when Beck pulled out a hat one of his listeners had sent him. The winter hat had earflaps and a red star, similar to Soviet insignia. It also said, “Obama ‘08.” Watch it:
As ThinkProgress first reported, former House speaker Tom DeLay also yesterday went on Mike Gallagher’s radio show and said, “I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he [Obama] proves me wrong, he is a Marxist.”
In April, after Obama made his now-infamous “bitter” remarks, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol claimed in his New York Times column that it was a reiteration of “Marx’s famous statement about religion.” Karl Rove agreed, calling the comments “almost Marxian.” Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told Fox News Radio that it was “a good question” to ask if Obama is “a Marxist,” though he said he would “hesitate” to call him one himself.
(HT: TP commenter Mary)
BECK: Right. I want to — I want to show you some things that I found on the Internet. And I don`t know if you`ve noticed this. But if you look at the art work and even we have a picture here of one of the people that worked in his office. I think it was in Houston. Look at the art work here.
This is Soviet art. This is revolutionary art. And here`s one of his campaign workers with a Che flag. Socialism is cool right now. Right or wrong?
GOLDBERG: Oh, well, unfortunately, I don`t think it`s ever been uncool for people on the left. It`s a very strange thing. You know, Hugo Chavez is very popular. Che Guevara is very popular. Castro is still very popular.
And a lot of these posters that we see for Barack really come from the sort of liberation theology, left-wing sort of…
BECK: I know.
GOLDBERG: … where he`s a messiah-like figure. [...]
Jonah Goldberg, editor of “National Review” online, author of “Liberal Fascism,” joins me again.
Jonah, we were talking earlier that socialism is cool. A listener actually sent me this hat. It`s cold in here. Anyway, that socialism is cool now. These celebrities flock to people like Chavez. Why? Are they just stupid? Are they — do they know what they`re doing? Do they know who they`re embracing?[...]
GOLDBERG: And it`s — it`s — fine. Free speech. But that doesn`t mean these people are courageous for doing it. Like you are for that hat.
BECK: I`m going to have to tell you, I can`t think of anybody, Jonah, that, you know, you`d be afraid to speak out about. You know, here in America.
GOLDBERG: Well, if you can wear that hat, you can do anything.
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ugh, goldbergs mother is the creepy zionwhore paid to dig up dirt on people…bad genes obviously run in this family..
June 6th, 2008 at 5:48 pmIsn’t that Marge’s hat from the movie FARGO? Can Obama be a secret MN trooper! Someone check his donations- I’m sure you’ll find Joel or Ethan Coen on the list… this trangression will not stand, man!
June 6th, 2008 at 5:48 pmHe looks like a bigger dumbass than he already is.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pmWanna bet the hat is made in China?
Can CNN stop airing this poor excuse of a Nazi semi-human now? His ratings have fallen to the level of fossilized whale dung and yet he/it still is on the air. Can anyone explain that one to me?
June 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pmJebus. Glenn Beck…what a bloodyfooking MORON.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pmWe need to go after these fu88ing bastards. I am sick and tired of the same old hate speech and inaccurate depictions of Democrats. I say to hell with them. Take the power back. Everyone who makes these kinds of statements should end up at the end of a rope as a warning to others.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pmWe need to boycott CNN and show at the producers homes to demand this racist anti-american be taken off the air. Form a human chain around their homes if you have to.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pmI’ve just sent cnn a nasty email, not that I think it will do any good but because I simply couldn’t ignore this smug moron’s infantile behavior any longer. I only wish I could figure out how to make such a good living without any discernible talent at all — by which I mean not only Beck, but Doughy Pantload as well. With enough of the right drugs, I’m sure I could bring my IQ down to their level, at least for the few hours necessary to produce this drivel.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pmThis is only the latest of what will be many trial balloons to be sent up by the right wing.
Is he a muslim, a marxist, a radical, a black power supporter, an elite . . .yawn.
Obama/Hagel(or Webb) 2008
June 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm.
I’ve said it before, unless Glen Beck proves me wrong, he’s a Fascist… Eh Jonah?
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June 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm*PAGING KEVIN JAMES! PAGING KEVIN JAMES! PLEASE REPORT TO HARDBALL SET IMMEDIATELY!*
/snark
June 6th, 2008 at 6:02 pmWow, it’s almost like these guys ALL get the memo the same day.
The Karl Rove crowd wasn’t very good at actually running the government, but they’ve sure got that “everyone hit the same talking point” thing perfected.
I’ve said it before, unless Glen Beck proves me wrong, he’s just another socially dysfunctional babbling talkie with substance abuse issues looking to make an easy buck the only way he knows how.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:06 pmWell,let them have their little joke, because next year, they’ll be attacking a sitting president in a time of war.
They’ll look damned foolish, attacking President Obama, after supporting Chimpie, and the crow will be served piping hot and fresh!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pmJMOHR Says
Everyone who makes these kinds of statements should end up at the end of a rope as a warning to others
Sorry pal that is unacceptable, regressive, and unconstitutional. Let them hang themselves with thier words.
Liberal – Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded
June 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pmBut perhaps the most ridiculous moment came when…
– - … Beck merely came on the air each day.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:12 pmOn the one hand, the CON-servative Corporate News Media, accuses Obama of being a socialist, as detailed in the above video — the longer version can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlRpRCwq34
On the other hand, the same CON-servative Corporate News Media accuses Obama (and Olberman) of being fascist — please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtvM3XX6Q4I&feature=related
Seems that Fascists and Socialists (aka Marxists) must be enthusiastic bedfellows (except for 1930s Germany, when socialists were sent to concentration camps, and then, in the 1940s, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and maybe a few other examples).
Any trolls out there care to explain how fascism and socialism are identical?
June 6th, 2008 at 6:13 pmGee, guess what I found under my bed? A picture of Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Beck laughing it up with Heinrich Himmler amd Adoph Eichmann.
Did you know that the Zionists worked hand-in-glove with these men during WWII?
June 6th, 2008 at 6:15 pmThe dripping wet irony lost on the pea-brained Beck is that Russia is slowly moving away from a totalitarian state (very slowly albeit but slowly nonetheless) while over the past 8 years of Rethuglican rule, the U.S. has slowly moved toward a totalitarian state.
Beck is an immature little a$$hat who’s clowning will get a good swift kick in the nuts come the morning of November 5, 2008 when Barack Obama is declared the President-elect of the United States of America. And as a result Beck and his slimy ilk will at long last be assigned to the dustbin of political irrelevancy along with their failed, fascist ideology.
Just saying . . .
June 6th, 2008 at 6:15 pmUnfortunately, there are people on this planet that just don’t like themselves very much. Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter, etc… all have extreme self worth issues. Their’s is a very structured view of the world. If the don’t understand something, it is inherently bad or scary. If someone looks different from themsleves, they also are to be scrutinized.
They run from facts and encourage a ‘club like’ atmosphere with other Low Information Voters (LIV). It is here where our trolls get their postures and talking points. These folks are normally not too educated and very scared of things which they don’t agree with. They don’t have the brains to convince of of their arguement; they are limited to schoolyard taunts and juvenile rants. I truly wonder about the mentality of those who tune into their shows. They are very, very troubled Americans.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:18 pmSorry pal that is unacceptable, regressive, and unconstitutional.
Unless you are doing it as an individual or with a citizen mob then it is a lynching. Not unconstitutional, but certainly illegal.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:19 pmLeftside Annie Says:
Jebus. Glenn Beck…what a bloodyfooking MORON.
Not only a MORON but a MORMOM as well.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pm“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will begin to think it’s true.” Goebbels
June 6th, 2008 at 6:21 pmIf truth in advertising applied, the Repuke slogan might read…
Socialism for us…capitalism for everyone else!
Socialism would seem to be the system of choice for large corporations (i.e., no-bid contracts, union-busting legislation, moving businesses offshore, etc.) and Congressional Republicants (i.e., taxpayer-paid health care, taxpayer-paid pensions, and many other perks that are unavailable to anyone else except upper level corporate executives).
Capitalism for the rest means that everyone else can fight over whatever crumbs the Repukes may inadvertently brush off the table.
“The best way to fatten the chickens is to feed the horse more oats.”
June 6th, 2008 at 6:22 pmGlenn Beck puts on his clown costume…a mere formality.
We’ve got a whole new generation of voters and older voters who are tired, affirmed by the past eight years, of the dangerous inflammatory politics of the past.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pmThere is a reason all the talking pundits are reading off the same page: It’s because they are all reading off the same page. Another simple answer to a simple question.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pmThis picture should be captioned dumb and dumber or frick and frack. Two undeniable morons of the reichwingnut lunatic fringe.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pmthats funny cuz he works for the CORPORATE NEW NETWORK and everyone knows that Corporatism and Communism are the same thing!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:29 pmThis picture should be captioned dumb and dumber or frick and frack. Two undeniable morons of the reichwingnut lunatic fringe.
Or, the Beavis and Butthead of political pundits.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pmHey, we’re fighting the only battle worth fighting in the run up to November.
Glenn Beck…SPLAT!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pmThe Soviet/Marxist playbook:
Control the message.
Repeat the lies often.
The merging of corporate and government interests.
One party rule.
No questioning of the supreme leaders directives.
Blind loyalty to the party.
Accuse political opponents of being unpatriotic or of treason.
Use enemies real or imagined both internal and external to manipulate the population.
Torture.
Suspension of rights and liberties.
Control of the press.
Build up of military and militaristic adventures.
Wait a minute! It’s not Obama.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:31 pmIt sounds like the Bush/Rove gang!
I will apologize for my statement. I meant hanging in a figurative sense. Losing their livelihood, being ridiculed in the press and in public. However, their antics enrage me and I am not as careful in my expression when so aroused. What has just frustrated me so much is the fate of Ollie North, Gingrich and others who either broke the law or their faith with the American people who then land cushy jobs on FOX or other networks and think tanks.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:31 pmRatings override stupid,goodbye hatebeck. HNN(CNN) pay this idiot to do this…boycott ON.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:32 pmBecks an ass.
I will continue to write CNN about this crap, it needs to end.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pmHas John McCain ever earned a Paycheck that wasn’t funded by the Taxpayers??
June 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pmOh, I so quit watching CNN so long ago.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:42 pmHey, Beck, look at the American flag and tell me how many five pointed stars you see.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:49 pmBeck doesnt know the difference between a sickle and hammer and a star. Jesus.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:58 pm31. JMOHR
I understand. The only thing worse than currupt power fidgures like Bush or Gingrich, are the the people who enable them like Oreilly, Hannity, Rush, and Beck. And, the only thing worse than Bush’s enablers are those who act as apologist for the likes of Oreilly, Hannity, Rush, and Beck.
However it is more important that you I and others actively promote the truth about these people. That is how you “beat” them. History will vindicate our efforts.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pmBeck looks like one of the gay Soviet soldiers in the movie “Spies Like Us”
June 6th, 2008 at 7:00 pmJMOHR remember when Butch (Bruce Willis) saved Marsellus (Ving Rhames) in the basement 0f Maynard’s store?
What now? Let me tell you what now. I’ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin’ ni****s, who’ll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’ma get medieval on your ass.
That would work for me.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:14 pmGoldberg looks like Trotsky with that beard.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:17 pmBeck is a pig.
No offense to pigs, sorry…
June 6th, 2008 at 7:24 pmHey look soviet style Goldberg art.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pmhttp://fbuch.com/images/Trotsky1932.JPG
Goldberg is so socialist popular cool!!
It’s bad enough that these morons would posit such ridiculously slanderous and libelous assertions, but Joe Lieberman should have his ass handed to him by the party.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:30 pmCNN is more dangerous than Fox News because everyone knows Faux News is a joke. CNN is supposed to be respectable. At one time than was true…Fox News was so bad that everyone else looked respectable by comparison.
That’s no longer true. The public recognizes the mass media news as propaganda and not reliable news. A close insoection of the ownership and management of the mass media conglomerates show them all to be Zionist controlled. By definition, a Zionist is a fanatical racist. Such people shouldn.’t be allowed to CONTROL our media.
Congress must pass laws limiting Zionist influence in America. Israel is a police state not because of the fear of Arabs, but because Zionists believe in a police state.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:30 pmMan, the nimrods and maggot pundits have come out of the woodwork on Friday. First, the Bugman yesterday on calling Obama a Marxist. And now the missed the 12 program blowhard Beck today wearing a Soviet style Obama 08 hat. I will repeat the comment that I made yesterday: The GOP are scraping from the bottom with indicted criminals, future indicted criminals, alcoholic pundits and so on to come out like roaches to attack Obama.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:31 pmWow these guys really are afraid!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:32 pmWait a second… McCains the one that looks like Kruschev…
June 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pmI think Communism and Fascism get mixed up a lot because they both are extreme, and remove civil liberties.
Both are not desireable.
The extremists on the Right seem to be the only ones who are worried about Leftist extremism. They go there, because that is how they think.
Sometimes, people who are overly suspicious of others’ bad behavior, is due to the fact they engage in that same bad behavior themselves.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:40 pmVery psycho-logical of you, Truth. :-)
June 6th, 2008 at 7:44 pmJust one more reason, I no longer get live television feed. Who needs this shit?
June 6th, 2008 at 8:12 pmActually the star isnt red and thats an insulated hunters cap, like what Elmer Fudd wore, with ear flaps.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pmLet’s see:
Unless he PROVES it, DeLay is a FELON and IS GOING TO JAIL.
Beck looks very at home in his hat…Since the logo is only held on with velcro over the SEWN-IN “Bush/Cheney ‘04″ mantle originally provided..
Unless Beck AND Goldfart PROVE they’re actually human, let’s send them back to Mars where McSame will be waiting!!! Ok, let DeLaid go to…wtf…
June 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pmAnd so it begins. The Republicans have nothing of any real value to offer working Americans so they have little choice but to wage ridiculous character attacks against those really do want to make a better America.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 6th, 2008 at 8:45 pmThanks Zooey!
I love the attention. ;)
June 6th, 2008 at 8:48 pmIf you asked glen yeck to name one basic tenet of so-called marxist-leninist doctrine he’d be stumped.But so would virtually every other American,most prominently those who condemn it the most.The major error in Marx’s ideas was a failure to recognize the inherent greed and intellectual laziness of most people.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:51 pmGlenn Beck got to be the luckiest man on this planet.
A major network like CNN gives him millions of dollars to come for an hour and put on this stupid show and act as a clown on their network’s screen,while millions of good working, more talented people are struggling and trying to survive.
What world we are living in…?!!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:03 pmtarazan- a world where our fellow Americans buy into the cult of personality hook line and sinker.In my state all the politicos are running touting their vast experience, as if that makes a friggin difference.(witness the years of experience in the current assministration.)-Not one of them has said what they will do or how they plan on doing it!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:43 pmIf this isn’t a blatant example of hat speech, I don’t know what is!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:01 pmIs it just me or does the doughy-pantload look like Lenin without the attitude? Must be the beard.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:34 pmGlenn Beck is a DICK!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:00 pmSocial Engineering.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:03 pmWhy is Glenn Beck still on the air? Christ, he’s embarrassing, as bad as Bush himself.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:03 pm# 58,
PISTOLPACKING,
I agree with you…Only in America you will find people who are paid in the millions of dollars like Glenn to simply run their bad mouths, smear and bully others in everyway possible.
No facts, no genuine debate, just smear.
Politicans also win seats to run this country, not because of what they know…but because of their ability to score against the other opponent and put him down by all means including dirty messages they deliver,and the one who can deliver the meanest on the air has a better chance to win..the more the message is aired is also what these politicians care about,but that cost money..and the one who got more money usually wins a contested race.
That’s why politicians will do anything to put their hands on money they need for airtime to begin their mission of lies.
The viewer is the target of these messages…the more these messages are on the air…the more it brings more believers in the message.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:54 pmFor a politician, he does not need to show what he knows..he needs to sell him self as the guy who is good vs the other guy who is unqualified or bad,and sadly that’s how most of them win.
What is his point? He believes in socialism too. Socialized police keep him safe. Socialized Fire Departments will protect him from fires. Socialized roads let him get where he is going. I could go on and on. I would like to hear him try to argue that you don’t deserve police protection if you can’t afford it, or the flames on your house shouldn’t be put out if you don’t have the money. Even better, how about the military won’t fight YOUR war if YOU AREN’T GOING TO FIGHT IT!!!
It would be nice if he, or anyone in the media for that matter, picked an issue and actually had an honest debate…one can only dream.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:58 amObama’s not a marxist, but Ben Gleck is certainly a buffoon.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:13 amGlen Beck is a twelve year-old.
… and on the “Marxist” note, WTF? Is this really the Republicans’ best game? Aping rhetoric that was stale 30 years ago?
Good luck with that.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:03 amWhat is to “wait ’till the repugs do it.” They will bring out the big racist guns. If they don’t go the racist route they will surely go for lies. So what. they are a lost case.
It will only work if you are scared of calling a racist a racist or a liar a liar.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:25 amAll of these clowns show us more and more as a Satyricon
society, wallowing in the grotesque and vile.
Petrone wrote it, Fellini filmed it and we are living it.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:51 amBah, USA has two right wing parties that are pretty much bought and paid for by the wealthy elite through lobbyists.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:04 amIf anything USA needs are more lite-socialists (not all too left) to balance things out. And it is really “funny” when religious people as Beck (well he claims to be. He wouldn’t lie now would he?) has a problem with marxism. He’d be quick to swiftboat Jesus, or worse…
This recent ploy by the waaahhhpublicans is just another fear tactic…first is was a “terrarist under every bed”, now they are regressing back to the 50’s with a “red scare”. However, this trip back into the not so distant past may not be a bad thing. If they truly want a society like the one this country had in the 50’s, that would mean people like tokyo rose malkin and angry trannie annie coulter would drop out of view.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:44 amHey, they used John McCains old logo for that hat.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:51 amSee Rolling Stone
You know thisthe very thing that I have been talking about. If you go back and reread history this is the same stuff they did in the south during JIM CROW They tried to demonize all the eastern europens and all the blacks by saying that they were reds or markist etc…
June 7th, 2008 at 6:54 amSo when I see and hear this they just remind me that we still will not rid this country of its racism, but hope is here and you can bet me if you like. OBAMA is going to win by a landslide it is just a matter of letting all these closeyed racist come and have say with all this fear. they are cowerds anyway….
Beck and Goldberg–”A wimp, and a blimp!”
June 7th, 2008 at 8:31 amThis coming from a Reich Wing Fascist like Beck and Jonah Golberg who is Reich Wing boot licker of an author who writes crap about the left.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:20 amSoviet artwork? Is he serious? OMG!!!
We’re all going to become Commies! Cool, cause if that’s the case we can put all the disidents in prison. See ya Beck, buh buh Rush, Ann Coulter, you’ll look lovely in prison orange, O’Reilly have fun with that loofah in the slammer, and last but certainly not least, Hannity, oh Hannity, they have a special unit in prison just for you which I’m guessing you won’t enjoy.
Anywho, write to CNN and tell them you’re boycotting.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pmDid this DINGLEBERRY realize that there is NO MORE Soviet Union?
I think even most of his listeners and watchers realize that.
What an idiot.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pmLOL. Your problem, Glenny boy, is that you are a psychotic nazi. From that standpoint EVERYTHING looks communist.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:46 pmStill pretty hard to watch this low crap on HNN/CNN though. How low they’ve sunk.
June 7th, 2008 at 2:48 pmJust noticed Glenny’s whiny little topic post about Chavez’ police state. So, Glenny, what bothers you about a police state?
June 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pmWould it be the characteristic SHAM ELECTIONS? The fact that they tend to engage in TORTURE? Or maybe that people unfortunate enough to live in a police state are denied their CIVIL RIGHTS, especially rights to PRIVACY and UNREASONABLE SEARCHES? Or that the leaders of such states tend to be CORRUPT? What bothers you about it, Glenny boy?
Beck is a total Nazi. Everyone knows that.
June 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pmEspecially his fans.
Open-minded? Progressive? Broadminded? Are you kidding me? I can’t find it here. COMPLETE lack of tolerance.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pmJust another of those crazy conservatives afraid of someone or something new. He’s still clinging to his same old failed conservative ideas and can’t get his mind working again.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:01 am