Beck: No one is talking about ‘real issues’ like Sarah Palin’s church being burned down.
By on Dec 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Beck: No one is talking about ‘real issues’ like Sarah Palin’s church being burned down.
On his radio show today, conservative talker Glenn Beck complained that the media is not talking about the “real issues.” To make his point, Beck wondered allowed about why the media isn’t “leading every news cast” with the apparent arson incident at Gov. Sarah Palin’s church. He concluded with a plug for his new network, Fox News Channel, saying that in comparison to other morning news shows, Fox and Friends is like a “think tank.” Listen here:
Mr. Beck, we know think tanks…and Fox News is no “think tank.”
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in comparison to other morning news shows, Fox and Friends is like a “think tank.”
– - If Beck means “think tank” as in a mastabatory, self-aggrandizing, vapid sort of way, well, yeah.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:10 pmBeck misspoke.
he meant to say, “Stink tank…”
December 15th, 2008 at 4:11 pmMaybe Beck would like us all to hold a good, old-fashioned witch hunt to find the culprits.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmSpeaking of churches, will anyone ask Beck if Mormons really believe that Christ and Satan were brothers? That man and the dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time? That mormons must wear funny underpants?
December 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmmastabatory
– - I think I made up a word. Ahem, masturbatory.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmWho?!!
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December 15th, 2008 at 4:15 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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“Beck: No one is talking about ‘real issues’ like Sarah Palin’s church being burned down.”
Lay off of the meds, Beck, and quit trying to get attention from the public.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pmOh jeez…
Think Tank???
That’s too soft a softball pitch…
Boy, the right is in trouble.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pmWhat’s next? Hourly updates on what Michael Savage has to say?
December 15th, 2008 at 4:26 pmWhen I think of the “real issues” the imaginary war on christmas is the first thing that comes to mind…
December 15th, 2008 at 4:27 pmTo make his point, Beck wondered allowed about….
ALLOWED = ALOUD
December 15th, 2008 at 4:28 pmSO?
December 15th, 2008 at 4:28 pmFox and Friends is like a “think tank.”
Why, yes, as in “GW Bush is like a Rhodes Scholar”.
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……………
December 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pmSeptic tank, maybe, but I don’t think beck knows what a think tank is. It isn’t an organization that tells people what to think, not something out to destory free thought.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pmwell, he’s sorta right…. Thinking is definitely in the tank at Fox News
December 15th, 2008 at 4:34 pmFox & Friends is a think tank, GlennyBoy?
Yup . . . a washed-up sportscaster, a has-been weatherman and an over-the-hill beauty queen. Some think tank, cupcake.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:34 pmIs Beck completely nuts? Granted, any act of arson is a concern — locally, if nothing else. It’s true that people who intentionally burn down churches or other houses of worship because they disagree with the doctrine taught within are hate criminals. And setting a building on fire when there are people in it is unconscionable.
However, all we really know about this case is that it was an act of arson. We don’t know who did it, or why. The case is under investigation, and until the investigators have a chance to do their job, we really won’t know any more than we do now.
The only possible reason to keep this as a “lead story” would be to fill the vacuum caused by a lack of factual information with speculation, presumption, and pompous indignation to satisfy a political agenda. Oh, and to keep Palin in the news past her sell-by date.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:36 pm“Think tank”? Are you effing kidding me? If the IQ’s of the entire cast of FAUX and Friends were added together, then multiplied by Becky’s IQ, they would still be lucky to reach double digits.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pmGee, if I didn’t know better, I’d say you people have no respect for Glen Beck whatsoever… nada, zilch, zip, zero… hehe…
December 15th, 2008 at 4:38 pmWHAT IS UP WITH YOU SHEEP ON THINKPROGRESS? I check this site out all the time to get info. This headline is so misleading… I’m not backing up Glen Beck because i personally do not think he’s that great either but He SAYS!!! ‘I do not think this should be the top news story…” Yet all you sheep come on here and make comments like Thinkprogress.org didn’t just spoon feed you some propaganda.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Is Beck completely nuts?
Yes.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pmThat was an easy question.
The Republic of Stupidity Says:
Gee, if I didn’t know better, I’d say you people have no respect for Glen Beck whatsoever… nada, zilch, zip, zero… hehe…
December 15th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
You must be exceptionally socially intuitive. :D
December 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pmWhere’s NAACP?? Sarah is the wrong color for anyone to care about who burned down her church. The race baiters get no publicity for white church burnings.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:45 pmGlen – not ‘think tank’ but toilet tank.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:47 pm“Beck: No one is talking about ‘real issues’ like Sarah Palin’s church being burned down.”
First I’ve heard of it. And I was so ready to be DONE with Palin.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:48 pmThink tank? Don’t you mean “Fink Stank”…?
As for Sarah Palin’s church, who gives a tiny rat’s azz?
December 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pmWhere’s NAACP??
I don’t know what the National Association for the Advancement of Clothing for Palin has to do with this story.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
I don’t know what the National Association for the Advancement of Clothing for Palin has to do with this story.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Priceless!
December 15th, 2008 at 4:58 pmThe race baiters get no publicity for white church burnings.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
And who is the first to bring race up?
A rightwingnut who whines about and plays a poor lil’ victim over race. So predictable.
What a dumb f***.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pmICEMAN Says:
Where’s NAACP?? Sarah is the wrong color for anyone to care about who burned down her church. The race baiters get no publicity for white church burnings.
Is this troll really so stupid he does not know the church’s preacher is black?
I guess it is that dumb….
December 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pmA think tank comes from the head.
I think Beck meant septic tank which comes from the other end.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pmI just listened to the clip, and I haven’t a clue what Beck is arguing. First he suggests that the church arson story should lead off every news report (and this is apparently why Fox is supposed to be better than NBC), then he says at the end that the story shouldn’t lead off every news report. What’s his point? No idea. He has no idea.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pmSarah Palin, “Why does Governor Blagojevic get all my attention? Maybe I can sell Ted Stevens seat.”
December 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pmNothing to see here folks, the church’s Christmas witch burning got a little out of control this year, nothing more.
The youth group was singing “chestnuts roasting on a burning witch” and the elder turned his back for a minute to get some more marshmallows, and poof! the witch’s blackened soul went up in a ball of rightous flame and the whole building went up.
If only they’e used traditional eskimo building materials this would have never happened…
December 15th, 2008 at 5:13 pmBeck is still convinced he can score with Sarah. He probably sent her a copy of the audio so she could hear how he’s got her, er, back.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:13 pmWhile I don’t condone the burning of churches, the arson story in Wasilla is not national news. Palin’s 15 minutes are up, and so just because it is her church does not make it newsworthy outside of Alaska.
Beck is trying to spin this into a “Christians are being persecuted” story. As if. Turns out, many “Christians” are the ones dishing out most of the discrimination!
Fox and Friends = think tank? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Give me a break, Beck.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pmICEMAN=little white guy afraid of the black guy…
December 15th, 2008 at 5:15 pmYo ICEMAN, you had a superbad fro back in the day. How was it playin with that red white and blue ball?
December 15th, 2008 at 5:18 pmUh, Glenn, it didn’t burn down. It was damaged somewhat by fire. As usual facts don’t get in your way.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:18 pmjpopphan Says:
While I don’t condone the burning of churches…
What’s your opinion on the burning of cults? palin believes in witches, not the wicca kind, the wicked witch of the west kind. What if it’s a self-inflicted burn, they could have been burning books ya know. Wouldn’t that be a hoot. If they burned down their church because of a bonfire of Harry Potter books.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:21 pmGee…your right beck, the drunk on the street corner told me that turkeys with matches were seen running away from the fire.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:28 pmThen they could spend hours nattering on about the war on Christians and the Republican party. It is getting harder for them to find empty events to fill with empty banter. Next—
“Hey look a chicken!”
December 15th, 2008 at 5:44 pmit’s not Fox’s fault that there’s been a dearth of missing blonde girls lately…
December 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pmSurely he meant “stink tank”.
December 15th, 2008 at 6:11 pmFox and Friends is like a “think tank?” Those three people don’t have a complete brain between all three of them!! Beck claims to be a recovering alcoholic, but I sometimes wonder if he hasn’t been back on the juice for some time now. As for the arson at Palin’s church, it’s hardly a national story just because that nitwit attends there.
December 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pmi agree with glenn beck one million percent, let’s talk about this issue. it was reported on the cnn website the church held services at a local middle school. yes, glenn, let’s talk about whole serperation of church and state and how the north slope whore overlooked it so her store front charismatic cult had a place to speak in tongue to snakes.
December 15th, 2008 at 7:18 pmNo media attention to Palin’s church burning down?
Because Palin is such a nut job sociopath liar, my first impression of that story is
“Maybe Palin had something to do with it for insurance money or for media attention”
From what I have read, Bristol Palin’s baby is due Dec. 18… If no baby happens, Sarah will once again get her media attention.
December 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pmHow come no one ever gives a shit when my santaria shrine burns down or my neighbors weird satanic shit goes all haywire?
December 15th, 2008 at 7:24 pmI wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if FOX News or Republicans or Neocons or Palin herself or even all of the above didn’t have a hand in bombing that church to keep palin in the limelight.
December 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pmI believe a polar bear and Alaskan wolf were seen near Palin’s church just before the fire started…with the wolf carrying some firewood in his jaws and the polar bear holding a big box of matches in his paws.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pmFaux News is a think tank if you think like a rat.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:55 pmSorry ScaryStalinSarah, nobodys buying your little “reichstag fire” please for attention..while i highly doubt the governess set it herself, I can imagine one of either her freakiskly fanatical followers or paid goons doing this to try and get her sympathy..
December 15th, 2008 at 9:18 pmBeck is bizarre, anxiety driven and intellectually maybe possible\y about average; but, he sure tries to prove that he isn’t par to even partisan talking point liars. He’s seems to be on his own tangent and apparently genuinely just weird.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:25 pmSounds like he said “drink tank” to me.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:46 pmDecember 15th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
And I can imagine that some dick atheist did this hoping to start a trend but unlike you I don’t pretend to know who did it or why.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:12 amIt was an act of God.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:39 am>We don’t know who did it, or why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Some of the behind the scenes powers are DESPARATE, ABSOLUTELY DESPARATE, to make a martyr out of their dear lady sara, as she is asbolutely an empty, “charismatic” puppet who could be so easily manipulated by behind the scenes power brokers that she would make dumbya look like a thoughtful and independent leader…
December 16th, 2008 at 4:52 amA church burned down in my hometown just last week. Where is Glen Beck’s uproar over that?
Oh, that’s right. It was an African-American church. Pay it no mind.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:19 amDecember 16th, 2008 at 4:52 am
You mean you’re speculating based on your paranoid delusions.
BTW has it not accured to you that the point of a black flag attack is to gain power hence if that was the goal the church would have been burned in the days leading up to the election and not month(s) afterwards?
PS sorry to hear about your towns church GL2814.
Where did this happen?
December 16th, 2008 at 12:35 pmApparently Beck hasn’t heard the follow up.
Palin’s pastor was trying to ’smoke out’ an unrepentant, int he tank, gay, marxist witch, and ended up burning the whole church down! Oops.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pmThe church wasn’t burned down. A fire was set in the office. Aside from the smoky smell, the rest of the church wasn’t affected.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:46 pmGet some perspective, Beck.