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Beck: People ‘Pushed To The Wall’ By ‘Political Correctness’ May Turn Into Psycho Killers

On Tuesday, an Alabama man named Michael McLendon killed 10 people in a shooting spree before committing suicide in what has been called “the worst rampage in Alabama’s history.” Police are continuing to interview people who knew McLendon and his victims, but said today that “there’s probably never going to be a motive” found.

During a conversation with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News today, Glenn Beck offered up his own theory about McLendon. “First of all, this guy’s a psycho,” said Beck. Beck added that listening to the description of him, he was reminded of “the American people that feel disenfranchised right now” and “that feel like nobody’s hearing their voice.”

He then questioned whether these people who feel silenced by “political correctness” are likely to “turn into that guy” when “pushed to the wall”:

BECK: Yada yada yada. And every time they do speak out, they’re shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?

O’REILLY: Well, look, nobody, even if they’re frustrated, is going to hurt another human being unless they’re mentally ill. I think.

BECK: I think pushed to the wall, you don’t think people get pushed to the wall?

O’REILLY: Nah, I don’t believe in this snap thing. I think that that kind of violence is inside you and it’s a personality disorder.

Watch it:

Beck’s comments are reminiscent of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s claims after both the Columbine school shooting and the Virginia Tech school shooting that liberalism was to blame. “The liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite — I accuse you in Littleton,” said Gingrich in 1999. Asked in 2007 if he would apply those same views to Virginia Tech, Gingrich said, “yes.”

Transcript:

BECK: So, the shooting in Alabama.

O’REILLY: Yeah.

BECK: Did you hear how they described this guy? I mean, it was a typical, you know, “he was a loner. He was quiet. I didn’t know.” I mean, it was really…But what they really described, when they really got down into it, what they said was: “here’s a guy who felt that he had been wronged. He didn’t feel comfortable talking to anybody. He was disgruntled and everything else.” And then he went out and shot a bunch of people. As they were describing him — and they said, you’ve got to go, now more than ever, you’ve got to start talking to people. You have to start connecting with people because we’re going into hard times yada yada yada. As I’m listening to the description. First of all, this guy’s a psycho. Clearly, he’s a psycho.

O’REILLY: Right.

BECK: But as I’m listening to him. I’m thinking about the American people that feel disenfranchised right now. That feel like nobody’s hearing their voice. The government isn’t hearing their voice. Even if you call, they don’t listen to you on both sides. If you’re a conservative, you’re called a racist. You want to starve children.

O’REILLY: Sure.

BECK: Yada yada yada. And every time they do speak out, they’re shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?

O’REILLY: Well, look, nobody, even if they’re frustrated, is going to hurt another human being unless they’re mentally ill. I think.

BECK: I think pushed to the wall, you don’t think people get pushed to the wall?

O’REILLY: Nah, I don’t believe in this snap thing. I think that that kind of violence is inside you and it’s a personality disorder. But I do understand the frustration of people. But it’s called fighting the good fight. That’s what it’s called, fighting the good fight. You stand up for your belief system, you tell people what you believe, you take the slings and arrows — both you do, I do, we have to take it. But you fight. You fight for your country. You fight for your family. You fight for your dignity. And that’s it. And you don’t hurt other people in the process. You just fight the good fight.



128 Responses to “Beck: People ‘Pushed To The Wall’ By ‘Political Correctness’ May Turn Into Psycho Killers”

  1. Zooey says:

    I think this is Beck pushed to the wall. Better do an involuntary commitment…just in case.


  2. kasinca says:

    Well at least this wacko is on the wacko network not. He is easier to disregard that way.


  3. WAYNEBRO says:

    Dammit.

    O’reilly’s the hero here.

    :|

    Rats.


  4. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Well, duh! Of course liberalism is the cause of murderous rampages! Unless you think murderous rampages are good.

    Because you just have to remember the wingnut rule of thumb: conservatives cause everything good. Liberals cause everything bad.

    Simple, no?


  5. gummitch says:

    You know you’re seriously mentally ill when you make O’Reilly look sane and thoughtful.


  6. Ape-Man says:

    When beck is fired maybe he can get a job as a TV wrestler. Unless he believes the things he says that is, in which case he should be locked up for our protection.


  7. Mike71654 says:

    You know, the more I see and hear the real inner minds of these people like Beck, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity and the other right wing nut cases the more I am amazed. These people are freaks of nature, their minds have a serious disorder that makes them blame everything on some far out bullsh*t that makes absolutely no sense.
    I really believe they have a paranoid brain disorder that will not allow them to rationalize and sort out reality from fantasy.


  8. Buckie Boy says:

    Beck: bla, bla, bla, bla, I don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, but my mouth is moving, bla, bla, bla.

    Bill O: WE’LL DO IT LIVE, WE’LL DO IT FCUKING LIVE, THIS SUCKS.

    I keep thinking that TV could possibly get any dumber…

    …then they put these two morons on at the same time…

    …”teh stupid” just keeps on growing.


  9. A simple man says:

    Beck is delusional. A spree shooting has nothing to do with political correctness.


  10. J. Fred Smug says:

    Don’t forget: when Beck launched his FIXED News program (I think it was in mid-January), his first guest was SARAH PALIN. He chose that NUT JOB to help him inaugurate his new venture!

    Need I say more?


  11. 4httr says:

    Glen Beck is a fool with nothing to contribute to dialogue even among right wing Republicans. Even Tucker Carlson could sweep the floor with him. So could Gretchen Carlson come to think of it.


  12. youtube says:

    the way beck acts on Tv he always looks an idiot.


  13. Nevar says:

    BECK: Yada yada yada. And every time they do speak out, they’re shut down by political correctness.

    Beck is using “Political Correctness” as a catch-all term for honesty, respect, and dignity in public speech.
    In another age, his type of ranting would have been considered incitement, and he would have been tucked away for observation.


  14. Badmoodman says:

    Beck: People ‘Pushed To The Wall’ By ‘Political Correctness’ May Turn Into Psycho Killers »

    – - Qu’est-ce que c’est?


  15. rimhotep says:

    It’s pretty telling when BillO The Neo-clown looks good by sheer contrast. Glenn Beck needs a psychiatric intervention which I hope his family recognizes.

    Glenn Beck suffers from post-neopartum depression and is becoming a threat to himself and to others. His commentary reflects that.

    Now it will be incumbent upon those closest to Beck to recognize that he’s psychiatrically falling from a pretty steep cliff right now. He’s becoming increasingly more psychotic with each passing day and definitely needs to either be Baker Act’d or some serious psychiatric counseling.

    If he continues these terror-rants of his, I expect that he will be picked up under the Patriot Act and slapped in jail.


  16. dbearton says:

    Beck is a faux news, RepubliCon stooge! He was inadvertently describing the rest of the faux news, RepubliCon audience as mindless psychos.


  17. rimhotep says:

    It sounds to me like Beck knows all about “psychos” and “killers” from this comment. It takes one to know one and Beck IS one.

    Time to get Beck off the streets and out of our homes. Our children definitely do not need to watch a psycho losing it as Beck is doing every day.

    Glenn Beck now qualifies for the “enemy within” this country.


  18. tomdurk says:

    & Gingrich the Newt also blamed liberals when the woman who has sexually exploited by her dad & boss drowned her kinds in a South Carolina lake.


  19. rimhotep says:

    POP – Psychos On Parade – The present day GOP’s new moniker.


  20. jjm says:

    How telling that they think that “Language Made Me Do It”. Their faith in the power of words unrelated to reality is no longer just risible, it is terrifying. Words are important, but there is surely no 1::1 correlation between word and deed. But the entire edifice of ‘conservative’ thinking (going back to the early 20th century, Germany) consists of that — thus censorship is ok if it goes from ‘above’ in the hierarchy, but self-policing, politeness, etc., drives people to kill. Yikes!


  21. rimhotep says:

    It’s true that Beck is describing his “worldview of Republican psychos” – I’ll grant him that. However, include him in there, too. He’s the #1 public enemy “psycho” right now.

    He makes BillO look like he’s cool, calm and collected and we know that’s far from true.

    What is true is that Beck is losing it right before the eyes of america. It would behoove Faux News to remove him before he does more harm to them than good.


  22. lpeggy says:

    Didn’t the guy who went on a rampage in TN last year (at the church), have a grudge against liberals. And didn’t the police find books by O’Reilly, Beck and Hannity at his house? This is what happens when you have these extreme right-wing-nut pundits screaming about Socialism and starting a Revolution. It is a dog whistle to the mentally disturbed. Couple that with the economic depression, and you have a recipe for disaster.


  23. Purple State says:

    I stopped the video right after Beck went into his “Kermit-the-Frog” impression.

    Look, Glenn, you have to knock the mocking off when it comes to these sorts of topics. There’s a fine line between mockery and comedy, and every time you go into that persona of yours, it gets more tired.

    This was a tragedy. Treat it like one.


  24. rimhotep says:

    O’Reilly, Beck and Hannity, the Manatee are ‘enemy combatants’ in the truest sense of the word and need to be removed from the air via the Patriot Act.

    Write to your representatives and Eric Holder today to have these jackasses removed from influencing our children.


  25. Nevar says:

    A Talking Head… a Psycho Killer…

    “What is it?” mon ami?


  26. McWars says:

    Too bad the GOP makes it’s easier for a psycho to walk into a gun shop than a psych ward.


  27. rimhotep says:

    As I see it, Fox News is parading a gang of american psychos in front of our impressionable children which should be against the law.

    News Corp. is in serious trouble and Murdoch’s empire is crumbling. It looks like he will have to get rid of the Post and I’ve heard rumors that Fox News will be off the air by early next year.


  28. Teowens says:

    First of all, this guy’s a psycho,” said Beck.

    There’s another in the mirror Beck.

    Beck added that listening to the description of him, he was reminded of “the American people that feel disenfranchised right now” and “that feel like nobody’s hearing their voice.”

    Or maybe he was another one listening to yours. That’d be enough to make any person crazy.


  29. SP Biloxi says:

    “Beck: People ‘Pushed To The Wall’ By ‘Political Correctness’ May Turn Into Psycho Killers”

    Glad I don’t have cable to watch this clown. Pass the popcorn…


  30. DJ says:

    Didn’t Newton Gingrich and How-Low-Can-You-Go Limbaugh also explain to us, as their hearts bled so, how badly Timothy McVeigh felt about how terrible and awful our civil-rights-enforcing Federal Government was?


  31. 5th Estate says:

    and yet from what I;ve read thus far, this crazed man killed his family first of all, the strangers he killed were incidental (random and tragically circumstantial) and political correctness had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF IT!

    Beck is trying to exploit this awful rampage for personal political gain with no evidence. Foul, disgusting creature!


  32. buzzbomb says:

    What the hell does that idiot mean by political correctness? The crazy guy just couldn’t get out all of his sexist and/or racist tirades so he shot people. Beck is literally the dumbest person i’ve ever heard. (Archie B. is a really close second)


  33. pete says:

    Sadly, Becky’s friends and family must be as sick and twisted as he is. Otherwise he would be getting the psychiatric care he so obviously needs.


  34. citizen_pain says:

    It’s hard to believe that Bill O’LIElly actually was the voice of reason in this conversation.


  35. pete says:

    BTW.

    If one checks out Reichwing and Psychchristian(TM) sites one will realize that they use “political correctness” as a catchall for anything opposed to their batshiterry. They actually feel oppressed because they can’t own slaves and burn witches.


  36. A simple man says:

    I wonder if the the rampage took place in one of the “gun free zones ” you libs came up with.


  37. wiley says:

    It looks like he’s giving right wing-nuts permission to go on mass murdering sprees.


  38. KayInMaine says:

    Well, O’Reilly would know all about the personality disorder thing.


  39. KayInMaine says:

    Right wingers love suicidal maniac rampages. It’s like porno to them.


  40. RandomChaos says:

    A simpleton spews: Flagme Flagme

    Pathetic idiot. pffft


  41. Dru P. says:

    Speaking of the Newtster and rightwing nutterry…


    Pay teenagers not to get pregnant, Republican says
    John Byrne
    Published: Thursday March 12, 2009

    …Newt Gingrich, often cited as a Republican prospect for president in 2012, says the state should consider paying teenager girls not to get pregnant…

    It only gets more ridiculous from there.


  42. Hoodathunk says:

    OMG, there are people out there who listen to our over the top ranting about hate! I mean, no one can seriously believe just because we go on national TV and sound like Hitlerian propaganda, people aren’t going to listen and internalize it. Just because we blame everything on the Democrats and their President doesn’t mean people who are on the edge will take us seriously?

    This is a joke, right? Just because we brain dead pundits screech hate, no one is really listening, right? Oh crap, my diaper is full.


  43. RandomChaos says:

    Archibald!

    Hi Peachycheeks.

    Give us some LOVIN honey!


  44. Hoodathunk says:

    And on a more serious note, who has pushed the ‘people’ to the wall?


  45. Trittydi says:

    If Beck is really as insane as his show suggests – then the network should worry about their creature — their new Joe mcCarthy.

    But the violence – when it surfaces with a clear connection to political affinities – is nearly always from the thugs on the reich. That’s clearly and specifically what Beck’s dog and pony show is about anyway – unleashing the violent tendencies of the most radical of their reich-wing lunatics in a hate-filled, blood-thirsty feeding frenzy. Only an idiot can’t see that.
    *


  46. P.D. says:

    Who’s the psyco? Jeez! Beck is getting crazier everyday. Faux News has totally twisted his mind. If he had any sanity left.


  47. RandomChaos says:

    Hoodathunk,
    Um.. of course it can only be Obama and us libruls.

    /snark


  48. Dru P. says:

    Hoodathunk Says: This is a joke, right? Just because we brain dead pundits screech hate, no one is really listening, right? Oh crap, my diaper is full.

    Millions do. Media Matters’ archives are chocked full of this type of rage inducing bile. This is beating around the bush compared to what Michael Savage says, and he is alleged to have 9 million listeners.


  49. A simple man says:

    Archie B Says:
    ——————————————————————————–

    What a superb team these two people make. It’s no wonder Becks ratings are going through the roof. Truth to power….

    O’reilly? Yes. Beck….not so much.


  50. scytherius says:

    My GOD you know you are bat shit psycho when Bill O’Reilly has to be the sane one. And, on this one thing, good for Bill O’Reilly.


  51. pete says:

    I think the fear and hate spewed by freaks like Becky is more culpable than political correctness. Which, when I was a lad, was called “politeness”. And you can damn well bet I caught Hell when I wasn’t polite.

    It appears that the shooter in question acquired, at least some of, his weapons legally. And that happened after he failed at becoming a Marine and a cop. Now, perhaps it’s just me but; if the Marines and the police didn’t trust this freak with a gun why on earth was he able to get permits?

    Oh yeah. The 2nd Amendment can’t be interpreted differently even though modern technology has made it possible for one committed lunatic to exceed the firepower of a platoon of soldiers when the Constitution was ratified. It’s really pretty simple.

    If people are killing each other with legal weapons? It’s time to change the laws.

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOUTH_ALABAMA_SHOOTINGS?SITE=AZTUS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


  52. Hoodathunk says:

    Listenership. Lots of flack sailing about this claiming people actually listen to certain programs. It is the only yardstick they have but what they don’t tell you is they also advertise on lots of other AM programs and just assume its the hate radio shows that add to sales.

    When was the last time anybody but NPR asked you what station you listened to?

    They are lying…big time.


  53. RandomChaos says:

    Hoodathunk,

    I get surveyed about my listening/watching preferences maybe MAYBE 1 or 2 times every 5 years or so.
    I would agree with your statement.


  54. joe cantwell says:

    A simple man Says:
    Archie B Says:
    ——————————————————————————–

    What a superb team these two people make. It’s no wonder Becks ratings are going through the roof. Truth to power….

    O’reilly? Yes. Beck….not so much.

    *

    careful simp.

    don’t push arch

    to “the wall”.

    :|


  55. fletc3her says:

    This is part of the Bizarro world strategy of the right wing. One of the key notions of being liberal is that you are willing to listen to other’s points of views and have an open mind. When we go through Beck’s fun house mirror he would have us believe that liberals are rather close minded. It’s rather amusing that a bigoted stand up comedian would try to portray his opponents in such a way. Glenn Beck will eagerly listen to your opinion, as long as you’re not a minority, gay, progressive, liberal, pro choice, free thinking individual. Those people should all be locked up.


  56. pete says:

    Of course, our brave trolls would have taken him out themselves. Right? There’s no way a troll would have frozen, crapped their pants, or run screaming for cover, in abject terror. Right?


  57. joe cantwell says:

    pete Says:
    Of course, our brave trolls would have taken him out themselves. Right? There’s no way a troll would have frozen, crapped their pants, or run screaming for cover, in abject terror. Right?

    *

    simp? maybe. arch… not so much.

    ::


  58. Mike71654 says:

    Speaking of the Newtster and rightwing nutterry…

    Pay teenagers not to get pregnant, Republican says
    John Byrne
    Published: Thursday March 12, 2009

    …Newt Gingrich, often cited as a Republican prospect for president in 2012, says the state should consider paying teenager girls not to get pregnant…

    It only gets more ridiculous from there.

    You suppose they would pay me to not masterb*te


  59. RandomChaos says:

    Pete,
    You know our Trolls are Manly Mens Men. /snark

    Unless anyone has a concealed permit. By the time they open the glovebox to remove the weapon, pull the empty clip from the locked console. Open the trunk to get the ammo then chamber a round. I think all the victims were dead by that time.


  60. KayInMaine says:

    Well, it was Glenn Beck and one of his listeners who were up in arms about the Fairness Doctrine and when the caller said it was time to form armed militias over this, Beck agreed.

    Seriously, after 8 years of George Bush you would think it would have been the liberals who went insane because of what he did and didn’t do. Nope! The right wingers are the ones who have gone batshit crazy with paranoia and are now hearing 50 voices in their head all at the same time!

    Scary.

    Liberals just got smarter. Thankfully. ;-)


  61. joe cantwell says:

    Mike71654 Says:
    Speaking of the Newtster and rightwing nutterry…

    Pay teenagers not to get pregnant, Republican says
    John Byrne
    Published: Thursday March 12, 2009

    …Newt Gingrich, often cited as a Republican prospect for president in 2012, says the state should consider paying teenager girls not to get pregnant…

    It only gets more ridiculous from there.

    You suppose they would pay me to not masterb*te

    *

    sorry arch’s got that gig.

    rnp’s looking for a fluffer,

    interested?

    ::


  62. KayInMaine says:

    Mike Gallagher said on his right wing insane show after the Alabama shooting spree: “We need more Americans carrying concealed weapons!”.

    Wha? More guns in the hands of the insane? Good gawd no!


  63. Xisithrus says:

    I recall the church shooter, Adkisson, who killed two people, read right wing books from O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity…before he snapped.


  64. Dru P. says:

    Hoodathunk Says:

    Listenership. Lots of flack sailing about this claiming people actually listen to certain programs… They are lying…big time.

    True.


  65. Xisithrus says:

    Note that Adkisson was ‘pushed to the wall’ not by political correctness, but just the opposite, the kind of stuff Beck talks about.


  66. Mike71654 says:

    Joe…Sorry just not up to kissing Rush’s a*s


  67. avchavis says:

    Beck added that listening to the description of him, he was reminded of “the American people that feel disenfranchised right now” and “that feel like nobody’s hearing their voice.”

    Beck is such a moronic rightwingnutcrazymf! Some people don’t need to be heard – they need to go straight to the nut house just like Beck!


  68. RandomChaos says:

    Dru P,
    Thanks for the link.


  69. Hoodathunk says:

    When people like Beck and O’Reilly refer to armed militias I hope they realize they are the ones coming after them for their hate and insanity.

    We all want to live in a decent world, don’t we?


  70. Xisithrus says:

    These clods arent speaking truth to power they point fingers and lay blame, blindly, on everyone but themselves.


  71. RandomChaos says:

    We all want to live in a decent world, don’t we?

    Apparently to some, a decent world means something completely different than the average person would think.


  72. pete says:

    Truth to power“?

    More like lies to lunatics.


  73. RandomChaos says:

    I am being pushed to the wall by THEM and thier supporters.
    If they are not careful, I just MIGHT SNAP.


  74. Hoodathunk says:

    Randomchaos, that is just what they are forgetting. Pissing off the average American is not something to be taken lightly. Japan made a similar mistake in 1941.


  75. Roket says:

    “nobody’s hearing their voice” Mighty big words coming from someone who doesn’t even listen to his own voice. Ironic how Beck brings up political correctness and then goes on to spew politically incorrect psychobabble.


  76. Gregor Samsa says:

    Wow… what an epic battle of the twits: Beck vs O’Reilly.

    And in an amazing tour de force, Beck comes out victorious with this statement:

    every time they do speak out, they’re shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?

    Incredibly, O’Reilly comes across as the rational one of those two. Who would have thought?


  77. wiley says:

    No amount of “political correctness” would drive a man to shoot and kill an 18 month old child. It’s vulgar beyond all comprehension that anyone would use this mass murder as a pulpit to blame liberals.


  78. Tallygirl says:

    Can these people even DEFINE “liberalism”?

    These two have obviously been brainwashed by the fundamentalists, and it’s their “political correctness” that is a threat to this country.

    Thank you to whoever watched Glen Beck’s show so I don’t have to.


  79. RandomChaos says:

    Hoodathunk, exactly! Many of us on this side are enjoying the GOP self-implosion. That’s the easy part, it takes care of the “political” side of the equation. But, unless something is not done SOON to tone down the VILE CRAP the “Voice” of that side eschews. I have serious reservations regarding any chance of living in a decent world. If they could only see what a big mistake it would be to try and force the rest of us to acquiesce to thier way of thinking AGAIN!


  80. barfly says:

    BECK: I think pushed to the wall, you don’t think people get pushed to the wall?

    Linking “liberal political correctness” with totalitarian, police state imagery?

    Beck’s slipping, man. Where’s the bayonneted babies?


  81. Hoodathunk says:

    To all, I thin it was Dylan who said, “The times they are a changing.”

    The big question is…which side of the change do you want to be on?


  82. RandomChaos says:

    Hoodathunk,
    This is History repeating itself.
    North v South all over again.
    OK then, if that’s how they want it to play out. well…we all know how it ended LAST time.

    juz sayin ;-)


  83. Hoodathunk says:

    Randomchaos, war always ends badly. Except for the ones who make money off it. Why do you think they keep picking them?


  84. RandomChaos says:

    Barfly,
    Peck(R) was a guest on Falafalboys show? Maybe it was all staged just to give the asswipe (Host) some cred?
    Seems like it worked on some people.
    The last statement is not directed towards you Barfly.
    Faux is playin with fire.


  85. RandomChaos says:

    That last statement not the last.


  86. had enough says:

    May Turn Into Psycho Killers

    Is Beck backed up against the wall and fearing this?

    All we need is a psycho killer Beck roaming the streets.


  87. RandomChaos says:

    If an all out civil war or revolt were to break out. I think the warmongers would likely go the way of Marie Antoinette.
    Probably wishful thinking , but hey.


  88. joe cantwell says:

    pete Says:
    “Truth to power“?

    More like lies to lunatics.

    *

    that’s an old one that

    arch used on the “aerosmith

    post a month or so ago. here

    it is:

    Proud Says:
    Rock and roll and truth to power, what a powerful combination.

    February 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    *

    he was calling himself proud back then.

    he’s run out of anything new to say

    so he recycles the old stuff.

    ::


  89. RandomChaos says:

    joe cantwell,
    I think your on to something there. Good eye!


  90. Keith says:

    Countries to the LEFT of the US have homicie rates far, far lower than the US. That destroys your personal theory, Glenn.


  91. Keith says:

    Glenn,

    You start a conversation you cant even finish it.
    Youre talkin a lot, but youre not sayin anything.
    When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
    Say something once, why say it again?


  92. Keith says:

    tomdurk Says:
    & Gingrich the Newt also blamed liberals when the woman who has sexually exploited by her dad & boss drowned her kinds in a South Carolina lake.

    The father who was raping Susan Smith was head of the local Moral Majority.


  93. OutstandingInMyField says:

    psycho killer…q’est que ce?


  94. questioneverything says:

    Wouldn’t be surprised if both of them went postal any minute.


  95. pd says:

    Beck’s show is just a calculated outreach by Faux News towards the bunker dwellers. They are trying to rattle their cages with all Beck’s talk about war with Mexican drug cartels and civil war with border ranchers and disenfranchised wackos pushed into pulling their triggers. Beck should have been retired into flipping burgers after that whole “convince me you’re not a terrorist” idiocy he pulled with Keith Ellison a few years ago. But he is another right-wing media whore who will say anything to get his face on TV and sell product. And some people with an agenda love media whores.


  96. labman57 says:

    Beck is projecting…


  97. wiley says:

    In decades of research in collaboration with my Northeastern University colleague Jack Levin, certain common characteristics of mass killers emerge time and time again.

    First, the perpetrators tend to have experienced a long history of frustration and failure, resulting in a diminished ability to cope with life’s disappointments. Second, they typically externalize blame (emphasis added), frequently complaining that others didn’t give them a decent chance. Without this, their destructiveness would instead be directed inward.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/12/fox.shootings/index.html

    So Beck is exhibiting one of the mental habits of a mass murderer.


  98. Zooey says:

    As opposed to normal killers, huh?


  99. MapleStreet says:

    Considering that many of the O’Reilley viewers are those he has attracted by making himself the icon of the person standing in the gap between the malevolent forces and the powerless little man:

    I wonder how many O’Reilley factor viewers found permission in this interview to go on a rampage ?


  100. dbadass says:

    So how’s it going there Archie B?


  101. Jane E. Schneider says:

    wiley Says:

    “…certain common characteristics of mass killers emerge time and time again.

    First, the perpetrators tend to have experienced a long history of frustration and failure, resulting in a diminished ability to cope with life’s disappointments. Second, they typically externalize blame (emphasis added), frequently complaining that others didn’t give them a decent chance. Without this, their destructiveness would instead be directed inward…”

    Hmm, sounds kinda like Bush, doesn’t it?


  102. dbadass says:

  103. joe cantwell says:

    Archie B Says:
    labman57 Says:

    Beck is projecting…
    ————

    No, rhf is, again.

    *

    nice comeback.

    :|

    tell us another one.

    :|


  104. Jane E. Schneider says:

    Hi, dbadass. :D

    I was just heading for bed – goodnight! (goodnight Joe, too)


  105. sectionop92 says:

    Glenn should just pronounce his name Kceb Nnelg to send himself back to whatever hell dimension he escaped from.

    Obviously it’s full of people who think enough on-screen makeup should be applied in a 1920’s silent film fashion. Never watch Faux News in HD!!!


  106. Perry logan says:

    People who blame liberals for everything are degenerates.


  107. candide says:

    Actually, Beck may not be too far off the mark. Frustration and the inability to make the world work the way their twisted minds want it to work leads these people to perform acts of violence. Now, if Beck would only realize that it is consevative ideology that feeds their paranoia, the fact that conservatives encourage a brutality in governance and culture of militarism, and then demand that guns be available at the whim of any nutcase, he would be right on the target.


  108. dinglebe says:

    Where does Beck live/work? How about a volunteer from that area contacting the local U.S. Secret Service field office to report Beck as a threat? I certainly feel he is reaching that level.


  109. Cats r Flyfishn says:

    A Psychiatrist or Psychologist organization should sue Beck for practicing medicine and psychology. Beck does not have the training to be making these kind of judgmental statements on the air. All he is doing is giving dissatisfied people permission to act on any violent thoughts that they may harbor.


  110. woke says:

    Beck said, “Yada, yada, yada”……..

    Apparently, his intellectual mentor is George Costanza. That explains a lot, eh?

    LMFAO


  111. nanlichi says:

    candide, this is probably a dead thread but I will post anyway that I think you are right on. The realization that the world doesn’t operate the way they have been told and the increasing isolation from reality causes people to feel impotent and irrelevant.

    But, even given that, most will learn from the epiphany and evolve. This guy was a real sick one.


  112. pikaomega says:

    Tonight, Glenn Beck will be airing the debut of his call to arms. There are meetups all across the country, getting together to view this instigation.

    Check out http://wesurroundthem.com/ to find a location in your area. I happen to work a few blocks from Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and can’t wait to go see what these loons will be saying.


  113. Cal Malenky says:

    Where’s the truth and where’s the power here, Arch?


  114. ChaiKat says:

    I get the feeling Beck is describing himself more than anybody.


  115. Joe the Philosopher says:

    Why do Zionists put butchers on television?


  116. G Money 2008 says:

    ralph the wonder llama Says:
    Well, duh! Of course liberalism is the cause of murderous rampages! Unless you think murderous rampages are good.

    Because you just have to remember the wingnut rule of thumb: conservatives cause everything good. Liberals cause everything bad.

    Simple, no?

    *****************

    So, if I think murderous rampages are good, then that makes me a conservative? I like being a conservative. ;-D

    The above was humor… or meant to be.


  117. MapleStreet says:

    For the Simple Man who asked:

    S Alabama (ther area of the violence) is one of the most conservative areas in the Country.

    And folks there love their hunting and have all sorts of firearms.

    Definitely not a lib-ral gun free zone. In fact, just the opposite.


  118. MapleStreet says:

    Love the comparisons between the unhinged gunman and Bush.

    Only, are you implying that Bush hasn’t gone on a rampage that killed dozens of people ????????

    The difference is that Bush does it by putting the military as a proxy.


  119. Stumpy Joe Krackengrabbitt says:

    I had to send Beck this email…

    Holy crap–did you just try to connect the tragic, murderous rampage of a suicidal, narcissistic lunatic with some sort of political agenda?

    “But as I’m listening to him, I’m thinking about the American people that feel disenfranchised right now, that feel like nobody’s hearing their voice. The government isn’t hearing their voice. Even if you call, they don’t listen to you on both sides. If you’re a conservative, you are called a racist, you want to starve children, yada, yada, yada. They’re — and every time they do speak out, they are shut down by political correctness.

    How do you not have those people turn into that guy?”

    What the hell, man? Do you even listen to the things coming out of your mouth? I can’t help but thinking that much of your act is just ’cause that’s how they do the political entertainment broadcast thing, but Jesus, dood. I’m hopin you’ll have the sense to make some kind of adjustment in your thinking, and maybe even acknowledge you got carried away trying to tie everything in the universe to your political viewpoint. I don’t suppose we could expect a little empathy for the poor survivors, as they may have to hear you spout off casually about how the dude the destroyed their lives musta been pushed to the wall by political correctness…


  120. EugeneDebs says:

    buzzbomb Says:

    What the hell does that idiot mean by political correctness?
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    I will tell you EXACTLY what the rightwing means when they say political correctness. See it isnt ENOUGH that they have a right to racist, misogynist or flat out churlish behavior and speech. They want to be exempt from being CALLED on racist misogynist or flat out churlish behavior and speech. So when they are racist or misogynist and you CALL them on it they drag out this PC whine and snivel like little brat kids THEY are the victims.


  121. EugeneDebs says:

    Archie B Says:

    What a superb team these two people make. It’s no wonder Becks ratings are going through the roof. Truth to power….
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    WOW you are taking being delusional to an artform. Superb team? Truth to power? You really have lost all touch with reality havent you?


  122. EugeneDebs says:

    Archie B Says:

    Beck is projecting…

    No, rhf is, again.
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

    Wrong but you are a moron STILL.


  123. vernon farquar says:

    If some misfortune would befall you, Glen. I’d flick that pesky fly off my shoulder, then pray for you. Or maybe I’d pray for you first, then flick that fly off my shoulder.
    Either way, the fly would be toast.

    Of course I’m only joking, Glen. You da man!


  124. Jane E. Schneider says:

    MapleStreet Says:

    Love the comparisons between the unhinged gunman and Bush.

    Only, are you implying that Bush hasn’t gone on a rampage that killed dozens of people ????????

    The difference is that Bush does it by putting the military as a proxy.

    March 13th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    MapleStreet, I did not mean to imply that at all. I agree with you entirely – Bush went on a rampage that killed hundreds of thousands of people. McLendon used guns, Bush used the military and contractors.


  125. milaninthesun says:

    Beck,s speculations! Giving excuses for the actions of this mentally sick individual and putting them at the progressive doorstep! How about the economy stupid. The country has lost so much, a lot of people are feeling desperate. How about putting the present state of affairs at the doorstep of the very people who have been watching the store all these years!


  126. walruswheedchick says:

    Glenn Beck is a dangerous guy.

    If you watch his show, he subliminally tells his viewers (poor disenfranchised whites/hicks) to either kill Obama or go on a rampage because the state of affairs of the nation right now is hopeless.

    Shouldn’t people like him be censored?!


  127. walruswheedchick says:

    I wonder too whether he himself believes the things he says or if its just all about his ratings!? This guy is utterly surreal!


  128. icqfullpatch says:

    buzzbomb Says:

    What the hell does that idiot mean by political correctness?
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    I will tell you EXACTLY what the rightwing means when they say political correctness. See it isnt ENOUGH that they have a right to racist, misogynist or flat out churlish behavior and speech. They want to be exempt from being CALLED on racist misogynist or flat out churlish behavior and speech. siki? videolar? So when they are racist or misogynist and you CALL them on it they drag out this PC whine and snivel like little brat kids THEY are the victims.



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