Beck Falsely States The U.S. Bought Alaska In The ‘1950s’ So We Could Drill
Beck Falsely States The U.S. Bought Alaska In The ‘1950s’ So We Could Drill
While appearing on Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck managed to make a trio of mistakes when he attacked the Waxman-Markey clean energy bill passed by the House last week. The Fox News pundit falsely asserted the legislation’s effect on our oil dependency would be “none.” Beck then pointed out, incorrectly, that the U.S. purchased Alaska in the “1950s” and that we did so because of our interest in its “resources,” a subtle way of advocating for more drilling in Alaska:
CARLSON: But nowhere in that bill is anything about reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
BECK: None. […]
You know Donald Trump, I want to talk to this guy. When he was on the show just a few minutes ago I was thinking how can you not be laughing at us? How can the world not be laughing at us? We have all these resources. Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s? We bought Alaska for the resources. And now we say no!
Watch it:
During his weekly address on Saturday, President Obama specifically focused on how the legislation would help lift “our dependence on foreign oil.” Obama said the bill would “spur the development of low carbon sources of energy,” which includes wind, solar, and geothermal power. He added the bill would result in “new energy savings like the efficient windows,” thereby reducing “heating costs in the winter and cooling costs in the summer.”
Beck’s attempt to rewrite history to fit his talking point is also troubling. For clarification, Alaska was purchased in 1867 for $7.2 million and soon became known as “Seward’s Folly,” named for Secretary of State William H. Seward, because at the time it was widely regarded as foolish to spend so much money on remote tundra. (Perhaps Beck was thinking of Alaska becoming the 49th state in 1959.) The resources the U.S. was after in 1867 weren’t oil, but fish, furs, and the prospect of closer proximity to Russia from the North American continent.
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You’d think that with Sarah Palin as his very first guest on his current FOX show, Beck could at least get this right.
What a pathetic moron.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:32 pmFaux needs to hire a new comedian.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:32 pmA typical re-puke, he doesn`t like the truth so he makes up lies and his fellow hack journalist won`t challenge him.The Republiscum Channel is a HOOT.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:34 pmThat’s right, Beck, at the height of the Cold War we were able to convince the Soviets to sell us Alaska thereby giving their enemy the opportunity to attack across the Arctic Circle or Bering Strait!
June 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pmBreathtaking ignoance. How did he get out of high school, or did he?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:37 pmFOX News and the Republican Party have a favorite past time “rewriting history”.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:38 pmHas Obama made it to all 57 states yet?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pmI happened to be at a gathering on Sunday with a Russian girl. Apparently they are still pissed about the sale of ‘Russian America’.
Needless to say Beck has it all wrong as usual and the sale was because the telegraph line.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm“Glenn Beck’s Education
Glenn overcame a difficult childhood but ultimately graduated from high school in Bellingham, Washington in 1982. Though he graduated, Glenn himself admits that he “spent more time in the parking lot than in class.” Glenn never attended college. He became an alcoholic. While recovering from his alcoholism, Beck became a self-taught genius. He put books in every room so he could become well learned. And he didn’t just read like you or I do. No, no. He read books that contradicted each other. In doing so, Glenn Beck became a well balanced juggernaut of knowledge.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-3040-Minneapolis-Life-in-the-Cubicle-Examiner~y2009m2d27-Who-the-heck-is-Glenn-Beck
Self-taught genius. I had to laugh.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:40 pmGlen Blech! He can see Alaska from his “alternate reality”.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:43 pmThe fun thing about Becky is that it’s impossible to tell where the stupid stops and the crazy begins.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:44 pmYou know, George Soros actually DID buy Alaska in the 1950s from the U.S. in order to sell it right back for a profit.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:47 pm…
at fox the biggest idiot
is king.
:)
June 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pmDidn’t everyone learn about Seward and Alaska in about 2nd grade? The stupidity of the GOP “leaders” is really amazing, yet their continual stupidity is somehow A-OK in the party of STUPID
June 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pmBeck; what do you expect?
This clown thinks the universe started with the Declaration of Independence.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:49 pmseslichat seslichat paneli
June 30th, 2009 at 6:51 pmThe world is laughing because of ignoramuses like you Beck
June 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pmJebus.
Got moron?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pmIf I were a Republican, I’d be incredibly insulted by Beck & everyone else at Fox. Do they assume their viewers are idiots? Seward’s Folly is 5th grade social studies! The fact that no one corrects him is simply pathetic.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pmHe’s only off by 80 or 90 years, give him a break. It’s not as though anyone in his audience noticed.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:56 pmEven a high school student knows that part of our history…now if there are republicans out there that believed BECK, then it again proves one theory, they are TRULY DUMB.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:57 pmJust one more reason we need to actually teach our kids proper history among the other areas of study.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:57 pmjust found at C&L:
Popcorn time: Beck calls out the dogs on GOP’s “Cap and Traitors”
[...]
June 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pmHe ran a special segment last night urging his audience descend en masse upon the “Cap and Traitors” – Republican House members who actually voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill last Friday – all eight of them.
[...]
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/popcorn-time-beck-calls-out-dogs-gop
And I don’t think they even discovered oil in Alaska until the 1970s.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:00 pmJ. Fred Smug Says:
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You’d think that with Sarah Palin as his very first guest on his current FOX show, Beck could at least get this right.
J. Fred, problem with that is Sarah Palin said the same in Auburn, N.Y. When she said one of the reasons for the Alaskan purchase was its resources and she wasn’t talking about fish and furs.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:06 pmSo I’m totally and completely left wondering why any sane person would listen to this jerk. Or maybe it’s that the conservatives that do listen to him are seriously mentally deficient. Are there really that many folks with below 80 IQs claiming to be Republicans in this country? Is that what this is all the noise and hoopla is all about? Rush isn’t any different, he just doesn’t cry on TV like Glennie. Bachman is so out there I thought she was from another planet – maybe I was wrong! I’m becoming seriously concerned about where the good ol’ USA is heading here.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:09 pmBeethoven Rules Says:
Has Obama made it to all 57 states yet?
You think that is clever, don’t you? Just dumb as a box of rocks. Too pathetic even for my extensive vocabulary. Too pathetic and hateful.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:11 pmStupid, ignorant, lying dolt of a “man”.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:24 pmFlagrant stupidity is an asset to this freak and his pathetic followers.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:24 pmpiltdown says: Glenn overcame a difficult childhood but ultimately graduated from high school in Bellingham, Washington in 1982
His HS should revoke his diploma. Bellingham is practically on the Canadian border, Washington is the closet state to Alaska. There is fair amount of news coverage of Alaska, particularly jobs, oil, the environment, in the Washington press.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:26 pmThere’s no way anyone raised in Washington would be so stupid to think Alaska was purchased from the Soviets in the 1950s.
Beethoven Rules Says:
Has Obama made it to all 57 states yet?
Point taken. Maybe Beck was really really tired?
Oh, it was a morning show? Never mind then.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:26 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
You’re so funny.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:30 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
You’re still funny.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:33 pmfreeMarketDummy, Nobody cared about your rant on the earlier thread when you posted this BS. Are you a one trick pony or what? I know its hard for someone with a IQ as low as yours to think of something new to say, but if you try real hard you may come up with something.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:35 pmFML does enjoy ranting about “Soros” and his “influence.” Hm, a rich jew secretly controlling the united states.
Methinks FML has been reading the Dearborn Independent while the John Birch Society is on summer break.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:40 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
Still funny! Funny ha-ha, not funny weird.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pmAs many as needed is the correct answer. :)
June 30th, 2009 at 7:44 pmAnd I suppose the reason America originally leased Guantanamo was to
June 30th, 2009 at 7:44 pmcircumvent the Geneva convention.
FML and glenn beck are chipping in all their pennies and are gonna try to buy Alaska from Alaska.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:44 pmFreeMarketDummy, has brought out his other favorite rant, the Micheal Moore loon rant. These low IQ trolls don’t have much in the old brain bucket.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:45 pmAh, c’mon; getting things consistently wrong just adds to his boyish appeal.
His show is a self-lit fart.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:46 pmFML is a perfect example of why repugs should be rounded up and shipped off to some remote island.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:47 pmWillWrite4Food Says:
That’s right, Beck, at the height of the Cold War we were able to convince the Soviets to sell us Alaska thereby giving their enemy the opportunity to attack across the Arctic Circle or Bering Strait!
June 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
TP, I nominate Will’s comment for the Featured Comment on this thread. Perfect!
June 30th, 2009 at 7:47 pmWhat’s worse, is that Paulites have no CLUE what true libertarianism is. Paul is, at best, a Confederate. No true libertarian would just “let the states handle it.”
And Soros is a Keynesian. The failures of even relatively-unfettered capitalism in this country have proven the free marketers wrong. And the Keynsians correct.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:48 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
Whew! I haven’t laughed this hard before!
Really, man. You should charge us $20 to for us to fill a movie theater so we can laugh at your comedy.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pmFreeMarketDummy, and he’s doing a fine job too. Just take a look at how small your repug has become.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pmRepugs dropped another one today, say goodbye Norm “Buck Teeth” Coleman. Repugs will have to hold their meetings in a Larry Craig “One Stall” area.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:50 pmProud Says:
Sorry, Proud, but FreeMarketLiberal is such a good comedian. You should learn your jokes from him. He’s good!
June 30th, 2009 at 7:52 pmThirteen years later, Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:53 pmSomething to remember this 4th of July.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:54 pmProud Says:
Obama has decried the coup…just like every other head of state on the planet. Do your research, schmuck.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:54 pmPurple State Says:
Sorry, Proud, but FreeMarketLiberal is such a good comedian. You should learn your jokes from him. He’s good!
You do know they’re the same twisted twerp, don’t you? He’s also “Progressive Conservative,” and a few other nonsensical non-sequitors.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:55 pmYou could get a college education by fact-checking everything Beck says.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pmbarfly Says:
Purple State Says:
Sorry, Proud, but FreeMarketLiberal is such a good comedian. You should learn your jokes from him. He’s good!
You do know they’re the same twisted twerp, don’t you? He’s also “Progressive Conservative,” and a few other nonsensical non-sequitors.
(Shh! You’re not supposed to let the schizophrenic people know about their split-personalities, or else you might drive them crazy. They’ll end up fighting against each other.)
June 30th, 2009 at 7:59 pmOne can’t help but wonder how someone would screech about George Soros when the last three Republican Administrations were wholly owned by the Saudis and assorted Iranian and Central American terrorists. It almost seems like they choose to forget Iran-Contra and two generations of Bushes who kissed Saudi Kings. And Princes. And well-connected traders.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:01 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
FreeDUMBMarket = Billdo’s TOY… ;)
Limbaugh’s ‘roid pillow…
June 30th, 2009 at 8:02 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
RHF cannot accept the FACT that slimeball Soros is friends with the Clintons and FULLY SUPPORTS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY..thats right you read correctly..DEMOCRATIC PARTY. NOT the Libertarian Party.
No one supports the Libertarian Party, nitwit. People laugh at the Libertarian Party, true, as they try to put a gloss on greed.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:06 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
These Republican/conservative smearing Hookers are on the payroll at CAP funded by SURPRISE..the Democratic party..you will NEVER see anything that critiques their “Chicago thug in chief”
June 30th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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“I spit on your grave!”
– Joseph Farrah
:)
June 30th, 2009 at 8:08 pmLeave it to Glenn Beck to finally erase the stigma of Seward’s Folly with Beck’s Folly – the monumental lack of historical perspective would make me plotz if it wasn’t so tragic that literally millions of people actually take him seriously. Beck’s retardation is absolutely epic – he literally is stupider than a fifth grader…
June 30th, 2009 at 8:12 pmGoes to show the trio of Fox clowns in the morning are at least equally as stupid as the $hit flinging Baboon Beck.
Baboon wants to talk to The Donald?
Sure. He’s an expert handling bankruptcies.
The Donald has filed for bankruptcy, if I recall correctly, at least 5 times.
And the Alaska purchase. The trio of clowns just went along with the Baboon.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:18 pmBut when you think about it, little unimportant dweebs like FreeRangeChickenhawk represent the Hemorrhoid Pillow of the Right, with their childlike idealism, and their hero-worship of criminals, and of criminality in national politics. Without the cushion of these self-important nobodies, joined together in their common rage, and common hatred of American history and traditions, the Right would find it’s agenda unattainable, and their collective asses chafing, sticking to the seat, and running red from the laceration of their failed political desires.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:23 pmSome-days nothing amazes me. Who is Glen Beck’s fact checker? Right wingnuts cry, scream, and strike out endlessly and yet the can’t quite fathom why they are the laughing stock of the world. I believe that any republican with any worth has long since jumped ship and who could blame them. The entire wingnut group could be a study in mass hysteria. Wacked beyond all belief and yet twenty percent of the country watches with the reverence like those waiting for the rapture. Be afraid, be very afraid. They walk among us.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:38 pmWhy is it that left-wing do-badders seem always to have second careers in academia?
Because all the burger-flipping positions have been filled by racist Righties?
June 30th, 2009 at 8:51 pmA fact-checker on the Glenn Beck show is about as useful as a fluffer one the set of The L Word.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:54 pmFreeMarketLiberal,
June 30th, 2009 at 9:01 pmCheck your underwear, I think there on tooooo tight, your are screeching. Please do the rest of us a favor. Can’t take you seriously.
Ans didn’t we win Florida as a door-prize from the Australians so we could have a space center to fake moon-landings?
June 30th, 2009 at 9:11 pmHistory is fascinating isn’t it?
We were supposed to take FML seriously?
June 30th, 2009 at 9:13 pmFriends don’t let friends blog drunk.
This one obviously has no friends.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pmFreeMarketDumbass said: “…think if Timothy McVeigh would have beat the rap, that the UofC would have hired him as a professor? Why is it that left-wing do-badders seem always to have second careers in academia?
Because they are educated, something obviously foreign to you. I normally try to at least be civil here, but FMDumbass always pops in with his oxymoronic pukings, and he clearly does not even know the meanings of the words and examples he uses.
SO, FMD, “zeitgeist,” “Jonestown,” “hubris,” “dictionary.” One of these things is the key to making yourself look slightly less stupid, so guess….
June 30th, 2009 at 9:26 pmAn aside to FreeMarketDumbass: This Monty Python video is you boiled down to an economical two minutes 30 seconds…
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=Monty+Python+%2B+Argument&ei=UTF-8&fr=fptb-hptb5-105&tnr=21&vid=000164889728
June 30th, 2009 at 9:33 pm“I came in here for an argument!”
“Oh, no, sorry, this is abuse!”
June 30th, 2009 at 9:40 pmLOL-what a dumbass
June 30th, 2009 at 9:48 pmWow! I went away for awhile and FreeMarketdummy got even dummer. At this rate he will only have one brain cell left.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:51 pmGod I can’t spell tonight, sorry.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:53 pmangels81, you’re giving him too much credit.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:54 pmangels81, the trolls never even noticed…
June 30th, 2009 at 9:55 pmralpf the wonder locos Says:
flight Says:
FreeMarketLiberal,
Check your underwear, I think there on tooooo tight, your are screeching. Please do the rest of us a favor. Can’t take you seriously.
We were supposed to take FML seriously?
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I am shocked, truely shocked. You mean we have a real troll among us? I’m not sure what to say, I’m speechless.
humbly, flight
June 30th, 2009 at 10:02 pmEverywhere one looks these days, there are nothing but black
faces staring back from TV, websites, advertisements junkmail. You name it, there’s a black face on it. Even children’s cartoons in predominantly white areas are now featuring hastily constructed black characters. Seemingly overnight, the socialist liberal traitors have succeeded where blacks did not – they have marginalized and trivialized whitey.
How did this happen? The largest population group in the United States of America has lost it’s spine. Yes, white people in America no longer have a single spine between the entire lot of them. They have allowed the media and public schools to hammer them into submission with politically correct indoctrination of themselves and their children. Did they protest, fight or object? No, they caved in without even a whimper. Sticks and stones, Whitey. Had Whitey taken to the blogs with any shred of courage, CNN, CBS, MSNBC and ABC might well be going under instead of the venerable newspapers who are vanishing at the rate of one per week.
The millions who sacrificed their lives to build America are
spinning in their graves. What a disgrace. Being an American used to mean something, something special. It symbolized the strong, the brave, the indomitable force that nothing could withstand. They were revered the world over for their freedoms, their minimally corrupt government, and their
penchant for taking on the impossible with inevitable success. Everyone on the planet wanted to be an American.
Today, Americans are scorned, laughed at, thought of as fools. How did it come to this? The reasons are many, most unspoken for fear of peer criticism. Free speech, one of the most important rights of the American citizen, has been effectively neutered by the American media. It didn’t have to be that way, not in a capitalist society. If Americans cared, they could bend the media like a reed in the wind by expressing their discontent with media sponsors. A little sacrifice here and there, a little time, and not spending their money with those sponsors could put them both on their heels in less than a year. Americans simply don’t have the discipline to see something like that through. Most modern day Americans are weak and cowardly.They have more interest in fag or freak shows on television than their own person.
Free America is over. Corporate America, liberals, and a now
highly corrupt federal government have sold the entire country into slavery for 100 years. Americans stood by and watched it happen.
Shame on all of you
June 30th, 2009 at 10:06 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says
June 30th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
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The Radical Right Wing agenda is to teach mindless automatons their radical way of thinking.
The prime question to ask is this: How is it that G. Gordon Liddy, a self-admitted unrepentant burglary mastermind, Watergate conspirator, dirty trickster, etc., got his own radio talk show? You think if Donald DeFreeze would have gotten out of that shootout alive, that somebody would have hired him to do a hate-filled program of vitriol from his unique perspective? Why is it that right-wing do-badders seem always to get access to a microphone?
There. Fixed it for you. But what’s your point? And what does this have to do with Beck and his ignorance of history?
June 30th, 2009 at 10:07 pmThe Young Rethug, F**k You, you white nazi racist pig.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:11 pmThe creed posted by YR was written by someone banned from Google Groups.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:17 pmThat takes some doing.
FLAG!
The Young Rethug, how come you haven’t signed up to go serve the country you love? Why won’t you live up to what you say made this country great? Your contry is at war and it needs young god fearing flag waving studs like you to man up. I expect you to go down and sign up to serve your country, and become the man you think you are.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:18 pmAnother great cut and post job by FreeMarketDummy. Not a original thought in that small pea brain of his.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:20 pmI feel for real conservatives. WIlliam Buckley must be turning over in his grave. Goldwater would rip these idiots heads off and spit down thier throats. What a total bunch of pathetic lying fools now represent the GOP and “conservatism.” THey can tpossibley believe that they can win any national elections with this group of twits representing thier views. Wow, just wow.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:22 pmFML:
People murdered by Timothy McVeigh: 168
People murdered by Bill Ayers: 0
Math is not one of your strong points, eh?
Too often, TP becomes the host of purile, grade school name calling.
Screaming “KKK, Racist, Dumbass” at you doesn’t do a damn thing.
But, since you insist on posting right-wing drivel on a site intended as a forum for a segment of the progressive movement, that doesn’t speak too kindly of your intellect, either.
You’re pathetic.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:28 pmMaybe we need to ask for his birth certificate.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:32 pmThe Young Republican Says:
Everywhere one looks these days, there are nothing but black
faces staring back from TV, websites, advertisements junkmail. You name it, there’s a black face on it. Even children’s cartoons in predominantly white areas are now featuring hastily constructed black characters.
Where the bloody heck do you live? I don’t see this at all. Here the children in every neighborhood pretty much watch the same shows, and many of the characters are yellow or red and have feathers or fur. We also don’t get much junk mail depicting people of any race, since advertising has dried up due to the recession. I think you’re making this stuff up.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pmROTFLMAF at repugs.
You were never in the majority. NEVER!
I find glee in your demise.
YAY!
June 30th, 2009 at 10:37 pmI think it does no good to engage FreeMarketLobotomy because he just jumps from one thread to another, disregarding topic, dropping his cut-and-paste ignorance and moving on to annoy everyone on the next thread. He doesn’t read the salient criticisms, so they have no effect.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:40 pmI’m guilty of (futile) attempts to call him out, but I’m thinking it’s best to ignore him these days, because is knows and is nothing…
The Young Republican,
I am sorry to ask, but what planet did you come from? You are obviously not a student of history, America’s or of the world’s. This is a fantastic country that has weathered many storms that have destroyed lesser governments. This country has produced so of the most admired leaders in the world. The present African American occupying the Whitehouse may just well end up in that list.
You are living in the past.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:45 pmThink; “it’s a brave new world”.
FreeMarketLiberal lies:
–Believes and defends anything and everything Obama says or does.
If that were the case the “recommend numbers” here would be all the same, idiot.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:46 pmThanks for clearing that up AmericasBack. On some level I’m glad thye’re just repeating stolen crap. I’d hate to think folk really believed such nonsense.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:47 pmAs FreeM STILL hasn’t disavowed his implicit approval of mass murderer Timothy McVeigh and his assertion that McVeigh deserves to be a college professor, I think we tan take it as fact that Free Market Liberal is a right-wing extremist of the type that the DHS has warned about, and that his activities should be monitored by the FBI.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:51 pmIt used to be said “There’s no fool like an old fool.” That should now be altered to read “There’s no fool like a young republican.”
June 30th, 2009 at 10:52 pmOh, as if it weren’t blindingly obvious anyway, but Free Market Liberal’s cut and paste turd does not appear anywhere in the DHS report on Left-Wing Extremism.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:57 pmI see FreeMarketLunatic and Young Rethuglican are still pasting the same comments on every thread. I hope the money you’re being paid is worth humiliating yourself for.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:58 pmI think FreeMarketLiberal has issues.
FreeMarketLiberal, it is good to get the issues out.
I think is a form of frustration.
What do you think?
June 30th, 2009 at 11:03 pmOh well done, Free Market Liberal! An honest cut and paste from the actual DHS report!
Now go search the entire history of Think Progress and see if you can find ANYONE here who has offered ANY support for ANY of the nutjob groups the DHS mentions.
You might find a handful of comments over the past five years mention Code Pink and PETA, and you’ll find there will be few to none supportive words about them.
Go on! Off you go. Gather your evidence.
Oh, but before you do, you do still think Timothy McVeigh deserves a professorship don’t you?
June 30th, 2009 at 11:05 pmAmericasBack Says:
No Man, they DO believe it – but it wasn’t that trolls pea-brain that wrote it. It can only steal and not give credit – where credit is due?
Well that’s depressing. I was hoping this entity only felt the need to steal other’s words and deliberately seek confrontation with those with differing opinions in order to fulfill some sick need for attention, no matter how negative. If they really believe, well that’s just sad.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:06 pmC’mon, AmericasBack, you had to at least have an inkling there was a split personality at work here. And on that subject, did you ever notice that you never see Glenn Beck and the retarded kid from Life Goes On at the same time? Sorta makes you wonder…
June 30th, 2009 at 11:07 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
FLAG!
June 30th, 2009 at 11:22 pmI’ve been flagging “them” since “they” first started the “double team” crap.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:27 pmI remember a group of tree huggers who were so violent, in fact the cops had to force open their eyes to administer pepper spray. They sat there and screamed while the pepper spray burned the shit out of their eyes.
Talk about a rough group. I hope they don’t look at me with their pepper eyes! They could kill me!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:56 amGlenn Beck is on the record explaining his role in the world of cable news. Because, in his words, he along with Hannity and O’Reilly are neither investigative reporters nor journalists (”I’m a commentator”), he implies that they are therefore not beholden to guidelines of journalistic integrity and ethics and are free to make crap up.
If these 3 propaganda peddlers were required be factually accurate in their “commentaries”, they would be speechless.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:11 amAmericasBack said: BTW, young punkass thuglican and notsofreemarketconservative are one in the same …If he wasn’t, then he wouldn’t have posted on all threads the same message
C’mon, AmericasBack, you had to at least have an inkling there was a split personality at work here. And on that subject, did you ever notice that you never see Glenn Beck and the retarded kid from Life Goes On at the same time? Sorta makes you wonder…
July 1st, 2009 at 2:39 amYou’d think that with Sarah Palin as his very first guest on his current FOX show, Beck could at least get this right.
What a pathetic moron.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:47 amModerators please do something about FreeMarketLiberal and Young Republican for their consistently being off topic and spamming every thread!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 5:09 amGlenn Beck is another one who needs his meds… He gets everything wrong… If you go and Google Alaska and the information on why we obtain Alaska… Yes Fixed noise gets everything wrong… They lie to the public and claimed to be fair and balanced, that is BS.
The world is laughing at us, because the Republicans are fear mongers and some people are guilable enough to eat it up!
July 1st, 2009 at 7:08 amGood thing for Beck that No Child left Behind didn’t exist when he was pushed through the school system.
July 1st, 2009 at 7:52 amTo FreeMarketLoonie (aka JimmyLovesBucks),
This thread is about Glenn Beck and his ignorance of basic American history. It is not about George Soros or Bill Ayers, etc. If you don’t have a comment about the topic of this thread, would you please cease and desist. Or in language better understood by people of your (low) intellect, F-off!
July 1st, 2009 at 8:24 amI nominate Glenn Beck for President of the Idiocracy!
July 1st, 2009 at 8:29 amFLEAMARKETREPIGGIE is certainly as poorly educated as Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing education abhoring crowd.
FoxNews is a monument to repiggie masturbatory cretinism.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:34 am.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:34 amYeah. He’s a clown. But a dangerous one, like all of his ilk, including Michael “Savage” Weiner, terrorist(?) All these wingnuts seem laughable, but out there in the darkness, even stupider, crazier people are cleaning their firearms and waiting for a signal from O’Reilly or Savage or Limbaugh, Coulter or Malkin or Hannity. We need to shut them down before more people are silenced or killed.
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I agree with you that Beck is dangerous, but to call him a “clown” is insulting to professional clowns, who use talent and skill to make us laugh. By contrast, Beck and his ilk make us laugh with their lack of talent, skill and knowledge.
cosanostradamus Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 9:07 amYeah. He’s a clown. But a dangerous one,
All of these attacks on Beck and all things right wing really are laughable. It’s pure rhetoric. Why do you care if he said the wrong period in time? Does it matter if he said 1950, 1850, or 750? No!
What does matter is the ramifications of this bill, which are conspicuously missing from this post. Is it perhaps because no one here has thought about it? There are several reasons to be against this Waxman Markey Climate bill, regardless of your political affiliation.
1.) This will cause energy prices, and by default prices on all commodities, to rise (relatively speaking of course). The CBO, the EPA, The George C. Marshall Institute and the Heritage Foundation have all done studies on the effects of this legislation. All four of them predict that by 2015 the average cost per household for energy will increase, on the low end, by $110/yr. and on the high end by approx. $1500/yr. I would suspect that it will probably end up somewhere in the middle. And if you are one of the unlucky people who happen to heat your home with natural gas your energy costs will increase even more.
The reason this is bad is because it hurts the poor to a greater degree than it does the rich. For example, the poor generally spend close to 100% of their income on fixed expenses (food, housing, energy, etc.). If we raise the price of one of those fixed expenses, especially during a time when wages are declining/stagnant, it will cause the poor to suffer.
2.) Due to increased cost of doing business we WILL lose jobs to overseas competitors. This will cost us blue collar jobs and increase the trade deficit. That is not to mention the fact that no discernible value is being created through this. It is self evident then, that, relatively speaking, enacting this piece of legislation will cause greater inefficiency.
3.) And lastly, for all of you who think all of the repercussions are worth it to fight “climate change.”
The effects of this bill will be a net increase in carbon emissions. What do you think happens when manufacturing is pushed overseas to less advanced countries. They use their energy inefficient methods of productions to produce the same amount(or greater) goods.
Oh, and one last thing. Mark my words. When gas/energy prices increase in a few years do to this, all of you liberals will be pissing and moaning that the gas companies are “price gouging” and pushing up the cost of energy. When you start doing that, remember this piece of legislation.
-Roark
July 1st, 2009 at 9:12 amBeck is an idiot. He probably got his history lessons from King George Jr. If Alaska was Seward’s Folly, then perhaps any statement made by Beck is folly.
Ye gods!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:30 amSO, FMD, “zeitgeist,” “Jonestown,” “hubris,” “dictionary.” One of these things is the key to making yourself look slightly less stupid, so guess….
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Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid
Where were all the trolls when Enron bankrupted California customers?
July 1st, 2009 at 9:57 amIn case you didn’t know,utillty companies already rasie prices whenever they can.
Glenn Beck is just an example of how stupid pays, esp. if you work for
faux news.
tony and lido
I’ll mark your words if you eat my shorts.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:58 amtony and lido
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I’ll mark your words if you eat my shorts.
tony and lido
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Dietrich-
What an incredibly deductive, persuasive, and logical response! Please, share more of your knowledge, oh wise sage. Your articulate way of expressing your viewpoints gives me great desire to change my worldview. Please continue to let your intellect shine.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:20 amYou people don’t understand. Now, it is a fact that we bought Alaska in the 1950’s in alternate reality.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:31 amBECK: Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s? We bought Alaska for the resources.
Beck is wrong. We bought Alaska so Sarah Palin could keep an eye on Vladimir Putin.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:39 amRoark Says:
Oh, and one last thing. Mark my words. When gas/energy prices increase in a few years do to this, all of you liberals will be pissing and moaning that the gas companies are “price gouging” and pushing up the cost of energy. When you start doing that, remember this piece of legislation.
Well, it will take just one of us to not “piss and moan” over energy prices to make your statement mere speculation, right?
I promise never to piss and moan about energy prices or gouging, especially since I know it will be our own doing from being such energy hogs in the first place.
Mark MY words.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:49 amIf you don’t complain then I commend you.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:23 amWhat a joke, beck misspeaks he is made fun of when Obama misspeaks and doesn’t even know how many states are in the Union, he was just tired. One hypocritical rant after another.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:46 amgeez you right wingers are grossly uninformed.
Soros may be the biggest political fat cat of all time.
No, not close, the biggest fat cat of all time remains Sun Myung Moon who has outspent anyone funding and molding right wing thought in America. No ONE has outspent him, NO ONE. 3 Billion for the Washington Times alone. Moon brags, BRAGS about using the paper to “influence” our nation.
Newsbuster says this. Isn’t that Brent Bozzel’s propaganda outlet? Well no wonder he would say that about Soros since he was a policy board member of Moon’s front to gather the Christian right for political power, the American Freedom Coalition!
http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml
The media consistently ignore the fact that this so-called “philanthropist” has had several brushes with the law
You right wingers are uninformed chumps.
Moon is a convicted tax cheat. His “church” recently paid 500 grand to keep from being prosecuted in the world largest shark poaching ring.
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/test/
The money he has used to mold your simple minds comes from overseas, billions FROM JAPAN!. In Japan, Moon’s “church” has been found guilty of swindling hundreds of millions, likely billions of dollars by swindling widows. Yes, the main funder of the right in American the last 30 years, a man who unlike Soros is NOT a citizen and has stated agenda to replace “American-style democracy,” made the money swindling widows!!
You people are so uninformed YOU are a national security problem for this country.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:55 amWhat a joke. Beck didn’t misspeak. He made up an alternate reality for a specific reason. It’s called propaganda, and it is designed to control dumbasses like you.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:00 pmPernell, right-wing Republicans do not know who Sun Myung Moon is. They also have never heard of Richard Mellon Scaife. You will never get a right-winger to acknowledge the existance of either of these two evil fascist wingnuts.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:05 pmIf you really wan propaganda look no further then here…..
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=101292
Now that’s propaganda at it finest.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:34 pmMy first 10 years in business was spent in oil and mineral exploration. Those of us in the 70’s knew the enormous wealth of oil within own country. Having a history in the business, I know the dangers of transporting oil and the safety in developing our own reserves. No nation on earth has the safety standards for exploring and extracting oil as the U.S. Transporting oil by tanker either on land or sea is a disaster waiting to happen and does so all the time. During Katrina, not one drop of oil was spilled by the over 4000 platforms in the Caribbean which were directly located in the path of the storm. To walk on one of these rigs and to see the capabilities is quite an experience. For the past 10 years I have invested in companies producing ethanol and wind energies. I know today the ethanol is an environmental disaster as well as an economical one. Wind is extremely expensive. Developing Nuclear and our own oil reserves would guarantee energy independence, cheap energy, the ability to continue on the path to a cleaner environment, and produce an enormous wealth in new and continuing jobs. To believe that our scientific institutions will produce a new “Magic and Renewable fuel” is a dream, not reality.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:46 pmtim.ned
Developing Nuclear and our own oil reserves would guarantee energy independence, cheap energy, the ability to continue on the path to a cleaner environment, and produce an enormous wealth in new and continuing jobs.
A very sound opinion, one which I agree 100 percent. If “progressive” minded people really cared about the environment they wouldn’t stand in the way of nuclear power. Instead of “progressives” crying about how we interfere with countries and go to war over oil, we could produce our own and be self sufficient. But what would they have to complain about then?
July 1st, 2009 at 1:00 pmI apologize for my post 167, FML was quoting Accuracy in Media not Newsbusters. But hey AIM, that’s Reed Irvine’s right wing propaganda outlet. You know, the Irvine who worked with Moon to mold the right into the horror we see today.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/050108.html
July 1st, 2009 at 1:01 pmjrzguy Says:
If “progressive” minded people really cared about the environment they wouldn’t stand in the way of nuclear power. Instead of “progressives” crying about how we interfere with countries and go to war over oil, we could produce our own and be self sufficient. But what would they have to complain about then?
Nuclear power is fine. It’s the waste that would be a bother. Then there’s that whole “meltdown” concern.
I have no qualms about it, but I just want to see it produced efficiently. Hell, if we could understand that increasing efficiency in fossil fuels would help immensely and cap pollutants, I wouldn’t complain all that much in the first place.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:03 pmRoark Says:
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I’ll mark your words if you eat my shorts.
tony and lido
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Dietrich-
What an incredibly deductive, persuasive, and logical response! Please, share more of your knowledge, oh wise sage. Your articulate way of expressing your viewpoints gives me great desire to change my worldview. Please continue to let your intellect shine.
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Just practicing my troll routine.
As for intelligence, I prefer to use it on people that can handle it.
I could have told you what most people would:STFU
tony and lido
July 1st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Go ‘way, ‘baten!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:15 pmYou bring up excellent points. First we do have a waste problem in nuclear power. Currently, most facilities are storing depleted material onsite which they are not capable of doing. This is not the power company’s fault but is a problem that both Dem’s and Rep’s won’t address. Out west we have developed waste storage in formations that haven’t changed in millions of years. We have the scientific brain power in this country to develop, transport safely, and store nuclear waste. New technologies have also been developed over the years where nuclear material can be depleted up to 90 %. Politicians on both sides for some reason won’t address this issue. And the storage at current nuclear facilities is a disaster that is waiting and will happen. Just like Katrina, they don’t fix broken policies until disaster.
The fossil fuel question is still there. But the auto industry the primary pollutant (just because of sheer numbers) has cleaned up their act tremendously over the past 20 years. Electric cars are real as is the possibility for Hydrogen which is currently in test in California.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:26 pmGlen Beck you are a LIAR! You are also a Fraud just like your fat friend Rush Limpbaugh. Yes, I mean LIMPbaugh!
July 1st, 2009 at 2:31 pmTim.ned, Sorry you dishonest punk. You have NO credibility when you repeat debunked rightwing talking points. http://www.geotimes.org/feb06/feature_oilspill.html http://billnelson.senate.gov/news/details.cfm?id=304324 The lakes I fish are becoming acidic. Who should pay for the cleanup? Punk.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pmjeffro Says:
Tim.ned, Sorry you dishonest punk. You have NO credibility when you repeat debunked rightwing talking points. http://www.geotimes.org/feb06/feature_oilspill.html http://billnelson.senate.gov/news/details.cfm?id=304324 The lakes I fish are becoming acidic. Who should pay for the cleanup? Punk.
Yes, I’m so dishonest. Spend a few bucks go to New Orleans and watch the Imax presentation “Hurricane on the Bayou”. I’m sure this wasn’t written by some right wing environmentalist. Come out of that and try to blame that evil oil destroyed the wetlands of Louisiana. You should be able to pay the cleanup for your lake the day you can cut your grass and put it in your gas tank. Dream on. I stand by my statements and you are extremely brave with name calling on blogs.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pmDishonesty is your MO Punk! Address the fact that you use debunked talking points! Not one drop of oil spilled? Do you care to retract your lies? You think you can divert the topic from the fact that you LIED? No credibility,Punk. If any one listens to any thing you say, they are a MORON!Oil and Coal are DONE! You are just too stupid to see it. You are part of the problem. You get your world view from a drug addict on the radio,and i’m supposed to take you seriously? Get out of my Face! Punk.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:10 amBeck: Why did we buy Alaska in the 1950s? We bought Alaska for the resources.
Think Progress/ Nate Carlile: The resources the U.S. was after in 1867 weren’t oil, but fish, furs, and…
Beck [] pointed out, incorrectly, that the U.S. purchased Alaska [] because of our interest in its “resources,”
This is news? This is pathetic.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pmMore revisionist history from Fox’s Idiot-in-Chief.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:05 pmSorry you haven’t cured the anger yet. The department of interior commissioned a study on the performance of offshore platforms in the gulf after the storm. Read the facts jack! If you had read my blogs instead blowing your anger I stressed the danger of transporting oil! I forgot to mention the dangers in storing oil as well which is another reason you can call me every name in the book. Katrina destroyed the very infrastructure of New Orleans including oil storage utilities and pipelines. Oil spills were caused by destruction of these facilities. Unfortunately just as other major infrastructures, these were also not prepared to handle this destructive storm.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 pmhttp://www.mms.gov/tarprojects/578/MMSProject578-Final%20Report.pdf