Despite Beck’s anti-federal spending rhetoric, he initially supported Bush’s $700 billion bailout.
Despite Beck’s anti-federal spending rhetoric, he initially supported Bush’s $700 billion bailout.
Much of Fox News host Glenn Beck’s appeal is his populist, anti-government rhetoric, which gained extra traction during the federal government’s financial bailouts. “Wall Street owns our government,” Beck declared in July. “Our government and these gigantic corporations have merged.” A couple of weeks later, he “mockingly replaced the stars on the American flag with the logos of corporate giants like G.E., General Motors, Wal-Mart and Citigroup.” But the blog Another War of Jenkins’ Ear points out that Beck — while appearing on CNN Headline News — actually voiced his support for President Bush’s $700 billion bailout:
But these are anything but normal times. I thought about it an awful lot this weekend, and while it takes everything in me to say this, I think the bailout is the right thing do.
The “REAL STORY” is the $700 billion that you’re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it.
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September 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pmFlip-flop much Beck?
September 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pmwell of course he supported it then, he thought bush was going to impose martial law and the republicans were going to stay in power.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:06 pm“Despite Beck’s anti-federal spending rhetoric, he initially supported the $700 billion bailout.”
– - A little reality about Glenn Beck’s impact: In 1987 comedian David Brenner bombed in syndication with about 2.5 million viewers at midnight — which is roughly what Fox, the leading network for political talk shows, averages in prime time.
There is certainly a very angry far right base out there. But let’s not attribute to them any great significance.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:06 pmWhat? You mean Beck’s just a hack with no principles? Breaking news!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:09 pmFrom the Gospel of Beck, First Chapter, Verse 5:
“For I so love my God the almighty dollar that I give up my integrity, and whosoever believes in what I say shall not be educated but shall have eternal stupidity.”
September 21st, 2009 at 3:09 pmI notice the pundits hypocrisy span is as short as the publics memory span
September 21st, 2009 at 3:12 pmFox repugniscum are nothing if not hypocrites.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:13 pmHe belongs in a padded cell at Leavenworth.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:13 pmSo Beck, a Republican, Lied.
Call him out!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:14 pmCaption: Grab the teabag, like this and bring down quickly
September 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pmHe does kinda have that wall-biter look
September 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pmLiar.
Flip-flopper.
Liar.
Hypocrite.
Liar.
Nut.
…yikes, someone help me…I’m stuck in a loop!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pmFrom a corporations pocket to Beck’s mouth.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pmBreaking News! Glenn Beck isn’t human!
He is the result of an Area 51 experiment done on Chatty Cathy dolls. Pull his chain and he will spout whatever he has been programmed to say. Pull it too many times and he will cry 75 proof tears and wet himself copiously.
Don’t laugh, its true. I saw it in the paper in the grocery store checkout line.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pmBeck is just another Republican opportunist whose views change with the wind.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pmCaption: “This is me trying to hold onto reality – see, my hands are holding onto nothing”
Caption: “This is how I would look in prison as the ‘Beck girl’”
Caption: “I didn’t know it was so hard to milk a bull.”
September 21st, 2009 at 3:21 pmThe real truth to this story is Beck was already lying on CNN.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pmClusterFox is just icing on the flake…
Just look at Spin Wrecks rodeo barrel its stickered up like a Nascar.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:23 pm“Despite Beck’s anti-federal spending rhetoric, he initially supported Bush’s $700 billion bailout.”
Anything that the former clown President was endorsing and even a hangnail, Beck would endorse and support. Not suprising that Beckster supported Bush’s $700 billion bailout. Beck’s wallet, soul and loins belong to Fox News.
p.s.
Funny pic of Beck. He fits right in with the mental ward.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:23 pmGeorge says – Hehehe, Beck, now there’s a real American, he’s getting all those loyal conservative christian soldiers all stirred up into a “End Times Frenzy”. He knows which side his bread is buttered on, it’s buttered on my backside and Beckerhead sure likes licking it clean. Why Beck is so loyal to us that he will do anything we tell him to do, that’s right, ANYTHING…as long as it has a paycheck that is. It was Rove’s master plan to have Beckerhead get our followers all stirred up, then when one of these sheeple does the dirty deed, we can just say, hey, look, Beckerhead is just crazy, he doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, so don’t blame him, and you know something? It will work like a charm…what do you think Dick?
Dick says – I need fresh blood from cute kittens and puppies.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:23 pmFirst Boehner, then Graham, and now Beck flying in the face of the Reich Wing. There will soon be a contrition line at Pus Phlegmball’s door for the confessional session. Dear God, I love it. The GOP is melting down, it’s melting, melting. What a world, what a world.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pmCaption: When did you stop choking your ex wife?
September 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pm“Gotta wonder”. No doubt! When your world is void of facts, logic, truth, integrity, consistency, honesty, and compassion I suppose wondering is about all that’s left.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:25 pm“You’ve got to believe in something, even if it isn’t true, you’ve got to believe in something.” – Glenn Beck.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:25 pmOh geez, there’s another one at 17!
The Chatty Cathys are everywhere!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:27 pmSo what day did the big sleep begin, I know it was right years ago but was it two days maybe three after the SOTUS knighted GWB, or a week? After Reagan departed Gaia?
September 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pmWhat else would you expect from a schitzoid, paranoiac? Winski @ #9 is absolutely right. A padded cell, electro-shock and a full frontal lobotomy is just what he needs. After all, doesn’t he want his country to go back to the good old days?
September 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pmright should be eight
I dunno why it isnt. 8/
September 21st, 2009 at 3:29 pm“I don’t recall”?? Where have I heard that before? Hhhmm, could our vote down troll be Alberto Gonzales? Nah! – at best only a wannabe.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:32 pmJust one quick but relevant one to show what a liar you are.
Helen Thomas.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pmOne look at Glenn Beck and you know the butter done slipped off his biscuit.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm“mockingly replaced the stars on the American flag with the logos of corporate giants like G.E., General Motors, Wal-Mart and Citigroup.”
And of course Beck put up the ACORN and SEIU logos on the flag because Beck thinks they wrote the health-care bill
September 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pmBeck, being mentally ill & alcoholic has a disturbing dilemma…
‘Would I rather have a bottle in front of me or a frontal lobotomy?’
September 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pmQuick! Vote him down! says:
Gotta wonder why the democrat party and Barry are so quick to throw Becks targets out with the dirty diapers? He’s just a fat, stupid, blowhard flip-flopper
Because while you’re preoccupied with slandering minor government functionaries, Obama’s busy passing health care reform.
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Quick! Vote him down! says:
I really don’t recall the GOP or President Bush paying any attention to Olbermann, Maddow, Rhodes, Schlotz or the rest of the Great Left-Wing Conspiracy.
There’s a lot that the GOP and President Bush didn’t pay any attention to.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pmBush pay attention!!???!!!??
And here we thought right wingers couldn’t do comedy! A hearty Graham Clap to you.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pmHe’s insane, not really responsible for the stuff that falls out of his mouth. It’s just too bad that the responsible adults around him are riding his coat tails instead of getting him the help he so obviously needs.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pmOh, I see:
He was for it before he was against it.™
September 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pm4 letters, 1 syllable, begins with the letter B – BUSH
5 letters, 3 syllables, B in the second position – Obama.
Now do you see the difference ?
September 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pmThis weasel will say anything to get a paycheck, he doesn’t mine lying, he knows his audience is too stupid to think for themselves so he can say any moronic thing he wants and they will eat it up and ask for seconds.
Nice post GeorgeandDick
September 21st, 2009 at 3:40 pmOf course he did.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:48 pmBeck: “if you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.“
Can’t say the wingnuts didn’t have fair warning.
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September 21st, 2009 at 3:57 pmbecky is backpedaling because he’s loosing cabbage.
HAHAHAHAHA
Surely you don’t think we are calling off the boycott.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pmFor Beck, it doesn’t matter what you complain about, the complaining is an end unto itself. He has to make up enough BS to fill up an hour, and being a loon, ranting about whatever comes to his diseased mind is really all it takes. If crazed ranting doesn’t fill up the hour he can always weep.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:05 pmSedition, Lies, trying to over throw the government. He needs to be investigated. He may be the Anti-Christ. He is one of the deceivers. Repent!!
September 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pmglenda becky cheerleaded for 43 because 43 is white don’tcha know?
September 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pmHas anyone else noticed how much Bin Gleck looks like Dick Chainy? And sounds like him?
Could we be looking at an unhallowed love child?
September 21st, 2009 at 4:19 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2mhpqCPpuE&NR=1
Can always rely on Jon to get a laugh out of any situation. “It seems glenn beck’s butt surgery hasn’t stopped him from talking out of his butt”.
How is it people still think he tells the truth when videos like this are all over the internet? Sorry, I forgot half of America is stupid. No wonder Republicans want to shut down public schools, you have to be stupid to support Republicans.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pmWith all the attention Beck is receiving, it will be just a short time when Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, et al, start talking just as crazy as Beck. They will need to shore up their ratings against Beck.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:33 pmI really get tired of looking at this fools mug. It begs the question of the repubs. Is this your leader?
September 21st, 2009 at 5:15 pmGlenn Beck says:
They’re coming to take me away,
September 21st, 2009 at 5:18 pmHA HA!
They’re coming to take me away,
HA HA HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
to the Funny Farm
Where life is beautiful all the time!
And I’ll be happy to see
those nice young men
in their clean white coats
and they’re coming to take me AWAAAAAAAY!!!
what did Glenn Beck lie about on cnn.
September 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pmCaption: Glenn Beck — A fistful of crazy.
September 21st, 2009 at 6:45 pmthe SECOND one was Obama – bad bad bad. estetik ameliyatlar
September 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am