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Right-Wing Radio Host Mark Levin Lashes Out At Glenn Beck: He’s ‘Mindless, ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Pathetic’

In an interview with Katie Couric for her new web-only show, Fox News pundit Glenn Beck said he thinks John McCain would have been a bad president because he’s “this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.” Beck added that McCain would be worse than Obama:

I think John McCain would have been worse — [laughs] How about this? I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. How’s that?

Watch it:


Beck’s opinion elicited a fierce and angry response from right-wing radio host Mark Levin yesterday. “To say [McCain] would be worse is mindless, mindless, incoherent as a matter of fact,” Levin said on his radio show. He then suggested Beck is playing politics: “I don’t know who people are playing to. I don’t know why they’re playing to certain people.”

Levin never mentions Beck by name (he refers to Beck as “the 5 pm’er” because Beck’s show airs at 5 pm on Fox News). He concluded with this final dig at Beck:

I think there’s enormous confusion and positioning and pandering. It may be entertaining, but from my perspective, it’s not. It’s pathetic.

Listen here:

Beck is causing consternation for many right wingers these days. Peter Wehner, a former political adviser to President Bush, recently wrote that Beck is “harmful to the conservative movement” because he’s “erratic,” “bizarre,” and is too interested in “conspiracy theories.” And Rush Limbaugh recently suggested to Politico that Beck’s role in promoting the 9/12 protest was “cheap and disingenuous.”

Update Raw Story notes that, this morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough expressed disdain for Fox News’ Glenn Beck. “You cannot preach hatred. You cannot say the president is racist. You cannot say things that have very deadly consequences. I was in Congress in 1995. I know where this can end,” said Scarborough.
Update The American Spectator writes about the "real problem with Glenn Beck."


96 Responses to “Right-Wing Radio Host Mark Levin Lashes Out At Glenn Beck: He’s ‘Mindless, ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Pathetic’”

  1. Xisithrus says:

    Spleen Wreck Bovine Barrel Bonobo


  2. DNFP says:

    What is it with Reicht-wing d o u c h e b a g s and big, fat, floppy, chicken-waddle necks?


  3. RobertSeattle says:

    Popping virtual popcorn right now…

    (To watch the fight)


  4. Purple State says:

    Po(m)p Will Eat Itself.

    Finally finally something from Beck that will drive the GOP crazy.


  5. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Glenn Beck has become Icarus. Giddy from being compared to Rush Limbaugh, and fancying himself the new string-puller on the right, he is flying too close to the sun.

    He’s losing his focus, and is now just hurling random invective, forgetting that he’s annoying the choir that’s keeping him aloft.

    He will fall. And soon. He’ll be lucky to get a local radio hate show in a backwoods market when Fox News has had enough of him.


  6. dixie blood says:

    I looked up pathetic and there was a picture of Mark Levin.


  7. Badmoodman says:

    Right-Wing Radio Host Mark Levin Lashes Out At Glenn Beck: He’s ‘Mindless, ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Pathetic’

    – - The TIME cover was the apogee, Glenn. Your 15 minutes is now on a downward arc.


  8. EnnuiDivine says:

    Well. They’ve done just about everything except calling Beck a “Liberal” (or “progressive” or “socialist”. since it all seems to mean the same to these jackasses).

    McCain undoubtedly WOULD have been worse, but Beck’s endorsement rings hollow.


  9. ralph the wonder llama says:

    Fox News pundit Glenn Beck said he thinks John McCain would have been a bad president because he’s “this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.”

    Okay, that settles it: these guys have NO idea what words actually mean, or else they have no intention of sticking to conventionally-understood uses of words.

    John McCain? “Progressive”?

    Whatever, Becky. In a just media universe, you would lose your chance at the mic for language abuse — let alone logic abuse.


  10. PatrioticLiberalChristian says:

    Beck is:
    confused
    positioning
    pandering
    not entertaining
    pathetic
    erratic
    bizarre
    too interested in “conspiracy theories”
    cheap
    disingenuous

    Excuse me, but haven’t we been telling you this for some time?


  11. BrianFL says:

    I doubt these right-wing pundits like Levin or Limbaugh are coming out against Beck for any noble reason. They are probably just jealous at how much attention he is getting.

    Beck’s comment that McCain would have been worse, while correct, sounded like pandering to me. It was Beck trying to portray himself as not being as crazy and viciously partisan as he really is.


  12. Xisithrus says:

    Pffft. I recall that Limbaugh trashed McCain as well.

    Hypocrites criticizing one another.

    How will it end?
    A) Dreck goobersmooching Dimbulb?
    B) Dimbulb liplocking Dreck?
    C) A reciprocal teabagging?
    D} All the above in no certain order?


  13. A Patriot Acting says:

    Funny how the Reich loves them some Glenn Beck while his ranting benefits their party by stirring up hatred for the base. Say something against Grampy McNo and it’s time to step outside. They’ll prop up this lunatic until he blows his brains out on live tv. Then they’ll distance themselves from him and his loony 9-12ers. If it weren’t for the sad fact that his raving lunacy may cause one of his sheep to act out in violence (again) this would be fun to watch. Someone needs to save lumpy from himself but it won’t be Murdoch.


  14. A Patriot Acting says:

    Glenn Beck, …John McCain would have been a bad president because he’s “this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.”

    Yeah Glenn, pay no attention to all those neocons surrounding Wrong-way Johnny.


  15. The Dogfather says:

    It’s quite simple — Beck’s a narcissist, just like the rest of them. Clearly, his fellow right-wing narcissists like Levin and Limpballs can’t handle the fact that they have competition for the three brain cells being shared by teabaggers these days…


  16. Exit Stage Left says:

    misscoleopteramolly says:
    He will fall. And soon. He’ll be lucky to get a local radio hate show in a backwoods market when Fox News has had enough of him.

    I hope you’re right.


  17. raynman says:

    Wow, there’s a headline that will drive the Right Crazy.

    Mark Levin Agrees With Think Progress, other Progressive Sites.


  18. Xisithrus says:

    Glenn Beck has become Icarus.

    Look, in hebbun abub, its a turd, its a shame, its Spin Feck spiraling toward earth leaking brain wax from dumbo ears.


  19. ralph the wonder llama says:

    And by the way, “this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was”?

    TR was the original trust-buster, rescuing the nation from the first incarnations of the robber-barons who threatened the welfare of the middle and working classes through the excesses of their greed.

    Sound familiar?

    Economic basics: economies don’t work very well when a tiny percentage of the population controls massive portions of the wealth. Eventually, the consuming middle class shrinks to the point that the robber barons have no more market for their monopolistic goods.


  20. Exit Stage Left says:

    Exit Stage Left says:

    misscoleopteramolly says:
    He will fall. And soon. He’ll be lucky to get a local radio hate show in a backwoods market when Fox News has had enough of him.

    I hope you’re right.

    Sorry Miss Molly. That was poorly worded.

    Correction:
    I hope you’re correct ;)


  21. STORM says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  22. tom says:

    Food Fight!

    I just love it when the right-wing rant-jockeys start cannibalizing each other. What a beautiful thing to see.

    I guess that’s what happens when you’re part of a dying industry that is quickly losing its lustre, its audience and its advertising revenues.

    The last few remaining dead-enders will chortle, gurgle and struggle mightily as they go through their inevitable death throes. But die they will! And they’ll take each other down just like drowning swimmers grabbing each other and gasping for air as they all sink.


  23. kasinca says:

    Loving this. To watch the wingnuts eat their own in public will be a fight worth watching. The more intelligent goppers already know that the extreme fringe is not good for the party. As they start pushing back on the self-proclaimed leaders of the party, the talking heads, there will be firefights.


  24. LizCoro says:

    Must be having a nightmare . .

    Agreeing with Mark Levin, Y-U-C-K, they’re eating their own !!


  25. joe cantwell says:

    ****

    “cheap and disingenuous”

    according to an excellent piece by alexander zaitchik in salon

    that’s been beck’s modus operandi for his entire career.

    **


  26. PatrioticLiberalChristian says:

    raynman, I gave you a vote up for your headline, which is EXACTLY the way we progressives need to be fighting these battles. We have to start using language and the media as the right wing does, although with truth rather than lies. Your headline is the truth and it puts the right wingers on the defensive, where they need to be.


  27. Ashen Shard says:

    I see the Republican circle jerk has morphed into a circular firing squad.


  28. kasinca says:

    STORM says:

    Why did Van Jones Resign? Why is ACORN losing all of its funding and the census dropped them?
    ===============================================

    The more relevant question is what did ACORN and Van Jones have to do with the big picture? ACORN is a not for profit organization that has been granted government contracts to pay minimum wage earners to do social work. Van Jones was a middle level worker in the environmental area of the administration. Now if you and GB think the world has been turned upside down, wait until you see the public option!


  29. tombaker says:

    Beck’s just finishing the race to the intellectual bottom that his “comptetitors” started.

    And when he arrived at the bottom, he found STORMO waiting there for him.

    i’m sorry.


  30. PatrioticLiberalChristian says:

    Why is Storm so obtuse? Why does Storm build strawmen? Why does Storm not use the moniker “watchdog” any longer? Why does Storm hate democracy? why? Why? WHY? WHY?


  31. Zimzone says:

    Glenn Beck is to Truth as Tom DeLay is to the art of Dance.


  32. Parlezvous says:

    What’s comical is Rush’s admonishment of Beck. It’s the pot calling the kettle black and SOP for the Reich Wing. Maybe Rush and Beck could share some oxycontin and mellow out.


  33. Fred says:

    kasinca says:
    STORM says:

    Isn’t it hilarious to watch trajie(storm) twitch and howl and act like Acorn is much more and much bigger than it is.

    he thinks even if it were true that bringing down a small agency and a mid level manager compares to the traiors like rumsfeld and gonzo and krystals old org which was huge and is now dead.

    I laugh my ass off every time he pushes this.


  34. Xisithrus says:

    Im imagining a pristine white vastness. Suddenly a large male walrus beaches itself nearby roaring at nothing about everything, its lard rippling thru the pungent odor of rotting fish.

    Another walrus larger larder louder older smellier than the first has sensed his harem is threatened by the less massive opponents battle drum tremors felt thru miles of ice.

    Dark circled deep set sharks eyes meet, they emit fierce growling as they rush towards each other, flubber flailing, at a snails pace, the ice quakes and cracks, the seal harem splits into three cackling groups some hedging their bets byt cheering for both walruses.

    The massive walruses, hours later, using vast quantities of energy in the bums blubber rush toward one another have slowed considerably and now the roaring is more like a rasping as the harems look bewildered at one another and finally with one last gargantuan effort they lunge, nanometers off the ice, at one another and fall silent both dead from the inhuman exertion


  35. MapleStreet says:

    Dr. Frankenstein, meet the monster you have created that is now out of control.

    The theme is heavily used by authors. You’d think the repubs would have read it before creating their teabagging monsters.

    And, like comments above (such as 19. Ralph the Wonderllama) – McCain like Roosevelt ?????????????
    McCain a progressive ???????????????


  36. livelongandprosper says:

    I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. How’s that?

    That’s one toke over the line, sweet jesus!!! What’s worse than having the liberal socialist media hound you for ranting like a lunitic? Answer: Pissing off the fascist neoconservative talking heads.

    Good luck with that Glenn.. or not!


  37. Intrepid says:

    STORM says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.

    Why did Van Jones Resign? Why is ACORN losing all of its funding and the census dropped them?

    Why were you dropped on your head when you were born? Did your head crack open like an egg and your brain oozed out at birth when you were dropped? I guess that’s how you were born a Repiggie.


  38. SoapBox says:

    “It’s pathetic.”

    Uh…like all of these Right Wing Crazy Freaks,

    Kettle = Black


  39. paleolib says:

    What an insult to Teddy Roosevelt. The guy was an imperialist and liked shooting animals a bit much for my taste but aside from military experience and party affiliation he has nothing in common with Crazy Johnny. McCain doesn’t match him on any progressive issue.


  40. tombaker says:

    I don’t even like watching mud wrestling when hot chicks do it.

    But it’s kinda neat to see the righties finally meet their own, real worst enemies.


  41. stevief says:

    I do wish there comes a day when the commentariat around the web would ignore the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, et al. These right-wing media figures are a pox on the nation and we only help them by posting on their comments. They need to be marginalized, not highlighted. ThinkProgress, by commenting on their asinine behavior, only serves to broadcast their bile further. I’m sure the producers of Katie Couric’s show take comfort in that fact. It would serve the nation well to take that comfort away.


  42. shoeless says:

    Right-Wing Radio Host Mark Levin Lashes Out At Glenn Beck: He’s ‘Mindless, ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Pathetic’

    He’s a right-wing Republican. What does Levin expect?


  43. tombaker says:

    Catholic Charities got $100 million tax dollars from the gov’t, AFTER it was discovered their Church is responsible for the molestation of hundreds, if not thousands, of children.

    Is your hard drive clean, STORM?

    i’m sorry.


  44. shoeless says:

    Fred says:

    ——————————————————————————–

    kasinca says:
    STORM says:

    Isn’t it hilarious to watch trajie(storm) twitch and howl and act like Acorn is much more and much bigger than it is.

    He can’t help it. They register black people to vote. That’s just wrong.


  45. Tired of being lied to says:

    Frankly, from what I have read about Theodore Roosevelt, I’d take him (or someone like him) as President in a minute.

    And, from what I have read about John McCain, he is NOTHING at all like Theodore Roosevelt.

    From this I can only conclude – once again – that Glenn Beck does not know what the hell he is talking about.

    Just because Beck’s lips are moving does not imply that his brain is functioning.


  46. christopher wiwi says:

    Finally the cannibalization of Becky has begun,please start at the top (brain) and work your way down to the voice box anything after that just throw it away.


  47. Buckie Boy says:

    Beckerhead will do anything for the money, it’s all about the money.

    He could care less about anything else, if the left was stupid then he would play to the left, but it is the right that is stupid so he plays them like a fiddle.


  48. tombaker says:

    Beck bashes one of the only R Presidents who wasn’t an outright crook or dismal failure.

    Brilliant!!


  49. MarkD says:

    At this point, I’m convinced that Beck is some sort of performance artist … a person playing a character, kinda like Andy K. used to, and using the audience’s own perceptions as part of the routine to expose a deeper issue. And all of America is the audience.

    Well, it’s either that, or the guy really is clinically f-ing insane and believes what he says. In that case, he needs to be locked away in a mental institution so he can get the help he needs.

    There really are no other options at this point …


  50. Reggie says:


    Isn’t it hilarious to watch trajie(storm) twitch and howl

    What is even more hilarious is that while Twajie has plenty of time to spam Think Progress, he doesn’t have the time to defend all his
    hateful racist comments.

    Personally I think the simian faced Latin King wannabe doesn’t have the testicular fortitude necessary to defend the indefensible.


  51. tombaker says:

    he’s insane – runs in his family, which is a genuine shame.

    more public funding for research into the causes and potential prevention of schizophrenia is what is required.


  52. MarkD says:

    Why did Van Jones Resign? Why is ACORN losing all of its funding and the census dropped them?

    It works like this:

    Step 1: The right lost its ever-loving mind over something trivial, or something their side does, but exponentially worse/more often.

    Step 2: The not-very-liberal media picks up the story and repeats whatever the right says, regardless of truth and what happened in reality, and calls this stenography “reporting.”

    Step 3: The gutless turds in Congress cave, once again, to the screeching from the right and do something (an admonishment, removal of funding, etc.).

    Step 4: Rinse and repeat with the next distraction.

    After all, if you — or any other wingnuts — possessed a shred of intellectual and/or logical consistency, you’d be screaming for the gov’t to cut funding for KBR, Blackwater (or whatever the hell they call themselves now), and other organizations who have actually, you know, had employees convicted of crimes, including murder and rape.

    As of now, ACORN has never been charged with any crimes as an organization. None. Zero. Zilch.

    Yet Halliburton defrauded taxpayers of $1 billion, and not a single comment has come from anyone on the right about how we should cut off all their funding and work to destroy them as a company.

    I wonder what it is about ACORN that upsets the party of the Southern Strategy so damn much, given that no one had ever heard of them until the right went into full apoplexy mode.

    Hmmm … wonder what that could be …


  53. PatrioticLiberalChristian says:

    MarkD, if it’s Republicans, it’s “a few bad apples”. If it’s Democrats, it’s a diseased orchard.


  54. AlphaLiberal says:

    It pains me to agree with Mark Levin. “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

    ‘Mindless, ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Pathetic’


  55. Daddy-O says:

    “I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. How’s that?”

    –Glenn Beck

    To quote my favorite George W. Bush quote: Who cares what you think, Glenn? Who cares what you think?

    As soon as Beck’s ratings start to dive, as soon as the blush is off the rose, as soon as this all starts to come back and bite Glenn Beck in the ass, he’ll go looking for that highway abutment at 70 miles per hour, just like his mother and brother.

    Soon, and very soon.


  56. Squash says:

    Beck is a narcissist who wants to be the best and most important on air person in media. This behavior goes way back throughout his radio days. I didn’t know much about his background until I read the series of articles in Salon about his career. He’ll say and do anything to get the attention and he learned long ago that conflict, extreme hyperbole and goofball tactics are the path to this fame he craves.


  57. Kareem says:

    I’m finally beginning to understand. Beck is bi-polar and seems to strike a chord with other Americans suffering from the mental anguish that American capitalism, aka our corporatocracy, has ingrained upon them. They hate big government and the system in place. But they like McDonald’s and believe they may someday be rich, so you better not tax the rich because that is a tax on their dreams for the future?.. No, no I’m still confused.


  58. Bluestocking says:

    Rush Limbaugh recently suggested to Politico that Beck’s role in promoting the 9/12 protest was “cheap and disingenuous.”

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

    Granted, Limbaugh’s criticism was probably motivated in large part (perhaps even entirely) by jealousy over the amount of attention that Beck’s been getting lately — such as the recent piece in Time Magazine — rather than any genuine concern for the country. It’s also possible he’s angry over the fact that Beck came up with the idea first and he didn’t — I certainly wouldn’t put it past him. However, there’s no disputing the fact when Rush Limbaugh accuses one of his fellow right-wing commentators of being a sleazebag, it’s more than simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black! When even Rush Limbaugh thinks you’ve gone too far, that says you’re a real scum-sucking bottom-feeder!


  59. wiley says:

    Anyone else look at that impish face and feel like back-handing it? Not that I would ever act on such a feeling, but I would surely want to. I don’t think I could be in a room with this guy.


  60. Leftside Annie says:

    Wowee. That Glenn Beck interview has to be the biggest, wiggliest, stinkiest sack of batshit crazy I’ve EVER seen. (John McCain…a wha…???!!?? Progressive??? HUH???)

    And MissMolly – kudos to you for your Icarus analogy – it’s PERFECT. And went Beckarus hits the ground, the wolves (Levin, Limbaugh et. al) will be waiting to devour him.

    I can’t wait. ;o)


  61. SlappyBastinado says:

    This comment has been voted down. Click to read.


  62. Badmoodman says:

    I was in Congress in 1995. I know where this can end,” said Scarborough.

    – - It can end with a dead intern in your office, eh Joe?


  63. Fred says:

    SlappyBastinado, you allow him to speak for you.


  64. neoconsrscum says:

    CIRCLE THE WAGONS, Republi-SCUM. And aim inward.


  65. ElBruce says:

    Beck’s statemens are incoherent, and I think that real right-wingers are correct to be angry at him. He’s pretty much exposed himself as not really believing in anything, just using his audience as emotional puppets. If he really believed in modern conservatism, he couldn’t possibly say such a thing. He does not. He’s just doing a dog-and-pony show for their amusement, and has no personal political convictions whatsoever. I’d be angry too, if I were one of them.

    .

    STORM says:

    Why did Van Jones Resign? Why is ACORN losing all of its funding and the census dropped them?

    Because of vile smears perpetuated by character assassins like yourself. Asked and answered.


  66. Xisithrus says:

    Earlier this month, a Pfizer unit pled guilty to a felony in connection with a major health care fraud and paid $2.3 billion in fines.

    Why is Pfizer, who just got a huge fine, not having its federal aid [contracts] like ACORN, cut?


  67. hellinabucket says:

    Pat Pomery, you are right. Keep going Glenn. Speed up the destruction of the GOP and the Neocon mindset. Hasten the complete collapse of the fearmongering. The more Glenn Beck speaks, the more fractured the GOP become.

    Great insight PP


  68. mary lacewing says:

    They’re starting to pile on:

    Former Bush speechwriter Peter Wehner says “the role Glenn Beck is playing is harmful in its totality”

    snippet:

    I say that because he seems to be more of a populist and libertarian than a conservative, more of a Perotista than a Reaganite. His interest in conspiracy theories is disquieting, as is his admiration for Ron Paul and his charges of American “imperialism.”


  69. Purple State says:

    You got that right, P.P.

    Mark Levin’s jealousy of Beck is eating him up on the inside.


  70. Fred says:

    Pat Pomery says:

    70 employees have been CONVICTED to date. More to come! :)

    employees are not the organization itself. By the way they have 13,000 employees. Do you think any corp with that many employees has that few convictions of employees?

    Besides Acorn is a decent organization. That’s why you hate them. They register poor and minorities who vote agianst you.

    This is nothing but voter suppression. The gop probably has 13,000 people trying to find mistakes that Acorn has made.

    http://www.publicintegrity.org/blog/entry/885/?gclid=CPqgrJDdhZ0CFSnKsgodYV42bw


  71. Fred says:

    by the way pat/trajan, you need to prove the 70 convictions spiel. I find no such data to verify your claim.

    That makes it mean less than nothing.


  72. Shayne says:

    The right persecutes ACORN in order to continue their voter suppression of poor and minorities. That’s the only way GWB go close enough to steal his two elections. They want all minorities to fear registering and going to the polls.


  73. jimryanmd says:

    This is a simple ploy: Beck earns street cred by enabling his adherents to say “But look, look! Glenn Beck said bad things about John McCain and George W. Bush! He’s soooooooo independent!” without actually opposing anything the Republicans are doing right now. He comes off as a mavericky maverick without doing any real damage to the party he clearly identifies with.


  74. gummble-bee-itch says:

    Fred says:
    by the way pat/trajan, you need to prove the 70 convictions spiel. I find no such data to verify your claim.

    That makes it mean less than nothing.

    The Right hates ACORN because they’re effective. There is a good piece from last October on the subject here, but the real reason for the hate is simple:

    In partnership with the nonpartisan organization Project Vote, we helped register over 1.3 million low-income, minority, and young voters in a total of 21 states. Highlights of this success include:

    We collected over 151,000 registrations in Florida, 153,000 in Pennsylvania, 215,000 in Michigan, and nearly 250,000 in Ohio.

    An estimated 60-70 percent of our applicants are people of color.

    At least HALF of all are registrations are from young people between 18-29.

    What’s really fascinating is to do a search on “ACORN convictions” and see how many of the results are from blogs with names like “stoptheaclu.com” and “angrywhitedude.com”.

    And, of course, the Wall Street Journal, townhall, et al.


  75. RobertSeattle says:

    jimryanmd,

    You got it. Its Wingnut 101 to basically say “Bush sucks…. but the Democrat would suck worse”


  76. MarkD says:

    70 employees have been CONVICTED to date. More to come!

    A few things:

    1. Where is a cite for those numbers? Sorry, but your word is meaningless.

    2. Were those 70 (IF true) convicted for what they did during their job duties, or for non-work-related activities?

    3. You failed to address my point: Why has the right, the media and Congress failed to call for KBR, Halliburton, Blackwater, or any other group to have its funding cut because of its employees’ actions?

    I don’t expect an honest, rational, or coherent response, but figured I’d try anyway …


  77. Fred says:

    MarkD says:
    I don’t expect an honest, rational, or coherent response, but figured I’d try anyway …

    You’re right not to expect a response. Facts send them away.

    facts have a liberal bias.


  78. nanlichi says:

    When I grow up I want to be just like Becky.

    I want to rave and rant and spit hatred on TV.
    Cry and blubber.
    Listen to the voices in my head and see conspiracies all around.
    Be idolized by the dumbest pieces of shit in America.

    Oh yeah, I am jealous of that pus gut loser.


  79. ElBruce says:

    Fred says:

    Besides Acorn is a decent organization. That’s why you hate them.

    If today’s GOP was in control of Jerusalem circa 0 AD, they would have immediately crucified Jesus before he could get three words out on the Sermon on the Mount.


  80. Zooey says:

    So Levin went off on Beck because Beck went off message and dissed McCain — not because Beck actually damages this country.

    Typical.


  81. Marie says:

    Let them cannibalize themselves – I will stand back and watch.

    Actually, Levin and others are not criticizing Beck for what he said, nor for what he represents, (because all rightwing hosts are the same vile-spewing monsters) — they are criticizing Beck because he is stealing their thunder; he is catching up to them (a dubious honor, IMO); he is usurping their long-held place among the low-information voter, the knuckle-dragging, backwards thinking, gullible low-lifes of the population.


  82. pags2 says:

    Watching Glen Beck is akin to watch a train wreck that is about to happen.


  83. Virtual Pebble says:

    … Glenn Beck: ‘Mindless, ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Pathetic’. MMM, high praise indeed. Personally, I think he’s just fracking crazy.

    ‘Pandering’ is pretty close too. He’ll stunt any old way to keep the audience coming back for more fear and crazy.


  84. MarkD says:

    Hmmm … when I used the Great Gazoogle, I found that the “70 convictions” were NOT of ACORN workers, but the total number of true voter fraud cases prosecuted at the federal level.

    From Newsweek:

    Election fraud does exist, but hasn’t been shown to be widespread. The New York Times reported in 2007 that a five-year crackdown on such fraud by the Bush administration’s Justice Department had produced 70 convictions at the federal level, including 40 campaign workers or government workers convicted of vote-buying, intimidation or ballot forgery, and 23 cases of multiple voting or voting by ineligible voters. But the Times described these as unconnected incidents and said the Justice Department had turned up no evidence of “any organized effort to skew federal elections.”

    So it looks as if our trolls are full of more crap than the average septic tank.

    I know. Try to contain your shock.


  85. ElBruce says:

    I wonder if those “70 convictions” includes Ann Coulter’s attempt to vote in two districts.


  86. Purple State says:

    Pat, if you’re going to tell us to Google, please be sure to provide your own sources and links. Providing that snip of information without the link basically falsifies the claim and makes your evidence very scant.

    Work worth doing is work worth doing well.


  87. cec says:

    Levin&Beck—-It takes one to know one.


  88. bluesunflower says:

    Fox News pundit Glenn Beck said he thinks John McCain would have been a bad president because he’s “this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.”

    Yes, because we all know what a terrible president Teddy Roosevelt was. /eyeroll

    Whatever, Beck.


  89. fleetw1978 says:

    Sounds like the right wing radio wackos are having a little tet e tet. Must be jealous of Heir Beck, he sells books, got his own “movement” does a comedy show, and has gotten the cover of Time and a front page on the NYT. Me thinks the Levins, hannitys and limbaughs are upset that they are not the center of the fringe whacko right. Pretty funny actually.


  90. EugeneDebs says:

    PunkPomeranian punked for lying AGAIN. What a pathetic weasel you are PP


  91. T.H.E.Cat says:

    RE: EugeneDebs @ 93:

    No need to insult Pomeranians, now……….for little guys, they’re usually pretty nice dogs.


  92. TexasVietVet says:

    Wait a minute. Is Beck co-leader of the KKKonservanazi republiKlan party with the drugster limpballs? I gotta know.

    With those two racist idiots leading the Death Panel Party, it don’t look good come the next election.

    BTW, buck fush.


  93. linzloo08 says:

    Haha someone please pass me the popcorn! This is even more entertaining than Beck’s tv show (some pretty tough shoes to fill, but it’s hilarious with all his conspiracy theories, etc).


  94. kimoloka says:

    GOP Dudes,
    Try to understand Beck’s point. He’s saying McCain would be worse because, except for abortion, he would basically, slowly yet surely, take us down the same progressive path, but the great mass of Republicans/Conservatives would be lulled into complacency by the mere fact that McCain is ostensibly a Republican himself. Whereas, Obama, a Democrat, is CLEARLY taking us down the progressive path at breakneck speed (the pot of boiling water) and we frogs (Tea Party protestors) are hopping mad.

    That is why Beck said McCain would be worse–because the vast majority of conservative would be unaware of the dangerous road he would take us down.

    So, fellow conservatives, chill out, and give Beck a Break.


  95. gunter says:

    Glenn Beck awarded key to hometown city. karin estetigi


  96. karadagli61 says:

    Thank you for your sharing.!



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