Beck says progressives are the descendents of slave owners

[daisymom4]

You might benefit yourself with a crash course on manners...just because you disagree with me doesn't give you the right to be an asshole :) It is because of my education that I see through the lies and deception of this (sic) president.

[TheStallion3]

The liberal/conservative argument is a false divide. It is the people versus corporations that should be focused on. Corporations have sent our jobs to 3rd world dictatorships to pay a fraction of what they could pay in the US. They buy our elections by spending billions of dollars every year lobbying government to enact legislation favorable to their interests. Now we're in two wars, a deep recession with continuing job losses and trillions of dollars spent to bailout Wall Street.

[andresblazeit420]

glen beck is an artard

[queas]

Slave Owners.... Like a good portion of the founding fathers.

[biggiejeffrey]

Let's see here: Beck claims that we "progressives" are trying to take away your rights because "you'll abuse them". Oh, really? How many times have these guys tried to CENSOR free speech, from banning evolution from being taught in schools, to public burnings of rock music, science books that teach sex-ed, and albums from the Dixie Chicks? How many times have these guys said "No comment" when asked about illegal actions, from Watergate to Ollie North to Guantanamo Bay?

One word: HYPOCRITE!

[dietsnapple89]

Beck is a looney toon

[daisymom4]

Why not move to one of those countries and spare us in the US of such hateful BS ;)

[VJnumber1]

If I had a penny for every intolerant fool who said "why don't you leave MY country if you don't agree with my pea-brained view of AMERICA...the USA would drown in a vat of deep fried hormone-treated chicken wings charged to their AMEX card and I'd be sipping champaign in the land of freedom fries...but wait a second, that's what's happening!

[TheRuiMartins]

Does "GB" stand for Glen Beck or Garbage Bin?

[wtfoof]

Although Sam Adams freed a slave give to his wife, he NEVER spoke out about black slavery in the congress of the young American States.

[StinkingHombre]

Keep Tibet Progressive!

[srthuman]

yeah,thats the ticket!

[srthuman]

Beck and his ilk are media whores.Or maybe they are a secret democratic plot to discredit the right.Informed voters can see they are spouting bs and are leaving the republican party to the people who deserve it.They should re-adopt the name of a now defunct party and call themselves the "KNOW NOTHINGS".

[daisymom4]

"KNOW NOTHINGS" that would be OBAMABOTS...... one and the same ;)

[srthuman]

DAISYCHAINMOM4...WE "OBAMABOTS" are gonna improve this country and this world for u "Know Nothings"wether u like it or not.u r welcome.

[daisymom4]

"wether u like it or not"...exactly my point, dictator obamacorn forcing "progressive" (marxist/socialist/communist) policies down our throat behind closed doors whether we like it or not! Come election time we will see who victors, the American people or the dictators! ;)

[srthuman]

re;daisymom4: I gotcha mom,you don't want everyone to have healthcare.you don't want to reduce harmful emissions-once called "air pollution"-you don't want to bring our troops home.you just want that nggr to fail. your children will be the ones paying the price.I challenge ALL the OBAMA haters out there to read the book "GIVE ME LIBERTY" by Naomi Wolf.Learn how Americans are supposed to act on their own behalf,and get back to me after your narrow minds are expanded.

[daisymom4]

I see, because I don't want the "solutions" obamacorn is forcing down me I don't want healthcare or clean air etc. OR I care very much about those things and don't want to bankrupt our nation on a BAD healthcare plan that won't be nothing like he promises (haven't you learn that in 10 months??) or a bill claiming to help in one area when really it is a power grab in another.....sure I'll read it if you'll read Mark Levine's lastest ;)

[srthuman]

Ok.

[ShylosHouse]

Progressives "Decide for you"? You mean those Conservative representatives in Congress who block all workable Healthcare reform because insurance companies promise them campaign contributions (aka bribes)? You must be looking in the mirror, GB...

[zaurakdigis]

Idiot, The majority of our founding fathers were slave owners.

BTW: The Patriot Act, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Republican President is an authoritarian law.

The Republicans oppose civil liberty and give only big business and economic elitists all the authority in our lives. Glen Beck is an economic elitist and a moron, not to be confused with mormon.

[Antigodboy]

Funny that Beck is talking about ignorance, because, ignorance and bullshit are what Fox news is all about.

[cplkv20208]

Keep watching CNN And MSNBC and the other main stream Obama Ass kissers and keep on believing. Think for yourself for once....If you can't see what Hussein is doing to this country , then you will deserve what ever you get from his "Reign"

[ProgressiveAction10]

FOX is the mainstream media! FOX is by far the largest "news" station, run by an Australian billionaire, and has the most viewers. You Republitards have gotten so fucking stupid it's almost poetic.

[WhereDidItAllGo7]

Progressives are self-righteouss know-it-all moral-busy-bodies who are all about centralized government control no matter what Party affiliation.

[thevirtueallliberal]

"Decide for you" ? You mean when the Republican controled congress and white house tried to decide for "you" all in the Terri Schiavo case ?

[codediporpal]

What the fuck is he talking about? Freedom of speech? If the government was suppressing freedom of speech then he certainly would not be on. His viewers must be complete imbeciles.

[codediporpal]

"It's all dogeared here"

In other words "I want you to think I actually read this book, so I bent some pages to show you, to fool you into thinking I actually read it."

[WhereDidItAllGo7]

I agree with Beck. The word "progressive" has been stolen by authoritarian elitists with a smile. Except Axlerod doesn't seem to smile.

[phenom10304]

I swear this guy is ridiculous. How in the hell can someone be a progressive, liberal, fascist, communist ? Make up your mind dude and look in the dictionary. It makes me sick that this douche muppet is influencing people who believe anything just because it's on the T.V. Geezus !

[trehansen]

Lol wtf is he talking about? The Founding Fathers were considered quite progressive for their times, and that includes all of them, despite the disparity in their opinions on how things should be ran.

Progressive simply means a push for change from the status quo.

[erkd1]

When we had a Progressive Party their platform was: "To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

Beck's a moron.

[Meejoe27]

It is terrifying that people believe this garbage...

[igsoper]

Morons buy this shit???

[KornWasCool]

yeah black ppl. progressives have been chipping away at your personal freedoms, bit by bit. you just didn't notice it because you were freed, then given the right to vote, and then desegregated. women, you hear that? those progressives who fought for your suffrage and the right to work the same jobs as men with equal pay? they were really just trying to enslave you.

if glenn beck were alive in 1864, I'm sure he would be arguing that freeing slaves amounted to enslaving whites. he's pathetic.

[SSky06]

Dude, Kornwascool, you're my hero :)

[WatermelonRat]

It was conservatives who fought tooth and nail for slavery. Progressives were among those opposed to slavery. This guy must have failed history.

[yetibait01]

@WatermelonRat He may have failed history...but, after reading your comment I'd be surprised if you have ever taken a history class. Was Abraham Lincoln a progressive?

[WatermelonRat]

@yetibait01

Abraham Lincoln's political views are most comparable in relation to modern ideology to progressivism and American liberalism. He didn't identify with the progressive movement, but he was far more similar to what we know as progressivism than to conservatism. His and the views of other abolitionists are difficult to categorize, but the people fighting to keep slavery were very clearly conservative.

[wretchedhyena]

Beck's insanity is progressive. A progressive wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was one of the leading reasons for the repeal of slavery. Beck lies, you listen, truth dies.

[pop50ma]

Progressives were reluctant to involve the federal government too heavily in the private sector, except in the area of railroads and tariffs. In general, they accepted the concept of laissaz-faire a doctrine opposing government interference in the economy except to maintain law and order. This is what the slave owner wanted, the total control of their lands and slaves without the government interferring.

[ZeroCorpse]

Southern Democrats morphed into modern conservatives a long time ago. Conservatives these days have more in common with Confederates than true conservatives, and progressives are modeled closer to Abraham Lincoln's progressive Republican ideals than to the ideals of any slave owner.

Beck's a twat-waffle.

[debbiebf]

title doesn't match the post

[HHBones]

the same treatment regardless of whether for one person it'll be less effective.

[HHBones]

First up, Beck is actually right here, in case you pea-brained 'progressives' didn't get the message.

Second, this is going to turn into a single-payer system where the people who actually pay for some hobo losing his foot are half a continent away and 4 tax brackets up!

third, with this healthcare plan, doctors have no way near enough funding to treat diseases. this is called 'one-size-fits-all treatment'. Basically, if 2 people show up at a hospital with different forms of cancer, they'll get

[cicka408]

i have these stupid greedy republicans

GB should kill himself

[MrJonesj11]

Beck is right and the progressives are wrong. Try refuting Beck on the facts instead dredging up old news and fat jokes.

[BlueSkies360]

Sorry, Beck is right!

[NakedWombat666]

That's weird. I'm progressive and I've hated slavery all my life. Looks like Beck is wrong again.

p.s. Why hasn't he addressed the 1990 controversy?

[leethelionrider]

I think your missing his point. I mean seriously, did you even listen to what he was saying. I don't know much about Beck, but in this short clip he is right.

[imagine1984]

Beck's drug use has finally fried his pea brain totally. I'll bet he still thinks all the founding fathers were Christians, too.

[imagine1984]

he is such an idiot. I think all the pot and cocaine he's used have finally fried that fcking brain!

[JMehrman]

Beck is absolutely right.

[WestSavannah]

this man constantly deifies "the founding fathers", some of whom WERE ACTUAL SLAVE OWNERS. lol who knew it was actually progressives all along fighting to maintain the status quo. fucking idiot

[virolac]

OMG! What an idiot this guy is....

Colonial politics were basically a dispute between the Whigs(Liberals) and the Tories(Conservatives). Beck seems to not care that it was actually the Tories that supported King George and his tyranny. The colonial revolutionaries were all Whigs or in other words "Progressives"

[BlueSkies360]

Beck is great!

[HailRasec]

Sigh. Now I know where americans get their brainwashing from.

[StoryBalloon]

Only member of a racist group in the senate or house?

Democrat Robert Bryd. Proud member of the Klu Klux Klan.

Take your thumbs out of your asses and put down your democrat talking points.

[jaimymoore]

"Democrat Robert Bryd. Proud member of the Klu Klux Klan."

Not since the Truman administration, you dumb cracker.

[AllStarKase]

1. I'm pretty sure healthcare reform is directed at insurance company abuses, not doctor medical practices.

2. I'm pretty sure a number of founding fathers owned slaves.

[kaysandesses]

right on both accounts AllStarKase. No more coverage denied for pre-existing conditions, and no more recission. Jefferson and Washington both owned slaves, not sure which other founding fathers did.

[leethelionrider]

Are you against coverage for pre-existing conditions? If so who do you suppose should insure pre-existing conditions? I am going to force you to pay for something you don't want to. I will pay a small premium and you have to by law assume all of the risk involved with me. You will have no choice. None. if you refuse then you will be put in jail.

[leethelionrider]

Incase your otherwise slow mind misses the sarcasm in the first question, the idea of forcing private insurance companies owned by private individuals into covering pre-existing conditions would be one very good example of forcing others to be your slave against their will.

[kaysandesses]

No, I'm in favor of coverage for pre-existing conditions.

The rest of your post doesn't make much sense.

[leethelionrider]

The rest of the post was simply saying what you are advocating. You are advocating that an individual be forced to assume all of your risk when they dont want to (insurance is assuming risk for a premium). Its an example of how progressives are fighting for a type of slavery. Its turning the individual who owns the insurance company into a slave. Slave Owners in the past used their own rationale to justify something that was wrong. Don't do the same thing in the name of the common good.

[BlueSkies360]

Badoshke: You are so wrong. As always. As in every aspect of your life. But you already know it.

[cirovdpsunaj]

Isn't it a bit ironic that Beck uses Samuel Adams to paint medical marijuana use as a "vice."

EARTH TO GLENN BECK: SAMUEL ADAMS WAS BREWER OF BEER, AS IN ALCOHOL!

Or is that not a vice? What an absolute dipshit.

[StoryBalloon]

What a lame argument.

[n3qnj]

Anyone want to try an intelligent critique of Glenn?

[rpwbass]

I'll give it a shot. He's a classic narcissist who begs for attention on television by faking bouts of crying and indignation and uses a rather unintelligent segment of our population to boost his ratings. Truth hurts.

[Bear5177]

For what it's worth, I'll add my thoughts. I think Glenn Beck is an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. Here are some of the symptoms to support this claim.

Anger.

Anxiety. - abnormal sense of fear

Verbal confrontations - "Get off my phone!"

Patronizing manner - condescending tone, belief that one is superior to others

Delusions - the belief that someone or an entity (perhaps the government?) is out to "get you"

Look up paranoid schizophrenia and see the other symptoms to judge for yourself.

[jaimymoore]

Too easy. Much more fun to mock the retard.

[Hirnlego999]

A political tv-evangelist... complete hoax.

[nilesthecat]

what a fucking dumbass bag of smegma.

[junkforkaryn]

hey slave-boy! get away from the mirror and stop talking into your hairbrush like that.

[KataVideo]

and beck is the descendant of feces-eating lizards. one or two generations back.