Can we be done with questioning if there is racism, done with respecting the religion, done with worshiping the firearms, and can we start calling out the ignorance?
On 9.12.2009, we went to Washington DC to document the Tea Party protests against, well, a lot of things, including health insurance reform, the IRS, abortion, global warming, and our "socialist/communist/fascist/Nazi/Muslim " president, Barack Obama. Some of them called for a return to McCarthyism, while others called for Glenn Beck to run for office--indeed, it seemed the only thing that everyone agreed on was Fox News.
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Looks like somebody finally wiped the lipstick off of that pig.
I wonder if these people will be doing this three years from now.
Well can't we also agree that Glenn should run for president? I mean, I'm as happy to see the Republican party circling the drain as they are happy to be in the gutter.
The 'baggers should have wandered down to the other end of the mall and mingled with the 24th Annual Black Family Reunion, rather than counting the BFR in their million-bag-march.
Is the BFR's "spatious white tent" in this post the same one that the freepers use to identify authentic pictures?
Putting lipstick on Glenn Beck would not make him any less a whore.
I really expected Palin to have joined Beck as co-host by now. Maybe she's still studyin' up on the issues.
Maybe she's too concerned with her intellectual integrity to join Beck.
"Maybe she's too concerned with her intellectual integrity to join Beck."
Yes, and I hear Paris Hilton is concerned about her public decorum. :)
Yes, that is the American filth brigade displaying its racism, hatred, ignorance, intolerance and religion.
From Video -
"Glen Beck is such a logical thinker"
Um.... what?
Kudos to those of you who have the stomach to watch stories like these. I just can't bear to watch it. However, I do enjoy reading your comments!
i have to echo Mandrake's comment. can't bear to click it. i'll be ruined for the day.
Wow, I don't know how I made it through that. To think that people could be that ignorant of how the government works. That is some scary stuff right there.
NewEnglandBob @8
The "and Religion" in your post was clearly redundant.
... "ignorant christian honkies with their racism and their guns"
The point is that they are proud of their ignorance, their whiteness, their unquestioned religious beliefs, their racism and their fetish for guns. You can't reason with them because reason is not part of their system.
Feeling under siege, a feeling reinforced through their media choices, they have retreated to simplistic adolescent patterns. They have retreated into a defensive crouch and resist all change. Even if the change would clearly benefit them.
Glen Beck *is* a logical thinker to someone who's as dumb as a stump.
now I'll have nightmares about Glenn Beck becoming president for months.
"Glenn Beck is such a logical thinker" OMG it just doesn't get much scarier than that.