I thought only right wing nutters like Alex Jones spouted this stuff. Aren’t these the same guys (Fox News) who laughed at Jones for exactly the same message?
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When did anyone start presuming Glenn Beck to be anything other than a right wing nutter?
# 1 georgio said, “When did anyone start presuming Glenn Beck to be anything other than a right wing nutter?”
About the same time someone started thinking Omama was anything other than a left wing nutter?
I find Gerald Celente (a guest in these segments) interesting. Here’s a link to some of his videos:
http://tinyurl.com/cu6ds3
This is no different than NatGeotv having a special on “what could happen if the earth warmed up”. I thought it was entertaining, which is what is was meant to be. If you think he is an alarmist you must also never watch movies like Independence Day, Armageddon or that horrid movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Oh no… not pick-pockets! Maybe cats and dogs will live in peace next!
Cripes! What crap..even Beck couldn’t hold it together with the crummy music and the BS “War Room” set.
This, I can assure you, was some TV execs “good idea” and Beck went along like a typical TV stooge.
Should have been called the CORNBALL ROOM.
Way to totally leave out the context. Glenn is making this all very clear, doing his best NOT to frame this as a freak-out-the-sky-is-falling exercise in panic. If you don’t believe me, WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO yourself. The entire first few minutes is spent toning the whole thing down. After every commercial break, they show *and* read the entire “disclaimer” (which was conveniently dropped from the YouTube video), and Glenn re-emphasizes that these aren’t predictions, they’re speculations.
So, believe the speculations or don’t; it really doesn’t matter. Watch it in the spirit in which it was intended, and quit freaking out about it.
Sheesh.
I wish people would stop taking social order for granted. That’s all we need now for the Fox viewers types to be even more freaked out about the world then they are now.
I have listen to Glenn for the last few years talk about how the economy was going to go down the tubes. Maybe it is alarmist. There is never going to be a mortgage crises. Wall street is never going to need a bail out. Unemployment is never going to go above 5%.
I stopped listening to his alarmism last year. None of those predictions about the mortgage crises, the bail out of Wall Street or unemployment increasing came true.
A little more ‘what-if’ thinking might have been prudent in preventing the current financial crisis. Suppose, in 2005, people had asked, “What if the forming real estate bubble suddenly collapses?”
But, you should listen to “non-alarmists” like Barney Frank who said just months ago that Freddie & Fannie were good investments… LOL
Alarmist?!?! I don’t think they are being that alarmist. In comparison to the financial scenario they laid out we are about 50% there. If the government nationalizes a couple of banks and destroys the shareholder value in those banks, investors of other banks will flee, take their money and run and then those banks will need to be nationalized to survive. We are well on the road…
#11 Paddy-cake, Who said “The economy is fundamentally sound.” ? I believe it was GW, McCain, et al. So save us the finger pointing.
Glenn Beck is just MSNBC’s participation in the ‘rhetoric news marketplace’. Credit to Bill O’Reilly for starting this profitable segment of the market.
Pick the clown that says what you want to hear…
Fox : Bill O’Reilley (the ‘no spin’ guy)..yeah
CNN: The fat chick that yaps on abducted kids
MSNBC : Glenn Beck, often worse than O’Reilley
I watched part 1. Beck said several times that this was a “worst case” scenario and they didn’t necessarily believe it would happen. That being said, I thought it was an interesting thought exercise.
#6 JCD -“Should have been called the CORNBALL ROOM.”
I think Beck even thought it was a little corny. He was almost apologizing for the “War Room” which was, in his words, his normal studio painted a different color.
# 14 Dallas said, “MSNBC : Glenn Beck, often worse than O’Reilley”
Glen is FOX…
#16 Hmm. Thanks.. Evidently he went from MSNBC to CNN and finally to FOX.
Evidently, as he became more outrageous and irrational, he moved to the next place.
It now makes sense that coming to FOX says he reached the pinnacle of irrational behavior.
#17 Never seen him until now. Sounds unbalanced like a right wing version of Olbermann.
@McCullough
No, Alex Jones isn’t a “right wing nut”. The same as Ron Paul isn’t a “right wing nut”.
This show is quickly becoming crackpot central. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Adam Curry talking about global warming the next time I tune in.
#9, #10, #11 – good points.
I think that Glen Beck is just another shill like most of the big media wonks on network news these days. Someone pulls a string and he dances around like a good little coorporate news monkey. So yeah, I’m a little suspicious of him you might say.
Now Alex Jones comes across as a Constitution loving, big government hating Texan who likes to yell a lot. His news seems to pan out though. Many called him a Left-wing Alarmist instead of a Right-wing alarmist when he critisized GW Bush. So which is it? The right-wing and left-wing labels are tired, used-up semantics nowadays. They have become a tool of manipulation.
Do we really trust those in the Executive, the FED, or the big banks right now? Really? You will notice many more people sounding like Mr. Jones very soon as we fully realize just how badly we all have been scammed by criminals at the top.
Can you call someone an alarmist in alarming times?
@Dallas #17 – Evidently, as he became more outrageous and irrational, he moved to the next place.
It now makes sense that coming to FOX says he reached the pinnacle of irrational behavior.
Gosh, I didn’t know we were allowed to shortcut the entire argument just by trashing the person making it. Man, what a chump I’ve been, wasting my time arguing on the merits! Logic made easy, the Dallas way!
This is what happens when stand-up comedians find Jesus after a night full of booze.
#6 – It looks like the deal was pretty simple: Beck wanted direct access to Fox’s viewers to spread is message (which I see as simply deranged, not left or right wing as #21 hints at). In turn, Fox agreed not to throw Beck under the bus, which O’Reilly has gone to great pains not to do when Beck is on his show, in order to get Beck’s audience into their Nielsens.
Best moment was when Beck started to cry before his interview with Palin on his first FNC show. He has a “special needs child” as well, and it was just too much apparently.
Alex Jones is a Left wing nutter.
#22 hey, I’m here to help you cut to the chase. This is my gift to you and my civic duty to help the uninformed.
Anyway, you will find it most efficient to parse through the day to day bullshit when you first identify the source. That way, you spend more of your valuable time debating the wiser opinions.
You are very welcome.
@25
Stop the labeling please.
Or is it why he did this new film “The Obama deception”?: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Od8bcCvX3jU
this is better comedy than anything on the onion, the over the top performance on the intro was really laughable..let alone the rest of it..
fox – what can we hype today for ratings??
@Dallas #26 – you will find it most efficient to parse through the day to day bullshit when you first identify the source. That way, you spend more of your valuable time debating the wiser opinions.
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So, OK, let me try…
Dallas is just a blowhard blog troll, full of hot air, whose contributions consist of name-calling and wisecracks instead of reasoned debate. Therefore, anything he has to say can be totally ignored.
There. I just used your “logic” to beat your argument. I win! 😛
I used to watch Glenn Beck when he was on CNN, he wasn’t as bad as some of you make him out to be. He can get passionate about his topics, but he no where near a bad as Bill O, Rush L or Keth O.