State of the Union by Carl Moore

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mroberts88 said, 29 days ago

Honestly, anyone who seriously pulls the race card, as well as every other card, as well as everything else “Glenn Beck” said in this strip, makes anyone look like a clown, and not the good clown, that entertains kids, or rodeo clowns, who entertain people, and save Cowboys, but the bad kind. The I dont know what to say, kind of clown.
Ronshua said, 29 days ago

Inside (bad) joke wrongly aimed at a Friend .
Sorry , I’m over it now I think .

No code , no net please . I’m a genius ha ha ha .
Contrarian said, 29 days ago

Ronshua

Is there a code book that will help us decipher your comments?
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 29 days ago

I like watching Rodeo Clowns - their main job is to distract the bull while the cowboy (bull rider) gets away to safety.
Is the point of the last panel to say that Glen Beck is the Bull (as in BULLY) or just full of BULLONY!
NoFearPup said, 29 days ago

But why does it take a rodeo clown to out an unqualified-to-serve commie?
johnnydoc5 said, 29 days ago

Because, apparently no one else notices that most of their paycheck is missing to taxes.
Contrarian said, 29 days ago

Ronshua

Your original comment–since deleted– interested me in that there is a regular poster here who has a degree in Pub Adm, and owns a website. Maybe the same person?
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 29 days ago

Ah - It’s a 2 day SOTU! Let the BS begin…. We’ll need one of those really BIG packages of TP to get thru this weekend (get the heavy duty kind for really big “doodies”. It’s Howdie Doodie Time! ;-))
Ronshua said, 29 days ago

Contrarian . Yes it’s deleted . You would know more about that than I . Ya’ah’teeh .

By the way I enjoy your comments . You remind me of a friend I haven’t enjoyed for over 35 years . The way you expound ideas , our parallel affinity on many issues .
HUMPHRIES said, 29 days ago

I guess puppy the same reasoning that makes you think you’re a qualified poster.
Lewreader said, 28 days ago

I suppose Glen Beck might be seen as Republican.
Al Sharpton may be seen as Democrat.
I’ll be seen turning off my TV when either is on
scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

Glenn Beck in just one hour provides far more intelligent commentary, invites far more open and factual debate, and inspires more thought than any 50 Demoncrat politicians provide during an entire YEAR’S worth of combined teevee coverage.

Really sick of lowbrow non-thinkers dismissing Beck, Limbaugh, etc, while they simultaneously lapdog up every WORD uttered from some lying politician’s mouth, such as Barack Obama.

Typically by the time I’ve both listened to–and analyzed–10 minutes’ worth of hollow, deceitful, anti-intellectual vomit spewed forth from Osama’s TelePrompTer, I turn off the teevee in digust and feel like washing my brain free of all the rhetorical illogic it’s been covered with…
robbie said, 28 days ago

excuse me, did I just see “factual debate” in regards to Beck & Limbaugh? Hahahahaha. The commentary is funnier than the comics. Since they (Limbaugh & Beck) seem to represent Republicans, I changed to an Independent. Reps have gone way to far the Left & Dems are way to the right… I personally don’t like either one.
Paul Stoddard said, 28 days ago

It’s nice to know there are still some conservatives who can think. Thank you, Carl.
JanCinVV said, 28 days ago

I think what scares most Lefties about Beck is that he’s the second most watched news commentary program currently on the air. Only Bill O’Reilly gets better ratings (probably because he frequently features both GOP and Dems while Beck is strictly conservative). His ratings have exploded since the “fox-hunt” started.
jack75287 said, 28 days ago

If Glenn Beck is so bad why did all the other networks protect his network this week when the White House told abc, cbs, nbc, ccn not to pick up on Fox’s stories.

Like it or not Obama got spanked.
William Wilkerson said, 28 days ago

HEY!

don’t insult the clowns - they protect Cowpeople !!
jtpozenel said, 28 days ago

I don’t care.
Alphauno said, 28 days ago

Glenn Beck is conservative, but not a republican. He is independent.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence government stupidity, shady dealings, etc., Mr. Beck calls them all out. I share his frustration.

With all the socialists called out by Mr. Beck, and who are presently operating under the Obama administration, plus the socialistic ideology of President Obama, change for America isn’t good.

Over 100 banks failed this year and Wall Street trends are following the Depression Era. Meanwhile, this administration is putting emphasis on a health care bill that is certainly putting more burden on this economy.

This is one shady administration. They are trying to control anyone who clears the smoke and breaks the mirrors.

Glenn Beck is genuine in his love of America, and like most of us, would like to see this country go on the right track.

It’s too bad people can’t snap out of being “Obamatized” and see the sly and dirty arrogance of this administration. We need people like Glenn Beck to keep the public informed.
pschearer said, 28 days ago

Obama doesn’t have to get angry at Fox. He has a czar for that.

Somewhat to my surprise, I must applaud all the mainstream networks who recently refused to participate in a news briefing from which the White House tried to exclude Fox.

Bravo to them all for realizing what a dangerous precedent that would have set. Perhaps someone remembered that “liberal” used to mean someone concerned with liberty.
mroberts88 said, 28 days ago

Alpha, the federal government is shady, it doesnt matter if who is in power.
pschearer said, 28 days ago

Mr88: I think your generalization is too broad. If the government were limited to what it was originally invented for, there would be almost no chance for shady dealings, certainly not on the scale on which government operates today.

Once the federal government took the authority to redistribute wealth and to manage the economy, the country was divided into countless competing – often overlapping – factions, some fighting for government favors at the expense of others, and those others fighting to defend themselves from the first bunch. That’s when things get shady in a system that can’t avoid being corrupted and corrupting.

The answer is a government severely restrained to its original purpose of protecting rights, which means in practice the police, the military, and the courts. But after a hundred years of propaganda in favor of constantly expanding government power, I don’t expect many people here to agree.
mroberts88 said, 28 days ago

pschearer, all I want is a government that isnt as corrupted. However, the fact that power corrupts people, that isnt likely to change anytime soon.
MoonsingerFan said, 28 days ago

Alphauno, if Beck is so genuine, why does he put mentholated ointment around his eyes in the makeup room so that he can cry whenever he thinks it’ll be effective?
ChuckTrent64 said, 28 days ago

Carl Moore is, in his own way Rodeo clown too and not just because he’s conservative.
scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

C’mon Moonsinger. You should have enough brains to be able to analyze something as being “probably false at best” (from a Leftist point of view) to “obviously unverifiable except by Beck’s own private makeup artist” (from an objective point of view).

Crying doesn’t win any brownie points with Alpha Males, anyway. Glenn’s male fans are mostly Alphas. Chicks and Betas are the ones who are impressed by tears. So why would Beck, a definite Alpha who knows full good and well he’s mostly preaching to the choir, want to suck up to the people who make up the bulk of his detractors????

I use Alpha in the traditional masculine sense, btw. Not the Roissy-blogger “Gaming” sense, in which Alphas are measured soley by their prowess at fornication..

The rare times Beck has been moved to tears probably filled him with visceral shame and embarrassment. Welcome to the world of men, like it or not…
NoFearPup said, 28 days ago

Humphries: mirror-time.
Jor-El said, 28 days ago

pschearer said:

“The answer is a government severely restrained to its original purpose.”

Profound. Sounds like a Jefferson quote:

“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”
Ronshua said, 28 days ago

“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” Thomas Jefferson

“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.” - Bill Clinton

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It’s just a [expletive deleted] piece of paper!” - George Bush

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
mroberts88 said, 28 days ago

“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.” - Bill Clinton

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It’s just a [expletive deleted] piece of paper!” - George Bush

These are the politicians we need to be wary of, and keep out of office.
scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

Yeah, sorta. I want to see the entire context of Bush’s quote, since he gave us far better supreme court judges than any we’ve had since Reagan. Could he have tripped over his tongue again, as he was so infamous for doing? I care what he MEANT, not what he SAID…

Just one more like Roberts and the Republic might have been spared the Hell which Sotomayer will in all likelihood help unleash upon it soon…
mroberts88 said, 28 days ago

scott, isnt Roberts the Chief Justice? I dont think Sotomayor is going to make America as bad as you think.
sablebrush5 said, 28 days ago

I agree with scottfreitas on this one. Glenn Beck and Limbaugh, yes, are entertainers first and political analysts second. Both are quite good at entertaining with humor, sarcasm, jokes, etc., but they are also good at pointing out the inconsistancies in both liberal and conservative politicians. Limbaugh is a true conservative, but Beck is not a conservative, he’s a libertarian.

Beck’s ratings are soaring because he’s funny, he makes a lot of sense, he’s a likeable fuzzball and he’s driving the Obamians crazy.

What’s not to like? Well, he goes overboard and exaggerates to the point of absurdity and makes it easy for libs to dismiss him. But he doesn’t care. He’s making a ton of money and having a whale of a good time.
scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

Hyperbole, Sable. Glenn employs it and sometimes, when he feels it is necessary, even EXPLAINS he is using hyperbole.

Hyperbole is an extremely valuable tool for people who can think in the abstract, an ability which classical western educations used to instill into people quite well.

Alas, irrational contempt for “dead white patriarchal males” within our feminized government schools has caused abstract thinking to be frankly abandoned, with shallow linear thinking which leads to the predictable “four legs good two legs bad” attitudes towards religion, homosexuality, abortion, etc et al, being substituted.

Abstract thinking still exists wherever Christianity does (Jesus’ parables typically pushed abstract thinking to its limits and beyond, you may recall), and so Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and others both continue to employ it, and it continues to resonate with a sizable (but aging) minority. Mostly men, of course, but thankfully a few women as well… typically known as “wives”.

(try to find any single chick holding onto an EBT card capable of abstract thinking; ROFL talk about trying to teach a pig to fly!)

PS mrroberts: Chief Justice gets just one vote on the bench. 5-4 decisions forcing homosexual marriage and God knows what else onto all 50 states are probably inc. before 2012.. or right thereafter, at the very latest.
mroberts88 said, 28 days ago

Scott, I dont think, but I may be wrong, that Sotomayor isnt a chief justice. That being said, gay marriage is up to the states.
Ronshua said, 28 days ago

“The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans’ freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight.” | John F Kennedy, [1917~1963] President of U.S.: 1961~1963. Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

Posted Oct.27 3:00 p.m.

John F Kennedy allegedly said , this is accurate . Now I have my suspicions it’s a plant .

Planted by the very some people that bought and paid for this dastardly act .

My thanks for …Jor-El saying, 1 day ago Hoax “Those who wear a GENIUS badge need to exercise more discernment.” post .

Exercising discernment is truly a eyeopening weapon .

Thanks again Jor-El for your discernment .
scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

Huh? Sure, just like abortion was “up to the states” until SCOTUS came outta left field with no warning and said, “YO! Constitution gives a right to abortion! See it there, lurking in the shadows? TOO BAD! WE DO!”

What’s your weird brain-lock on the Chief Justice thing? i no longer even understand why you’re mentioning it. Again, CJ gets just one vote on the bench, same as an associate justice. When he’s on the losing side of a 5-4 opinion–as Rehnquist so often was–he just gets to write the minority dissent. It doesn’t affect the verdict. and a 5-4 win on gay marriage is the same as a 9-0 win. Even money says the 5-4 win now exists with Sotomayer. And sure as Hell all the gay groups have already filed test suits in every federal district court trying to hammer this up CJ Robert’s butt, in case you haven’t noticed…
mroberts88 said, 28 days ago

Scott, please, tell me what is your problem with gay marriage?
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 28 days ago

scottfreitas Re: “Hyperbole, Sable. Glenn employs it and sometimes, when he feels it is necessary, even EXPLAINS he is using hyperbole.”

I googled Hyperbole AND Lying - looking to find what the difference is (if any) since it was mentioned that Glenn Beck uses it. I don’t watch him & am not familiar with his “style” except when others make fun of him - What A Ham!

From a website called “Lousy Writer”:

“Hyperbole (from the Greek hyper, beyond, and ballein, to throw), is an exaggerated form of statement and simply consists in representing things to be either greater or less, better or worse than they really are. Its object is to make the thought more effective by overstating it.

Here are some examples:—”He was so tall his head touched the clouds.” “He was as thin as a poker.” “He was so light that a breath might have blown him away.” Most people are liable to overwork this figure.

We are all more or less given to exaggeration and some of us do not stop there, but proceed onward to falsehood and downright lying.

There should be a limit to hyperbole, and in ordinary speech and writing it should be well qualified and kept within reasonable bounds.””

http://www.lousywriter.com/storytelling_hyperbole.php

So is this Hyperbole? - provided by Scottfritas:

“Alas, irrational contempt for “dead white patriarchal males” within our feminized government schools has caused abstract thinking to be frankly abandoned, with shallow linear thinking which leads to the predictable “four legs good two legs bad” attitudes towards religion, homosexuality, abortion, etc et al, being substituted.”

Or Just A Big Fat Lie!
stebon said, 28 days ago

Every so often even Carl gets it wrong.
rjvjelly said, 28 days ago

scott…no hyperbole here. you’re a dork
scottfreitas said, 27 days ago

Nice quote of mine. GJ. Now detail for me how it ISN’T true.

Educators routinely make it known they have nothing but contempt for any curriculum laden with the teachings of dead white patriarchal males.

Abstract thinking is NOT taught. You need a healthy combination of logic, rhetoric, and grammar–the holy trinity of western education which has been frankly abandoned in the K-12 environment. Also, no multiple-choice tests are allowed. Abstract thinkers can fill in the BLANKS. What school DOES NOT use multiple-choice quizzes?

And finally, Poll those aged 18 and under about their views on the environment, honosexuality, abortion, religion, etc etc. The results line up almost perfectly to the Left, in a nice, neat universal bloc of gay is GOOD climate change is REAL abortion is a womans RIGHT religion must be kept out of our schools and politics because of separation of church and STATE etc etc, et all, you lying lockstep lefties have about as much individual thought as a flock of pigeons descending in unison towards a park bench….
John Probasco said, 27 days ago

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-P.J.O’Rourke

This is from a set of quotes I get daily on my computer, and I find an interesting fact. Legislators have been attempting to control buying and selling since the beginning of our country, and often they have done so successfully. That being said, unions have been buying off legislators for a long time now.

On the subject of gay marriage:
One; it shouldn’t be up to the states or the federal government. It should be left to the people. YOU HEAR THAT CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT! Not government or courts, the people.
Two; the reason most American’s have a problem with it, is because legislators have been trying to shove it down our throats.
Three; the reason most Christians have a problem with it is that it is condemned by the Bible. Now there are alot of things condemned by the Bible, but no other group has worked so hard at infringing religious freedom, as the homosexuals. The first amendment guarentees religious freedom and yet homosexuals insist on being “accepted” by religion. If they don’t like fundamental Christianity than pick another religion. Course, aside from atheism, no religion allows for homosexuality.
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 27 days ago

Jor-El Re: Sunday Funnies - I didn’t find any particular Funny Picture to post today. But I did see one in today’s Calvin & Hobbes Toon & it’s animated!
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 27 days ago

scottfritters - I won’t even waste space with a reply.

Re: Gay Rights: It’s an subject that’s been “beaten to death” - Unfortunately in a Literal Sense by punks who listened to Hate Filled Hyperbole (aka LIES) used to fill collection plates &/or election coffers!
Most folks know the horrible details - for those who don’t:

“Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act passes Congress, finally”

http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_13628360
Jor-El said, 27 days ago

Hoax

The posted comment by Ronshua of a quote by President Kennedy is an internet hoax.

The quote was taken from a speech said to have been delivered by the president in November, 1963, at Columbia University.

Kennedy’s appointment diary shows that he was at the White House on the day the speech was allegedly given.

Columbia records confirm that the president was not at the university in November of 1963.

Finally, this statement from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum:

President Kennedy’s supposed speech at Columbia University, November, 1963.

Many references to this fictitious speech exist in assassination theorist material.

Supposedly, the President was discussing changes in the Federal Reserve and the gold standard, and this topic was somehow linked to his assassination.

Others also claim he said, “The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy American freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight.”

But the simple fact is that President John F. Kennedy did not speak at Columbia University in November of 1963.

Those who believe in the “fact” of President Kennedy having made such a speech, either at Columbia or some other place, will simply deny this denial.

At best, they will say that because “all or most records” have been destroyed, we simply don’t know the truth; at worst, they will claim that there is a conspiracy to keep this issue silent.

If someone chooses to believe in the existence of this speech, he or she does so as a matter of faith, which is fine, as long as that person realizes that it is religion and not history in which he or she is dealing.

———————
Those who wear a GENIUS badge need to exercise more discernment.
Jor-El said, 27 days ago

GJ_

Great job by Hugh B. Hayve over at C & H.
John Probasco said, 27 days ago

Speaking of LIES,
Let’s talk about Matthew Shepard.
People are saying we need, now have, “Hate crimes legislation.” What has not been broadcast all that much is that the two young men who brutally killed Matthew Shepard both got double life sentences. One avoided the death penalty by testifying against the other, and the second one avoided the death penalty because of Shepard’s parents. They were both punished to the full extent of the law, WITHOUT HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION.
The point of hate crimes legislation is to infringe on freedom of religion. Its a step toward Canada, where pastors and bishops can be arrested for preaching against sodomy. Don’t believe me just look it up. It’s already illegal there and next will be here.

I think its horrible what happened, but their crime should not be used to take away religious freedom and that’s where it’s headed
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 27 days ago

Jor-El - Excellent animated sequence!

John Probasco - Thanks for sharing about the Canadians - Always knew they would be ahead of the States when it comes to Caring About Their Fellow Men (Women implied). They’re way ahead of US in Health Care Too!

BTW - I think Carl’s Toon is taking a Swing at Glenn (which is prophetic if drawn in advance) Google: Glenn Beck Reined By Conservatives. From the Post-Gazette publised Oct, 23, 2009:

“Dick Polman: Finally, some sane Republicans are taking aim at over-the-top commentators. The Becks and Limbaughs need to be reined in or they will ruin the GOP”

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mroberts88 said, 27 days ago

Yes, we should worry about our fellow man, but not at the expense of religious freedom.

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