Tom Toles for November 09, 2010

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    Doughfoot  over 13 years ago

    Josefw,

    I would be interested in the programs if they came from a credible source. But having heard some of Beck’s gross distortions and and lies about American history, which has been my field for 30 years, I don’t really trust anything he says or presents.

    Why would anyone want to sit through five hours of having his values, principles, and highest aspirations for his country trashed, denigrated, insulted, vilified, and likened to the values of genocidal maniacs?

    I am completely fed up with those, left and right, whose whole purpose in life is to make half of America hate and fear the other half.

    And it is so easy to do:

    “Gandhi and Hitler were both critics of capitalism. Gandhi and Hitler were both foreigners. Gandhi and Hitler each had mass followings of adoring admirers. Gandhi and Hitler were both vegetarians. Gandhi and Hitler both ‘claimed’ they were against war. Gandhi and Hitler both struggled against Britain, and Winston Churchill (peace be upon him) hated both. There was really no difference, was there? So remember folks, those who say good things about Gandhi are probably Nazis …”

    See how easy it is?

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    Bubba_Boo Premium Member over 13 years ago

    It appears that Rupert Murdoch is a bit of a “puppet master” himself.

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    Thomas Devers Premium Member over 13 years ago

    An old way of putting is to say I get all my news from the weather report… and I don’t need a weatherperson to tell me which way the wind is blowing. It will change direction in two years and head back the right way or is that the left way….

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    Christopher Shea  over 13 years ago

    Oh, look. We get rid of the old spammers (hopefully) and a new one shows up.

    Being “open-minded” does not mean having to give credence to a fraud like Beck.

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    eepatte  over 13 years ago

    CShea said “”Being “open minded” does not mean having to give credence to a fraud like Glenn Beck.” Amen.

    After voting split tickets my whole life, and even recommending that my organization endorse some republican candidates, I will not ever vote for republicans again. My wife said “I refuse to tolerate intolerance.” I agree with her. I will not vote for a party that divides us in order to win elections and advance a corporate agenda, and I won’t listen to lying jerks who further that agenda, either.

    Glenn Beck is not really stupid, he just uses intolerance to divide us, make headlines, and enrich himself. I know that Soros gives big buck to democrats. So What? We don’t need an evil a$$hole like Beck to tell us what we already know. Do you think he will reveal that Soros is like Rupert Murdoch? Or the Koch brothers?

    And I thought those Chinese spammers were bad.

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    tomcib  over 13 years ago

    We’ve got a Battle of the Bands: O-bo & the Demos vs. Boner & the Baggers. We’ll get pink noise from O-bo and white noise from Boner. Got ear plugs?

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    Simon_Jester  over 13 years ago

    Tell me Harley…what’s ‘Freeping?’

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    believecommonsense  over 13 years ago

    Doughfoot, good Beck impersonation with that Ghandi/Hitler analogy.

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    Motivemagus  over 13 years ago

    doughfoot, well said.

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    Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Did you know that 10% of our Navy and the daily cost of the Afghan War and the Taj Mahal is being rented out like a hotel is being used by our president? I didn’t either. Glenn Beck & Michelle Bachman told me. I’m now better informed. http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/05/kth-the-200-million-myth-about-obamas-asia-trip/

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    fatherjimmc  over 13 years ago

    Yup, ya gotta worry about a guy that was born out of the country, a place that later had Anti-American politicians. and then later he managed to pass himself off as one of us – oops that was that Panamanian John McCain wasn’t it?

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    charliekane  over 13 years ago

    Kudos, doughfoot.

    Just 4 fun:

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/aug/27/glenn-beck-faces-truth-o-meter/

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    lalas  over 13 years ago

    @doughfoot – Hilarious! Well played.

    Does that create Godwin’s 2nd law: Whoever mentions Gandhi first loses.

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    Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago

    U.S. Military Installation = United States.

    Honolulu, Hawaii = not one of the 48 states = Not United States. *

    Very big difference.

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    Dtroutma  over 13 years ago

    Puerto Rico= U.S. Territory. Alaska was a territory. Hawaii was a territory. Guam is a Territory. American Samoa= territory. Citizens of territories= CITIZENS of the United States. When Hawaii and Alaska “joined the union”– none of the citizens had to apply for citizenship, because it was already theirs.

    Now Gandhi and Adolph- nice. It IS the effort of too many to promote hatred that puts them in the latter camp. It IS possible to hugely disagree with those in error, without hating anyone. Ignorance is the golden path to hate.

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    CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago

    I absolutly love your post, doughfoot.

    RESTORE SANITY!!!

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    HabaneroBuck  over 13 years ago

    Gandhi wasn’t really all that great. One of the more overrated personalities of all-time. He had extraordinary self-discipline. That’s about all. Most of his ideas are actually ridiculous when put into practice.

    Lefties are not in favor of his extreme promotion of celibacy. No one really is.

    Much of Gandhi’s writings indicate he strove to become “uni-sex” in character, eliminating all traces of masculinity in himself. He wrote that he was awakening the woman within.

    Gandhi’s writings in South Africa would be considered blatantly racist by today’s secular mindset.

    Etc…etc…etc…

    I don’t know if Obama was born in Kenya, but I’m almost positive he isn’t truly eligible to be POTUS. Racism has nothing to do with it, either. He’s just a fraud.

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    Motivemagus  over 13 years ago

    Habanero, I can’t see why you don’t think Obama isn’t eligible. Why? Did you think Bush was eligible? Clinton? Reagan?

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    Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago

    LoL doughfoot!

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    HabaneroBuck  over 13 years ago

    Obama’s narrative about his birth and early childhood is so full of flaws as to question his legitimacy as a natural born citizen of the United States, even if he was born in Hawaii, magus. The birth in Hawaii is certainly a possibility, but still not a certainty. The question I have, among others, is can a foreigner come over to America, knock up a native, leave, and then have that child rise to the status of President of the United States? Barack Sr., mind you, was already married in Kenya.

    As far as I can tell, yes, W, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, Kennedy, etc….were eligible.

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    bloomfan  over 13 years ago

    @habanero “The question I have, among others, is can a foreigner come over to America, knock up a native, leave, and then have that child rise to the status of President of the United States?”

    Somebody doesn’t understand the 14th Amendment. Or are you implying that someone’s parents have to have been married in order to qualify them to be President? I’m surprised the “Christian” tea-nuts haven’t been spouting that one.

    Why do I get the feeling that if said foreigner had been a white European, this wouldn’t be an issue?

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