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Ya-ta Boy
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Ya-ta Boy
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| There's some minor political theory that says when there are a series of options, the more radical seem beyond the pale, but if someone proposes a new more extreme option, the the previously beyond-the-pale ideas begin to seem more acceptable. I wonder if Beck is playing this role for Rush and Bill O. |
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ThomasR
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Beck is trying to be O'Reilly 2.0 which wont happen. Beck might as well be off the air. He says the SAME stuff as O'Reilly, just in a more extreme way. Im so sick of hearing the same conservative BS night after night, at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm. Give me a break. Report different stuff or just have one show. Simple as that
(My vote is for O'Reilly) |
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Gopher
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Re: "loose the republic," "we'd like to have a country left," "slavery," and that J. Nicholson-like Joker laugh in G. Beck's rhetoric: he has lost his marbles and has passed the point of no return. Hard to believe this actually generates ratings.
Not to mention "the gasoline." Good thing that was water, too. Playing with matches was bad enough. FCC should sanction or at least warn Fox for that. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Re: "loose the republic," "we'd like to have a country left," "slavery," and that J. Nicholson-like Joker laugh in G. Beck's rhetoric: he has lost his marbles and has passed the point of no return. Hard to believe this actually generates ratings. |
Is it? It might be more extreme in its expression than, say, O'Reilly or Limbaught or so forth, but the same basic ideas are expressed: attempted validation of conservative ideology and attempted justification of the fear of liberalism.
It's not all that surprising that the "peons" of the conservative party who find themselves drawn to the words of O'Reilly or the like find themselves drawn to Beck as well. |
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ManintheMiddle
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:16 am Post subject: |
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 NEWSFLASH:
Beck is a publicly admitted libertarian and a Mormon convert.
O'Reilly is a self-admitted independent and proud Catholic from baptism who happens to cherish traditional values. He is also well educated and an experienced journalist.
Beck is neither. But he is a populist in the tradition of Huey Long.
And we all know what happened to him.... |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:23 am Post subject: |
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and an experienced journalist.
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You mean he actually used to have to do work beyond reading off a teleprompter after someone else did the work? |
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ThomasR
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Chris2007
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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and an experienced journalist.
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You mean he actually used to have to do work beyond reading off a teleprompter after someone else did the work? |
You mean like Obama, the teleprompt president?? |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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They are all teleprompter presidents. Just as most "journalists" are just the ones who look good while standing on their research staff's shoulders...
Do I need to tell you guys there is no Easter Bunny too...? |
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Leslie Cheswyck
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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No, but there is an Easter Polar Bear.  |
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Chris2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| They are all teleprompter presidents. Just as most "journalists" are just the ones who look good while standing on their research staff's shoulders... |
LIE. Obama has taken it to a whole new level and can't function w/o it. Past presidents would use it from time to time, but apparently Obama can't put together a sentence w/o his teleprompter.
Which is why. He often. will. talk like. this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/19663 |
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Ya-ta Boy
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