Bad American

When people like Glenn Beck get a show on CNN.

I know, Beck is like a bete noir (look that up conservatives) for people like me but since stupidity is being raised to a form of cult worship in the United States its best to back statements like that up with facts.

The actual script of his show Thursday from Media Matters:

BECK: Hillary said that if she becomes president, the federal government will take more of an active role in the economy to address what she called the excesses of the market.  (yeah, like the subprime mess you greedheads got this country in you asshole - ed.) Wow. That sounds pretty Left. But just in case you haven’t had enough, it gets much, much worse.

She also said she wants to get back to the appropriate balance of power between government and the market. OK. That sounds like the Soviet Union. (No, it sounds like a liberal democracy, what we used to be you stupid freak - ed.)

And to top it all off, Comrade Clinton has railed against the excesses of the offensive executive pay packages and an out-of-whack tax code that favors the wealthy while holding down the middle class. I can’t imagine anybody putting it more plainly than that.

Hillary Clinton is a liberal fascist. (What does that make Obergruppenfuhrer Giuliani? -ed) She is somebody who wants to redistribute the wealth in this country the way she believes is good for everybody. It is the new New Deal, and it is what kept this country in a depression for 10 solid years while the rest of the world recovered. (absolute bullshit but I bet your audience believes it because they’re as stupid as you - ed)

Hillary, I just want to point this out. Executives earn big money because it’s their skills that help their companies earn even bigger money, you know, so they can hire more employees, et cetera, et cetera. And if the companies don’t like it, they should fire them and lower the pay scale. (Because companies have God like intelligence and morals, eh Glenn? Hey, check out this corporate saint - http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080125/D8UD6FVG0.html; and while were at it, let’s see what else our sainted corporate overseers like to get away with - http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/25/6610/; Glenn you have to practice hard being a corporate dumbshit shill or does it just come naturally to you? - ed)

And you don’t hear me crying when your husband takes home a million-dollar speaking fee. I, instead, say, God bless America. I can’t believe somebody would pay that.

And finally, businesses need tax breaks because they need capital to grow the business, hire more employees, and that expands the economy. Not food stamps. (And how many of them have outsourced the middle class out of a job Glenn, because Americans can’t compete with slave labor wages in the third world - but I bet you think its great because, well, hell, you’re doing allright - ed).

I like to call this Economics 101. You know, and it’s fine if you want to prance around like Robin Hood, promising to steal from the rich and give to the poor, but that doesn’t mean it works. The only reason it worked for Stalin is because he killed 50 million people to force them to live that way. (again, to think that the USSR practiced anything like modern socialism is an uneducated opinion. Stalin was a genocidal tyrant that used the trappings of collectivism to gain and keep power. Think Sweden or France for better examples, but that’s beyond the narrow range of your intelligence - ed).

We are the greatest country on earth because of our capitalist system, not in spite of it. (bullshit - ed)  So, thanks, Hillary. Just in case people weren’t sure why they shouldn’t vote for you, your fiscal ideas are plenty reason enough. Unless you’re Hugo Chavez.

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BECK: Why is — why is John Edwards in the race? I mean, at this point?

LAURA SCHWARTZ (Democratic strategist): He is passionate about his ideas, and I have to tell you –

BECK: Come on.

SCHWARTZ: — I’m with the group that says he shouldn’t drop out. I mean, this guy has at least 15 percent. If he drops below 15 percent nationally –

BECK: Wait a minute.

SCHWARTZ: — this guy will have some second thoughts.

BECK: OK. Wait a minute. If he’s so passionate about his viewpoints, why are they so different from the last time he was in the race? He was running as a moderate. Now, put a red star on his furry head. He’s a communist.

I saw the GOP debate last night where a bunch of rich white men moaned and groaned about how unfair the tax code was to the poor, poor big corporations. And how if THEY were president, the big corporations would be protected.

I know it really doesn’t matter anymore who gets to be President since the whole scam is rigged, but it amazes me that there are actually breathing human being who enthusiastically support the GOP and people like Glenn Beck who are the REAL fascists in America today. But hey, one person’s fascism is another person’s ‘free market economics.’ With a mailed fist, of course.

In any case, I’m fast losing any hope that this country can rise above its innate greed, violence and stupidity to become anything resembling a nation living up to its founding creeds. When absolute slobbering fascist-apologist morons like Glenn Beck are given respectability in the mainstream media, we are near endgame for this nation.

In a straight up debate, I’d kick his ass. But that’s why people like me are weeded out of media jobs before we can get to that level. Talent means nothing; slobbering obedience to corporate vassals means everything. And Glenn Beck knows which side his bread is buttered on.