Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Glenn "the assfuck" Beck

From Media Matters:

Now, here's a book that outsold the Bible in World War II. Did they know? They clearly did. Why this book, The Years of Extermination, is more frightening is the whole world knew. And when you see what was in the papers at the time -- I kept reading it going, "Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I have read these things in some places about the Jews, in some places about what's coming in other places on global warming. I have seen these things happening right now." And I understand World War II much, much better because we're here again, gang. We are here again.

And I read this one part on global warming about how they got -- what was the first thing they did to get people to exterminate the Jews. Now, I'm not saying that anybody's going to -- you know Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government.

You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming.

So, I read this paragraph -- and I must have read it, like, five times because I just kept going, "Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh." And I think I'm in a unique situation because I've heard from so many people, you've heard from so many people calling in and saying these things on the show.

Here's how they did it. First thing they did was they found a group of scientists that believed in eugenics, which basically is, "Breed your way to better people! Eugenics! Get rid of the defects, get rid of the races that aren't so strong. Breed a master race." For as insane, as insidious, and as out-and-out evil as it sounds today, believe it or not, in the 1920s and 1930s, that was cutting-edge science. And they said, "That is the answer. We can breed a master race." That's were the master race comes from: science and scientists. It was called eugenics.

So, Hitler took the master-race idea and eugenics -- an accepted, mainstream scientific belief -- and he got all the biggest scientists to come out and say, "This is it. This is the answer. It's the damn Jews. We get rid of the Jew bloodline, and we're fixed."

Now, how did you convince all of Europe to do it? You needed to have fear. You needed to have the fear of starvation. You needed to have the fear of the whole place going to hell in a handbasket. Which -- do we have that fear now with global warming? I mean, they're telling us things in Al Gore's global warming special that are not true, that the seas will rise 20 feet. Even the U.N. says that's not true. So you got to have the fear, we're all going to die.

Then you get the scientists -- eugenics. You get the scientists -- global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists that say, "That's not right." And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on this global warming bandwagon -- all the way to RFK Junior, who has called me a fascist for doing it -- all the way over to the global warming special that happened over in London a couple of weeks ago that is fantastic.

They are now trying to -- are they suing or have they moved up to the arrest part yet, Stu [executive producer and head writer Steve Burguiere]? Where they are trying to punish the people for putting another view point out there -- on global warming. Then, the last step was to bring it into the schools. But here's the part that I read over and over again -- they didn't bring eugenics into the science classes. They brought it into the science class, but then they also brought it into the math class. They brought it into the literature class. They brought it into the history class. They brought it into P.E. They brought it into every single class. "This dirty Jew is trying to overcharge these Germans. How much of a profit will the Jew make by swindling money out of the Germans?" That -- those were actual problems that were introduced in math class.

What set the alarm bells off for me was, how many calls have I received in the last month from people saying, "My daughter was in art class. She's watching an Inconvenient Truth"? I just had a call last week, a guy says, "My son was in math, and he's watching Inconvenient Truth. What does An Inconvenient Truth have to do with math?"

My daughter is getting it as well. If you don't get on this train, the train is going to pull out of the station, and it's going to be moving at such a high rate of speed, you will not even be able to see the train. It has been foretold forever that that good will not understand bad, and bad will not understand good.

We are getting to a place where the average American is being fed so many lies at such a high rate of speed on so many different topics from immigration to our own government to even race relations to political correctness on Islamic extremism to global warming, that it is going to become an avalanche, and you're not going to be able to get way from it.

On Wednesday, the special that could end all specials -- the global warming special. There is no balance to the special. I want you to know right up front. I am not saying that this is the end-all truth. I am saying this is the credible other side. This is the other side of the argument. You want to hear about global warming -- great. Go watch the Al Gore special. It's the one your kids are being forced to watch. On Wednesday, force your kids to watch the other side of the debate.

It's what scientists used to hold up and say, "This is what we do." It's what colleges and universities used to hold up and say, "Diversity of thought." But it doesn't happen anymore. And before it's completely shut down, and before we're all sent to respect camps, make sure you watch it on Wednesday.

Oh, wait, wait, wait. I got a really good line that we can use. It's almost like it's from the Inconvenient Truth. Your very existence may depend on it.

Ah-ha. Is that good?


Glenn Beck, when will your lies come to haunt you? I don't have much to comment on this, because if you're not outraged reading it, then I really wonder about your intelligence. Global warming is not a lie any more than the depletion of the ozone layer was in years past. The fact that conservatives want to use this issue to make liberals out to be nazis is beyond ridiculous. The way it seems to break down is like this:
There are some people in this country that appreciate that science has been telling us for years that CO2 emissions will eventually cause a condition referred to as global warming. The facts to support these warnings are numerous and evidence is right in front of us when we look at the drastic changes in climate in the past several years.
There are some other people in this country that want to use this issue as the next best thing to blaming a hippy. These folks see global warming as a threat to their way of living, but not because the world may eventually change radically due to our overuse of fossil fuels, instead because facing this fact would cause industry to change. Change costs money and money is something that fat cat conservatives just can't seem to let slip from their greedy little fingers. It's been talked about for decades, the concept of alternative fuels. Bush himself has a ranch stocked with energy saving systems and alternative energy sources, and yet it's his crowd that are so against this simple initiative towards progress in a new and worthwhile market. Why? I think there are two answers. Answer one is the tycoon theory. Big oil doesn't want to lose its grip on America and since the Bush family and others in his camp are such inbred oilmen, it's no wonder they would defend their bread and butter to the death. The other answer is a little more troublesome in my opinion. The other answer is that conservatives are merely playing with facts to justify their attacks on liberals and moderates that don't support the Bush agenda. By taking simple fact and swerving it in a way to make an ordinary person question sound facts in order to protect their position in society. This is the new McCarthyism. It's just another distortion in the long line of lies that have been the backbone of the worst administration to ever "serve" the American public. Just like "Mission Accomplished" was a scam, "Don't trust Al Gore" is the same fuckin' textbook.

4 comments:

Grumpy Marine said...

Did you pull this off of media matters, JG? Those people scare me. Got thoughtcrime?

It's retaliation for Global Warming Skeptics being labeled "holocaust deniers."

Beck is applying the same type of parallelism, perhaps illogically, that the warming people have done in the past to those wanting to debate the issue.

It's amazing how violent these people get to folks that just want to open a channel and say "yeah but."

Dr 4LOM said...

illogically is definately right. I personally have never seen global warming skeptics referred to as holocaust deniers. If I did, I'd probably post how stupid that is too. I guess the biggest problem I have with this is that it goes right along with the overall contempt for science that the "right" has these days. Facts are facts and while Al Gore's message may not be in full understanding of the problem, or in some cases overreaching the problem, the fact that there's a problem is pretty definite. I also strongly object to the ease of going to WW2's obvious inhumane atrocities as a comparison to any issue we face today. Unless you're talking about the genocides in Rowanda or something that extreme, Hitler should be off the table. He does nothing but fuel emotion and any one entering a clear debate should know that facts are more worthy than emotion. To add to that, I think Glenn Beck is quite the asshole most of the time. His "humor" just doesn't reach me, and in all honesty, I don't think it's intended to.

Grumpy Marine said...

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/

Check there for the afore mentioned reference.

After reading the transcripts again it's a little different than it looked when I first read it. He's talking about situations...he was talking about science and how there was this debunked science called eugenics that believed certain things and that politicians got a hold of it and twisted it and used it for political means...he was saying that the same thing is happening now. It's not the holocaust he's holding up its the debunked science that lead to it. He was talking what it means that we're not able to debate climate change. There was the guy earlier in the program that broke the stuff about Al Gore's captain insano consumption house. They read some of the emails he got and the talked about the death threats and all the really really ugly things people said about him, his family, etc. And they were wondering what is it that's so bad with wanting to look at this. What are they afraid of? What is there not allowed free discourse on this?

Dr 4LOM said...

Well I agree with that, sure. I think it's ridiculous that people are so defensive of Gore, particularly about the mansion vs. the Crawford ranch business. But it's like I was saying to this conservative buddy at work, it's context that creates the problem. And that works on both sides. I think that the reference may be apt, but the emotions tied to it make it an inadequate response. It doesn't come across the way it's intended because it draws in emotional baggage that muddles the point.
But looking at it critical to the left, if I were Al Gore(okay I don't want to be that guy) let's just say I were running for office with a platform based on the global warming issue. If I were in that arena, I would say "Look at the President, even being an oil man he uses alternative fuels to make his ranch a better place for his family. Don't you think every family should have those products to make their home a better environment?" It's the actuality of the myth of "reaching over the aisle", you don't reach over and punch the opposition, you find out where you have similarities and you build on them. That's democracy and that's the basis of our republic. Along with that comes accepting your own flaws as well. What it seems to me is that the liberal politicians like Gore have taken a page from the Neo-con textbook and decided that fear is the way to present this and fear is the way to make people listen. Well most people aren't afraid of the environment, most can't fathom it. People just want to live their lives, so we should be pushing incentives. We should be pitching cheaper geothermal converters by having the government subsidize or buy on a community level that creates a decrease in cost. The government can fuck up a lot of things, but one thing you can't deny is they have buying power and negotiations on a large scale minimize costs for manufacturers and service companies. This could be related back to health care initiatives as well. We need to stop stoking fires and start changing things for the better.