Today is the day for Fox News commentator Glenn Beck to share his dream on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
King delivered his “I Have A Dream” exactly 47 years ago and will now be the scene of Beck and his followers offering their own “dream.” The article below describes supporters wearing telltale teeshirts with Palin’s name that the legend “Babies, Guns, Jesus.”
Here is another tee-shirt from the rally:
Some accounts are almost biblical of Beck’s role in reshaping America. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey explained “[w]e see Glenn Beck as a guy who is bringing revelations of understanding to the American people.”
Revelations by St. Beck will commence this afternoon.
Source: Bloomberg
Having been out all day, I’m just getting started and going through the posts from top to bottom….
Geeba Geeba
1, August 29, 2010 at 3:03 am
What a number of you are missing is that Beck represents what most legal US Citizens feel …..
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What most legal US Citizens feel??? GeeGee is living inside a self-induced beltway … that’s one of the funniest comments on this thread …
That’s right, Elaine. You’re not a princess.
You’re the Queen of Zing and the High Priestess of Poetry. 😉
And bdajeepers. Your slip is showing. False consensus is a weak trolling tactic. You’re not a good enough writer to pull it off. Especially when you try parlay it off of a known bigot and completely discredited identity like bdaman a.k.a. “Mr. Let’s Call Jews ‘Christ Killers'”. His word in these parts is as substantial as wet tissue paper. But since what you say is nothing but pure bullshit spin, I do suppose he’s about the only one you can try to hookup with until the Notsobreitbart Brigade returns. I am, however, impressed with your knowledge of dribbling. You should probably learn to wipe that junk off your face before going out in public. These stories and more on this episode of True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash.
Now answer the question about which Neocons are leftists, Rove Blossom. Be specific. We don’t grade on a curve around here.
I’d like another good laugh.
Jeepets Creepers,
I ain’t your honey–and I ain’t no princess!
🙂
pardon me madam, I aint duckin nutin princess.
Jeepers Creepers,
Damn right you are…what?
Can you be more specific about which of the “neocons” used to be left wing? Maybe Richard Perle? Dick Cheney? Paul Wolfowitz? Bill Kristol?
P.S. I ain’t your “honey.”
damn right I am, GW Bush socialist nit wit and those ridiculous “neo-cons”, they used to be left wing now they are infecting the conservative movement with the nitwittery they learned at Harvard and Yale.
Personally I think Neo-Cons are just Neo-progressives all wrapped up in the same ball of neo-fascist/socialist bullshit.
So I aint duckin nutin honey.
Jeepers Creepers–
You asked who bailed out Wall Street? My answer: Both parties!
History of U.S. Gov’t Bailouts
Updated: April 15, 2009 12:02 pm EDT
http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
– 2008 JP Morgan Chase and the federal government bailed out Bear Stearns when the financial giant neared collapse. JP Morgan purchased Bear Stearns for $236 million; the Federal Reserve provided a $30 billion credit line to ensure the sale could move forward. $30 billion
– Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac 2008 On Sep. 7, 2008, Fannie and Freddie were essentially nationalized: placed under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Under the terms of the rescue, the Treasury has invested billions to cover the companies’ losses. Initially, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put a ceiling of $100 billion for investments in each company. In February, Tim Geithner raised it to $200 billion. The money was authorized by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. $400 billion
– American International Group (A.I.G.) 2008 On four separate occasions, the government has offered aid to AIG to keep it from collapsing, rising from an initial $85 billion credit line from the Federal Reserve to a combined $180 billion effort between the Treasury ($70 billion) and Fed ($110 billion). ($40 billion of the Treasury’s commitment is also included in the TARP total.) $180 billion
– Auto Industry 2008 In late September 2008, Congress approved a more than $630 billion spending bill, which included a measure for $25 billion in loans to the auto industry. These low-interest loans are intended to aid the industry in its push to build more fuel-efficient, environmentally-friendly vehicles. The Detroit 3 — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — will be the primary beneficiaries. $25 billion
– Troubled Asset Relief Program 2008 In October 2008, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, which authorized the Treasury Department to spend $700 billion to combat the financial crisis. Treasury has been doling out the money via an alphabet soup of different programs. Here’s our running tally of companies getting TARP funds.
$700 billion
– Citigroup 2008 Citigroup received a $25 billion investment through the TARP in October and another $20 billion in November. (That $45 billion is also included in the TARP total.) Additional aid has come in the form of government guarantees to limit losses from a $301 billion pool of toxic assets. In addition to the Treasury’s $5 billion commitment, the FDIC has committed $10 billion and the Federal Reserve up to about $220 billion. $280 billion
– Bank of America 2009 Bank of America has received $45 billion through the TARP, which includes $10 billion originally meant for Merrill Lynch. (That $45 billion is also included in the TARP total.) In addition, the government has made guarantees to limit losses from a $118 billion pool of troubled assets. In addition to the Treasury’s $7.5 billion commitment, the FDIC has committed $2.5 billion and the Federal Reserve up to $87.2 billion. $142.2 billion
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Was Obama president in 2008?????
Are you suggesting that Bush and members of his administration were socialists???
Would you like to “duck” those questions???
I guess you should mention that it was brought to the attention of a government regulatory body during the Clinton Administration which did nothing.
So you know what a Ponzi Scheme is (I see you had to look it up), big deal. You didn’t answer my main question, I guess you don’t know what you mean. Not surprising though.
Apparently Bdaman is the only one with a brain around here based on the comments I read above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme#cite_note-1
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned.
While the system eventually will collapse under its own weight, the example of Bernard Madoff demonstrates the ability of a Ponzi scheme to delude both individual and institutional investors as well as securities authorities for long periods: Madoff’s variant of the Ponzi scheme stands as the largest financial investor fraud committed by a single person in history. Prosecutors estimate losses at Madoff’s hand totaling roughly $21 billion, as estimated by the money invested by his victims. If the promised returns are added the losses amount to $64.8 billion, but a New York court dismissed this estimation method during the Madoff trial.
Geeba Geeba, what Mr. Beck represents is the fear of demographic change. Demographic change is feared because it suggests a shifting of political power. When Beck and Palin and their minions scream about “talking back our country,” they mean the restoration of conservative Protestant rule. Of course, inherent in that desire is the recognition that the assumed prerogatives of white America are at risk. That is why that same theme characterized the Republican presidential campaign in 2008. The candidacy of Barack Obama represented more than the prospect of the first black president; it meant the possibility that minorities would be given access to power that they had never previously enjoyed. That indeed was the real threat. That it hasn’t materialized means nothing to the fearful, however. Thus the 15-20 percent of Americans who look to Mr. Beck and Ms. Palin almost as religious saviors will not be shaken in their beliefs. As they gradually die, so will the hysteria.
what you said doesn’t even make sense. do you even know what a Ponzi scheme is? Do you think about what you are writing or do you adhere to the get it on paper and worry about it later method?
J C
So you’re saying it’s no use to continue those tax cuts because they’re not going to be invested in building the economy but will be diverted to whatever ponzi scheme produces more profit? That’s what I thought.
yeah, well how’s that stimulus working out for you? I like to call it socialist dribble down.
Mr. Beck is what is known as a “dry drunk.” He stopped drinking and drugging a few years ago, but his personality remains unchanged. He still suffers from grandiosity, complete self-absorption and terminal uniqueness. The growth of his viewer base has convinced him that he is no longer a relatively harmless cartoon character, but someone anointed by God as a figure of great prophetic power. He will eventually crash and burn, of course.
No. We’re just smarter than trolls and can tell the difference between trickle down and being pissed on.
“But maybe you can tell me the answer to something I’ve been wondering about. Mr. Bush successfully cut taxes, for the wealthy only, in 2003. The stock market, instead of bounding higher, plodded along at 2.5% per year, until 2008 when it decresed by 34%.”
money chases profits, the feds artificially low interest rates caused money to be diverted to real estate.
I thought lefties were smarter than conservatives. I guess not.
who bailed out wall street? if that wasnt a socialist move I dont know what was. Walks like a duck…
“….Just like most socialists, they never miss an opportunity to start a war or fund one”.
Life must be great on your planet. Which Democrat started the war in Iraq on borrowed funds leading us directly to the huge national debt now crippling the country? Oh yeah, it was that rabid Socialist GWBush.
sorry, hit the submit key by mistake.
Reagan’s 103%) when taxes were raised?
I think it was because the markets saw the deficit being reduced and were willing to invest. What do you think?