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Is Glenn Beck setting himself up to be a martyr for his cause?

On Aug. 28 2010 Glenn Beck, TV personality, Radio host and all around nutcase, held a rally on the Mall in Washington D.C. The number of attendees range from a low of 100,000 to a high of 1.2 million (thank you Michelle Bachmann). I personally don’t care how many people show up to hear this loon speak, but if you look at the median number of 600,000 that’s less than .2% of the US population, that is less than the number of people that attended Yankee games that week. So I am not impressed, I would have thought there were more nut-jobs out there that had money to waste on this shame of a rally.


The big deal with the rally in my eyes was the message, and boy was it nut-bag crazy. If you remember the line from the 2008 campaign that was attributed to Obama about people clinging to Gods, Guns and Country, well these are the people. This was not just a political rally this was also a Religious rally. I have not heard how we should give ourselves to god so many times in one speech before. It has now become very clear to me that a portion of this Country are hoping for a Religious Theocracy and they are also so ignorant that they think the U.S. Constitution was written to give us that. How did this get this way, well just watch Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, the 700 club, listen to right-wing and Religious radio it is awash with this blatant ignorance.

So let’s get to the Headline, why do I ask the question” is Glenn Beck setting himself up to be a martyr” well let’s start with the fact that he was wearing a bullet proof vest as he gave his speech. Why? Did you hear any reports that someone was going to disrupt his speech, have you heard anyone report that someone was threatening him ? No, neither have I. This does play into 1) his personal paranoia and 2) it plays into the Victimhood that Republicans love to complain about. Glenn Beck has been building himself up over the last 4 to 5 years as a “leader” of a movement to “Take back America” from what he is always vague. He loves to spout off about Obama and the left attacking America from within, he cries Commie, Socialist, Marxist, or his new favorite Maoist. His followers have started to act like cultists in the attack people who disagree with him and they say he is a lone voice telling them the truth.

On any given night he will cry on his show that he is the only one that sees what is happening, he is the one telling you the truth and this is what cult leaders do. They get there victims to follow them by making them believe he is the only one that can save them.

So what will Glenn Beck do next? I don’t think he will go the Martyr road unless he really has to, right now he is getting his kicks and what he wants ( i.e. Money) from people but as he grows weirder and weirder the general public will push him away that is when we need to worry about what he will do. If he loses his show on Fox or the Radio, look out it will all come crashing down.



If you get a chance go and rent Bob Roberts it’s an Eye opener. I thought of that film while I was watching Beck speak at this rally in that bulletproof vest. If are not familiar with the movie Tim Robbins plays a young very conservative politician who is running for office and when it looks like he might lose he has someone shot him and then he pertains to be paralyzed to get votes. This is where Glenn Beck is headed.

How to Make Conservative a bad word: Use Facts

Since I was a kid the right or “conservatives” have worked very hard to make Liberal/Progressive a bad word and over the years they have somewhat succeeded. How many people respond to the question what is your political belief system? Well most people I know even though I know they are liberal say well I ‘am more of an Independent. When I get asked that question I say loudly and proudly, I ‘am a liberal progressive, you know the type that makes Rush Limbaugh mad. So why do people think Liberal is a bad thing to be, we all know the 30 year story of the right –wing attack on Liberals so I will not go into that. What his post is about is how to make Conservative a really bad word, which it should be. Conservatives has fought against advancement in this country since it’s founding.


So here is what you say and do next time someone asks you if you are a Liberal/Progressive/Commie, say “why yes I ‘am and I am very proud of what Liberals have done for this country”. Then ask them if they are a Conservative, if they say yes ask them what type of conservative are you, are you like the conservatives that didn’t think Woman deserved the right to Vote, or are you the type of conservative that didn’t or doesn’t think Blacks are equal to whites. Do you believe like Conservatives in the past that white people have a right to own other people, or that it is ok for a company to kill there employee’s? Ask them are you the type of conservative that thinks it is ok for a Company to lie about its product on TV and then not have to pay victims when the product harms them? Are they the type of Conservative that thinks that it is ok for companies to fire people just because they are gay or black or of a different political party? Do they believe like most conservatives that we should get rid of the IRS, FDA, OSHA, SEC, EPA and the Departments of Education and Labor? Do they agree with Conservatives that we should end Social Security and Medicare? Should Unemployment insurance be dropped? Should we allow senior citizens to fend for themselves when they get to old to work?

Now I can go on like that for some time and they get worse and worse and worse as you go, but you get the idea. The important thing is that the only way we have moved forward in this country is by doing Liberal and Progressive things and dismissing Conservatives and their “values” as we go. As you know I have not been a big supporter of President Obama on this blog but he did say something the other day that gets right to the point he said” to move a car forward you put the car in “D” and to go in reverse you but the car in “R” “now which way do you what to go, I like going forward.

So always remember “say it Loud and say it proud” I ‘am a liberal and then stay on the attack, you don’t need to defend being Liberal, history always does that.

Lets Liberalize America.

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