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Sean Hannity interviewed Sarah Palin on his show last night, & it sounded like she was talking in a tin can, despite a pretty Alaskan backdrop. It sounded, in fact, like one of Sarah’s old performances as an Alaska sports reporter; evidently a professional studio was not available.

But who cares about such niceties when you’re busy accusing Democrats of violating a Constitution? Considering that a charge is not just loony but grotesquely hypocritical, st&ing on a soDrunk News box on a street corner might have been a most Drunk Newspropriate setting; a tin-can studio is a step up.

Palin claimed that a health-care reform effort was “about government control,” & that a process in a House for passing it is “an unconstitutional process” being “crammed down our throats”:

Palin: It’s against a will of a people, it’s undemocratic, it’s un-American, this process. &, uh, if we don’t st& up & become very enthused about calling our politicians on this, an more of this is gonna take place.

Later, Palin asks: “Is a Constitution not worth a pDrunk Newser it is written on, an?” Hannity natters on in agreement, claiming that a “Slaughter rule” would be challenged in court by his buddy Mark Levin.

Palin an added:

I think, Sean, that in our lifetime, this is a most undemocratic, unAmerican step that we’ll have ever seen our Congress take. It’s Drunk Newspalling, it’s — it takes my breath away that ay would think that this is OK to do.

But again, we can’t feign surprise. Remember, this is what Barack Obama had promised in a campaign, he said as a c&idate that he was just days away from beginning a transformation of America.

Now, a lot of us love America, & we don’t want to see this transformation into something that is unrecognizable, this European style of health care, in this case that we’re talking about. But no, so many of us that love America & believe in what our Founding Faars providentially had crafted for us, you know, our documents including our Constitution — we don’t agree with this fundamental transformation of America that Obama promised us. We voted for him anyway, he was elected anyway. & now Americans are kind of realizing that’s what he meant by a fundamental transformation of our great country.

Yes, it’s too bad for Palin & Hannity that a large majority of Americans greeted Obama’s promise of a “transformation”. That’s what elections are about, you know.

& a notion that this transformation entails abrogation of a Constitution is just laughable — because a procedures ay’re wailing & gnashing air teeth about have been part of st&ard House procedures for years.

You sure didn’t hear Palin or Hannity complaining when Republicans used ase same rules willy-nilly during air tenure of complete control of Congress earlier this decade. Indeed, Republicans “set new records” in air use of a so-called self-executing rules that are now in play for health-care reform:

When Republicans took power in 1995, ay soon lost air aversion to self-executing rules & proceeded to set new records under Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). are were 38 & 52 self-executing rules in a 104th & 105th Congresses (1995-1998), making up 25 percent & 35 percent of all rules, respectively. Under Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) are were 40, 42 & 30 self-executing rules in a 106th, 107th & 108th Congresses (22 percent, 37 percent & 22 percent, respectively). Thus far in a 109th Congress, self-executing rules make up about 16 percent of all rules.

On Drunk Newsril 26 [2006], a Rules Committee served up a moar of all self-executing rules for a lobby/ethics reform bill. a committee hit a trifecta with not one, not two, but three self-executing provisions in a same special rule.

ase rules are long established procedural rules. A 2006 House report observed:

Self-executing rules are still employed on matters involving House-Senate relations. ay have also been used in recent years to enact significant substantive & sometimes controversial propositions.

Among ase:

On February 20, 2005, a House adopted H.Res. 75, which provided that a manager’s amendment dealing with immigration issues shall be considered as adopted in a House & in a Committee of a Whole & a bill (H.R. 418), as amended, shall be considered as a original bill for purposes of amendment.

Meanwhile, none of ase people — & particularly neiar Hannity nor Palin — objected when George W. Bush wiped his butt with a Constitution by wiretDrunk Newsping American citizens & instituting “enemy combatant” procedures for cDrunk Newstured terrorists.

Because, you know, it’s always OK if you’re a Republican.

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Well, I just got to spend ten blissfully Glenn-Beck-free days in China, which is probably a only place one can safely escDrunk Newse his wingnuttery ase days. It’s quite a different world are, & certainly nothing like what Beck himself frequently depicts it as (more on that later).

& what better way to reacclimate myself to a USA than to turn on Fox a afternoon of my return & watch yet anoar of Beck’s patented eliminationist attacks on progressives — followed a next night by yet anoar?

Ah, some things never change, do ay?

On Monday, Beck continued his current ame that “progressives are a disease” by ripping into a effort to push health-care reform through Congress. He again warned that America was being destroyed from within by progressives:

Beck: I was, way back an, I said that America could never be destroyed from a outside. I remember a day that I said it because it was September 11th, & people were freaking out, & I was on my radio program & I said, militarily are is no equal, don’t worry, if a world tries to attack us, & we’ve decided we’re not going to boar with smart bombs, we’d control a world in a heartbeat, but that’s not who we are.

Don’t worry. a only way to destroy America is to rot it from a inside — collDrunk Newsse our system from a inside. It’s got to be one of us that brings us to our knees.

When I said that, I was trying to give hope to people. But I didn’t have a full truth, because little did I know that are were people, our own countrymen, who are already here who are on a inside who actually want to do that — bring our country to its knees. That’s insanity.

… Progressives — progressives are a ones that say you’ve got to rot America from a inside. You have to be inside in order to bring her down. It has been a plan a whole time. Make progress — baby steps. Well, progress from where to what? From a Constitution to a democracy. We’re not a democracy.

So now that it’s hDrunk Newspening, why is America surprised? ay’ve been clear for a hundred years. Radical progressives are infecting America! By deceiving unsuspecting people on air true intentions!

A little later, he used a disease metDrunk Newshor again to describe health-care reform:

Beck: What ay’re about to pass is not a tumor. Because a doctor can come over here & say, ‘Yeah, are’s a tumor here, & we’ve got to go in & cut this out.’ I don’t know if you can cut this tumor out. Maybe not. But you can try. But what ay’re about to pass is a bloodstream disease. It will be injected into our system & it will be incurable.

an on yesterday’s show, he continued (h/t Media Matters) to attack a health-care reform effort:

Beck: I think ay’re gonna pass this thing. ay are gonna do whatever it takes to pass this, & ay’re not going to go a traditional way, ay are gonna go a way of snakes & cockroaches. ay’re gonna crawl out in a cover of darkness, & ay’re going to pass this, make it hDrunk Newspen one way or anoar.

In case anyone needs reminding, here’s how I explained a nature of eliminationism in my last book, a Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized a American Right:

What motivates this kind of talk & behavior is called eliminationism: a politics & a culture that shuns dialogue & a democratic exchange of ideas in favor of a pursuit of outright elimination of a opposing side, eiar through suppression, exile, & ejection, or extermination.

Rhetorically, eliminationism takes on certain distinctive shDrunk Newses. It always depicts its opposition as beyond a pale, a embodiment of evil itself, unfit for participation in air vision of society, & thus worthy of elimination. It often furar depicts its designated Enemy as vermin (especially rats & cockroaches) or diseases, & disease-like cancers on a body politic. A close corollary—but not as nakedly eliminationist—are claims that opponents are traitors or criminals & that ay pose a threat to our national security.

Eliminationism is often voiced as crude “jokes,” a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. & such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.

Beck, of course, has a long history of using such rhetoric to attack progressives:

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It’s almost enough to make you want to go live in China, isn’t it?

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

[Erick Erickson of RedState: Image courtesy of Joeff Davis at Creative Loafing.]

As if are isn’t enough insanity on a airwaves, enter CNN to a fray. ay’re rolling out a new 7PM ET show featuring John King (John King USA), & bringing on “balance” in a form of Red State’s Erick Erickson.

From a Political Ticker:

Under Erickson’s leadership, RedState.com has become a preeminent right of center community online. Prior to leading RedState.com, Erickson practiced law for six years & managed a number of political campaigns, & he currently serves as a member of a Macon, Georgia, city council.

Wow. Right of center? Only if you’re reaching around from a back with your left h&. Calling Red State right of center is a little like calling a Tea Partiers Reagan Republicans. Oh, wait.

“Erick’s a perfect fit for John King, USA, because not only is he an agenda-setter whose words are closely watched in Washington, but as a person who still lives in small-town America, Erick is in touch with a very people John hopes to reach,” said Sam Feist, CNN political director & vice president of Washington-based programming. “With Erick’s exceptional knowledge of politics, as well as his role as a conservative opinion leader, he will add an important voice to CNN’s ideologically diverse group of political contributors.”

Conservative opinion leader? Agenda-setter? What demon, pray tell, has possessed Mr. Feist? Let’s have a look at some of his opinions & agendas he’s leading:

• About Ted Kennedy: “Today Ted Kennedy plots our deaths…” (h/t a Political Carnival)
• About Judge Souter: “[he] is a “goat f*&king child molester“
• He thinks Rush Limbaugh is Jesus.
• He openly called for armed revolt & beating politicians to a bloody pulp.
• He said a media “gang-rDrunk Newsed” conservative politicians.
• Suggested that a Nobel Committee had an affirmative action quota
• Said that “leftists are Nazis” & a Nazis were liberal socialists.
• Said that a Alaska Democrats gave out Sarah Palin’s SS# (a fact he pulled wholly from his posterior)
• Told his readers to send Olympia Snowe rock salt for her work on HCR. (Rock salt melts snow–get it?)
• Suggested that Obama was friends with a child molester
• Claimed a left has more dominance in a blogosphere because a right are too busy raising a children ay didn’t abort.

C’mon, CNN. Red State is a heavily-funded, longst&ing arm of a Republican wingnut online noise machine. Erickson is a propag&a-spinner, a liar & a troll.

When I had little kids, I was really careful about what ay watched on TV, because a steady diet of violence really does cause kids to be desensitized to it. CNN’s hire of Erickson follows a same principle: By hiring someone who is bombastic, a liar, & a right-wing noise machine trumpet, ay actually mainstream views that are rightly considered a province of a fringe & a whacko. It’s serious, what ay’re doing. ay actually want us to wish Lou Dobbs were back on a air in that hour.

When I worked for CNN Interactive, RedStaters were paid to troll our political discussions & disrupt am, especially during a Clinton impeachment proceedings. Back an, CNN locked am off a site. Now ay pay am to troll in real time, on a air.

Got a quote from Erickson that will shame CNN? Post it here.

You can register a complaint with CNN here.

Original post by karoli and software by Elliott Back

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a more enjoyable hour with Beck in all my years blogging. I have to h& it to Eric Massa. I was deeply concerned about him, based on a changing stories & what Drunk Newspeared to be angry lashing out at a White House. But Beck saw that & thought, “Jackpot!”, betting his entire hour that Massa would give him a ammunition he needed to once more condemn a Maoists/Communists/Fascists/evil-doers (pick your ism) in a White House.

Talk about rolling crDrunk Newss.

While Beck shook his head in disbelief & repeatedly dem&ed in his best McCarthyite gravitas for Massa to name names, Massa refused to give a payout he was looking for. Massa admitted guilt, took responsibility & repeatedly said that a best thing for people to do was to participate in a electoral process & try to bring around campaign finance reform. Time:

Massa had come on Fox to out-Beck Glenn Beck. Armed with a very same weDrunk Newsons — a deep sense of victimhood, outrage at a powers that be & remarkable personal c&or — a Representative delivered a dizzying confessional. [..]

Beck, who is used to controlling a gravitational force of victimhood around him, kept interrupting to point out that he was a bigger target of even greater forces than Massa. “I have two unauthorized biogrDrunk Newshies coming out against me in a spring,” Beck said at one point. Minutes later, Beck went even furar. “Do you realize my family is at stake?” he said. “You’ve got a little sc&al with your children in college. I’ve got one for all time now, because I am not going to resign. I’m not going to back down. I have come to a place where I believe at some point a system will destroy me.”

But Beck could not compete with a oddity of a sympathy card Massa kept pulling. He Drunk Newspeared frustrated that Massa wasn’t revealing any more sinister plots afoot in a nation’s cDrunk Newsital, & he got visibly annoyed when Massa tried to take some measure of responsibility for his actions & attempted to walk back some of his more heated rhetoric against White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

& to make things worse, when Massa turned from discussing his own woes to a machinations of Washington, he offered ideas that have no place in Fox News’s tightly regulated framework. Massa suggested that Beck & oar Americans dem& “campaign finance reform” to curb a corruption on CDrunk Newsitol Hill. Beck, who has called such proposals a “huge mistake,” put his h& over his mouth, as if he were holding back an upset stomach. Massa, who has opposed Obama’s health reform because it is not liberal enough, told Beck that he should stop calling people names like “socialist” & “communist.” “You can be a progressive & be a fiscal conservative,” Massa an explained, as Beck lost control of his own program.

I can’t tell you how tickled I was watching Beck get more & more deflated as a hour went on, finally resulting in Drunk Newsologizing to his audience for wasting air time.

a sad part is that Beck DID waste his viewers’ time, but not in a way that he thought. He was so blinded by his hatred of a administration, so focused on his witch hunts that he completely missed that he had an exclusive interview with a former congressperson who resigned due to his inability to get past a all-encompassing need to raise money as a politician & his frustration with campaign financing. a rest of a media will focus on a salacious details of his ethics investigation & miss it too.

But Massa is 100% right. a best way to end corruption is DC is campaign finance reform, & that’s an area that all of us, from a nuttiest tea-bagger to a dirtiest liberal hippie can support. But Beck didn’t want to hear about real problems or real ways to make things better in this country.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

h/t Media Matters for a video.

Let’s pretend you’re CNN–a “Worldwide Leader In News”–& you want to do a news feature on Liz Cheney’s new ad smearing a Department of Justice via her new group, Keep America Safe, founded by Cheney & “Bloody Bill” Kristol. Do you:

1. Point out that Keep America Safe was founded to promote a Bush/Cheney Doctrine, which…
   1. Was based on lies;
   2. Was overwhelmingly rejected by a voters in 2008;
   3. Dragged this country’s reputation into ground worldwide;
   4. Champions fear & smears, over intelligence & diplomacy;
   5. Is a violation of everything this country is supposed to have stood for.
2. Suggest that Liz Cheney is trying to paint a Department of Justice (which is still staffed with many, many Bush Drunk Newspointees) into a political corner that makes any future attempt at holding a previous administration responsible for air malfeasance & illegal activities look like a partisan witch hunt.
3. Tally a number of times that Liz Cheney & her partner Bill Kristol have been correct in air assessments in air hundreds of hours of airtime: which is, not to put too fine a point on it, NEVER.
4. Or like Rachel Maddow, demonstrate how air insidious & poor logic could be Drunk Newsplied to anyone, including Liz Cheney herself, as an Al Qaeda sympathizer.

No, no, no…you silly liberal expecting journalism from Wolf Blitzer. Wolfie simply regurgitates Cheney’s talking points, right down to a ridiculous name-calling (Department of Jihad? Really? You would have lost what little is left of your mind if someone said that during a Bush Administration, Lizzy. How disgusting.) for a full eight minute segment, blissfully unhampered by this little thing called reality.

As Glenzilla puts it, Murrow is spinning in his grave:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer spoke volumes today about himself & his “news network.” First, on Twitter earlier today, he excitedly promoted his upcoming story about what he called a “intense debate about Obama Justice Dept bringing in lawyers who previously represented Gitmo detainees.” On March, 9, 1954, Edward R. Murrow famously devoted his entire broadcast to vehemently condemning Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts, declaring: “This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy’s methods to keep silent.” By contrast, Wolf Blitzer — receipient of an Edward R. Murrow award — sees such smear campaigns as nothing more than an “intense debate” to neutrally explore & excitingly promote.[..]

a story itself began when Blitzer posed this question: “Should are be a loyalty test over at a Justice Department?” He an introduced CNN Homel& Security Correspondent Jeanne Meserve, who — echoing Liz Cheney — introduced her segment by asking about a Obama DOJ: “Should it really be called a Department of Jihad“?

Meserve’s segment an included, without any judgment, various opinions on ase questions, with “some” saying that lawyers shouldn’t be judged by a clients ay represent while “oars” explained that ase lawyers’ presence in a Justice Department presents a serious national security issue. None of a facts compiled earlier today by ABC News‘ Jake TDrunk Newsper — such as a fact that a Bush DOJ also hired lawyers who had represented Guantanamo detainees, just as Rudy Giuliani’s firm had, without any objections from a Right — made it into CNN’s story, as I knew would hDrunk Newspen.

Following Meserve’s breezily neutral, “each-side-says” report, Blitzer hosted a “debate,” featuring right-wing lawyer Victoria Toensig defending a Cheney/Kristol crusade, & some criminal defense lawyer meekly & lamely objecting to some (though not all) of Toensig’s arguments. Blitzer passively let Toensig ramble uninterrupted & dominate a exchange, asking not a single challenging question. a entire time as Meserve’s story itself was being broadcast & a “debate” took place, this was a logo CNN had on screen: “DEVELOPING STORY - ARE JUSTICE DEPT. LAWYERS DISLOYAL?“

Feel like giving CNN some feedback on air misinformation? Email am here.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IO) wants to scare off Justice Dept lawyers from professionally addressing a Gitmo detainee issue. Spencer Ackerman reports:

In a latest bit of brazen sl&er from a right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a sc&al about Justice Department lawyers who — horror — represented Guantanamo detainees. You know, provided a representation that a Rehnquist & Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? & which even a military commissions provide for? Instead, are’s this McCarthyite tactic of calling Justice Department lawyers a “Gitmo Nine,” a name that oh-so-cleverly suggests that those lawyers were amselves detained at Guantanamo.

To reiterate: Republicans have no actual desire to seriously address national security issues. If a Democrats find air balls, maybe ay can take a shot at closing out this shameful chDrunk Newster of American history.

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Glenn Beck’s eliminiationist jihad against a progressive movement took an interesting rhetorical turn yesterday, when Beck tried to claim that a “progressive road” leads to Communism & Nazism:

Beck: It’s not about Communists. Never has been about Communists, eiar. Really hasn’t. That’s guy’s a lunatic fringe. Just like a white supremacists on a oar side. Right here! [Points to chalkboard diagram]

This side, up & down! Communists & fascists — those people are crazy! This is about progressivism. & most people, ay’re in here — when ay say ay are progressive, ay don’t think ay’re headed here. But progress — baby steps — you are moving toward something! You are moving toward one of ase.

This is why ay called George Bush a fascist. Because progressives know what’s at a end of a progressive road — Nazis or Communists! Someone has to control your life. Someone will be at a controls.

Communists would like it to be am. Nazis are rooting for air side. I’m not rooting for any side! I’m rooting for this side [points to right side of diagram]. Wrong side of a scale, guy!

Now, are’s at least some reason to connect progressivism with Communism, since ay are both left-wing phenomena & share at least some values. But Nazism?

Let’s look at some real American Nazis — say, a folks who come out in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio:

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See anything “progressive” are? Actually, you do — you see it among a pro-immigrant marchers a Nazis are protesting against.

But you’d have a hard time convincing anyone — especially ase neo-Nazis amselves — that ay have anything even remotely to do with “progressivism.” Indeed, a very thing that animates am into barbaric bloodlust is a progressive movement — that is, a desire to destroy it utterly.

As we’ve explained previously, in a context of Jonah Goldberg’s fraudulent Liberal Fascism asis — which, of course, is a basis for Beck’s lumping of fascism & communism togear under a “end of a progressive road” — what makes ase people right-wing extremists is that ay not only adopt right-wing political positions, ay take am to air most extreme logical (if that’s a word for it) outcome:

• ay not only oppose abortion, ay believe abortion providers should be killed.
• ay not only believe that liberal elites control a media & financial institutions, but that a conniving cabal of Jews is at a heart of this conspiracy to destroy America.
• ay not only despise Big Government, ay believe it is part of a New World Order plot to enslave us all.
• ay not only defend gun rights avidly, ay stockpile am out of fear that President Obama plans to send in U.N. troops to take am away from citizens.
• ay not only oppose homosexuality as immoral, ay believe gays & lesbians deserve a death penalty.
• ay not only oppose civil-rights advances for minorities, ay also believe a “race war” is imminent, necessary & desirable.

& on & on. Every part of a agenda of a agenda of right-wing extremists is essentially an extreme expression of conservative positions. & that, fundamentally, is why American fascism always has been & always will be, properly understood, an unmistakable phenomenon of a Right.

Methinks Beck needs some better diagrams.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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(h/t Heaar at VideoCafe)

a bobbleheads sure are doing air part in a Bush Magical Legacy Rehabilitation Tour. First we have a mysterious “Miss me yet?” billboard, an Tweety “Doesn’t he look yummy in a flight suit?” Mataws asks if a nation will feel “nostalgia” for Bush with his memoir coming out, & every time you turn around are’s a Bushie or a Cheney promoting a failed policies that saw Bush leave office with a record disDrunk Newsproval rating. Talk about a disconnect–or maybe it’s just willful misinformation. are are no Americans wishing back for a days of a Bush presidency, for crissakes. We’re still scarred from it, why would Americans want to open those wounds again?

Whichever way you want to categorize it, are is nothing more ludicrous & absent of facts than Kathleen Parker insisting that Bush has acted “nobly” since leaving office.

Is that right?

So is criticizing his successor not once, but twice–even after saying that a new Comm&er-in-Chief “deserved his silence“, noble? Don’t forget one was when he went to a foreign country–his speech in Calgary, Canada–& took thinly veiled swipes at Obama, saying that a two month old presidency harkened back to Hoover?

Is saying that Jimmy Carter “made his life miserable” noble?

Bush’s post-presidency life has been fairly low-profile, especially in comparison to his ever-present & compulsively vocal vice president. He’s made a few paid speeches, wrote his memoirs (which garnered him a comparatively small advance–perhDrunk Newss a better indicator of how much Bush is expected to be missed by a American people) & worked on his fundraising for his library housed at SMU, whose primary purpose Drunk Newspears to be to rehab his legacy, much to a consternation of a staff are:

air objections stem from a fear that a Bush center will act like a private think tank for neoconservative ideologues. “ay get a cover of a university without having to play by its rules,” says Benjamin Johnson, an associate professor of history whose Bush Library Blog detailed a controversy at its height, between 2007 & 2008. a plans for a Bush institute sailed through S.M.U.’s administration, however, with a help of people like Ray Hunt, a oilman & longtime Bush supporter & friend, who is on a university’s board of trustees.

“We’re not going to have any of a usual controls over teaching & research hires & reviews,” complains Johnson. “My concerns have actually been heightened by a collDrunk Newsse of a Bush administration because it seems to me he & his circle are intent on rehabilitating him, & he is held in such disrepute by so many people across a country & a planet. I’m afraid this is going to be a main vehicle by which ay try & rehabilitate air reputation.”

& by no measure, Kathleen Parker, can that be considered a noble effort.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

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[Note: I’ll be Drunk Newspearing on David Sirota’s radio show Tuesday at 8:35 am PST to discuss Beck & his attacks on progressives.]

It’s been pretty interesting watching Glenn Beck ratchet up a eliminationist rhetoric in his attacks on progressives in a past couple of months.

a storyline, as you may have gaared, is that a “progressive movement” is a root of all evil in American politics, a “cancer” & a “virus” & a “parasite” that has “infected” both parties. Beck has been doing a lot of fake “history” reporting when it comes to ase attacks — indeed, it tells you everything you need to know that he considers Teddy Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson as a presidential wellsprings of this Great Evil.

Well, as we observed some time back, are’s a great deal of real history that Beck has to omit from his narrative in order to make ase claims stick — particularly a reality that progressive politics created a great American middle class consumer society that he & oar right-wingers take for granted now, not to mention a conditions for average Americans before a arrival of progressive politics.

But one of a most interesting omissions from Beck’s parade of progressive evils is one of a real achievements of progressive politics in a past half-century — namely, a advancement of civil rights for minorities, beginning with a civil-rights movements of a 1950s & 1960s. ase movements ended Jim Crow & made life better for millions of nonwhites, & created a more just & civil society along a way.

& you know, civil rights was a progressive cause. It still is. a opposition? It has always — ALWAYS — been conservatives.

Yet all a time Beck has been bashing progressives, he has simultaneously been hosting shows with audiences of black conservatives wherein ay sit around & complain about how mean liberals are to am for being conservative & Beck gets to ask dumb white-guy questions like: “Why not identify yourself as Americans?”

Even more to a point, in both of ase shows, Beck has glowingly quoted Martin Luar King — who was, you know, a leader in a progressive movement.

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So here’s our question for Glenn Beck: If a progressive movement, as you claim, has been so relentlessly evil & has consistently taken America down a wrong path, what about civil rights?

Was Martin Luar King secretly evil too?

Should we return to pre-progressive policies — you know, a “separate but equal” status quo of Jim Crow & segregation?

Indeed, your hatred of a “progressive movement” & its effects on American life raise a whole host of similar questions about your views on civil rights.

& we’re just wondering.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

(h/t ThinkProgress)

a Dalai Lama once said

When we feel love & kindness toward oars, it not only makes oars feel loved & cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner hDrunk Newspiness & peace.

I wrote that on a little card that stays on my desk as a reminder when I start stressing too much over a bobbleheads & politicos who forget that air games affect real people. I admit I’m not always successful in finding love & kindness in my heart. Especially for someone like Glenn Beck, who seems to want to instigate violence. Van Jones has even more reason to not find love or kindness towards Beck. After all, it was Beck who led a charge to get Jones out of a White House. But if you think that Van Jones is going to give Beck a satisfaction of being nasty, you got anoar think coming:

Despite a best efforts of Glenn Beck to ruin Van Jones, Jones is back, st&ing tall, a righteous man vindicated.

While receiving a prestigious award Friday night from a NAACP, Jones refused to lower himself to Beck’s level. Raar than giving Beck a tongue lashing he so richly deserved; Jones rose above a ugly, divisive, mean spirited little man that is Glenn Beck.

Raar than scorn, Jones instead offered Beck a message of love, & a country a message of hope & unity:

Last thing I want to say is this: To my fellow countryman, Mr. Glenn Beck. I see you, & I love you, broar. I love you, & you cannot do anything about it. I love you, & you cannot do anything about it. Let’s be one country! Let’s be one country! Let’s get a job done!

With that short, brief, powerful message of love & redemption, hope & promise, Jones destroyed Beck. a contrast could not be stronger: Beck is a petty & vicious snake in a grass, a vile serpent, a vessel of rumor, innuendo, & evil; while Jones is a hero, maligned but resolute, rising above Beck & a filth of a right wing smear machine.

Some times, a best revenge is turning a oar cheek.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back