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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApparently, I scared the shit out of Glenn Beck on Thursday.
"These guys are so damn evil, man."
He sounds pretty freaked out to me.
Good.
P.S. Please forgive the commentary at the link. This was posted by one of my more prodigious stalkers. He's special.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Oh, almost forgot.
R&
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)My wife and I are working out plans to start our own business and 1- we are FAR from wealthy and 2- Do not expect to have great wealth because of it.
But it has nothing to do with govt. regulation, and everything to do with our plans. We want to be able to make a decent livable wage, one which the gigantic businesses are simply not providing and we want to try and make sure our daughter is able to go to college without bankrupting her or us.
So if beck is scared of that, then ya done good.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)They get askeared when progressives threaten to act like they do.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)And he thinks he knows about gold. Oh, wait, GLD.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Notice how the person who uploaded the Beck film outlines Will's DU "offenses." Past history no one cares about dredged up simply to cause pain. By one of us. Here.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Except one is more enlightening and enjoyable than the other.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)We're coming for you and your empire real soon my pretty. We are going to demand the evils of unemployment, SSI, Medicare, and dare I say Single Payer healthcare. I'm dusting off my pitchfork as I speak, gotta go get some hay for the torches. Hey Glenn, how are the rich going to do grocery shopping when the parking lots will look like the Walking Dead and your shit gets stolen before you have time to put it in your SUV? You'll be lucky to leave with that SUV. Finders Keeepers ya know. Oh we're coming BecKKK, we're coming.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)I would wear it as a badge of honor.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Good work , Will.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And Beck's whole gig is based on that genre...it has the same cadence and terminology.
Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)so now they have to start avoiding there letter words.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)"In the Bible."
I'm sitting here trying to figure out where, in the Bible, anyone uses the word, Whoa!
Poor Beck. He can dish it out....
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Um, Beck, Republicans and all of your knuckle dragging listeners do - all 6 of them.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)be escorted off the air permanently. Cowardly loser.
We People
(619 posts)I'd swear he was onstage doing satire, his logic is that bad. The mentality of his audience has to be a rowboat short of at least one oar.
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wandy
(3,539 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)Evil! Disturbing! Fredrick Douglas! Religious analogies! Political Commentary movies!
Nice Job, Mr. Pitt----if Glen Beck is scared shitless, well it's a good day indeed.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Glenn Beck is one straight jacket away from the rubber room, so him being scared just means he forgot his happy pills.
Doesn't denigrate Will in any way, but he can scare better people that sniveling Glenn Beck.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)attempt to get average Americans to act (non-violently) to change "our" govt. and then say what history has shown us when the oligarchs are allowed to keep shitting on us, is Beckkks bread and butter. His tiny mind knows it's true (his interns can google it) and he can use it to scare his audience(?).
He doesn't use the info to try to change the elites sociopathic ways. Instead he tries to scare them into
"protecting their wealth" while shitting on us....
demwing
(16,916 posts)"What balances wealth out? Giving people the opportunity to start their own business. Giving the entrepreneur a chance to start their own business, but because of this government standing in the way--through regulation and everything else--only the rich can play in that territory, and so you are destined to be a serf."
1. "What balances wealth out?"
It's good to see that Beck understands that wealth creates inequality, and requires balance. Bravo.
2. "Giving people a chance to start their own business"
Beck admits here that opportunity doesn't come from the wealthy down, it comes from the people UP.
3. "Giving the entrepreneur a chance to start their own business"
Oops, last comment was too populist, better rephrase...
4. "but because of this government standing in the way--through regulation and everything else"
The Government is standing in the way? The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is the largest single financial backer for the nation's small businesses with a portfolio of venture capital, business loans & loan guarantees, and disaster loans worth about $60 billion.
One of the thing the government regulates is monopolization of a market. Try starting a new business in a environment grown without that protection, Beck.
5. "only the rich can play in that territory, and so you are destined to be a serf"
Does Beck not see himself as wealthy? Does Beck think of himself as one of the huddled masses yearning to breathe free? He is one of the uber wealthy, represents the interests of the uber wealthy, and has revealed the plan of the uber wealthy. Thinking about huddled masses, Beck sees them yearning only to profit freely, and has an answer for them delivered as a warning: ""only the rich can play in that territory, and so you are destined to be a serf"
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)1. "What balances wealth out?"
Time changes the playing field. The great railroad fortunes of the Vanderbilts declined somewhat when the car became popular. Airlines will disappear when gas is unaffordable unless business decides to find some new fuel.
2. "Giving people a chance to start their own business" and
3. "Giving the entrepreneur a chance to start their own business"
Sorry, Mr. Beck, but read the history of the 19th century magnates and how they made their fortunes. The one thing J.D. Rockefeller, to cite one example, did not want or encourage was giving others in the oil business the chance to start their own enterprises. Rockefeller did everything he could to consolidate the oil industry, to organize it neatly, to rid it of competition. Same for AT&T for a long time. And now big business colludes. We have a smattering of different brand names but the companies are not really in competition when it comes to the important things like setting product standards. In some cases, products sold under different brands are made by the same people in the same factories. And the buy-outs and immense capital of most of our multinational companies exclude small competitors as soon as they start their businesses.
The business of Walmart is not to allow other businesses to start or succeed. The business of Walmart is to undercut any small whippersnapper who decides to try to compete. Walmart is in there -- bigger parking lot, stock focused to cut out worthy competition, underpricing. And so it has been since Vanderbilt squeezed out his competitors from the ferry and railroad markets.
4. "but because of this government standing in the way--through regulation and everything else"
This government -- bought by the multinational corporations. Makes no difference which party is in control, the multinational corporations write or at least edit and approve legislation and regulations. The regulations help stifle competition, but that is the way big business wants it to be. Think of the regulations that define "organic" products. They are unreasonably strict, thus preventing organic farmers from labeling and selling their products for what they are: organic. Big agriculture at work making sure that you can't tell which products are just a mass of chemicals and which are real food. You have to tell from the taste.
5. "only the rich can play in that territory, and so you are destined to be a serf"
True. And its big business that makes certain that is the case.
It's a shame that Glenn Beck does not see a little further to the men pulling the strings of the puppets in government. Labor used to have a voice, but the export of our manufacturing jobs to China by big business insures that labor's power to at least balance out the multinationals is weak, nearly non-existent.
Glenn Beck needs to wake up. And if he did, he would recognize that the real threat to the US is the fact that any morning now we could wake up and discover that we ordinary folks including his viewers can no longer afford the imports from China and elsewhere and are left with no industry, no jobs and a lot of destitute and hungry people.
By the way, have you seen what is happening in the gold markets recently?
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
The trend over the past year has been downward. Poor Glenn Beck. I wonder how many of his viewers still believe what he says.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Libertarians, beck followers, preppers and doomers must have a sad.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)And our collective welfare isn't the government, per se, but the megacorps that own the government. The government has become a useful tool, the ultimate scapegoat, of the super-wealthy.
Beck and most of the RW propagandists know this, they are just purposefully throwing up smoke screens to draw attention towards the government being the bad guy and away from the true culprits, the megacorps. Of course, that's what they are paid to do.
"Try starting a new business in a environment grown without that protection, Beck. "
Kinda doing a poor job of protecting markets from monopolies lately though...
Well, if the potential customers don't make enough money to buy my products or services of my new business, no matter how rich I am, I ain't getting paid. So what good is starting a business if I won't have enough customers? Customers can't afford shit on 5.15/hr, Beck, lord of the Fatwas.
Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)And I don't think you did it.
Congrats, man. Ya done good.
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)"Evil religious terminology user"
Mr. Pitt, thus shall be the name thou art knownst by, henceforth; and throughout eternity, even.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)I'll never remember it otherwise.
William Urtu Pitt. I dunno. I think it might need a rework.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)It's obvious that this trend can not be sustained. They know there is no plan to keep them safe other than the police. And sooner or later the police will figure it out that they belong to the 99%.
kentuck
(111,098 posts)It may be illegal to play such mind games with the mentally unstable..?
tosh
(4,423 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)First off scaring the terminally scared is like filling a full glass. Secondly I detected no decrease in Glenn Beck's shit level, he sounded to me to be as full of it as ever. Should you ever in the future actually scare the shit out of Mr. Beck then we shall have the answer to the age old question of what happens when you remove the shit from a turd. For what its worth, if you successfully repeated this procedure on Karl Rove with similar results you might be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)That was an excellent piece that you wrote, I'm glad that schmuck Beck got to read it.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)"And WOE be unto those for on that day the socialists will rain down a plague of little bunny foo-foos"
tavalon
(27,985 posts)and here it is. A plague of little bunny foo-foos.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)You should be proud. Your family are proud of you. We are proud of you. Scaring Glenn Beck is always worth it. at his "quoting Frederick Douglass" who of course, scares him too!
tavalon
(27,985 posts)what is so scary about quoting Frederick Douglass? Does it show that Will is over-educated as my well meaning Dixiecrat grandfather used to say about me or what?
treestar
(82,383 posts)Probably already knows why Douglass was so scary. He challenged the rules as they were at the time - no rightie can have that. As that moran in some video somewhere said, Douglass wrote a mean letter to his former master complaining that the poor former master had provided him with food, clothing, shelter and plenty of work!
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...since I'm sure that there would have been reports of such a massive tidal wave of shit as beckkk would produce!
PEACE!
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)... he has abandoned anything resembling an ideology.
Nothing this empty headed jackass says has any merit.
However, it is cool that he read your article, Will.
tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)Dumbass audience in order to serve his corporate masters. His only ideology is $$$, which he makes plenty of from his dumbass audience as well as "subsides" from those pulling the strings.
Pretty sweet gig if you don't let your conscience get in the way.
BTW, great article, Will!
H2O Man
(73,558 posts)Recommended, of course.
You done good!
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)What kind of nuts believe this idiot?
kentuck
(111,098 posts)"What kind of nuts believe this idiot?"
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)n/t
oxymoron
(4,053 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)He had a meltdown when you used the word "Woe".
His basis is that it is Biblical language.
Apparently he thinks it was written in English by Jehovah.
Next time use "Blessed be the protestors".
You might give him a heart attack.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)woe (n.) Look up woe at Dictionary.com
Old English wa, a common exclamation of lament in many languages (cf. Latin væ, Greek oa, German weh, Lettish wai, Old Irish fe, Welsh gwae, Armenian vay). The noun is attested from late 12c., from the interjection.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=woe
Not a Hebrew word as far as I can tell. Not Aramaic. Beck takes the English translation of the Bible as though it were the original text. What a crazy guy.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Geez, next you'll be saying he was Jewish!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Do you really think I thought He might have been Jewish?
Shock!
We can't have that.
Because if that were true, since Jesus is God's son, God would have to have been and still MIGHT BE Jewish.
Christians are supposed to convert Jews to Christianity, and if God is Jewish, then He can't be Christian, so are Christians supposed to convert God?
Oh, dear. I'm so confused. Now you've really started something.
I think I had better go back to bed and start over again.
alfredo
(60,074 posts)xmas74
(29,674 posts)I don't get it.
I've never listened to him before and I don't get how he became such a big deal. There was no warmth in his voice, no charisma. Nothing grabbed at me and made me want to continue listening. And it's not even his views-there have been other conservatives on talk radio and such that, even though I in no way agreed with them I still listened. They were good at their job and grabbed my attention.
Have you ever had a glass of milk with your cookies that just sat too long? You know, you dunk your Oreos in the milk and then get called away to do something? When you finally make it back to the milk you take a swig and it's blech-too warm and filled with slimy chunky sludge. That's what his voice reminded me of-slimy, chunky sludge in a glass of too warm milk.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)It was grossly voyeuristic and yet, hard both to watch and not watch. Those were the halcyon days. These appear to be the Halcion days.
xmas74
(29,674 posts)It just seems like "personalities" (for lack of not knowing what else to call them-they certainly aren't journalists) aren't like they used to be.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)He clearly has a mental illness and I don't like to laugh at people struggling with that but he's such an asshat. It's weird seeing him so subdued now, still not right, but more Republican "not right" than true mental illness. While I don't like the guy, I'm glad whatever meds he's on are helping.
xmas74
(29,674 posts)but I guess someone has to be the spokesperson for the deranged.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)"These guys are so evil man"
ROFL - Isn't that what the RWNJs do ad Naseum???
We People
(619 posts)It's obvious that his audience scares easily while having their racism and prejudice fed and nurtured.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)of catching his attention. Keep up the good work!
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Your article was absolutely stunning and spot on. But, sorry, I can't click and listen to this insane man. Did he read it in it's entirety? If so, that's a great big score. Your words were read by the kook to his little koolings and maybe, just maybe, someone miraculously comprehended your message. If your words jerked even one person awake, then hallelujah!
When your article was posted here the other day by someone (sorry I can't remember who it was), it was not apparent who had written it. But when I read the first paragraph, I knew it was you. I bet she is a little dumpling now!
tavalon
(27,985 posts)No tears and pretty muted. Yeah, he's crazy but not like the time before Obama's election when we were holding pools on what day he would finally get carted off.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... Well, that's nice. But I still can't listen to him. BUT, since WRP was mentioned/read, I guess I should give it a try? OK... I'll do it. Just for you and WRP. Thanks for the reassurance and nudge. Here goes.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. He only read one paragraph, of course (boo!), and it was only about 3 minutes long. I sure hope his listeners figured out how to find Will's article and read it for themselves. Of course, he gave few clues how to find it. My blood isn't boiling, so you was right. Not as bad as he used to be, but still not going to listen to him. Do we have anyone brave enough to go link the kooklings to Will's article? I'm gutless when it comes to communicating with that bunch.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)alp227
(32,026 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Pot call the kettle black Mr. Beck?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Martin Eden
(12,869 posts)... preventing the poor from becoming entrepreneurs and starting their own businesses.
Does Glenn beck really believe that nonsense, and is that belief widely held on the right?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The guy needs it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)...the big three:
Gumboot
(531 posts)I drive past this strip mall every day.
This is where the American dream ends for so many of us around here.
calimary
(81,298 posts)Glad you're here. Ironically grim, that scene. Take refuge here, and explore some new ideas! We will buoy you up.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)to Limbot, O'Liely, Beck and others.... I have to say, that Glenn Beck is the one that has me most shaking my head... Don't you know that he surely was the high school dweeb whose ass others all loved to kick?
Good for you, William.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)wtmusic
(39,166 posts)Does he really believe that caca?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Someone who monitors DU did that.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)have built fortresses. They are armed to the teeth, have vast food supplies, etc. "Survivalists". I don't trust them not to wage war on the rest of us.
I heard there is a gated community outside of DC where only extremely wealthy people, lobbyists and defense industry folks, live. My understanding is that it's generally well hidden, even though it is impossible to truly hide an enclave like that.
It doesn't surprise me that beck feels threatened. When people are homeless and starving, they don't have much to lose.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)wouldn't think you would get it. Nice way to utterly miss the point, too.
The bar is set really low for freaking out ignorant, rabbity conservatives like Mr. Beck.
Well done, though.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)pacalo
(24,721 posts)And this, Will, was just another of his over-played Norma Desmond moments.
Herlong
(649 posts)You should be given a medal or something.
proud patriot
(100,706 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)even if parents and students object. His reasoning? It's only for a minute! Someone thinks its good for you to hear this so just sit down, shut up and listen.
2 days later, he's on a tirade against one of his daughter's professors at Fordham who allegedly forced her to listen to the professors critique of Glenn Beck. Oh THIS professor was just the SCUM OF THE EARTH for forcing his poor daughter to listen to something she didn't want to hear!
Hypocrite hypocrite. Beck don't care.
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)TygrBright
(20,760 posts)ocd liberal
(407 posts)I truly believe that he saw an element of his own feelings in your writing and it scared the holy living shit out of him. I salute you! I think it's a breakthrough of sorts.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Evil Libruls aren't supposed to talk like this...
I'm not sure Glenn Beck listeners could even get the point Beck was trying to make. Too confusing.
Will--
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)At least a few years ago, there was a website where you could enter your own name into an app and a long Beck rant would focus on you specifically. I still have mine around here somewhere. Must've watched it a dozen times.
If anybody can find that website and share it with others, it would be a treat. Beck rants and raves and calls you every terrible creature in the book; writes your very own name on a blackboard proving you're a satanic lunatic. It's funny!
I actually wrote Beck a snarky email one time and he started sending me all sorts of thinly veiled threats. Wouldn't stop until I said I was going to the AG with it.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)humm interesting tactic.
spanone
(135,841 posts)recommended
Zorra
(27,670 posts)"...and the rich, that are puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those who preach false doctrines, and all those who commit whoredoms, and pervert the right way of the Lord, wo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!"
(From the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 28 15)
Check out all the woes on this one page of the Book of Mormon alone:
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/28.15?lang=eng
Isn't Glenn a convert to Mormonism?
Well, yeah, "these guys are so damn evil, man!"
For Glenn:
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)The S.O. is all I can handle right now, and I love him. The stalker was a fling almost twenty years ago, and he's still calling. Seriously, I'm not all that.
mattclearing
(10,091 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)Hah, it would count for something if it came from someone a little less batshit crazy, but congrats anyway!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
toby jo
(1,269 posts)From one of the damned evil to another, thanks, Will.
Triana
(22,666 posts)Nothing new of course.
OMG. Will Pitt is teh Ebil!
Jesus Christmas
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Congratulations, Will.
When you catch Blackwater spying on you while under contract to a corporation with elephantiasis, we'll give you a medal.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)You commie, red, fascist Kenyan, atheist, bible follower.
(Any body pass the aspirin...for the contradictions headache)
rl6214
(8,142 posts)Just sounded like typical delusional Beck.
JHB
(37,160 posts)Response to WilliamPitt (Original post)
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sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)here was having the shocking effrontery to use biblical allusions. They are apparently reserved for reich church con-men like the Beckster.
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Hey Glenn, you know what else the bible says - Jesus tells the wealthy to give away all their possessions and follow him. Seems like a great plan if you are rich and scared of the masses. Glenn can go first and set an example!
rug
(82,333 posts)But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered.
And like Pharaoh's tribe,
They'll be drownded in the tide,
And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.
Initech
(100,079 posts)He's a paid spokesperson for the "I've got mine, fuck you" party.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Seriously, your writing was eloquent and exciting. And I literally LOL at that "They always resort to Biblical terms" crack.
Proud to know you.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)patriots and tyrants."? Or is that just his nutty followers/
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)all that's left is his vapo rub and his tennis shoes.