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MyspaceGlenn Beck is really doling out the Kool-Aid. First he announces he is “taking back the civil rights movement” and “restoring honor” to America. Then, under the guise of preaching equality, he delivers a “landmark” speech in which he co-opts religion and patriotism as the sole province of those who share his extreme views.
Implicit in these views is a thinly-veiled “dream” of reversing every piece of social change legislation going back 75 years. Social Security? Invest it in the tanking stock market. Medicare? A socialist institution (framed by that radical LBJ) that should be repealed immediately. Why stop there? As long as we’re bringing back the good old days, why not overturn Brown vs. the Board Of Education? Heck, why don’t we just exhume Joe McCarthy and put him back on the Senate floor?
Given the daily vapor trail of inflammatory rhetoric escaping Mr. Beck’s overworked pie-hole (e.g., publicly characterizing President Obama as “demonic”), who is he to lecture us on how to worship, how to love our country, and, worst of all, how to relate to other races and religions? Glenn Beck is a sideshow clown in search of a rubber nose, and his soon-to-be-forgotten remarks were a mockery of Dr. King’s legacy.
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If his remarks are so forgettable, why did you write this letter?
Pinatubo (anonymous profile)
September 1, 2010 at 12:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Do you not recognize, Mr. Pinatubo, that remarks can be both forgettable and (unduly) amplified?
binky (anonymous profile)
September 1, 2010 at 1:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If they are forgettable, who cares how loudly they are amplified?
Pinatubo (anonymous profile)
September 1, 2010 at 4:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If, Mr. Pinatubo, you cannot recognize or parse rhetorical devices and turns of phrase in presenting and formulating an argument, I don't believe I can point you in the right direction through these comment sections -- too small of a 2x4.
On the other hand if your gambit is to disagree with Mr. Mullin by tossing out a bit of Socratic dialectic, reducing hypotheses by contradiction, I suggest you are nibbling at the edges of his argument and missing the pith.
binky (anonymous profile)
September 1, 2010 at 4:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
And I suggest someone just got a new thesaurus for his birthday!
Pinatubo (anonymous profile)
September 1, 2010 at 10:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The real issue that people should be talking about (or perhaps I obviate my own argument by saying this) is that what we should be worried about is not Glenn Beck or "reverend" Al Sharpton, but the fact that so many Americans are such sheep that they need these guys to articulate their thoughts for them.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
September 3, 2010 at 5:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)