Beck: "Economic Holocaust is Coming"
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David Keene: The Beck chalkboard, covered in incomprehensible writing, will stand in perpetuity at Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform conference room - to remind them what they're fighting for. Yes! GNP! 1.8%! Woodrow Wilson!
Signing off!
Posted at 7:00pm by Tim Mak
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One blogger on blogger's row: "think about the abused puppies!"
Posted at 6:57pm by Tim Mak
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Sweat or tears?
Posted at 6:57pm by Tim Mak
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He's so close to tears. The room fills with tension. Especially near R.S. McCain.
Posted at 6:56pm by Tim Mak
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R.S. McCain a.k.a. 'The Other McCain' on Blogger's Row: I have $20 on Beck crying!
Posted at 6:55pm by Tim Mak
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Blogger at #CPAC: I've heard #GlennBeck speech before at the Educational Policy Conference. "He cries at the end." You heard it here first.
Posted at 6:55pm by Tim Mak
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Slam poetry performance of "The New Colossus" by Glenn Beck.
Posted at 6:50pm by Tim Mak
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Blackboard now completely incomprehensible.
Posted at 6:50pm by Tim Mak
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Fact-checking Beck: Were the 1920s the largest expansion of middle class ever?
Wasn't that the 1950s?
Posted at 6:46pm by Tim Mak
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"Hey, toots - you look hot, huh?" God save us from Beck's flirtations.
Posted at 6:46pm by Tim Mak
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Beck: God killed Warren G. Harding!
Posted at 6:43pm by Tim Mak
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What do prohibition, Versailles, Hitler, the League of Nations and the Royal Order of the Orange have to do with current times?
Posted at 6:43pm by Tim Mak
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The Depression: A Lecture In Scare Tone
Statistics! GNP! Boo to Woodrow Wilson! He gave us the PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX!
Boo to prohibition! Versailles! Hitler! LEAGUE OF NATIONS!
Some strange exhalation noise!
Posted at 6:39pm by Tim Mak
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Beck: How do we make ourselves competitive? "Economic Holocaust is coming!"
"I'm trying to get you out of a party where everyone's drunk - they're going to be vomiting in the morning of America soon! ... No one has the spine in Washington to tell you. They don't think you can handle it as an American."
Posted at 6:33pm by Tim Mak
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Beck Newswatch: O.J. was guilty!
Posted at 6:35pm by Tim Mak
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"In Cuba, in Venezuela... choice is taken away from people. To restore America, we need less Marx, and more Madison."
Posted at 6:34pm by Tim Mak
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"Government doesn't create jobs... the American people create jobs!"
As David Frum points out, Romney made a similar statement during his speech but corrected himself:
At one point, Romney’s text read: “the government doesn’t create jobs … only the private sector can do that.”
Romney pronounced the phrase as written, then paused. Problem: It’s not true. Romney spontaneously corrected himself: “in a lasting way.” Meaning: Yes, government purchasing can create employment, but only the private market can sustain economic expansion.
Posted at 6:33pm by Tim Mak
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"When did it become a subject of ridicule... to be a self-made man in America?" Is it? I'm not sure I ever got that impression.
Posted at 6:29pm by Tim Mak
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"Every time the government grows, we lose a bit of who we are... every time it grows, we raise the price of the American dream... we are destroying our children's future... there comes a point where you must stop and realize, 'we cannot do it anymore'."
Posted at 6:25pm by Tim Mak
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He's not yet crying, but he is sweating quite a bit.
Posted at 6:25pm by Tim Mak
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Beck: "We have a right to fail. This is a God-given right." Glenn Beck discusses his personal failings - "without failure, there's not sweetness in success."
Posted at 6:21pm by Tim Mak
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Beck: Only 20% liberals in America - how are they able to secure the majority?
Posted at 6:20pm by Tim Mak
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Beck: "I'm tired of feeling like a freak in America... we're never going to agree."
Posted at 6:18pm by Tim Mak
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Beck doing play by play, drawing comparisons between Tiger Woods' appearance yesterday before the media and the GOP.
All they're talking about is a "big tent... what is this, a circus. America is not a clown show... America is an idea... that sets people free!"
Posted at 6:17pm by Tim Mak
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Beck to GOP: "You got caught - are you sorry?"
To Republican Party reps: "You're not just like me, you're not like the rest of us."
Posted at 6:15pm by Tim Mak
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Beck compares his alcoholism to the GOP's addiction to spending.
"I have not heard people in the Republican Party admit they have a problem. I haven't seen the come to Jesus moment in the Republican Party yet... I don't even know what they stand for anymore!"
Posted at 6:14pm by Tim Mak
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It's going to be a good year for conservative ideas, says Beck. "But it's not enough just to not suck as much as the other side."
Posted at 6:12pm by Tim Mak
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Did @TeddyRoosevelt want to bring about a socialist utopia? #PANIC!
Posted at 6:10pm by Tim Mak
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Does anyone understand what Beck is talking about right now?
Posted at 6:10pm by Tim Mak
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Down with Theodore Roosevelt! The PROGRESSIVE party! Oh, save us all!
Posted at 6:10pm by Tim Mak
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Oh! Van Jones reference - is he a communist? Isn't he?
Posted at 6:09pm by Tim Mak
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Beck whips out his glasses and starts reading aloud from a book published a century ago.
Posted at 6:07pm by Tim Mak
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"I don't want stuff in my eyes! Stop stabbing in the eyes!" says Beck, using a strange metaphor to represent what progressivism is doing to our country.
Posted at 6:07pm by Tim Mak
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Beck: Progressivism is a "disease".
Posted at 6:07pm by Tim Mak
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Glenn Beck's chalkboard gets a standing ovation. "You have no idea what it's like to travel with one of these things."
Posted at 6:06pm by Tim Mak
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Obama "is too simple of an answer" for what ails the country.
Posted at 6:06pm by Tim Mak
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Glenn Beck falters - did the teleprompter halt?
Posted at 6:03pm by Tim Mak
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Rumors from the floor - a fellow journalist tells me that there are rumors about a protest during the Glenn Beck protest.
Posted at 5:58pm by Tim Mak
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Glenn Beck show is like a "graduate seminar in political philosophy," says David Keene in introduction.
Posted at 5:58pm by Tim Mak
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