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Beck Compares Democrats To Rapist Roman Polanski
Brian Beutler | November 17, 2009, 10:19AM
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You may have thought that conservatives had mastered the art of attacking Democratic health care reform proposals. But conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck proved last night that there's always more to learn, comparing the Obama initiative to child rapist Roman Polanski.
"We're the young girl saying, 'No no! Help me!' and the government is Roman Polanski. In the end I think we're all going to be cowering in France."
Coincidentally, people "cowering" in France enjoy the best health care system in the world.
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Xantar
November 17, 2009 10:22 AM
Meh. Teabaggers have already compared the American people to victims of the Nazi Holocaust (someone on Fox has probably done that too, but I wouldn't know). Compared to that, drawing an analogy to Samantha Geimer is pretty tame (albeit still disgusting).
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Steaming Pile
November 17, 2009 10:30 AM
OK, I get to compare Glenn Beck to, uh, oh shit, Glenn Beck? I got nothing.
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chimpale
November 17, 2009 11:41 AM in reply to Steaming Pile
I'm trying really hard to find an apt analogy and the one that comes to mind is that Glenn Beck is like a meat grinder. But, instead of meat being fed into it, it's just raw sewage, crusty things found under a first grader's chair, stuff scraped off the floor of a porn theater, and slaughterhouse waste infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathies (mad cow) which would account for the effects of prolonged exposure to Glenn Beck on his most avid fans.
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prostratedragon
November 17, 2009 12:20 PM in reply to Steaming Pile
Beck is a fixed point of the negative analogy function. He is like himself.
If nearby points, e.g. O'Reilly, are comparable to things/people which are not quite as bad, then you know you've reached at least a local low point.
(I'm not saying that's true, mind.)
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de TOQUEville
November 17, 2009 10:35 AM
Perhaps this is his personal revenge for all that stuff about 'why won't Glenn Beck deny that he raped and killed a young girl??' etc. etc.
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James D
November 17, 2009 10:56 AM in reply to de TOQUEville
Which, by the way he has yet to respond to the allegation. Some people say it is because he is scared of losing his last three sponsors. That girl and her family deserve justice.
Oh Glenn, you are an unending source of entertainment. You and Palin should host a variety show.
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fsudirectory
November 17, 2009 11:09 AM in reply to James D
He'll never lose the Gold Bugs, they infest any station that has cheap advertising
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kirenos
November 18, 2009 6:42 AM in reply to James D
my first quick reading of your post was "vanity show" - not inappropriate, me thinks ...
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hologram5
November 17, 2009 10:56 AM
wow, what a tool.
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Bill E Pilgrim
November 17, 2009 11:17 AM
Wait, I can't believe I'm even trying to find logic in Glenn Beck, but: if "we're the girl", how do "we" end up "cowering in France"? Isn't that Polanksi?
"We" should be so lucky. Those lucky enough to live in France have health care that would make the average American weep with joy.
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Odel Roo
November 17, 2009 5:01 PM in reply to Bill E Pilgrim
LMAO - weep with joy? too freakin funny
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Silence
November 17, 2009 11:34 AM
Mr. Beck has a huge audience.
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Morbo
November 17, 2009 11:47 AM in reply to Silence
And that proves what, exactly? It certainly doesn't disprove the certifiable fact that he and his cult followers are the biggest asshole douche bags on the planet. Gullible, dumb beyond belief, it's a scientific wonder that Beck fans have the brain power to continue breathing.
If you believe a word out of this fake-crying liar's pie hole you are the dumbest fuck on the planet. End of discussion.
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Silence
November 17, 2009 12:02 PM in reply to Morbo
I find him quite humorous.
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Dorn76
November 17, 2009 12:04 PM in reply to Silence
You just pointed out the bottom line. He's an entertainer. You could learn more from a cereal box.
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Dorn76
November 17, 2009 11:58 AM in reply to Silence
Mr. Beck is a fucking clown.
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sheerahkahn
November 17, 2009 11:43 AM
If Democrats are the Roman Polanski of Health Care, then the Republicans/conservatives are the Joseph Mengele of Health Care.
Booyah, two can play that game!
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absurdity 007
November 17, 2009 11:44 AM
Glenn Beck somehow can't even get his F'up analogies right as Bill E Pilgrim pointed out. GB is the king of wingnut douschebags. He's the Elmer Fudd of the conservative movement.
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Michael A
November 17, 2009 11:48 AM in reply to absurdity 007
And he actually looks like a storm trooper. The face of the repuke party. Frightening.
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Morbo
November 17, 2009 11:49 AM in reply to absurdity 007
Beck isn't Elmer Fudd, he's actually a brilliant con man. He's made millions exploiting stupid people, his viewers.
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dontcallmefrancis
November 17, 2009 11:53 AM
Wouldn't a more apt analogy be to compare Beck to Polanski, and his audience to the poor little girl?
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Morbo
November 17, 2009 12:21 PM in reply to dontcallmefrancis
No, the relationship between Beck the Con-man and his dumb audience of dupes is consensual. They want to be lied to.
After 25 years of Rush, it's what conservatards expect, to be fed a pleasing narrative by their lying media multimillionaires.
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twirling fartknocker
November 17, 2009 1:04 PM in reply to Morbo
re: dumb audience of dupes
yup, dumb as dirt. we've gotta find a better outlet for those on the left side of the intelligence bell curve than these hatemongers
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Stiggs
November 17, 2009 1:10 PM in reply to Morbo
I've got it. Beck's audience is Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly's character) from Requiem for a Dream and Beck is Big Tim (Keith David's character). His audience is willing to humiliatingly twist their values, morals and ideals in exchange for a fleeting taste of numbing freedom and escape from the harsh realities of the world. Yet sadly they need to continue going back for more, further compromising themselves, otherwise the cold hard facts of how far they have gone astray will be painfully obvious to them.
Or to put it more simply, Beck's audience is willing to go a-to-a in order to have someone else to blame for the results of their own easily manipulated world view.
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LeeJo
November 17, 2009 12:21 PM
Enough already! Has he no shame? Is there anything that he will not stoop to? When does the body politic simply say enough and demand that this type of mindless drivel be silenced?
The off switch needs to be thrown on Beck and on any outlet that cannot see the destructive, tasteless and shameful rhetoric polluting our political processes and public discourse. Enough, enough, enough!
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Waltz
November 17, 2009 12:25 PM
Glenn Beck is raping the American people.
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tosh
November 17, 2009 12:28 PM
What an utter sick scumbag fuck.
I don't apologize for being blunt. This and the Nazi Concentration Camp analogies are really getting sick as hell.
John
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Silence
November 17, 2009 12:28 PM
Now, this is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzonGRCGJ_Q&NR=1
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SS247
November 17, 2009 1:09 PM in reply to Silence
Wow, in your warped mind and the warped mind of the poster of that youtube video you think Pelosi and Boxer were calling conservatives Nazis, when in fact they were complaining that teabagger's where bringing inappropriate signs to the townhalls to equate the Dems with Nazis.
And as proof you say that because the Nazi Party is the National Socialist party, that it must be the Dems supporters who brought the signs because all Dems are socialists? National socialism is not socialism, it's national socialism, which combines aspects of (obviously) fervent nationalism and socialism. And lets not even consider the fact the Nazism is a subset of National Socialism, or that Nazism happens to be a right-wing authoritarian politically ideology.
Another example of people just hearing what they want to hear.
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Silence
November 17, 2009 2:38 PM in reply to SS247
Are you referring to the Obama/Hitler poster carried to a town hall meeting by a Dem/union plant?
That one was exposed.
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cinesimon
November 17, 2009 9:14 PM in reply to Silence
You really are defending Beck's behavior, aren't you?
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Powkat
November 17, 2009 1:16 PM
Please don't feed the troll.
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saguaro
November 17, 2009 1:55 PM
In fact, isn't Beck the guy who raped and killed a girl in 1990?
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Schmed- ley
November 17, 2009 3:30 PM in reply to saguaro
How long before we find out that Sarah Palin is implicated in the alleged 1990 rape and murder of a young girl by Glenn Beck?
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CTSadler
November 17, 2009 2:00 PM
Takes a child rapist to know a child rapist.
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Odel Roo
November 17, 2009 5:11 PM
So what exactly is the beef? Is this the first time you people have ever heard of some using the rape analogy... geesh this is so trivial.
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