Even Glenn Beck manages to get one right occasionally
Obama’s left wing supporters are furious over his capitulation to the Glenn Beck mob, according to Politico, which notes that Fox’s mad dog promoted the rightwing fury over Van Jones, Obama’s green jobs czar. After constant drubbing from Beck, Jones resigned over the weekend — with nary a word of protest from the president.
Leftists see it as one more sign that Obama caves in too quickly to conservatives, and they’re hopping mad that Glenn Beck — of all people — was able to end Jones packing.
Sorry, but Van Jones isn’t worth all the fuss. While Glenn Beck is clearly unhinged, even he can be right once in a while. Given some of his nutty utterances, Jones had no business with so much as a minor post in the Obama administration.
Jones’ affection for the teachings of Marx and Lenin wasn’t the real problem. Marx, especially, had a few good ideas (though the broad application of them turned out to be a spectacular failure). The bigger problem was Jones’ membership in a leftwing club of paranoids who seem to believe that President Bush knew about the impending attacks on 9/11 but did nothing to prevent them because Bush wanted to go to war.
Well, I’m no fan of POTUS 43, but that’s just crazy. (Back when former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was promoting that lunacy, I thought she was among just a tiny handful of folks who spouted that nonsense. Little did I know there was an entire cult of so-called truthers, who insist that the nation hasn’t learned the real truth about 9/11. Was George Bush on the grassy knoll?)
The fact that Jones shimmied up to paranoid conspiracists should offend any member of the reality-based community, right, left or middle.
The irony, of course, is that Glenn Beck doesn’t belong to any reality-based community. He pushes an 18-wheeler full of crazy rightwing conspiracies. If Van Jones were a paranoid of the right, he’d be a frequent guest on Beck’s show.
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Davo
September 8th, 2009
9:02 am
Where was the vetting? Does the public have to wait for freaks like Beck to point these things out?
I’m sure Obama will find a sufficiently qualified tax cheat to fill the position.
Eddy
September 8th, 2009
9:02 am
Jones is just another example of many that Obama has selected to be in his administration that really shouldn’t be allowed in any govt especially ours. Of course O has found a way around the vetting process so he just anoints them as Czars and accountable to no one. Jones was just dumb enough to have the majority of his rants captured on video so that he had no place to hide. But of course, it is everyone else’s fault for his idiotic rants. He is a protected species so he should be given a pass, NOT. O’s folks did not do their jobs before bringing in Jones. Well, maybe they did!!!
jt
September 8th, 2009
9:22 am
Ms. Tucker-
The long weekend did you good.
chriswyse
September 8th, 2009
9:28 am
Obama knew exactly who Jones was when he appointed him just as he knows every bit of history on everyone else in his administration. Obama loves people that share his belief system. Reverend Wright has said thousands of things more inflammatory than Van Jones over the years and Obama listened to them all every Sunday for 20 years. Obama is a communist and the Main Stream Media is not doing it’s job to let the american people know that. Obama know the only people who will bring this stuff up are on conservative radio and Fox News so he has little fear of political damage. He and the rest of the Democrats can just say it’s a bunch of right wing nutjob racists and their good. If Obama can all of his marxist programs passed he will have a few paying for many. When that happens we will cease to be free and the Democrats will have won. If the minorites would just wake up and see how they have been used by the Democratic party to be kept down and dependant on government we could start to prosper again as a country. Until then minorities can continue to vote for the people who need them to be poor and dependant so they continue to get there vote as they promise new ways that government will take care of them so they can continue to live off the people who do work forever.
A Reader
September 8th, 2009
9:45 am
WRONG!
Van Jones is an effective community organizer who has moderated his views and begun to work within the system. To adopt the stance that people don’t change and any petition you signed holds your views exactly and forever is insane.
There are many varieties of 9/11 truth people out there. The media has been effectively manipulated into lumping all strains together. Some of these strains promote beliefs that are demonstrably false, like a missile hitting the Pentagon, remote controlled airplanes and the US government being behind the entire affair. Obviously these three beliefs are wrong.
I know one thing for sure. We don’t know all that happened on 9/11. It is obvious that our government knew more about that day than has been disclosed. To believe otherwise is to deny history.
It’s a sad day when someone as unhinged as Mr Beck gets to tar a young man like Van Jones who is actually trying to make positive things happen in this country. It is even a sadder day when a person working for a respected newspaper assists.
carly
September 8th, 2009
9:46 am
Thank you, Ms Tucker, for not being afraid to tell it like it is, instead of voting the party line.
Scott
September 8th, 2009
9:51 am
“mob,” “mad dog,” “unhinged,” “nutty,” “crazy.” Can’t resist that name-calling, can you, Ms. Tucker? Of course not. In Hamlet’s words, “It is as easy as lying.”
Scott
September 8th, 2009
9:54 am
Ms. Tucker said that Marx had a few good ideas; they just failed when put into practice. Well, what can one say? The Founding Fathers had many great ideas; they succeeded when put into practice.
Olivia
September 8th, 2009
9:58 am
Reverend Wright was not wrong about the racism that exists in this country. You’re a perfect example of an ignorant racist person. All minorities aren’t waiting for a handout. That’s a racist statement. President Obama isn’t communist anymore than Bush was. Bush and his cronies practically raped this country, and got us into a questionable war. Not to mention the sad state of affairs the real estate market has and is experiencing. Did companies like Haliburton fail? NO. It really annoys me when I hear ignorant people like you talk about minorities, as if you know them. I’m a minority; I know lots of minorities; I went to school with lots of minorities, and I can tell you first-hand, most of my relatives, friends and co-workers are quite successful, as well as my own sons, who purchased their first homes when they were 21, and earn a 6 figure salary. Why? Because we work hard, we don’t live in the ghetto, and they never knew about affirmative action, or used it. They didn’t need it. So, stop being ignorant, there’s still time to rise above your current lowly way of thinking.
joe matarotz
September 8th, 2009
10:06 am
How about that, Cynthia. You and Glen Beck both got this one right. Then again, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Stacy Slay
September 8th, 2009
10:11 am
Ms. Tucker you have utterly failed in the point of this story. The point is that a racist communist was in the White House at the behest of the President and not one person in the media even batted an eyelash. Maybe if you people would do your job (journalists) you wouldn’t be getting scooped by bloggers and radio talk show hosts. If there were a racist in the Bush White House you would have been marching in the streets and you know it. Speaking of racists what is Robert Byrd doing these days ?
William J. McCann
September 8th, 2009
10:12 am
Perhaps Ms. Tucker would do well to watch Glenn Beck before labeling him a lunatic. If the mainstream media had done its job, Jones wouldn’t be resigning, he would never have been hired in the first place. It is one thing for a president to have a few “special advisors” or as Beck calls them “czars,” it is entirely another thing to hire dozens of them without Congressional consent and to give them broad powers over policy for the nation. Even Robert Byrd has written of the dangers to our constitutional system that this involves.
It is a real problem that Jones was an avowed “revolutionary Communist,” whether you and the rest of the democratic party thinks so or not. We spent fifty years and trillions of dollars to defeat the vilest, most evil, system of government ever to take root on our planet. The communist regimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and many others slaughtered nearly one hundred million of their own people, to say nothing of the countries they invaded, the tortures they inflicted on political enemies, and the Gulags that were so well documented by Solzhenitsyn and others. For Jones to embrace communism after all of these things were well-documented does not say much for him, but it also says something about Obama. Beck played a videotape of the president talking about how he searched out as many Marxist courses and professors that he could find during his undergraduate days. He played a second videotape of the president talking about how screwed up our Constitution is in that it does not give enough power to the federal government. Perhaps he means to change that.
DirtyDawg
September 8th, 2009
10:15 am
Hey Cynthia, from this and a number of your recent columns it would appear that you’re fast becoming the ‘poster girl’ for ‘capitulation’ from the Left. If you read what has been said about Mr.Jones’ concerns following the events of that 9/11 (including that he wasn’t fully aware of what the ‘petition’ he was asked to sign was advocating)…even so most of the country wanted to know more about what our, and Israel’s, leaders knew about those events and, more importantly, what ours did about it after the fact. Sadly the ’so-called’ Congressional investigation was a sham of the first order so it’ll require a few ‘tell-all’ books from the Bush Administration – once the ‘hush money’ runs out, of course – before we’ll actually know the truth.
Regardless, to give that fool, Beck, any support at all is to endorse racism and idiocy. Is that what you want, or are you just gettin’ anxious for some of that FauxNews appearance money?
Scott
September 8th, 2009
10:25 am
Van Jones says that white people are “steering” pollutants into “people of color communities,” and Glenn Beck is the racist?
dave
September 8th, 2009
10:39 am
“The irony, of course, is that Glenn Beck doesn’t belong to any reality-based community. He pushes an 18-wheeler full of crazy rightwing conspiracies.”
really?…………..so where does that put van jones if he resigned over this crazy rightwinger?
are you that stupid?
no need to answer that. just re-bury your head in the sand.
Olivia
September 8th, 2009
10:48 am
I’m so glad that I’m not held accountable for all the dumb things I used to believe were true. Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, things that go bump in the night, political views from the 1970’s and 1980’s. My views have grown, changed, and improved since my college days. Excuse me, but didn’t I hear that Van Jones was a Yale University graduate? Hmmmm, that’s something I’m sure you haven’t achieved.
Scott
September 8th, 2009
11:13 am
Olivia, many of the clips from Van Jones come from this year. He did interviews in February and March in Yes magazine in which he is expressing the exact same point of view as he always has. Exactly when did this “growth” occur?
Ivan
September 8th, 2009
11:22 am
Van Jones was driving radical, socialist, and Marxist agendas into our nation. I’ve listened to 3 of his speeches in their entirety to come to that conclusion. Americans don’t need Glenn Beck, O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Chris Matthews, or Cynthia Tucker form an opinion for them. You think he resigned because of Glenn Beck? He resigned because the people didn’t like his direction, and let the White House know it. Americans don’t want extremists in charge.
But it’s not about the people anymore is it? No, his resignation MUST have come from the “Glenn Beck mob, “right wing conspiracies”, and “paranoid conspiracists”. Sounds to me like Ms. Tucker is forming another conspiracy all of her own.
Keep up the name calling, Ms. Tucker. Raise that standard of Pulitzer stand outs.
citizen
September 8th, 2009
11:52 am
Van Jones did himself in. About 20% of Americans view themselves as true liberals and about 20% of Americans view themselves as true conservatives. The rest of us don’t follow the ideologies of the extremists from these two groups and I certainly don’t want someone with these views being paid from tax dollars.
Cliff
September 8th, 2009
11:53 am
Maybe Beck isn’t such a freak after all. Maybe if the main stream media would do it’s job, one wouldn’t have to look to Glenn Beck to do it for them.
Texas Starr
September 8th, 2009
11:59 am
I have noticed that anyone who disagrees with progressive views is a wack-job, racist, right-wing radical, t, a fool, etc. It is starting to wear very thin. Debate is a good thing. Calling names is juvenile and non-productive.
Jeffjarhead
September 8th, 2009
12:00 pm
It is interesting to note that the real purpose of this article was to advocate for Marxist ideas “Marx, especially, had a few good ideas (though the broad application of them turned out to be a spectacular failure).” And, further this was an opportunity to take shots at Glen Beck.”While Glenn Beck is clearly unhinged, even he can be right once in a while.” and “The irony, of course, is that Glenn Beck doesn’t belong to any reality-based community. He pushes an 18-wheeler full of crazy rightwing conspiracies. If Van Jones were a paranoid of the right, he’d be a frequent guest on Beck’s show.” You should spend a little energy trying to refute his assertions with truthful facts. Instead you attack the messenger. If what Glen Beck asserts were incorrect, you WOULD be all over him.
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
September 8th, 2009
12:17 pm
My father, a great man and captain of industry, always said that one could best judge another by the second party’s friends. Let’s look at Obumbler”
Van Jones – communist, hmo, and conspiracy theorist;
Billy Ayres – communist, unrepentant terrorist, bisexual, and conspiracy theorist;
Rev Wright – racist and conspiracy theorist;
Father Fleger – racist, conspiracy theorist, communist and (probable) hmo;
Tony Rezko – felon, likely hmo (albeit forced by large cell mate);
Cass Sunstein – conspiracy theorist, communist; and
Joe Biden – unrepentant idiot and plagiarist;
Barney Frank – communist and hmo.
Guess judging him by the company he keeps, one can only conclude that Obumbler is not fit to be president.
Ivan
September 8th, 2009
12:21 pm
“Marx, especially, had a few good ideas (though the broad application of them turned out to be a spectacular failure).”
OK. I tried to avoid this since everyone else is jumping on it, but I just can’t hold back. Let’s post other things Ms. Tucker would think to be a great idea. I’ll start with three…
1. Staring into the Sun to study how bright it gets!
2. Rinsing with Bleach to get those whites even whiter!
3. Poking snakes with a short stick to see if they’re aggressive!
Shawny
September 8th, 2009
12:49 pm
That Beck pushed this guy into quitting isn’t the news story. The story is that no “news” outlet of any kind, save Fox and a handful of righty talk radio shows even reported that Obama had appointed this nut and the baggage that the nut carries. Gads the MSM (this blog included) sure love Obama.
Are these Czars the jobs we hear about from the stimulus package?
CrazyJoe
September 8th, 2009
2:14 pm
Van Jones says that white people are “steering” pollutants into “people of color communities,” and Glenn Beck is the racist?
Van J. said that REPUBLICANS are………….blah, blah, blah, get your quotes correct. All it takes is a little cutting & pasting.
And YES, Beck is a racist, a pervert, an anti-semite AND a sexual predator, (multiple sexual harrassment suits).
Scott
September 8th, 2009
2:27 pm
I’m sorry, CrazyJoe, you’re incorrect. The exact quotation is: “the white polluters and white enviornmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities.” All it takes is a little Google. (Google the phrase “steering people of color communities.”)
KansasGirl
September 8th, 2009
3:26 pm
Well, one thing is for certain, Glenn Beck got everyone’s attention in his exposure of Jones! I disagree that he was trying to get this guy fired, what he was trying to do was get the attention from the White House, an explaination as to why the President has appointed known radicals in his administration. Instead of an answer, Jones quit and blamed it on everyone else, calling it a smear campaign. Seems to be the theme at the White House these days, take no responsibility, play the blame game and lie when you’re caught red-handed! It’s all smoke and mirrors and these people, our elected officials, can not and should not be trusted.
Michael
September 8th, 2009
4:13 pm
Too bad all the comments these days are the idiotic ramblings of the bitter losers of the right.
Texas Starr says “Debate is a good thing. Calling names is juvenile and non-productive”
Like this?
“My father, a great man and captain of industry, always said that one could best judge another by the second party’s friends. Let’s look at Obumbler”
Van Jones – communist, hmo, and conspiracy theorist;
Billy Ayres – communist, unrepentant terrorist, bisexual, and conspiracy theorist;
Rev Wright – racist and conspiracy theorist;
Father Fleger – racist, conspiracy theorist, communist and (probable) hmo;
Tony Rezko – felon, likely hmo (albeit forced by large cell mate);
Cass Sunstein – conspiracy theorist, communist; and
Joe Biden – unrepentant idiot and plagiarist;
Barney Frank – communist and hmo.”
Guess judging him by the company he keeps, one can only conclude that Obumbler is not fit to be president.
Sorry – this person represents the GOP these days. Your side is not capable of intellegent debate.
Roy
September 8th, 2009
4:59 pm
To William J. McCann:
You do realize that Bush and other presidents hired advisers to? This isn’t something new. The president can’t be an expert on everything, he has to get people to help him out on stuff. It’s kinda funny, because Bush did all kinds of scary crazy stuff, that makes anything
Obama does pale in comparison, but Fox didn’t report on it.
It’s also funny you mention Pol Pot, because the US actually killed many more people in Cambodia in their secret bombings than Pol Pot ever did. The bombings also paved the way for Pol Pot’s rise to power.
The fact is, there have been some pretty evil communist governments, just as there have been some pretty evil non-communist governments. Many violent dictators have existed with capitalist economies. Does that mean that everyone who believes in capitalism is evil. Of course not! Not everyone who believes in communism is evil either.
To Wyld Byll Hyltnyr: if you are worried about the quality of men around the president, you must have been freaking out when Bush was president. Even though it sounds like you don’t like Obama’s choices, you must still be relieved to see Bush gone. I’m glad you were able to survive the Bush presidency without flipping out! Obviously I am being sarcastic, it actually kinda hurt my brain to read your comment.
There’s a whole publicity machine out there sponsored by rich people to slander these people and fool you into supporting policies that screw you over. The irony is, you label people in your posts as “conspiracy theorists” but you yourself have become one. Congratulations on believing nutty right-wing conspiracy theories.
Scott
September 8th, 2009
5:42 pm
Roy, Pol Pot killed about 2 million people–more than 20% of the Cambodian population. What source are you relying on for your information that U.S. bombings in Cambodia killed more than 2 million people?
You’re wildly wrong on another point too, which is your contention that the U.S. bombings in Cambodis “paved the way for Pol Pot’s rise to power.” Around 1975, the United States Congress devoted to withdraw American military support to Cambodia. (One of those who voted in favor of withdrawing support, by the way, was our current vice president, Joe Biden.) As a result of us withdrawing military support, Pol Pot was able to rise to power.
Yes, Bush hired advisers. All presidents do. The problem is not that Obama’s advisers are advisers, the problem is their radical communist backgrounds. The problem is also that they’re not being vetted or submitted to the confirmation process in the Senate. Glenn Beck never said, “Hey, Van Jones is an adviser!” He said, “Hey, Van Jones is a communist.”
There’s a difference.
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
September 8th, 2009
5:43 pm
Roy
September 8th, 2009
4:59 pm
The men around President Bush, except for Colin Powell, were men of extraordinary character and patriotism. Not unrepentant terrorists and killers as is the case with our callow and inexperienced President’s patron, Billy Ayres.
Scott
September 8th, 2009
5:43 pm
Corrections: Yes, I know, should be spelled “Cambodia,” not “Cambodis,” and the second sentence of the second paragraph sholudl read “The United States Congress VOTED to withdraw … “
steven jones
September 8th, 2009
5:49 pm
This could have been a very well written article. But the pettiness and name calling detracts from what other wise seeems pretty logical point. It comes off as immature and a bit absurd. I am not twelve, nor do I wish to read articles that are written for somebody’s whos twelve. This seems more like something I would hear from twelve year old girls at a lunch table rather than an article that should be discussed. You still come to the most logical point though.
ConservativesThink
September 8th, 2009
6:45 pm
The reason Beck has such a large following is due to the fact that Journalists like you ignore dtories like this until after it breaks.
BillKidd
September 8th, 2009
7:33 pm
There is a rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
Search:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwTwXMJi3I
Donald C.
September 8th, 2009
7:54 pm
@9:58 Olivia said:
“It really annoys me when I hear ignorant people like you talk about minorities, as if you know them. I’m a minority; I know lots of minorities; I went to school with lots of minorities, and I can tell you first-hand, most of my relatives, friends and co-workers are quite successful, as well as my own sons, who purchased their first homes when they were 21, and earn a 6 figure salary. Why? Because we work hard, we don’t live in the ghetto, and they never knew about affirmative action, or used it. They didn’t need it. So, stop being ignorant, there’s still time to rise above your current lowly way of thinking.”
I agree with Olivia’s comment about “minorities”. All decisions about government aid, government contracts, or any other descretionary spending of which citizens are the intended recipients should cease making any reference to any minorities (racial, sexual, religious, ethnic or otherwise) immediately. As Olivia states:
“… they never knew about affirmative action, or used it. They didn’t need it.”
Understand? They don’t need it! So let us by all means turn it off. NOW.
Sarah van Gelder
September 8th, 2009
8:28 pm
Actually, Van Jones isn’t a member of the 9-11 truther “club.” A number of people signed a petition asking for further inquiry, including dozens of family members of 9-11 victims. Pretty reasonable request in my book.
Scott
September 8th, 2009
9:05 pm
If it’s so “reasonable,” why did he resign? If it’s so “reasonable,” why did Van Jones not simply say why it was reasonable, and instead try to play dumb by saying he didn’t know what the petition contained?
John
September 9th, 2009
8:40 am
Scott-
Why does Glenn Beck not simply come out and state clearly to everyone that he didn’t rape and kill that girl in 1990? If it’s so unreasonable to talk about, why doesn’t he respond?
MIKE POWERS
September 9th, 2009
8:41 am
I LOVE COMPLIMENTS, EVEN IF THEY ARRIVE SLANTED AND GRUDGINGLY. IF MARX HAD GOTTEN IT RIGHT (SINCE YOU MENTIONED HIS NAME) YOU WOULD NOT HAVE YOUR JOB.
IT IS NOT WHO GOT IT RIGHT OR WRONG, IT IS FOR OUR COUNTRY THAT WE BETTER GET IT RIGHT NOT WRONG.
Scott
September 9th, 2009
10:44 am
John, have you ever heard of the 5th amendment? The reason there’s a 5th amendment is because it is not the obligation of the accused to prove themselves innocent; it is the obligation of the accuser to prove someone guilty.
Also, if Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh had to respond to any baseless allegation that’s been made against them, there’d be no time for them to do anything else. If such a question were to come up in court, that’s the venue in which Beck would need to make any statement whatsoever.
To ask that someone prove something untrue as some sort of standard for it being untrue, is to make the fundamental logical error of arguing from ignorance–the argument from ignorance being that unless something is proven untrue, it must be true. So, for example, unless I can prove that a meteor did not crash into the sun at 8 pm on September 15, 1748, then a meteor must have crashed into the sun at 8 pm on September 15, 1748.
The outrageous thing is that there are people out there who believe this rumor about Glenn Beck on no evidence whatsoever … but provide actual quotations from Van Jones regarding his communist beliefs, from this very year, and they won’t believe that.
I guess there are people who believe just what they want to believe, and logic, reason, and evidence can go hang.
But you can’t reach the truth that way.
Smilesrgolden
September 9th, 2009
11:24 am
Beck…crazy? No…What most people fail to do is look at the facts! Listen to what he says and then do your own homework. check out the FACTS! Seriously. I cannot believe that people whom are so self-righteous, and self-serving on the left, primarily, that they aren’t even concerned with what is truly happening here. From the get go……of the Obama crusade……….it’s a play to take over America…C’mon….he even got caught reading…….Post-America. I challenge all you lefties to start loving the country you live in, support it’s constitution that has WORKED successfully for over 200 years and has provided you with much liberty! Maybe there are those chosen few that believe they are so in the “club” and will be free and exonerated from the new purposed, “in the dark” plan by the Obama administration and his followers. I am sad that people of this nature even live in America…….They don’t deserve to live in the Best Country….they don’t appreciate Good! We, True Americans, Patriots, Soldiers, Constitutionalists, Workers………Love Our Country and the Principals it was built on and for! God, is what made our country what is was……Evil, has been let in this country in the name of Freedom, for one and for all. Some, don’t deserve freedom and justice,when it comes in the name of Evil doers.
God Bless The American People!
john
September 13th, 2009
7:55 pm
Olivia, I hope you get on here one more time…..GROW UP!
manny2066
September 13th, 2009
9:09 pm
Ms Tucker, enough said and done about Glenn Beck and Van Jones. I wonder if you will ‘expose’ anything about ACORN. I can’t wait to read what you got to say…..
majortomf
September 13th, 2009
9:39 pm
her reporting is just one of the reasons AJC readership is down to like 20 percent, it is a liberal rag
Edward
September 13th, 2009
10:12 pm
What this piece really demonstrates is that once in a while (if but a very great while) even Cynthia Tucker gets one right.
What we don’t know is how furiously the Cynthia Tucker mob may react to this bit of sophistry (in their view), how the Constitution’s mad cat has promoted the leftist insane fury at Beck, notwithstanding that it was not Beck who got Jones “fired” (resigned), but Jones himself through his own words and deeds recorded for anyone (even non-members of the mad cat’s “reality based community”) to see and hear.
And, personally, it is reassuring to know that in the event I may be ever be confused about what and who is the “reality based community” I need only refer to Ms Tucker, the made cat herself, for clarification. No extremism here; she just knows. She is an epistemological genius. What a blessing it is to have an ad hominem free open and wide-eyed view of this mad cat’s “reality based community”!
I guess the point is that anyone with a fifth grade education and a thesaurus of common ad hominems could have written this piece of social elitism, never mind its vast field of presumptions and assumptions. Ms Tucker *could* have written that while she usually disagrees with Mr Beck’s view of the world, this time she agreed with him. But, no. Ms Tucker needs the colorful language, an elitist posture, a nose tilted very high in the air, an unmistakeable “I know better” cause its “obvious”, if but to “me” and my “reality based community”.
And, of course, none of her language is “offensive” — legitimately offensive, that is. After all, the colorful language of “truth” uttered by the “reality based community” cannot, by definition, be offensive. It must merely be heeded. Or maybe imposed upon those who would not heed it, huh? And this is Ms Tucker’s “freedom”.
George Orwell said so.
Dagney
September 14th, 2009
7:22 am
“And YES, Beck is a racist, a pervert, an anti-semite AND a sexual sexual predator, (multiple sexual harrassment suits).”
I wish Glenn Beck would sexually harrass me
Robert
September 14th, 2009
11:29 am
Ms Tucker: This is the first time I have ever responded to comments of a article or of others it is kind of funny in a way how comments can completey go from one direction and turn the other way. It started with Van Jones/Glen Beck – Glen Beck/Van Jones to Cambodia,rape, to some secret bombing that killed over two million that over the last 40 to 45 years no radical liberal organization has discovered, to shout on top of the mountain. So I think you are by yourself on that one. It is a fact well known that PO POTTY killed 2 million, I hope I spelled that right anyway if truth is the truth then leave it alone or help find more of it, let it grow no matter who the mesenger is, if it is a lie then don’t becomer a lier
David A
September 15th, 2009
7:49 am
write and artice telling us which ideas that marx had that were good. I would love to see this one. why don’t you write about what jefferson said and did, why don’t write about what our forefathers believed in and succeeded in doing in creating this great nation. maybe you’ll get one right someday miss tucker. beck has gotten more right in the 6 months he’s been on fox, how about acorn ? that’s the next one, you’ll see, it’s already starting.