Yes, I'm breaking my own rule here and actually posting a diary while the Glenn Beck ad is still up. Oh well. It became pretty freaking clear in The Lighthouse Keeper's diary about Glenn Fucking Beck that people here really don't understand what this piece of shit stands for.
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Shall we get started? Yes we shall:
On filmmaker Michael Moore: "Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?"
On the father of Nick Berg, American civilian beheaded in Iraq: "The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all."
On families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: "[T]his is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year."
On Hurricane Katrina survivors who remained in New Orleans: "And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones that we're seeing on television are the scumbags -- and again, it's not all the people in New Orleans. Most of the people in New Orleans got out! It's just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they're getting all the attention."
Discussing disclosures from a caller who claimed to have tortured prisoners in U.S. custody: "I've got to tell you, I appreciate your service. ... Good for you. Good for -- I mean, good for you. Is it because you did it for the country? ... I have to tell you, when all is said and done, I'm glad people like you are on our side."
Still don't mind seeing his face, and his ad, on Dailykos? Well how about these tidbits:
From Beck's March 6 show (sections in bold were spoken in the "blackface" voice):
BECK: And in 1939 -- I mean, let me tell you something -- you were so right that Hollywood was standing up for the black folk of America. In fact, let me say this in the way Hollywood would understand: "You were so right, massa! Back in 1939 when I was sittin' there on the silver screen with my watermelon, eatin' it up and dancing with little Shirley Temple with my tap shoes on, you were so right. Mammy, you were right."
Yeah, you know, let me ask you a question. How come I know that voice? Why do I have the Mammy blackface image? "Because I seen 'em in Hollywoods from 1939 movies. Yes, boss!"
You're right. You were so on the cutting edge. You had nothing to do with racism. "None whatsoever, boss."
You know, you've been a little out of touch, Georgie. A little out of touch on a couple of other things. You know, especially on a couple of things that are, you know, I know are, near and dear to your heart, one of them, and it's a small, little thing called communism. You might remember communism from such films as Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by -- oh, surprisingly enough -- you.
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Was Joseph McCartney [sic] -- Joseph McCartney -- Joseph McCarthy generally right? Not in the approach but what he was going after? Yeah. He was. There were communist spies at the time in America. There were people with a communist agenda in Hollywood. "Whoa! You're not sayin' that they were red, and I be black?" No, no, George. Not at all. They were making movies designed to influence America in that way.
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And the other claim -- AIDS. "You know, we were there talking about AIDS before anybody else." Yes, yes, you were. Gosh darn it, you are such good people. You know? Especially since you were leading the fight to make people aware of AIDS, and then you were also on the cutting edge of promoting the sexual promiscuity that spreads it. It was, I mean that non-monogamous, have sex with everything from your sister to a farm animal, and just, multiple partners. Boogie Nights comes to mind. You are leaders in that area and -- "Well, I, for one, is a donkey, George. Thank you so much!"
Still think this guy is just another "tool"?
On antiwar protestor Cindy Sheehan: "That's a pretty big prostitute."
Also on Cindy Sheehan: She is "pimping out the tragedy of her own son's death for her own agenda."
On former President Jimmy Carter: "Is there a bigger waste of skin than Jimmy Carter?"
On a Nigerian public information campaign to fight bird flu: "They've actually resorted to radio jingles. ... Are we as dumb as Nigeria?"
To the 7-year old African-American author of a controversial poem: "You want to go to Africa? I will personally purchase your airfare."
On immigration protests: Mexico "is a country that has been overtaken by lawbreakers from the bottom to the top. And now, what you're protesting for is to have lawbreakers come here."
Responding to criticism of his remarks on immigration protests: "[I] pretty much stand by" the assertion that "Mexico is run by nothing but criminals."
On American Indians in South Dakota considering skirting a state ban on abortion: They "will have found something that can be more profitable than casinos, and that's abortion clinics."
Suggesting "politically correct" names for bunker-buster nuclear weapons: "[B]utterfly bomb," "climate-control device," "[b]omb de tropical. ... We could use that one in Venezuela."
On immigrants entering illegally from Mexico: Either "they're terrorists," "they're escaping the law," or "[t]hey can't make a living in their own dirtbag country."
So in case you were wondering, THAT'S why some of us think it's just plain wrong to have a Glenn Fucking Beck add on Dailykos.
Glenn Beck wants you dead. Having his ad on Dailykos is like having an ad for the KKK on the NAACP site.
I know Kos will do whatever the hell he pleases -- and he always does. But everybody here should KNOW what a fascist, racist, Piece-Of-Shit Douchebag this motherfuckker is.
I, for one, wasn't going to write any more diaries on this site until the ad went away. Why? Because -- look at it from a business point of view, and Kos' business point of view -- we who write diaries provide him with free content (which we do voluntarily) and then he makes money off of this.
So those who write diaries have some say. You know? If we all just suddenly quit writing diaries, where would this site be? Nowhere, that's where. If we all just quit writing diaries because we didn't like this ad, that ad would be gone pretty quick.
And yes, I know I just broke my own rule, but from the responses in The Lighthouse Keeper's diary, it seemed pretty clear that people didn't realize just how ugly a hatemonger Glenn Beck is. He makes Joseph McCarthy look like Chuck Hagel.