This video is priceless. Glenn Beck is trying to draw a connection between the Green Movement and the UHC movement. He throws all the bogeymen in there he can, ACORN, etc. He draws a picture of a tree, and he leaves his generally sympathetic guest panel....speechless and bewildered. He wingnutted them into silence.
Video Coutrtesy of Media Matters
Transcript:
BECK: Why is there so much money from the Green Movement? Fund for Public Interest, these are the people paying the people for going into health care right now on Craig's List
What now? A little help here, what is he talkng about?
Progressive Future and HCAN, ACORN, Soros,SEIU
William Ayers, the Grinch, Hitler, the gay Teletubbie...
All funneling money here. How does this fit into Health Care? Why would the Green people be doing this?
Ah yes, "The Green People". I have another connection...Green People = Aliens (see Kiff on Futurama = ILLEGAL aliens = Health Care for ILLEGAL Aliens = Healthier Immigrant Death Squads to eliminate old folks and the disabled. Do I win? Is that the answer?
May I Make a a connection and see if anyone agrees with it? Holdren is the key to understanding the Green Movement. How many people in the Green Movement...Holdren says we have too many people, we should have forced sterilizations, we should have forced abortions, the population is too big. How many people in the Green Movement think that people are a virus.
Beck's panel looking very dubious, and wishing they were anywhere else
Holdren is John Holdren, advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Yes he co-authored a book over 20 years ago with some weird ideas. But he has stated categorically he does not believe any of the stuff Beck is saying. So Beck is lying, which you probably guessed because Beck was talking.
BECK: I think that's a connection. Anybody?
crickets
Nobody wants...heh...
RJ PESTRITTO: Well I mean it's, its...I think the important thing to realize here is, uh...
Glenn Beck is CRAZY! C'mon say it, you know you want to.
is that uh, the connection between the Green Movement and health care is that the Green Movement is not so much about the Green Movement, uh, bigger issues of social control.
Or it could be that those organizations ARE NOT THE GREEN MOVEMENT. But I can at least admire what this guy is trying to do, he is trying to extricate his stance from the Beck Crazy enveloping the studio.
BECK: Well, it could be, there's another thing, you know. Barack Obama said, uh, that he's against reparations because they don't go far enough.
Beck talking = Beck lying.
Universal education and universal health care is the way to help the underprivileged.
Umm, isn't the concept of Universal Education pretty much a given?
The Green Movement
Beck is pointing at that previous list. Since when is the SEIU part of "The Green Movement". I mean they may or may not support green initiatives, but that is not really their purpose. When I think green movement I think Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Not George Soros.
is about, uh, uh, uh is really, Van Jones at least i about social justice and spreading the wealth, communism.
Interesting that he would bring up Van Jones, who is a champion of the new Green Market economy creating opportunities for everybody, especially those usually disenfranchised. Long ago he might have been those things that Beck describes, but his views have evolved (unlike Beck's whose views have not evolved at all). He actually believes in the market helping folks out of poverty. Plus he has a cool name, Van Jones.
So maybe the Green Movement is that front you're talking about. Maybe that's - Maybe that's just his way of spreading the wealth and moving all that money into social justice through health care.
crickets
No? Carter.
CARTER: No, I was thinking of something else, actually...
I was thinking, "You are the dumbest man on the planet"