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YOU KNOW WHO ELSE GROSSLY MISCHARACTERISED THE POLICIES OF THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS? YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, THE NAZIS*
As mentioned here previously, partisan politics in America is an ugly, ugly business. Everyone compares anything they don’t like to the Holocaust. Everyone compares anyone they don’t like the Nazis. But every so often a story comes along that if, well, it can’t warm the cockles, it’ll at least elicits a cackle from the coldest chambers of your heart. Anonymous bloggers have started the (totally unfounded) rumour that Fox News anchor Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. Numerous websites followed up by reporting that there are rumours that Fox New anchor Glenn Beck murdered a young girl in 1990.
Other websites still demanded to know why, with all these rumours flying that Glenn Beck murdered a young girl in 1990, Beck himself has yet to come out and categorically deny that they are true. One site even polled its readers and discovered that an emphatic 84% of them believe Glenn Beck murdered a young girl in 1990. “I’m not saying Glenn Beck is a murdering child-rapist,” commented one concerned citizen. “I’m just afraid that he might be.”
Yeah, it’s juvenile and it’s ham-fisted. But, as satire goes, it’s pretty much on the money. It was through exactly such contortions of logic that Beck managed himself to made nightly fodder of the transparently false internet rumours that Barack Obama was not a citizen and therefore not eligible to serve as President of the United States.
*Therefore, anyone who outlandishly compares another person to the Nazis is themselves, by their own logic, a Nazi.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:42 am
Bush is a Nazy.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
JohnnyComeLately, you da Nazi.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm
It’s a nice way for him to feel the full weight of his own journalistic “style”.
Recently Beck has seen that fumbling inneuendo with Obama should be stepped up to sweeping statements like – “This guy is, I believe, a racist.” on a morning tv chat show. This funnily enough has led to over 50 major companies (to date) pulling advertising from his own show.
Seems believing your own bullshit doesn’t always work and it sure won’t protect you from the law when you murdered and raped a girl in 1990. Which Glenn Beck as far as we know did not do, though it has yet to be proven or denied either way.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Funny headline in todays Huffington Post…
Glenn Beck Gets Keys To City; Protesters Say “Change The Locks!”
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
your photo – i’d love to see a town hall protester stand up in the hoffbrauhaus shouting about socialised medicine, at least their complaints would be correctly targeted… and even then they be missing the bigger issue
frauline speaking vit you is like speaking vit ze dining room table, ja?
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Ohter story whatsisname Kurschov stood up in convention said right stalin wads a total bollocks bout itme someone said something likme. gUY IN crow says well if he was such a cunt why didn’t ye say before. Kruschov says right who da fuck said that?? TOTAL SILENSCE
rIGHT says Krushz therees yere answer ye cunts
i cant remember my pont