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Glenn Beck Rally
As a general rule, I don't like to talk politics, but the Tea Party (and not the early '90s Canadian band) freaks me out. It feels like racism veiled as political outrage. It makes me feel icky... and even as a Canadian, I worry, you know?
Anyway, one of my friends sent me this video, which has some brilliant interviewing skills in it... and kinda confirms my feelings about the movement. It just blows my mind that anyone can equate what's going on in the US right now with the human rights violations of the First Nations.
Re: Glenn Beck Rally
I think Beck is a moronic douche, but I'll try to speak neutrally...I think what his supporters fail to see is that he's an entertainer. He makes his money the same way Rush Limbaugh does - making extreme statements and taking an extreme stance over controversial topics. If he took a moderate approach, he wouldn't get anyone watching his show, and nothing brings up the ratings (and his paycheck) like drama. His stance is not reasonable because reasonable doesn't get viewers, kwim? If it wasn't this Tea Party nonsense, it would be something else.
All moral, ethical, and political concerns aside (significant as they are), it worries me when people rally behind someone with that approach to politics - it makes me think that they haven't put much (if any) thought into the situation.
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okay i don't even know what to say about this other than the world woudl for sure be a better place with out glen beck, rush limbaugh and fox newcorps. this whole movement/situation is beyond frightening. people are very angry right now and the republican party is essentially just constantly repeating lies with the intention that if the lies are repeated often enough and frequently enough the lowest level of society will view them as truisms. Oh btw add mitch mconnel to the list above too.
I am in the midst of reading this horrifying and frightening article in the new yorker about the koch brothers-I never really knew who they were prior to the article-billionaires on par with warren buffet and bill gates and they are spending their money on a campaign of hate towards obama-so scary-i would like to think of americans as evolved enlightened humans but with these recent rallies and tea party strengthening-I am beyond frightened....mexico here i come
Nah, come to Australia, Alix - better surfing AND we don't even have a proper Prime Minister right now! (The elections were weeks ago and it was a massive cockup and there's still not a winner. In the USA there'd be riots, but Aussies are just like, "Eh, whatever. Want to come over on the weekend for a BBQ?")
I was hearing about the Australian election on the radio and both Phil and I were laughing because... well... we have a minority gov't in Canada (which is very, very similar to what's happening in Oz), and we've had it for years. It's not that big a deal - and frankly, given who we have in power, it's the only way I'd see the situation as tolerable. Our conservative party has control (with a minority) which means they have to work with the liberals, the democrats and the Bloc to get anything done. I'm all for seeing a little compromise in parliament.
Just to return back to Glenn Beck... TV personalities like him are more than entertainers, I think. People believe that those who occupy the public sphere speak the truth, and then they start holding up these people as symbols and exemplars. That's the really dangerous part - that people are foolish enough not to question what you hear.
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Um yeah, I had the lovely time of sitting in DFW waiting for our flights with a bunch of folks returning from this "rally" and having to listen to them talk on and on about how great it was...
The ingnorance they were spewing was appalling and even more so the underlying racism that seems to fuel the "tea party" movement. I doubt that most of them have ever even read the constitution or actually understand what it stands for...case in point...
Witnessing an older, southern "gentleman" who was all a twitter about the grand time they had at the rally offer assistance to a cute "all-American" couple with a blond, blue-eyed baby that was 11 months old and all their gear while he shot me and my family a look of utter disdain (we were seated in the row just infront of the other couple). So sad.
This "movement" stands to set the civil rights movement back 60 years if we're not careful...
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OMG Lori, seriously? This actually made me tear up - I am so, so sorry.
It was appalling and scary at the same time. To think that, in 2010, we still have to even deal with that sort of thing is so beyond me.
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I may be a little late on this, but I saw this on a rerun of John Stewart (the day before the rally)
Hopefully, a lot of people watch shows like this and realize how ridiculous & backward beck & friends are.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-26-2010/i-have-a-scheme