It's a sad day in American when a dolt like Glenn Beck can get someone like Van Jones to resign

[devilgrrl]

Disgraceful! :puke:

[ShortnFiery]

1. Yes, agreed.

How about we DOUBLE DOWN at contacting Beck's remaining advertisers?

Anyone have a list?

[indepat]

2. Every day has been a sad day for America since the felonious five did their dastardly deed in

December 2000. :P

[Motown_Johnny]

3. "Truthers" have been given a bad rap because some people go to far with it

I think it is reasonable to assume that Shrub and friends let their guard down so that an attack would occur sooner and then they could use that as an excuse for their war in Iraq.

I think it is unreasonable to think that they helped plan it or in any way assumed that the attack would be so horrific. They must have assumed it would be another truck bomb or something similar, with little or no loss of life and little or no significant property damage. Then nobody would be paying much attention and they could get away with their lies going unquestioned. The fact that the attack was so devastating was a problem for them since they had to go to Afghanistan first instead of going straight to Iraq.


Yes, this makes me a Truther. Even thought I don't think they planned it or knew it would be as bad as it was.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Making Millions for , Crying FIRE!!! ,in a crowded theater.

[johnfunk]

5. Van's a skilled, connected organizer. Something tells me Beck will regret the vendetta.

I see a BIG national boycott of ALL FOX advertisers.

[librechik]

6. Cheney reaches his hand out from beyond to strangle any investigation

not prosecution, mind you, just asking questions. Are we the wimpiest country that ever lived or what?

Anybody who doesn't want questions answered anout 9/11 is not fit to govern. I'm looking at you, Obama. (sadly)

[dugaresa]

7. "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate."

according to Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana.

Any republican saying something like that is total hypocrisy to me.

The situation just pisses me off. Mr. Jones should have told them to shove their collective heads up an elephant's ass.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32712017/ns/politics-white_house?GT1=43001

check out the article for Spence's statement.

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. I think that you are giving Beck too much credit

Jones had too many skeletons in his closet, and it is better for them to come out now rather than later. They only would have served as a distraction to important issues.

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. And even more sad that it was accepted.

[gopiscrap]

10. No kidding

[bain_sidhe]

11. Lonesome Rhodes

Keith kept calling Beck that, and I was unfamiliar with the reference, so I looked it up - it's from the movie "A Face In The Crowd" starring Andy Griffith. We got it from Netflix (it was put out on DVD in 2006, with interviews with the major stars and Budd Schulberg, who wrote it (the director, Elia Kazan, had already died)).

Let me tell you, Olbermann's characterization is dead on. It's remarkable how appropriate it is... Here's the synopsis from Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Essentials: More timely now, perhaps, than when it was first released in 1957, Elia Kazan's overheated political melodrama explores the dangerous manipulative power of pop culture. It exposes the underside of Capra-corn populism, as exemplified in the optimistic fable of grassroots punditry Meet John Doe. In Kazan's account, scripted by Budd Schulberg, the common-man pontificator (Andy Griffith) is no Gary Cooper-style aw-shucks paragon. Promoted to national fame as a folksy TV idol by radio producer Patricia Neal, Griffith's Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes turns out to be a megalomaniacal rat bastard. The film turns apocalyptic as Rhodes exploits his power to sway the masses, helping to elect a reactionary presidential candidate. The parodies of television commercials and opinion polling were cutting edge in their day (Face in the Crowd was the Network of the Eisenhower era), and there are some startling, near-documentary sequences shot on location in Arkansas. An extraordinary supporting cast (led by Walter Matthau and Lee Remick) helps keep the energy level high, even when the satire turns shrill and unpersuasive in the final reel. There's an interesting parallel in Tim Robbins's snide pseudodocumentary Bob Roberts: both these pictures have almost as much contempt for the lemmings in the audience as for the manipulative monsters who herd them over the cliff. --David Chute

We can only hope for the same ending for Beck