Keith Olberman at Daily Kos: Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck

[Oftencold]

This is delicious! They want to "kill the messenger."

Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes (even though Ailes' power was desperately undercut when he failed to pull off his phony "truce" push).

So, an avowed Communist and Truther is exposed and shown to the door, and instead dignified silence on the matter, the Leftists are coming unglued.

And I thought that this was going to be a dull day!

INCOHERENT RANT: Daily Kos: Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck

 

[Harshaw]

No, even now, I refuse to go all caps.

He saves that for the air.

 

[winston53660]

So beck is above criticism now?

 

[Harshaw]

So beck is above criticism now?

Of course not, but "criticism" isn't Olbermann's goal; it never is when he doesn't like someone. It's destruction.

Call it what you will, but if it's wrong, it's wrong; if it's OK, it's OK.

 

[Oftencold]

So beck is above criticism now?

Not at all. But in case it has escaped anyone's notice, Glenn Beck has no legal power over us. Government figures do, and we expect them to be properly vetted.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

Of course not, but "criticism" isn't Olbermann's goal; it never is when he doesn't like someone. It's destruction.\
Call it what you will, but if it's wrong, it's wrong; if it's OK, it's OK.

So is it ok or not?

Personally, I dont give a ****. Imho, it comes with the territory of being a public figure. Tabloids have been doing to to folks for years and I didn't care then and don't now.
And, the rumor is that Glenn Beck has a similar request out to his listeners/viewers.

To me its a case of live-by-die-by.

http://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/3749169499

 

[Redress]

As usual, it turns out the whole story is not presented in the OP. Olberman made his post in response to a Beck tweet that read, in part, this:

“FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER.”

It's a very simple "two can play at that game", and is hardly wrong or inappropriate.

 

[Agnapostate]

Communist? There was an individual who favored the abolition of money, markets, and the state involved here? :2wave:

 

[ScottD]

This is what I watch Countdown for, he digs the most interesting stuff up about these guys, and gives it to us in a simple package. He is like a slightly more serious Jon Stewart.

 

[Harshaw]

So is it ok or not?

I, personally, do not care for scorched-earth politics or commentary.

I'm simply saying, if you think it's wrong, then it's wrong no matter who does it, and if you think it's OK, then it's OK for whoever does it. So, if you're the type to give your side a pass while condemning the other side, then you're a hypocrite.

But it is what it is regardless.

To me its a case of live-by-die-by.

That is what I'm saying.

 

[Harshaw]

Communist? There was an individual who favored the abolition of money, markets, and the state involved here? :2wave:

Take it up with Jones. He said he was.

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[formerroadie]

You go Keith!

 

[Oftencold]

Communist? There was an individual who favored the abolition of money, markets, and the state involved here? :2wave:

Remember, I won't always be here to do your basic research for you!

Emphasis added:

Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades. In 1996, Jones decided to launch his own operation, which he named the Ella Baker Center after an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement. Jones wedged a desk and a chair inside a large closet in the back of Paterson's office. He brought in his home computer and ran cables through the rafters to get the operation humming.

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[Agnapostate]

Interesting. Is David Horowitz also a communist, then?

 

[DeeJayH]

So is it ok or not?

Personally, I dont give a ****. Imho, it comes with the territory of being a public figure. Tabloids have been doing to to folks for years and I didn't care then and don't now.
And, the rumor is that Glenn Beck has a similar request out to his listeners/viewers.

To me its a case of live-by-die-by.

Twitter / Glenn Beck: Watch Dogs: FIND EVERYTHI ...

do you mean his

You go Keith!

you do realize that Keith UberDouche is the lefts Beck on steroids, right?

 

[marduc]

you do realize that Keith UberDouche is the lefts Beck on steroids, right?

Although I would argue that Beck is the rights Olberman on steroids, this is all the more reason to root for him.

Let the meddling talking heads who indoctrinate the populace with hatred and vilification for little more reason than to make millions of dollars on our ignorance duke it out and destroy one another.

You go Keith!

 

[Oftencold]

Horowitz indeed was one, or very close to one. However, he has vociferously, consistently and actively denounced that former ideology.

I would grant Mr. Jones the same consideration, were he even remotely as strident.

By the way, do you know the history of the hymn, "Amazing Grace?"

 

[Agnapostate]

I would grant Mr. Jones the same consideration, were he even remotely as strident.

Planned collaboration with a liberal democratic capitalist administration more than does it, perhaps even to a greater extent than Horowitz's ideological stance because of two critical factors. Firstly, liberal and social democratic capitalism have typically been both more efficient and effective than their rightist cousin, Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Their implementation therefore maintains stability in the capitalist economy and sustains the arrangement wherein the means of production are privately owned. Secondly, Jones was to be in a position where he would have exerted substantially greater influence than Horowitz...thereby rendering him a more effective defender of capitalism. :2wave:

 

[Muddy Creek]

This is delicious! They want to "kill the messenger."



So, an avowed Communist and Truther is exposed and shown to the door, and instead dignified silence on the matter, the Leftists are coming unglued.

And I thought that this was going to be a dull day!

INCOHERENT RANT: Daily Kos: Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck

I don't get your beef on this one.

Why are you making a deal of this? Limbaugh oftentimes calls upon his followers to protest the left, even with the Tea Baggers and all the other lame issues he has.

What's wrong with this?

 

[Muddy Creek]

Of course not, but "criticism" isn't Olbermann's goal; it never is when he doesn't like someone. It's destruction.

Call it what you will, but if it's wrong, it's wrong; if it's OK, it's OK.

And Limbaugh doesn't spew forth destruction, along with Hannity, O'Reilly and Beck? What, you shocked to see the left stand up to these lying loud mouths?

Well, get used to it. Day is coming when your time is up on the political spectrum. Republicans are the new nasty word in describing anti-American. Look at how their economic policies made the upper 1% richer than beyond their wildest dreams and destroyed our nation and the world economics in the process.

It's not a bad word anymore to be a communist. Now declaring yourself a republican is the stuff that makes children shiver with fright in the night.:mrgreen:

 

[Oftencold]

Oh, I suppose I'm amused because instead of asking why the Administration is willing to put crackpots in positions of power in imaginary programs, such as "Green Jobs," Olberman wants to get information about the guy who searched the web and revealed the information that so troubles the President.

It can be amusign to see incompetents at work. Don't enjoy the Stooges?

 

[mikhail]

Its nothing to do with freedom of speech etc its a question if you want a shill for the government giving your news to you.Im no fan of Glenn beck but the same people who defended Bill Clintons actions as none of anybodys business are using the same tactics to destroy people they disagree with.

 

[TOJ]

Oh, I suppose I'm amused because instead of asking why the Administration is willing to put crackpots in positions of power in imaginary programs, such as "Green Jobs," Olberman wants to get information about the guy who searched the web and revealed the information that so troubles the President.

It can be amusign to see incompetents at work. Don't enjoy the Stooges?

You mean Dingy Harry, Bela Pelosi, and Prez Doofus.

.

 

[Agnapostate]

 

[Harshaw]

And Limbaugh doesn't spew forth destruction, along with Hannity, O'Reilly and Beck? What, you shocked to see the left stand up to these lying loud mouths?

Well, get used to it. Day is coming when your time is up on the political spectrum.

I would say that "day is coming when people don't make dozens of unfounded assumptions about other people on the basis of a single statement," but who are we kidding? That day is never coming. Folks such as yourself make sure of that.