Glen Beck is thrown under bus

Linbaugh, Joe Sarborough and other right wing pundits throw him to the wolves.

Glenn Beck has become Icarus. Giddy from being compared to Rush Limbaugh, and fancying himself the new string-puller on the right, he is flying too close to the sun.

He’s losing his focus, and is now just hurling random invective, forgetting that he’s annoying the choir that’s keeping him aloft.

He will fall. And soon. He’ll be lucky to get a local radio hate show in a backwoods market when Fox News has had enough of him.

Beck’s opinion elicited a fierce and angry response from right-wing radio host Mark Levin yesterday. “To say [McCain] would be worse is mindless, mindless, incoherent as a matter of fact,” Levin said on his radio show. He then suggested Beck is playing politics: “I don’t know who people are playing to. I don’t know why they’re playing to certain people.”

Levin never mentions Beck by name (he refers to Beck as “the 5 pm’er” because Beck’s show airs at 5 pm on Fox News). He concluded with this final dig at Beck:

I think there’s enormous confusion and positioning and pandering. It may be entertaining, but from my perspective, it’s not. It’s pathetic.

Beck is causing consternation for many right wingers these days. Peter Wehner, a former political adviser to President Bush, recently wrote that Beck is “harmful to the conservative movement” because he’s “erratic,” “bizarre,” and is too interested in “conspiracy theories.” And Rush Limbaugh recently suggested to Politico that Beck’s role in promoting the 9/12 protest was “cheap and disingenuous.”

Update Raw Story notes that, this morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough expressed disdain for Fox News’ Glenn Beck. “You cannot preach hatred. You cannot say the president is racist. You cannot say things that have very deadly consequences. I was in Congress in 1995. I know where this can end,” said Scarborough.

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Now they are having second thoughts about Afghan President Karsai

I have often questioned the purpose of the war in Afghanistan. I figure that a country that is still living in the fourteenth century has very dim possibilities to handle a democracy. I also blame the Republicans and their total disregard for a war of necessity as was the incursion into Afghanistan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. Once that possibility was out of the picture, due to our own incompetence and lack of resolve, we got quagmired in a war that took all our energy and resources and wasn’t even necessary as the one in Afghanistan was.

There are some Republicans who are now suggesting that we “cut and run”; something they so vehemently accused then candidate Obama of wanting to do in Iraq. Of course, we know that once we pull out of Afghanistan, everything will revert back to the Taliban and the Sharia laws. It would be a tremendous defeat which the Republicans will then gloat about and blame on Obama.

The irony of all this is that we have to work with the Karsai government. We know he is corrupt, we know almost with certainty that the elections were rigged and he may or may not have won. But what do we do at this point?

Far be it for us to criticize Karzai for rigging the elections. The Republicans did it to their advantage in 2000 and 2004 and we are not going to go into the technicalities or the details, but there are many in America who feel that Bush was not elected neither by a popular nor an electoral college majority in either one of the two elections. Oh, they tried in these last Presidential elections to cheat and rig the system, only the Democrats got smart and were on to their game. They placed thousands of observers and lawyers to see to it that no irregularities would take place. Some irregularities still took place but the voters were so fed up with Bush and the Republicans that a clear majority was very difficult to railroad this time.

So that what kind of moral authority do we as a country have, what makes the Republicans think that they can actually criticize any government for corruption and rigging elections when we had our own taste of it right here in America with Bush and the Republicans?

We are sort of looking at a mirror: USA/Afghanistan. Why? Because in both places there are people whose religion is more important than their country, their families, hell, even more important than life itself. In Afghanistan, they want to return to a very strict theocracy. Never mind that they will keep producing all these poppies that will become deadly drugs. They don’t care, just don’t get caught with a joint or they might even hang you, or be suspected of being gay because they will hang you for sure.

In The United States, we have seen how far these Fundamentalist-Evangelicals are willing to travel in order to achieve their goal of a Christian theocracy in America. They will lie, exaggerate or distort the truth, they will turn against their own children and their country. Even trample the very Constitution they claim to defend so much. The economy will go to hell, they will get us into unnecessary wars, they will usurp their power when in office, they will trash the Constitution and even commit crimes unimaginable as is torture prisoners. They don’t care about health care or the well being of the poor. As long as abortion is illegal, they can have prayer/indoctrination in the schools and legally discriminate against gays, they are ok with the rest.
Amazingly enough, we have a lot of broken things that make me doubt of the validity of the democratic process as we know it in this country. With Gerrymandering, with the lobbyists, the uncivil public outbursts meant to demoralize and sabotage public discourse disguised as freedom of speech, with the obstructionist and delay tactics that are not allowing any legislation to get passed, I seriously question our system as valid at this point. What makes an elected official, whom the constituents send to Washington to act on their behalf, only to do just the opposite in favor of the big corporations and the very rich, betraying their trust and their wishes?

I think that as a country we are going to have to do some serious soul searching and moderate our views on many things.

Sarah Palin for example; went to Hong Kong today and gave a speech to Chinese Capitalist/Communists where she said that we ought to have less regulations and that was the reason for the almost disastrous stock market crash we are now only starting to get over. Less regulation? Seriously Sarah, I don’t know where the fuck you got your degree in Economics, but even a dummy like me knows that President Reagan started a concerted and systematic effort to dismantle all the regulations that kept us solvent since the Great Depression.

I suppose we could say that Reagan was right when he declared at the very beginning of his administration, during his inaugural address that “Government is the problem”. And these are words that most Conservative Republicans live by these days. I will have to say to them: Yes, Mr. Reagan, government is the problem, when it is in the hands of Republicans.

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