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Charles H. Sampson

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Dec 24, 2009, 10:03:50 AM12/24/09
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Since being introduced to Glenn Beck a few months ago I've become
more and more interested in the workings of his brain. Is he too stupid
to recognise is own inconsistencies? Is he just playing a persona
created to tap into the underrepresented right? Is he cynically
exploiting his followers, knowing that if someone loudly espouses their
views they'll buy his books and follow his advice, making him a rich
man?

The most recent example (for me) is his book "Arguing With Idiots".
Doesn't he recognize that the uniform he wears on the dust jacket is
very reminescent of the Nazis? You'd think that he wouldn't want to
give his detractors such an opening. Or is it something more sinister:
He's appealing to the subconcious of the kind of person who is turned on
by such appearances of authority?

Add your 25-cent psychological analysis here ...

Charlie

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All the world's a stage, and most
of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O'Casey

TeeJay1952

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Dec 24, 2009, 11:01:42 AM12/24/09
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I have a daughter who is manic-depressive (bi-polar is what they call
it now). Beck acts the same (many different) ways as her. Highs and
lows, the answer for everything followed by inability to do anything.
I can never fail to be astonished at her ability to want to control all
and then a few days later her being crushed by all the crap she put on
herself when she was "up".
Beck goes from jovial to tears and then back again. He chalks up a
bunch of unrelated junk, sees a pattern and swings over to another
topic. It is exhausting watching him.
He has taken a couple of time outs for medical things that I suspect
the powers that be use to cover up Beck getting tuned back to to a more
normal level. I know this to be true because he hasn't called me to
prove I am wrong:)
Tee Jay

Volfie999

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Dec 24, 2009, 12:09:57 PM12/24/09
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On Dec 24, 10:03 am, csamp...@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson)
wrote:

>      Since being introduced to Glenn Beck a few months ago I've become
> more and more interested in the workings of his brain.  Is he too stupid
> to recognise is own inconsistencies?  Is he just playing a persona
> created to tap into the underrepresented right?  Is he cynically
> exploiting his followers, knowing that if someone loudly espouses their
> views they'll buy his books and follow his advice, making him a rich
> man?
>
>      The most recent example (for me) is his book "Arguing With Idiots".
> Doesn't he recognize that the uniform he wears on the dust jacket is
> very reminescent of the Nazis?  You'd think that he wouldn't want to
> give his detractors such an opening.  Or is it something more sinister:
> He's appealing to the subconcious of the kind of person who is turned on
> by such appearances of authority?
>
Yes.

Dano

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Dec 24, 2009, 12:32:37 PM12/24/09
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Charles H. Sampson wrote:
> Since being introduced to Glenn Beck a few months ago I've become
> more and more interested in the workings of his brain. Is he too
> stupid to recognise is own inconsistencies? Is he just playing a
> persona created to tap into the underrepresented right? Is he
> cynically exploiting his followers, knowing that if someone loudly
> espouses their views they'll buy his books and follow his advice,
> making him a rich man?
>
> The most recent example (for me) is his book "Arguing With
> Idiots". Doesn't he recognize that the uniform he wears on the dust
> jacket is very reminescent of the Nazis? You'd think that he
> wouldn't want to give his detractors such an opening. Or is it
> something more sinister: He's appealing to the subconcious of the
> kind of person who is turned on by such appearances of authority?
>
> Add your 25-cent psychological analysis here ...
>

Honestly...I just saw that book the other day and observing the cover and
the blurbs, it took a few minutes to determine if it was not a parody. I
really thought it was a hatchet job being done against him. There is
definitely something seriously wrong with him. As well as with his
followers. I once thought it was all an act...a cynical ploy to make
millions. I don't know anymore. I think he is insane.


JJ

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Dec 24, 2009, 1:10:04 PM12/24/09
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"Dano" <janea...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Add your 25-cent psychological analysis here ...
>Honestly...I just saw that book the other day and observing the cover and
>the blurbs, it took a few minutes to determine if it was not a parody. I
>really thought it was a hatchet job being done against him. There is
>definitely something seriously wrong with him. As well as with his
>followers. I once thought it was all an act...a cynical ploy to make
>millions. I don't know anymore. I think he is insane.

How about Michelle Malkin? The Asian Ann Coulter. LOL.
I really haven't gotten deeper than assuming these people just
say/write that stuff because it makes them literally millions.

Then they stop sleeping well and go crazy. :-)

I am particularly interested in what M. Malkin's Rhodes Scholar hubby
thinks of her work.


Hal E

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Dec 24, 2009, 4:07:42 PM12/24/09
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On Dec 24, 12:10 pm, j...@not-real-mail.com (JJ) wrote:

Glenn Beck is an actor. His act is no more real than Stephen
Colbert's.
He is annoying because he enjoys getting under people's skin.
I don't like him because he's a phony. He's no Nazi. Nazis were
reptilian but alas
they were not kidding.
I have the choice NOT TO WATCH HIM. And I don't. You take Beck or any
rabble-rouser
on EITHER side seriously (I'm thinking as far back as the Hoffman-
Rubin "Politics of the put-on" of forty years ago)
and you invest them with more importance than they deserve.
The fact that you're talking about him indicates that what he does
works.
Stop talking about him. I stopped talking about Beck, Maddow, Olberman
and Hannity a long time ago, and their
opinions and behavior mean nothing to me.

Rich

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Dec 24, 2009, 4:21:07 PM12/24/09
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csam...@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote in
news:1jb7usj.dm5d8aatdgc9N%csam...@inetworld.net:

You woudn't know a Nazi unless they were shoving you into the
showers...Why is it from global warming propaganda to political
discourse, liberals always exaggerate? Is it because it's part of the
structure of leftist propaganda?

Dano

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Dec 24, 2009, 5:03:25 PM12/24/09
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Well it should. He may be putting on an act...or not...but he certainly IS
representative of many loons in this country today. People that are veering
into fairly dangerous territory and becoming violent in their own paranoid
delusions. It's very chilling to hear the hatred and anger in many of these
folks, and creeps like Beck and Rush who likely don't believe half of their
own balderdash are fanning the flames. I doubt many believed it was
possible for the Nazi's to ramp up the hate the way they did in pre-WWII
Germany either...until it was too late that is. Ignore at our own risk.


Steve Newport

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Dec 24, 2009, 5:49:44 PM12/24/09
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From: hl...@sbcglobal.net (Hal E)
I stopped talking about Beck, Maddow, Olberman and Hannity
------------------------------------------
These people should not be lumped together.

Steve Newport

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Dec 24, 2009, 5:53:07 PM12/24/09
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From: janea...@yahoo.com (Dano)
It's very chilling to hear the hatred and anger in many of these folks.
Creeps like Beck and Rush who don't believe half of their own balderdash
are fanning the flames.
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They've gotten to Rich.

Volfie999

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Dec 24, 2009, 9:17:50 PM12/24/09
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On Dec 24, 4:21 pm, Rich <n...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> csamp...@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote innews:1jb7usj.dm5d8aatdgc9N%csam...@inetworld.net:

"Why is it liberals always exaggerate?" You don't see the delicious
irony in that sentence, do you? :)

Steve Newport

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Dec 25, 2009, 3:52:41 AM12/25/09
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From: terrynos...@comcast.net (TeeJay1952) It is exhausting
watching him.
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And in no way worth the exhaustion.

record hunter

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Dec 25, 2009, 7:36:50 AM12/25/09
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If assassination happens, it will undoubtedly be committed by some
Rush- or Glenn-loving reichtard. Actually, I think it's a matter of
"when," not "if."

Volfie999

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Dec 25, 2009, 11:27:03 AM12/25/09
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It's happened already. When that doctor was murdered. "Tiller The
Baby-Killer!" as O'Reilly gleefully dubbed him. That doesn't count
those three cops in Pittsburgh, and other acts of random right-wing
violence cause "Obama's gonna take our guns!"

Charles H. Sampson

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Dec 25, 2009, 11:43:47 AM12/25/09
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Dano <janea...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > ...


> >
> > The most recent example (for me) is his book "Arguing With
> > Idiots". Doesn't he recognize that the uniform he wears on the dust
> > jacket is very reminescent of the Nazis? You'd think that he
> > wouldn't want to give his detractors such an opening. Or is it
> > something more sinister: He's appealing to the subconcious of the
> > kind of person who is turned on by such appearances of authority?
> >

> > ...
> >
>
> Honestly...I just saw that book the other day and observing the cover and
> the blurbs, it took a few minutes to determine if it was not a parody. I
> really thought it was a hatchet job being done against him. There is
> definitely something seriously wrong with him. As well as with his
> followers. I once thought it was all an act...a cynical ploy to make
> millions. I don't know anymore. I think he is insane.

Has anybody read enough of the book to know if the cover (uniform)
is at all relevant to the contents? I certainly haven't and I don't
plan to. It's an application of the Nixonian "Don't buy books from
crooks" idea. I don't want to support his getting even a couple of
dollars richer

Dano

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Dec 25, 2009, 2:48:56 PM12/25/09
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Well, when even the blurb on the back cover makes no sense at all...it
hardly seems worth the effort to go inside. I wouldn't bother to read it if
it were offered free of charge. For anyone who hasn't seen this...

http://www.popdecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/glenn-beck-book-cover-323x400.jpg


Steve Newport

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Dec 26, 2009, 1:21:30 AM12/26/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) If assassination

happens, it will undoubtedly be committed by some Rush- or Glenn-loving
reichtard.
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Possibly from rec.arts.tv.

record hunter

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Dec 26, 2009, 9:39:37 AM12/26/09
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On Dec 26, 1:21 am, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) If assassination

Yeah. Bob and Carole come to mind.

Steve Newport

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Dec 26, 2009, 1:20:13 PM12/26/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) If assassination
happens, it will undoubtedly be committed by some Rush- or Glenn-loving
reichtard.
Bob and Carole come to mind.
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Especially if Ted and Alice turn them down again.

record hunter

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Dec 26, 2009, 3:26:28 PM12/26/09
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On Dec 26, 1:20 pm, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) If assassination

And I can't think of anyone who wouldn't turn Bob down.

Steve Newport

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Dec 26, 2009, 11:49:15 PM12/26/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) And I can't think of

anyone who wouldn't turn Bob down.
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Or any sane person who
wouldn't turn Beck down.

record hunter

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Dec 27, 2009, 2:24:38 PM12/27/09
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On Dec 26, 11:49 pm, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) And I can't think of

so much insanity in the world today

Not Sure

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Dec 27, 2009, 7:21:48 PM12/27/09
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Is Trotsky getting jealous?

Steve Newport

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Dec 28, 2009, 12:34:23 AM12/28/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) so much insanity in the
world today
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Starting with "Not Sure."

record hunter

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Dec 28, 2009, 12:55:28 AM12/28/09
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On Dec 28, 12:34 am, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) so much insanity in the

> world today
> ---------------------------------
> Starting with "Not Sure."

Is "Not Sure" that douche who's always posting about "try not to cry"?
When I go to sleep at night, I pray to God to help that poor,
unfortunate soul, and make him less pathetic and, if it is God's will,
to bestow upon said douche AN IMAGINATION, for no one on the entire
internet is quite so lacking in one as the "try not to cry" man.

Steve Newport

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Dec 28, 2009, 5:32:29 AM12/28/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) "Not Sure": that douche

who's always posting about "try not to cry"? When I go to sleep at
night, I pray to God to help that poor, unfortunate soul, and make him
less pathetic and, if it is God's will, to bestow upon said douche AN
IMAGINATION, for no one on the entire internet is quite so lacking in
one as the "try not to cry" man.
-----------------------------------------
He's the poor man's Ubi.

trotsky

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Dec 28, 2009, 7:22:54 AM12/28/09
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Strangely, he seems to alternate between "try not to cry" and "continue
wailing/sobbing". He's as stupid as a bag of hammers.

record hunter

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Dec 28, 2009, 10:39:30 AM12/28/09
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On Dec 28, 5:32 am, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) "Not Sure": that douche

Ubi doesn't bother me. And when's the last time TNTC posted something
accurate and interesting about Sandra Lee?

Steve Newport

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Dec 28, 2009, 2:28:16 PM12/28/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) Ubi doesn't bother me.
-------------------------------------
Not even his troll-o-meter? He uses many of the same stock non-answers
that all the right wingers use. "Get back to us" etc.

record hunter

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Dec 28, 2009, 3:51:59 PM12/28/09
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On Dec 28, 2:28 pm, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) Ubi doesn't bother me.

> -------------------------------------
> Not even his troll-o-meter? He uses many of the same stock non-answers
> that all the right wingers use. "Get back to us" etc.

I have an easy time looking past things, perhaps. I don't expect Ubi
and I will ever see eye to eye on politics, so I look past that aspect
of his postings. Nobody else posts such great stuff about Sandra Lee,
whom I find at least as destructive an influence on society as Bush/
Republicanism, and Ubi's who goes out and finds that stuff and brings
it here. I hate Sandra Lee much more than I hate any of a bunch of
internet newsgroup posters, so Ubi gets a pass, I guess you'd say.

Steve Newport

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Dec 29, 2009, 3:41:38 AM12/29/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) Sandra Lee: I find at
least as destructive an influence on society as Bush/ Republicanism...I
hate Sandra Lee much more than any of a bunch of internet newsgroup
posters
-----------------------------------------
What are your feelings about Sandra Dee?

record hunter

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Dec 29, 2009, 9:16:15 AM12/29/09
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On Dec 29, 3:41 am, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) Sandra Lee: I find at

I have none.

Anim8rFSK

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Dec 29, 2009, 12:17:05 PM12/29/09
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In article
<63482b74-875e-40af...@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
record hunter <record...@gmail.com> wrote:

(singing)

Look at me
I'm Sandra Lee
Lousy with
um
we need a 4 syllable word for 'food poisoning' that rhymes with
'virginity'

--
Tiger Woods has just been named "Athlete of the Decade"
His chosen event? The Broad Jump.

record hunter

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Dec 29, 2009, 5:04:00 PM12/29/09
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On Dec 29, 12:17 pm, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@cox.net> wrote:
> In article
> <63482b74-875e-40af-be67-8b039ff69...@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,

> record hunter <record.hun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 29, 3:41 am, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> > > From: record.hun...@gmail.com (record hunter) Sandra Lee: I find at
> > > least as destructive an influence on society as Bush/ Republicanism...I
> > > hate Sandra Lee much more than any of a bunch of internet newsgroup
> > > posters
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > What are your feelings about Sandra Dee?
>
> > I have none.
>
> (singing)
>
> Look at me
> I'm Sandra Lee
> Lousy with
> um
> we need a 4 syllable word for 'food poisoning' that rhymes with
> 'virginity'
>
> --
> Tiger Woods has just been named "Athlete of the Decade"
> His chosen event? The Broad Jump.

e.colinity--no, it has five. But it works if you say it fast.

Steve Newport

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Dec 29, 2009, 5:04:50 PM12/29/09
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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) <<<What are your
feelings about Sandra Dee?>>>
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I have none.
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SN: I had a huge crush on her when I was a kid.

Steve Newport

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Dec 29, 2009, 5:08:42 PM12/29/09
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From: ANIM...@cox.net (Anim8rFSK)
(singing) Look at me
I'm Sandra Lee
Lousy with-- um
we need a 4 syllable word for 'food poisoning' that rhymes with
'virginity'
--------------------------------------
SN: There was also Sondra Lee-- who played Tiger Lily in Mary Martin's
PETER PAN and Minnie Fay in Carol Channing's HELLO, DOLLY!

Anim8rFSK

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Dec 29, 2009, 6:38:55 PM12/29/09
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In article
<b0c11a1a-a0b7-482f...@q16g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
record hunter <record...@gmail.com> wrote:

ooo, I like it!

I'll even subsitute 'full of' for 'lousy with' just to make it fit

:)

Ubiquitous

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Dec 30, 2009, 10:54:05 PM12/30/09
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csam...@inetworld.net wrote:

>Doesn't he recognize that the uniform he wears on the dust jacket is
>very reminescent of the Nazis?

Godwin's Law violation noted. Get back to us when you have a real
argument to make.

--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.

record hunter

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On Dec 29, 6:38 pm, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@cox.net> wrote:
> In article
> <b0c11a1a-a0b7-482f-8b1b-dea076792...@q16g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,

Oh, that works well.

Steve Newport

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Dec 31, 2009, 5:04:37 AM12/31/09
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From: fred1...@gmail.com (Not Sure) Is Trotsky getting jealous?
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You really want him bad, don't you?!

Steve Newport

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From: web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous)
Godwin's Law violation noted.
---------------------------------
And?

record hunter

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Jan 1, 2010, 11:51:57 AM1/1/10
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Godwin's Law = rhetoreich

SFTV_troy

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Jan 2, 2010, 11:35:17 AM1/2/10
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On Dec 24 2009, 11:01 am, TeeJay1952 <terrynospamjo...@comcast.net>
wrote:
>
>I have a daughter who is manic-depressive (bi-polar is what they call
> it now). Beck acts the same (many different) ways as her. Highs and
> lows, the answer for everything followed by inability to do anything.

Why is it that liberals think ersonal attacks amount to a valid
argument? You sound like me 8-year-old nephew. "I hate you! You
have cooties!" except you replaced cooties with a mental disease.
Very child-like.


>>>It is exhausting watching him.

Funny? I have no problem following his arguments whatsoever. Maybe
that's why you need to yell "Beck's got cooties!" rather than engage
in a logic-based, adult, mature conversation.

SFTV_troy

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On Dec 24 2009, 10:03 am, csamp...@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson)
wrote:
>
>      The most recent example (for me) is his book "Arguing With Idiots".

> Doesn't he recognize that the uniform he wears on the dust jacket is
> very reminescent of the Nazis?  

Beck is wearing a RUSSIAN uniform. Don't insult the Russians by
comparing them to Nazis - Germany would have won the war, if not for
the bravery of the Russians pushing them back.

Steve Newport

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Jan 3, 2010, 12:54:00 AM1/3/10
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From: SFTV...@yahoo.com (SFTV_troy) <<<I have a daughter who is

manic-depressive (bi-polar is what they call it now). Beck acts the
same: Highs and lows, the answer for everything followed by inability to
do anything.>>>
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I have no problem following his arguments whatsoever.
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SN: Interesting.

Ubiquitous

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record...@gmail.com wrote:

>Godwin's Law = rhetoreich

No, it's doing the reich thing.

--
It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.


record hunter

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On Jan 3, 12:54 am, birdpare...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> From: SFTV_t...@yahoo.com (SFTV_troy) <<<I have a daughter who is

Today he was doing one on the radio whereby he "proved" that someone,
I forget who, in Congress "thinks Congress is God" because he made a
speech in which he described adequate health care as "an inalienable
right." Beck argued that since it's not up there in the constitution
with "our right to own guns," that Congress is declaring itself "God"
because only God can ordain one with inalienable rights.

I'm, like, "God actually told Thomas Jefferson, et al, that owning a
gun was an inalienable right?" Yeah. Right.

Steve Newport

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From: record...@gmail.com (record hunter) <<<manic-depressive

(bi-polar is what they call it now). Beck acts the same: Highs and lows,
the answer for everything followed by inability to do anything.>>>
--------------------------------------
..adequate health care as "an inalienable right." Beck argued that

since it's not up there in the constitution with "our right to own
guns," that Congress is declaring itself "God" because only God can
ordain one with inalienable rights. I'm, like, "God actually told Thomas
Jefferson, et al, that owning a gun was an inalienable right?"
-----------------------------------------
SN: And fools buy this blarney!

Charles H. Sampson

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Jan 7, 2010, 1:15:57 AM1/7/10
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SFTV_troy <SFTV...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Do you know of a website that has good illustrations of
Soviet/Russian uniforms? When I first saw the dust jacket, the Soviet
army was what came first to my mind. However, something doesn't look
quite right to me, although I'm no expert on military uniforms of any
country. For example, because of the way the picture is cropped I can't
see the star on the front of the hat.

If it really is a Soviet/Russian uniform, that's even more bizarre
for Beck than my first guess that he was alluding to the Nazis.

I doubt that many Americans are aware of the Soviet Union's
contributions in WWII, even after you get past the nasty detail of the
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. As important as those contributions were, it
will be difficult to argue that Germany would have won without them. It
certainly would have been a quite different war though.

Charlie
--
All the world's a stage, and most
of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O'Casey

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