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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

FUNNY.FRIGHTENING.TRUE.It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of tax...
What an awesome week for all kinds of crazy. If aliens had landed on our planet, they would have watched as: the world’s most celebrated movie stars snored through a bizarre, seventeen-hour interpretive dance at the Oscars; Rep. Patrick Kennedy lost...
From: The Daily Caller | By: S.E. Cupp | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News, filmmaker Michael Moore continued his recent attacks on Democrats for not delivering more effectively on a left-wing agenda, called out gay Republicans for "hypocrisy," and seemed...
From: NewsBusters | By: Brad Wilmouth | Friday, March 12, 2010
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I would agree with Mr. Rather on one point he attempted to make in defense of himself. I do think that the media is complicit in getting the story of race in the Age of Obama wrong.
From: Huffington Post | By: Keli Goff | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Glenn Beck's obsession with rooting out the evils of progressivism have led him to take up history lately. But it's a strange kind of history, an alternative one that bears little resemblance to what you might read in textbooks. (Since textbooks, after...
From: Salon.com | By: Mike Madden | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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[1]Image via Wikipedia Sometime last year, after I finished reading ‘Emergency [2]’ by Neil Strauss, I decided that if there were to be a cataclysmic event nearby, I’d most likely be one of the first to die. In Emergency, Strauss chronicles his...
From: True Slant | By: Colin Horgan | Friday, March 12, 2010
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During a segment of Glenn Beck's Fox News Channel show, the controversial host declared that while the Chinese government and businesses pose a threat to U.S. economic stability, the Obama White House and government agencies are powerless to stop the...
From: Free Republic | By: Examiner | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Rep. Jack Ryan is the GOP's idea guy, but his party is wary of his specifics....
From: The Atlantic | By: Marc Ambinder | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Republicans' embrace of Massa is a prime example of Obama Derangement Syndrome, which expresses itself in hating anything that the president likes, even if you once loved it, like a bipartisan commission on the deficit.
From: Huffington Post | By: Margaret Carlson | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Do you know who the enemy is?Wake up, America, there's a new, dangerous threat on the horizon: progressives. You may have heard about them if you've been paying attention to the right sources. They come from the 1920s, they're...
From: Hullabaloo | By: digby | Friday, March 12, 2010
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It’s almost too easy to mock Glenn Beck and his few remaining idiotic advertisers, but Stephen Colbert makes it look even easier. (The video is here [1].) [1] http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/267141/march-10-2010/survival-seed-bank...
From: True Slant | By: Charles Johnson | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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It’s almost too easy to mock Glenn Beck and his few remaining idiotic advertisers, but Stephen Colbert makes it look even easier. [Video]...
From: Little Green Footballs | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Filed under: NewsWhich former game show host has given $7.5M to animal rights groups already in 2010? Are you a "save the wolves" conservationist, or a "kill it and grill it" conservationist? Is America's fear of the Prius psyching us out? Today's Eco-Beat...
From: Green Daily | By: Josh Loposer | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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You don't hear the words "poodle," "tinfoil hat," and First Amendment in the same sentence often, but they are indeed linked in a classic Facebook melodrama. Dale Blank runs a Facebook page devoted to accumulating as many fans as possible for a farcical...
From: Red Tape Chronicles | By: Bob Sullivan | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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A generation after Democrats fled from the term "liberal," the right is going after "progressive," too...
From: Salon.com | By: Mike Madden | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Gold, Nazis, bald Communists and stand-up comedy: Let us count the ways that Glenn Beck has wasted people's time...
From: Salon.com | By: Salon Staff | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Roy Sekoff appeared on "The Ed Show" Wednesday to weigh in on yesterday's bizarre media blitz by former Democratic congressman Eric Massa. When asked by...
From: Huffington Post | By: Huff TV | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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In addition to recently suggesting Christians leave their churches, Glenn Beck now has gone after Bruce Springsteen, The Boss, the Bard of the E Street, I've run out of names. The Arbiter of America (guess I haven't run out of names) has called "Born...
From: Hartford Courant | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Glenn Beck says Christians should leave their social justice churches, so I say Christians should leave Beck. Beck attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show.
From: Huffington Post | By: Jim Wallis | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Republicans will readily admit that trying to win over black voters has been a lost cause since LBJ, so why not exploit that loss by playing to white racial bias and thus locking down larger chunks of the white vote?
From: Huffington Post | By: Bob Cesca | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Former Rep. Eric Massa's description of tickle fights in his office reminded me of my own brush…...
From: The Atlantic | By: Marc Ambinder | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Last week, Glenn Beck said that because the Nazis used the words “social justice,” Christians should run from churches that use those words on their websites, never mind that they are at the heart of Scripture. Beck renewed these attacks on Christ’s...
From: MyDD | By: Nathan Empsall | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Massa may very well have health problems, but it would seem that he's also sick in a different way, either deeply delusional or deeply dishonest -- or perhaps both.
From: Huffington Post | By: Michael J.W. Stickings | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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On his radio show Wednesday, Glenn Beck confirmed that he was as frustrated as he appeared during his interview of former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y. "I almost said ... you've wasted enough of my time, get out. I almost said that. I almost threw him out...
From: Salon.com | By: Alex Koppelman | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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When I wrote about Eric Massa yesterday, it didn’t seem likely that the story could get much stranger. More sordid, certainly; we were only beginning to hear about the actual ethics allegations that had led...
From: New Yorker | By: Amy Davidson | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Much of the political focus of the Eric Massa resignation has centered on whether, how and to what degree the former congressman was bullied by the White House or his colleagues in Congress to vote for healthcare reform or other measures. With his ambiguous...
From: FiveThirtyEight | By: Tom Schaller | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Sin, Death, and Rahm Emanuel...
From: The Atlantic | By: Max Fisher | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Oh, my... …...
From: HypnoThoughts | By: Michael Ellner | Friday, March 12, 2010
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A middle-aged woman from the Pennsylvania suburbs, self-titled JihadJane , has been linked to an assasination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. She allegedly recruited a network of terrorists...
From: Slate | By: DoubleX Staff | Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Twenty-six years after the release of Bruce Springsteen's hit song, "Born in The USA," conservative talk show host/performance artist Glenn Beck finally got around to listening to the lyrics. Beck was shocked, shocked to discover that for all these years...
From: Big Think | By: Lindsay Beyerstein | Friday, March 12, 2010
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A song that's been played over speakers at hundreds of campaign rallies, vibrated in the space between drinks at everyone's favorite bar and set millions of heads nodding from radio stations coast to coast -- a piece of music that is literally stitched...
From: The Raw Story | By: Stephen C. Webster | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Jon Stewart threatens Glenn Beck with a tickle fight after his interview with Eric Massa... Oh and, balls!...
From: Digg | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Cable news ratings, March 10, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below: • Glenn Beck and Bret Baier, at 5 and 6pmET for Fox News, had more viewers in the A25-54 demographic than their cable news competition had total viewers at...
From: Mediaite | By: Steve Krakauer | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Hat Tip to Moveon.Org, Brave New Films and The Service Employees International Union. Related posts:How delusional is Glenn Beck? Glenn Beck: The 1970s Were Golden Era You are witness to the birth of Glenn Beck, Mark 2…hope you enjoy my new direction...
From: Lawyers Guns and Money | By: Charli Carpenter | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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He's after Tommy Christopher. You could be next.
From: Funk Jelly | By: Danielle Evenson | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Glenn Beck's special on extremists in American History. Only caught the last half hour but this looks very interesting. http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/2010/March/Watch-The-Glenn-Beck-Show-March-11-2010/ Danny
From: Free Republic | By: TheDailyBeck | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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For a few weeks last fall, editors and ombudsmen at The Washington Post and New York Times seemed obsessed with the idea that they should be paying more attention to right-wing media and websites. In the wake of some wildly hyperbolic claims about ACORN,...
From: Media Matters | By: J.F. | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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DOWNLOADS: (23) PLAYS: (137) (h/t Heather at VideoCafe) Is there a licensed psycho-therapist in the NY area willing to go to Fox News Headquarters in Manhattan and stage an intervention for Glenn Beck? I really think he's lost his mind. It's not even...
From: Crooks and Liars | By: Nicole Belle | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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In an effort to critically analyze another piece of pop music, Glenn Beck and his sidekicks reached the conclusion that Bruce Springsteen's 1984 hit "Born in the U.S.A." is critical of America and, therefore, unpatriotic. In fact, the song was deemed...
From: Media Matters | By: Jeremy Holden | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Glenn Beck tells his radio audience about an amazing conversation he had with a Fox News executive. The key quote: I was in this meeting and I pulled one of the guys out, he’s a vice president of Fox. And I said, "When I first started working with...
From: Daily Kos | By: Jed Lewison | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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"You don't hear the words 'poodle,' 'tinfoil hat,' and 'First Amendment' in the same sentence often, but they are indeed linked in a classic Facebook melodrama." On February 8 Dale Blank created a Facebook page called 'Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil...
From: MetaFilter | By: ericb | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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A liberal evangelical leader responds to the broadcaster's attack on churches that preach about social or economic justice.
From: New York Times | By: LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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TV’s biggest moron. Mr. Beck, in vilifying churches that promote ‘social justice,’ managed to insult just about every mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, African American, Hispanic and Asian congregation in the country – not to mention plenty...
From: Oliver Willis | By: Oliver Willis | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Hat Tip to Moveon.Org Related posts:How delusional is Glenn Beck? Glenn Beck: The 1970s Were Golden Era You are witness to the birth of Glenn Beck, Mark 2…hope you enjoy my new direction Related posts:How delusional is Glenn Beck? Glenn Beck: The 1970s...
From: Lawyers Guns and Money | By: Charli Carpenter | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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From a March 11 post on the NY Times' The Caucus blog: Last week, the conservative Fox television host Glenn Beck called on Christians to leave their churches if they hear any preaching about social or economic justice because, he claimed, those are...
From: Media Matters | By: Media Matters staff | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Television and radio host Glenn Beck has, as Steve Benen puts it "doubled down" on his opposition to Christian churches that speak of "social justice." Yesterday, Beck told his radio listeners to "look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic...
From: Slacktivist | By: Fred Clark | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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He's attacking a 70-year-old song, for some reason. He also ranted about "Born in the U.S.A.," which is 26 years old, and "Revolution," which is more than 40 years old. (See below.) Let's see, that means he'll get to Rage Against the Machine sometime...
From: Kansas City Star | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Because “tomorrow, it will again be morning in America.” Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Shake the cobwebs out of your brain...We are another day closer to the REVOLUTION that will change the 2010 elections. All comrades, infidels,...
From: Free Republic | By: Fox News | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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FNC's Glenn Beck has upset the Sojourners. They are angered by his recent comments that "communists are on the left, and the Nazis are on the right" but that "both subscribe to one philosophy ... social justice." (Some may note that Beck, on the day...
From: Media Bistro | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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[1]Image by Getty Images via Daylife After the Eric Massa controversy blew up in Glenn Beck's face Tuesday night, and it became clear that the resigned first-term representative could not be their new anti-Obama hero, a lot of conservatives reverted...
From: True Slant | By: Michael Roston | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Beck is preaching to his own choir, as are his detractors.
From: Religion Dispatches | By: Daniel Schultz | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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