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Confessor Of Sins






Scranton

so... what are your thoughts on Glenn Beck?

I saw this on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwZ76QB7uk&feature=channel

But then watching some daily show clips... I noticed what was pointed out... He really isn't reporting... he is "preaching"

Is this really News? Should this be on a news channel?

 
   
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Minnesota

Didn't we already have a thread on him a little while ago?

Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork








Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
 
   
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About to eat your Avatar...

He has a shpeal, and he is a shmuck, not much more too it.

In order to consider him a reporter, he would have to report news, not conspiracy. I feel that he is beneath propaganda, but above conspiracy. So you end up with some crazy guy on TV. Not much more too it.

In all honesty, I just ignore what he says, it never adds up to much of anything... anyway though BANANA TIME!!!


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Minnesota



Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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About to eat your Avatar...

That is a FANTASTIC video, seriously high caliber of comedy.

Apparantly the Banana Industry is God now... never saw that one coming. God did not make that shape man... we did... Get. A. Clue. Or. Keep. Being. Hilarious. I think I prefer this guy remaining hilarious quite honestly.

http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/fieldcourses04/PapersCostaRicaArticles/GoingBananas.thebananaind.html

BTW... GLEEN BECK? Who the feck is that .

"Note"
Check yur titel. MMMMmmmm... titel.

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In case anyone misses the joke.


Spoiler:
Modern banana's, such as the one he's holding, are the result of human intervention. Original bananas aren't much to eat or very big. Cultivation over the last several centuries is what made that banana. It sort of puts a damper against their anti-evolution argument when the item they are holding only exists because of it.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
 
   
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Minnesota

Even better one:



Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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That made my brain hurt. Going to drink wine and lay down now.

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
 
   
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Everything that's wrong with modern media commentary can be summed up, distilled and presented in it's strongest form with Glenn Beck. There's plenty of room for subjectivity and personal bias in what is commentary, not journalism. Beck blows right past subjectivity, right past anything that could possibly be called reality, and into a world dictated entirely by Beck's own personal delusions and paranoia. But I think anyone that cares already knows that, the rest will just blow it off by pointing out that Olbermann doesn't like the Republicans or something.



But perhaps there is now clear evidence that Beck really is just a hypocrit. Mr. Isaac Eiland-Hall set up a website that's satirizing/trolling Glenn Beck, glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. The joke is based on Beck's use of a rhetorical trick, most noticeable during the whole birther thing, that he wouldn't openly endorse a position and would keep saying 'I'm not saying this is true' and things like that, but he'd keep repeating the obviously stupid claim and then place the onus on the accused to disprove the fictional charge. So Mr Eiland-Hall set up a website, where he points out he doesn't believe Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, and thinks Beck could stop the contraversy by simply providing evidence that he did no such thing.

Beck, predictably, has taken the bait. He's moved to have the website closed down. The beautiful part, though, is that US free speech laws would give Beck little hope of winning in a US court. So despite Beck, FOX and Eiland-Hall all being based in the US, Beck has filed his claim in Switzerland, with the World Intellectual Property Organisation. That's right, Glenn Beck, the guy who's so worried about creeping government control taking away his precious freedoms, who so loves the right to free speech that allows him to challenge all that oppressive government, is filing in an international court to sidestep US first amendment rights.

What a jackhole.

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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
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Minnesota

sebster wrote:The beautiful part, though, is that US free speech laws would give Beck little hope of winning in a US court. So despite Beck, FOX and Eiland-Hall all being based in the US, Beck has filed his claim in Switzerland, with the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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Why do we keep bringing this up? These types of threads really need to stop happening....They are giving me nightmares....

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Orkeosaurus wrote:
sebster wrote:The beautiful part, though, is that US free speech laws would give Beck little hope of winning in a US court. So despite Beck, FOX and Eiland-Hall all being based in the US, Beck has filed his claim in Switzerland, with the World Intellectual Property Organisation.


Obtuse much?

“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”

Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
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Minnesota

Apparently it happens a lot.


Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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United States

sebster wrote:
Obtuse much?


I thought he was agreeing with you.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 
   
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Minnesota

Wait, was he calling me obtuse or the guy who put a needle nose pliers in the manicure set obtuse?

Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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You, I think.

EditL I thought that joke was the screwdriver, but now I see it was the entire package. Less funny now.

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Minnesota

Aw man.

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Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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Orkeosaurus wrote:Wait, was he calling me obtuse or the guy who put a needle nose pliers in the manicure set obtuse?


You. But now it sounds harsh, which it wasn't meant to be.

Anyhow, it was a funny picture but I don't know if you were calling Beck's sidestepping of US law a fail, or if you were saying my understanding of the protection granted by the first amendment was a fail.

“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”

Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. 
   
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About to eat your Avatar...

Only one person knows why this picture is funny... and it sure as hell isn't me... /



 
   
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Minnesota

sebster wrote:Anyhow, it was a funny picture but I don't know if you were calling Beck's sidestepping of US law a fail, or if you were saying my understanding of the protection granted by the first amendment was a fail.
That's what I get for responding with image macros.

Nah, I was calling Glenn Beck a failure.

Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
 
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