I wonder why we, the rest of us sane people are not speaking out more.
Why do we allow them to dominate our agenda?

When will someone stop the crazies?

These are the gasbags that try men's souls.

Thing is, Diane, we can't do anything about it through legal channels unless he comes right out and says "kill me some liberals!" Freedom of speech works for crazy speech too.

The only thing we really can do is stop tuning in. If the people who watch his show for laughs all just stopped watching, the ratings drop would send a clear message to FOX (and the sponsors). Beck would probably ramp up the crazy to get the ratings back and say something they wouldn't let stand. And we could still have a couple media monitors keeping an eye on him so we wouldn't be just letting him go.

Obama's been called a terrorist plenty of times before, but I think this has to be the first time he's been accused of being Japanese.

Apparently he's testing out material for his "comedy tour" - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090412/ap_en_ot/tv_beck_s_tour

Thomas Paine is spinning n his grave about now.

Beck is going to continue ratcheting up the crazy so long as it gets ratings. The truly sad thing is, this is what passes for intelligent political discourse in our time.

He keeps it, he just may force the real Thomas Paine to rise up out of his grave and seek revenge.

AGH! MY DEIST HEART!

ZOMBIE PAINE, AVENGE!!!

I think Beck would pop a nut if more people used his rhetoric as inspiration to murder. Truly an enemy of America.

Why didn't Thomas talk about any of the abuses of the last eight years? Nothing that Bush/Cheney did has him a bit itchy under the wig?

This was constructed to appeal to the Wannabe Base. We all know them. They Wannabe warriors, but they don't wanna join the military. They Wannabe statesmen, but they don't wanna understand law and the Constitution. These are the kind of people that romanticize the Revolutionary War and the Civil War without, for even a moment, contemplating how very difficult and brutal those two events were.

Armchair warriors, the whole lot of them. This will burn out soon enough. Beck will not be able to sustain this level of quackery for very long. He's too easily distracted by his own admiration of himself.

I wonder if "Thomas Paine" used a teleprompter?

Good one Carlos.

Maybe he used a televangelist.

Why atheist Thomas Paine of all people? Why not, say, Nixon or McCarthy?

My God man! How is the recovery bill "against the will of the people"?
You'd think Obama had just declared war on Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity or something.

"They wouldn’t dare pilot a plane through the most sophisticated air defenses in the world and crash into the Pentagon, but they did."

Sophisticated air defenses? Where? A couple of fighter planes scrambled, and couldn't even find the lumbering airliners for some time.

I recall one crazy old man writing a letter to the editor, shortly post-911, calling for 40mm Bofors guns to be mounted (and manned) on top of tall buildings all across urban America.

To be precise, Thomas Paine was a Deist. He actually did believe in God, but not Jesus, or the Bible...or anything "revealed."

Buckle your seat belts America. Glenn Beck is going to take his "Thomas Paine Show" on the road!

According to this morning's Bangor Daily News, Beck will be going to 6 cities: Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Kansas City, Houston and Richmond VA beginning the first week of June. According to the write-up, he's calling it "the poor man's Seinfeld and it will be a mix of his topical humor with his modern-day re-imagining of Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet Common Sense".

I guess since he's decided that its okay to bear false witness against our government on TV, why not spread his word far and wide by taking it on the road, where he can feel the love of his peeps in person? Heaven help us.

Here's another interesting tidbit about Paine, and his ideas about taxation, old age pensions and general welfare:

RIGHTS OF MAN

Editor Foner's Note
{Philip S. Foner, The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. I, p. 242.}

What Common Sense meant for the people of America in their struggle for' independence and democracy, the Rights of Man meant for all people everywhere struggling to overthrow oppression. As during the American Revolu. tion, so during the French Revolution Thomas Paine brought home sharply to the people the most advanced thought of the age. Indeed, in some sections of this work Paine advocated social measures which were far in advance of his time and singularly prophetic of the future development of enlightened government. Paine boldly announced that it was the duty of the State to care for the indigent and the young, and declared that those who received such assistance were entitled to it, "not as a matter of grace and favour but as a right." These old-age pensions were to be paid for in part by those taxes to which every one contributed and in part by further exactions "from those whose circumstances did not require them to draw such support," and this program he defended as "not of the nature of a charity but of a right." Expenditures for public education, old age pensions, state aid to the youth, unemployment insurance and soldiers' bonus, he argued, were far better employed than in the support of useless royalty. "is it then better," he asked, that the lives of 144,000 aged persons be rendered comfortable or that one, million a year of public money be expended on any one individual, and him often of the most worthless or insignificant character?" Equally interesting was his demand for the removal of all legislation restricting wages of workmen. "Several laws are in existence," he wrote, "for regulating and limiting workmen's wages. Why not leave them as free to make their own bargains as the lawmakers are to let their farms and houses? Personal labour is all the property they have. Why is that little and the little freedom they enjoy to be infringed?"

http://www.thomaspaine.org/contents.html