But 'more and bigger' often doesn't work well, either. The Colbert takedown is a sign - Beck is getting is Limbaugh moment here. It's not good for the GOP.

Here ya go, Beck. I live outside of Pittsburgh, where 3 police officers were killed this morning.

His friend (Perkovic) is quoted that the perp had called him and informed him that he was "going to die today," and:

Perkovic said Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."

But that's okay. It's all just entertainment.

I hasten to add that that statement is in no way necessarily connected to the motive, which has not been determined at this time.

My heart goes out to the police officers' families.

Adding one last time:

I wish I could delete that first post. That's a terrible conclusion to jump to.

Don't be sorry Jenski. Your instincts were sound in my opinion. Just because a conclusion is terrible, that does not mean that it is invalid.

Look...really, trust me on this one...and let it here be known that I truly enjoy Glenn Beck's insanity - like slowing for a car wreck, watching Hostel, Saw III, Jackass, midget donkey porn, etc. - as much or more than anyone...and yet there remains a concrete truth at the foundation of this shit, and it is this: The seeds of his own end are sown every time he opens his doughy, ignorant mouth.
Sure, he draws some viewers. Ain't no one ever seen no motherfuckin' wreck like Beck's fixin' to have. Whether he goes back to the bottle, strips naked on live feed, or ass fucks a wolverine in Central Park while a methed-up Richard Quest jams a dildo up his ass matters not. The end of Beck is almost upon us, and here's why...
Remember Marilyn Manson? Oooh...everyone was so shocked! No one could look away. The kids loved it because it mostly because it made everyone else shake their head and ask, "What the fuck IS that?"
Where is Manson now? Wandering from trimmed suburban lawn to junior high school parking lot, threatening to shit on someone's front porch while jerking off their mutt just to be offensive.
LOOK AT ME! I'M OUTRAGEOUS! OPEN THE DOOR AND LOOK...I'M REJECTING YOUR PARADIGM!
Beck's problem isn't that he can't "walk it back"...Beck's problem is that there's nowhere to go.
He's stuck talking in Kermit the Frog voice and being the class idiot whose only lines are "Up your nose with a rubber hose" and "Who? What? When? Why? Who?"
It didn't work for Kotter and it ain't gonna work for Beck.
Sooner or later, the brainless fuckwit will be reduced to signing copies of Atlas Shrugged at the last remaining Borders because no one is buying his latest plagiarized fantasy pamphlet.
I know he's fun to watch...trust me, I KNOW. I'm semi-addicted to the rage he inspires and hope to someday have the chance to vent it directly upon his person - him, Susan Powter, Eric Roberts, that fuckwit Tucker who yammered for McCain (not Carlson, the other one...Bounds?)
And where are they today?
My guesses: Desperately trying to sell a diet plan that comes with a bottle of bleach for your hair; desperately trying to find someone to give him a job that Mickey Rourke is now to busy to take; desperately trying to distance himself from everything he did for McCain/Palin and will wear for the rest his utterly fucked life.
Getting your knickers in a knot over the imbecilic ramblings of an uneducated disc jockey (Rush, anyone?) is truly letting the enemy distract you with confetti, flashing lights and a bucket full of putrid ocelot testicles.
Sure, it's attention grabbing...but in the end it's nothing more than chopped up paper, a few bulbs and some disgusting rotten bits that no one in their right mind would go near in the first place.

Jenski, no need to retract, you hit the nail on the head.

Also, great article by Neiwert. Thanks for posting, Bob!

Beck, like Limbaugh, is an entertainer, and a shallow one, too. You could walk through the guy's deepest thoughts and not get your ankles wet. However, I wish President Obama had not bowed to the Saudi King at the G20, since the image will be used by Beck and his type to make the president look bad.

Beck is the kind of person who can't stand that people who think differently than he does are even allowed to exist. For him to call anyone fascist is purely laughable.

And nitesurfer, all you have to do is show the pic of Bush kissing the same dude to shut the wingnuts up.

It's totally laughable. The wingnuts were so desperate to find something to proclaim an embarrassment on Obama's part. First Michelle broke shocking protocol by touching the queen and giving her an ipod. Then, they were too obsequious to the queen and the Saudi king.

Jeebus, just make up your mind! Were the Obamas not respectful or were they sucking up too much?

BTW, here are some pics of Bush making time with the then Saudi Prince.

http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/bush-abdulah.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/293457625_10b568f7c7.jpg

Try not to lose your lunch.

Oh, and the number of deaths of Pittsburgh police is up to four now and the guy's motive was entirely because he's nutjob afraid that Obama was going to take his guns. So I have no qualms with putting the blame of those brave cops on the doorstep of the paranoid rhetoric Bleck and others of his ilk have been spewing lately.

@ D.C.

While I take your point, I say again - too easy to lay it at the feet of Beck, as if that twisted bastard would not have pulled the trigger absent Beck's infantile ramblings.
It is not the case that you or I, or Cesca, or Chomsky (did you like being in the same sentence as Chomsky, Bob? I did) would start mashing down the street with a sawed-off shotgun because Rachel Maddow said the Huns were coming.
There is a certain underlying pathology which, I submit, is far more causally culpable than the cheerleaders.

I didn't know Bush kissed the Saudi king, the rat.

Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, they are all the spokesmen, the shills for a very dark, sick, soulless, reflection of a Civil War era psyche that fought & died for the "right" to own human beings.

These people & their greed driven culture that they worship is a cancer!

Cousinavi, I get your point. This guy was a nut and probably would have exploded eventually no matter what. Stil, his choice of targets was probably influenced by Beck and others. This guy may have fired the weapon, but Beck and company helped aim it.

@ D.C.

Come on...you're almost there. You can make it if you try.

IF the ramblings of Beck et al had any real effect, why (pray tell) would the shooter have entered a charitable English language joint...as opposed to the local ACLU office, or someplace gay Negroes were advocating abortions for immigrant workers?

This was not a case of Beck aiming anything. And, really...you can trust me on this...even assuming we both had an opportunity to DROP that punch faced fuck, I'D be the guy in your way. You would be reduced to begging, "Please stop hitting Glenn Beck so I can smack him, too."
The thing of it is is, next week some crazed fucker is gonna open up and swear to God, as they drag him away in cuffs, that he only did it cuz Pelosi wasn't giving Schock his proper due.
The argument fails both ways on the honed double edge of Occam's razor.
Crazy is crazy, and it doesn't matter a bit whether your fleeing leprechauns or unicorns.

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