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Posted: Mon 23 Nov , 2009 5:20 pm
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/22/beck-100-year-plan/

Yesterday, FOX personality Glen Beck announced that he is formulating a plan which will return America to the way that the Founding Fathers set it up. He claims that 100 years ago, the leaders of the Progressive Movement did a whole bunch of things (which he did not specify) which got us to the point where we are today (and he also did not specify what that is either). He said that he has been reading history and has come up with a 100 year plan of his own. He will reveal it in a new book in 2010 - which I assume will be offered for sale to the public - as well as make a march on Washington plus hold regional conventions.

Youtube has extensive video coverage of the speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpnDYbhq ... esh+div-HM

With each passing week this man sounds like someone who either will be running for President of the USA in 2012 or backing his own puppet candidate.

This from the NY TImes on the event
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Glenn Beck Stakes Out Activist Role in Politics


By BRIAN STELTER
Published: November 21, 2009
Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action.


Gregg Matthews for The New York Times
A crowd lined up on Saturday for a rally and book-signing event by the conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck in Florida.

To do so, Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. In an interview, he said he would promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of seven conventions across the country featuring what he described as libertarian speakers.

On Saturday he held a festive campaign-style rally in The Villages in Florida, north of Orlando, in which he promoted his recently released book, “Arguing With Idiots,” and announced another book to come next August filled with right-leaning policy proposals gathered from the conventions.

Mr. Beck provided few details about his plans for the tour, making it unclear if he truly intends to prod his audience of millions into political action or merely burnish his media brand ahead of a book release.

Mr. Beck did say the conventions would resemble educational seminars, and he emphasized that while candidates may align themselves with the values and principles that he espouses, he would not take the next step to endorse them.

In describing the conventions, he told the crowd on Saturday: “You’re going to learn about finance. You’re going to learn about community organizing. You’re going to learn everything we need to know if you want to be a politician.”

His staff would not say whether particular candidates for office in the 2010 midterm elections would be invited to speak at the conventions or the August rally.

As for the question of Mr. Beck’s intentions, “He might just be trying to sell books, but there are much simpler ways to sell books,” said Ari Rabin-Havt, a vice president at Media Matters, the liberal media monitoring group. He said Mr. Beck sounded more like a presidential candidate than a pundit.

Mr. Beck, having used his television and radio pulpit to lay out his list of the country’s impending problems — deficit spending, health care legislation that will “destroy” the economy, a dearth of “personal responsibility” — says he now wants to also provide solutions.

In the interview, Mr. Beck, a frequent critic of President Obama, chose his words carefully but made clear that he intended to help elect politicians aligned with his limited-government world view. “We’ll be looking for ways to get people involved in politics,” he said.

Mr. Beck is not the only media firebrand trying to mobilize Americans disaffected with a Democratic-controlled government. The radio host Laura Ingraham is inviting candidates to sign a 10-point pledge on her Web site. Sean Hannity, on his afternoon radio show and prime-time Fox News program, is promoting “Conservative Victory 2010,” his name for the map on his site that will spell out questions for candidates.

And the former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who has a show on Fox News, has steered viewers to his Web site, where they can contribute money to his political action committee in support of conservative candidates.

Pundits have used their media stages to encourage political action before, but people like Mr. Beck and Mr. Hannity are taking on outsize roles now, political experts and conservative commentators say. One reason, they say, is the weakened state of the Republican Party.

The media figures’ roles may exacerbate the ideological feuds that are already roiling the party. For the diffuse tea party movement that taps into anti-government sentiments, “the media guys are the closest things we even have to a leader,” said Adam Brandon, the vice president for communications at FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group.

These efforts are reminiscent of the Contract With America pledge made by conservatives during the 1994 elections, though some Republicans who are uncomfortable with media personalities taking on new political roles note that that effort originated with lawmakers.

When asked about Mr. Beck at a conference last month, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said: “Here’s what I worry about. How many people in my business are going to be controlled by what’s said on the radio or in a TV commercial?”

It was not lost on Mr. Beck’s fans that the Saturday rally and book signing were held in Florida, where the Republican governor, Charlie Crist, has been sharply criticized by conservatives as he runs for an open seat in the United States Senate. Mr. Crist’s challenger, Marco Rubio, has already signed the pledge on Ms. Ingraham’s Web site, as have a smattering of other conservative candidates.

Already, Mr. Beck’s page on FoxNews.com features what it calls “In or Out 2010,” a “simple challenge” for lawmakers. It includes a pledge to back a freeze in government spending; oppose all tax increases “until our economy has rebounded”; and support stricter immigration enforcement.

Amy Green contributed reporting.

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Posted: Mon 23 Nov , 2009 5:48 pm
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Yup. We Canucks gotta get that wall built. :(

My friends here are welcome to move North, you know. :(

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Posted: Mon 23 Nov , 2009 5:52 pm
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Vison - here in Detroit there are plans to build a second major bridge going across to Windsor. Now it all becomes very clear.

His own website gives full and detailed information

www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/33398/

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Ah, the evil progressives did something some time ago that has ruined this country... and notice how the country was ruined only after the republicans lost power.... but no, this country was fine before. And in fact, the progressives were unable to prevent GWB from running this country into the ground despite their attempts at zombification.

It's so easy to level an unspecific attack against a group from an unspecific time... sometimes I hate that democrats are more self-reflective.

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I'm visiting home and on my first day my mom turns on the TV at 4pm and turns on Glenn Beck. I was wondering if she watched him and my fear has turned out to be true. She thinks he's wonderful and has lots of good ideas. *hangs head in shame* :( :bang:

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Eruname...... its okay. A couple of years ago my own mother told me she had found this wonderful news show and told me to watch it also - a guy by the name of Sean Hannity - and she wondered if I had ever heard of him. :bang:

The other day I was watching Frank Capra's MEET JOHN DOE on TV - its one of my all time favorite movies and I could not help but be struck by the parallels between parts of it and the entire Tea party movement. Especially when we see the corporate villain - D. B. Norton played by the evil wonder Edward Arnold - attempt to use the John Doe movement for his own fascistic purposes. The last half hour of the film was like watching the future of the Tea Party movement and guys like Glen Beck and Dick Armey.

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I can't wait for the time when all of that video footage can be used against him in a material way.

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LOL Lali! :P :LMAO:

My mom also likes Sarah Palin and thinks she wouldn't be "anything worse than what we have in office now". She's had Fox News on all day here...I'm being tortured! :help: :P Wish I could turn on Rachel Maddow at night for for some retaliation! :D

We've had to ban any talk of politics whatsoever as things have already gotten heated once. I think it's a good think there's 4,000 miles between me and my parents. :P

Sorry to hijack your thread sf, but I need to vent my frustration somewhere. ;)

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Your post made me wonder Eru. Both you and Jewel have 'liberal' viewpoints and have both seen the UK media. Now I know everyone swims in their own sea of certainties and assumptions, the UK as much as anyone but I have long had a feeling that the US has been deliberately and successfully propagandised for around 80 years. So much so that many of the citizenry aren't even aware of it. That propaganda has been carried out deliberately and those memes - no communism/Marxism/socialism or anything that can be labelled as such, government (Federal) is bad, charity is sufficient, the nation (as opposed to individuals) must be God-fearing, dominate the nation's discourse. People repeat the slogans automatically now.
Is your discomfort because of your temporary isolation from that pervading atmosphere?

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While we are inundated with that propaganda and media packaging of morality and politics to the point where politics is no longer the realm of politicians but popular pundits, I would say a large group of Americans know better. I'm hoping that as the younger generation gets older there will be enough people with sense to stem this whole Fox News-conservativism-tied-with-"libertarianism" hysteria. But these people are very, very good at preying on white suburbia's fears. My worry is the 'Obama generation' turning out just like their parents in the end.


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ToshoftheWuffingas wrote:
Both you and Jewel have 'liberal' viewpoints and have both seen the UK media.
I already had liberal viewpoints before I came to the UK...I was a Quaker, after all. We're all liberal. :D


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