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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
A special message from Glenn Beck:
It's difficult to take any of these people seriously.
It's only a select few, right? |
I couldn't get through but half of it...the lengths that people will go to to tell a story...and folks lap it up like manna from the gods.
my boyfriend, you know, he comes from a very conservative background and is fairly conservative himself (voted for McCain), although honestly he's more apolitical than anything (you won't catch him waxing frenetic about this shit like I do, lol). but he made an observation last night that I thought was pretty relevant in regards to items like this video. He received an email from his dad, a basic Obama-bashing piece of junkmail - a very lengthy, rambling one which opened with the observation that Obama had 'destroyed' the economy in just six months (lol) - and he said to me (paraphrase): "all a person has to do is vaguely associate a bunch of disparate ideas and you will get a whole group of people to start nodding their heads and saying 'that's right, that's right.
this is because of
that' "...and I added, "because they want to think that it's true." It seems there is no need for anyone to bother making these associations themselves anymore, pondering them, weighing them because there are as many ways of learning them as there are 'FW: Obama' emails circulating out there. Everybody does it - you see it on the left, too, I'm not trying to make this totally one-sided - but it is spiraling out of control on the right
at this time - anything, anything at all to justify the belief that the sky is indeed falling is being taken at face value. And it is frightening because
it is only six months into the Obama presidency and the level of drama and hyperbole is already nearing the red.
I haven't seen too much of this guy, Glenn Beck, so I will abstain from making a purely political critique about him and stick with the much more relevant (and satisfying) observation that there is one thing he is guilty of for sure: bad television.