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Old 02-13-2011, 11:48 AM
 
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I wouldn't have any problem saying I was a member of the JBS if I was one. The left however does have a problem with admiting they are in bed with communists, marxists and socialists.....own it.
Yes and there is a secret handshake.
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Old 02-13-2011, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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I wouldn't have any problem saying I was a member of the JBS if I was one. The left however does have a problem with admiting they are in bed with communists, marxists and socialists.....own it.
You don't have to admit it. Your constant regurgitation of what the chief Bircher on cable TV says, pretty much says it for you. But that's OK, you have every right to be so inclined, and to deny it.
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Old 02-13-2011, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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Yes and there is a secret handshake.
No, not the one finger salute!
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Old 02-13-2011, 11:59 AM
 
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I grew up in a county full of Birchers fourty years ago. The school boards were full of them. The dentist used to have their pamphlets in the waiting room. Beck doesn't come close to some of those whack-jobs.
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Old 02-13-2011, 12:01 PM
 
Location: Tallahassee
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Since this thread has dissolved to the kind of comments we see from 10 yr olds it's time to ignore it.
Wait! You didn't answer the question about proof or any reliable sources that Obama worships Mao. And you didn't tell us where you found out that Obama decorated his christmas tree with images of Mao. You made those unequivocal statements in your post. You brought up the subject so you can't blame it on "comments" from "10 yr olds"........or can you? lol

Now those things ^^^ sound somewhat like 10-old retorts......but then maybe a 10-year old wouldn't be all that interested in Mao.

What's the real reason for "ignoring"? Got a little too hot in the kitchen, did it?
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Old 02-13-2011, 12:01 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Talking Loony Tunes From the Radical Right isn't a New Development

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It is laughable to think Glenn Beck is a John Birch conservative.

The John Birch Society believes the U.S. government should follow the Constitution. That is all they are about. And they have been proven correct about most things. And John Birch folk were never against the civil rights movement. Never.

Beck is a neocon that talks like a libertarian on occassion.

P.S. I still find it curious that when Beck was on CNN critcizing George W. Bush nobody on the left had a probblem with him. Peculiar.

John Birch Society...

The guys who:

1. Accused president Eisenhower of being a communist agent.

2. Used insane scare tactics to oppose flouridating water supplies in the 1960s. This was instituted to reduce dental cavities, especially among children. The Birchers claimed it was a communist plot to poison Americans and then come in take over as we weakened, helpless saps would be unable to resist.

3. Supported the Joe McCarthy communist witch hunts.

4. Accused president Kennedy of being a communist operative after the Bay of Pigs operation went foul.

It's no stretch to see that Beck is using the same crazy, unsubstantiated approach to his so-called "liberterian" concerns. I remember about 30 years ago being bored late one night and channel-surfing through the cable offerings. One was a public access channel, where I stopped for a about 30 minutes to watch some balding middle-age guy rant and rave about how the UN was plotting with the Soviet Union to destroy America and that we should all build shelters and stockpile a year's worth of supplies for the soon-to-come all out attack. I was fascinated by the man's emotional delivery and his sincere belief in the drek he was serving up.

On the wall behind him was a banner that read; The John Birch Society.

I'll never forget that.

Interesting reading here.

Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and the Republicans : The New Yorker
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Old 02-13-2011, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Tallahassee
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You don't have to admit it. Your constant regurgitation of what the chief Bircher on cable TV says, pretty much says it for you. But that's OK, you have every right to be so inclined, and to deny it.
Good point.
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Old 02-13-2011, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Tallahassee
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"4. Accused president Kennedy of being a communist operative after the Bay of Pigs operation went foul."


Interesting.....just hadn't thought about that connection with the older Cuban exiles.
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Old 02-13-2011, 12:15 PM
 
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So basically, what we have is the left attempting to destroy the name of anyone who exposes their ideas for what they really are. No, nothing new here folks.
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Old 02-13-2011, 12:17 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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So basically, what we have is the left attempting to destroy the name of anyone who exposes their ideas for what they really are. No, nothing new here folks.

Beck won't need any help from angry leftists to fall off the map.
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