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This week, they are not digging stuff up on the Obama administration.
He isn't cutting Bush a break one bit!! Or Clinton or Reagan, Carter, Nixon......
How it all evolved.
The Middle East is such a complicated issue that Beck or his staffers, that have gotten things blatantly wrong, that they'll never figure out the reasons for anything.
Remember, he has linked George Soros to Muslim extremists when he could do the exact same thing to Rupert Murdoch. Its kind of like seven degrees of Kevin Bacon.
The troubles in the middle east have roots all the way back to before the crusades, and every issue there now has roots back to that time.
The Middle East is such a complicated issue that Beck or his staffers, that have gotten things blatantly wrong, that they'll never figure out the reasons for anything.
Remember, he has linked George Soros to Muslim extremists when he could do the exact same thing to Rupert Murdoch. Its kind of like seven degrees of Kevin Bacon.
The troubles in the middle east have roots all the way back to before the crusades, and every issue there now has roots back to that time.
You are not being fair to Beck. I heard from an authoritative source that Beck has recently purchased "Middle East for Dummies" from a well known book store
Glenn Beck is a moron. He is a former sports announcer that got to be on a news program because someone thought he could talk well.
Keith Olberman and Glenn Beck are opposite sides of the same coin. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and Beck to be fired.
It is not too late to see Beck's show from yesterday right there on your computer. He seemed to have quite a bit of information about the Middle East to tell those who aren't afraid to be caught watching him. I think the OP tried very hard to get some to watch that show and I think he may be even better today and the rest of the week. Take a chance that those who talk against him aren't all right.
I don't know... this is why I studied history with a concentration in Arabic Studies. But what is Beck's background that gives him the ability to teach others about a topic he knows so very little about? Would he like me to help him during his broadcast?
Seriously, why would anyone tune in to hear Beck, unless Beck was giving a key note speech on how to, "Be Loud, Obnoxious, and Influence Others." Beck actually knows about that. How a loudmouth, blowhard gets such a good career is what we should all be after, not him giving us a speech on the Middle East or about our 401k's.
I see that you caught his show yesterday. Well not really because you may have found that he knew, maybe through the study of his staff, quite a bit about that area. Well maybe I don't know much about it since I only studied it as a side light for some time.
Try watching his show on the internet and then tell me now little he knows about the area.
All the scholars here that think they are smarter than a team of 40 researchers! What an egotistical riot you lefties are!
Was this the same panel of 40 researchers that couldn't place Egypt on a map or a different panel of researchers? Maybe the ones that couldn't spell Oligarchy?
Seriously, you guys think a news organization can replace education? And since when does going to college and knowing more about a topic than a magazine show make you a leftie liberal? You've set the bar pretty low there, SourD. How can any scholar be smarter than someone on Fox and Friends or CNN? To steal a quote from Beck (back when he wasn't quite as looney), you make me want to wrap...MY HEAD... IN DUCT TAPE!
Was this a different panel of 40 researchers that couldn't place Egypt on a map?
Seriously, you guys think a news organization can replace education? And since when does going to college and knowing more about a topic than a magazine show make you a leftie liberal?
To steal a quote from Beck (back when he wasn't quite as looney), you make me want to wrap...MY HEAD... IN DUCT TAPE!
40 researchers are brighter than 1 single professor who PROFESSES to know things. 40 heads are better than 1. You "smarter than everyone else" crowd really need to do some deconstruction on your belief systems and see exactly where you get your beliefs because just because some guy or woman in a college told you something does NOT in any way make it even close to the truth. You need to be able to think for yourself and find the information on your own. If you can't do that, then you are what is referred to as either a "sheep" or "useful idiot". I'm not saying that everything Beck says is right, but he at least tells YOU to do your own research and thinking. You won't get that in a college class. If you dare to second guess the so-called "professor" you will fail the class. You will only pass if you take what they teach you as gospel. Most of the times they are wrong in what they are teaching you and teach you THEIR opinions. Deconstructing your belief system will do you wonders and allow you to become a free and critical thinker. Please give it a try.
40 researchers are brighter than 1 single professor who PROFESSES to know things. 40 heads are better than 1. You "smarter than everyone else" crowd really need to do some deconstruction on your belief systems and see exactly where you get your beliefs because just because some guy or woman in a college told you something does NOT in any way make it even close to the truth. You need to be able to think for yourself and find the information on your own. If you can't do that, then you are what is referred to as either a "sheep" or "useful idiot". I'm not saying that everything Beck says is right, but he at least tells YOU to do your own research and thinking. You won't get that in a college class. If you dare to second guess the so-called "professor" you will fail the class. You will only pass if you take what they teach you as gospel. Most of the times they are wrong in what they are teaching you and teach you THEIR opinions. Deconstructing your belief system will do you wonders and allow you to become a free and critical thinker. Please give it a try.
LOL I could hardly get through this slop without laughing.
I'll just pose a simple question to you: how did you deconstruct your belief system? What makes you a more critical thinker than myself? I mean, your insinuation is certainly that you've exceeded my ability to think critically (by watching Glen Beck, of course)
I mean, we've never met, and we've never had a single conversation.
How terribly arrogant (and ignorant) of you to make such lofty declarations.
I think maybe you should do so more self-examination. =)
P.S. I don't think you know what college is actually like. You do know that college classes - particularly in upper level history and poly-sci are really set around argument and debate, right? People cried in our classes lol There is LITTLE agreement to be had. Classes are typically set where you formulate groups and put up facts and opinions that are often at odds with others. Who has told you that professors dictate their ideas to you and you memorize them as fact? I think you might have been agreeing with others that have told you what getting a liberal arts degree was like, and in doing so, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
P.P.S. Because I took a special interest in the topic a very long time ago, graduated with a degree in Arabic Studies, LIVED in the Middle East, speak the language, yeah, I do tend to know more than 40 random Americans who work in television and have only generalized knowledge. So sue me. Maybe I can't explain that to you except that if you take a topic you know A LOT about - maybe insects - and you'd realize while watching a basic PBS nature show that you tended to find their information ultimately elementary and unfulfilling - it's kind of similar? You know what I'm saying? It's not that you want it to be that way. But naturally, shows for the masses need to stay basic and elementary to keep people's attentions. Are you guys forgetting you're talking about a TV show?
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