Glenn Beck hates mothers day!

[mcctatas]

and for once, I kind of agree with parts of his insane rantings (ya know the part about it being a big business scam but he hates it because he hates Woodrow Wilson, and unicorns or something like that. The best part, he launched into this screed while doing a sponsor promo for fecking VERMONT TEDDY BEARS :rofl:

"And I said, Mother's Day, it's a scam. It's a big business scam. And I said, I bet it was started by Woodrow Wilson. Look it up, Sarah. And she didn't. I said, look it up. She's like, no, I'm not going to look it up. I said, look it up, I'll bet you, I'll bet you. Mother's Day? Started 1914. Woodrow Wilson. Hate that guy. Love my mom. Hate the holiday. Now, you could go to Hallmark because Hallmark and Woodrow Wilson would like you to do that."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/04/glenn-beck-is-against-mot_n_562982.html

[Dr Morbius]

1. What I don't understand is why people find him entertaining. (nt)

[Kali]

2. from what little I know or have seen of the idiot

his mother could be some kind of real kook to have created him so...

[madinmaryland]

3. He's right that it is a big business scam. Ironically, he has no clue that

he just called out his corporate masters that drive his show and the whole "consumerism" behind mother's day and all the other contrived holidays.

[mcctatas]

4. called them out?

hell he went on a tirade in the middle of a sponsor's plug! then went back to (and I shit you not):

"but there's something new from Vermont Teddy Bear. Three handmade teddy bears in pink, green, and white. The bears are scented, each one with a different scent..."

[NewJeffCT]

6. It's Vermont Teddy Bear

a small to mid-sized company in "liberal" Vermont... not like he's calling out ExxonMobil or Wal-Mart or somebody with real clout.

[mcctatas]

7. true, but they were his sponsor...

and interrupting a plug for mothers day teddy bears to rail against mother's day is, if nothing else, in bad form

[Mopar151]

16. Biting the hand that feeds him.......n/t

[MissMillie]

14. Mother's Day did not start out as a Hallmark Holiday

It was started when a mother got other mothers together to try to get the world to see that bringing up young men to fight in wars and kill other young men was a horrible thing.

Mother's Day was derived out of the peace movement.

[deutsey]

20. Exactly. n/t

[tigereye]

24. yes! NIcely done, Miss M!

[The Old Creak]

5. What we all need to understand

is that he hates himself. Alcoholic, ADD, he's really FUBAR!

[Skittles]

8. Glenn Beck's mother drowned - he's referred to it as a suicide

the guy has serious mommy issues

[tigereye]

25. he has more than mommy issues....

:)

[TK421]

26. I think he has small penis issues n/t

[Captain Hilts]

9. I agree with him. nt

[Flipper999]

10. Wow

It's strange to read his train-of-thought style rambling. It's all, "Babble, babble, conspiracy mumble, Woodrow Wilson, babble, hate Wilson, babble, love mom, babble, babble, hate, babble..."

[redqueen]

11. The idea that holidays are 'big business scams' is so fucking stupid.

For mother's day I call my mom. Or send her a package of handmade cards my kids make, or pictures, or stuff like that.

It's only a 'big business scam' for thoughtless, lazy morons with more money than brains.

[MissMillie]

15. +1

:applause:

[Mopar151]

17. Mom's a gardener, and mom's day is the strat of planting season

in New England.
So plants - flowers or vegetable starts - are so appropriate, and cost little - esp. when you go to a locally owned greenhouse and pick them out with love.

[TZ]

12. Like most holidays aren't?

My mom loves flowers. I like having an excuse to send them. I send her stuff at other times of the year as well..

[KamaAina]

13. Woodrow Wilson did not create Mother's Day any more than St. Raygun created MLK Day

he just happened to be President when it became a holiday. A West Virginia woman, Anna Jarvis, created Mother's Day to honor her own mother.

Beckkk = :dunce: .

And why would Beckkk hate Woodrow Wilson? Wilson was a heavy-duty racist, you know.

[Mopar151]

18. Glen Beck

don't know a penguin from a pisspot....

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. The coolest card I ever sent...

.
...was to MiddleFingerMomMom when she had a hip replacement done.
.
Got a big box of Crayola (I think) felt-tip markers and made the front
a stained-glass window. Opened to a stick-figure person (the extent
of my "drawing" talent) with a full-leg cast kicking up her heels and
waving her cane.
.
The top said, "Many folks' Moms just get old and set in their ways."
.
The bottom? "Mine just gets more hip."
.
She LOVED it! (BTW, I was probably around 40-45 years old). She
said the nurses at her hospital kept coming in to borrow it and show
it around.
.
On the other hand, once I had this housemate (who was, admittedly,
VERY materialistic) who described an acquaintance who had given
his wife a handmade wedding anniversary card as "Too damn cheap
to go down and spend $4.50 on a nice Hallmark."
.
:banghead:
.

[deutsey]

21. Mother's Day originally began in 1870

It perhaps became an official holiday in the early part of the 20th century, but it began after the Civil War and as other wars were brewing around the world.

Beck is too stupid to realize just how much a dork like him actually does hate what this holiday stands for.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/howejwriting/a/mothers_day.htm

by Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

[Spacemom]

22. I don't care if it's a big business scam

We don't have the money to buy things. I get homemade cards, breakfast in bed and treated like Queen for a day!

I love Mother's Day! :D

[alphafemale]

23. I just wrote an article on the origins of Mother's Day for our company newsletter.

While Mother's day as we know and celebrate it came about fairly recently, people have celebrated a Mothers day of sorts since ancient times. Greeks and Romans both had Spring celebrations honouring the Mother of all Gods. Gifts and praises were given, but there weren't many other similarities.

And though the eternally cynical amongst us may believe that Mother's Day is an invention of Hallmark and FTD, its earliest advocates had no interest in selling cards, candy or flowers.

The first Mother's Day in modern time was proposed by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), who is most famous for composing "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Horrified by the American Civil war which left vast numbers of women with husbands and sons either killed or gravely wounded she proposed a Mother's Day where women called out for peace. She pointed out that it was mothers who largely bore the burden of war's aftermath.

But it was Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) who brought us Mother's Day as we know it today. She did it to honor her own mother, Ann Jarvis. In the 1850's, Ann also known as Mother Jarvis, who having lost 8 of her 12 children before they were seven, founded the "Mothers Friendship Clubs" in West Virginia. This group educated women about good hygiene and sanitation, the lack of which contributed to child mortality. They also provided medicine and nursing care to the sick. When the Civil War began they provided assistance and aid to all. There was no regard given to the uniform the soldier may have been wearing.

After the war Ann Jarvis turned from healing wounded bodies to mending families split by the conflict. She reminded people of the common bond we people share of a bonding and appreciation of their mothers. In 1868 she organized a Mothers Friendship Day. Her thoughts on the purpose of the day include this:

"To have them know we appreciate them, though we do not show it as often as we ought... Mothers Day is to remind us of our duty before it is too late. This day is intended that we may make new resolutions for a more active thought to our dear mothers. By words, gifts, acts of affection, and in every way possible, give her pleasure, and make her heart glad every day, and constantly keep in memory Mothers Day."

Ann Jarvis died in 1905, Anna swore at her graveside that her mother "would have her Mother's Day."

The first Mothers Day was in Anna's home in 1907. In 1908 a service was organized in her mothers church in Grafton, WV. It is held on the second Sunday of May because that was the anniversary of her mother's death. Anna and her supporters tirelessly wrote to ministers, business people, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day to honor all mothers. Through those efforts, by 1911 Mother's Day was recognized in nearly every state, and in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson designated the second Sunday of May to be a National Holiday.

Anna was strong on one thing. An apostrophe. It was to be Mother's day not Mothers' Day. To her, it was a day not for the idea of Motherhood or mothers as a concept. She wanted a day where people honored their own mothers.

It was also Anna Jarvis who also gave us the tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother's day. It was her mother's favourite flower. She began the tradition of wearing a colored carnation if your mother was alive and a white one if she was deceased.

Over the years she grew increasingly uncomfortable with the commercialization of Mothers Day. She was once arrested for trying to stop a group from selling carnations for Mother's Day and she was very angry and vocal at what she perceived as the Floral Council raising prices of carnations around Mother's Day. She branded these florists as "Profiteers."

Ironically, the founder of Mother's Day never became a mother and died impoverished in a nursing home. And she never knew that the bill for her care was paid for by the Floral Council.

[miscsoc]

27. Becky has some confused feelings about mother related issues

I forget the details (which are murky) but suffice to say mama beck met a sticky end.

Interesting use of the present tense there when he says he "loves" his mother. Shades of Norman Bates

(Disclaimer: I've never actually seen psycho but it reminds me a bit of my sketchy pop cultural understanding of what the plot of psycho was at any rate.)