Glenn BecKKK Brings In Psychiatrist To Defend His Radical Comments Re Inciting Militias & Violence

[Turborama]

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From: http://www.glenn-beck-sucks.com/

Beck talked about the Southern Poverty Law Center report on right-wing militias. Of course Beck ignored all the details in the report, to claim it was all bull, and just a set up so that if anyone does any violence they can blame him and O'Reilly for it. Here is a little of the report, and btw, Beck never mentioned any of this.

Incensed by the election of the first black US president, right-wing militia groups in the United States are rising again after a decade of decline, according to new research on extremist groups released on Wednesday.

Ideologically driven by racism and a virulent anti-government, anti-taxation and anti-immigrant agenda, the homegrown groups that thrived in the 1990s and spurred numerous deadly terrorist attacks are expanding, said the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"This is the most significant growth we've seen in 10 to 12 years," said a law enforcement official quoted by the SPLC in its special report "http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=393">The Second Wave: Return of the Militias."

"All it's lacking is a spark," said the official, adding it is "only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."

A key difference today, the Center said, is that "the federal government -- the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy -- is headed by a black man," tapping into the latent rage of white supremacist culture.

But according to Glenn Beck it's all bull, and just made up by the left to make him and O'Reilly look bad. Even though the SPLC is non-partisan, and that is the same garbage they said when the Government warning came out about increased right-wing hate. Then Dr. tiller was killed by the right-wing nut, then the liberal church was shot up by the right-wing nut, after Beck and O'Reilly said it was just a biased report by the liberal Obama administration. When it turned out to be 100% true, now they deny this report is true, because they are biased idiots who can not admit to reality when it makes them look bad.

Beck even had the crazy right-wing Dr. keith Ablow on to agree with him, and tell him he is not crazy. I'm thinking this Dr. Ablow is a little crazy himself, because you have to be crazy to tell Beck he is not crazy. Beck said if the Obama health care bill passes some of the money will pay for bike trails and farmers markets. Which is total nonsense, yet Dr. Ablow sat there and told Beck he is not crazy. It's all right-wing propaganda, from Beck and his buddy Dr. Ablow. I guess Beck thinks that if he has a shrink on to say ignore all the insane stuff he says, and believe me when I say he is not crazy, then people will believe it. Psssst, Glenn, it's not working. When you spend an hour a day spewing out insane right-wing spin and lies, you are seen as a crazy man, and nothing your nut job doctor friend says will change that.

[Why Syzygy]

1. Phonies.

Ever notice how the rwingnuts love those phony types? A psychiatrist using the diagnosis "crazy".
Not real life, freepers!

I have yet to listen to an entire GB clip. I just can't stand the dung.

[snot]

2. i can't stand it either. who, where, do we call, write, whatever, to shut this off?

[Karenina]

25. Follow the $$$.

[snot]

29. Thx. If you've done the work, pls share.

[Karenina]

30. Post #7 has a link!

[beac]

32. Have you signed the petition?

http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/

A petition, unlike a lot of others, that seems to actually be working!:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/glenn-becks-obama-racist_n_253264.html

[libodem]

3. Who is Guano trying to convince

that he's not crazy? The world or himself? I think he's worried. Maybe the cognitive dissonance is starting to shatter. There is a thread in GD that is titled 'Glenn Beckkk is a Psychopath'. I wonder if it was inspired by this or if they are coincidental to each other?

[RandomThoughts]

4. Sounds like after years of promoting fear and anger at things like Socialism.

Public roads, public services, public food laws, public working laws, and public organizations like unions.

They are trying to now tell their listeners to not look angry. Which is a great thing, if they get rid of that anger, and they have to find what causes it to do that, then they will also start to think. Its a win win, either they look angry, or they figure it out.


It is not possible to understand what goes on in just rational ways, it is beyond comprehension. To try and figure it out is more then any person can do, instead if you take in what is good, and ignore what is bad, you can laugh at most of it and work for a better world, and for me also be happy.

[AlbertCat]

23. if you take in what is good, and ignore what is bad,

you can laugh at most of it and work for a better world,




Kurt? Kurt Vonnegut? Is that you?

[RandomThoughts]

28. Did he say the same thing?

If so it could be because it is what many people think.

I am mostly just myself, but I do believe in a few thoughts on who a person is.

Their are my spiritual beliefs that speak of people being more then just a person at times.

Also I think John Locke said people with the same ideas and thoughts on an idea are like the same person.

Also when you read or think on someone elses thoughts about life, part of their reason and argument can, if you choose too, be part of how you think and discuss things also.

I had the same idea as Plato's cave, but I also read Plato when young, did we see the same idea, or did part of his ideas influence my ideas. Where is the line between what people think and what they learn to think. In my view it is the heart deciding if it is also good to agree on something learned and allow it to also be part of one persons own arguments when thinking on things.



Speaking about Kurt, what I have read from some of his writings do inspire thoughts on many things.

[tomm2thumbs]

5. Keep applying pressure to the sponsors - they don't want their logos over Beck's image - more vids!!

I'm not a video editor but if folks can continue to put logos of sponsors over the videos of Glenn's ugly mug spouting hate, it is best thing you can do for this cause. Hope there are great editors out there who can do that sort of thing. That first one media matters did had a huge impact. more!! more!!!

btw, referring to this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x352906

[eShirl]

6. Wait, is this Glenn Beck's psychiatrist?

[tomm2thumbs]

7. **Links to sponsors in this link from other DU post **

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=352906&mesg_id=352966

Drop an email off to Beck's sponsors asking them if this is how they think their country can be a force of good in America?

[indimuse]

8. Thx! nt

[old mark]

9. I used to work with a lot of psychiatrists, some of whom were a bit "funny"

themselves...wife beaters, serious alcoholics, all in one hospital. like having your own soap opera.

mark

[ScottLand]

10. I think that one was just for Glenn's benefit.

Now he feels good because his friend told him he's not crazy.

[The Wizard]

11. So now Beck has to have a paid shill

attest to his sanity. There are doctors like Keith Ablow all over the country serving as expert witnesses. They're also known as courthouse prostitutes.
What percent of Americans don't get information from Pox (deliberate typo)?
Why didn't Beck get his Pox colleague and failed psychiatrist Charles Krauthanger to affirm Glenn's ability to reason?
It's not that Beck isn't playing with a full deck, he's got extra cards, just like his viewers.

[zbdent]

12. George W. Bush, January 2001 ...

"Aw, come on ... all that talk about Osama bin Laden is just liberal bull ... the guy hates America, but he was only doing it because Clinton was soft on terror. All I have to do is rough up a few little places, declare ourselves the bully of the world, the only country which used nuclear weapons, and the world will tremble in fear. What's this? Flying planes? Bah ... some liberal weenie 'intellectual' who makes shit up like me doing warrantless wiretapping on U.S. citizens ... hee hee hee ..."

[Crowman1979]

13. With RW talk radio hosts, the Narcissism is endless!

[Botany]

14. Call me crazy but it seems like we have tape of Beck trying to start shit

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/29/politics/main5195604.shtml


Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist.

Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself
as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

[eagertolearn]

15. Is this the same guy from his church that okayed torture?

[hmorehead]

16. He got his PhD

from Fruitcake U. Just because he's a shrink doesn't mean he ain't cray, too. At least this shows Glen understands on some sort of level he's a whack job.

[BREMPRO]

19. Ablow actually studied at some of the best institutions in the country..

From wikipidia: "He graduated from Brown University in 1983. He did his psychiatry residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center hospitals and in 1987 received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School."

Clearly he's a conservative and I'm sure he was well paid to come on the show to say Beck isn't crazy. I'm sure he also has a personal stake in the outcome of the current health care debate. He actually had some good points though about lowering the volume at public meetings and making arguments civilly and logically. I think in some way that was a subconscious critique of Beck himself.

[Strong Atheist]

31. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[BREMPRO]

17. His arguments make no sense...

and are completely nonsequitur and solipsitic. "people are very afraid/country being hijacked by communists,socialists,i don't' know you put the name up there/runaway spending, their voices not being heard/now voices are being silenced(in other words me)/ THEREFORE according to the SPLC there is a rise in right-wing militias".

I mean, just try to follow that logic! The rise of right wing militias was predicted by the FBI as i recall when a BLACk man was elected president, and has been further fueled by older WHITE males losing their jobs, and incendiary remarks from the RW media like calling Obama a "racist" and comparing him and his advisers to Nazis (yes you did BECK!). Has nothing to do with his paranoid tirade about "people" being silenced. Go to a town hall meeting on health care and see all the nutjobs being silenced. right.

After watching of few of his clips and shows over the years, here's my diagnosis: I don't think he's crazy, but just a has a very poor intellect, overactive emotions, likes the sound of his own voice, has been brainwashed by right wing propaganda, and is an attention whore who has a deep seated need to please his audience (and preserve his ego/paycheck). The crying spells work for ratings, so he's been positively reinforced into favoring his emotions over what little intellect he has. Add to that a poor understanding of history and an inability to think before he talks and you get BECK. Instead of fairly and logically examining the issues, he taps into his audience's deepest fears and tells them (and bosses) what he thinks they want to hear. I think he's the underachiever that is in WAY over his head, and now with the criticism of his remarks and advertisers pulling out, backed into a corner and is trying to pull himself out by paying a psychiatrist to assure people (and his network) he's not crazy.

[tosh]

18. Awww! Poor widdle victim. He's being picked on and

maligned. :nopity:

[nolabear]

20. I'll see his shrink and raise him a few thousand who disagree!

Keith Ablow is for sale. I mean his opinions, his ethics, his sense of right and wrong are for sale. I'd say he's just human and subject to the kind of human frailty that can cause one to lose track of their souls in pursuit of money and fame, but since he's influencing people who might come to see one of us who has ethics and wants to help rather than preach some opinion and call it fact, I don't feel so kindly inclined. Frankly, he puts the "blow" in Ablow.

[Julius Civitatus]

21. LIAR! He claims he "debunked" the myth of the secret Fema camps

...after the motherf#cker spent months hyping the idea that Obama was building secret FEMA concentration camps to intern and "reeducate" conservatives. These paranoid conspiracies were at the core of his show, as the centerpiece of his now famous and very dramatic televised speech where he "weeped for his country".

What a piece of sh#t this guy is. He acts like a loon, but he's not crazy, believe me. Is he even aware we have things like "tapes" and "YouTube" where we can show his paranoid and highly dangerous rants back at his face?
These people at Fox think they can lie pathologically.

What's even funnier is that, in the same breath, in the very same freakin' paragraph he claim "our nation is being hijacked by communists and marxists" and that "people that dissent are being silenced by the government." Yesterday, Glenn Beck brought back the "death panels" and suggested that Obama's healthcare is a secret plan to get rid of the undesirables in society and that this was taken straight out of Nazi Germany.

I don't think Glenn Beck is crazy. I think he's a monster that's doing this on purpose. He knows what he's doing and is purposefully trying to spark a fire. Then he lies when people call him on it. He knows what he's doing; he's a dangerous propagandist and I think the FCC needs to ask Fox News for restrain; the management at Fox are not acting like responsible adults, but rather like Radio Rwanda.

[davidhilton]

22. what a joke n/t

[Quantess]

24. The guest was speaking slowly

as though he were a guest speaker in an elementary school. That tells you something about his audience.

[mzmolly]

26. He lost me at "runaway spending". Where was Beck when BUSH gave us the LARGEST deficit

EVER?!

[BecomingBrainy]

27. Beck, yesterday, said the report was

saying that he is the leader of a militia.

This is what the 24 page report says about Beckie:

"Fox News host Glenn Beck, who has called Obama a
fascist, a Nazi and a Marxist, even re-floated militia con-
spiracy theories of the 1990s alleging a secret network
of government-run concentration camps."

And:

"The original movement also had its (sic) mainstream backers, but they were largely confined to talk radio; today, Beck is just one of the well-known cable TV news personalities to air fictious consipracies and other unlikely Patriot ideas."

These were both on page 9. This is the only time Beckie is mentioned.