If anything could make me warm to Glenn Beck, it would have to be Senator Lindsey Graham scolding the Fox News man for his “cynicism.”
Call me a cynic, but lines like “we became a great nation because when our backs were against the wall we held hands” make me shudder, especially when delivered in Graham’s over-baked Carolinian drawl. Give us Glenn Beck over that any day.
JihadLizard says: Ditto, AntiPartisan. Beck has a potential for paleo-hood, but he must drop the blinders about how much our military can accomplish. A start would be to read The Limits of Power.
Graham seems to think it’s a problem that Beck isn’t “aligned with any party.” The same can not be said of Republican Party spokesman Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.
Adam Rurik says: Actually, it would pretty much require a thermonuclear explosion to “warm” me to Glenny Boy!
Barney Rebble says: Have you ever noticed, when we go out to the Huff post, or Media Matters, or Daily Kos, we get really good information?
And when all those millions of common neocons meet around Glenn’s crackerbarrel, ALL they get is mind controlled?
It is REALLY good to be superior:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmannAYiwh0
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JihadLizard says: Mr. Rebble, we don’t believe we’re superior, we only want you to wake up from your slumber and enter detox from the neocon fantasies once drunk with power. We believe in you and your capacity to think critically, just start asking questions. Challenge your beliefs and come to them again through critical thinking, everything is different now.
Lindsey’s issue is not Beck not being aligned with a party, but his nasty cynicism tainting the discourse in this country. I agree that this country’s strength is coming togething and not badgering the other side. Constructive disagreement…
Cheeky Taitz says: Personally, I don’t take cynics seriously. I used to live in SC, and from that experience, I’ve been pleased with Mr. Grahams’ moderate and rational behavior. While remaining conservative, he has shown the ability to compromise, and compromises are the things upon which this country is founded. Cynicism is at times entertaining and humorous, but taken to excess it becomes absurd. On another hand, I wish that Mr. Beck would be truly non-partisan himself, and consider covering stories that put mud on the faces of people from both sides of the aisle. However, all that said, I didn’t see the video clip because my computer wouldn’t load it for some reason.
TomB says: Cheeky Taitz wrote:
“I used to live in SC, and from that experience, I’ve been pleased with Mr. Grahams’ moderate and rational behavior. ”
Well I dunno if he’s changed or your opinion of moderate and rational behavior is just different from mine, but here’s a story with Lindsey essentially
A.) Admitting that the Iranian nuke issue is really a problem first and foremost for Israel and not the U.S., and
B.) That, nonetheless, if military action is necessary it should be the U.S. that attacks Iran and not Israel because, gee, Israel’s image would be hurt otherwise, and
C.) That if the U.S. does attack Iran it should not just attack its nuke facilities but wage all-out extended war to utterly destroy Iran’s ability to wage conventional war even.
(See: http://rawstory.com/2009/10/attack-iran-before-israel/)
Seems to me we’ve long passed the question of Lindsey’s moderation and rationality and are now at the point of pondering the issue of his very sanity. What’s next, calling for an Amendment to the Constitution making the Prime Minister of Israel the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces? Giving the Knesset the power to declare our wars?
And yet of course not just Lindsey is essentially saying the above, Saxbe Chambliss agrees. And so too, so far as I can tell, do many if not all of Lindsey’s closest Republican colleagues who seem to be as much the leaders of the Republicans as anyone, such as John McCain. (Who seem only a molecule saner than Lindsey via only more quietly saying these things.)
Just makes it so piquant being upbraided here by so-called “conservatives” who support these sorts of Republicans. (Or indeed the Republican Party which they so define at the present):
“Right, right; real conservatism means the U.S., without being attacked in any way shape or form, should commence an aggressive and undoubtedly prolonged war all on its own, no doubt without a single ally, sending U.S. men and women to die, for the sake of another country, because that other country would look bad if it did it itself.”
Just part of George Bush’s self-proclaimed “redefinition” of the Republican Party and conservatism I guess. Oh how bad I feel that Lindsey and Rush Limbaugh don’t regard me as a true conservative….
Just how much more gob-smackingly stupid and dangerous and contrary to U.S. principles and ideals and interests can one get?
WRW says: I don’t even understand what Graham is talking about. “Win these two wars”? When? How? (This while Graham criticizes Obama for not rubber-stamping “what the generals want”).
I don’t watch/listen to Beck or any of the rest (I don’t have the time and wouldn’t waste it if I did.) But Graham is just a narcissist.
I’m telling you … paleos should reach out to Beck and help him with his “conversion” from a beltway Right talking head into a truly anti-establishment rabble-rouser!