Beck & O’Reilly: boot Vermont out of the union for electing “socialist” Sanders to Senate
Following the election of self-described socialist Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) to the U.S. Senate on November 7, conservative television hosts Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly declared that Vermont no longer belongs in the United States. On his November 14 CNN Headline News program, while referring to Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice cream maker, Beck said that “we should take the ice cream factory without the two fat guys, and we should vote them out of the union,” adding: “I think you should have a renewal period on every state. I think the rest of the country should vote whether you’re a state or not anymore.”….Similarly, on the November 16 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly blasted former state District Court Judge Edward Cashman for purportedly giving light sentences to sex offenders and declared that one of the men Cashman sentenced was given three to 10 years in prison, but is “probably going to be out at three because it’s Vermont, a state that’s left the union.” O’Reilly then stated that “Vermont is now a state that is San Francisco values, secular-progressive all day long. They elect a socialist — as we just talked with [Fox News political analyst] Dick Morris — as a senator: Bernie Sanders.” O’Reilly concluded: “I’m not even eating their maple syrup anymore. That’s how bad it is.”
I grew up being taught that ‘tis better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Translation: if you don’t have anything intelligent to say, and/or if you can’t support your various and assorted pontifications, THEN SHUT THE HELL UP! All you’re doing is demonstrating the depth and breadth of your ignorance and depraved indifference to the truth and reality.
Apparently former DUMB@$$ AWARD wieners Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly never got the memo, because both of them are managing to make a handsome living off of being…well, just plain stupid and surpassingly ignorant. Imagine having a soapbox on a national cable news channel in which you can say ANYTHING- never mind whether or not it’s true or accurate- that comes into your pointy li’l haid. Imagine having a following of drooling, knuckle-dragging trogolodytes who worship you and hang on your every word as if it was the very Word of God His Own Self. Imagine not ever having to have a decent, honest discussion with those who think differently. If you feel yourself losing control of the discussion, all you have to do is shout them down, scream at them to “SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!!”, and question their patriotism. Who needs to come up with a supportable argument when you just shout your obviously-deluded adversary down whenever you see fit.
You see, it’s much easier when you break things down scientifically, isn’t it??
O’REILLY: OK, but you know as well as I do that Vermont is now a state that is San Francisco values, secular-progressive all day long. They elect a socialist — as we just talked with Dick Morris — as a senator: Bernie Sanders, our pal. OK, now, Bernie Sanders, in case you don’t know what socialism is, advocates seizing private property, yours, Wendy, mine, everybody’s, and giving it to whoever the government deems it should be given to. That’s what socialism is. No private property. OK. So Vermont elects him, by a landslide, to be a senator. Vermont is for restorative justice, which is what Cashman is: no punishment — healing. No protection — healing.
Clearly, Bill O’Reilly knows nothing of socialism and even less of Bernie Sanders. Of course, ignorance of a particular subject has never stopped O’Reilly before. Indeed, ignorance is something that seemingly empowers O’Reilly. If he knows nothing about the subject at hand, he can define it to his advantage as he goes along. Yes, making it up as he goes and changing the rules of the argument are O’Reilly’s stock in trade. The “No-Spin Zone” is really only code for self-serving, ignorant rants that serve only to inflate O’Reilly’s already sizable ego.
And then there’s Glenn Beck, who more than anything else seems to be in love with the sound of his own voice and his alleged understated brilliance and moderation. To call Beck a fool and a blowhard wouldn’t begin to do justice to the depth of his aggressive ignorance and willingness to throw rhetorical stones…but it’s a start.
BECK: I believe we should take the ice cream factory without the two fat guys, and we should vote them out of the union. I think you should have a renewal period on every state. I think the rest of the country should vote whether you’re a state or not anymore.
Right. And I think the rest of the country ought to vote on whether or not yBeck actually has anything to add to the national political discourse…or whether his rants are just so much mental masturbation.
I can’t for the life of me understand whay O’Reilly and Beck still have television gigs. Apparently, ignorance, fear-mongering, and spewing Right-wing hatred and White House talking points is still greatly in demand these days. Why think and have a reasoned and considered debate on the issues facing us when you can shout, make unsubstantiated charges, and spread fear and ignorance as far as your voice carries? Why indeed.
Nice work if you can get it, eh??
