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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 04:57 PM
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Glenn Beck spars with Bill O'Reilly about President Obama's Ground Zero visit, calls it 'shameless'
Glenn Beck's praise for President Obama certainly didn't last long.

Days after thanking the commander-in-chief for authorizing the killing of Osama bin Laden, the conservative host ripped Obama and his visit to Ground Zero as "shameless."

Beck sarcastically told fellow Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Friday that the President wasn't letting a "good crisis go to waste," fresh of his earlier remarks that the trip was an "obscene" "victory lap" for Obama.

O'Reilly said Beck was being too harsh on Obama. "Anything that draws attention to the suffering of the 9/11 families is worth it," he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/07/2011-05-07_glenn_beck_spars_with_bill_oreilly_about_president_obamas_ground_zero_visit_call.html

No Beck you are the one who is obscene!
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BernieSandersIsGod Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 04:59 PM
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1. I tought Beck got fired or something. Why is he still on TV. NT
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 05:46 PM
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8. Why is he allowed to attack the President?
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 07:13 PM
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9. Because we have a First Amendment.
Same thing that "allowed" us to criticize Bush just as harshly as we wanted. I can't stand Beck and his trash talk, but like it or not, it's protected speech - as it should be.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 05:39 AM
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14. I'm getting really tired of this 1st amendment crap. I should remind you

that your supreme court awarded first amendment rights
to corporations? There is no precedent for that in the
constitution, bill of rights or two hundred years of
subsequent law.

So the 1st amendment means nothing except absolute corporate
control of free speech.

The right to free speech is empty in an age where the government
gives corporations the right to unlimited and undisclosed financial
contributions to political campaigns, unlimited and undisclosed
lobbying campaigns.

Meanwhile so called free people are confined to 'free speech' zones.
What a travesty. There are no 1st amendment rights anymore except
for corporations.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 10:42 AM
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16. You don't know what you're talking about.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 04:59 PM
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2. Of course Obama visited ground zero without shame
Beck is a true idiocrat!
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 05:06 PM
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3. "...the President wasn't letting a 'good crisis go to waste,'..."
Well Beck, you would know all about manufacturing/exploiting crises; Knothead.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 05:06 PM
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4. Wow, betcha beck REALLY had a shit fit when li'l bush gave his bullhorn speech at ground zero
Oh, wait...
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 05:29 PM
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5. Did he say the same about Mission Accomplished and the flight suit?
I'm guessing no.
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Vicar In A Tutu Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 05:37 PM
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6. Interesting how...
Edited on Sat May-07-11 05:39 PM by Vicar In A Tutu
...thanks to the shifting positions of the Ker-azzzy phenom which is the current GOP, O'Riley is now a moderate Republican -some probably think of him as a liberal - whereas Glenn Kecks is slap bang in the current mainstream.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 05:44 PM
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7. Beck is revealing what a nefarious brain he has...polluted thinking
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 09:56 PM
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10. Nothing new to see here, just Beckkk being delusional and wrong
as usual, with a clear indication that he does not know what the fuck he is talking about.
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AzNick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 02:30 AM
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11. Bush did not milk 9/11 did he?
Oh yes, he did.
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craigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 05:20 AM
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12. Beck and O'reily are stupid.
Still you have to hand it to them, they really stick up for their side when times are good or bad or as the case is right now against a popular president. That's a huge contrast with our so called liberal media talk show hosts who were kissing bush's ass in 2003 when he invaded Iraq.
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Johnny Morales Donating Member (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 05:24 AM
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13. i was wondering if
I was the only one who recalled that.
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quaker bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 06:04 AM
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15. Victory laps are the fair and appropriate province
of the victorious. While I don't think it is fair to call what was done a "victory lap", President Obama has earned one if he wants to take it. Bush certainly would have been mounting a trophy somewhere under these circumstances. If it were Bush spiking the football, my dollar says we would not have heard a thing from Beck about it.
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 10:48 AM
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17. Jealousy becomes them. nt
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LatteLibertine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 02:31 PM
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18. Fuck Beckkk, his 15mins are almost up
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