# Michael Scheuer, on Glen Beck, dreams of terrorist WMD attack on U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 6, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046 "2009-07-06T03:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046/81 "2009-07-09T20:10:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Wait, are you quoting one of the zany conservatives depicted in This Modern World? Because you sound just like one. Don’t tell me, let me guess: You’re Bill O’Reiley? You’re the unnamed lady with the helmet hair? As a confirmed raging liberal, I have to agree with **Tarwater** that _This Modern World_ is a retarded piece of shit, every bit the lefty equivalent of _Mallard Fillmore_. Unfunny partisan hackery knows no political affiliation. Still, it’s always baffling to me to see people trying to defend the shit Beck and Scheuer said in the OP. It makes you look like an idiot whether you’re an apologist for the left or the right (and there are enough of each on this board that at least it’s easy to spot the ideologues). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046/82 "2009-07-09T20:28:44Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > As a confirmed raging liberal, I have to agree with **Tarwater** that _This Modern World_ is a retarded piece of shit, every bit the lefty equivalent of _Mallard Fillmore_. Unfunny partisan hackery knows no political affiliation. It’s funny. I felt the same way ten years ago. I felt like _This Modern World_ was reductive, ignored important points of refutation and tended to beat a straw man. In the intervening time we have seen the conservative side of the discourse get ceded to the likes of Glen Beck. Now I have to wonder to what extent Tom Tomorrow was right all along. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046/83 "2009-07-10T01:45:13Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, if nothing else, it ought to leave more room for the illegals, right? > > ETA: Fine, I won’t use any city in the Midwest- I’ll amend it to Newark. Fresno is cool. While your at it you can take Bakersfield too. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046/84 "2009-07-10T03:16:36Z")
> [@JohnM](#): > > But if it gets nuked, maybe we can finally see an end to the [Johnstown Flood Tax](http://www.johnstownfloodtax.com/). The \*\*1936 \*\*Johnstown Flood? NOT the one in 1889? They rebuilt? How stupid were they? (FTR, my wife is sensitive about the one in '89 because she lost family in it. Please don’t tell her I got snarky about the residents of Johnstown, PA. (thinking) Nah, go ahead. After all these years she expects it.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046/85 "2009-07-10T03:38:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > …Now I have to wonder to what extent Tom Tomorrow was right all along. OK, he was right all along. Big deal! And now, he won’t shut up about it, rubbing people’s noses in how totally, absitively and posolutely wrong they were. What’s bi-partisan about that, huh? What? Radical cartoonists were much more civil in the 50’s. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046/86 "2009-07-10T13:19:53Z")
> [@Tarwater](#): > > No, it doesn’t. Scheuer’s critical of groups on both sides of the political spectrum. It’s true that his views often align him with Republicans - for example, he supports the application of “enhanced interrogation techniques” - but he doesn’t shy away from calling conservatives naive and incompetent. He’s an equal opportunity offender. > > Also, as an aside, This Modern World is garbage and you’re a moron if you find it funny or enjoyable. Twat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-scheuer-on-glen-beck-dreams-of-terrorist-wmd-attack-on-u-s/502046.md?page=4)