Yes, several, but you can’t buy them legally.
I’m pretty sure this will end up being stupid, but the article
only gives a few sentences, possibly out of context, and the original is behind a pay wall.
Does anyone have access to the original? Is it stupid?
Does anyone remember the thread (must have been last October, or so) where adaher was challenged to predict what specific legislative priorities the Republicans would put forward in the new Congress? Might be interesting to revisit that now, or in the months to come.
Is there a point to give an answer that’s technically correct but practically inconceivable? Someone could answer that the job of a Congressman would be to impeach the president. The answer, while incomplete and tells you little of the day to day duties, would not be a lie, but it would be a terrible answer.
Look, you just came up with a better answer than Walker, and you’re not a professional politician. Its factual and has the added distinction of being inclusive and understandable to a kid. You’ll excuse me if I think any politician is an idiot for not being able to answer that. There’s no reason for me not to default to simply “He’s a climate change denier who didn’t want to reveal his true colors to his moronic constituents.”
Or, “He accepts/is indifferent to/has no opinion on the reality of climate change, but he doesn’t want to say anything to upset his hard-RW party-base or his corporate campaign-donors.”
Sure, because if there’s anything I think of when I think of Republicans, it’s that they’re too much of a rubber stamp for anything Obama wants to accomplish.
That’s really what I would consider their main fault. I think we can all agree.
Glenn Beck has absolutely perfected the art of selling stupid ideas to the stupidest people on the planet. He’s too good at it, and too successful, to actually be stupid. He knows what he’s selling is horse manure, but he has a talent for reaching that demographic of people who are missing a cavity inside their skull, and their cranium is just solid bone from one side all the way to the other.
He’s mastered the art of the big lie, really. It’s fascinating to watch. There are hundreds of thousands of idiots who really would pack up their lives and go live inside a glass dome bubble with Glenn Beck and live under His Word as if he were the second coming.
He is the guy who takes the discarded egg shells of society, and tapes them back together and tells them they’re special, and that they still have great yolks inside, and that no thought they ever had on their own was ever wrong.
Oh, really, you think it would be a great idea if businesses were legally allowed to stop serving black people, because freedom?
You’re my special little guy, aren’t you? Yes you are. Yes you are. Who’s my little pudding head? Who’s the cutest spittle-dribbling moron in the whole big wide world? Yes you are. Extreme libertarianism is so awesome! You’re not a complete fuckhead for buying into Randian crap! You’re smarter than everyone else, actually. They think they’re so smart, and that you’re so dumb, but you… you’re something else.
Glenn Beck has packaged that act and trademarked it, and he’s living very well off of the money that comes from selling stupid.
Why? Reagan and W were.
I dunno if he’s actually smart, evil possibly. Ask yourself this: how different would he look and behave if he were actually that stupid and believed what he said?
They were rich to begin with, and had connections, which allowed them access to the greatest marketing teams ever assembled. Glenn Beck, on the other hand, has been selling stupid for a very long time, on his own merits.
Simply being stupid isn’t enough to get rich off of other stupid people. It’s the smart people who get rich by marketing to the dumb.
At no point in his life did George W Bush come up with a marketable thought on his own. He’s a muppet.
Glenn Beck ad-libs his on material on his radio shows, writes his books, did tv shows, and he generates the content that gets sold. That’s much, much harder.
I loathe him for it but respect the fact that it is difficult. If your most coherent thought is “I’ve shat my pants”, that doesn’t make you rich. But, if you can write a book that tells dumb people that shitting their pants is socially acceptable, and get them to believe it, that’s very interesting, to me.
It’s tricky, like writing a children’s book. You know how many people try and fail to write a marketable children’s book? Only the very best manage to write drivel that appeals to the burgeoning mind.
Glenn Beck is like those people, except he takes minds that are already closed and disinterested in the world, and convinces them that the shit they already have inside their heads is both brilliant and timeless.
He’s basically the racist who writes a book explaining why racism is okay, and that racists need to stop being such pussies about it and own their racism and wear it on their sleeve, except, for dummies.
Who happen to be racist, coincidentally. But that’s beside the point.
There are millions of people just like that, and none of them have built what Glenn Beck has.
Pay websites, his own tv channel, media publications, radio shows, books, everything. No one has marketed stupid like Glenn Beck has. He is the My PC Cleaner virus for the human mind, only vastly more profitable.
The thought of Glenn Beck being a part of one’s childhood is truly disturbing.
Please, let him only influence adults whose brains never fully matured, not the actually immature.
I dunno; if I had people out to lynch me, I’d progress *real *fuckin’ fast.
Speaking of Glenn Beck, he thinks Netanyahu’s electoral victory is proof that God exists.
I dunno, but this direct quote sure is:
Some of those reviews are hilarious.
So apparently Ted Cruz is trying to get into DC city law (!) to muck about with our contraception coverage and GLBT rights.
WTF, Ted Cruz? How is DC city law even remotely your business?
Because it is Congress’ business.