So, the thing is, I'm not the one who tends to follow the herd.
If everyone's backed up on the freeway, I'm the one who will look for the longer but less crowded country road. When everyone's talking about whoever out-sang or out-danced or out-cake-bossed someone else, I'm the one with the blank face-and if there's a room full of people line dancing, I'll be the one over in the corner having a smoke and wondering what went wrong with y'all.
And that's why, while everyone else is all excited about Glenn Beck's imminent "disappearance" from the television firmament...I'm not so sure.
In fact, I can easily see a scenario that leads to a lot more Beck, and that's what we'll be talking about today.
Van Jones is clearly controversial. His signature on the truther document is rather unfortunate, and a mistake. He has acknowledged that mistake. The Republicans as assholes thing seems pretty petty to me. All in all, Republicans have done a lot worse things, illegal things, and stayed in their jobs. But, IOKIYAR, right?
Van Jones made some remarkable changes here in the Bay Area and across the state. That the White House was not there to support him is beyond unfortunate. It hands a scalp to the nearly mortally wounded Glenn Beck and it empowers the right-wing extremists.
I'm heartbroken over Van's departure because it's these little meaningless concessions that undermine people's faith in the system. You get folks all riled up about change. You empower a man who embodies that change. And they you let him be run out of office by fucking Glenn Beck? So Glenn Beck is running the White House now? Is that how it's gonna be? Just tell me that I knocked on all those doors for nothing, and I can start the grieving process, but don't pretend this will solve anything.
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How do you expect folks to continue to go to the mat for your agenda, when you so easily sacrifice our best and brightest at the whim of an illegitimate lynch mob? How do you expect the next generation to invest themselves in the political process when they see that despite their good works, they can be taken out over nonsense, especially when the double standard is so abundantly clear? How can you ask from us what you won't do for us? And when will you realize that you cannot negotiate with terrorists?
Admittedly, I got busy with the holidays and fell behind in my reading at some of my favorite websites. I figured I could bookmark, spend a couple days getting reacquainted with the wife and kids, and then catch up later.
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From Glenn Beck today:
I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. (MediaMatters 10/22/07)
Besides the obvious lack of knowing what he's talking about, this is so inappropriate that it's practically laughable. First of all, has Beck even ever been to SoCal? First, they are called wildfires, next, the areas that are buring are some of the redder in the state. Funny, except, that people are losing their homes and becoming homeless. And this jerk has the gall to call other people anti-American? Perhaps the guy laughing at people's loss shouldn't be the one too judge others. More of the offending remarks over the flip, and audio at Media Matters.
