[QUOTE="Archangel3371"][QUOTE="Shame-usBlackley"] Why do Canadians care about Glenn Beck? The subject matter of his show is uniquely American. Not saying you can't but the thought crossed my mind that I don't even know of any Canadian political pundits, and I wouldn't care about them if I did. I mean, if what the guy rants and raves about doesn't affect you.... I just don't get why you'd want to watch ANY American political shows or pundits. I tried to watch some s*** on Parliament when I was in England, and besides nearly dying of boredom, I realized what a giant waste of time it was seeing as they could implement the lamest s*** in the world and it wouldn't have any effect on me. Although I do find it interesting that you talk about Beck and completely ignore nut jobs from the other side if the aisle like Olbermann and Mr. Ed on MSNBC, or Alan Grayson and Pelosi. On topic: crazy dude does crazy s***. what's surprising is how timid we all are to call a nut job out, and it's only after people are dead that we start seeing the signs. This dude got booted from college and was told he couldn't return without a full psych evaluation, he'd been arrested, and his YouTube page sounded like it was an infomercial cross-collaboration between Charles Manson and a Goldline agent. It was obvious dude had issues well before he started shooting people, and that's the real tragedy if you ask me. The gun wasn't the problem -- he could've taken more people out by driving a car into the crowd. The problem is that this young man snapped, pure and simple. and Glenn Beck, and guns, and video games, and whatever else had nothing to do with that.Shame-usBlackley
Well it's not that I particularily care about Glenn Beck per say as I don't actively seek out his shows or anything but I do watch various news programs to keep up with as much news info on the world's going-ons in general. I just like to keep informed on stuff that goes on in the world outside of my country though. I responded in another post that I didn't intend to only single out certain people but honestly he is the one I hear and see the most amount of crazy from so he is the one who first springs to mind when such a topic is broached.
Is the shooter a nutjob? It most definitely looks that way. Regardless though I think that the rhetoric and fearmongering, on both sides btw, in both politics and the media has gotten so overboard with hate that it's time people took a step back and re-evaluated it. Judging from the reaction from the situation it seems like a whole bunch of other people feel the same. To me it seems such a bunch of inflammatory sensalistic nonsense.
There's a huge gulf between having a shouting match and blowing a bunch of people away. Dissent does not equate to violence.A classmate of the guy who shot Giffords describeshim as a hardcore liberal and political extremist -- are we to believe that either of those particular traits are to be condemned now? It's a very fine, fine line.....
It's also odd that you (and so many others) seem honed in on the rhetoric and fear-mongering now.... where were you during Bush's 8 years? Did you not see the signs of him dressed as Hitler and drinking blood by the unhinged Left? Do you not remember the madness over gas prices (which are now almost just as bad) being tied to his affiliation with Big Oil? Do you not remember every Hollywood event being used as a bully pulpit to smash the guy to pulp? Do you not remember Michael Moore (a big one on the nutjob list, and interestingly missing from yours) manipulating people with outright propagandistic film-making? Do you not remember books being written about his assassination? Do you remember the Left referring to him as a "war criminal"? Do you remember crazy leftists invading churches, spattering themselves with pig blood, and screaming anti-war diatribes during Sunday services?
I think Bush was a bad president and a huge mistake, but the diatribe under his two terms made the stuff Obama and Co. are enduring look like child's play.
And I have nothing against anyone trying to inform themselves of the world around them, so long as they are willing to look at the unfiltered picture.
With Clinton, Bush 2 and now Obama there were groups of people who worked themselves up to a lather based off of elaborate fantasies (no I don't think its a recent phenomena, but I'm just focusing on guys who were president in the timeframe I was around and paying attention).
I think all of the presidents have had their good and bad points, but I don't think any of them woke up saying 'How can I **** up America today to better serve my secret masters?'which is a line of crap idiots like Beck and Olbermannspew. While I think that worldview is overly simplistic, I don't think it necessarily leads to murder (lots of Americans think that way, but we have precious few politically motivated attacks).
Moving on the the specific incident under discussion, I don't think anyone is to blame but the shooter. Adults are responsible for their own actions.
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