Where do we start when discussing GLEN BECK's one-hour "MORE WAR!" harangue yesterday (November 13) except to point out that CNN has seen fit to give their ignoramus blowhard a full hour to air his Rush Limbaugh-Bill O'Reilly-clone hysterical, extremist talking points. Clearly, CNN is going all out to emulate the reactionary, radical, extremist rhetoric of ANN COULTER, RUSH LIMBAUGH, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michael Weiner ("Michael savage"), et al., in a LUDICROUS attempt to BLAME THE DEMOCRATS for the MASSIVE LIES, FAILURES, CORRUPTION, and PROPAGANDA of the Bush-Republican Party.
- WHERE is Glen Beck's OUTRAGE that President George Bush and Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld ALLOWED Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaida leadership to ESCAPE FROM THE TRAP at Tora Bora, Afghanistan? (Bush and Rumsfeld were so busy lusting for their pending war with Iraq, that they WITHDREW US troops allocated by Congress to Afghanistan, from Afghanistan, for the Iraq buildup.)
- Where is Glen Beck's OUTRAGE that the gruesome, sadistic, humiliating, degrading treatment of Iraqi prisoners at ABU GHRAIB has HARDENED the willingness of Iraqi insurgents (and, yes, foreign terrorists) to risk their lives CONFRONTING superior American firepower?
- WHERE is Glen Beck's OUTRAGE that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have SO PROSTITUTED the US occupation of Iraq to HALLIBURTON, BECHTEL, CACI, BLACKWATER and other "PRIVATE" company profits, i.e. gross corruption, that Iraqis now SCORN America's ability to provide BASIC SERVICES?
- Where is Glen Beck's OUTRAGE that the Cheney/Rusmfeld/Baker/Bush Sr. administration were ALLIES and SUPPLIERS of Saddam Hussein's ruthless regime ALL THROUGH THE 1980s, INCLUDING shipping "WMP PRECURSOR TECHNOLOGIES" to Saddam's weapons programs in those years?
- WHERE is Glen Beck's OUTRAGE that DICK CHENEY sold Saddam's Iraq top technology oil field equipment, IN DEFIANCE OF THE US ENFORCED UN EMBARGO on that country, all through the late 1990s. Cheney as Chairman and CEO of HALLIBURTON used EUROPEAN SUBSIDIARIES to skirt the UN EMBARGO on Iraq to sell millions of dollars worth of equipment to Saddam's regime.
The answer to all this of course is that Glen Beck uses SELECTIVE OUTRAGE to fuel his viewer's rage... rage which Righties always focus against "Liberals" and "Democrats", NO MATTER HOW DISASTROUS for America are the policies of the Bush-Republican administration.
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Transcript for the Monday 13 November CNN Glen Beck "news" show
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/13/gb.01.html
Glen BECK: I get that. I got to tell you, my friend, I think -- I think Iraq is a small piece of the puzzle. They are BEING CONTROLLED BY IRAN and Syria, and they -- they are trying to do what we, I believe, were trying to do to Iran -- plant democracy on both sides and squeeze their head and pop it. They're doing that to us now.
[note: Iraq was NOT "BEING CONTROLLED BY IRAN and SYRIA" _UNTIL_ George W. Bush and Dick Cheney LIED America into war against that hapless nation!]
[note: WHERE is Glen Beck's OUTRAGE that our "war on terror" ALLY, PAKISTAN, is rumored to be at the very heart of the AFGHAN RESISTANCE to US/NATO forces, which is to say the Taliban/Al Qaida RESURGENCE there? WHERE is Beck's OUTRAGE that PAKISTAN PROMOTED NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION while the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld admin. were DISTRACTED with their lust for starting a war against Iraq? WHY are Beck and guest Babbin WORRIED ABOUT IRAN's nuclear program, AND NOT India or Pakistan's???
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/world/asia/14afghan.html
Pakistan Link Seen in Afghan Suicide Attacks]
Beck guest JED BABBIN, FORMER DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE:
You have its interfering neighbors, Syria and Iran, and frankly, we are fighting a PROXY WAR against our principal enemy's proxy. You can't defeat the principal enemy if you're only fighting his proxies. We are at a point where we have to go and take this war to the center of gravity, of the enemy. That's in Tehran and Damascus.
[note: There are critics who claim that AMERICA is fighting a PROXY WAR for ISRAEL. We Americans HAD the Baathist (Saddam) regime offering SOME counterbalance to Shiite Iran in the region.. UNTIL the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz war against Iraq began in March 2003.]
GLEN BECK: Ay-ay-ay. So tell me why we SHOULDN'T KILL al-Sadr where he stands.
[note: the Alpha and Omega of Right-Wing America: the power to KILL anyone they want, anywhere in the world. Al Sadr is indeed a dangerous THUG, but his leadership IS 'courageous' in that he COULD, indeed, be assassinated at any time. Which would make him a martyr, like his father was under Saddam's regime.]
BABBIN: It doesn't matter, in the short run, or really in the long run, what happens to "Mooki." The fact of the matter is that he's getting money and people and weapons FROM IRAN every day.
[note: America launched an ILLEGAL and AGGRESSIVE war against Iran's neighbor, Iraq, AND Israel ROUTINELY KILLS Palestinian civilians, AND the US aided, directly or indirectly (through billions of dollars in financial assistance) ISRAEL'S ILLEGAL nuclear program]
BECK: Not much. I got to tell you, I cannot believe that people are missing the APOCALYPTIC speech and actual views of the people we are dealing with.
BABBIN: Well, that's part of the problem we have here. The president has not led us as a war leader should. He's not taking our enemies at their word. If you look at al-Sadr, you look at Ahmadinejad, I mean, the APOCALYPSE is a career objective for this guy. And we have to make sure he didn't have the means to pull it off.
BECK: Could you -- could you just restate that again? I think so many people will hear me say something like that, and go, "Oh, come on, the APOCALYPSE, doomsday."
[note- here is the heart-and-soul of American/Isreali PROPAGANDA: OUR OWN fundamentalist religious groups spout APOCALYPTIC DOCTRINE, WE invade Muslim nations; and now Beck and Babbin want to use the Muslim response apocalyptic rhetoric AS AN EXCUSE TO START ANOTHER WAR, making our/their APOCALYPTIC rhetoric BEAR FRUIT!]
BECK: Could you please reiterate that these people really do believe in THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, and they want to bring it on?
[note- "The Return of the Messiah" is _THE_ FUNDAMENTAL TENANT of BOTH the Jewish and Christian faiths!]
BECK: You know, we hear in the media a lot about the war in Iraq, and he was just saying it is not about Iraq. It's not just about terrorism in general. YOU DON'T HEAR THE REAL STORY in the mainstream media. Our enemies have a global agenda. That means the end of the West.
[note: ANOTHER Ann Coulter/Rush Limbaugh/Bill O'Reilly CRYBABY crying about "Liberal Media Bias" when THEY dominate media microphones!!! THE REST OF THE STORY is how THOROUGHLY George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz BOTCHED the invasion, and specifically post-invasion planning, of the Iraq war. THE REAL STORY is how ABU GHRAIB sadism, humiliation, and degradation (by American servicemen and women against Iraqi Muslims) has POWERED Muslim hatred of the US occupation all throughout the region, has EMPOWERED fighters, both Iraqi and foreigners, to RISK THEIR LIVES to try to kill American soldiers. The REAL STORY is how GREED, CORRUPTION, and INCOMPETENCE are the hallmarks of the US efforts to "rebuild" Iraq and take charge of Iraq's economy - RAMPANT, IN-YOUR-FACE CORRUPTION that awards MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACTS to HALLIBURTON and other crony American companies, that Iraqi contractors would have done for thousands, and enlisted their own communities to PROVIDE SECURITY.]
[And, of course, the "REAL STORY" is how the Chinese, Indians, and Russians, among many other powerful empires (Europeans, Japanese, Koreans..), are not exactly planning to role over for the "Muslim world conquest" anytime soon.]
ANNOUNCER: Lies, propaganda, hate.
[note: this segment documents anti-Jewish propaganda being instilled in very young students. Note: #1. "anti-Jewish" is NOT synonymous with "anti-Semitic", because Jews are only one of the Semitic races, ARABS are ALSO SEMITIC, so in APPROPRIATING the term "anti-Semitic" to mean "anti-Jewish", Jewish scholars and writers (and their gentile allies) are effectively trying to DISMISS, as non-relevant or non-worthy, the other Semitic races! Much as the Nazis tried to REWRITE history to EXCLUDE any mention of Jews in Poland, etc.]
IF Glen Beck and CNN are going to devote a ONE HOUR SPECIAL documenting Arab/Muslim/Persian hate/propaganda, WHERE IS THE EQUAL TIME discussing the MASSACRES, MASS-MURDERS, BETRAYALS, and TREACHERIES of the Israelites in the BIBLE? For example the MASSACRE of Jericho, the KILLING of children by the angel of death; the massacre of MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN at Moses' and Saul's orders; the hacking to death by "prophet" Saul of a hapless prisoner; and DOZENS of other ATROCITIES, COMMANDED by prophets, angels, and/or "God" himself, EMBEDDED throughout the Bible (Old Testament)?
Well, we can end on a lighter note:
BECK: You know, we are in such denial. Look, you are somebody who has actual experience and actual education. You do know what you're talking about. I am -- I'M A RODEO CLOWN who happens to have a radio and TV show.
BABBIN: Well, you're better than Borat.
Note #1: Most of the Right-Wing media pundits are indeed "RODEO CLOWNS," and even ones with advanced degrees (Ann Coulter has a law degree) rely on miserable stereotypes and faulty logic to deride their policy opponents.
Note:#2: Sacha Baron Cohen may have had his comedy moments in his movie "Borat," and may have exposed the bigotry of "Red State America," but in doing so Cohen PERPETUATED the stereotype that Jews can be abusive, boorish, and humiliating of others," for example Cohen's Kazakh character "Borat" handing his dinner host a sock filled with his own human excrement at an upscale dinner party as "a gift;" or Cohen portraying Kazakh villagers as drinking cow urine and having livestock animals living in their own homes.
CNN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF ITSELF for playing the HYSTERICAL, RANTING, DEMONIZING screed as Primetime "responsible journalism" fare.
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