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19 Jul 2011, 4:14 pm

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I can't believe you post clips of that clown without irony.


I have to ask - how is posting a clip from a "clown" a considers a reasonable source any more absurd than posting a clip from a practicing comedian that B thinks does a cute job of mocking something?

I cannot watch any of them and if I could would not take either as a prime source for data, must less analysis.

But I do not see that there is a difference.


I don't understand the question.

Beck is at best a source of opinion rather than a source of data, so on that ground alone he does not deserve a serious response.

The reality is that Beck is an entertainer who is paid a lot of money to rile up the ignorant right, and on that ground deserves to be mocked.



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19 Jul 2011, 4:29 pm

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Thoroughly debunked already.
If you're going to say something is debunked post a source.
I don't live in the USA and had no idea what this was about, but a 10-second Google search had it comprehensively debunked as just another noisy Glenn Beck wet dream.
But I suppose all that is just more lies and smears to you. :roll:


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19 Jul 2011, 5:46 pm

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blauSamstag wrote:
I can't believe you post clips of that clown without irony.


The guy gives Constitutional Republicans a bad name.


I'm laughing at the three of you right now.

You make all these smears, accusations, etc. yet you haven't posted a single source to refudiate my source.


Please say that you were just joking this time. You can't be that much of an utter imbecile.

For one thing, you claim to be laughing at three people, when there are only two responses.

Here is a "refudiation" (very cute term you've coined, by the way).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/08/0 ... ol-your-PC

I agree with Glenn Beck on a few points: 1. many government employees are stupid; 2. many government employees are evil; 3. many government employees are both stupid and evil.

After more than 20 years of government service, I'm intimately aware of all 3 facts.

What Mr. Beck seems to be talking about is a warning of a type that is typically placed on government-owned computers used by government employees. Probably the warning was placed by mistake on a website for use by the public. Nothing to get a messy diaper about.



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19 Jul 2011, 10:08 pm

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Here is a "refudiation" (very cute term you've coined, by the way).
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Isn't it a bushism?



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19 Jul 2011, 11:54 pm

pandabear wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
wcoltd wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
I can't believe you post clips of that clown without irony.


The guy gives Constitutional Republicans a bad name.


I'm laughing at the three of you right now.

You make all these smears, accusations, etc. yet you haven't posted a single source to refudiate my source.


Please say that you were just joking this time. You can't be that much of an utter imbecile.

For one thing, you claim to be laughing at three people, when there are only two responses.

Here is a "refudiation" (very cute term you've coined, by the way).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/08/0 ... ol-your-PC

I agree with Glenn Beck on a few points: 1. many government employees are stupid; 2. many government employees are evil; 3. many government employees are both stupid and evil.

After more than 20 years of government service, I'm intimately aware of all 3 facts.

What Mr. Beck seems to be talking about is a warning of a type that is typically placed on government-owned computers used by government employees. Probably the warning was placed by mistake on a website for use by the public. Nothing to get a messy diaper about.


And Beck acknowledged the possibility it was also simply a case of Federal Employee stupidity...



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20 Jul 2011, 6:39 am

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And Beck acknowledged the possibility it was also simply a case of Federal Employee stupidity...
Heh. Just possibly, buried very deeply amongst all the paranoid shouting and ranting, and saying scary stuff like "in a million years, I wouldn't click 'continue'".
His terror-stricken 'warning', such as it is, far outweighs any other more rational considerations. As usual.


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