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The Spectacle Blog
Oh man.
I understand the need to pay for expenses and such.
But, well, Holy Cow.
CBS News is reporting that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are hosting a 9/11 event and…take a seat…charging money!
Says the CBS Hotsheet Report, , replete with link to the Ticketmaster page:
Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are appearing together in Anchorage, Alaska Saturday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and tickets don’t come cheap: The Ticketmaster page for the event lists regular adult tickets at between $73 and $130 and tickets plus a “meet & greet” at $225.
Say it ain’t what it appears to be. I, for one, don’t believe it until I know details that Palin does not provide on her Facebook page.
But if it is what it appears…a for-profit event using their collective celebrity — and I can’t imagine that it is…some PR type has goofed big time. There has got to be a rational explanation for this and released pronto. Unless every single dime of this event after expenses is going to a 9/11 charity or some such, whoever came up with this idea and let it out there without a massive PR explanation that the money is not for Beck or Palin should be, well, let’s start with horsewhipped.
Opening Palin and Beck to this kind of easily foreseeable left-wing criticism is just heedless. That’s Ruling Class talk for dumb.
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Mike Kelley| 9.9.10 @ 12:19AM
The media made them "rock stars." Rock stars charge money. Now the media is surprised? I suppose CBS personnel all work for free or have no expenses. Just more hypocrisy.
canuckistani| 9.9.10 @ 7:35AM
Charging for a 9/11 event by populist hounds like Beck and Palin?
Ugh. If it works, they are truly my heroes that they can manipulate the hatriots in such a way. Well played.
Grzmlyk| 9.9.10 @ 9:41AM
You are a bigot.
SoCon| 9.9.10 @ 3:26PM
No one hates like the hateful left, Canuck; you know whereof you speak.
Trent1280| 9.9.10 @ 7:50PM
Mr Lord makes a fundamental error, and it skewers everything that follows.
He seems to imagine that Mr Beck and Ms Palin are serious participants in a national debate. He presumes that they are educated, qualified and to be taken seriously.
They are not. For most of us, they never will be. Rather, Beck and Palin are entertainers busy bringing in the largest audience and biggest payday they can manage.
Of course they will charge for their services! That's who they are. That's what they do. They are entertainers. I marvel that anyone is surprised by this. The rest of us have known it all along.
DC| 9.9.10 @ 8:30PM
What's the matter, Trent?
No one paying any attention to you? It seems so because you're obviously jealous of Palin and Beck.
trent1280| 9.9.10 @ 8:40PM
Hi DeeCee:
I think you read my reply too quickly. When you look at it again, you will see it has nothing to do with envy on my part, or yours. In my own profession I am more than well-paid.
The central point is the obvious point: Beck and Palin are not serious, substantial, or educated people. The great WF Buckley was a serious thinker. So in my view is Bill Kristol and Christopher Hitchens. There are many serious thinkers on the conservative side, and they are admirable in their scholarship and eloquence.
Beck and Palin would never -- even by you -- be considered their intellectual equals. Rather, they are entertainers, first to last. One of them runs an expanding media empire, and is making a fortune. The other quit as Governor of Alaska, and is today making a fortune. Her current fee is $75,000 per performance.
They are entertainers, like Lady Gaga and Bing Crosby. They are entitled to be well paid. That does not entitle them to be taken seriously.
I'd pay that kind of money to hear Mr Buckley once again. Wouldn't you?
Concerned| 9.9.10 @ 10:13PM
No one likes a crank, trent; you don't like Palin or Beck and we don't care. You can denigrate them all you want, but it's silly to try and deny the tremendous power and positive influence Sarah and Glenn wield. I thank God for both of them.
Get used to it, obtuse troll.
trent1280| 9.9.10 @ 10:19PM
Fair enough, Ms Concerned.
Some of us prefer serious thinkers, like Bill Buckley and Bill Kristol.
Others prefer vaudeville, with blackboards and mama bears. This is America. Room for everybody. Even you. Even me.
Thanks!
Miss Concerned| 9.10.10 @ 2:00AM
You've obviously never watched Beck's show; open your little mind and see what you've been missing. Intense personal and philosophical analysis of America's Founders is not for light-weights.
trent1280| 9.10.10 @ 2:59AM
I have indeed watched Mr Beck's show. I have also listened to his radio program when he was a shock-jock stoner.
What Mr Beck does reveals a staggeringly simple-minded approach to a rich document with a complex history. His knowledge of constitutional law, precedent, and application is hopelessly ill-informed.
A freshman law student who carried on like that would be thrown out of any legitimate school. Perhaps you never took a class in constitutional law, and don't know any better. Fair enough.
But you delude yourself if you think that his 'analysis' is anything more than a random collection of grievances, jokes, encoded Mormonism, malapropisms and sales pitches for gold futures.
Thoughtful conservatives are appalled by his antics and his sheer ignorance. He is glib, superficial and amusing. If you want to examine the analysis of REAL conservatives, please read George Will, Wm F Buckley, Irving Kristol, Christopher Hitchens (no one defended the war in Iraq better than Hitch), Leo Strauss, Edmund Burke or Russell Kirk -- just for starters.
Please don't imagine that Mr Beck's amusing antics share a platform with even one of these great conservative thinkers.
If you can't tell the difference between Glenn Beck and Milton Friedman, you're in for a shock.
Randy| 9.10.10 @ 7:47AM
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have probably gotten more people involved in politics than all of the others you named together. But great thinkers like you (in your own mind) insist on looking down on the rest of us peons who do recognize what they are contributing. Get off you high horse and add something positive for a change.
trent1280| 9.10.10 @ 12:10PM
Getting people "involved in politics" is a false criterion. Arguably, Martin Luther King got more people "involved in politics" than Mr Beck and Ms Palin combined. It means nothing.
You misrepresent. I have never said nor suggested I am a great conservative thinker along the lines of those I have recommended. I have named others who are.
Get off your low horse and learn to read and think for yourself. Beck and Palin are dunces beside Hayek and Kirk. The mama grizzly and the unmanly weeper are mere celebrities. You have been seduced by tinsel.
Why do you waste time on dunces? Read the real stuff. You'll be a better man, and a better conservative, for it.
Thanks!
Miss Concerned| 9.10.10 @ 1:35PM
"Read the 'real stuff'"--that's exactly what Beck implores Americans to do, moron. If you've watched Beck's program, as you claim, you obviously weren't listening.
I won't respond to your inane posts again because I don't want to waste any more of my time on dunces.
Trent1280| 9.10.10 @ 7:23PM
Hey Misplaced Concern:
The books he recommends are, in fact, bizarre anti-Semetic screeds by Skeon Clousson, encoded Mormon homiletics, discredited theories of Lyndon Larouche, the Volokh Conspiracy and obscure tracts by paranoids. Among other worthies.
When has he ever run a seminar on the works of Burke, Kant, Hume, or Hayek? He spends more time promoting the works (and the profitability) of Glenn Beck, Inc.
Why does he use Rev Gene Scott's nonsensical blackboard scribblings, and the false dichotomies that follow? Haven't you noticed?
You confuse his comic books with what serious people know are serious works. I am sorry you are unable to make the distinction.
By the way, what do you make of his constant crying? Does that strike you as particularly adult, manly, or admirable?
Your friend Mr Beck operates out of a very weird tent. Have fun!
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 2:55AM
You're a liar. Beck recommends books about the history of our country's founding and the men and women who guided us through those perilous times.
You're an idiot. Crawl back under the rock you call home, troll.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 1:54PM
Ummm... mostly, he recommends his own books (actually written by somebody else), the works of various conspiracy nuts, and gold futures.
And some of his sponsors are as kooky as he is: ExtenZe, Goldline International, Hydrolyze, and Zero Water. What a bunch!
You may continue to take this shock-jock seriously. The rest of us saw through his con a long time ago.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 8:57PM
Your lies are tedious. Beck recommends many different authors, most of them scholars in their field.
Liar.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:13AM
Very courteous, as ever.
You say that "Beck recommends many different authors", and go on to describe them as (mostly) "scholars". You observe odd standards of scholarship, my dear.
You won't believe a word I say, of course. Fair enough. So let's look at Mr Beck's own words.
As part of his '9/12 Project', he created a list of Top Ten books that he recommended to his avid listeners. (That would be you.) FOUR of these ten were written by the same lunatic, one W Cleon Skousen (1913-2006). These four include 'The Naked Communist' and 'The 5000 Year Leap'. The latter book was described by Mr Beck as "required reading", so it must be pretty good.
Do you know anything about W Cleon Skousen, who personally wrote FOUR of Mr Beck's Top Ten? To give you the benefit of much doubt, we'll pretend you did not know that Skousen was a Canadian-born Mormon who wrote learned tomes on the End Times, whose own FBI file numbered more than 2000 pages (he was himself a one-time FBI agent), was a member of the extremist and un-American John Birch Society, once described Republican President and war hero Dwight Eisenhower as "a communist agent", and authored numerous religious and political tracts contributing to innumerable conspiracy theories from A to Z.
Reputable conservatives would have nothing to do with his crackpot views. In the conservative National Review (perhaps you've heard of it?) in 2007 writer Mark Hemingway labeled Skousen an "...all-around nutjob", and added that 'The Naked Communist' was "so irrational in its paranoia that it would have made Whittaker Chambers blush."
Apparently this lunacy does not make Glenn Beck blush. Nor you, either.
To be fair, Mr Beck does occasionally recommend serious books by serious scholars, academics and historians. It's part of the long con he is playing.
For you, this "proves" that his head is half-full; for the rest of us, it suggests that his head is half-empty.
Recommending W Cleon Skousen? Sheesh. He might as well recommend Donald Duck.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 1:23AM
Beck has recommended hundreds of books and you object to four. Big whoop de do.
I think someone needs a life; you're sort of scary. Does Glenn know you're stalking him, nitwit?
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:56AM
STALKING Glenn? Are you kidding?
I'm on his payroll. He loves the attention. Can't get enough of it.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:17AM
Not your kind of attention. Who needs a boil on their butt?
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:53AM
Well, that's a marginally better riposte.
I'll give it a six. Keep trying!
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 3:11AM
Trying for what? I'm just bored, that's all. Don't flatter yourself, Mr/Ms Megalomaniac.
BWS| 9.11.10 @ 9:18PM
MLK speaking date coincidence? 9-11 speaking date coincidence? Looks like a pattern going on here come profit (donated or not) or not.......not...
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 1:25AM
Do your homework, moron, instead of sucking on a HuffingtonPost feeding tube.
Beck made multiple millions for charity. How about you?
George S| 9.9.10 @ 6:19AM
"CBS News is reporting..."
That alone should have made you hit the delete key.
Wesley Mouch| 9.9.10 @ 9:47AM
I think I'm a bigot too.
Grzmlyk| 9.9.10 @ 10:01AM
Well, if you hate white people, wealthy people, the rule of law, the constitution, capitalism, American Exceptionalism, Christians, heterosexuals, people who aren't sucking on the government teat, the projection of strength abroad, petroleum-based energy, the private sector, unfettered freedom, insurance companies, individual choice in health care, old people, the unborn, the U.S. dollar or anything whatsoever to do with the phrase "tea party," congratulations.
Despite all appearances, you're not a foaming-at-the-mouth, taken-leave-of-your-senses, puerile, vengeful, resentful, criminal, self-centered bigot.
You're a liberal.
And when you're a liberal, hate is good. When you're a liberal, hate is soothing. Hate gets you up in the morning and propels you through your day. Hate is the air you breathe. Hate fills your heart. Hate corrupts all of your other emotions.
But if you are a conservative, and you think government spends too much of YOUR money, you are a HATER who must burn in the fires of hell for all eternity.
If, of course, there were a hell. Well, aside from the one liberals are assiduously completing.
crookedwren| 9.9.10 @ 11:04AM
Nice summary. Spot on.
Melinda| 9.9.10 @ 10:41AM
Don't create and keep your wealth America or you'll get called out for that evil enterprise.
I'm celebrating the fact that people are will ing to pay Beck and Palin that much to hear the values upon which America was founded. That's the product they're selling and it's worth a fortune! They should keep and use as much money as makes them happy in their endeavors.
I hope the Right discovers Capitalism soon. It mouths the word often enough.
occamstool| 9.9.10 @ 12:10PM
Palin for Prez in 12.
manonthestreet| 9.9.10 @ 2:45PM
Liberals can't stand anyone making money.All the money in the WORLD is for Liberals and Wealth Distribution.====>HELL WITH THEM!
If people pay the price and they are HAPPY,YOU GO SARAH AND GLENN.
SoCon| 9.9.10 @ 3:28PM
Liberals sure don't have any problem taking money from people who've worked hard to earn it, that's for sure. Thieves.
trent1280| 9.9.10 @ 10:16PM
So what if, as it seems, that Beck and Palin are merely in it for the money? It's the American way to find a way to profit from such events.
If it were not so, people would be up in arms.
Clearly, everyone knows that Beck and Palin are being paid an enormous amount of money to entertain their audiences.
That's what they do for a living. There is no problem, unless one is foolish enough to actually taken them seriously. As everyone knows, they are in the entertainment business. That's all there is to it.
Palin and Beck are entitled to charge what the market will bear.
joshMshep | 9.9.10 @ 10:43PM
Beck is an entertainer, of course he would charge for his show (just like when he hits the road on the Bold & Fresh Tour). He's not a prophet, or a Tea Party leader, or a journalist- he's a former disc jockey still playing very much in the same genre. One very successful entertainer, for sure.
trent1280| 9.10.10 @ 12:24AM
Josh is absolutely correct.
Mr Beck has never abandoned his radio-carney roots. Those who remember his old shock-jock shows recognize the odd voices that he still uses on his 'news' show. It is the same schtick, to the syllable. Nothing has changed, save for his audience.
Today they take him seriously.
His older, smarter audience realized it was all an act. He may be a sober Mormon these days, but his original radio act hasn't changed one iota.
That said, I still believe he is entitled to charge whatever the market will bear. Justin Bieber does the same thing, and no one complains about that. Each of them enjoys a very profitable gimmick.
It's entertainment, folks. That's all.
Miss Concern| 9.10.10 @ 2:07AM
Silly troll.
If Beck's just entertainment, why does he scare the living hell out of the Big Bad Left?
Do Bieber and Snooki terrify them, too? Hmm?
Silly troll.
trent1280| 9.10.10 @ 3:20AM
Hey Misplaced Concern:
I don't know of anyone on the left or right who is scared of Glenn Beck. Do you?
It would be akin to being afraid of Jay Leno or Captain Kangaroo. He is simply not a serious person. He has moved from a silly and juvenile radio show to a silly and juvenile television show -- plus unmanly crying.
The frightening thing, I suppose, is that people like you imagine he's for real. Do you also imagine that Uri Geller actually bends spoons with his mind, or 'Rev' Peter Popoff really hears the voice of God?
C'mon, now. You can't be that naive.
Beck is an entertainer unfit to walk in the shadow of Barry Goldwater. If you can't tell the difference between Beck and Sen Goldwater, you know nothing of real conservatism in our great country.
Honestly, my friend: you have been duped by an obsession with mere celebrity if you imagine that Mr Beck is a 'thinker' by any measure.
Friedrich Hayek, for example, was a deep and authentic conservative thinker who gave us lasting analyses of the failures of liberalism. By comparison, Mr Beck writes comic books.
Surely you can do better than that. No?
Miss Concerned| 9.10.10 @ 1:43PM
No one said Beck is WFB or Barry Goldwater, dimwit; it's a false comparison and only you've made it.
It's obvious the Left is terrified by Beck; your hysterical posts prove it. And Beck is only going to get more powerful as the approvals for the idiot in the White House sink low, lower and lowest. Enjoy!
Now go clean your spittle-soaked computer screen.
Trent1280| 9.10.10 @ 7:32PM
No one says that Mr Beck is Wm F or Barry G for the very good reason that he isn't!
He is, in comparison to those great Americans, a circus entertainer, taking the movement to ever-lower levels of childishness and mere celebrity.
Conservatism used to be a great movement for thoughtful grownups. Mr Beck and Ms Palin have turned it into Romper Room.
No one on the left or right I know is afraid of them. What would be the point? You might as well be afraid of squirrels.
You wrote, "No one said Beck is WFB or Barry Goldwater, dimwit; it's a false comparison and only you've made it." Alas for you, it's not a false comparison at all. And others have indeed made it, much to their later embarrassment.
It is sad that anyone would even imagine that Beck and Palin are public 'intellectuals'. Thanks in great measure to the degradation of teaching in our schools, some people actually think that Beck and Palin are serious people.
They are not, except perhaps in your world. Too bad. But be sure to give them all your money!
Miss Concern| 9.10.10 @ 9:49PM
Dude, give it a rest; you're as boring as a broken record and twice as useless. Crank.
Of course you offered a false analogy; that's how you worthless trolls play the game. No one aspires to be WFB these days, he was unique. Why pick on Beck? Oh, I know why--Beck's a serious threat to your mind-numbing, soul destroying Leftist agenda, that's why. Silly Concern troll
We'll see how serious the American people think Beck and Palin are on November 2, 2010 and election day 2012. And that thought is exactly what makes you soil yourself.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 1:43AM
"soil yourself"
Hmmm.... you've just opened the door to a really good joke, but it would be at your expense, so I won't tell it here.
But thanks!
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 2:57AM
You're nuts; talking to you is like talking to the unfortunate crazies in a mental institution.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 3:59AM
A very kind, wise and mature comment. You are doing the best you can, and we respect you for it. Well done!
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 12:14PM
Who is 'we'? You and the loud and discordant voices in your head?
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 12:52PM
Mornin', Misty:
the courteous 'we' of your non-delusional fellow citizens, throwing you a lifeline of rationality.
Feel free to reject it, if you wish -- but you will continue to drown in your sea of celebrity-worship.
Alliteratively Yours,
8^)
PS: I think you take yourself as seriously as 'we' pretend to.. oh well. You keep thinking Beck and Palin are serious thinkers, and 'we' will keep knowing better. Deal?
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 1:08PM
I can see that it's difficult for you to get past your blind hatred for Glenn Beck, but that's your right, and like I said before--we don't care. You're entitled to your ignorance and bigotry.
I don't worship Glenn, that's reserved for God, but I do respect him for his courage to stand up for what he believes in even though liberals like you will shower him with your hatred and vitriol. And there are many more millions like me you know.
To each his own.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 1:21PM
Mornin' Misty:
What you write would make sense to most people, save for one little problem: Beck's a phony.
Actually, I don't shower him with hatred and vitriol. Like millions more Americans, I shower him with laughter. He is an entertainer with an act, a fake ID, playing a long con. One day you'll see it.
Today, you don't. Fair enough. Some people took Bernie Madoff seriously too, never wondering for a moment where the money actually came from. They found out, too late.
One day, you'll find out where Glenn Beck is really coming from. I hope it won't be too late for you. For the rest of us, his charlatanism has been writ large since his disk-jockey days, using the very same gimmicks then as he uses today.
Dig into Google or YouTube and just listen to some of his old shock jock radio shows. You will, I expect, be appalled by the similarities. Maybe you won't. Gotta go!
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:02PM
Madoff's a liberal like you, of course he's a crook; Beck's a principled conservative like me who tells the truth.
We'll see who prevails on November 2, 2010. I'm bettin' on my side of the aisle. Americans are tired of liberal liars like you.
Don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya, troll.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:30AM
Let's imagine you're right, and that Mr Beck "tells the truth".
*Was he telling the truth when he admitted this?*
From Forbes Magazine, in a 26 April 2010 interview, Beck asserted that his business was not political, but is an entertainment company: "I could give a flying crap about the political process."
He added that Mercury Radio Arts, his production company, is "an entertainment company".
In a secondary item Beck said, explaining that Tyler Perry is his hero: “[Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company. I just happen to believe the Republic is on fire and it wouldn’t be as effective if I had Pluto come out with a cartoon fire hose to put it out."
Because you won't believe a word I tell you (fair enough -- I don't believe what you say, either), permit me to source what Mr Beck himself admitted. You can find it at http://blogs.forbes.com/bizblo.....ler-perry/
So, here's your problem. IN HIS OWN WORDS, Mr Beck has admitted that he doesn't give "a flying crap about the political process". Why, then, do you take him seriously?
He's an entertainer, babe. He's smart enough to admit it. Why aren't you smart enough to see it?
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 1:58AM
Why do you liberals insist on living in the past? Perhaps it's because you've got nothing vicious to say about Beck these days.
I believe people can change, don't you? I thought liberals were supposed to be open-minded, but like 'tolerance', forgiveness is alien to you.
Beck used to drink, too, and he doesn't any more; his past is irrelevant. Come up with something that isn't a thousand years old and I'll care. Is your past white as snow? Hmmm? Yes, I'm sure you've done nothing in your youth that you're ashamed of--of course not!
The past does not define us; it's what we do now that matters, curmudgeon.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:32AM
Uhhh... read more closely.
The PAST, you say? How about April of THIS YEAR? (Forgive the caps, but you really don't read very closely. And I made no mention of his addictions, ever. Not once. Never.)
I won't call you a liar, but you are a miserably inept reader. I was referring to his admission that he is simply an entertainer -- which he is.
Once again, just for you: From Forbes Magazine, in a 26 April 2010 interview, Beck asserted that his business was not political, but is an entertainment company: "I could give a flying crap about the political process."
He made this admission six months ago. April 2010. In Forbes, the self-described "capitalist tool". Six months. This is the past? Sheesh. It is today.
Re his genuinely troubled past, the alcoholism and cocaine addictions to which he has admitted, I actually share your view. He saw that he was committing suicide in slo-mo, and quit. I respect this. It takes courage to admit, and courage to change. He has also described himself as "a borderline schizophrenic", and is dealing with that medical problem too. Credit where it's due.
But he gets no free pass for being goofy. He is simply not a serious person. He is a popular entertainer -- by his own admission.
You believe everything else he says. Why won't you believe him in this?
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 3:09AM
I told you I see value in Glenn's message! It's the message that resonates with me, don't you understand? Good Lord, you're dense.
Glenn's just the vessel.
I bow to no man, including Beck, I'm too independent.
Miss Concern| 9.10.10 @ 9:53PM
Hey, dimwit; who besides YOU compared Beck to WFB? Liar.
Care to offer some proof with your pathetic whine?
Don't shoot off your mouth if you can't back it up.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 12:41AM
A Miss is as good as a mile, it would seem.
Having foresworn talking to 'trolls', as you graciously put it, you've now returned to the fray, broken lance and all.
I have several times heard Mr Beck's acolytes refer to him, with ardor similar to your own, as equal and successor to the great Wm F Buckley. I did not bother to record t/d/p. If you choose to believe I'm lying, fair enough. I couldn't care less. It means nothing.
If you continue viewing the disc-jockey, high school drop out, comic book writing, endlessly weeping Glenn Beck as even remotely in the same league as the many vital conservative thinkers I have named, that is your delusion and you're welcome to it.
I'm impressed you know the term 'false analogy', though. Very good. It is a teleological practice Mr Beck himself employs quite frequently, and has been the subject of many wicked parodies at his expense. (The likelihood that Ms Palin has even heard the term is so remote that neither of us will bother discussing it...)
Anyway, Mlle Concern, you keep reading the Thoughts of Glenn Beck, and I'll work harder to understand Friedrich Hayek, and we'll see who comes out having actually learned something. Deal?
BTW, you have omitted to answer my question about Mr Beck's very odd habit of crying all the time. It strikes me as... unmanly. What do you think?
Semper Fi!
Miss Concern| 9.11.10 @ 2:36AM
I think you're full of crap and do the Marine Corp a disservice by trying to trade on their name. Shame on you.
Who cares if Beck cries? He's just a wretch like you and me and he's grateful for God's love. You're a nincompoop.
Also, I notice you couldn't back up your claim, about Beck and WFB--weak, real weak; especially for a 'marine'. I expect more from you guys.
Did it ever occur to that tiny brain of yours that Glenn Beck and Hayek both have something of value to offer? Why is it either or with you? You're rigid, you don't have a facile mind. This is not an IQ contest, who cares?
I read everyone and everything, and I am open minded enough to discern that Glenn Beck may not be brilliant like WFB or Hayek, but he's a true patriot and a seeker, and his intense desire to help our country reclaim the greatness our Forefathers suffered and died for is well worth my time and attention.
Beck's wealthy, he doesn't need the money to do what he does, and he takes a lot of grief for his courageous stand; why attack him?
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 4:20AM
Hi Mrs Concerne: Beck got as wealthy as he is by being a very good entertainer, a third-rate historian, by being glib and ill-informed, and by appealing to the lowest denominator his market will bear: fear, ignorance, and gold futures.
The greatness of our Forefathers IS worth your time and attention. I join you in this. Seriously. I simply don't want a buffoon like Beck acting as my tour guide. Like you, I am capable of going to the public library and pursuing Adams and Hamilton and Jefferson myself. I don't need Chalkboard Charlie to show me the way.
I don't care if Mr Beck cries once or twice a year. But he reeks of 'Rev' Jimmy Swaggart's many crying jags, in his case usually following discovery with a hooker.
Mr Beck's copious tears are brought on (it appears) by his own anxiety and incapacity. His weeping is a neurosis one step removed from a breakdown.
Out of decency, one has to feel sorry for his lack of control -- bordering on the clinical. Healthy men don't do this. I don't. You don't. Children do.
But perhaps I'm wrong, and it's not just a neurotic stichk held over from his disk jockey days. Perhaps he really IS that close to nervous collapse, every day. His behavior looks pretty out of control to me.
Many entertainers have suffered nervous breakdown. You've seen it before, and so have I.
You wrote, " I am open minded enough to discern that Glenn Beck may not be brilliant like WFB or Hayek.." and indeed he is not. He is not brilliant in the least. In this we concur. Thank you.
Semper Fi!
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 12:21PM
Some of us are capable of recognizing that the message is more important than the messenger.
You have admitted the message is important; why let your poor opinion of the messenger prevent you from learning valuable information? I believe that's unwise.
No one's perfect; including YOU (obviously), me and Glenn Beck.
God bless and keep those Americans who died on September 11, 2001.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 1:08PM
At last, you write sensibly! "God bless and keep those Americans who died on September 11, 2001."
Couldn't agree more, and would only add that many other nationalities were also working at the Twin Towers and the Pentagon that day, and on that plane in Pennsylvania, and deserve our prayers no less. All God's children.
As to the rest, when the messenger's clown-like silliness and avarice distorts the message, we have a problem. You have heard of and presumably read Kirk, Hayek, Goldwater and the rest. It would appear you don't need Beck. No one needs Palin.
In Christianity, you will have heard of the concept of the 'false prophet'. Such well-known fleece artists as 'Rev' Benny Hinn, 'Rev' Richard Roberts, 'Rev' Jimmy Swaggart, 'Rev' Jim Bakker etc etc etc make a handsome living by pretending to be Christians. Some people are duped.
But they are really only in their rackets for themselves. They are not serious Christians. They are charlatans. Beck is not a serious conservative by any measure, except in the sense that 'Rev' Peter Popoff is a serious Christian.
When the messenger purports to embody and then distorts the message, there is an intellectual disconnect, a disarray. I prefer getting the message from someone with clean hands.
Beck is a grifter who sells the shock jock mentality of his whole career, now dressed up in a nice suit to fool the rubes. I'm sorry you do not know his history, and cannot spot his insincerity.
His are the tears of Elmer Gantry. You're a good guy. Don't fall for it. You deserve to be inspired by a serious thinker. You don't need Bozo.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 1:12PM
God bless you, and pray for Glenn Beck--we need him and Sarah Palin more than ever.
I will pray for you.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 1:42PM
Allo, Misplaced:
Perhaps you will permit a quick comparison. My friends on the Left seem to find it fairly useful, as do my friends on the Right.
Glenn Beck is to conservatism as Jesse Jackson is to liberalism. Both have an act, each is extremely glib, both have been very successful, and neither has a sincere bone in his body. They are well-paid con men.
Sadly, some people are gullible enough to fall for either or both of them. Sheesh. Sometimes we Americans can be so naive.
As I wrote earlier, these are the same people who actually believe that Uri Geller can bend spoons with his mind, that Benny Hinn cures cancer, and that Jews control the world. Sheesh, again.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:05PM
Point your finger at me and call me a fool, but remember, you have three fingers pointing back at YOU, libtard.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 12:49AM
Oooo! Now, that's clever.
Original, too.
A woman? If you say so. A lady? Not judging by your rapidly-declining use of language. You are spending too much time in the sandbox.
Back to Aurelius with you!
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 1:19AM
Yes, I'm a lady, but you're certainly no gentleman; gentlemen don't lie.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:37AM
You are the sort of 'lady' who uses the language of longshoremen, the diatribes of dissembling, and the reasoning of self-righteousness.
If that's what being a 'lady' means nowadays, more power to you! Say hi to the kids!
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 2:00AM
Just how many longshoremen do you know, twinkle toes? Not many I guess. LOL!
Gentlemen don't lie, it's unseemly.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:51AM
Borrring...
We want fresh insults, please. Yours are creaking at every edge.
Thanks babe!
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 3:05AM
I liked 'Twinkle Toes'. Now you've done it, you've hurt my feelings.
Craig Elderkin| 9.10.10 @ 4:09PM
What is wrong with charging? If a person doesn't want to pay, he or she doesn't need to attend.
I sort of figured American Spectator writers as free market types. This objection is without merit. But it did stimulate a lot of exchanges with a stuffed shirt!
Jonah| 9.10.10 @ 4:54PM
The only ones objecting are the hate-filled trolls.
Nothing new here.
Ann| 9.11.10 @ 1:34AM
Here in Pennsylvania where a plane slammed into a hillside on 911, on a day where 3,000 people were MURDERED, we think Sarah Palin and Glen Beck are complete sacks of S**T for CHARGING MONEY to attend a September 11th "event". She sure is a real patriot, making money off of murdered Americans. Everyone who thinks she is great has my scorn, and sympathy. And maybe Glen Beck can wear one of his brownshirts at yet another "rally", so he can blame more of Bush's screw ups on President Obama.
Dianna Moreno| 9.11.10 @ 2:40AM
Spoken like a true "tolerant" liberal. No one hates like the hateful Left; I'm so bloody grateful I don't have to be you, miserable bitch.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 4:31AM
Hey Dianna: you miss Ann's point.
She wonders what kind of human being would seek to make money, to charge admission no less, at a public and sorrowful commemoration.
Would you charge money to attend a funeral?
That's what Beck and Palin are doing.
Do you not think it a disgrace that they are trying to make money from human misery, and from American tragedy? Did New York charge money to commemorate 9/11? Did the Pantagon?
If Beck and Palin were REAL patriots, the event would be free and ALL could attend.
On the other hand, if they were mere entertainers charging admission to a show... well, you know the rest.
What Ann talks about, and what you have mindlessly missed, is that their money-changing antics are not a question of right and left. They are a question of right and wrong.
Do you take the side of the wrong? Surely not.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 12:44PM
More lies from leftist morons. Beck's fee is being donated to the Special Ops Warrior Fund he supports and Palin's NOT receiving a fee for this event.
What do you have against the children of Special Ops Warriors who've died for you and me? This fund makes sure the children of these brave men receive fully paid for college educations. What have you ever done for them? Nothing, I'm sure; all you worthless liberals do is shoot off your mouths.
Dianne is right; lying liberals like you are miserable.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:22PM
Figured you wouldn't respond to this post catching you in another lie, loser.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 12:45AM
Your gullibility continues to astonish.
According to you, Beck has "donated his fee" to a non-profit that helps our troops. If this is true, it reflects a change in the game plan as earlier announced via Ticketmaster. There was a good deal of criticism, and rightly so.
But let's pretend (you offer zero documentation) that he is "donating his fee". Why would he do this?
First, he has to pay taxes on the amount. Then, he has to pay his accounting firm to process the donation. Why waste all that money on such useless activity?
Why not just work FOR FREE in the first place, and simply direct that the organizers (who charged up to $225 a ticket) directly send 'his' money to the charity? No taxes, no overhead, all generosity.
Do you see the difference? Probably not. Those who are cynics might suspect that Mr Beck is keeping a cut "for expenses" somewhere along the line.
That's exactly what he did in DC.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 1:17AM
You Marxists love to spend OTHER people's money, yet you are the biggest tightwads on the planet with your own. Cheapskates.
Why is that, troll?
Glenn Beck's hugely successful 8/28 Restoring Honor Rally netted the Special Ops Warrior scholarship fund $6+ Million bucks and counting, loser.
I ask you again, "what have you ever done to help the children of the courageous men who sacrificed their lives for you and me?" And of course, I'll get the same answer--silence.
You're just a big fat-mouthed loser who tries to destroy those who are doing something great for others in need. You're a hater and a destroyer like all useless liberals.
Sorry, silly troll--you asked for the truth and you got it.
See you November 2!
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:39AM
Six million dollars? Wow! Very good.
Now, prove it.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 2:04AM
Google it, moron--it's quite easy to do; especially for one as "brilliant" as you.
Start proving the loads of manure you've shoveled all over this thread, bonehead.
It's unmanly of you to hold me to a higher standard than you do yourself.
You are no gentleman.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:49AM
If I held myself to your standard, I would never have graduated seventh grade.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 3:03AM
Long ago, you aspired to reach the seventh grade, but, alas, you never made it.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 4:33AM
Correction: 'Pentagon'. Mea culpa.
Happy in NY| 9.11.10 @ 3:56PM
Brava Miss Concerned, for continuing to reply to Trent. If people like him could see through their own BS, they'd see Beck and Palin are good people with our country and soldiers in mind. The money goes to charity, but the media will not mention it.
Thank goodness for cable, for there was a time where CBS, ABC and NBC brainwashed the people.
But now -- No More. I've finally realized there are many out there who think as I do and I am not alone, in spite of what the leftist media keeps trying to drill into our heads. Palin and Beck have helped me get back to my Christian roots.
Happy in NY
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:21PM
Thanks Happy! You're right, you're not alone; there are millions and millions of us good Christian Conservative Americans who are going to take our country back in November! Thank God for Palin and Beck, and thank God for good Americans like you. God bless you.
What a lying loser trent is. Desperate liberal trolls are getting more pathetic by the day; they know their useless demoncrat party is going down the toilet in November!
Cheers.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 12:31AM
Yikes, Misty. Your standards are showing.
Most of your missives show the writing style of someone with a good high school education, able to make a sentence and argue a thought.
Now you slip into the childish clichés of your fellow travellers: "demoncrat", "liberal trolls" and the self-admiring "good Christian Conservative Americans". I hope that this does not suggest you are drinking again.
In fact, sweetie, your language is no better than some lefties who call everyone who disagrees with them 'fascist', 'nazi', 'Repuglican', and 'reactionary'.
Their 3rd-grade epithets are as childish as your own. There is no difference. Crazies on both sides, each inflamed by ignorance and intolerance.
Even so, it's just too easy to provoke you. Every time someone hits back, you get a bit more annoyed, a bit more nasty, and a lot more hysterical.
Come to think of it, just like Glenn Beck himself.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 12:43AM
Beck and I are winners and winners tend to stick together, Trent; and unfortunately for you, so do lying liberal losers like yourself!
Cheers to you grumpy face; November 2 is just around the corner! :)
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:41AM
To reply at your level, dear...
8^)
Just tryin' to keep you happy!!
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 2:06AM
I am happy. I'm always happy because I tell the truth. "'Tis a tangled web we weave,..."
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:47AM
Aw, c'mon. You can't even get the quotation right.
What Sir Walter Scott actually wrote was "O, what a tangled web we weave..."
Beckites like yourself are just such careless and inept "scholars". Please try harder. Exactness counts. Precision matters. It's what we call "learning".
If you misquote a line as famous as this, what else do you bungle?
Try harder. Thanks!
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 3:01AM
Did I get my point across or not, Mr. Didactic Pedantical? I'm sure that's why you tried to deflect it. Sorry, it didn't work.
You must be more fun than swimming with a school of piranhas!
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 5:20PM
And bravo to Mr Happy! It's gosh darn nice of you to support Miss Concerned (who is really a man, btw) in her lonely quest to be duped forever.
You may think that Sarah Palin (the one who quit being Governor half-way through her term) gives her performance fees to charity. You would be wrong. Ask CSU Stanislaus about the $75,000.
You may think Glenn Beck is a Christian. You would be wrong. He is a Mormon, or so he says. Mormons are not Christians. They have their own Bible, which they purport to have been given in the 19th C by one Angel Moroni as an 'improvement' on our Bible. What was so defective about the New Testament of Christ that needed improving?
Beck is NOT a Christian. He is a Mormon.
Here is the principal difference.
The Bible teaches that Jesus is the unique Son of God; he has always existed as God, and is co-eternal and co-equal with the Father. At the appointed time He laid aside the glory He shared with the Father (John 17:4, 5; Philippians 2:6-11) and was made flesh for our salvation; His incarnation was accomplished through being conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18-23; Luke 1:34-35). Would you not agree?
The Mormon Church teaches that Jesus Christ is our elder brother who progressed to godhood, having first been procreated as a spirit child by Heavenly Father and a heavenly mother. He was later conceived physically through intercourse between Heavenly Father and the virgin Mary (D&C 93:21; Journal of Discourses, 1:50-51; Gospel Principles, p. 11-13; Achieving a Celestial Marriage, p. 129; Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 546-547; 742; Ezra Taft Benson, Come unto Christ, p. 4; Robert L. Millet, The Mormon Faith: Understanding Restored Christianity, p. 31).
Mormon doctrine affirms that Jesus, all angels, Lucifer, all demons, and all human beings are originally spirit brothers and sisters (Abraham 3:22-27; Moses 4:1-2; Gospel Principles, pp. 17-18; Mormon Doctrine, p. 192).
Do you not see the difference? Mormon doctrine is radically different from Christian doctrine. Glenn Beck is a Mormon, not a Christian -- and thus a very poor source to "help you get back to your Christian roots".
There are many nice Mormons out there. Howard Hughes knew a lot of them. But they are not Christians. No leftist or rightist medium need tell you this. Just read Mormon and Christian sourcebooks. You will soon see the difference.
Beyond that, Beck remains what he has always been: a media grifter moving up from shock jock to 'thinker', always playing the long con, and selling gold futures leavened with his unmanly weeping.
You will not be helped by such a fraud.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:09PM
I'm not a man, moron; another lie on your part.
You sure have a lot invested in attacking Glenn Beck--feeling threatened by the great man's power and influence?
You should be. He represents an awakening in America, and we're going to take our country back from lying Marxists like you.
And you know it. LOL.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 12:21AM
Hi Misty. Good to hear from you again. I thought you had given up talking to 'trolls', as you so maturely describe those who disagree with you. No matter.
Let's pretend you're telling the truth. You offer no evidence, but let's pretend...
If you are indeed a woman, you are no lady.
See yah soon!
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 12:53AM
Ooh, Aww, did I hit a nerve, nasty nebbish? Do I sense a tad bit of over-sensitivity from my favorite truculent troll?
Petty insults coming from a gollum-like, scum-sucking bottom feeder like you, bent Trent, are sweet-nothing compliments, tiny tyrant troll. ;)
It's fun toying with you and I've got nothing better to do tonight, so let's go, big bad troll!
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:00AM
Ahhh, very good.
Written just like the 'lady' we know you to be.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 2:07AM
Thank you, little liar.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:43AM
"Little liar"?
"Big troll"?
Please make up your mind. "Little" and "big" are not the same thing, even in Beckland.
Try again.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:54AM
You pick your favorite and I will honor your wishes, little troll.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:15PM
Palin's appearance at Stanislaus netted the school over $250, 000, bonehead. Worthless liar.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 12:16AM
Hi! You say that the quitting-Governor "netted" CSU Stanislaus "over $250,000". Very good.
What, then, did her performance gross? Actually, it was almost $330,000. Note the difference.
How is that difference accounted? Well... She demanded a performance fee of $75,000 for two hours' work. Plus "bendy straws", according to the rider which she sought to suppress.
Consider: if the quitting-Governor was the good soul you imagine her to be, why didn't she allow the school to keep the ENTIRE amount? She is certainly a draw in some circles, and the CSU Foundation that invited her could have used the 'extra' money for scholarships.
Ahhh... she did not, because there was no altruism here. It was, for Sarah, just another paying gig.
Like Mr Beck, she is an entertainer.
How do we know? Because she kept the ENTIRE $75,000. She was more interested in lining her pockets than in lining the university with every dollar she could raise.
If that's your definition of a social conscience, an altruistic act, a good deed, you are living on another planet. Which apparently you are.
I will not call you a "liar" in turn. That would be silly. I would just observe that you're not very good at math.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 1:02AM
I can sense your thinly-veiled liberal hatred and rage oozing out of you. You're a real piece of work, troll. Scratch the surface of a liberal and a fascist always bursts forth.
Well, there is hall rental, security to protect the Governor from all those nasty little liberals like you, transportation costs, lights, ticket printing costs, ticket sales employees, etc. to pay for--or is Sarah supposed to pay for all of that, too? And if she is, who on your side of the aisle is expected to do the same? Crickets...
The school was extremely grateful to Sarah Palin for the huge profit her appearance netted them, especially considering the liberal financial disaster that is now California.
Palin is gold, baby--no matter where she goes!!
Read it and weep. LOL!
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:47AM
Dealing with just one of the crazy things you say, doll, you write about the need to provide "security to protect the Governor".
Sorry to break it to you, but she's not a Governor. She's an ex-Governor, having abandoned her post mid-term in order to go Hollywood and make a fortune imitating Tina Fey.
Sarah is no one's idea of a loyal public servant. In fact, she is a quitter who headed out to greener -- much greener -- pastures.
And she kept the $75,000 plus the bendy straws.
She may be "gold", as you say, but it's not of the sort you imagine. Fool's gold is more like it.
Your turn!
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:13AM
It's merely an honorary title, most people wouldn't object unless they were petty control freaks with too much time on his/her hands. Ahem.
I'm not the envious type: Sarah was paid for her appearance and the school made out like a bandit.
Everyone won, and that makes normal people happy. You shouldn't covet others' possessions.
How much would people pay to see you speak? The thought makes me convulse with laughter!
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 3:03AM
It wouldn't be an 'honorary' title if she hadn't disgraced her office by quitting it.
I expect I would draw a crowd at least as big as you would. That's about 6 people, by my count. But we could come to each other's lectures, and that would make it an even dozen.
Do we have a deal? You can keep the bendy straws.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 3:24AM
I'm not the one attacking Palin's or Beck's popularity; so my statement wouldn't apply to me. DUH! You're slipping. Drinking again?
I also don't have an ax to grind, and it's very unpleasant to witness such unattractive pettiness as yours.
Disgrace? Absolutely none--Potent Palin is much more powerful as a private citizen, mother of five.
I thought you liberals always say, "Don't be so judgmental!" Guess you didn't get the memo.
Trent1280| 9.11.10 @ 5:59PM
Anyone still in doubt about the REAL Glenn Beck? Here he is, from the early days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJkxBLgd5Hs
Or this, from Andrew Zaitchik: To understand what Glenn Beck accomplished with “Restoring Honor,” it’s useful to look back at the methods Beck has always used to promote himself and further his career. His path to last Saturday’s success began, appropriately, while working in Washington, D.C., as a WPGC morning jock during the early ‘80s. It was there that Beck met another young DJ named Bruce Kelly, who became his first mentor in the art of publicity. For the next two decades, Beck labored in the fiercely competitive world of zoo-style Top 40 morning radio, where DJs fought dirty for attention—from local media coverage to top billing at charity events. “It’s hard for people who never worked in FM radio during the 1980s to really understand how deep publicity-hunger runs in Beck’s blood,” says Kelly, a radio veteran who worked with and against Beck in two markets. “Morning radio DJ’s were the Navy Seals of getting your name out there and keeping it out there. It was all about finding the biggest stage to promote yourself and your shows. Take away the high rhetoric, and Saturday is just a masterful lesson in the art of the publicity stunt. Old DJ’s like me can only stand in awe.”
Or this: In 1995, Beck and his co-hosts at KC101 in Hartford, Connecticut were made to apologize for mocking an Asian man who called into the program. The Hartford Courant reported in October 20, 1995: "When Zhihan Tong telephoned WKCI - FM to protest the broadcast as a racial slur, disc jockeys Glenn Beck and Pat Grey made fun of him. The two played a gong in the background several times, and Papineau, the executive producer, mocked a Chinese accent."
This is your hero? Sheesh. Surely you can do better than this fraud.
Miss Concerned| 9.11.10 @ 9:13PM
Stooge. You're like a hamster in a wheel--running furiously and getting absolutely NOWHERE!
Whatever floats your boat..
See you on November 2, 2010.
Save the date: We have!
Glenn will vote too.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 1:53AM
Ah, babe, you're running out of rude clichés. "Hamster in a wheel"? That's as old as the hills. You can't think of anything more original?
Apparently not.
So, in order to help enrich your amniotic vocabulary, I recommend 'The Devil's Dictionary', by Ambrose Bierce. He was a good deal more original than yourself, as you will soon realize.
Meanwhile, instead of your arthritic "hamster" analogy, here's one for free. You have my permission to plagiarize.
"You don't have a platform. You have a treadmill."
Try it. You'll like it. No charge, my friend.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:14AM
I don't take advice from proven liars. Like the gorgeous Palin said, "Thanks, but no thanks."
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:17AM
The "gorgeous" Palin?
Ahhh... now I get it. You are that sort of 'lady'.
Don't worry. DADT still applies.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:23AM
Is that why you're no longer in the Marine Corp?
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:39AM
Now that's better!
A flash of original wit. Good on you.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:52AM
Someone's gotta be clever around here.
BTW--that's Marine Corps and a REAL marine would have corrected me. For shame.
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 3:07AM
I saw your error, in fact, but was too much the gentleman to mention it. I was just grateful you didn't spell it "core".
Compared to your other howlers, this wasn't worth mentioning.
Semper fi!
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 3:23AM
By the way, you made the same spelling error at 9.11.10 @ 2:36AM / "I think you're full of crap and do the Marine Corp..."
I'm glad you're now getting it right. But just never, ever call a Marine a "soldier". You'll soon find out why.
Semper Fi!
(and if you know any Marines in real life, you can ask them what 'Semper fi' actually means to a Marine. It's not what you think... I'll say no more.)
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 3:26AM
You're right, I wanted to see if you'd correct me and you didn't. Another lie on your part.
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 3:29AM
Or perhaps, "Corpsemen" like Brilliant Obama botched it twice!
Since when has your gentlemanliness kept you from correcting my 'perceived' errors?
Now, that's a howler!
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:15AM
And speaking of clichés, Our Lady of the Concerns, you have used the word 'troll' at least 14 times by my count. By the time this is posted, it will probably 16 or 17.
I gather you think it a powerful insult, witty and original. As for myself, I have no idea what it means. It's like lefties calling you a 'Nazi'. It's meaningless. Moronic.
But, if you insist on using 'troll' as your lame rejoinder to every one who disagrees with you, let me help you with a few words that mean the same thing: demon, dwarf, giant, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, kobold, leprechaun, monster, mythical creature, and ogre. (My thanks to Roget.)
A 'troll' in the original Norse mythology, later spread across the Scandinavian and northern German world, refers to a large and frightening creature, mythical and menacing.
A very strange insult, but you seem to enjoy using it -- and using it again and again. Even though it's basically absurd, you seem to love it my dear, so I thought I'd help you widen your command of English.
So, remember now: you can always try 'demon, dwarf, giant, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, kobold, leprechaun, monster, mythical creature, and ogre'.
Glenn will be pleased you are improving your vocabulary. He recommends book learnin', dontcha know.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:22AM
It's just a statement of fact; of course, we all know how allergic you are to the truth, troll.
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:31AM
Nighty night, sweetcheeks. :)
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 2:37AM
I'll meet you at the bar.
Same time? Same place?
Miss Concern| 9.12.10 @ 2:50AM
In your dreams or my nightmares, not sure which. :)
Trent1280| 9.12.10 @ 3:09AM
Your dreams.
My nightmare.
8^)
Miss Concerned| 9.12.10 @ 3:26AM
In your dreams. ;)
Miss Concerned No More| 9.12.10 @ 2:04PM
Chased another worthless troll off--one down, so many more to go! LOL!
Happy in NY| 9.13.10 @ 12:30AM
Wow, Trent is a bore. His writing is condescending and truly boring. Is he Keith Olbermann??!
Miss Concerned No More| 9.13.10 @ 4:07AM
Trent's a DNC paid for operative whose astroturfing trolling shift was over at 3 AM; then he crawled back under the slimy rock he calls home. Hobag Trent.
I've heard that Keith Olbermann has the body of an overweight dowager with large, bulbous hips, is this true? What an attractive visual, I think I'm going to throw up now.