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‘Racist American Tool’: The Left Hurls Insults at Glenn Beck After Falling for Parody Site’s Fake Story
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The Daily Currant strikes again — this time with a fake story about Glenn Beck. Despite the fact that the headline and copy of the story were both obviously satirical in nature, several people still fell for it and quickly attacked Beck as an ignorant “Islamaphobe” and “racist.”
“Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza,” the headline reads.
The story is even more ridiculous than the headline. Here’s a partial transcript of the completely made up “911 call” from Beck:
911: Hello this 911. What is your emergency?
Glenn Beck: Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Hello? Hello?
911: Hello sir what is your emergency?
Glenn Beck: Yes I think I might have been poisoned. Oh my god, please help. Please.
911: Okay calm down. How do you think you’ve been poisoned?
Glenn Beck: Pizza. I ate a pizza that I shouldn’t have eaten.
911: Okay, so you think you have food poisoning then?
Glenn Beck: Yes ma’am.
911: Do you have any signs and symptoms? Any vomiting? Nausea? Diarrhea?
[...]
Glenn Beck: No no. It’s just…I don’t trust the place that it came from.
911: Okay sir where did you get the pizza?
Glenn Beck: Its was from Mazaras in Fort Worth
911: Oh Mazaras? I love that place. Great sauce.
Glenn Beck: Oh yeah? Well did you know that it’s run by Muslims?
911: I did not know that sir. Is that relevant to your problem though?
Glenn Beck: Relevant? Ha! That is the problem. You don’t know what Muslims put in food they prepare for Christians. No one does.
911: Okay…
And so the outrage began.
Glen Beck is a racist American tool here’s why: dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— Inam (@inam251) February 11, 2013
Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating #Halal #Pizza#Islamophobia #Islam #Israel #USA #Arab #Muslim dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— Enough Coalition (@enoughcoalition) February 10, 2013
Unbelievable! Must read! RT#islamophobia@TheDailyCurrant: Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza goo.gl/L4Ylh”
— an ordinary soul (@ambreen30) February 9, 2013
Crazy ignorant!!”Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza” dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…#Jo
— Monther منذر (@mhassouneh) February 8, 2013
Ignorance begets ignorance – Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Eating Halal Pizza dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— Carmelo’s Tweets (@CarmelosTweets) February 8, 2013
Glenn Becks Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza. This is HILARIOUS! He’s so ignorant it’s funny dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— Bassam Dgheim (@BassamDgheim) February 6, 2013
Hahaha what an idiot this guy is! Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— Mohammed Issa (@icy250194) February 12, 2013
This guy is a moron….Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— Azra Sabovic (@Azra_babiiix3) February 11, 2013
How stupid can you get?lol Glenn Beck Calls 911 After Accidentally Eating Halal Pizza | The Daily Currant – dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— TheNotSoWiseOne (@BashBashhh) February 11, 2013
This ignorant radio host calls 911 after eating halal pizza,it seriously made my night,what a good laugh... dailycurrant.com/2013/02/05/gle…
— I'm Radioactivee. (@ZienaSami) February 9, 2013
As Mediaite's Andrew Kirell points out, "One cannot expect non-reporter Internet folk to do their due diligence when tweeting or Facebook-liking an article, but the reaction from people fooled by the satire is noteworthy."
Kirell also caught one commenter taking the story way too seriously on the Daily Currant's website:
(Screen shot via Mediaite)
The Daily Currant certainly isn't upset about the publicity that these incidents bring. Just today, the site fooled Washington Post contributor Suzi Parker into thinking Sarah Palin was joining Al Jazeera America. Further, the parody site recently duped readers with stories about Ann Coulter refusing to get on a flight because of a black pilot and Bill O'Reilly assaulting a mall Santa.
The lesson here is: Don't believe everything you read.
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Comments (274)
Jhooks
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:43pmMade me laugh out loud.
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JTX
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:43pmI bet you these people that were duped were the ” educated intellectuals ” =D~
Stupid shitss!
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tankyjo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:34pmMaybe we should limit libs to one “ten round clip” on twitter. Or; redirect to a new social site, TWITter.
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dodgedart1966
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:24pmMarybeth, sendthemeteors, sosorry…
If you use critical thinking you’ll see that conservative media gives you facts and expects you to make your own decision.
Liberal media gives you information and tells you that they are right.
I think liberal media knows that lefty’s can’t think for themselves, so it works.
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Bill Wallace
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:12pmI feel bad for Bassam Dgheim.
First, his comments about ignorance and he falls for an obvious prank.
Second, WTH is with that name?
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leary1
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:08pmI LOVE YA GLENN. You and your org. are brilliant!!!! Hope you can continue to discredit their image as honest, accurate and non-biased reporters. GOD BLESS YOU,FAMILY AND ORG.
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catty
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:07pmIs this the same group of loving tolerant people that wanted to basically bomb McDonalds for saying (lied) they served Halal food?
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dajones
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:02pmSo typical of the uneducated and superstitious sheep on the left.
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hypnos
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:59pmKarma your an idiot it’s a parody site.
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RightUnite
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:59pmAwwww!! Poor dumbazz fell for it too, huh??
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perry1980
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:50pmIt is so easy to Fool a bunch of Fools LOL
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Margyt
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:50pmTheir disinformation strategy is backfiring on them. Hooray!
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barber2
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:39pmOf course the Lefties buy all of this baloney . After all , they buy all of the Democrats’ BS !
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Grizzlyof5
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:32pmDon’t you know they suffer from selective investigating. It’s something similar to selective hearing. One of the side effects is being too quick to jump on the bandwagon.
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ellietoo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:29pmWell, it just proves that the left is just as stupid as we thought they were. They love stuff like this even if it makes them look like fools. They need a way to spew their hate. They know there is no evidence of the things they accuse conservatives of so a parody site is all they have to latch onto. Very pathetic people.
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ktbolger
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:29pmI wouldn’t call 911 if I found out I had eaten Halal. I’d call an Exorcist.
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SuperSuineg
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:21pm13th Imam
“glacier melters”
HAHAH LOVE IT!:)
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nmontague
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:19pmWhat does Karma have to do with a bunch of dumb lefties believing a fake story when it’s obvious it isn’t true? If anyone looks bad in the story, it’s the lefties who fell for it.
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betterthantv
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:17pmHaha. The Left is so predictably ignorant!
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SheepDogconfrontthewolf
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:13pmi heard that if you voted for Obama twice you could breath under water … true story
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ktbolger
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:30pmHa!!! Good one.
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SheepDogconfrontthewolf
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:11pmjust remember ******* to get on the train when they come rounding you up for the “concentration camps”… “i mean Obama love camps” the gov knows best and has the best of you interest in mind.
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PK_SEA
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:07pmIt would only be a role reversal if The Daily Current or The Onion did a parody saying Ron Paul said what he said, and Beck taking the bait.
Paul actually said the “Live by the sword…” quote. Beck didn’t call 911 after eating a muslim pizza.
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normbal
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:05pmSatire. Irony. The leftists don’t have it, they ARE it.
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sallyredneck
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:04pmLeft wingers don’t ever check the facts, lazy stupid people.
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catty
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:09pmSallyredneck
I hope you are the right wing fact checker. Oh please Oh please!
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sillyfreshness
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:50pmThe “chosen people” begin their attacks…….
RANGER1965
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:33pmNor do they need too. As long as the story agree’s with their perceptions it becomes concrete fact in their minds.
As far as they are concerned Sarah Palin really did say that she could see Russia from her house, when it was actually Tina Fey. But it has been repeated so much that it has become fact.
They have been doing the same to Glenn over the years, but it will become more intense now.
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tonypro
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48pmHey yusuf abdulla……..BITE ME
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Dagnabbit5
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:22amPlenty of people here were fooled by the fake SEAL retirement story that was here yesterday or the day before. There are people on both sides that jump to comment on stories without checking it first.
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Dagnabbit5
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:27amWell, it wasn’t completely fake, but parts of it were not accurate.
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:25am@SALLYREDNECK
Your right. I’ve talked with some left wing people that absolutely hate Glenn. When I ask them if they have ever watched the show they act insulted by the question. I then ask them how they know came to their opinions their answers always point to MSNBC or ” that’s what they say about him”. Just stupid people that can’t think for themselves.
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old white guy
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:36amthe terminally stupid have taken over.
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000degrees
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:37amYou can’t save people from stupid. Trying to is kind of like trying to teach donkeys the breast stroke. If it’s going to happen they will figure it out on their own…..
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may40
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:38amThere is no such thing as journalism anymore. It’s just a bunch of kids running the show.
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TwoLazy
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:40amWell, they may suffer from lackoffacts, but they do feel good about themselves.
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naughtycal
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:02amThe big problem is that half the country will read the fake story and never see the retraction buried on page 22 in the lower right hand corner under an advertisement for tampons. How many people still think Sarah Palin said she ould see Russia from her house.
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turkey13
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:25amWith falling subscribers and ad revenue they have no choice. Look at MSNBC with an average of only 130,000 viewers. Cnn is going to have to request a bailout or Grant money from Obama.i
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JGraham III
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:09amI have it on good report that the mastermind behind all this is named “Medulla Oblongata”…
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vaman
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:39amCatty…HA! Good one.
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naughtycal
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:18pmThat’s why they are leftist in the first place. Anyone who actually checked and valued facts couldn’t be a leftist. There are two type on the left 10% controllers and 90% followers.
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corridor5
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:34pmWait… what? There’s a site that publishes made up things? Is that legal?
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shorelineliz
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:22pmThey only called Glenn “racist?” Where is the “religious bigot, homophobe, hater, Conservative, A$$wipe labels?” I am so disappointed.
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garylee123
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:06pmThey believe because they want to so badly.
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mycomet123
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:56pmThe Daily Currant? What is that like the National Enquirer? WHO CARES?? Who read’s trash magazines or papers!
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pavepaws
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:27pmIt’s funny how people like Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer or Hillary and their ilk are never mentioned in these “humorous” articles.
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capitalismrocks
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 8:40amLeftwing nuts don’t check facts, they just mindlessly parrot something that is posted, they are the laziness gang of fools the world has ever seen, but don’t discount them because of their ignorance and stupidity… even a mob of morons is still a mob and still dangerous and these morons have strength in numbers and they vote by following their moronic handlers so they are dangerous beyond dangerous… we need to reach out and educate people otherwise the moron class leftists will continue to vote this country into extinction… and then they’ll blame it on everyone else for their stupidity because they are that stupid.
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davidwjohnson
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:04pmOne should not laugh. No doubt 90% who read the story will believe it is true. Unfortunately there are just too many stupid people in this country.
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oldguy49
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:13pmah…..the american education system {liberals}
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crackerone
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:21pmThis from the people that voted for Obama.
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Magyar
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:27pmYup– the dummying of America! It’s been underway for decades…..
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Advection
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:33pmThis explains how Obama got elected in the first place. There are MILLIONS of credulous, leftwinguts out there.
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marssnw
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:36pmJust when I thought liberals could not be any more ignorant they go and prove me wrong. They are way more ignorant than I had previously thought.
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:37pmI’m sympathetic to the “left wing” referenced above. Frankly, I fell for the Caliphate thing, the FEMA camp thing, the hyperinflation thing, the revolution in the US thing, the takeover of country by Herr Obama thing, the UN thing and other parodies and jokes has played on me.
In the future, I’m going to be more cynical about stuff Glenn says.
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cptenn94
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:54pmKeep in mind that the people who reelected obama, also believe he is the most transpaerent pres in history(as we know he is about the least) So even though this never happened, these people will think it happened.
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wowjustwow
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:09pmPeople didn’t get the joke because it’s the actual behavior that sane people actually expect from Beck. That’s how the public regards him; therefore, it seemed feasible.
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marssnw
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:10pmOnce again, IGotMeteorsOnMyButt proves the ignorance of the left.
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Gonzo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:21pmDavid, I figured that out last November.
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Joe_The_Patriot
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:35pm@meteorhole
Your statement makes absolutely NO sense….. was it your failed attempt to be snarky??
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Techcon
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:03pm@sendthemorlocks,
…you’re like a Jew in ’33 sayin’, “I fell for the Final Solution thing.”
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IntheDirt
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:03pmYes they will believe this but they won’t believe that Obama is bankrupting the country. They believe what they want to believe. Not smart enough or too lazy to seek truth.
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GeorgieJo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:29pmYOU CAN’T FIX stupid…………………
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DIR
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:35pmAn insteresting observation: So many looney left wing respondants call Glenn stupid, an idiot, etc., in response to the pranked (phony) report. As usual, by their responses they have proven to be the one’s nutty, in so many ways, and out of touch with reality. The left, including herr Asterroid, lives up to the typical stereotype of itself.
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Jim S
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:44pm..it’s bad..you should see some stuff on here that people believe..pull the strings and your puppet jumps…left or right…
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Ollie123
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:32pmbut it’s fine for comedy central and snl to do this kind of parady, who verified that the 911 call was a fake and the operator was one of his sidekicks Stu or Pat, lighten up, no problem degrading Christianity but don’t dare touch on anything about the Muslim faith, or you might get your head cut off with a dull rip saw.
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DIR
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:33pm@SENDINTHEA$$TERRHOIDS
It’s interesting that you can see through Glenn Beck, but Barry and the left can pull the wool over your eyes, i.e: Asteroids, of the heavens kind, are caused by global warming (one minor example); the Benghazi affair (to name another more important). I could go on indefinitely. We all know the crass BS that’s put out by the left Now how’s it that you can see through Glenn and not herr Dalai Bama? You have Glenn as the bad guy. Glenn doesn’t set public policy, Barry does. You want us to believe Glenn is the horse a$$. Your credibility is strained way beyond the margins of practical thinking. You actually fit into the catagory known as ‘way nutty’ of the twilight zone kind. Don’t take my word for it talk to a shrink. If you do, be forewarned, you may be committed.
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Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:40pm“911: Oh Mazaras? I love that place. Great sauce.”
No, wait, wasn’t it … “Neo: I used to eat there. Really good noodles.”
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carlschulz
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:49pmno kidding. i bet 90% of people still think Sarah Palin said “I can see Russia from my house.”
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DIR
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:06pm@CGNICK
When you, and/or your folks, the nation get the tax bill for what Barry’s spent (spending), using taxpayer funding from hard earned income (payment enforced by the IRS), the 10 dollar subscription, paid for by the user and not at gunpoint, will amount to nothing by comparison. Talk about being ripped off and fomenting hate ! Does fanning the flames of racial strife and class rivalry mean anything to you? Beck doesn’t even register on any know scale by comparison. I don’t know if he’s a genius, but Glenn is smart and he has a bunch of smart people around him to make sure it stays that way. Barry’s a smart cookie too. The difference is you can turn of Beck, you can’t turn off Barry.
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cgnick
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:23pmDIR
You are assuming that I am a big fan of “Barry.” Such is not true. He isn’t much better than his predecessor. They both drove the country into mountains of debt and neither have showed much regard for the constitution. What else would you like to assume about me?
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Maji
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:46pmCGnick
That would be” obama”!!
He does it and just takes 10x’s that out of your paycheck!!
Then says you’re a racist.
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DIR
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:32am@CGNICK
I didn’t assume anything about you. I used your comments as a launching pad to contrast your statements concerning Beck with what I know about Barry. It was to make a point and the point wasn’t necessary targeting you, unless you are a unabashed liberal, and even then it wasn’t targeting you personally because I didn’t assume about you one way or another.
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bread and circuses
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:00am***** = obama
SENDTHEMETEORS
I feel your pain and I am in complete agreement with your words
“In the future, I’m going to be more cynical about stuff ***** says”
You are so right that one can not believe anything that ***** says.
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bread and circuses
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:11amCGNICK
“chris mathews is no idiot, in fact he is genius. Who else can spew such hatred and conspiracies and get a bunch of the leftwing fringe to pay $10 a month to listen to same garbage that MSNBC spews and call it Real News.”
I totally agree with you !
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SHASTADIANE1
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:00amOh yeah, they will believe it, and enjoy believing it, sad though that they have to “make up things” on Glenn, Sarah, Ann, and Bill to try to make them look bad. With the big lib folks, all they gotta do is report the news…though they seldom do.
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midnightvelvet
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:24pmI gotta wonder how many of the those people who wrote the tweets with ever find out they were reading satire. I guarantee some of them will go on believing this is true.
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Chuck Stein
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:04pm@ Techcon — excellent analogy
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