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Former Obama Czar Goes After Glenn Beck in New Book; Compares Attacks to Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’

Mar. 21, 2013 11:47pm Jason Howerton

Cass Sunstein Goes After Glenn Beck in New Book; Compares Attacks to Orwells Two Minutes Hate

Cass Sunstein (nyu.edu)

President Barack Obama’s former “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein is going after one of his harshest critics, Glenn Beck, in a new book titled, “Simpler: The Future of Government.” In it, he claims Beck became obsessed with him and compares his attacks on his record and views to “Two Minutes Hate” found in George Orwell’s “1984.”

For anyone who hasn’t read Orwell’s classic, “Two Minutes Hate” is a daily activity during which Party members in Oceania must watch video depicting the Party’s enemies as they mindlessly express their hatred for them. See the video below:

Sunstein, a former law professor at Harvard and University of Chicago, claims that Beck “developed what appeared to be a kind of obsession with me.” The so-called “obsession” began when he was nominated to take over the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 2009. He earned the titled of “the most dangerous man in America” from Beck.

Mother Jones’ Tim Murphy provides an excerpt from Sunstein’s yet-to-be released book, in which he claims Beck’s attacks resulted in death threats against him:

In Orwell’s 1984, there is a brilliant, powerful, and frightening scene of the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which party members must watch a film depicting national enemies. (As it happens, the leading enemy is named Goldstein.) At times, Beck’s attacks on me, featuring my smiling face, were not entirely unlike those scenes. A new website was created, stopsunstein.com, filled with inflammatory quotations, some taken out of context to suggest that I endorsed views that I rejected and was merely describing.

I began to receive a lot of hate mail, including death threats, at my unlisted home address. One of them stated, “If I were you I would resign immediately. A well-paid individual, who is armed, knows where you live.”

In the end, Sunstein made it through the confirmation process and got the go ahead from the Senate with a 57-40 vote. However, he ended up resigning in August of last year to become Harvard’s Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy.

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KingCoal59
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:14am
Well if he was so scared why did he stay in that job? He stayed because he wasn’t scared he just didn’t like being called out for attempting to force his will on the people of this country. Sorry fella you don’t get to have it both ways.

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Juniemoon
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:09am
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Funny how the liberal/progressive colleges are full of these wise men. What a surprise they have coming.

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Juniemoon
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:58am
Hey Cass you’re a reprobate, you and your wife. Full of evil trying to take away the freedom given to man by God and putting heavy burdens on people with your moon bat regulations. Straight out of the Synagogue of Satan. Shut up and man up.

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lmartin826
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:52am
Think about it… Glenn gets Cass to mention him in his book. Looks to me that Glenn’s commentary was affective! Booyaah!

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:39am
No Mr. Sunstein “on our shoulders”, we don’t think it is personal, we don’t think your stubborn attack on things like, oh, population control, or energy, or basically government regulation that needs to be left up to private individuals and state governments, that your job should not even exist? Mr. Sunstein is not the only monkey on our back, employers have been reduced to not running a business, they are adopting human beings as though they were children, as though they were slave owners?

Slave owners were expected to take care of their slaves, feed them, clothe them, put a roof over their heads? Give them insurance, retirements, social media is the auction block, and trade secrets or insurance under writing are the new sailing vessels to trade these defenseless animals after they have been disarmed by the 2nd Amendment Vampires?

Democrats remind us of legends of human vampires, stalking the weak, holding fancy parties, looking for the sexiest women to seduce, which males that might be competition to eliminate, shall I continue?

Like dirty old men handing out candy to children, you go after children in the school system, planting as many ideas and as often as you can, those concepts that support progressives and the trend to give the government more power, more control, even when it is obvious, that things like supporting the religion of Islam with public tax dollars is wrong?

Sunstein makes us happy or sad?

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M24
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:30am
Tuff shitz Sunstein you are a evil bastard and should be exposed for all of communist ways . You are a communist and you really believe the shitz you teach ,bet you didn.t think somebody would expose you and your communist freind’s, So don.t expect sympathy you progressive vomit bag.

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siguy62
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:22am
Cass, You are engaged in what is known in Psycology 101 as projection.

Cass, it is you who are engaged in 2 minutes of hate. Just like Erin the other day. Having your followers mindlessly attack. The facts are facts. You have stated youe objective to destroy dissent. Your comments on Glenn Beck, are false, and you know it. You count on the fact that most of your followers won’t actually check things for yourself. Like him or not, Glenn Beck does constantly tell his viewers.listeners, ‘hey don’t beleive me, check this out for yourself.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:21am
Mr. Beck having hatred for Mein Fuhrer ? If they want to see what true hatred for this Communist Pig really looks like, they should spend some time around me. This Czar has no idea what real hatred is.

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Mapache
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:19am
Ha ha…a new book. Libs don’t read books. I am sure it will shoot right to the top of the NYTs bestseller list but only because lib professors will make it required reading for their courses.

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Ironmaan
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:57am
Cass can cry and deny all he wants. The fact remains that he wrote a book called “Nudge” which describes how to change peoples behavior / control them.

This is a man who thinks his ideas are what the world needs and he is going “Nudge” you into doing what he wants by manipulating you through government.

He wants people to be herded like cows, he doesn’t want them to soar like eagles.

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notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:47am
Really Mr. Potter? You’re nothin but a scurvy little spider. Go find your Mommy. If you got a 10th of the hate Beck got, you’d jump off a bridge. Perfect example that when confronted with the truth, these pansies run and hide. In the next chapter, I’m sure he blames it all on Bush.

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- Advection
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:23am
  Cass claims that he feels intimidated and fearful, and that its bad? Ok.
  
  “Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.” -John 9:41
  
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Texasexpat
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:41am
I recall reading,”…as ye shall sow, shall you reap…” Cass(by the way, what kind of name is that), you should expect a whole lot of crap coming your way, not just now but hopefully, for eternity. It would be good for us if yours (eternity) started now.

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Kaparth
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:13am
I take this as a good sign – when they attack, they are afraid – we may not see it, but positive changes are happening otherwise they would not be on the attack. I believe we are closer to victory than we believe.

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TERossi
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:29am
Cass Sunstein is a typical Bolshevik Khazar like Francis Fox Piven, Amy Goodman, Naomi Wolfe, Gertrude Stein, and Gloria Steinem.

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TurboCat
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:20am
Oh, I don’t know, Cass; it looks more like your “occupy” mob if ya ask me! (Twinkles twinkles!).

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freedomofspeech
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:18am
Cass, remember those fictional characters lived in your world, not Glenn’s.

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jungle J
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:58am
They all have that certain look..recognize it and keep your children away from them…they are mind destroyers. The mentally ill are so prolific in society they have become the pseudo norm.

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piper60
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:55am
Susstein , while no longer the most dangerous man in America, appears to be viewing for the biggest whiner in America. Glenn was not obsessed. He was merely pointing out facts.

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critterbait
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:48am
One day is comming, they are going to wish they would have just left WE THE PEOPLE ALONE…

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nesmond
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:01am
Ain’t nothing wrong with a progressive that a good ol’ fashioned a**beating won’t fix. I guarantee it. That goes for trolls too.

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ASE
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:01am
Why is this waste of skin still walking among us?

He should be be on an island by himself for the rest of his interfering life. The worst torture in the world for a pocket tyrant like this guy would be to have no one to feel smugly superior to, no one to try to control via ‘nudging’ or passive-agressive pettiness. No one to tell how to live, how to think, what to drive, what to wear, and to tell why they need folks with such a lofty intellect (such as cass the ass) to protect themsevles from themselves.

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klg1956
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:58am
Just like, “We Saw Your Boobs,” the Left hates the truth…they’ll do whatever it is they want to do but hates anybody who points it out or exposes them for who they truly are.

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christos
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:54am
Mango smoothies require a tree that produces fruit,what good is a fruitless tree,BREEZY.

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- GETLIFE
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:52am
  Sorry, but a newcomer here would not “get” this story. He or She might even think that Sunstein has a point. Where’s the Beck explanation for those who do not know or remember who Sunstein is or why he is dangerous? Can only hope Beck is saving it for when the book comes out or something….
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_Arteeeest_Beck
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:24am
  “Former Obama Czar Goes After Glenn Beck in New Book; Compares Attacks to Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’ … President Barack Obama’s former “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein … in a new book titled, ‘Simpler: The Future of Government.’ ”
  
  Things are always simpler if you just do it … MY WAY! — so says every bloody mass-murdering dictator — Hitler, Mao, Stalin. And now we have Barack Hussein Obama and his commie White House cadre.
  
  Who is THIS particular megalomaniac? Oh, just another 60′s radical who “dropped the radical pose for the radical ends”. Isn’t the title “CZAR” an in-your-face give-away about these people?
  
  “The Denial of Cass Sunstein: Just Admit What You Have Written”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHiU1xSYDRg
  Just watch this weasel:
  
  “During a rare public appearance, the Obama Administration’s Information Czar Cass Sunstein .. at the NYU Law School in NYC ..”
  
  “In the question and answer portion of the lecture, ‘We Are Change’ founder Luke Rudkowski confronted Sunstein concerning his avocation of a ‘provocateur’ style program to silence what have become the government’s most vociferous and influential critics.”
  
  “When Rudkowski asked if Sunstein would retract his comments about banning opinions that differ from those of the government, Sunstein again claimed he did not remember the article he had written and his personnel intervened to prevent Rudkowski pressing him on the matter.”
  
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- Advection
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:59am
  Beck’s criticisms of Sunstein were very specific and very many. Did Sunstein address the actual criticisms, or did he just launch personal attacks and calls for sympathy?
  
  By the way, I looked at the Amazon blurb for his new book, and he claims that he/Obama vastly simplified government. REALLY? Talk about 1984 doublethink!
  
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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:47am
  poor cass too bad he’s a flaming liberal. the look in cass eyes on the home page, he has a mental disorder (liberalism). this country wont improve until we clean out the progressives in our government. it starts 2014.
  
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- RedHarley
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:51am
  Hey, give the guy a break…….you too would be a self-promoting egotistical moron if you had to grow up with the same name as a disgustingly fat female singer.
  
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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:34am
  what the article doesn’t say he has a book already out called ” Nudge” and it deals with “choice Architecture” or choice modification ..not doing away with your right to freely choose but limits what choices can/would be..just like Bloomberg who started out with trans fat,salt & sodas and now hiding smokes..are part of a social engineering program progressives have slowly but steadily been doing..but and for now..the choice is your whether to believe this or not. but you need to get the book..”Nudge”..and see whp is right..Beck Or Sunstein
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:38am
  Remember all those 7 czars that had tax problems, except Turbo Timmy who blamed his on Turbo Tax. (I always wondered why he wasn’t sued for slander – must be Liberal owned.) Old sunny boy was one of those if I recall. Senator Chaffee has a law pending that would require the government to terminate federal employees that owe taxes. He stated that federal employees owe $ 3.2 BILLION to the IRS. Of course they expect us to pay ours so they get a pay check. I want to know why taxes aren’t taken out of their paycheck.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:38am
  One must remember that the liberal mindset is ruled by FEAR….Fear of environmental catastrophe, fear of having to pay for the “wrong” choices poor people make…fear of redneck hicks that cling to “god and guns”, fear of anything they cannot control down to the bootlaces.
  Liberals can’t shake the nagging thoughts of impending doom…..why?….Because these are people who do not believe in the mercy of God or the redemption of Jesus Christ. All they have is danger and doom. They must dominate and regulate, just to sleep at night.
  If they were not so glaringly stupid, I could find sympathy for them, but unfortunately they are….stupid. and I have no sympathy.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:46am
  I thought of another point, Living in fear as the libs do, creates a class of rowdy individuals who deeply resent being controlled and having their human rights screwed with. So the libs actually make enemies that represent new threats to their well being, adding to the pathological fears that caused their insecurity to begin with. Like I said….stupidity.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:59am
  Glenn was correct on all points…history will show.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:05am
  Gee, Cass baby, funny you bring up 1984-you’d be one of the control freaks in the book saying “two plus two equals five” and lording it over the “prols.”
  A pasty-faced academic wimp who’s never done real work in his miserable life, living in his theoretical, warped world.
  
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- GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:15am
  I would be willing to bet he celebrates Purim in September: http://youtu.be/tBfqEhJDy-4
  
  Watch it soon, it’s been censored at least once before, probably by sunsteins’ minions.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:00am
  DEMOLITION……..This is sad and very disturbing…..WTF? This tells me that Israel has their own sunsteins and jarrets……The “religion” of hate is a world wide phenomenon
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:32am
  @turkey13
  
  I just have to ask the question – why take taxes out of the paychecks of federal workers and soldiers?
  
  Those people are paid with TAX DOLLARS. So, why would you give them money from one fund, just so you can siphon it back into exactly the same fund?
  
  It make no sense.
  
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- christos
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:14pm
  getlife – The tree that produces no fruit would be the mango regulator none other than crass,,,,nothing new,dictators always want to Control/Regulate they are the docrine of the devil.
  
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christos
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:51am
His $ & influence have always been his cover,Glenn just exposed him with his own words,in addition he needs to understand he is not +JESUS+GOD+ & +JESUS+GODS+ Kingdom cannot be Bought with Dirty $ ,,,we answer to +JESUS+GOD+ not to Filthy Men,,,BREEZY.

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Kiba
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:41am
Oh well Cass that’s what happens when your an a$$. I personally question anyone who would work for this president, ANYONE. If they serve in any of his positions I will never trust them again. Ive heard people who work for him say crap like “well when the POTUS asks you to serve you just do it, its an honor.” Bull ! This guy has brainwashed so many kids it should be illegal . #1 America hater, and I don’t care what happens to him.

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