AP Claim: Beck Borrows ‘Some Lines’ From President Obama
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Glenn Beck is borrowing some lines from President Barack Obama.
At his rally with tens of thousands on the steps of Lincoln Memorial, Beck used the closing lines of then-candidate Obama’s campaign stump speech of 2008.
”One man can change the world,” Beck told the crowd. ”That man or woman is you. You make the difference.”
Obama used a similar message on the campaign trail. He used to say that one voice could change a room, one room could change a city, and one city could change a state. Obama liked to say that state could change a country and urged supporters to go out and change the world.
Beck says his supporters should do the same.
He says, ”Look to the heavens. Look to God. And make your choice.”
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Glenn Beck is borrowing some lines from President Barack Obama.
At his rally with tens of thousands on the steps of Lincoln Memorial, Beck used the closing lines of then-candidate Obama’s campaign stump speech of 2008.
”One man can change the world,” Beck told the crowd. ”That man or woman is you. You make the difference.”
Obama used a similar message on the campaign trail. He used to say that once voice could change a room, one room could change a city, and one city could change a state. Obama liked to say that state could change a country and urged supporters to go out and change the world.
Beck says his supporters should do the same.
He says, ”Look to the heavens. Look to God. And make your choice.”
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Comments (55)
Libertarian Infidel
Posted on September 8, 2010 at 12:09pmI can’t believe I missed it before…they’re obviously twins, separated at birth.
Report Post »reformedradical
Posted on September 8, 2010 at 2:59pmDuh. Obviously ;)
Report Post »rstarce
Posted on September 8, 2010 at 9:24amIf as Obama said it takes a State to change the country, why is he sueing Arizona for taking a stand.
Report Post »What a freakin hypocrit. He’s right, they are just “words”, he just says them, doesn’t mean them. I’m sure after reading his teleprompter and someone asked what he meant by what he recited, he couldn’t tell you.
mrdbcooper
Posted on September 8, 2010 at 11:47amSomebody on the blaze staff: please read this guy’s response…pure genius
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 6:37pmKind of a stretch to say that the two are the same. Maybe somewhat similar but really hardly worth reporting. AP is getting desperate.
Report Post »Asher
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 5:46pmMr. Beck can’t get into trouble for using a phrase everyone else uses.
Report Post »That phrase also isn’t copywrited. It can’t be copywrited.
He also does a good job in citing all of his sources. If he had quoted Obama, he’d have said “by the way, this is a quote from Obama,”
nostromo
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 8:12amIs this article from The Onion? No one could have written this with a straight face. Anybody who asserts one person can change the world is now borrowing Obama’s thoughts? You know, both Obama and I use the same article “the” in our writing. Hmmmm…..
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 7:14pmI noticed that Nostromo.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 7:32pmAnd since he has never quit speaking he now owns the english language. Axelrod is trying to figure out how they can let you use it for just a little tax. Of coarse it will be higher on the rich since they use big words.
Report Post »Pierce
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:06pmWell I guess Glenn is right. We have already won and all they can come up with is a comparison of the President and Glenn using similar phrases.
I never thought I would see the day that even the AP (Always Pathetic) couldn’t come up with something that needed at least a half intelligent response too. Here we see their comic genius at work.
Thanks I needed a good laugh.
Report Post »saneromeo
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:48pmAP=Activist Progressive
Report Post »jayb
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 10:53pmSlightly similar but at least (and as far as I know this isn’t so) Beck didn’t use a teleprompter. I couldn’t believe the story I saw the other day about Chris Matthews saying on MSDNC that
Report Post »when the president has a meeting at the White House, the teleprompters go with him. Can
our president say two sentences strung together without the help of a teleprompter? I’m
beginning to wonder.
reformedradical
Posted on September 8, 2010 at 2:53pmLet’s answer this question how Obama might answer it without a teleprompter: “Uh…no… uh… I don’t believe… uh, he can.”
Report Post »Comrade Louder
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:54pmIt’s all good folks, they weren‘t really Obama’s words anyway. Bill Ayers wrote them.
Report Post »kduell
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:11pmIt’s just typical leftist AP dribble…that’s OK, all these lefty media outlets will be in shock on November 3rd, and I, for one, can’t wait to see the horror on Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Madcows faces when they realize their Socialist dream is coming to an end.
Report Post »Melbee
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:01pmRachel Maddow makes my skin crawl. The sewer of words that spew from her mouth are about as truthful and honest as a car salesman trying to sell you a car telling you he’s not taking a profit to get you the best deal.
Report Post »2cool4mn
Posted on September 12, 2010 at 11:04pmall of those you mention are vile. well, vile might be awfully harsh. then again…..
Report Post »Melbee
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:41pmOne things for sure, pretty much every politician says something along those lines to get elected. Beck is not running obviously, but the words they say Beck used from Obama’s campaign were taken out of context.
Report Post »Obama was talking about changing the nation. Beck was talking about restoring the nation. That is a big difference.
AP – FAIL
StupidWindmill
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 1:24amOr magically, no difference at all.
Report Post »2Confused
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:04pmOdd that the AP decides to report this when they totally ignored the fact that Obama’s now famous “just words, just speeches” speech was plagiarized virtually verbatim from Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. And Obama made no gesture to give him credit for it. God forbid he gives credit where credit is due. It is always about him, the man who never makes mistakes or makes bad decisions (said with EXTREME sarcasm.)
Report Post »reformedradical
Posted on September 8, 2010 at 2:50pmYou are absolutely right. I am continually confused as to how people actually view Obama as an honest, humble leader. He is neither honest nor humble, and he certainly isn’t much of a leader. I’d say “charlatan” would be the appropriate term. His plagiarism of that speech is only proof of his arrogant, holier-than-thou approach to leadership.
Report Post »Marc Jacobs
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:54amWhy does AP insist on continuing to use the phrasee “TENS OF THOUSANDS” Are they unaware that there are photos, videos and 500,000 eyewitnesses to the event. Anyone using that prhase is screaming to the world: Look at me, I am a dope! OK, we hear you we have known for a long time that you were dopes. I bet that the longer you continue to ignorantly use the phrase :tens of thousands‘ to categorize Glenn Beck’s Rally – hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions will come to learn how ridiculous you are.
Report Post »Comrade Louder
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:57pmWe’ll when your news program gets viewership levels approaching 1211 people, tens of thousands seems like 25 millionbilliongazillions of people.
It’s all a matter of perspective.
Report Post »tjdavid21444
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:10pmI agree Marc, but technically they are correct. There were “tens” of thousands, 50 of them, by my count. There were also 25 score of thousands. Over 40 dozen thousands. Let’s smash them with the facts. The truth, for them anyway, sucks.
Report Post »Alex
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:48amThey just need to provide a dictionary of phrases (easily obtained from texts used for the O’s teleprompter) … anyway, they just need to provide a dictionary of phrases not be used without attribution to the O. Ooops, I mean without attribution to the O or the actual authors of the O’d words.
Or better yet, why not continue, like Beck may or may not have, turn the O’s foolish words back on him but actually use his foolish words in a context where — like Beck — there is actually some wisdom to be gained from hearing the words?
Report Post »Tazzy
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 7:41pmBeck can do no right in the eyes of the media of hate and lies.
Report Post »dabbo
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 4:40pmI once said many years ago “They drove the car into the ditch.”
Report Post »……so……..
Obama should never be allowed to say that again…..ever……Please.
Comrade Louder
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:02pmHe gets a pass on that one. Teddy Kennedy gave him a signed permission slip for use of that phrase.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 7:20pmHe can say that but every conservative needs to ask him why that gives him the right to stomp the gas pedal and take it off a cliff. All why the back seat drivers Pelosi and Reid egg him on to give-r-more gas comrade.
Report Post »ARCHON
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 10:26amnow here I thought Beck was paraphrasing Captain Kirk, NOT l’il barry obambam.
Report Post »GaltSeeker
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 7:05amThe author is not innacurate, there were “tens of thousands on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial” they just fail to mention the hundreds of thousands flooding out into the WWII Memorial and beyond to the Washington Monument.
Report Post »CAROLYN-TEXAS
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 11:36pmexcellent observation
Report Post »CaliforniaConservative
Posted on September 12, 2010 at 1:45pmAnd don‘t forget the thousands and thousands under the trees because that’s where the shade was. They don’t show up in the aerial views of the crowd. (That’s where I was!)
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 3:23amGlenn was awesome and didn’t need a teleprompter! :) Poor Barry.
Report Post »asmith
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 2:20amSome how I get the feeling that they are trying to say that Glenn and the audience were really closet Obamaniacs and just wanted to be troublesome by objecting to all of his policies and his appointees and vacations. Well he’s a good father, but that’s all I got.
Report Post »stevesmithjr
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 1:30amI guess they are correct in saying “tens of thousands”; there’s just a lot more tens then they wanted to admit to. ;)
Report Post »Damage6
Posted on August 31, 2010 at 2:24amSo now a vaugely similiar turn of phrase is plaugerism! PA-Leeez.
American Voter
Posted on August 31, 2010 at 12:27amTruth be known, I think Obama is a Beck-wannabe! Way to go Glenn! YOU ROCK!
Report Post »TPARTY RADIO
Posted on August 30, 2010 at 11:56pmI think the AP acted stupidly.
Jeetman
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 12:26pmLOL very funny! Thanks
Report Post »Extinguisher
Posted on August 30, 2010 at 10:16pmah ha! I knew it! The connection between Obama and Beck is clear now! Beck is a closet socialist and this PROVES it!
truelybrown
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 8:54pmExcellent Post! LOL
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 7:14pmI wonder when I read the AP story what the intent of Associated is being the first word of their name? I bet it means they are associated with the democrats, socialist, unions and welfare state constituents? I also wonder what Press means? Probably press all the liberties out of the people? Not worth the paper it is written on just like the American peso in your pocket.
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