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Beck: It’s Amazing What We Can Accomplish When We End the Blame Game


On Wednesday evening, Glenn Beck delivered a speech from GBTV’s Oval Office in which he expressed the “mea culpa” that likely should have been delivered by President Obama, as well as other business and political leaders who take all of the glory when things go right, but none of the blame when things go wrong on their watch.

“It’s my fault…I did it,“ Beck reflected as he asked the audience to ”blame me” and nobody else.

The reason so few are willing to accept blame for their wrongdoings, according to Beck, is because accountability and personal responsibility has fallen to the wayside.

He used the current Egyptian presidential election to illustrate the tremendous “failure” of American Foreign policy. When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the streets of Cairo during the uprising, she said we had “nothing to fear” from the “democracy movement” and that the Muslim Brotherhood had no political aspirations. Of course, Clinton turned out to be wrong, yet neither she nor anyone else in the administration has accepted the blame. Beck pointed out that because America failed to act, we are less respected and indeed, less secure as a result.

He ceded that it may not be fair to blame someone for “100%” of what happened, but that it would still go a long way in fostering trust and good will if a person in a position of authority did not attempt to simply pass the buck whenever something goes awry.

Beck asked where the contrition was from those who attempted to pass a completely unconstitutional health care bill after they “dragged the country” through a year-long partisan debate. He also noted that both Republicans and Democrats have gotten things wrong before, be they economic policies or foreign policies, and that all Washington know or cares about is control and “policial power.”

Responsibility, according to Beck, relies on “each of us.”

When the housing market collapsed, while people sought to place blame on the bankers who peddled sub-prime loans, it was also up to the home owner to make sound financial investment decisions and not over-extend themselves. Washington is likely not the place to turn if we seek our problems to be fixed, thus, each person has to take charge of “our community” and “our nation,” said Beck.

Beck then took a moment to review past presidents and the major events that transpired on their watches respectively — from the Bay of Pigs invasion, to the Iran hostage crisis, to the eve of D-Day, when Dwight D. Eisenhower penned a note stating: “the troops, the air and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. if any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”

Beck concluded by saying that it is “amazing” what people can accomplish when everyone is willing to take the blame.

 

Comments (55)

  • Principlex
    Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:52am

    When one creates value, he looks for the working of cause and effect. The person initiating a particular cause may be dispatched from that role because one doesn’t want the effect – not because one is seeking to be righteous and vindictive for its own sake.

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  • RevRiles
    Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:01am

    I am looking for the sign, “The buck stops here”!

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  • Vegasdad702
    Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:51am

    I cannot believe the negative comments about Mr. Beck on here! What is wrong with some of you??? Did you watch the video??? He made such an excellent point about responsibility and TRUE leadership. You attack the man, and totally miss the point of the speech. How can you not agree with what he is saying??? He is not picking a political side Dem., Rep., Libertarian, he is pointing out a principled role of leadership through taking responsibility! Integrity,honor,ethics! If you can’t get behind that, or you criticize it, then “May God forget you are my countrymen!”. Find something else to be hateful about, because this is the kind of leadership ALL OF US NEED! Please just think about it. Thank you.

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  • ItsTupacImBack
    Posted on June 28, 2012 at 4:00am

    The problem is Glenn Beck is literally a clown like Red Skelton was, but in Glenn’s own form. None of us want to believe it. This is show business.

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:56am

      Speak for yourself! I am praying Romney will actually be a UNITER and help this country HEAL after that disaster called BO!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:51am

    To me… Glenn… suddenly perceives his role is… not to Oppose Evil… but to be a Mediator for Peace between sides… in order that everyone can work together to resolve the Problems of the coming Crisis: accepting a Demotion from General to Chaplain.

    Did some Big Boys gang up on him?

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    • ItsTupacImBack
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 3:56am

      It’s too late for Glenn Beck to be a mediator….simply because his name is Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck continues to give power to what some call “evil”. What are you giving power to?

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    • ItsTupacImBack
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 4:01am

      The problem is Glenn is literally a clown like Red Skelton was, but in Glenn’s own way. None of us want to believe it. This is show business.

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  • Shego
    Posted on June 28, 2012 at 1:33am

    I’m surprised that Glenn Beck would stand so casually propped against his replica of the Resolute desk. Especially after how he went on and on about respecting everything in ‘the oval’ when he first revealed it. If you mean what you say Glenn, then don’t wear jeans and sneakers, don’t disrespect the office by sitting on the desk, and put on a neck-tie. You were the one, after all, who went after Obama (quite rightly) for putting his feet up on the Resolute desk. Don’t be a hypocrite.

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  • Capt-Dax
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:24pm

    With the Obama threat of billions of American tax dollars blocked from reaching Eqypt, whose tourist industry has suffered badly, if their military DARED to oppose the long banned, TERRORIST Moslem Brotherhood organization and the threat of these terrorists to field a couple of hundred thousand Islamic activists against the Egyptian government military caretakers, the military “folded” and declared Islamist Morsi the new president.

    But the “fat lady has yet to sing” and the final outcome is still not clear as the military has already cancelled the parliamentary elections as having been illegally corrupted by the Brotherhood, has reduced the power of the presidency and will be the ones to rewrite the Constitution.

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  • 9111315
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:04pm

    It‘s Bush’s fault.

    (some one had to say it. :=)

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:04pm

    “Beck asked where the contrition was from those who attempted to pass a completely unconstitutional health care bill after they “dragged the country” through a year-long partisan debate.”

    Romneycare (HALF-BANKROLLED by OTHER States – UNCONSTITUTIONAL) and UNCONSTITUTIONAL Medicare Part D HAD NO PUBLIC DEBATE AND WAS PASSED AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY LEFTIST DEMOCRATS AND LEFTIST REPUBLICANS!!!!!! GLENN BECK! WHERE IS THE CONTRITION?!?!?!?!?! WHERE IS THE CALLS FOR REPEAL?!?!?!?!

    Anyone have the answers? ANYONE?!?!?!?

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    • Freedombeliever
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:09pm

      Can someone shut this guy up? Sheez!

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:27pm

      Public embarrassment and discrediting can be a thorough way to chase away those voices that you wish to silence. Give ‘er a try.

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    • ultor-de-deus-exercitus
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:40pm

      Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell wrote in The Impact of Science on Society (1952), “Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically imposable.” Russell, a member of the Fabian Society and prominent proponent of eugenics knew, even before 1952, that in laboratories of the powerful countries experiments to manipulate food sources and water sources were already under way. In 2012 companies like Monsanto backed with massive investments by Bill Gates, Rockefeller, and others produce globally the “Franken-food” consumed by the masses. Recent research clearly demonstrates that these genetically engineered food sources produce cancer, decreased sperm counts, and organ failure in mammals. Gates Sr. served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Health Summit which is an annual invitation only event that convenes global leaders from science, industry, policy, academia, and public health to discuss how to create a “healthier” future? If a eugenicist like Russell deserves a Nobel Prize then I guess a Gates can pretend to care about a “healthier” future, but the question remains, “who’s future, ours or theirs? Romney/Obama=SAME THING. VOTE 4 PAUL

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:14am

      I may not like his delivery, but I think BROTHER WINSTON SMITH makes some good points.

      I’d love to see him run for Congress.

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  • Freedombeliever
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:03pm

    I like Beck and I guess he is paying for this whole shebottle. But if The Blaze wants to earn more credibility perhaps they could tone down making everything he does a friggin headline on here. There may be some who could go our way but see all the Glenn Beck headlines and it discredits the site. I think even Beck himself is aware of this. We need to draw in undecideds. You are just preaching to the choir with these posts.

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    • pudssweetie
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:11pm

      You do realize that this site was started by Glenn Beck right? So why wouldn’t he post things on here from his GBTV or his radio show. Can I now say DUH!!!!

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:12am

      @FREEDOMBWLIEVER

      My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that Glenn and staff are giving people who don‘t subscribe to GBTV a taste of what they’re missing. The stories are recaps of what was aired that day.

      Maybe I’m being too generous, but it is possible that they believe the messages are so important that they don‘t want anyone to miss them just because they don’t subscribe.

      Also, I think every media personality does a little self-promotion. Try listening to Hannity or Rush.

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:00pm

    YES!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

    YOU!!! Glenn Beck… YOU have manipulated trusting Americans to vote “lesser evil”… AGAIN!
    YOU!!! Glenn Beck… YOU have helped CO-OPT the Constitutional Libertarian Tea Party FOR THE GOP!
    YOU!!! Glenn Beck… YOU have REDIRECTED trusting Americans to “restore” “love” INSTEAD OF RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW!!!
    YOU!!! Glenn Beck… YOU have BLACKED OUT, criticized, smeared, laughed at and marginalized the Presidential Campaign of Ron Paul AND HIS SUPPORTERS (which amounts to ELECTION FRAUD).

    YES! YOU!!!!!!! GLENN BECK!!!!!! YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR OUR CENTRALLY-PLANNED MESS! YOU!!!!!

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    • Freedombeliever
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:07pm

      Ron Paul deserved to be marginalized. His foreign policy would have caused world wars. And legalizing heroin and prostitutes? Come on, the guy is half- senile. Let it go, Paulbot. Pray his son Rand takes a better course.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:24pm

      @Freedombeliever

      LIE:
      “His foreign policy would have caused world wars.”
      TRUTH:
      Ron Paul’s noninterventionist foreign policy STRENGTHENS OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE, while the Romney/Obama isolationist foreign policy of welfare, warfare, propping up and tearing down has given us… well… the last decade’s corpse-piles, bankruptcy and UNBALANCE.

      LIE:
      “legalizing heroin and prostitutes?”
      TRUTH:
      Those issues fall to the States per the 10th Amendment. Ron Paul seeks RESTORATION of the 10th, thus returning the federal government to the CHAINS the founders intended and WROTE INTO OUR LAW.

      DESPERATE ALINSKYITE SMEARING:
      “the guy is half- senile.”

      DESPERATE ALINSKYITE NAME-CALLING:
      “Paulbot”

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    • theblazerunner
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:26pm

      The Glenn Beck Secret
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXKhbk4iJ4&feature=related

      watch and learn…

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 2:30am

      Oh……….brother.

      Can you prove his foreign policy would not have caused wars?

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Leaders take responsibility. Losers look for someone or something to blame.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 9:50pm

      I see you are talking about the blamer in chief. don’t blame him he did not have a daddy in the home, he was raised by his crazy white trash mother.

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  • ScienceIsNotEvil
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 9:33pm

    If God isn’t responsible for his actions why should we be responsible for ours?

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 9:47pm

      If liberals are so smart why do they need the government to run their lives for them.

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    • TrueSoundsOfLiberty
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:19pm

      If conservatives are so smart why do they want the government watching and regulating what goes on between a woman and her doctor?

      If we take responsibility for our own actions why not let a woman take it up with her God if she has an abortion?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:28pm

      @NEOFAN

      I see he had no answer to your question.

      If he reads all the info on this link, and then maybe even reads the book, he might gain some insight as to why.

      http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=267

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 11:35pm

      @Notsotruesoundsofliberty

      If someone were to murder your wife, son, or daughter………would you be OK with letting the murderer walk free until he “takes it up with his own God”?

      You don’t seem to understand that there is another life involved in your scenario.

      It’s not just between the woman and her doctor.

      Capisce?

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:19am

      @SCIENCEISNOTEVIL

      That’s an argument based on a false premise.

      Who says God is not responsible for His actions?

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:21pm

    I never voted Democrat… so I reject Blame!

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  • kegbuna
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:03pm

    Ah nice maybe now the failed economic policy can finally be held responsible for what happened to our economy.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:41pm

    I agree with both SOY and REP, Glenn’s Oval Office set is both over the top and elaborate.

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  • David Foxfire
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:41pm

    Many people these days are not as concerned with ‘accepting responsibility’ as they are with ‘catching Hell.‘ More often than not they’re just too parinoid over trying to keep from ‘Catching Hell,” because it leads to indictments, lawsuits, being unable to get hired even in fast food, and so on, that they won‘t ’accept responsibility’ for anything.

    And we’ve got a whole lot of them in Washington right now.

    Me, I live by the axiom, “I’ll accept the responsibility but not the blame, so shut the fsk up and let me fix this problem.”

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:37pm

    I’m not letting this go. BLAZE, report on the Colorado fires; the Springs–more specifically. Oh, and our beloved poser prez is coming on Friday to exhaust resources that we need to fight these fires.

    Dump the Oval office skit.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:18pm

    The vast majority of modern day politicians know nothing of our constitution or our founders,they’ve created a welfare,nanny ,warfare state and our one party system is to blame.They get into office and die of old age because of voter apathy so it isn‘t just government’s fault we strayed so far from our founders,it’s the fault of us all.When you have people proud to be on welfare and feel entitled to it that tells you far we‘ve fallen and it’ll take generations to correct,unfortunately time is a luxury we don‘t have and it’s true what Ben Franklin said ‘if you keep people comfortable in their poverty they’ll stay there’. I‘ll only add that’s right where the government wants them,a damn shame.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:27pm

      Agreed.

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    • ultor-de-deus-exercitus
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii and author of Understanding Conflict and War, and Never Again: Ending War, Democide, & Famine Through Democratic Freedom Rudolph Rummel has posited some interesting facts and theory’s. Rummel coined the term “democide” which means “the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder”. The statistical data he has compiled empirically establishes the number one killer of human beings, other than natural causes, to be governments. According to Wikipedia, “His research shows that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war. After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, he estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century and that six times as many people have died at the hands of people working for governments than have died in battle”. This is what George Washington was pointing out when he said, “A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.” Beck seeks solutions from the same ideologies that created the problems, all of ours. Romney is Obama and Beck is Romney. Vote for Paul, the only hope.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:15pm

    Wasn’t Glenn dying of some mysterious, hand-numbing illness a short while back? Glad to see he was able to shake that off. Still waiting for the total collapse of the US dollar and the Global economy, though. Maybe next year. Or the next….Or the Next…or…………. maybe he’ll admit he was wrong. Lol!

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:44pm

      Sucks that your world is collapsing and your God suddenly can’t do anything right. Just wait. Its going to get much better starting with the scotus tomorrow.

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    • Here_It_Comes
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:51pm

      If you don’t think it is possible you are either not paying attention or you are a complete moron. I imagine it is the latter.

      Squash your pride and turn back to God. Without God, you will never know or understand truth, even when slapped in the face with it.

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  • marybethelizabeth
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:12pm

    More double speak.

    Mr. Beck is not think taking personal responsibility includes making things right.

    Talk is cheap. Admit you were wrong, then move on is what he always said and believes.

    A perfect sociopath.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:49pm

      Maybe he can follow the example of the one lord god barrack? If we all acted like him the world would be perfect. Just like you are.

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:26pm

      No matter how angry the President makes you, Glenn Beck does not have any answers.

      He is just trying to corral the disaffected back into the Republican Party.

      Lets all take personal real personal responsibility for our actions and not just mouth a few meaningless words; the easy way out Mr. Beck advocates.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:35pm

      @Mary
      I believe that deep down, GB feels a bit guilty for not exposing Romney as a progressive (like he did with Gingrich). Similar thing happend in 2008 when GB was singing Ron Paul’s praises AFTER the primary was over.

      You’re right – he’s trying to bring the disgruntleds back in so they can be clogs again

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 27, 2012 at 8:57pm

      So you read a book on psychology and your thinking you are sane now? Burn the book its not working.
      Have you noticed that your world is emploding? Your greatest hero is and all his bullcrap is crumbling before your very eyes. Get the help you need. Suicide is not the answer.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:36am

      @MARY

      Glenn has no answers?

      Delivering 11 truckloads of food is not an answer?

      Reminding us that WE can make a difference is not an answer?

      Gathering 100‘s of thousands of people in DC to let us know we are not alone isn’t an answer?

      Some people present problems, some people present solutions. I have yet to see any of the haters except BROTHER WINSTON SMITH and a handful of others present both.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on June 27, 2012 at 7:11pm

    this oval setup is a little over the top

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