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• Fed-Up Rush Limbaugh Blasts Prez: ‘Barack Obama Is a Serial Liar’

  September 26, 2012 at 9:50pm

  In reply to The Third Archon.

  Legalette, where do you get your 99.7% statistic? Let me guess… from Rush? Do you just accept this without applying any basic critical thinking? Show the intellectual curiosity to fact check it yourself. Just google “Rush Limbaugh 99.7% accuracy” for starters and learn for yourself.

  Here’s a sampling of “Rush Limbaugh fact check” googled…
  http://www.politifact.com/personalities/rush-limbaugh/
  http://www.factcheck.org/tag/rush-limbaugh/
  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/0619/fact-checking-rush-and-rachel

  No mentions of a 99.7% accuracy rate.

• Beck Invites You to Submit Questions for Tonight’s Special BlazeTV Episode on the Mormon Faith

  September 6, 2012 at 2:34pm

  In reply to Gold Coin & Economic News.

  Actually, ANAMERICANTOO, the same guy who found SQUID’s chariot wheels also found Noah’s Ark. Ron Wyatt:

  http://www.ronwyatt.com/index.html

  Though, lots of people dispute the claim. Best line from a National Geographic article on the subject: “I don’t know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn’t find it”. According to this article, another Noah’s Ark was found after Mr. Wyatt found his.

  news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100428-noahs-ark-found-in-turkey-science-religion-culture/

  So, maybe Mr. Wyatt found everything he claimed, though no major museum ever displays all the “artifacts”, or he could just be full of crap. You decide.

  Look him up, he found all sorts of fantastic discoveries during his “archaeological” career…

• Prof. Compares Alabama Immigration Law to Hitler’s ‘Anti-Jewish Actions,’ Calls Glenn Beck ‘Menace to American Freedom’

  July 9, 2012 at 4:52pm

  In reply to Winedude.

  I hear you, Brother Ed, but regardless of the comments, Jones challenged Beck and Beck made excuses vs. debating him. One would think that a man who espouses having the truth and the facts on his side could make mincemeat out of a silly liberal like Van Jones, but true to form, Beck will not debate an opposing view point.

  As far as who thinks Van Jones is important? Ostensibly, Mr. Beck does since he runs a derogatory story about Jones nearly every week on the Blaze. Search “Van Jones” in the Blaze’s search function and count how many Van Jones stories have been posted since this challenge in 2011. I agree Beck doesn’t care about Jones, but instead, he throws out the tried and true “Van Jones as the bogeyman” red meat to his rabid fans and they eat it up. Van Jones is good for Beck’s bottom line, but that still doesn’t excuse Beck for not backing up his rhetoric face to face with the people he besmirches or disagrees with. Most other pundits will do this (O’Reilly, Matthews, Hannity, Stewart, M Kelly, etc) but not Mr. Beck. I guess that thrashing he received from the ladies on The View made him gun shy.

• Prof. Compares Alabama Immigration Law to Hitler’s ‘Anti-Jewish Actions,’ Calls Glenn Beck ‘Menace to American Freedom’

  July 9, 2012 at 1:48pm

  In reply to Winedude.

  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-responds-to-van-jones-van-is-about-to-check-himself-before-he-wrecks-himself/

  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/van-jones-turns-beck-debate-challenge-into-potential-fox-news-commercial/

  Believe it or not, Van Jones challenged Beck, and Beck did nothing but make excuses why he wouldn’t debate him. This was back in the summer of 2011, and since Beck declined the challenge, he has posted multiple anti-Van Jones stories on the Blaze, so he’s fine sniping at him, but chicken to debate him. For all his chest thumping, Beck is nothing but a Bantam rooster.

• Prof. Compares Alabama Immigration Law to Hitler’s ‘Anti-Jewish Actions,’ Calls Glenn Beck ‘Menace to American Freedom’

  July 9, 2012 at 8:04am

  In reply to Winedude.

  One fact is for certain: Just like every other opposing opinion that Mr. Beck doesn’t agree with, Mr. Beck will not debate this professor face to face. Beck is great at running his mouth until someone calls him out, then he tucks tail and runs while sniping at the other person from the safety of his one-sided microphone or the Blaze. Van Jones is case in point.

  Very courageous of you, Mr. Beck. You’re a model of cowardice.

• Justice Roberts: Going to ‘Impregnable Island Fortress’ After Obamacare Decision

  June 30, 2012 at 12:35am

  In reply to randy.

  It’s very understandable how people who spend their intellectual capital listening to faux-Constitutional scholars of the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh, two of which could not even graduate from college, could be set-up for disappointment when rulings put forth by the body designed to uphold the Constitution don’t jibe with their ideology.

  Face it, the Healthcare Act is deemed Constitutional per the Supreme Court of the land. If you don’t agree and can’t accept the decision, then leave our great country you anti-American ideologue. If you wave your pocket Constitution in one hand and then denigrate the Supreme Court at the same time, you’re nothing but a hypocrite.

• Beck Reviews Obama’s Three-Plus ‘Years of Lies’

  June 30, 2012 at 12:02am

  In reply to encinom.

  If Beck was so concerned about changing the course of the country, he’d be running for office. But, that would subject him to the realities of the system designed by the founding fathers which dictates no branch of the government gets their way unilaterally and compromise is the way to progress. Instead, over the past year, Beck has chosen to feed his audience a bunch of red meat focusing on Van Jones, New Black Panthers, Louis Farrakhan, atheists, and several other targeted groups to keep his readers focused on inconsequential issues while he ignores serious issues. Now, with the decision of the court, he can feign outrage at the decision because it is good for his business.

  Someday, Beck’s readers will realize all his indignation is a phony front that hides his real motivation of making money. Beck’s business model does not work if the country reverts to a strict, conservative utopia, so it’s better for him to have a boogey man, preferably a liberal in power, to mock and deride to his material gain.

  So, I’m calling you out you phony, self identified Mormon prophet, crap or get off the pot. It you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem and all I hear is you whining like a little professional cry baby. Maybe if you cry about it everything will be all better, you little whiner.

• Fox News Airs Blistering ‘Then and Now’ Anti-Obama Video Review (Updated)

  May 30, 2012 at 10:58pm

  In reply to tricia.

  Regarding gas prices, anyone who falls blindly for the old correlation equals causation argument is either lacking in basic critical thinking skills or being willfully ignorant. BTW, I’ve also heard that 98% of U.S. citizens who have died in the last 20 years also ate carrots at some point in their lives. Carrots are bad!

  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html

  Fox news apparently had a different take on gas prices back in 2008.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o

  And, you have to love the double-speak of “our ratings blow all of our competition out of the water” coupled with “we’re not mainstream!”

• This Is Where the American People Stand on Legalizing Gay Marriage

  May 12, 2012 at 4:47am

  In reply to LibertyorDie2011.

  Marriage is not mentioned in the Constitution for anyone, hetero or homosexual. States have chosen to take a religious based definition of marriage and impose that view on all Americans with the exceptions of a handful of states. To say two, or five consenting adults can’t enter into the contract of marriage and all the legal rights and stipulations associated with it is discriminatory. Again, so you don’t take my words out of context, if these relationships violate the civil rights of those involved, they should not be validated.

  And spare me the indignation, please. The civil rights laws guaranteed all citizens equivalent rights that were previously denied to one group. In this case, tax-paying, consenting adults are being denied the freedoms of estate planning, death benefits, employer benefits, etc that hetero couples enjoy now. These couples are in loving relationships and are as committed to one another as hetero couples, but the rights are denied to them based on the religious objections of the majority. This should not be allowed in the US.

• This Is Where the American People Stand on Legalizing Gay Marriage

  May 12, 2012 at 4:26am

  In reply to LibertyorDie2011.

  The original introduction of this argument, go back and read it, was if you allow A, you’ve now opened the door to “who knows what”.

  So A, will lead to B, will lead to C,… Z.

  I said this is not necessarily true because any of the steps between B and Z could be invalidated due to their individual merits.

  I also said that all these groups have the right to challenge a definition of marriage that didn’t exist until 1996. But, in the case of polygamy, their challenge may not be validated based on the civil rights violations of historical polygamist relationships. If so, the slippery slope has been avoided. It won’t be me making this decision, but the courts.

  I never said any of these groups don’t have, or don’t have equal rights to challenge DOMA.

  All of these groups are being discriminated against by a narrow definition of marriage, but, for the umpteenth time, if their view of marriage imposes on the civil rights of those involved, it shouldn’t be allowed, in my opinion.