Glenn Back is mentally ill
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- waterhouse
I can't even fully comprehend it. Neoconservitism is this schizophrenic tug of war between limited federal government/domestic policy and global strongarming.
I suppose CNN wishes to win back some of Fox New's market share but they should be ashamed as a news organization to give this guy a microphone and place his rantings on their front page. Someone over there should really just say, "Hey, this isn't journalism. This is unsubstantiated paranoid anxiety."
What a disappointment. I guess I should write them a letter but for whatever reason I'm posting here instead.
- Mimio0
It's amazing how well he's received by his audience. Books, touring, etc. Cult of personality.
- section_0140
fucking liberals
- locustsloth0
i used to listen to him whenever i could. Hannity and Limbaugh too. Kinda a "know your enemy" strategy. It used to provide me with a somewhat balanced view, since i'm fairly lefty.
Beck used to make the most reasonable points out of all of them. But it seemed like either the election stuff or him getting a TV show really pushed him out of the somewhat fair (though heavily right-leaning) commentary to complete conservative rhetoric. Once i found myself getting pissed as much as i did when i listened to Hannity, i stopped listening
- mg330
I cannot stand him, and I've tried to describe why before, but it's not easy.
He's smarmy in this particular way... that grin on his face that's a smile, but it's a frowning, pessemistic, "only I know the way it should really be, you're just dumb but I forgive you for it" kind of face.
Do you know what I mean?
- locustsloth0
At least he's funny from time to time. And it does cause a bit of self-examination of the doings of Democrats (which are sometimes as bad as the Republicans). But, again, he started to glaze over obvious and relevant counterpoints to the conservative views of the day and just plain lost my interest
- Mimio0
He's scum, basically an irresponsible apologist for the oil industry.
- waterhouse0
I have a close friend just like him. Very bright but anxious - constantly - even about things that would suprise me (like driving in a convertible). This turns your mind into putty. It makes you victim to the primal fears we all have.
Whatever, it's a personality. I'm just dismayed that powerful news organizations are giving people like my friend an outlet to draw in people who aren't necessarily on the far end of this anxiety continuum.
- mg330
He is a great example that there is no more reporting left in modern politics and review of government.
There are only story makers and story shapers.
- Meeklo0
I actually enjoy the anger I get from watching this douchebag.
The other day he was talking on how no one else in the media commented on how the amazing opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics had a secret message about the domination of communism and how we (the world) should fear them.
- epete220
you guys are socialist ______ (you can fill in the blanks)
- Dr_Rand0
I hate him. who is he, again?
- waterhouse0
I can tolerate that anger in >10 minute YouTube soundbites. Not in long form. That's when I post.
- t_rock0
He really speaks to my inner alcoholic-rodeo-clown.
- emukid0
he is my hero
- TheBlueOne0
I find it odd that, as a defined set of principles, "neo-conservatism" in the United States is called "Neo-Liberalism" in Europe.
- waterhouse0
That's what I started to state. Neoconservitism is this bizarre amalgam that's really born out of the liberal movement in actively managing society.
- It's actually marxism taken to it's logical extreme....TheBlueOne
- I guess it's the old "you go far east you end up in the west" kinda thing...TheBlueOne
- Neo-Conservatism is? I don't really see how it resembles Marxism at all.Mimio
- locustsloth0
It seems neo-conservatism wants to control everything but commerce.
Neo-Liberalism wants to control that as well
- TheBlueOne0
"The neoconservative desire to spread democracy abroad has been likened to the Trotskyist theory of permanent revolution. Lind argues that the neoconservatives are influenced by the thought of former Trotskyists such as James Burnham and Max Shachtman, who argued that "the United States and similar societies are dominated by a decadent, postbourgeois 'new class.'" He sees the neoconservative concept of "global democratic revolution" as deriving from the Trotskyist Fourth International's "vision of permanent revolution." He also points to what he sees as the Marxist origin of "the economic determinist idea that liberal democracy is an epiphenomenon of capitalism," which he describes as "Marxism with entrepreneurs substituted for proletarians as the heroic subjects of history."
- I see. In terms of exporting the ideology.Mimio
- Some make that argument yes. I think it has some merit.TheBlueOne
- See:
http://findarticles.…TheBlueOne
