My Thoughts On The Glenn Beck Rally

[dmek25]

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Matty loves this one. This will cause a little more than a distraction!!!!!

[Chico23231]

Post Now - Stewart, Colbert to host rallies on Mall

Now thats a rally Im gonna try to make. Should be funny and not political, exactly like Becks.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Post Now - Stewart, Colbert to host rallies on Mall

Now thats a rally Im gonna try to make. Should be funny and not political, exactly like Becks.

Yep, funny but without the side helping of crazy

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Post Now - Stewart, Colbert to host rallies on Mall

Now thats a rally Im gonna try to make. Should be funny and not political, exactly like Becks.

So funny looking back on this thread. Later on I wrote this whole thing to a group of friends, etc. as to why I wasn't going to the Stewart Rally and a few of them kind of blasted me and what not. It's funny how both of the rallies were so hyped and now the country has moved on to real issues that affect their everyday lives.

[Chico23231]

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

Hilariously sad...but some people actually believe this lol

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Originally Posted by Chico23231

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

Hilariously sad...but some people actually believe this lol

Thats considered breaking news for CNN? No wonder their rating has dropped so much over the years. He said it as his opinion and they cut the clip so short its not put into any kind context so who knows what else he talked about.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Thats considered breaking news for CNN? No wonder their rating has dropped so much over the years. He said it as his opinion and they cut the clip so short its not put into any kind context so who knows what else he talked about.

Come on now thats funny...if your muslim your proably be pretty offended. His opinion then is way off, but the thing is, his presentation of information comes across as if it is facts. He believes everything he says and thens trys to support it...I like what the guy says, the reason more people are not talking about it, is its not true. lol

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Come on now thats funny...if your muslim your proably be pretty offended. His opinion then is way off, but the thing is, his presentation of information comes across as if it is facts. He believes everything he says and thens trys to support it...I like what the guy says, the reason more people are not talking about it, is its not true. lol

He clearly says he thinks its closer to 10% and he also never used the word muslim and said Islamic terrorist. Not sure if there is a difference but CNN changed what he said from Islamic to Muslim. Whats up with that?

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Im not sure if hes taken out of context or not, but he clearly means 10% of Muslims are extremist and/or support terrorist acts not that 10% of Muslims have literally committed terrorist acts, the guy even concedes that’s this is what Glenn means but goes on to scold him. And he even says that the use of terrorism in that sense is in the dictionary.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by firstdown

He clearly says he thinks its closer to 10% and he also never used the word muslim and said Islamic terrorist. Not sure if there is a difference but CNN changed what he said from Islamic to Muslim. Whats up with that?

FD, buddy, why arent more people talking about it?

[12thMan]

I guess at the core my beef with both rallies was that they split people into different camps, which tends to breed cultish like behaviour. If conservatives just go on being conservative after a Beck rally and liberals continue to subscribe to the same liberal ideology lock and step following the Stewart rally, then what was actually accomplished? I don't need to march down to the National Mall to hear that Obama is a socialist or that all Republicans don't care about working class Americans, because I don't believe either is true. We're spoon fed this garbage from the time we're able to pick up a newspaper, or nowadays read a blog.

I'm convinced that most Americans are closer on many of the issues than they realize. They don't live their daily lives on some left or right spectrum, but rather a continuum. As a liberal, I can talk to any one of my conservative friends about searching for a job, how to prepare my taxes, planning for a wedding, or finding a good deal on a flat screen TV. You know, everyday normal shit. We all start from a similiar place in life. One day we're fresh out of school, later, if we're lucky we get married, then we look up and we're sending our kid(s) to college. I think that's kinda it in a nutshell. There will always be differences of opinion on the right approach to govern our nation, that's why we have two parties. But when did it become so god darned evil to disagree with one another? The age of cult personalities and divisive politics, I feel, is taking it's toll on our country and I refuse to willingly participate.

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Originally Posted by 12thMan

I guess at the core my beef with both rallies was that they split people into different camps, which tends to breed cultish like behaviour. If conservatives just go on being conservative after a Beck rally and liberals continue to subscribe to the same liberal ideology lock and step following the Stewart rally, then what was actually accomplished? I don't need to march down to the National Mall to hear that Obama is a socialist or that all Republicans don't care about working class Americans, because I don't believe either is true. We're spoon fed this garbage from the time we're able to pick up a newspaper, or nowadays read a blog.

I'm convinced that most Americans are closer on many of the issues than they realize. They don't live their daily lives on some left or right spectrum, but rather a continuum. As a liberal, I can talk to any one of my conservative friends about searching for a job, how to prepare my taxes, planning for a wedding, or finding a good deal on a flat screen TV. You know, everyday normal shit. We all start from a similiar place in life. One day we're fresh out of school, later, if we're lucky we get married, then we look up and we're sending our kid(s) to college. I think that's kinda it in a nutshell. There will always be differences of opinion on the right approach to govern our nation, that's why we have two parties. But when did it become so god darned evil to disagree with one another? The age of cult personalities and divisive politics, I feel, is taking it's toll on our country and I refuse to willingly participate.

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Actually the Gleen Beck ralley was not about conservtives but more about taking back the country. I don't follow him so I'm not 100% postive but I believe he tried to keep polics out of his ralley.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

I guess at the core my beef with both rallies was that they split people into different camps, which tends to breed cultish like behaviour. If conservatives just go on being conservative after a Beck rally and liberals continue to subscribe to the same liberal ideology lock and step following the Stewart rally, then what was actually accomplished? I don't need to march down to the National Mall to hear that Obama is a socialist or that all Republicans don't care about working class Americans, because I don't believe either is true. We're spoon fed this garbage from the time we're able to pick up a newspaper, or nowadays read a blog.

I'm convinced that most Americans are closer on many of the issues than they realize. They don't live their daily lives on some left or right spectrum, but rather a continuum. As a liberal, I can talk to any one of my conservative friends about searching for a job, how to prepare my taxes, planning for a wedding, or finding a good deal on a flat screen TV. You know, everyday normal shit. We all start from a similiar place in life. One day we're fresh out of school, later, if we're lucky we get married, then we look up and we're sending our kid(s) to college. I think that's kinda it in a nutshell. There will always be differences of opinion on the right approach to govern our nation, that's why we have two parties. But when did it become so god darned evil to disagree with one another? The age of cult personalities and divisive politics, I feel, is taking it's toll on our country and I refuse to willingly participate.

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Sorry I only read part of this post at first and after reading it in full I agree 100%.

[MTK]

Regardless of what it was about it undoubtedly attracted mostly conservatives and the rest of Beck's crazy cult. I doubt there were too many on the fence types there.