http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/profiles/disaster_profile_CAWildfires.html

Stay strong, folks. Lots of positive thoughts for y’all coming from the Big Easy.

“Someone needs to knee Glenn Beck in the groin. Repeatedly. And put it on Pay-Per-View.”

“Glenn Beck never loved America enough to serve it, he was too busy being drunk and polluting the airwaves.”

“As for Glenn Beck, he’s just a washed-up former addict whose opinions, like himself, are utterly worthless.”

Reminds me of Free Republic and Democratic Underground.

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Seriously?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnplatt/1356982850/

1. Blowhard acts like a douche.
2. When blowhard gets called out as a douche, he immediately complaints that this is Stalinism, that the left wants to silence him, that he is a victim, etc. etc. etc. — and generally acts like a big girl’s blouse. Tiresome, but lapped up by his core audience.

Anyway, between Beck and Lou Dobbs, CNN is frequently far worse than Fox News. I’m just waiting for CNN to try to lure Bill O’Reilly over with some huge contract offer and they can have a complete set.

As for why he’s still on CNN, that’s simple. Because the advertisers still feel he’s good for their marketing.

I hope this grows, I hate Beck almost as much as B. O’R.

If you’re into religion of the Christian sort, hating America is also not immoral, except insofar as hating anything (except sin) is a bad idea.

As for whether these hypothetical people “deserve” to suffer — that’s neither for you nor me nor Glenn Beck to decide.

I expect we’ll see some people claiming that Glenn Beck’s remarks were meant facetiously, but of course that’s not true. Beck said them like he’d say anything else. There’s no way to justify them. They really were as bad as people are saying.

Malibu doesn’t really have forests – the hillsides are covered with chaparral and coastal sage scrub, but not much in the way of trees.

There are some fire areas that could be fairly described as “forest fires”, but those are mostly up in the mountains around Lake Arrowhead and the mountains above San Diego – neither of which are exactly hotbeds of America-Hating Hollywood Liberalism.

Poor fool can’t even get the terrain right, never mind the demographics.

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?80

It pains me to know people listen to and follow these shmucks. Logic and being non-self-contradictory is soooo passe.

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1) it is a very conservative area, going republican in every presidential and mid term election in recent memory
2) it is the largest military instalitation on earth housing over half the US navy and marine corp and their families as well as the families of those men and women fighting in iraq right now
3) more san diegans have fallen in iraq than any city in the country

be careful glen, you might accidentally not support the troops… ignorant prick

What you’ve been seeing is fragmentary bits and pieces of a sudden heavy influx of comments that couldn’t have arisen via natural causes. I despise astroturf, mindlessly jeering political hit squads, and all attempts to swamp the public discourse with noise and drive-by abuse.

Some regular commenters to Boing Boing may have gotten caught in the deletions. If so, they have my apologies. We can sort that out later. What I’m not going to do is apologize for is deleting the attack itself, since it was intended to shut down the legitimate discussion in this thread.

I’ve also unpublished some meta-discussion of the attack posted by regular commenters. Sorry about that. Turning this thread into a discussion of the attack will shut down the discussion of Glenn Beck and related subjects just as surely as the attack itself would have done it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U8p9IbXYHc

1: You do not accuse people of “hating” their country just because you criticize the government. You just don’t. Republicans, of all people, should understand that.

2: The region affected is among the most Republican areas of the state. So even if you ignore point #1, his statement is factually dumb.

3: Even putting all that aside, the time to criticize a community’s political slant is not when hundreds of thousands of them are fleeing for their lives while their homes and possessions and pets are being incinerated.

These are not “liberal” talking points. These are commonly understood points of what we call Not Being An Asshole. Glenn Beck does not understand these points because he is, as a career, a spokesman for a petty and crass philosophy… being a Cable News Partisan.

And I realize it’s not just Right-Wingers and Bush-lovers who make idiots of themselves attempting to spin every human event into Us Vs Them… but still, I can’t think of anyone embracing it they way they have. If that one poster really did “read worse things said about Republicans” from Al Franken, I’d like to hear it. Because I just don’t think it’s the case.

Have you ever heard Michael Savage? That guy is basically a human cadaver animated solely for the purpose of housing Hitler’s brain.