August 19, 2009 – Geneva (apj.us) – Glenn Beck is an immense loudmouth, far more than are Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly. Beck is also a prevaricator, and an idiot. Of course he believes, because he thinks he is “important” and “successful,” that he couldn’t possibly be an dimwit. I will let him continue to believe this.
What I think is most hilarious about Glenn Beck is his 9/12 Club that stands for nine, not eight or ten, but nine “principles.” He seems to somehow link these to Thomas Jefferson, once the largest and proudest self serving slaveholder in America and the father of several children from his slave paramour. I suppose Jefferson excused this as a privilege of “genius.” Beck, a born again Latter Day Saint – or Mormon as they are called - might consider Jefferson’s slave lover and mother of his children as simply Wife number two as some in the Mormon Church might believe.
Beck also carries a suicidal gene. Horribly, both his mother and another family member committed suicide and Beck himself recently admitted – on television – that he was also suicidal because he had a lot of pain, in his behind, from a hemorrhoid surgery. He claims that the pain medication he was dosed with and a combination of other meds drove him toward the “I’m’ gonna off myself” edge. But he got over it because of a miracle – his wife number two's miracle, the one who urged him to “choose” a religion they could both abide.
Anyway, here are the Nine Principles of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Club with my comments.
The 9 Principles of Glenn Beck
1. America Is Good.
Okay, American can be good when in her own interest. Americans are by and large good if you believe that human beings are naturally good rather than evil – a long argued question. What Beck most likely means here is that America is the BEST, not just good but impossible to criticize as long it sticks by neoconservative values, and allows Beck to get to rich with his asinine shows and “books” (he calls himself a clown) which no one really buys and certainly never reads in full if they do.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
“ The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” – from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
Ah, and now a Washington quote to back up the claim that God (he not she) is the Center with a capital “C” of Glenn Beck’s life. George Washington was the second largest slave holder in America. And unlike Jefferson, he didn’t think the slave women worthy of his sexual prowess or lack thereof. Beck, according to him, then believes that if America and Americans do not follow the heavenly and never-ending rules of order then the nation can’t expect get a smile from God. Oh no. This creates its own problems. First, do nation’s count as something God smiles upon or does not – or does he mean individuals who happen to live in these nations – quite simply by accident of birth or illegal “alienality”? So under BeckSpeak we must accept as true that God is a nationalist. This does not bode well for us inasmuch as there are more Islamic nations than Judeo-Christian ones. Take note that only Christians use the term Judeo Christian since they had to swallow that the Jews did not “kill Christ”. The Jews did not kill Allah either.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
“I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” – George Washington
This is a good principle. The problem is that Beck takes his version of being “honest” to new lows. He is honestly a Bigot for instance and makes no bones about it, unless his income is threatened. He also wishes people dead – I suppose he prays to heaven for this (as a nation, or as an individual I wonder?) to Mr. Beck, being more honest is being more insulting to everything that could be interpreted as biblical or moral.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
“It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” – Thomas Jefferson
I’m not sure where this one comes from. I know of few religions who preach that the family is the ultimate authority, not the society in which it lives. I suppose then that Beck is an anarchist but I don’t believe he knows what that is. And somehow here he equates happiness with ultimate authority – I think he should have quoted Dick Cheney rather than Tom Jefferson. I know plenty of people with no family – because they were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan – and some of them are happy even though they miss family members now and then. I also wonder if Beck extends this to death itself. How does one feel happy when dead without “endearing connections of a family?” Ah, because they are lined up in heaven to meet you – the older dead ones that is.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
“I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson
Do you think that Beck is obsessed with Thomas Jefferson? Yet what a moron Beck must be not to see the blatant hypocrisy of Jefferson’s statement. “Equal and exact justice to all men….” Oh, I forgot Jefferson did not regard his “negroes” as human and thus as neither men nor women –perhaps robots he could inseminate? - Or costly sex toys?
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
“Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” – Thomas Jefferson
The more one reads Beck’s Nine Principles one realizes that Thomas Jefferson was either as stupid and undereducated as Mr. Beck, or Beck just simply uses a Bartlebys-gained quote that happens to have the correct word in it – The problem is that this, his sixth principle has nothing to do with the Jefferson quote he uses? Beck has obviously not read the Constitution nor understands both state and federal law.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
“It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” – George Washington
I’m not sure where Beck gets the idea that government “forces” him to be charitable.
Well, actually I think I am certain. Beck thinks that any social program that helps Americans or anyone else for that matter, like welfare, education, propping up banks and brokerages, foreign aid, food and medical assistance to third worlders - well anything that helps the poor and paid for by his taxes – if he pays any – is “charity”. Beck is a sick man.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” – George Washington
Beck certainly stands for this \George Washington quote – the last of it for sure – He does little but shoots his mouth off “without thinking.” I do agree, however that it is not un-American to disagree with authority – no one does this more than I.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
“I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” – Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Beck again demonstrates his almost complete unawareness. He is lost in unreality. No wonder he was suicidal, perhaps the meds he took made him come face to face with himself. The government does not work for Mr. Beck, nor me, nor you. It works for the nation as a whole. If you don’t believe that lets get Mr. Beck to tell the average NY City cop to “answer to him.” Better yet, a sanitation worker.
What an ass is he.
