{"id":33525,"date":"2013-05-03T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/glenn-beck-is-a-dolt-but-i-repeat-myself.html"},"modified":"2013-05-06T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:35:41","slug":"glenn-beck-is-a-dolt-but-i-repeat-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/glenn-beck-is-a-dolt-but-i-repeat-myself.html","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck is a dolt (but I repeat myself)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I would dearly love to ignore Beck, but since one of the nation&#39;s most powerful lobbying organization his having him speak at their annual convention, I guess he&#39;s still newsworthy.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Beck is all up in arms (so to speak)\u00a0about his conviction that the &quot;uber-Left&quot; ran\u00a0a phony\u00a0gun incident, <i>just like the Reichstag Fire,<\/i> doubtless in order to justify Taking All Our Guns, or Declaring Martial Law, or Polluting Our Precious Bodily Fluids, or something equally zany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the NRA faithful will just eat it up.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/beck-houston-airport-shooting-i-could-guarantee-you-set'>Beck On Houston Airport Shooting: &#8216; I Could Guarantee You This Is A Set-Up&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Tonight, Glenn Beck broadcast his television program live from Houston, TX since he is in town for the annual NRA convention where he will be speaking on Saturday. During his opening monologue, Beck i&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/KhY2Wtg58ea' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would dearly love to ignore Beck, but since one of the nation&#39;s most powerful lobbying organization his having him speak at their annual convention, I guess he&#39;s still newsworthy. In this case, Beck is all up in arms (so to speak)\u00a0about his conviction that the &quot;uber-Left&quot; ran\u00a0a phony\u00a0gun incident, just like the Reichstag Fire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/glenn-beck-is-a-dolt-but-i-repeat-myself.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glenn Beck is a dolt (but I repeat myself)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/in-a-sane-world-glenn-becks-endorsement-would-be-an-automatic-disqualification-for-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":33525,"position":0},"title":"Why is this not the political touch of death?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Jan-16 10:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In a sane world, Glenn Beck's endorsement would be an automatic disqualification for president.\"I have prayed for the next George Washington,\" Beck said of Cruz. \"I believe I have found him.\"Yes, that would be George Washington, the hyper-religious, hyper-partisan, pro-foreign-intervention, deep-seated supporter of militia movements. Just like Ted Cruz.Yeesh. As\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24472,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/not-that-i-ever-listen-to-anything-glenn-beck-says.html","url_meta":{"origin":33525,"position":1},"title":"Not that I ever listen to anything Glenn Beck says","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Dec-11 2:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But it's sometimes kind of interesting, as Beck claims (inexplicably) that Gingrich and Obama are both \"big government progressives\" (um, definitely not and sadly not) and therefore if the Tea Partiers are supporting Gingrich, it must be a racist thing on their part.Yeah, it's more than a bit goofy, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/lewis-black-on-glenn-beck.html","url_meta":{"origin":33525,"position":2},"title":"Lewis Black on Glenn Beck","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-May-10 10:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lewis Black on The Daily Show discusses Glenn \"Nazi Tourette's\" Beck. 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