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Related: About this forumGlenn Beck Compares Occupy Wall St. To Neo Nazis
Beck: OWS Debt-Canceling Effort 'Sounds Like The Golden Dawn Party'
As we noted yesterday, Glenn Beck is so insanely and rigidly ideological that it results in worldview in which everything is either black or white, so that anything done by someone with whom he disagrees or dislikes is inherently suspect and dangerous.
The extent to which this "all or nothing" worldview dominates Beck's understanding was perfectly expressed in this clip from the morning meeting yesterday during which producer Tiffany Siegel was commenting on a story about a project being run by Occupy Wall Street which uses donations to buy up consumer debt and then cancel it.
The project is called Rolling Jubilee and it works because lenders to whom the debt is owed often sell the right to that debt to third parties for pennies on the dollar. In this case, OWS buys up the debt and then, instead of trying to collect it, sends a letter to the person who owes the debt, telling them that it has been canceled and they are no longer obligated to pay it.
And all Beck can say when he hears about this effort is "gee, that sounds like the Golden Dawn Party."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-ows-debt-canceling-effort-sounds-golden-dawn-party
The extent to which this "all or nothing" worldview dominates Beck's understanding was perfectly expressed in this clip from the morning meeting yesterday during which producer Tiffany Siegel was commenting on a story about a project being run by Occupy Wall Street which uses donations to buy up consumer debt and then cancel it.
The project is called Rolling Jubilee and it works because lenders to whom the debt is owed often sell the right to that debt to third parties for pennies on the dollar. In this case, OWS buys up the debt and then, instead of trying to collect it, sends a letter to the person who owes the debt, telling them that it has been canceled and they are no longer obligated to pay it.
And all Beck can say when he hears about this effort is "gee, that sounds like the Golden Dawn Party."
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Glenn Beck Compares Occupy Wall St. To Neo Nazis (Original Post)
Joe Shlabotnik
Nov 2013
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CFLDem
(2,083 posts)1. Yeah I did one of these when I heard that
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)2. Exactly what steps need to be taken
to have him committed? While we're at it can we go ahead & start the paperwork for Jones & the rest of the Loon Squad they really are a threat to society.
Gothmog
(154,427 posts)3. Does anyone take Beck Seriously?
I am surprised that anyone listens to Beck or cares about his opinions. I know that Beck failed to get David Barton to run against Cornyn and I doubt that Louie Gohmert is going to take up Beck's advise. Beck is crying out for attention and I do not plan to answer this plea