Former Shock Jock Glenn Beck is sorry. Boy, is he sorry. What a sorry human he is.
“I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes,” he told Fox’s Megyn Kelly on Tuesday. “I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart.”
You think? You think that maybe your crazy rants were believed by idiots who took it as the truth? You think maybe you might have helped convince people that anyone to the left of you was some sort of anti-American socialist out to instill Sharia Law on the country? You think that might have done something to divide us?
Beck, who never studied politics or economics and never went to college, is still someone many on the right see as qualified to discuss current affairs with knowledge. Like Rush Limbaugh, he is just a loudmouth who was given a microphone. His views are just as informed and valid as your crazy uncle everyone avoids talking to at Thanksgiving.
Sure, everyone has the right to a political opinion, but usually when you want to get insight, you ask someone who is educated or experienced, not whoever is the loudest. (And yes, to compare, Dr. Rachel Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar whose degree is from Oxford, and Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry has her Political Science doctorate from Duke.)
This statement from Beck, unfortunately, came with absolutely no change in the idiocy of his views. He also claimed that the reason his latest right-wing project was not being more widely distributed was because the Devil was working against him.
Trust me — if the Devil existed, he would be doing everything he could to help Beck tear the country apart.
Chris Christie apologists are singing the praises of this guy, even going so far as to claim (on Fox News, of course) that this is just another one of those feminist plots to bring down guys who act like assholes — 
because we all know that acting like an asshole is the natural state of men, and women who complain about it are just too touchy-feely and sensitive.
Apparently, this micro-manager who has his nose in everyone’s business in every other regard was supposedly completely unaware of what his closest personal staff was doing, even when he met with them while the whole Bridge blockage was happening. Yeah, no one is buying that, and polls show that people just aren’t that gullible.
Is this the most serious scandal in the world? Of course not. But I am more interested in it because it shows what kind of person he is, and that is something we all need to know if he wants to run for higher office.
Hey, remember when the Romney campaign considered having Christie as the VP but ran as far as possible once they began the vetting process? Yeah, that was funny!
Anyway, we all know that if you’re a powerful person (say, a governor) you have a staff of people you have chosen — and one thing a staff does is want to please the boss. Do we really believe that his staff would do these things if they didn’t think he would approve? Even if he didn’t directly give them the instruction to do this, clearly they were following his example and taking actions that would please him.
And if you believe otherwise, I have a bridge to sell you.
Just don’t try to cross it.
Republicans are doing everything they can to suppress the vote, because every study shows that if everyone voted, Republicans would pretty much lose. 
(Not every district, of course, but they would certainly lose their House majority, as well as many statehouses.)
But there is one idea that they haven’t grasped yet which would accomplish the same goal.
What they need are for people to become apathetic about politics — especially young people, who are overwhelmingly less religious, more liberal, and less prejudiced than their elders. What the Republicans need is a way to keep these people in a state where all they want to do is watch TV and eat doritos.
You see where I’m going with this, right? Come on, Republicans! Legalize marijuana and then those kids won’t even be motivated to get out and vote! Bam! Instant suppression without breaking any laws!
(OK, Republicans, stop reading now. The rest is for my Democratic friends.
Shh! Don’t let on. Most republicans are so clueless about both marijuana and what young people want and think that they just might fall for this!)
As we are all aware thanks to Fox News, there is massive voting fraud, with people claiming to be someone else just so they can risk going to jail to cast one more vote they shouldn’t.
Here in Pennsylvania, the Republicans leapt into action to prevent this fraud. Why, do you know that over the past ten years there has been a grand total or zero examples of this fraud?
OurTea Party governor and his cronies used these statistics to support their contention that the voter suppression laws they passed were necessary because, you know, ‘Merica. Or something. I didn’t quite follow the argument, although Republican leaders had admitted on the record previously that the purpose of the law was to suppress Democratic votes.
Well, it turns out that this Judge understood the law, much to the dismay of Republicans. And now the voter registration suppression law is no more.
Oh sure, they’ll appeal, but they lost before when they went to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Mostly these guys are afraid. Pennsylvania has more Democrats than Republicans. If it wasn’t for gerrymandering, the Democrats would have won more Congressional seats in the last election. Our Republican governor is the least popular governor in the entire country, and he and his party are rightly worried.
So what do they decide? Change their stands? Try to appeal to the public by adjusting their radical ideas?
“No,” they decided. “Let’s cheat.”
Well, that will be a lot harder from now on.
The new Pope just keeps amazing me. Not that I’m going to suddenly turn Catholic or anything, but it’s so nice to see the church turning away from its old image as a corporate business hiding child molesters mostly concerned with abortion and gay marriage. 
Since taking office, he has done the following:
Set up a committee to fight child abuse in the church and to root out the abusers;
Removed cardinals from the corrupt Vatican bank (after hiring independent banks to handle some aspects of the church’s functions);
Removed a cardinal who had refused to give communion to Democrats who supported abortion rights;
Removed a bishop who had spent millions on himself, only to turn the bishop’s luxury mansion into a soup kitchen;
Said that the church should be more concerned with the plight of the poor, while attacking trickle-down economics;
Said that the church should be less concerned with issues like gay marriage and abortion and “shouldn’t judge.”
Some of it is purely symbolic, such as getting rid of all the rich trappings of previous popes; living humbly and paying his own bills; going into public instead of hiding behind popemobiles and windows; and treating everyone with respect and dignity.
It’s almost as if this Pope had read the Bible or something!
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