This SOB did so much to undermine RP's campaign, I'm struggling to listen to him talk about how "libertarian-ism is not about a person..." He's right. It isn't.
Here's the problem, Glenn: those of us in the liberty movement who worked so hard, who knocked on doors, who raised our voices in polite conversation with strangers, and disregarded social mores and spoke with complete strangers about politics at any and every opportunity, who placed our treasure on the line $20.12 at a time, who wrote letters to newspaper editors nationwide, who took out full-page ads in national publications, and who were in the end cheated out of even the opportunity to see a good and noble man have a shot in the 2012 election...we have looong memories.
We have archived video and audio, and we have captured your likeness and voice in these mediums. We know you, not simply of you. Many of us have been listening to your show since the early 2000's. Many of us considered you to be an honest, reliable source of information. Many of us were your "students" on your FOX show, TiVo'ing or DVR'ing your show out of a desire to hear some truth in the media. You were instrumental in the waking of many minds, and that is to your credit, sir. However, take this not as a compliment. You were instrumental in all the wrong ways.
As soon as the Iowa Caucuses in 2011, we heard you. As soon as the nomination process was shaking out, we heard you. As soon as it became apparent to you that "we," the "Ron Paul people," were not going to be convinced to once again choose between "the lesser of two evils," we heard you. We were listening. We heard you say nothing. We heard you join in the rest of the media as Ron Paul's campaign won Iowa, and was cheated out of victory, and say nothing. We heard you as New Hampshire was won by the sheer will of the "Ron Paul people," only to have the GOP throw out entire ballots, skewing the results to their benefit, and we heard you, again, say nothing.
I'm only halfway through the video referenced in the OP, yet I was compelled to post, first to remark that you are wearing a hat in this video with "D" for "dumbass" on it, but when I placed my fingers on the keyboard...all this came out, instead.
You haven't changed. I see your face flapping about, I hear sounds that seem to be words, but all I hear when you talk, Glenn, on the radio and in this video, is nothing. Nothing at all.
I am contractually bound to say "Fuck Glenn Beck" in any GB thread, and I've been slacking lately. So, fuck you, Mister Beck! I, unlike you, am not afraid to say that which is uncomfortable, when it needs to be said.
Sorta like when an honest man, for the first time in several decades, has the support of millions and the real chance to unseat a dictator, and rather than choose the uncomfortable, risky path and deviate from subject matter more readily digested by your audience populated largely by Neoconservative Zionists, the elderly and indigent, and those whose car radio is able to recieve your ideological feces more readily than the ideological feces of some other nitwit NWO mouthpiece - this includes voices on both the left and the right - you chose that which was comfortable and familiar. And that which you achieved was the retention of this yoke of totalitarianism, under the dictator God/Man/King Barack Obama. You'd have gotten the same goddamn thing under Mitt Romney. It may take some time for you to sort this out, but I'll help you along...
There's a lot of us here at RPF that voted Johnson, many who wrote in the good Doctor, and many who chose to get shitfaced or stoned rather than take part in the State religion of Voting Day. Or they simply found something else to do, if only to keep the inevitible result of the 2012 election from fucking up their day too much, like go to work.
The next day, any of us who went to work the next day and struck up a political conversation with a co-worker who was a Romney supporter, were blamed for Obama's victory. We were told that if we had only "fell in line" we would somehow have "saved the country." I will say now, as I said that day, that it wasn't "us", the "Ron Paul people," who were responsible for Romney's defeat. It was the GOP's fault. They nominated the wrong fucking guy. You helped, Glenn...you abandoned the country for which you shed false tears for on the radio several times a year...you helped the GOP nominate the wrong guy, Glenn, by keeping your mouth shut like a good little sheeple, and if that wasn't good enough, you took any opportunity to call us "kooks" and "radicals." You said the same about Ron Paul, rather than listen to what the man had to fucking say. You should be ashamed of yourself...
Perhaps you will have your experience on the Road to Demascus, Saul into Paul, and all that. Maybe you already have, and I just don't know it yet, because I've stopped paying attention to you. My time spent composing this post represents the most time I've spent thinking of you in months. Eventually, you may become a great voice in the liberty movement. Believe it or not, even I could forgive you. But I could never forget what you've done...alas, I doubt it. And if you do, I'll still avoid your influence, you maggot. We all know you moved to Texas to try to become Alex Jones. You shoulda went to fucking Salt Lake City! (Oooohhh, I went there...a Mormon joke)
You are part of the machine that denied this country it's greatest chance at turning this thing around. So fuck you, for now.
Just to be fair, though, I'll finish watching your fucking video. I just hope I have less to say when I finish the goddamn video rather than having watched only some of this shit
