The Occupy Wall Street argument grows bitter after a Fox News reporter calls Beck 'paranoid or delusional'. What can he mean?
President Obama has ruffled conservative feathers once again by not only sympathising with the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but going so far as to compare some of their frustrations to those voiced by the Tea Party movement.
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity is disgusted with the president's suggestion that there might be some common ground between the left and the right, in that both groups feel separated from, and disappointed in, their government (view clip).
"Actually, Mr President, the two groups couldn't be more different. Among a million other painfully obvious distinctions, here's something the two movements definitely do not have in common. Ohio police are currently investigating a 19-year-old woman's claim that she was raped in a tent during an Occupy Cleveland protest last Saturday. Now, we've never seen that kind of violence ? or even alleged ? at a Tea Party rally!"
A rape claim is indeed being investigated by the Ohio police and although there has been no attempt to cover up the alleged incident, either by the Occupy Cleveland camp or the local media, there is a sense in conservative circles that had such an allegation been made about a Tea Party rally, the media would be having a field day. Anyway, as Hannity pointed out, there has never been so much as an allegation of an alleged rape at a Tea Party event. There was an unfortunate incident of a woman having her head stomped on a pavement at a Tea Party rally, but that incident is long forgotten.
Hannity discussed the president's "divisive" remarks with Fox News contributor Monica Crowley, who said there was nothing surprising at all in the president's statement. He was "trained in the mob tactics of Saul Alinksy", and pitting one group against the other, stoking warfare, is his speciality. Although the president's remarks seem to suggest the opposite, both Crowley and Hannity concluded that stoking differences is what he does best.
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly was not impressed by the president's comparison either, especially since he discussed the protesters' mental condition with psychotherapist, Karen Ruskin, who had some disturbing findings (view clip). The protesters are asking to be out of control, she told O'Reilly, and when we get out of control in our lives, that leads to depression. Ergo, as the protesters are asking others "to give me, give me, give me", instead of trying to sort out their own problems though self-empowerment, they are depressed. Ruskin believes asking to be given things (like a job) leads to mental instability. Bill found this a little harsh and suggested that maybe, it's the ideology they believe in that is crazy, rather than the individuals themselves.
What about the people with the moral belief that the government has an obligation, a moral obligation to provide cradle-to-grave entitlements, including college education to everybody?! So why would they be depressed or why would they be people on psychological skids if that was their firm belief and they say, "You know what, just like the Tea Party, I'm standing up for my belief system; I believe this is the right way for human beings to conduct themselves with a strong central force providing people who can't provide for themselves?"
Ruskin said that it is OK to help people to "help themselves", but you certainly can't be giving people anything, and the 40 million or so uninsured people in this country need to start making "honest choices to make an honest living". O'Reilly agreed that if the protesters believe in something so crazy that anyone born into the wealthiest country in the world should have access to an education and to healthcare, they must, in fact, be stark raving mad. Ruskin says it all comes down to the prevailing belief among certain types of people in America (the left) that if they are not making as much money as the wealthy, they should get a piece of the wealthy.
I agree with you that that [wanting a piece of the wealthy] is a destructive emotion, that if you think the world would be fair and everyone should get the same. There have been more atrocities and violence committed in the name of that than anything else in history. But what about the people who say you know we're not all born, we're not all created equal, like it says in the declaration of independence? Some people have more aptitude than others. Look at me compared to [Alan] Colmes ? just a joke, don't get upset. But other people, they'll say, "Look, some people are born [with] high IQs, they're gifted and other people here, they're walking into the wall, but aren't we supposed to be compassionate towards them?"
Ruskin says it's OK to be compassionate, but certainly not give them anything. We must enforce self-reliance, so they don't want the things that we have.
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is extremely upset with how he is being treated by former colleagues at Fox News because of comments he made about Occupy Wall Street. Beck appeared on his old friend Bill O'Reilly's program last week (view clip) and expounded upon his theory that the protests are not an organic uprising of disenchanted Americans, but a global movement with Marxist roots led by several revolutionary groups like the Service Employees Union and Working Families. These revolutionary groups are funded by George Soros and the whole thing is being orchestrated by America's most famous community organiser, President Barack Obama. O'Reilly gave Beck's theory the benefit of the doubt, but Fox News ace reporter Geraldo Rivera, was less kind, saying Beck's words were "harsh at best, paranoid or delusional at worst". Beck did not take kindly to Geraldo's insulting dismissal of his theory and accused him, in turn, of being a sheep (view clip).
For anyone who's thinking about Occupy Wall Street and saying, "you know, they made a good point," we're going to do a little critical thinking today and one of them is this. When the lion lays down with the lamb, that's when Jesus comes. In the meantime, the lion eats the lamb. Another name for lamb? Sheep! Stop being sheep, America! Otherwise, he will eat you!
Beck is neither sheep nor lamb, and he does not intend to let anyone accuse him of spouting unsubstantiated nonsense that he hopes his gullible audience will accept as fact. Beck had hard evidence to back up his theory: a copy of The Coming Insurrection, a book written by the Invisible Committee, the collective pen-name for a small group of French intellectuals and academics, and a copy of the second edition of the publication du jour, the Occupied Wall Street Journal (pdf).
For two years, I've been warning about this book, The Coming Insurrection. Radicals, planning revolution, global revolution ? and they feed on chaos. They destroy everything in its way. They're not trying to reform anything. They're tired of being lied to by the politicians. It's communist. That's who's doing it. It was published anonymously in France and that started the riots that nearly burnt that country down.
Those riots that almost burnt France to the ground spread to Greece, and then to the Arab Spring, and now, as Beck predicted, they are here on American soil. If that is not enough to make Beck's case, the fact The Coming Insurrection enjoyed, albeit briefly, the No 1 slot on Amazon.com, and that the Occupied Wall Street Journal has exceeded its "kickstarter" fundraising goal so far by about 600%, should suffice to convince even Geraldo Rivera, that Beck sort of has a point.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/21/glenn-beck-snarls-fox
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