Farewell, Bob Beckel, we hardly knew ye!

If only. To know Bob Beckel’s name is to know him too well.

I can’t help but smile at Glenn’s “pithy” closing, there.

Glen is fine, but I know his radio show is really one-sided and it looks like Hannity, now solo, only has conservative guests.

Is Fox News turning into a Rightie MSNBC? And why would they do that if MSNBC is doing so poorly?

I can only assume that, with Colmes gone, the Foxies have decided to abandon all pretense and dump the liberal panelists, too. Farewell, Bob Beckel, we hardly knew ye!

Kinda nice. At least now & then. God knows the pinklets get plenty of airtime.

This drive toward socialism will accellerate the coming of the day when America dumps the socialism concepts for good.

saiga on February 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM

I agree we’re going to have to bottom out on socialism before we can thoroughly reject it… again. And I agree Obama-Reid-Pelosi are plunging us to this bottom at a breath taking speed. I never expected it to happen in my lifetime, but here it comes.

The most socialistic segment of our society is the urban black community. They elect the most leftest candidates and are the recipients of the most socialistic programs. The result is no personal responsibliity and the lowest marks in every category of social and economic achievement.

King wanted us to judge people on the content of their character, and the socialism in the black community is contaminating the character of millions of black people.

“Frustrated by a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democratic leaders, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said House Republicans — who voted unanimously last week against the economic plan pushed by President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — will pitch a “positive, loyal opposition” to the proposal. The group, he added, should also “understand insurgency” in implementing efforts to offer alternatives.

“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”

The gop are America’s taliban.

…and allow propagandists to be on every show. Should we allow the jihadists to be on every program where the war on terror is discussed. Sadly, there is no longer much difference.

artman1746 on February 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM

I understand your point, but the MSM are so blatantly biased that I still like the idea of trying to be fair and balanced. For example, shows like “This Week” or “Meet the Press” where you get 3 or 4 “concerned journalists” aka bleeding heart libs, where they all sit around and bash Republicans and kiss each others butts is indigestible. Sometimes they will have one token conservative like poor George Will who thinks he is being taken seriously. Remember Bill Maher’s show “Politically Incorrect”? Hmmm, let’s have a show with 4 guests, one of which will be someone with a different opinion than mine. Let’s see, that will be 4 against 1. Then, we’ll all pile on the guy while the audience cheers! Can you say “The View”?

This is their basic formula and it sucks. Oh wait, I almost forgot, they “care” more than I do…

Beautiful!!!!

Further, this administration is so dysfunctional I will be surprised if it lasts very much longer before the U.S. population (6 billion according to “Nanny Fulo’sh!+” math) demand a repeal of this bill and that any future legislation offered by this administration undergoes massive levels of sunshine (which kills a bunch of germs).

I think there is a famous Lenin quote about communism being the goal of socialism.

Pianobuff on February 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM

I prefer Ayn Rand better:

“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”
-Ayn Rand

and

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

Ayn Rand

The CEO’s have already found the loop holes in the salary cap.

It is still business as usual and the recession will turn into a depression.

These are crazy times and those two are leading the insanity.

Another question – so the banks are in trouble because they’re holding all these “worthless” mortgages. But unless those homes are being crushed by some giant walking around America, they still exist. Houses, even empty ones, have value. So why not just go ahead and force the banks to change their accounting rules? Voila – the bad debt wouldn’t be nearly as bad.

How could any sports team win a game if one team was allowed to break all the rules of the game while the other was restricted to the rules.

artman1746 on February 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM

That’s a big part of our problem, isn’t it. We won’t climb down off our high horses to do the hand-to-hand combat required to protect our freedoms. We seem to prefer playing by the old rules, or being liked, even if it costs us our way of life.

It’s more obvious every day, Obama-Pelosi-Reid are playing ruthlessly for keeps. The way it looks now, they’re going to win.

How could any sports team win a game if one team was allowed to break all the rules of the game while the other was restricted to the rules. My guess is that when the game is so distorted as we find the news today, there is just too many ignorant and uninformed people to “win” the game. And then we have the truth sites like Hot Air editorializing about how Fox should be sure and allow propagandists to be on every show. Should we allow the jihadists to be on every program where the war on terror is discussed. Sadly, there is no longer much difference.

After last night’s show, I was thinking I haven’t seen such trenchant, courageous, compellling commentary since Bill O’Reilly’s early shows. My bet is that Beck may become a record-setting hit for FNC. (I hope they’ll move him to a more favorable time slot, say 7:00-8:00, especially after daylight savings times resumes.)

I can only assume that, with Colmes gone, the Foxies have decided to abandon all pretense and dump the liberal panelists, too.

Why? My assumption is that FNC will replace Colmes with more thoughtful, more intellectually respectable spokespeople for the left than Colmes ever was. My assumption is FNC’s balance will be better, not worse.

Besides, what does Colmes have to do with the Glenn Beck show?

I’ve always felt that Fox was waaay more centrist than anyone gave them credit for, that it was the predilictions of the other media outlets that made them seem so far right. Now, I’m worried that, in the interest of airing conservative views, they will swing too far in that direction.

I can only assume that, with Colmes gone, the Foxies have decided to abandon all pretense and dump the liberal panelists, too. Farewell, Bob Beckel, we hardly knew ye!

Why have on people who are liars and when they are not lying are simply wrong?

I mean when I want help on the job I don’t ask the guy stealing the ink out of the printers or the guy that gets everyone else to do his work.

- The Cat