Video: Glenn Beck screams about Van Jones and Obama
posted at 7:13 pm on September 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
Very frequently, I don’t understand where his manic exasperation’s coming from. But sometimes, I do.
First clip is the money bit from today’s 20-minute long harangue about Jones. The second clip is Jones himself from an appearance in February at Berkeley. There are all kinds of bon mots in the mix if you can spare the time to watch — Republicans are “assholes,” evidently — but if you can’t spare it, skip ahead until there’s about 30 seconds left.
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Mr. Beck said that the only thing the White House has taken exception to is that Mr. Jones is not a “czar” but is a mid level government employee. I guess the boycott attempts are the behind the scenes retaliation.
Cindy Munford on September 1, 2009 at 8:08 PM
If anyone has a twitter account can you send these two links to Becks staff for investigation?
katy on September 1, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I have similar thoughts. GB has uncovered a lot of bad, bad things about the President’s advisors. But I worry that GB’s histrionics make it easier for the President’s supporters to just dismiss the claims by saying, “oh, come on, look at him, Beck’s just a nut,” without ever addressing the claims’ actual substance.
Bru on September 1, 2009 at 8:10 PM
That czar (and several others) are b-czar.
Captain America on September 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Thanks for highlighting what is right about Beck instead of what is wrong AP. We have every other media outlet hard at work there so no need to redouble their efforts.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM
It’s like Americans are so used to ignoring and glossing over what people say in Europe and the Middle East that it’s become second nature for us to do it when these same things are being said here.
- The Cat
MirCat on September 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Oh stop whining yourself. “He’s a manic broken clock” is hardly taking Beck’s side, and you didn’t take Palin’s side in the other story because she didn’t have a side; you took CLSA’s side.
Ronnie on September 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Hey at least you weren’t going through the cusions in college getting enough change for a 6 of Scheaffer. Milwaukee Best was like champagne comparatively speaking.
HoustonRight on September 1, 2009 at 8:13 PM
You seem to be arguing semantics when most of the people who get sensitive about criticism of conservatives like Beck and Palin typically spout the “either with us or agin us” line. Consistency, consistency!
MadisonConservative on September 1, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Thank God for Glenn Beck. If he is a clown, then I am joining the circus!
He is the only one speaking truth to power!
libertylady on September 1, 2009 at 8:15 PM
My first thought also. Yes, thanks, AP. It’s refreshing.
petefrt on September 1, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Van Jones is Obama’s choice. That alone tells you everything you need to know about Obama.
Mojave Mark on September 1, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Yeah, including the man at the top.
HoustonRight on September 1, 2009 at 8:16 PM
If if there is ONE thing Allah knows, it’s whine.
Gb has to ‘scream’ so that those awaiting the next season of American Idol might hear what is happening to our country.
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Ya know what? This is one administration that seems to be destroying itself without any outside influence. Why should the Rebublicans say anything, the Dems are doing a good enough job at their own demise.
Pelayo on September 1, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I don’t see anything manic about it.
At the highest level, including the president, the government is filled with radicals who want to throw away what we and our ancestors built over 300 years, and replace it with a nutty philosophy that has NEVER succeeded.
It’s insanity.
What rational person wouldn’t be alarmed.
notagool on September 1, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Pray for Glenn’s safety. He’s doing the job the media in this country absolutely refuses to do. He’s shining a light on all these cockroaches in the white house and it’s getting downright spooky.
alwaysright43 on September 1, 2009 at 8:17 PM
cripe, forgot about that one…
work study $ came in handy for those beer runs, let me tell you
cmsinaz on September 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Gallo anyone?
chemman on September 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Only in this ‘through the looking glass’ world is Beck a clown.
- The Cat
MirCat on September 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Van Jones has been leading the “activist” circles in Oakland, Berkeley & around. He is a plain & simple anti-cop anti- white hatemonger. Now he has the national stage. Most of his activities which were extolled on local websites a few years ago, are now been scrubbed out. I wish I could link them but they are all gone.
He always dresses in sharp and shiny business suits and his worshippers are the first to point that about him.
His appeal has always been to criminal and criminally inclined ppl of color, wherever they are.
macncheez on September 1, 2009 at 8:19 PM
More on topic – that was quite a pit of vipers there for Van Jones’ “speech.”
I especially liked his call for people other than the President to “get ugly.” Too late.
Maybe instead of the GOP trying to get the elderly vote through Medicrap they should talk more about communism. It is the same generation of Americans that fought to destroy communism that is receiving benefits. Why not work harder to highlight the current administration’s complicit role in enacting communist policy, inch by inch, here in America? I admit it is a tough sell…makes for long advertisements.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Spanada (don’t know how to put the ~ above the N)
thomasaur on September 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM
When was the last time you found a leftist that was swayed by the facts of an argument?
chemman on September 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
“How is that capitalism working for you this year?” – Van Jones
This should be the headline in every newscast, and every newspaper across this land. But, we know it won’t, because most every newscast of the MSM, and every newspaper are also Marxists, like this guy.
The only way we are going to turn the tide on this thing is get this information out to the public by means other than the MSM – and I don’t mean talk radio and the internet!
I mean purchasing air time on the major networks, purchasing space in the major newspapers, and when they refuse to print, or air our message, call press conference after press conference to expose the left-wing bias that is censoring free speech in this country.
I know, that takes money, but there are wealthy conservatives willing to contribute to the cause, isn’t there … well, isn’t there?
crickets chirping …
Joe Pyne on September 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
An Organizing for America piece called conservatives “Heirs of Bin Ladan” last week.
chemman on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Carmenere, but the sentiment is the same. Whenever I drink, it is to my enemies’ despair.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Saying that a man is “screaming” implies that he’s hysterical, i.e. acting like a woman. Using “scream” is passive aggressive. And on top of that, he wasn’t screaming.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 8:24 PM
I watched his show today, and I didn’t hear him scream one time. He spoke passionately and forcefully, but he did not scream. What kind of weaklings interpret this as screaming?
I guess the pundits feel it necessary to portray him like this in order to make themselves look oh so cool.
texanpride on September 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I wonder how these senators (Byrd) feel about all these commies and Marxists infecting the executive branch, coming in under the wire without the Senate’s consent and approval?
casel21 on September 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Thank Gawd he doesn`t have the seasick creating side to side mesmerizing head sweeps that Obama does!!
canopfor on September 1, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Turn off the sound when OBLAHBLAHBLAH is giving a talk and it’s like watching a friggin robot. Hmmmm? Maybe OBLAHBLAHBLAH is a Honda prototype and George Soros has a really good programmer?
wtng2fish on September 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM
There will be bloodshed before this is over.
And it will not be mine or maybe it will.
I have bled for the US before.
I am getting old but can still shoot a close group at 500 yds.
Marine MOS 8541
RVN 69-71.
1sttofight on September 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM
You’re mincing words. Stop looking for injustice here. I thought we didn’t interpret people’s intent for them on the right. That seems like the province of left wing reader-response theory.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:29 PM
He didn’t scream once today.
I watched the entire show.
It was well done and if you aren’t outraged by his information and also doing your OWN digging, you’re part of the problem, not the solution.
Every American should be alarmed.
bridgetown on September 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I think the computer voice thing was a feeble attempt at doing something as cool as those anti-Scientology videos by “Anonymous” awhile back. Unfortunately though, team Glenn’s choice of robo voices (as well as that dreadful “funky rock” music bed) completely short circuited what could have been a much more compelling (and ominous) piece.
That said, with proper tweaks, I think the “Anonymous” style could be a very effective tool in getting the anti-socialist message out. This is a diabolical “brave new world” they are attempting to birth. It’s time they sounded as robotic as their policies would have us become.
These are emboldened individuals, who, despite their ivory towered educations, are not terribly smart. They live in echo chambers of their own narrow constituencies, and are simply unaccustomed to having to keep their mouths shut.
Whether it’s Van Jones’ anti-capitalist Berkeley speeches this past spring, or more recently, the NEA putting out the “bat signal” to their willing army of Riefenstahls, these people are way too pompous to keep a lid on. And besides, you can’t become the new Che’ unless everyone knows what a badass you are.
MoronThisLater on September 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Unreal.
Weight of Glory on September 1, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Let’s make them bleed politically, oo-rah?
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I always understand Beck, he’s desperately afraid for his country. I’m thrilled when he screams and cry along with him: passion. I’ll take that any day to Noonan et.al.
Onager on September 1, 2009 at 8:35 PM
bless you.
Onager on September 1, 2009 at 8:38 PM
<blockquote1sttofight on September 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Let’s make them bleed politically, oo-rah?
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Politically only goes so far. Then direct action is called for.
I fear the tipping point is getting very close.
1sttofight on September 1, 2009 at 8:39 PM
One problem is that many people have the attention span this guy clearly assumes his audience does, and that if an economic system doesn’t work as well as it did the year before, why not “fix it”? I suppose it’s the logical conclusion of a people raised on music videos, videos games, and the Internet, but I’d like to think the younger generation is not that dumb (or, if they are, they realize that Barack Obama and the Democrats are not working as well for them in 2009 as they did in 2008).
calbear on September 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM
If it comes to that then by all means, gain and maintain contact. Overwhelm the enemy through fire and maneuver. Until then, locate, close with, and destroy them politically.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Here is an article in Time magazine, note the author
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/?p=news_van_time_100
macncheez on September 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM
I’m sure you must have mistakenly omitted the sarc tag here…right?
katy on September 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM
With all the attention that Beck has gotten with the boycott and the shows of this past week, where are the rebuttals? Who has refuted what he has said? Howard Kurtz on CNN tried to intimate that Beck was going after Van Jones because a group Jones founded was boycotting his show. Howie did not seem to have any interest in Van Jones or his position in the government. WTH?
d1carter on September 1, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Ah yes… Di Craprio…
Another Hollywood pinko!
katy on September 1, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Hmmm. I have been thinking lately about what my tipping point is…Sure, come to my house and try to take my guns, that’s a given. No matter what badge or insignia is on your uniform, you are the enemy at that point. And I will do my best to stop you. Permanently.
But what about the Internet being shut down or “censored” and the conservative radio and tv hosts being silenced? Is that another tipping point? I wonder…
Battlecruiser-operational on September 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM
No sarcasm. I think Baldilocks is looking for a reason to disagree with AP. She resorted to his word choice even though the intent of his post is clearly pro-Beck. I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with Baldilocks before, but I do here.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I’m not mincing a damned thing.
WTF are you talking about? I
Excuse me but what Left-wing reader response are you talking about? You need to step back..blank.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 8:47 PM
You Thought wrong.
Disagreeing with me is fine but if you want to know my motives, they’re easy to find out: try asking what they are instead of conjuring them up in you not-so fertile imagination. I’m not shy about telling you what they are.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Apparently, Lenin was reincarnated as a black guy. (Is that racist? I don’t know anymore.)
bitsy on September 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM
I check out the numbers at RCP and think, they’re starting to, Glenn. Keep at it.
LastRick on September 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM
I am talking about Intentionalism as opposed to reader response theory. Allah’s intent is clear, but you’re not happy with his word choice.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Oh the internets.
What is your motive?
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I’ve been communicating with AP since his ‘Allah is in da House” days. I generally defend him from the criticism he receives from the purists around here. So when I criticize him, I don’t little “hidden motive” like some twits around here seem to need when they can’t find the stones to speak plainly to him…or anyone else for that matter.
AP used emasculating language on GB. Period. Any questions?
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM
That Van Jones is scarily seductive, he has some feminine hand gestures, and he works the crowd with his “ethnicity.” Nevertheless, people got up and questioned him, but all his retorts were based on defusing tension through humor. Clever queen.
RedRedRice on September 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Indeed.
I don’t have one. It’s an opinion based on reading AP’s other posts about Beck and reading posts in which other men are angry about a person/topic. With others, AP uses phrase like “goes nuclear, that is, “Glenn Beck goes nuclear on Van Jones and Obama.” Masculine language.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 8:59 PM
No questions. I disagree that the language was emasculating. You don’t need to throw your bona fides at me as a conservative to make your case. I believe that the writer’s intent is superior to your interpretation of it. In this case, I believe Allah’s intent was not to reduce Beck, but rather to support him.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 9:00 PM
I repeat, blankminde, I don’t need to “find reasons” to criticize anyone. Children and immature adults do that.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Of course they make it easier to dismiss him. Be careful, you’re liable to be called names for noting the obvious.
Where did you get the idea that persuading “leftists” was the intent? Leftists are leftists. It’s the people in the middle who think Obama seems like a perfectly nice family man who are persuadable.
DaveS on September 1, 2009 at 9:02 PM
You’re conjuring conversation that didn’t happen again.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:02 PM
He didn’t scream once today.
I watched the entire show.
It was well done and if you aren’t outraged by his information and also doing your OWN digging, you’re part of the problem, not the solution.
Every American should be alarmed.
bridgetown on September 1, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Correct, and perfectly said.
What is this squeamishness about showing your emotions, your saeve indigantio, when the outrages are this clear, the cause this important? Fear of being upbraided by the Left? Horrors – the Left accused us of not being polite conservatives! Your country, your freedom, is at stake. It’s a new day, and it’s war. Figure it out, or get out of the way.
rrpjr on September 1, 2009 at 9:02 PM
20-minute long harangue = Beck crawled up Van Jones’ ass.
I hope Beck didn’t bring any sharp objects while he was there. That would really hurt. Keep it up Beck.
chief on September 1, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Oh?
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Like a shank or a shiv, since Van Jones has been in the big house….I wonder if they strip search him when he has his ‘let’s f up America’ meetings with obama?
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM
PM
Yes you are. Nothing in those two sentences implies any thing about “conservative bona fides.” As a matter of fact, the second sentence implies the opposite. Try again.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM
“Native Americans” are no more native or American than the Europeans that came here, and had they been as efficient at killing white people as they were at killing each other, they might still control the continent. But they weren’t.
spmat on September 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Why are the Republicans quiet? Are they complicit? If they aren’t then they need to say so.
Kjeil on September 1, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I appreciate Beck’s exposing Obama and his Communist “czars,” but was I the only one who got ticked off royally by his calling Americans “lazy” during that 20-minute monologue?
No, Beck, we don’t need a bunch of foreigners (legal or otherwise) to come herein droves to do jobs we’re “too lazy” to do ourselves. That’s a lie right out of liberal hell.
Stick to the Van Jones stuff, Beck — that’s what you’re good at. Every time you get on the immigration topic your liberalism shows.
2Brave2Bscared on September 1, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I suppose you’re right. Supporting Allah wouldn’t necessarily amount to “conservative bona fides” so much as Hot Air bona fides. To quoth the President, “I misspoke.” The point is that you were claiming legitimacy through pointing out your history here. I am aware of it. I disagree that Allah was trying to snipe at Beck through language, and submit that he was actually agreeing with him.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I would say they were staying quiet, watching the democrats eat and destroy themselves, but I don’t believe they’re that bright.
HornetSting on September 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM
A Red Scare won’t work. Most people don’t trust the merits of that argument because they’ll view it as archaic McCarthyism. Most people have been raised with the erroneous belief that his hearings were akin to the Salem Witch trials. While he made have been overzealous, he did expose a number of self avowed communists.
Plus, a lot of people, including many of the youth of this country, are sympathetic to communism.
Cr4sh Dummy on September 1, 2009 at 9:15 PM
You’re right about the youth being sympathetic towards communism, but I don’t think it is because communism has somehow become relevant. Poor education is more likely the cause. None of this would be an issue though if the GOP were articulating the fundamental attributes of conservatism and publicly thrashing the flaws of collectivist political ideologies.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM
A lot people aren’t sympathetic to commies. If being a commie is cool, why didn’t Obama tell us he was a commie during the election?
Kjeil on September 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I think he has a lot of Charles Johnson in him. He’s just better at concealing it than the loudmouth CJ.
2Brave2Bscared on September 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Aiyiyi. Beck’s delivery style is histrionic. Yeah. So what? His verbal style isn’t germane. His focus on Obimbo’s czar appointees is what’s significant.
Beck and his staffers have performed some preliminary research, and unearthed data that suggests virtually all of Obimbo’s hires are entrenched in a Marxist belief system. Really? No kidding. None of this is remotely surprising, given Obimbo’s ties to other nefarious characters discovered during the ‘08 election. What’s surprising is that the messenger (Beck) appears to be a bigger issue than the message he’s courageous enough to convey. Would the message be any more or less true if some mind-numbing, haughty little pundit delivered it instead? At least Beck is entertaining.
anXdem on September 1, 2009 at 9:21 PM
In case there is any doubt. This is from Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones, of the Weather Underground
It cant be more clear than this.
faraway on September 1, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Nope! That wasn’t the reason for pointing that out. As a matter of fact, the length of time here wasn’t even the issue.
I was claiming that I didn’t need to “find a reason” to criticize AP, as you said and, as proof that I didn’t need to do something so childish as “find a reason” to criticize someone, I pointed out that I had defended Teh Good AllahPundit before, more than once. And in order to do that, I had to mention that I’ve “known” him a long time in Internet years.
Well that’s nice but it’s irrelevant.
Okay and you may be correct but there was no reason for you to to imagine that I need to “make up reasons” to say things when doing it. You didn’t even have to make this about me. But since you did, I will defend myself. As they say my environs, don’t start none, won’t be none.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:28 PM
OT: Does anyone remember the name of the black pastor from Texas that was on Glenn’s show yesterday? How about the name of his organization?
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:29 PM
LOL
joshlbetts on September 1, 2009 at 9:30 PM
If Allah was not afraid, he would not have to begin this post with:
“Glenn Beck screams”
“Very frequently, I don’t understand where his manic exasperation’s coming from.”
Glenn is trying to tell you, and all of us, that we don’t have to be afraid anymore.
faraway on September 1, 2009 at 9:31 PM
I have tremendous respect for what Glenn Beck is trying to do, and I’m sure it’s taking a toll on his whole family. I thought today’s show was startling and eye-opening.
ElainaVer on September 1, 2009 at 9:31 PM
That really is a show of cowardliness in the face of an issue this important.
Beck is “dramatic”, because he realizes what is actually going on and dumbfounded that he is the only one on duty.
There is a bloodless coup happening in front of your eyes…and some people think that is some schtick??..
The passivity and willful blindness that is being shown to be the norm in far too many peoples world view and understanding of the implications of this, just absolutly amazes me. Its like telling someone their house is on fire and being met by the idiot in the recliner saying “Dude…calm down..why so dramatic?..chill out man…want a beer?”
Its just unfukinbelievable.
Itchee Dryback on September 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:29 PM
No. But both Pastors were very intelligent men.
kingsjester on September 1, 2009 at 9:33 PM
The reason I asked is because my stepdad is a pastor and he and the gentleman on Glenn’s show have much the same mission: to confront Christian clergy who are black about abortion and about the pro-abortionist president many of them openly support.
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
baldilocks on September 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
God Bless Him. Have you tried going in to the Fox News Site to get the info about yesterday’s show? Maybe they have a link to it.
kingsjester on September 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM
This pastor?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnTLX-fn3c
macncheez on September 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Yeah, I don’t hear any screaming. He does raise his voice, which I guess doesn’t make as compelling a headline.
Jim Treacher on September 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Well… I’ll be forever grateful for Charles opening my eyes to the MSM. He’s a legend, so give him credit. It just seems like LOTR’s where the king has become possessed. Sad, really.
joshlbetts on September 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Yes, because you just see people being banned left and right for disagreeing with AP.
…if AP were like CJ, most of the people here, including you, wouldn’t be able to post anymore.
MadisonConservative on September 1, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Baldi: He is Pastor Stephen Broden. I enjoyed his segment on GB.
d1carter on September 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I really wasn’t making a personal argument, but in review my tone was a little aggressive. I saw in your comment a dissecting of Allah’s language to isolate a term you disagreed with. The left does this to us constantly and I read your post as a re-framing of this trick. Since we get flayed on a regular basis in the media for nonsensical misrepresentations of our ideas I guess that is what I saw.
We can at least agree that Allah was passive-aggressive here, as he almost always is when talking about Beck.
blankminde on September 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I tried to dig it up but came up empty.
thomasaur on September 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I’ll give you that. But I was speaking more about their respective political views than anything else.
2Brave2Bscared on September 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM
AP kicks ass. Leave ‘em the hell alone.
joshlbetts on September 1, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I guess Glenn should just speak like William F. Buckley. No offense to WFJ,but did he and john f(hey he served in vietanam!) kerry do to the same schools?
theTarCzar on September 1, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Watch @ 2:17
macncheez on September 1, 2009 at 9:46 PM
go^ sheesh
theTarCzar on September 1, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Most of the GOP are spineless weasels.
Talk a big game and then do nothing.
I think Beck would gain more “credibility” if he would tone down his schtick. But I applaud what he is doing…exposing these fools for what they are.
The next step is getting the GOP to pick up this movement.
SmallGovtGuy on September 1, 2009 at 9:46 PM
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