Video: Glenn Beck explains McCain comment, boils fake frog

If you take Beck’s logic seriously,

There is always a caveat…he may be entertaining to some, but serious logic? I don’t think so…

right2bright on September 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM

The shame of Beck is not understanding, fully, Roosevelt’s speech in 1910.
First, his quote that Beck stated doesn’t exist in the speech, the one closest does not reflect what Beck is trying to tie him to.

The fundamental thing to do for every man is to give him a chance to reach a place in which he will make the greatest possible contribution to the public welfare. Understand what I say there. Give him a chance, not push him up if he will not be pushed. Help any man who stumbles; if he lies down, it is a poor job to try to carry him; but if he is a worthy man, try your best to see that he gets a chance to show the worth that is in him.

This was a speech in 1910, when people were trying to buy there way out of servitude.
We were emerging, on the precipice of emerging as an industrial nation…and work conditions were incredibly dangerous. Child labor was unregulated, and children were being worked to death, instead of being schooled.
It was 1910, and a new awareness was taking place…responsibility for both labor and companies.

Nothing is more true than that excess of every kind is followed by reaction; a fact which should be pondered by reformer and reactionary alike. We are face to face with new conceptions of the relations of property to human welfare, chiefly because certain advocates of the rights of property as against the rights of men have been pushing their claims too far. The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

Which is why you can buy a house, and not have to worry that a strip bar is placed across the street, or a heavy industrial is not next door…this opened the door to zoning.
There is hardly one of you who do not think that the formation of the National Parks was not a good idea…the protection of these beautiful lands.
Now some libertarians don’t like that, but then if they had their way, their would be no Yellowstone, Yosemite (the first), Grand Canyon, etc.

I do not ask for the over centralization; but I do ask that we work in a spirit of broad and far-reaching nationalism where we work for what concerns our people as a whole. We are all Americans. Our common interests are as broad as the continent.

In the last analysis, the most important elements in any man’s career must be the sum of those qualities which, in the aggregate, we speak of as character. If he has not got it, then no law that the wit of man can devise, no administration of the law by the boldest and strongest executive, will avail to help him. We must have the right kind of character, character that makes a man, first of all, a good man in the home, a good father, and a good husband, that makes a man a good neighbor. You must have that, and, then, in addition, you must have the kind of law and the kind of administration of the law which will give to those qualities in the private citizen the best possible chance for development.

Beck is a hack…and hardly a historian…

right2bright on September 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM