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Glenn Beck Mocks OWS Marine and Keith Olbermann Tears Him A New One
Glenn Beck landed in Keith Olbermann’s Worst Persons segment of mocking OWS marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas, but Olbermann didn’t just name Beck a Worst Person, he tore into him.
Here is the video:
After playing a clip Beck mocking Thomas and taking the NYPD’s side, Olbermann said, “Just remember, because you quit using drugs it doesn’t mean the brain goes back to the way it was before you started using drugs. To Mr. Beck it does not matter that Shamar Thomas served this county in the Marines in Iraq as his father and mother and stepfather and grandfather served this country. Shamar Thomas is a Marine. He was honorably discharged. He has actually seen brutality, not just opined about from a basement studio, and to Glenn Beck, he is just a guy. So to raise an old question, why does this fop Glenn Beck hate the troops?”
Beck’s comments do highlight how easily these so called patriots on the right smear the men and women who put their lives on the line for their country. It is always people like Glenn Beck who have never served who effortlessly demean the sacrifices of those who did serve for the purpose of partisan gain. You don’t have to agree with Scott Olsen or Shamar Thomas, but they deserve respect for what did for their country.
To those on the right, everything is about partisan politics. Their ideology has been taken to such an extreme that they view the world through a prism of not only us versus them, but also me versus you. Glenn Beck doesn’t agree with Occupy Wall Street so Sgt. Thomas must be mocked. There is no room in Beck’s mind to both respect Sgt. Thomas, and disagree with him.
We have seen this same treatment applied to the presidency. When George W. Bush was president those on the right told the rest of us that anyone who didn’t show proper respect to the presidency was not a patriot. However, this belief did not apply to Democratic presidents. As soon as Obama won the 2008 election, the right started demeaning and disrespecting the office of the president. These sorts of hypocrisies have become the expected norm from the right, but they have taken things to a new low by attacking the men and women who served their country and are now supporting Occupy Wall Street.
It might be too strong to accuse the people engaging in attacks against the veterans who are standing with the protesters of hating their country, but what should we call people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who for selfish and partisan reasons, openly root against the nation that allowed them to achieve fortune and fame? It doesn’t seem very American to me, and the words of Glenn Beck demonstrate why the Occupy Wall Street protests are so important.
Americans like Sgt. Thomas don’t deserve to be mocked by an individual like Glenn Beck, who has taken so much from and given so little to his country.
Maybe, just maybe, there are troops serving their country in our armed forces right now who are tired of being shipped off to foreign lands to fight and die so that corporations and the 1% can enrich themselves even more.
Maybe these brave men and women are coming home from war, and they just want a job.
Maybe, these brave Americans are realizing that they, too, are the 99%.
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14 Responses to Glenn Beck Mocks OWS Marine and Keith Olbermann Tears Him A New One
Anomaly100
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 1:20 am
What a great post!
Glenn Beck is a partisan hack. Conservatives repeatedly have told me in comment threads that we only care about military men and women when it’s convenient. Not true – we care enough about them to not want to cut their benefits when they come home from a senseless war they created out of a fabrication, which to this day they justify. Vets are treated miserably by Republicans, forgotten the minute they get home. But, they feign devotion to our people only when they are fighting overseas.
BeachBum2U
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
They also feign devotion to Military and Veterans when the photo opp. arises! See pics of McCain at a National Conference for a Vet. Org, Bush used the same one, never stopped by before or since the photo opp.! Ask a Wounded Warrior how long they are commanded to stand at attention in wait of these politicians for a photo opp. doesn’t matter they are bent over in pain, stand tall and wait anyways!
John
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
True the military and the vets are considered only as cannon fodder and photo ops by Republican, Repuks., but many Americans buy the Republican crap as dedicated support. At one time during the George, W. Monkey, Bush years there was an improved G.I. Bill up for consideration. That bill would have paid more for education and improved other benifits. The Republicans refused to allow that new G. I. Bill to go on the floor for a vote. The reason given by the Repuks was that the new bill would entice many military members to get off of active duty and go to college so they never allowed the bill to go up for a vote. As always the Repuks would rather Shit on a vet and keep him or her in combat than to honor their service and give a little back. I’m glad to say that a simular bill did pass under the Democrats. IAs a vet who follows the issues I have become discusted with the Repubs (Republicans).
Ardiva
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 1:54 am
I agree Anomaly100. Great post with a greater message.Bravo!
SinghX
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 9:32 am
In the immortal lyrics of the song “Like a Dull Knife”, by James Brown…
“Good luck to you, Mr. Loud and Wrong,
You just keep singin’ that same old crazy song.
You’re like a dull knife, just ain’t cuttin’ it,
Just talkin’ loud, and sayin’ nothin’, just sayin’ nothin’”…
Well, Glennda, good luck! We’re all counting on you, you’re gonna’ need it. I hope Glennda’s got a ‘hidey-hole’ somewhere…oh wait, he does! And it’s choked full of backpacks containing plastic food that he’s going to share with the Marines…when they find’m…
Shiva (Moderator)
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 10:02 am
And in the immortal words of James Brown, “Hah”!
Obbop
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 10:36 am
Glenn Beck; my opinion, subjective, declares he is a vermin. Putrid filth and indicative that his amassing of so MUCH MORE wealth than the USA workers performing tasks vital to the day-to-day functioning of the USA indicates that there is something inherently wrong with the USA’s economic systems requiring MAJOR changes that assuredly will take a military coup by a patriotic military officer initiative.
Support the 99% and Oath Keepers.
Voting is futile; especially at the federal level.
Anne
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
In the alternative universe of Glenda Beck and his ilk, there is no such thing as a patriot who disagrees with them. He is an obnoxious loudmouth who doesn’t deserve a podium from which to spew his hatred, and he is among those whose derision of the movement indicates fear. That’s because the more Americans wake up to the reality of the injustices OWS is protesting against, the less influence hateful morons like Beck will have.
David Hauntz
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
In the early 1960′s Mt.Vernon, WA, was a nice place to live and go to school. 48 years later I found that I still have friends in Mt.Vernon. And the city and the area have prospered and grown. This also true of the cities I lived in growing up in Oregon. Nice places. Good Places. So I have a very hard time understanding where and how Glen Beck, who says he is from Mt. Vernon, learned to speak and act as he does. He most certainly did not learn it in schools there. Hatred and bigotry were not taught in Oregon schools, either.
Mr. Peabody
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
This is a case of the pompous attacking the irrelevant for commenting on the over-rated.
Valerie Harmsworth
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Rob F*cking Ford is a giant buttmunch, although the honours in that department definitely go to Glenn Beck, who’s nuts as well.
William Harris
Oct. 29th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Not a good way to become rich. Some corporations will pay you a whole lot to continue to tell lies that some Right Wing Republicans believe. It’s really fraud. A lie is fraud, if you believe it and vote your benefits away to those in the Center to the extreme Right. That includes a few Democrats in Congress. No one has heard Sanders of Vermont (A Left Wing) Congress person saying the Congress needs to cut Social Security, Medicare, retired and disable peoples benefits. I hear a whole lot of that from the Right Wing and some Center Congress people.
Lara
Oct. 30th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Nice Canadian accent when doing Rob ‘effing’ Ford. This Canuck is laughing!
batlcrewzer
Nov. 4th, 2011 at 2:33 am
What repugs consider humor is nothing more than asinine buffoonery. I guess you have to be one to appreciate it.