Glenn Beck, God v. 'Church of Obama': The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted September 30, 2009 12:45 PM


The Swamp

by Mark Silva

Glenn Beck, with a few words for his cable news rivals over at "the church of Obama,'' laments that schoolchildren have been taught to replace some of his favorite lyrics:

"In the beauty of the lilies. Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.''

With these words:

"Hooray, Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
We stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!
So continue, Mr. President, we know you'll do the trick
So here's a hearty hip-hooray.''

Schoolchildren cannot sing Silent Night, Holy Night, Beck complains, but they can chant: "Yes, yes we can.''

The message, FOX News Channel's Beck warns, is clear: "Put your faith in government, not God.''

We'll be looking for MSNBC's response..

Digg Delicious Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo

Comments

Hey, it works for the Dear Leader of North Korea. Why shouldn't kiddie indoctrination hymns be good enough for Obama? He's just as worthy as Kim Jong il.


This clown is going to have a complete mental meltdown and be hauled off by the guys in the white coats before to long.


You watch, it will happen.



Beck, feeder of the hysterical, again chooses a wedge item sure to inflame the radical. Hey Beck? How did you feel about the school kids from N.O. singing their praises of Bush and FEMA? Probably hated it because, hey, you know, FEMA is running internment camps. But this trash pile certainly knows where the money is. It's in the pockets of the weak minded listeners and he's gonna get him some. Keep driving the moderates away Beck, you are the "new" poster child for the right. Cry me a river Bozo!


Glenn Beck is so transparently a scam to make Glenn Beck rich that I can't believe it's gotten this far. If it wasn't for the low IQ goobers who make up the Republican base, nutjobs like Beck, Druggy Rush and Hannity would be doing late night infomercials for a living right now.


He's incoherently ranting one minute, crying the next, he supports something one day, and denounced it the next, he decries... Glenn Beck on a regular basis as a joke and a clown.


Beck is going to get somebody killed before he finally falls from his gilded perch, that's what makes him so scary.


Beck is getting dangerous!!!He and Palin should team up!!!..Now there is a scary couple..


Beck's call for a jihad has been heard. It is time for the religious to stand up against Obama's "secret negro army" stand up and fight against the Census and FEMA internment camps. Oh and tyranny....that always makes them feel as if they were "great Americans". Put on the coonskin caps boys, grab your muskets, it's one if by land, two if by your mind. To the harbors....dress as indians and throw that tea into the drink. The outrage, the hummanity of it all. Oh my brain hurts alot.


Glenn Beck? Isn't he the guy who is Against An Out of Control Government but supports a government agent, (a white police officer) who arrested a private citizen (black man) on his private property for calling the government agent bad names...after the government agent learned he was talking to the private citizen who owned this private property???


Listening to Glenn Beck's emotional tirade reminds me of Hitler who was also a master at fueling anger, fear and suspicion through lies and propaganda.


I can't wait until a republican is in office. 2012!?
It'll be fun writing chants for the kiddies of democrats praising republicans and the president.
Can you imagine the uproar of the crybaby democrats if this were to happen?
Keep politics out of school, otherwise you will end up having 1/2 the kids not trust their educators at any given time. It's no wonder new regimes kill teachers and professors... now I understand why! If those kids in that new jersey classroom were mine - I'd start deprogramming them immediately. I'd rather have my kids listen to Beck than that lying, "c" student, piece of dirt obama. It's a great teaching moment though.
Never trust a democrat and always vote republican!


Well, it looks to me like the right wing running Fox and the conservative fundy Xtians finally realized their 'culture war' of the last 3 decades had finally failed, twice, in 06 and 08.

So what to do about it?
Crank up the real CRAAAAAZYYYY!! stuff.


So now the 'culture war' is about Barfers, Death Panels, socialism, he's a Nazi, he's a commie, all demonstrably false but so 'truthy' for the 30 percenters that it's resonating.


Let's look at the intellectual comments by the posters above.

To them Beck is a "clown" who is headed for a "mental meltdown", a "Bozo", a "trashpile" with "hysterical" listeners, a "nutjob" "scammer" and "incoherent" "clown" who only fools the "crazy" "goobers", a "dangerous", "scary" "jihadist" "Hitler" whose followers are "hung like mice."

BTW, Mark, when are you going to begin that civility crackdown you promised some time back?


Seller of anything, believer in nothing. Crazy Glenn Beckkk is a rat who masquerades as a human being.


He is a multi millionaire populist, which only works if your a populist first and a millionaire second.


He is proof that nothing is so base and offensive that Rupert Murdoch won't twist it to further his Right Wing agenda, even if it means letting Beck call the President of the United States a reverse racist.


Betcha Crazy Glenn tops this in about a week....



Bill r., exactly when did New Orleans schoolchildren sing praises to George Bush?
Mr. MakesSense2Crazies, excuse me but that "government agent" was called by a neighbor regarding a possible break-in and said private citizen residence. When Mr. "government agent" asked Mr. "private citizen" to show some ID, that so-called private citizen went into a rant.
And, Mark, did you get this item from Media Matters? Huffington? DailyKook?


See the funny little clown
See him crying as you walk by,
Everybody thinks he's sane
Cause you never see fear in his eyes.

No one knows he's laughing,
No one knows he's daffy on the inside,
Cause he's crying on the outside, mm,
No one knows, no one knows.

See the funny little clown, he's hiding behind a tear.
They all think he's crying
But I know he's really hiding a nasty sneer.
How his heart is rotting, how his mind is potting on the inside,
But he keeps lying on the outside, mm,
No one knows, no one knows.

See this funny little clown you never used to see him around
Without his base beside him to flatter and guide him,
Until one day his sponsors just walked away
And to this very day he says he never loved them anyway,
Mm, and no one knows except for Becky,
Because you see he's that funny little clown.


John D........4/17/2006 Here is what they sang:"Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us,
our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us
and we join them hand-in-hand!"


I find it funny on 2 fronts...first this is the very same thing the right is complaining about (hypocricy) and that Bush really let N.O. down.


It's good to see Bemused back on the pages to defend the mouthpiece of her new party. It's good to know she has taken up arms against the "secret negro army" that Beck has "uncovered". Wonderful she now seeks out FEMA's internment camps he speaks of. Good that she has left the uncivil left for the uncivil right. She is now ready to take her rightful place to shout "you lie" in the middle of a joint address to congress and to the American people, and can now call the president a "racist".....you've come a long way baby.


To Mark Silva re comment --?!?!?--genuinly. Please e-mail to explain--instead of playing the Great Oz behind the curtain with no rhyme or reason.


Posted by: John D | September 30, 2009 3:37 PM
;
John D, Last time I checked speech is Constitutionally protected. The government cannot encroach on this right. A government that does is OUT OF CONTROL. Should you call police officers names? Maybe, maybe not. But you shouldn't be arrested for it. Especially on your private property.


Wow--this wack job keeps getting more and more entertaining, and of course, richer. Too bad the pathetic sheep who follow him become more and more unhinged, and actually believe this stuff. Beck has to be laughing all the way to the bank...


I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are Faux, entertain us!


Thank you Bill R. I was just about to post that song...

hypocracy is so deep rooted in their core beliefs that it's beginning to be a requirement to be a republican.


John D........4/17/2006 Here is what they sang:"Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us,
our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us
and we join them hand-in-hand!"


I find it funny on 2 fronts...first this is the very same thing the right is complaining about (hypocricy) and that Bush really let N.O. down.

Posted by: bill r. | September 30, 2009 4:03 PM


Really-?? You see some comparison in your example to the adulation of Obama in the songs we have heard...this "song"??? What reach- in your example- ( no source BTW) , Bush is mentioned in passing, along with Congress, FEMA and the rest of the country in coming to the aid of NO. The songs about Obama have been exclusively praising Obama. Are you intentionally ignoring the obvious- or are you really this close minded?



If the children were singing verses, which praised George Bush the media and the Democrats would be screaming indoctrination.

School children should not be singing verses praising any elected politician!


Court Jester if not Lord of Misrule for the Right Wing in Exile.

There will always be a place for fat little pieces of nastiness like Glennie.

Where's the ersatz Nazi uniform, though?

Did someone tell him it was a tad over the top?

On reflection, the one thing he has in common with the other right wing mouthpieces, BillO, Hannify, et al.:

they have ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF HUMOR whatever.

Ever notice that?

Not one laugh ever.

Why is that?


Really-?? You see some comparison in your example to the adulation of Obama in the songs we have heard...this "song"??? What reach- in your example- ( no source BTW) , Bush is mentioned in passing, along with Congress, FEMA and the rest of the country in coming to the aid of NO. The songs about Obama have been exclusively praising Obama. Are you intentionally ignoring the obvious- or are you really this close minded?
Posted by: heartburn | September 30, 2009 5:05 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.
.


Yeah bill r!


Don't ya know that you're killing heatburn's anti-Obama buzz by posting proof of Republican fake outrage and hypocracy in action!


And bill r, please note that such outrage can only be directed at the scary black Democrat who forged his birth certificate...not the benevolent white Republican (Bush) who saved New Orleans from the hurricane. Because this is America, dammit. And we have the finest double standards in the world.
.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/26/bush-katrina-song/



Posted by: antacid | September 30, 2009 5:42 PM

wow- you right... there I go ! Helplessly exposing my racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist point of view- I guess I just can't control myself.

Funny- I thought I was just asking bill r to explain how his example is any thing close to the Obama sing alongs...

You got me there buddy ! Good work.


Funny, bemused brucy calling for civility while the wing nuts are trying to undermine the country with lies; e.g., "Obama has a deep-seated hatred for white people", and fake outrage.


Bill r., please source the song, when it was sung and where? Just provicing lyrics means nothing. It can be something made up at a far left website, which is pretty much what far left websites do. Also, Bill r., the song includes everyone, from Bush to Congress to FEMA. So, it isn't quite the same as the Obama adulation songs sung far by three different schools. Even at that, if the song you note is true, I am not a fan of that either. So, hmmmm, I guess that means I am NOT a hypocrite!


Heartburn.......I see.....had only those students mentioned a couple of other black leaders for black history month...you would have felt better about it. Me thinks you are splitting hairs sir. BTW...funny you need a source....does that mean there wasn't an uproar over it?


Bill R Gates: I am trying and trying to recall the media, the City of New Orleans built below the sea, the school systems, or anyone else singing the praises of President Bush. Nope, it's not coming back to me.

Acc to sources, your little ditty was sung to Laura Bush on the White House lawn.

But if you say it's the same and indicative of media worship of GW Bush, I guess we'll have to take your word for it. Thank you for outing this, Bill R. Gates.


Bill R Gates: I am trying and trying to recall the media, the City of New Orleans built below the sea, the school systems, or anyone else singing the praises of President Bush. Nope, it's not coming back to me. Acc to sources, your little ditty was sung to Laura Bush on the White House
Posted by: I Own a Mansion & A Yacht | September 30, 2009 8:10 PM
**************************************************
.


Do they teach computer skills in those right wing home schooling sessions or are you just exceptionally stupid?
-
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/26/bush-katrina-song/



'"Schoolchildren cannot sing Silent Night, Holy Night, Beck complains, but they can chant: Yes, yes we can."

Ummm humm. . .clearing my throat. "Yes, yes we can!" :-)


The only thing I agree with Beck on would be that it would be good to have God more in peoples lives.

But that is for each family to decide, in their own homes and churches.

If you want religion taught to your kids out-side of church and home, there are many fine Catholic, Christian, Hebrew, Muslim, etc....private schools you can send them to.

The only way you could teach religion in public schools would be to have a class that discusses EVERY religion, including views for those who don't believe in religion at all.

Don't think that would work too well.


Jesus asked Glenn Beck not to worry about taxes. Glenn Beck worries about taxes on a daily basis.

Jesus told Glenn Beck to love his enemies. Glenn Beck spews hatred on a daily basis.

Jesus asked Glenn Beck not to worry about dying. Glenn Beck is scared of dying.

Jesus asked Glenn Beck to care for the poor. Glenn Beck wants to throw the poor out on the streets.

Jesus asked Glenn Beck to take care of the sick. Glenn Beck couldn't care less if Americans are dying by the thousands because they can't afford health care.

I guess that makes Glenn Beck the anti-Christ.


But if you say it's the same and indicative of media worship of GW Bush,
Posted by: I Own a Mansion & A Yacht | September 30, 2009 8:10 PM


Frankly, I could less about children singing to or about Bush. Having raised children myself, I find it absurd to think you can "indoctrinate" children by singing a song. If that were the case maybe we should start teaching the "clean your room" song, or the "put your dishes in the dishwasher" song.


I'm still trying to figure out the "I'm not saying Obama's a racist"..."He has a deep seated hatred of white people" contradiction.
Glen Beck makes accusations, but refuses to take any responsibility for any of them.


separation of church and state beck, you blithering idiot


Post a comment

(Anonymous comments will not be posted. Comments aren't posted immediately. They're screened for relevance to the topic, obscenity, spam and over-the-top personal attacks. We can't always get them up as soon as we'd like so please be patient. Thanks for visiting The Swamp.)

Please enter the letter "b" in the field below:

Barack Obama
Want to see more photos? Click here

Play "Budget Hero"

Play Budget Hero

Latest polls

News, but funnier

Cartoon

Walt Handelsman

Cartoon

The Lowe- Down

Cartoon

Joe Fournier

Cartoon

Editorial cartoons

Quizzes

Rahm Emanuel

Know the real Rahm?

McCain

Presidential trivia