Glenn Beck: CNN 2/5/08
For whatever reason, 1210 WPHT’s media players isn’t working on my computer, so I guess that means no Limbaugh for me.
Since I’ll have to wait until about 5:00 for Hannity, and since my synopsis of the Beck Morning Meltdown went over so well, I offer you some priceless quotes from Glenn Beck on CNN last night.
On John McCain’s perceived independence:
BECK: But he hasn`t in the last six months. I mean, in the last six months, he`s flipped on almost everything and shown that he`s not that.
HOLMES: … border.
FENN: Right, but the interesting thing is independence. They think he is independent. That`s why.
BECK: Yes, well, so is Dr. Frankenstein. The fact that he`s just independent.
So is Dr. Frankenstein: WTF does that even MEAN?
On his own conservatism:
BECK: I`m a conservative, and I don`t really care if you know it. I think you should know it.
Back into Crazy Cat Lady Land. Either he doesn’t care if you know it or he thinks you should know it: it can’t be both!
In which Glenn Beck makes Jonah Goldberg seem lie the voice of reason:
Jonah, I have made in my radio audience, I made so many Republicans really upset, because I cannot vote for John McCain. I can`t. You know, call me crazy, but I have a set of values, and I don`t like to betray them.
And there`s a lot of Republicans are like, “Then you let Hillary win?” Yes, as opposed to betraying my values. Is this a good thing or a bad thing, as you see it, this kind of fight within — inside the Republican Party?
JONAH GOLDBERG, AUTHOR, “LIBERAL FASCISM”: Well, I`ve got say, I like these fights in the primaries. I think they are entire worthwhile, important and necessary, and it should be Romulans versus Klingons all the way. {I think it’s awesome that the Pantload drops “Star Trek” references into his “interview”]
But then, come the general election, you basically have a simple choice. You have a simple choice. Do you want to elect the Democratic Party to fill the 6,000 top jobs of the federal bureaucracy, or do you want to let the Republican Party fill those top 6,000 jobs?
BECK: So let me translate. So your choice is sell your soul to the devil and have them take you to the same place the other party`s taking you, or sleep at night?
GOLDBERG: But let`s be fair. I mean, I am not so much pro-McCain as I`m anti-anti-McCain. And I think, you know, this idea that somehow voting for McCain is like voting for Hannibal Lector just doesn`t quite…
You KNOW it’s bad when even Goldberg thinks you’re beginning to lose the plot, and Goldberg’s next few comments give the impression of the Samaritan trying to talk the potential suicide in from off the 20th story ledge.
GOLDBERG: I agree with a lot of the complaints about John McCain, but I think you and Rush and some others who are talking about it would be better to have Hillary Clinton as president than to have John McCain, who voted and was in lock step with Jesse Helms.
BECK: Only because — only — only because, Jonah, as I see it, the Republicans — look, I`m an alcoholic. [Ahh. That explains it] At some point you`ve got to say, “I`ve got to stop living this way.
The Republicans haven`t found it, and maybe when they`re paying 90 percent income tax, and we`re living in some nightmare, you know, brave new world that Hillary Clinton and the progressive Congress has made, maybe they`ll find a value or two.
GOLDBERG: I`m very sympathetic to that, but there`s another way to look at it. There`s another way to just simply say, look, maybe we should go back to the days where we don`t give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt the way we did with George Bush and the Republican Congress, which spent money like a pimp with a week to live.
It’s a little late for that NOW Jonah. Asshat.
On Huckabee, who is simultaneously a conservative and NOT a conservative. In the same breath.
BECK: Huckabee is a social conservative… He is a social conservative that the media will take out and slice him in six different directions. But he is not really a conservative.
Paging John Cole, John Cole to the red phone please.
And that’s about where teh stoopit gets too much for me, and I go back to eating my burrito.
