Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally - Interviews With Participants

[Kadie]

Run time: 13:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8PmEjxUfg   Posted on YouTube: August 30, 2010 By YouTube Member: NewLeftMedia Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: August 31, 2010 By DU Member: Kadie Views on DU: 5508

 
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[helderheid]

1. Holy fucking shit. "I learned all I needed to know about Islam on 9/11"

[Turborama]

43. "Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims"

SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.

Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion.

"I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?"

"And now they want to build a mosque at Ground Zero," continued Gentries, eliminating any distinction between the 9/11 hijackers and Muslims in general. "No, I won't examine the accuracy of that statement, but yes, I will allow myself to be outraged by it and use it as evidence of these people's universal callousness toward Americans who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell."

Full piece here: http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-already-knows-everything-he-needs-to-know-abou,17990

Posted as an OP by joeybee12 in GD here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9043266

And this Venn diagram needs to be added for context...



Posted as an OP by proud2BlibKansan in GD here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9018285

[lunasun]

70. I learned all I need to know about USA's white christians on 8/28/10!

[EC]

2. These people are all sheep

and idiots...I heard talking points repeated over and over...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

56. Talking points repeated FALTERINGLY-

-By people who agree with them, but don't really understand them

[PSzymeczek]

68. They know they're wrong,

but they don't care.

[lunasun]

71. They sound stupid because they won't talk the hate as freely in public

[Quixote1818]

3. This guy always does a great job interviewing!

He comes across as respectful and basically lets them make fools of themselves by just talking.

[54anickel]

4. That kind of stupid has got to be painful...I know it hurts like hell to watch! n/t

[TheEuclideanOne]

8. That lady in yellow is your stereotypical Beck fan

I love when she described the pregnant lady by showing a pregnant stomach with her hands. Does she even realize what a fat fuck she is? Geez, she could have just pointed to her own stomach as is.

[LarryNM]

5. Unhealthy,Lazy,Willfully Ignorant Middle America

Working and Voting for its own demise.

[Lisa0825]

6. Sadly, as awful as their comments sound to us, they probably watch this video with pride.

Gotta hand it to the interviewer... master at keeping a straight face under extreme circumstances.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Tell me this guy doesn't shoot his face full of BoTox before the interviews ....

.... and step on a thumb-tac embedded in his shoe's toe to keep from laughing - and I'll call you a liar.

[LandR]

9. props to interviewer

I agree the interviewer did great at respectfully disproving untrue claims, yet each time he would get a reply like "yeah but I'm just telling you what my sister told me or what I saw on the news the other day." These people exemplify worse than ignorance because they act like they are correct when they have very little credibility. Also, the similarities in their replies shows that they are all fox addicts. So it goes.

[Grassy Knoll]

10. Wow glenda, woodstock makes your event........

look like a town hall meeting,

[opihimoimoi]

11. Holy Crap...the Ig Level is much higher than I thought...these poor things had their Brains/Reason

stolen

[AllHereTruth]

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[WhoIsNumberNone]

13. 95% of what they said

sounded like it was regugitated (to the best of their limited abilities) straight from Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox "News". The old lady in the brown was having a particularly hard time remembering exactly why she was there. Although with this in mind it's easy for me to believe that none of them could remember Gwenn calling Obama a racist (Even if it did happen on Fox "News") My experience with right wingers has been that they have a great deal of trouble recalling things that are inconvenient to their current positions.

[livingonearth]

61. I understand exactly what you are saying.

"My experience with right wingers has been that they have a great deal of trouble recalling things that are inconvenient to their current positions"

They are like little kids that way.

[0rganism]

80. addendum....

> My experience with right wingers has been that they have a great deal of trouble recalling things that are inconvenient to their current positions.

Also, they have no difficulty inhabiting numerous obviously internally-contradicted positions simultaneously.

[Swagman]

14. good interviewer..but these people make my head ache

[ScottLand]

15. New Left Media rocks!!!

[Sky Masterson]

16. K&R

The whole event was a lame attempt to put "Lipstick on a pig"
I spammed it over a few fb accounts. :) Great video and great work!
This guy is always good.:applause:

[Raoul]

17. This is why

I don't ever attempt to have any logical discourse with them and their ilk. They're in complete denial of anything and everything they don't agree with no matter how overwhelming the empirical evidence shows. The one moron who said he 'didn't believe Beck said Obama was a racist' is the prime example. Will someone tell the fucking idiot that GLENN BECK HIMSELF ADMITTED TO SAYING THIS AND REGRETTING HAVING SAID IT? He admitted it to Chris Wallace on Sunday and went on to say he has a big mouth at times and is sorry about the whole episode.

But then again if someone showed the Beck statement along with TV footage to the knuckle dragger, he'd probably retort something like the video was fake or the person on TV was someone who looked like Beck but wasn't the real deal.

So, once more, I NEVER talk to them outside of attacking them and mocking them on their blogs. They deserve nothing else.

[stevenleser]

24. One on one, I agree, but the reason I go on FNC now and then is to try to reach them, if I can

by giving them 3-5 straight and irrefutable facts each time I go on. My hope is that I am getting into a few heads.

[Balderdash]

18. My god that's scary

"That's my opinion and I'm allowed to have an opinion", no matter how ignorant and stupid it is.

[BREMPRO]

19. the ignorance, delusion, and parroting of RW propaganda is frightening- THESE people don't

realize that what they are saying about America losing is way and it's values is because of THEM. Their patriotic heart strings are being manipulated by RW media and power players, corporations, the military industrial complex, oil companies and libertarian billionaires to further their agendas, power and profits. They epitomize intolerance, ignorance, lack of education in public affairs and civics, and blind unquestioning patriotism- all things the founders they say they so respect would be horrified by.


"all I needed to know about Islam i learned on 9/11"
"all i know is what my sister tells me"
"Beck never said Obama was a racist"
"I believe Obama is a racist because HE (my emphasis) is dividing this country into blacks against whites"

God can't help us.

[dotymed]

20. Yep, this really

"restores honor to America." :wtf:

[activa8tr]

21. What was it that woman with the lawn chair yellow smock and big shoes said?

"Well, if the shoe fits...."?

:dunce:

[lumpy]

22. Looks like most of the attendees were middle agers who have

kept their noses to the corporate grindstone all their lives and their heads in the sand. Sad, these are people who represent the 'backbone of America'; people who have so busy making a living for themselves that they neglected continuing their education. Now when they might have a little time to broaden their education they pay attention to very narrow perspective from some one like Glen Beck. People who probably haven't taken time throughout their lives to raise their level of conscience or even investigate their personal spiritual beliefs.

[Sparkly]

23. OH my GOD!!!

This is like a satire -- like a Christopher Guest Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman sort of film.

I don't want to believe such people live in this country!!!! How IGNORANT can they be?!?!?

By the way, some used EXACT language from this Onion article I posted yesterday:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9044762

This is as bad as, or worse than, the McCarthy era.

[felinetta]

25. "god shed his grace on thee" - Hey idiot that's a song.

[felinetta]

26. This is the face of the ignorant, arrogant, stupid Ugly American.

[progressoid]

27. Sorry, I can't listen to more than two minutes of willful ignorance.

[Bitwit1234]

28. Why didn't this guy ask "Take back America from what"

Fox, rush, Beck and the like.

[lunasun]

72. Take back America from the blacks, browns and gays of all colors of course!!

[GreenTea]

29. 30 years of republicans trashing, gutting education & destroying curriculum is paying off for them

BIG time!

Dumbing down America has been the republicans agenda & ideological goal for many, many years and one can easily see why.....

Just look at the only consistent republican stronghold - The south - Republican voters there are as dumb as post, sheep, spewing out Limbaugh, Fox news republican propaganda....

Republicans wrap it all up for the sheep in phony patriotism and these uneducated, uninformed racist eat it up and believe they need to save America from dark skinned people who are "taking over" & "destroying America" -

As the republicans, the rich and corporations pick these knuckle-draggers pockets and at the same time the corporate republican party has these same dumed-down morons do their dirty work for them and these people are fed that their ugly hate is patriotic and good for America.

Keep the people dumb and you can get away with anything!

[Justpat]

30. Everyone should see this.

Too scary for words.

[TEXASYANKEE]

31. These people are scared ...

They are scared of "them" -- the blacks, the illegals, anyone who doesn't look, act, and talk just like them. Ignorance was on display, for sure. But mostly it was just fear, plain and simple. These are small-minded people with small world views, who probably have never interacted with an honest-to-goodness black person or illegal before. And as others have said, this kind of small-minded ignorance makes my head hurt.

[liberation]

32. LOL! A bunch of idiots trying to say that the "president is a ni**er" but they can't...

... and it is melting their pea sized brains trying to come up with the correct "whistle" tone to say it with different words. And I love it!

As a liberal, I may not agree with Mr. Obama in terms of a lot of his policies (too center-right for my taste), but the fact that he is pushing these assholes into a meltdown is a silver lining of sorts.

[big lu]

33. I love how the guy at the 9:14 minute mark tried & failed to repeat Newt's untrue talking point

about how the ground-zero mosque being named "Cordova" symbolizes some kind of Muslim victory over Christianity.

These idiots can't even keep up with all the propaganda that they willfully allow Fox to inject into their feeble heads.

[SlimJimmy]

35. The "Cordoba" Project does have an interesting

lineage. See here for more ... As I like to say, "Facts are stubborn things."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/spain_1.shtml

[big lu]

38. My bad on the mispelling

Yeah, after reading your link, it's pretty clear that the Imam chose that particular name for the mosque as a show of unity.

I just hope that other teabaggers lack the ability to communicate Newt Gingrinchs mischaracterization of it, like the guy in this video.

[thereismore]

34. I can't watch this now, but has anybody asked "When was it that America lost its honor?"

I bet some of them would blurt out "When we elected a black man president".

[florida08]

36. these are the people James Madison

was concerned about in his essay of the Federalist Papers..and is why we have a representative democracy instead of a direct one.

No. 10 addresses the question of how to guard against "factions," or groups of citizens, with interests contrary to the rights of others or the interests of the whole community.

Madison argued that a strong, large republic would be a better guard against those dangers than smaller republics—for instance, the individual states...

He saw direct democracy as a danger to individual rights and advocated a representative democracy in order to protect what he viewed as individual liberty from majority rule, or from the effects of such inequality within society.

"A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction

Madison is the Father of the Constitution...author of the Bill of Rights

I hear this straw man a lot that this is a republic not a democracy but the proof is in the paper

[liberation]

52. True.

Furthermore, republic and democracy are two different concepts which these morons usually have a tough time wrapping their feeble brains around. Technically we are a Constitutional Democratic Republic. We do have a constitution as the law of the land (Constitutional), we elect our representatives via somewhat democratic method (Democracy), and we do not have a king and our head of state is selected and not for life (Republic).

I am however of the opinion that our founding fathers' views on "democracy" were deeply flawed. They saw our country as a patrician democracy, which is something veeeeeeery different from an actual populist democracy favored around the world, esp. after WWII. And that spirit is still prevalent in our democracy through the years, that is why the highest represented segment of our population in government is also our smallest: millionaires. Thus keeping with that original patrician view our founding fathers had for their design. The level of dow right scorn they had for the "masses" is not a good thing, at all...

[florida08]

63. I would agree

And thanks for expanding. Always learning at DU. They saw us as uninformed and not able to understand the workings of the government. Wonder what they would think now.

[AsahinaKimi]

37. I really can't believe ...(meh).. I take it back,...

FOX NEWS propaganda...its all on Fox News. They have created these sheeple. Some of what they have said is just word for word quotes.. from Glenn Beck. These people are so mis informed, its not even funny.

[mckara]

39. Never Underestimate the Stupidity of the American People

This is an incredible display of the effectiveness of people spreading disinformation and preying upon the most ignorant among us. Shocking!

[nitramnaed]

40. Embarrrassing!

Hope our friends around the world don't see this. This is disconcerting............. :cry:

[Auggie]

44. +1... and welcome to DU

:hi:

[Dragonbreathp9d]

41. retweet faceshare

[The Wizard]

42. Frightened, ignorant hillbillies (NT)

[penndragon69]

45. These people are fucking SICK!

[geardaddy]

46. "That's how the Indians felt...."

"Now I know how the Indians felt. It's coming to light."

But it only matters now, right asshole?

What a twunt.

[dsharp88]

47. It's amazing the way their brains don't work.

[kenfrequed]

48. MORONS!

Seriously, these people need help.

[Saphire]

49. They have no ideas in their puny little heads....just spouting Faux talking points.

[Rocky2007]

50. Beck style repugs

I can only hope that their water bottles contained 150 proof Vodka.

How stupid can people really get.

Really GREAT interview by this guy!!!

[Botany]

51. Anybody else see how much green space there was between the people?

n/t

[indy legend]

53. Holy crap. This is frightening. 13 minutes and not two f*%kin' brain cells to rub

together between all these right wing morons. I weep for the future.

[HughBeaumont]

54. This much stupid should be illegal.

Christ on a nailed fucking stick, that was painful. PAINFUL. The only thing these people have ever cracked in their miserable deluded lives is their ass.

[Arctic Dave]

55. New immigrants don't want to learn English.

Apparently they don't understand how Little Italy, Little Poland, Little China, Little Russia, Little Saigon, etc. got their names. It is not uncommon for first generation immigrants to have difficulty learning English and their children are the ones who learn it as a first language.

They must think their Great Great Grandparents knew English before they came to America. That is, if they even knew how to read and write very well at all.

[FedUp_Queer]

57. I could think but one thing.

I don't care what the facts are, I believe what I believe. I don't know whether to be scared, angry or sad. I will say this: Beck and his disgusting minions know about this ignorance. Hell, the count on it. They are making millions off of it, and these otherwise decent people are suckers. Can I say this: everything I need to know about Catholicism I learned from the priest abuse scandal? As a person whose Church PAID HIS RENT when I was out of work and paid for psychotherapy when I needed it, this really hits home.

[Quantess]

58. The interviewer is really good.

He's so unassuming, which makes people open up.

[livingonearth]

59. Beck told them not to bring signs because he knew they'd look stupid.

Next time he needs to tell them to glue their mouths shut as well. These people are embarrassing!

[BDavinciNY]

60. WOW!

The responses from these clods are astounding.
I give a lot of respect to the interviewer for letting them speak their peace. He gave them enough rope to explain and they still hang themselves. It proves that RW talk radio and FOX News is toxic. They spew the same talking points they believe in. Even when they are confronted with facts they still keep repeating the same BS talking points. That's way too many idiots gathering at one place!

[lib2DaBone]

62. Christian Conservatives.. Ripe for the picking...

.. a few talking points repeated over and over, and Glenn Beck can get these sheep to do anything...

[livingonearth]

64. If Orwell was alive today he'd be writing about these idiots.

[jimlup]

74. Honestly, I don't think he'd bother.

They are low hanging fruit. He'd go for the more complex stuff. But yeah, they are an interesting study in indoctrination. Sort of follows the Goebles/Hitler model I think.

[liberation]

76. Orwell already saw these degenerates coming from miles away.

He even coined the term that perfectly describes this situation: doublethink. And a bunch of racist old white assholes claiming they are "taking back" the civil rights movement is just that a bunch of degenerates and their runaway doublethink.

Orwell knew that wanting to have it both ways was a inherent to the Anglo-Saxon character that is why the book takes place in Oceania (which looks pretty darned close a hybrid of the USA and British Common Wealth by no coincidence me thinks)

[cascadiance]

65. I'd bet at least half of these "good citizens" would FAIL the citizenship tests...

... we give to naturalized citizens.

I'll bet they know less about our constitution and civics, etc. than those immigrating here now do.

I wonder what they would do if we get an ice age here in North America with "The Day After" plot and would have to take similar citizenship tests in Mexico if they were forced to move down there.

These people are afraid and damn well should be! They are ignorant as hell and are afraid of being used, but too damn arrogant to admit it and therefore eat up the crap that swindlers like Glenn Beck feed them!

[Quantess]

66. Are you kidding? I would bet $100 they'd ALL fail the test.

[0rganism]

77. I wonder how much attending "Beck University" improves their odds

:rofl:

[bamacrat]

67. I don't even know what to say.

First off they are the ones dividing America and the people they elect. Also equating all terrorists with Islam is just dumb. In the last 50 years how many Muslims blew up the Federal Building in OKC, or sent letter bombs to people or bombed the Olympics, or shot sitting Presidents, and future ones? How many Muslims killed a bunch on little kids in a school, execution style? Oh but those are isolated incidents. Like the isolated incident where a man convinces over 900 people to kill themselves.

My point is that these people are they people they hate.

[driver8]

69. We gotta take our country back from that Negro fella...he's pittin' whites against blacks!

I weep for the future...

[liberation]

79. Don't weep. All of these degenerates are middle aged at best.

If anything, weep for the past and hope it is dying out. I like to think these are just the desperate gasps of a dying breed.

[indy legend]

81. No. These are the people in my area, who are raising the next

generation of uneducated little haters. They are bringing up their kids on a steady diet of twisted christianity, greed and fox news. Add that to a failing, underfunded (by design) education system and you have right wing hate that will live on for generations to come, and as society becomes less educated and the media becomes more corporate controlled, The future is pretty bleak.Stupidity, intolerance,hate, racism and misinformation is bred into these people and their children and grandchildren. It is prevalent even in my own family, and there is no reaching these people.

[lunasun]

83. I agree

[Mister Ed]

73. "Al Sharpton is gonna bring his Black Panthers here...to create some sort of an incident"?

Wow. Just wow.
:rofl:

[0rganism]

75. the video is a case study in authoritarian followers

Amazing. simply... amazing. We're all in very deep shit if the people who fooled these idiots win at the polls.

[Drale]

78. I really feel sorry for some of these puppets

Fox and their chronies have there collective hands shoved so far up these peoples arsses, and most of these people dont even realize it. Ignorance is a disease spread through Fox news.

[NoSheep]

82. Congratulations ignorant bigots...you've painted your masterpiece.