God I’d love to meet Glenn Beck in person and give him something to cry about.
Glenn Beck Compares Dude With Jewish Name To Hobbits |
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| By: Spencer Ackerman Monday November 23, 2009 2:30 pm | |
Now, in fairness, I’m a very short Jew, so, it’s not like this thought hasn’t occurred to me either. But my friend Ari Rabin-Havt is a perfectly tall American of Jewish heritage, and the demagogic buffoon Glenn Beck mispronounces Ari’s eeeeeeethnicky last name in order to make some juvenile jokes about Hobbits. Because real Americans have names like Beck. But maybe that’s just my deep-seated contempt for white gentile culture talking. Watch all those right-wing Jews busy attacking J Street as anti-semites say absolutely nothing about someone with power inside conservative circles.



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Glenn Beck is evil!
http://tildology.com/2009/09/28/a-face-in-the-crowd-2009/
Go get him Ackerman!!
From one landswoman to a landsman!
Don’t understand how Becky can venture out in public without being the target of extreme malice.
OT coming up at 7:00 (midway thru the show) on Tweety’s Hardball is the Providence, R.I. Bishop who is having the issue with Patrick Kennedy taking communion. Tweety does a very good job showing the Bishop the error of his ways.
I’m not Christian, Jewish, or anything else.
I seek, but know I won’t find, truth.
Is Beck German?
Enormous? I’m thinking of the fisherman who show you how big their fish was. Maybe Glen thinks three inches is enormous.
Oh, oh. Chris Matthews just used the Charlie Brown and the football metaphor. Who’s reading FDL? Someone’s staff?
Glenn Beck was the Cyst on Rushbo’s Keester …
I’m not Christian, Jewish, or anything else.
When my son was all of 6 years old, he looked up at me one day and said
“Dad, I want to be baptized. And I want it to be in the Catholic Church.”
precocious little devil.
So – *I* had to go through interviews with Da Nun, to insure, I guess, that I was a proper person to be bringing up a little-bitty catholic. So we went through hours of interviews, and at the end, she said – “Well jay, I figure that you’re one-third catholic, one-third Jewish, and one-third Hindu.”
So I guess that I passed the ordeal.
(and the one-third catholic thing? – that’s called throwing a bone).
if i were super-talented musician Beck (OK, points off for the scientology thing) I’d sue Glenn Beck for ruining the brand.
There was a time when the term “anti-Semitic” referred to people who didn’t like Jews. Today the term is used to refer to people Jews don’t like.
I call it the Dershowitz Syndrome. The slightest whiff of criticism of Israel or its polices and Dershowitz labels the speaker “anti-Semitic.” Norman Finkelstein is prolly his best known victim.
There are a couple frequent callers, who self-identify as Jewish, into my community radio station who pull the same stunt in an attempt to redirect or halt any discussion of the Israeli govt’s policies or actions.
Tolkien gave the Hobbits rustic English names that were common in the West Midlands. Such as Baggins, Ferny, Rushdore, and also Took. Took sounds a lot like Beck. I have read that as an Oxford undergraduate he had an American roomate, from the way backwoods sticks in kentucky. The same former roomate (a retired English proffesor) was inteviewed by a former student of Tolkien for a Biographical essay on the master of language and creator of Middle of Middle Earth. He spoke of Tolkiens Fascination with his speech and stories of people in his small town in Kentucky. They frequently went barefooted in good weather, were small mined and oblivious to the world outside their small locality (“shires”) And tended to overeat and to become fat.
And I’d love to hold your coat while you do!
I’d call him an asshat, but that would be terribly insulting to a both asses and hats…
FunnyWheelieDiva
A hemorrhoid with eyes.
Not to ignore Beck, but many Jews are starting to have a Martin Niemoeller moment as they watch AIPAC and its allies demonize Jewish critics of rightwing positions. It goes something like this:
Glenn Beck has exactly the kind of name about which my anti-semitic grandmother would say ominously, “What kind of name is Beck, anyway?” We, thankfully, now live in an America where right-thinking people don’t care what your name is, and don’t judge you by the color of your skin.
We’re now getting to the point where you are judged by the content of your character, and in that case, Glenn Beck is in trouble. Beck harkens back to an ugliness in American, and human, history that is shameful and wrong.
Let’s evolve past Beck (and my grandmother, bless her), please.
Are hobbits jewish?
Beck is an idiot, but for what it’s worth, Mormons view themselves as Israelites, the natural brothers of the jews and everyone else is a gentile, even arabs who are semites… except for American Indians which are descendants of the jews.
That’s not fair, TarheelDem. Not all Germans are Nazis.
Glen Beck…Seriously…Is anybody listening anymore…if so, why?
If you are bothered by equating shortness with your jewish heritage, does this make you a self-hating hobbit?
just kidding..
Well done.
I hope you‘ve all taken a moment to let Fox and Fox advertisers know what you think of Glenn Beck. Click here -> http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/
Hurray for J Street. Let them send you e-mail correspondence occasionally and call you a member. They need our support. http://www.jstreet.org/signup
I’ve alway thought of Beck as more of the “Uriah Heep” character. The consummate toad.