I do think that it's helpful to be made aware of how our national debate is shaped by people with little intellectual or factual credulity like Beck. His talent is couching his "big ideas" ( about fascism and BIG GOVERNMENT), in simple terms and helping give vent to a general miasma of uncertainty among the educationally disinclined amongst us. The Republican Party on the other hand is simply crass, cynical and lazy and willing to let him take the heat up front while regurgitating his nonsense after the fact.

I do think that it's helpful to be made aware of how our national debate is shaped by people with little intellectual or factual credulity like Beck. His talent is couching his "big ideas" ( about fascism and BIG GOVERNMENT), in simple terms and helping give vent to a general miasma of uncertainty among the educationally disinclined amongst us. The Republican Party on the other hand is simply crass, cynical and lazy and willing to let him take the heat up front while regurgitating his nonsense after the fact.

It's proof that interesting (and deep) cultural connections can be gleaned from examining the most innocuous phenomena.

Madonna continues to prove how lacking any kind of self-deprecation and/or self-awareness makes you a lousy actress and a worse comedian. But the whole sketch was unfunny. and Lady GG is barely tolerable anyway as the latest in a long line of manufactured pop "provocateurs".

Yawn. Double yawn.

I'm sorry, this fiction that there are all of these disenchanted Obama voters is just that; fiction.

I'd love to hear how they were so lead astray within the first 9 months of his administration. Considering the depth of the problems we are facing as a country I'd say that they were either not particularly astute politically or are not very bright overall and easily manipulated. Neither bodes well for us as a country but you can all be ignored (yes, I know...AT OUR PERIL!!!!)

The 50,000 man march is not scaring anyone 'cepting how xenophobic it all is. You are a small, well organized vocal minority. Everyone is getting tired of hearing about you because the bottom line is; people want clarity of purpose and vision and in the end will favor it. All Beck and his minions are doing is adding noise and confusion (which is their real purpose).

Take a deep breath.. There, there. I know that the imperial sodomites are coming to rest control of your taxes/guns/marriage/deficit, but calm down. You are gonna need a lot of energy to withstand the drudgery of standing in line at the U.S. census internment camp. Don't worry there will be sanctioned government cheese for all of us.

"There is no question that WE THE PEOPLE of the United States REJECT Obamacare, REJECT corruption of the U.S. political and governmental system, and REJECT the far left radical Democrat's overt efforts to un-constitutionally impose an

UN-AMERICAN progressive/socialist political agenda upon

OUR U.S. constitutional democratic republic."

LOL. How's that again? How's anyone unconstitutionally imposing ANYTHING, let alone an Un-American progressive agenda?! How is healthcare reform, (something even the most hard-nosed republican sycophant will admit is needed), Un-American? Other than that, what about Obama strikes you as overtly socialist? The bank bailouts- started by Bush as a result of Bush policies? Please enlighten us. Your mini-revolution is just so much bunk. But go for it. You need to feel that you matter. Raise a ruckus and pretend that you're taking back your country from boogymen and invisible tyrants. What are you people afraid of anyway? My guess is that you are afraid of the dawning realization that the country you currently inhabit is changing before your very eyes and you can't do a thing about it.

"With no arguments that will fly, the left has resorted to its pseudo-sophistication in hopes there will be enough people reading that prefer stylized snottiness to exposures of corruption and power grabs to keep them employed."

How can you argue with such a clearly defined premise? "exposures of corruption and power grabs". sounds pretty serious. Do you mean that the government is trying to take over the country? OMG! And that corruption thing can't be any good!

Smell that? It's sarcasm, or as you say, "stylized snottiness". Sorry. I just don't have no arguments that will fly...

"Journalists on the left, so utterly convinced of liberal virtue, write gobs of dismissive, presumptuous, and personal criticisms of conservatives. It is rare to see a refutation of specific claims or ideas made by Beck et al. And why bother of course--conservatives are by default bigoted fear mongers lacking any valid criticisms or point, right? Since liberal journalists never actually address conservative ideas..." blah, blah, blah.

First of all, the right-wing has stopped positing cogent arguments and now rely almost exclusively on bumper sticker culture war slogans that derive their meaning from their opposition to straw men on the left, nothing more. It's one of the reason they don't have a health care proposal. They're simply opposed to anything Obama or the democratic-lead congress comes up with. Tell me one specific thing Beck is about, really. I hear him plead and harangue about creeping "socialism" and scary "change" and government "takeovers", but I hear precious little content or ideas for where we should go or how we should deal with our economic woes. All I can see is one group attempting to govern and the other that has cynically thrown in the towel while spouting anti-government/pro-business tirades. You have a plethora of things that you're against (democrats, Libruls), but the things you are for are as fuzzy and precious as grandma's needlepoint that hangs on the kitchen wall and Blesses the USA (and our guns). oh yeah and our unfettered free markets! But look out for those brown people, their coming to take your jobs!