Sometimes It's Unbelievable

Sometimes I have to take a break from reading newspaper articles, op-eds, and watching the news media on television because it's incredible what I hear; Glenn Beck telling his audience that President Obama is racist or that "Jesus doesn't want a cap-and-trade system," or a Senator in Alaska so determined to drill for more oil that she doesn't want oil companies to be responsible for their accidents, or that the Maine GOP actually made it their platform goals to "seal the border" (really, are the Canadians becoming a big problem in northern Maine?) and to "Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."

And I'm really sick of hearing about Arizona's amazingly inhumane immigration bill.

Sometimes I just can't take it.

How naive, how ridiculous, and how ignorant can some people be?

Everyday, Glenn Beck pretty much creates his own universe for his viewers who tend to follow him almost religiously, a universe that ignores the facts and the important news stories of the day to talk about conspiracy theories he has made up, and for some reason he's shocked no one else has come to the same conclusions.

Sometimes its even hard to watch Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart because it's depressing to hear them talk about how dumb some people are (even though I do my best to grin and bear it because Colbert and Stewart are so damn funny).

I feel like there has to be a point where, we, as Americans and citizens of this world, take a stand against this kind of outlandish rhetoric because it is just that, outlandish.

Hopefully that point will come soon before the GOP and the Tea Party take over Washington, of course that would mark the end of the right-wing conservative movement as it would run America into the ground.

So to play me out, here's my hometown comedian Lewis Black on The Daily Show talking about Glenn Beck's ridiculous Nazi comparisons to pretty much everything:

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Back in Black - Glenn Beck's Nazi Tourette's
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