Beck attacks Chris Coons as "a Marxist," a "staunch anti-capitalist"

[Josie]

Okay, please show where Chris Coons has followed this path.

I don't know that he has. I don't know anything about him. Do you have any information I can look at?

 

[pbrauer]

Here, let me save you from having to spin and come up with a new way to defend Media Matters...

This is what Media Matters is all about, in their own words:



The don't post information from the "conservative media" to heap praise upon it... They post what they feel is disinformation, which is another way of saying they post that which they do not agree with.

So effing what? Again, all they did was to post audio of your hero Glenn Beck. The particular post, informs what the conservative media is saying. I don't see a problem, apparently you do. I say get a life. :lamo

 

[pbrauer]

I don't know that he has. I don't know anything about him. Do you have any information I can look at?

The internet has been updated recently, they now have this web site called Google. Really quite fascinating, you can look stuff up. Give it a try. :2razz:

 

[Josie]

The internet has been updated recently, they now have this web site called Google. Really quite fascinating, you can look stuff up. Give it a try. :2razz:

You're so cute. I assumed you had the information since you're so convinced that he's not what he said he was.

You going to put up your avatar for sale?

 

[pbrauer]

You're so cute. I assumed you had the information since you're so convinced that he's not what he said he was.

Do you believe what Gov. George W. Bush said in 2000?

 

[pbrauer]

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Coons, the New Castle County executive who is running against GOP Rep. Michael Castle for the state’s open Senate seat, wrote of his political evolution in the May 23, 1985, edition of the Amherst Student.


The source of his conversion, Coons wrote, was a trip to Kenya he took during the spring semester of his junior year—a time away from America, he wrote, that served as a “catalyst” in altering a conservative political outlook that he was growing increasingly uncomfortable with.


“My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists,” Coons wrote, noting that at one time he had been a “proud founding member of the Amherst College Republicans.”

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Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com

 

[justabubba]

I have a great sense of humor and, yes, I do watch Stewart sometimes. His Beck impersonations are hilarious. MUCH funnier than SNL.

About O'Donnell....I'm not really following that election very closely. Your link did make me raise my eyebrows. That's just.....weird. Do you think she was joking?

see for yourself. appears to be quite serious to me:
YouTube - Christine O'Donnell: "I Dabbled Into Witchcraft"

 

[pragmatic]

see for yourself. appears to be quite serious to me:
YouTube - Christine O'Donnell: "I Dabbled Into Witchcraft"

Was listening to the news this afternoon and ABC News is already running with the story. (as in "national news". Just precious)

Saw the Maher clip. On a show 10-12 years ago. Sounded like the panel was trying to tell stories to "one up" each other. Think she was serious but don't think she wrapped any context around her story like when it happened (her age) or what motivated her.

But it really doesn't matter I suspect. Appears to me that the media and the left has already decided that this girl is gonna get savaged. Not expecting it to be pretty....



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[Josie]

Do you believe what Gov. George W. Bush said in 2000?

I could barely hear it but I think he said, "Some people call you the elite, but I call you my base." Of course this was an event where jokes were the majority of the speech. Elites are part of the Republican and Democrat Party, so I guess there was some truth to it.

What point are you trying to make?

 

[pbrauer]

I could barely hear it but I think he said, "Some people call you the elite, but I call you my base." Of course this was an event where jokes were the majority of the speech. Elites are part of the Republican and Democrat Party, so I guess there was some truth to it.

What point are you trying to make?

The point is that you can take somebody's words out of context and make it sound anyway you want.

Here is the politico that started the "bearded Marxist" storyline.

In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to question the American notion of free enterprise.


Coons, the New Castle County executive who is running against GOP Rep. Michael Castle for the state’s open Senate seat, wrote of his political evolution in the May 23, 1985, edition of the Amherst Student.


The source of his conversion, Coons wrote, was a trip to Kenya he took during the spring semester of his junior year—a time away from America, he wrote, that served as a “catalyst” in altering a conservative political outlook that he was growing increasingly uncomfortable with.


“My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists,” Coons wrote, noting that at one time he had been a “proud founding member of the Amherst College Republicans.”

Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com

 

[Josie]

The point is that you can take somebody's words out of context and make it sound anyway you want.

Here is the politico that started the "bearded Marxist" storyline.



Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com

And what lead up to that comment? Don't take anything out of context now....

 

[pbrauer]

And what lead up to that comment? Don't take anything out of context now....

The story is in the Politico article.

 

[Josie]

The story is in the Politico article.

Yes, I know. What prompted his friends to give him that name?

 

[upsideguy]

Darn the bad luck! Well...maybe he will return to it someday full time.

Are there ANY discussions on the actual ISSUES in the Delaware race?

Has there been any discussion on actual ISSUES in any race in the country in the past two years? It seems to me all we ever discuss is hyperbole, scare tactics and the tangentially absurd (like Obama being a muslim or born elsewhere). I thirst for intelligent debate on real issues, yet I find very little in the political arenas, and frankly less and less in this forum. The dumbing down of the American electorate is becoming serious threat to our culture and our democracy. It would be very nice of people could elevate the debate.

 

[pbrauer]

Yes, I know. What prompted his friends to give him that name?

:lamo You still can't live with the idea that your hero Glenn Beck is a liar. It's doesn't matter why they gave him that name, you need to show where his actions have shown him to be a Marxist.

Glenn Beck ===> :liar2

 

[Josie]

It's doesn't matter why they gave him that name, you need to show where his actions have shown him to be a Marxist.

It doesn't matter what he said that caused them to give him that name? Seriously? You just said context matters. :Oopsie

 

[pbrauer]

It doesn't matter what he said that caused them to give him that name? Seriously? You just said context matters. :Oopsie

I give up, what did he say? He went to Kenya and came back a changed man and his friends kidded him about it.

 

[Grant]

I give up, what did he say? He went to Kenya and came back a changed man and his friends kidded him about it.

His friends might have kidded him about being a Marxist but that didn't make him any less serious about his conversion. And because of his new found faith he quite naturallly converted to the Democratic Party. Where else would a loyal American Marxist go?

Of course, being a Marxist, he was also, like the fellow in the White House, a committed big tax guy and an even big spender. Debts wherever they go.

 

[pbrauer]

His friends might have kidded him about being a Marxist but that didn't make him any less serious about his conversion. And because of his new found faith he quite naturallly converted to the Democratic Party. Where else would a loyal American Marxist go?

Of course, being a Marxist, he was also, like the fellow in the White House, a committed big tax guy and an even big spender. Debts wherever they go.

Where would an American Fascist go, to the Republican party, of course. :2razz:

 

[Grant]

Where would an American Fascist go, to the Republican party, of course. :2razz:

Any evidence of this?

I provided evidence. Why not do the same?

I don't think you can.

Just more hot air from another avaerage Lefty.

 

[Grant]

Where would an American Fascist go, to the Republican party, of course. :2razz:

Any evidence of this?

I provided evidence. Why not do the same?

I don't think you can.

This is just more hot air from another avaerage Lefty.

 

[Barbbtx]

One

I'm going to start counting how many times you say something to this nature. I won't count the times in the past you have.

Maybe instead of attacking the source you should attack the content. Show us the proof that he is a marxist.

When it's Media Matters and Glenn Beck the source is laughable. If Glenn said he had a Whopper for lunch and they found out it was a Jr. Whopper, their headline would be "Lying Glenn Beck tells another Whopper." They spend 24/7 trying to destroy him. It's gotten to the point where they just look like idiots.

 

[Barbbtx]

Oy vey you love jumping to conclusions don't ya. I don't care if somone is a Marxist nor do I care if somone is a practicing witch.

BTW one of my old room mates in Brooklyn was a card carrying Communist so it is not that hard for me to believe someone to be a Marxist.

Do you want a marxist or communist representing and casting votes for you?

Witches aren't real, to my knowledge, so I'm too worried about that.

 

[pbrauer]

Any evidence of this?

I provided evidence. Why not do the same?

I don't think you can.

This is just more hot air from another avaerage Lefty.

Do you have any evidence that Chris Coons is a Marxist, beyond the idiocy that folks like you call all those folks on the left Marxists. Fascists are another name for corporatist and that's virtually what all Republicans and a few conservative Democrats are today. They are beholden to the big corporations and not "We the People..."

 

[Barbbtx]

I think Marx was a genius and it is a free country and it might be good to have a Marxist or two running around.

Then please...Get out there and campaign for him. Tell everyone how it's a good thing that he's a Marxist.