On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >> "In this alternate reality version of the past, the 20th century's >> heroic battles over equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities, >> women and homosexuals are recast as a march toward socialism and away >> from the Founding Fathers. Meanwhile, flawed progressive Woodrow >> Wilson and even Teddy Roosevelt become America's Lenin and Trotsky >> while it is the pre-Depression-era Calvin Coolidge who belongs on >> Mount Rushmore." >> >> That's one thing he said. > > That text, as you quoted it, is fromm the author, not Beck, He is not > quoting Beck, he is summarizing what Beck said, and most likely, > putting some spin on it..
I can't find anything about equal rights = socialism but I did come across this: GLENN: And brought us our school system, our history books that said the founders were white racists, that they were, you know, big money class, brought all of the things, all of the disease that we have now. But one of the things that they also really truly believed was that nature's god is irrelevant, it doesn't -- God doesn't give man rights; the government gives man rights. JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Theodore Roosevelt once said nobody owns private property; the government owns it and lets them use it. Now, if he honestly believed that, then you are right, he believes -- believed. GLENN: He did. >> "Barton's machine-gun-paced spewing of 18th-century God references and >> black-robed revolutionary preachers gives less than short shrift to >> the real achievement of the Founders in separating church and state. >> In April, Barton told Beck's 3 million TV viewers that "we use the Ten >> Commandments as basis of civil law and the Western world [and it] has >> been for 2,000 years."" I don't watch Beck but I found this to be a very good read: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590642,00.html >> Yet they are being supported by the GOP, by the "Tea-Party -That -Is -Not -A >> -Party -But Several Groups -So -Don't -Blame -The -Tea -Party" >> Oh and of course FOX continues to give Beck all the airtime he could >> possibly want. You say that on a thread responding to an op-ed by an extreme left-winger. > I love the fact that when ever someone who claims to be a Republican > says something it gets turned into 'The GOP supports {enter ridiculous > ideas here}' > > Funny how it only seems to work for the GOP, though. It group think ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325965 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
