Glenn Beck Honors Historical Women
July 9, 2010
by Karen
|The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
I applaud Glenn Beck for dedicating a Friday to the women who helped in the founding of our nation. I am very happy about his July 2nd episode. Previously on TNA, we have highlighted some of the negative statements he made toward women. We even recommended he follow Michelle Malkin’s example in his criticism and jokes over Michelle Obama.
So far, Glenn Beck has been the only person I know of to dedicate time to the significant women in our nation’s history. I interpret this to be a strong and positive sign that TNA is making a difference. Women deserve respect and appreciation. Maybe next time someone suggests he campaign alongside a conservative woman, he will take the suggestion with more respect.
Thank you, Glenn Beck, for finally showing women some appreciation.
It is a testimony to her character that Michelle Malkin takes the high road in light of the vitriol she herself is subjected to. The level of hatred in the e-mail she receives is appalling:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010.....gone-wild/
I have to question which version of liberalism supports the sexism, racism, and sheer evil evident in these e-mails. It is a horrendous corruption of liberal values and I want to know who or what is behind it.
Glen Beck did a fabulous series on the founding fathers and black history. Beck is not my favorite person, but I was really impressed with that show. Because of places like the New Agenda, a lot of people felt empowered to write him and ask, hey, I see you’ve covered white man’s history and black man’s history, is there something missing from this equation? And he responded.
I can’t begin to explain why learning the kind of history that Beck spotlighted is so important, but part of it is because most of our history is presented as a history of oppression. If you have a history only of oppression, you’re a victim, rather than a group of people who seized the day.
Monarch,
I will always defend Michelle Malkin against mysoginism.
Regarding your statement “The level of hatred in the e-mail she receives is appalling:”
Her discourse should not be met with mysoginism, and neither with hate.
Nonetheless, lets acknowledge that she herself spews a lot of hate.
Regardless of your or my religion, this is probably what Christ was seeing when he challenged, “… cast the first stone.”
http://countusout.wordpress.co.....-adultery/
(I felt it necessary to post this here and at ‘Save our Mother.’)
Valentina, I believe that the nature of political commentary these days is to “spew hate”; that seems to be the nature of the beast (and helps to keep the commentators gainfully employed, btw). It may be that my expectations of liberals was higher and I cannot understand the levels of misogyny and racism coming from the left. It is completely out of conjunction with liberal values.
This is a very interesting video released by Gov Palin
http://www.teamsarah.org/profi.....-grizzlies
Monarch, I agree. Especially since the misogyny being spewed by the liberals is absolutely identical to what I recall being spewed by conservatives during their glory days. Everyone seems to celebrate their arrival in power by letting women have it. Women even seem to celebrate the arrival of their men in power by letting the women of the other “tribe” have it. I’m tired of it.
It is absolutely sickening that people here are buying the pseudo-history of right-wing self-proclaimed historian, David Barton, that Beck promotes.
I know, Janis. Post-partisanship and a sane political system can be achieved only when women are empowered and self-determining. The Stepford-wife mentality on the left side of the aisle is just as impotent and disgusting as the Stepford wife mentality on the conservative side. It’s a man’s game that benefits men and women need to wake up to that and free their minds from the constrictions of liberal/conservative. Otherwise, women remain oppressed.
I learned all I needed to know about Beck when he declared, “You don’t know the psychosis that is chickdom!”
I could mention others, but I think that one about raps it up. The man perpetually demeans women.
I have looked upon him as a creep and major sexist pig from way back. Does anyone remember his segment on CNN entitled “It Cries”? He was the worst of the lot when it came to Hillary. I despise him.
When he does his crocodile tears I want to puke. This is a mean mean man. And the only reason he’s doing anything about blacks and women right now is he knows exactly what those two categories think of him. It won’t be changing my mind, that’s for sure.
I was going to get into when he had his surgery and advertised a segment about how there is something wrong with our health care system, only to find he never even touched on how he’s lucky he has the health insurance he has, or lucky he can afford it. But nope, that wasn’t his problem. His problem was that he didn’t get treated in a kingly enough way.
Seriously, if Republicans had actually done something about some of the issues Obama won on, we wouldn’t have that jerk for a president today. Instead, it was the same old status quo. Eat cake. It’s guys like Beck who helped make that happen.
,,ducking and running, but folks this is NOT a sincere man, although he does a terrific job of faking it. He’s a Libertarian to the nines and would just as soon you all go off and die and you’re not doing as well as he is and need some help.
I’m trying to understand the extent of this. so, Sharron Angle is a GOP candidate in Nevada, and she’s said that she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest because “God has a plan for each one of our lives.” She went on to say this:
Question: What do you say then to a young girl…when a young girl is raped by her father, let’s say, and she is pregnant. How do you explain this to her in terms of wanting her to go through the process of having the baby?
Angle: I think that two wrongs don’t make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at-risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.
Would you vote for her? Because as much as I want to see women in office, I cannot fathom voting for someone who would be so cruel and evil as to want to prohibit abortion in such cases. And someone so stupid or insensitive as to describe a young girl getting raped as a “lemon” situation that can be turned into “lemonade” through positive thinking and prayer.
I wouldn’t vote for a man who had those views. And I wouldn’t vote for a woman who has them, either. Pro-life is one thing, but these views are evil.
I could mention others, but I think that one about raps it up. The man perpetually demeans women.</i?
Oh, why not go on and mention others if they exist since you're the expert… with links so people can see the facts for themselves?
Well okay then, Bev. The “expert” thing was uncalled for but I’ll overlook it as a snarl because you probably love Glenn. I got used to that kind of tone during the Primaries. It’s an invitation to a brawl, and I respect AMY far too much to play that with you.
So, here’s another one. How about when the “movement” was on for Sarah and Beck to run together for the presidency and he said he couldn’t run with her because she would never shut up.
I’m pretty sure I have a video somewhere on my blog of him sexually harassing a women during an interview too. And it wasn’t subtle.
Then there was the “I’m half chick! I blubber all the time!”. He likes the word Chick a lot, but you probably don’t mind. Which is okay if it’s okay with you. To me, it’s a red flag.
And Yes, I could come up with plenty more examples of how beck does not respect women, including HOURS on Hillary, but of course you would want me to put all that time an energy in it and it won’t move you one bit, will it? Such is the nature of a follower on faith. You see what you want to see and discard the rest. If I gave you twenty examples, you’d want fifty. I’ve been in this movie before. It would be like me trying to show an Obot what a jerk Obama is. I could put hours into it and end up with nothing but more work assignments.
I overlooked his attitude for awhile even though I winced and found myself wincing more often. But the day he said women are insane was the last day I ever listened to anything he had to say. And in spite of your remark to me personally, I will avoid returning the same. Let me just end by saying that I am sure you will agree that I AM entitled not to trust or like him. My post did not attack you one bit.
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Claire I understand what you mean about Angle. What we are doing in November is what we have been forced to do for years….choose between death by fire and death by drowning—switching from one awful extreme to another. We only have two parties and both of them have been hijacked by the extremes. Me, I’m staying home in November. My mother will probably reach out from beyond and smack me for it. I always vote. But this time, I just can’t take what’s being offered to me from either side.
Claire: We have actual real problems in our country that could be improved. So I am not interested in contorted what-if questions. “What if a girl is raped by her father and is as a result pregnant what do you say” Here is what I want to know from perspective politicians. How will you balance the budget, how will you improve schools, how will you keep me from being tax poor, since at least 30% of our kids don’t graduate from high school how will you seal the border so that illegals won’t cross the border and take the jobs that our own illiterate citizens need and in the process drive down wages for us all. We don’t need to invent strange problems that probably affect 2 people as a basis to choose politicians.
I don’t care about Angle. This is one more piece of proof as far as I’m concerned that voting women-only gets you ahead in the long run. Think about all those women who ran and won in the recent spate of primary elections. Among the ones I knew by name, there were (dramatic unveil):
Four decent people, and one nutcase (Angle).
In other words, so voting women only gets you an 80% pretty-good rating.
Where the hell else are you going to get odds like that? You get odds like that in Vegas, and you go home a millionaire. What more proof do you need that even among the supposedly Oh So Eeevihl Conservatives, if you just VOTE WOMEN ALL THE TIME, things will improve? Even the female nutballs are an improvement over the male ones!
And yet progressive women will still whine and stamp over doing this. It’s absolutely insane. It’s like trying to explain the Monty Hall problem or the Shell Game to stupid people.
uppity woman agree with you. looked at the long version of Beck’s statement on historical women. it sounds ot me like entertainment, like did ya know and something form the guinness book of records. this was no adequate portrayal of women in history, although I learned under what circumstance some women were allowed to vote in some states in the 17th century (owning property, the right was taken away when they voted against the dominating party who gave them the right).
I am with you janis voting women no matter what. if no women are running only for a male who has a significant stance pro women. here in maryland we have something special the “reconsideration law” because we marylanders are so emotional that in horrendous cases we send the guys for decades to prison. so the first judge usually halves the lay people’s sentence. within five years the criminal can request a reconsideration hearing and some have gotten 14,16, 16 years off and were out in just a few years with diminution credits. has happened with multiple murderers, child rapists, multiple sexual assault and the ones out quickly murdered again. so far nobody takes this law on because keeping guys 60 years in prison is too expensive and the defense lawyers are almighty. a candidate including a male who stands up against this lobby and gets the process rolling to abandon the reconsideration law will get my vote. I am turning it around. female candidates get support no matter how much I agree, male candidates need to earn my vote.
Janis, I love your commentary! You are, of course, absolutely right, although you did forget to ask Claire how much time she’d spent opposing the voluminous amount of male persons currently holding office and that same opinion she finds so evil.
Anna Belle, I remember when I was a teenager when Geraldine Ferraro was running as veep for Mondale, and she was a pro-choice catholic. I was in church one Sunday during the campaign, and they actually invited this Irish priest — from Ireland, he wasn’t even AMERICAN and had NO BUSINESS sounding off about OUR fucking elections — to come in and instruct we simple-minded little cogs as to why Geraldine Ferraro was evil and bad and wrong because she was pro-choice. I still remember feeling this silent upwelling of fury from the women in the pews; I don’t know if this was the reason, but that was the year that we stopped going to church as a family, and as we all know, it’s the women that bring families to church each week. It was my mom that was pissed, and that’s why we stopped going. (I’m atheist at this point; the one thing I retained from my catholic upbringing was a love for the great organ music and my confirmation name, which was my grandmother’s middle name.)
All I could think of was that that scummy, oily old bastard would have creamed himself for a handshake and photo op with Irish catholic Teddy Kennedy, who had exactly the same opinions on abortion as Ferraro did. But she was a woman who held those opinions, and was thus a target for bilious throat-filling acidic hatred instead of unctuous hero-worship.
This is no different just because it’s women who are guilty of it. Most of them praise Jimmy Carter to the skies for being the liberal dreamboat hubby or something, while he has exactly the same opinions on abortion as Sarah Palin. They are spewing far more stomach-churning hate toward women than they would ever dream of aiming at men with the same opinions. Push comes to shove, they are weak, scared little kids. Little teenybopper empowerfulated pretend-feminists who, for all their rah-rah-blah-blah about girl powah haven’t got the spine to take on a man and never will.
Well okay then, Bev. The “expert” thing was uncalled for but I’ll overlook it as a snarl because you probably love Glenn. I got used to that kind of tone during the Primaries. It’s an invitation to a brawl, and I respect AMY far too much to play that with you.
You have no idea what my overall opinion of Beck or anyone else is, so don’t assume. I make up my own mind. OTOH, I am automatically suspicious of anyone who claims to know everything about someone on the basis on individual comments… without offering proof in the form of actual links or references that I can look at or check myself.
I’m funny that way. Shouldn’t we all be?
Plus, you still haven’t provided any real proof of the things you’re claiming, Uppity Woman, so all I know is that they sound no different on the surface than things people toss out as memes about many people in the national spotlight – including Obama and both of the Clintons. You want fair-minded people to listen to you and give such ravings about people on either side some credit, then do better than that or they’re going to think you’re simply reacting just because someone’s name comes up, rather than to the content of the post.
Which, by the way, is a very important topic. Because while I don’t watch Glenn Beck normally, I have begun following his Founding Fridays series and it’s a fascinating look at what we’re lost from this country’s history. In particular, the episodes on black founders and women founders were mind-blowing. I could care less whether it’s Beck or the man in the moon that is finally highlighting these people. Isn’t it simply great that somebody finally is bringing them back to our attention?
Or is the game of shooting the messenger more important?
Because if it is, one has to wonder at what point we lose out on the actual process of learning things about each other.
Not wanting to get into the rape/aborton discussion, but I do know someone who was the product of rape. Her mother gave birth to her and she went on to become a minister and very loving person. So, yes, I am pro-choice, but being pro-choice means that it is ok to be pro-life and give birth to a child that is a product of rape.
Pro-choice means the woman chooses. Sounds like precisely what happened in your friend’s case; although it’s not a choice I would have made personally, it worked for her mom.
Glenn back has a camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGfpURNYpis
The Psychosis that is……Chickdom. Audio.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001200013
Shove it.
I’m a 100% with Uppity Woman on this one. Beck blows.
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