Glenn Beck: Nation "under assault" by "anti-capitalist extremists"

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Referencing the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters who have been demonstrating for weeks across the country, Glenn Beck said Saturday that "we are under assault not just from Muslim extremists outside of our country but anti-capitalist extremists."

Speaking at the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington, Beck said the "Occupy" protesters largely "just want the free stuff." Beck said that while plenty of people in the United States are unemployed and suffering, "there are many in this country that I call the 'funemployed,' who have no intention of getting a job."

The "occupy" protesters have a variety of grievances and goals but are largely in protest of corporate greed and corruption on Wall Street and Washington. Beck, however, said they amount to "flash mobs that just gather together to take, to destroy."

He said "there is a storm coming... a storm of biblical proportions" and that the U.S. is currently embroiled in a "race war" led by groups like the Black Panthers. He said the "war on terror is a religious war" and that there's also a "war between the media and the truth" - a line that won him a standing ovation.

Beck said he predicted two years ago that the "violent left" would take to the streets.

Still, he said the current turmoil has left the U.S. at "an amazing crossroads."

"What's happening to our country right now is not a curse, it's a blessing," he said, explaining that there's an opportunity for Americans to renew their sense of personal responsibility.

For instance, he said, "you go to school, you rack up a lot of school loans - that was your choice." He encouraged those who can't afford student loans to go to the public library.

"By doing the small and simple things, by accepting the responsibilities that make each of us good, it will in turn make America great again," he said. "It will again define American exceptionalism for anyone in this city who may need a refresher on that."

[Kenny777_y]

shame on you cbs keep this pos out of your topics. hes a coward, pile of dog crap, worthless sob.

[typingfast1]

What a complete and total idiot. How can anyone listen to Glenn the Idiot. If brains was dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose. If he was a fire cracker, his fuse wouldn't have enough powder to light. If you listen to or read Glenn Beck's opinions, then this country is in deep trouble. I thought Rush was bad for the country? Then they come up with Glenn. It's time America wakes up and start voting the Dems back in office.

[Toobadaboutglenn]

I've followed this man for a number of years and have been saddened to see him lose sight of reality. As for his predictions being supernatural, I heard a number of people saying the same things, including me. It didn't take a rocket scientist or a heavenly message to see that the whole economic house of cards was going tot collapse. Anyone who has any knowledge of history would see what was going to happen.
As for this take on the Wall Street protests, it's very sad to see that someone who has felt the sting of unemployment and a social disease has so little compassion and empathy who are now unemployed or a victim of social disease now. In fact, I'd guess that Mr. Geck himself was helped through his tough times by government agencies and religious organizations that also make use of government benefits. I'd also guess that a great number of those who are now occupying Wall Street and other cities are those who are helped him in his troubled times.
If you honestly think that all those very diverse people are socialists, anarchists and misfits, then you are simply drinking the Koolaid being handed out by those who don't want people to think.
If you truly listen, no demands have been made nor actions threatened by this movement. If you really listen you'll hear the message from the former middle class who are telling the rich and powerful that they will no longer be happily turned into modern day serfs.
Now that Mr Beck has left the middle class and enjoined himself to the much richer than you class, he has forgotten what it means to be without a job and a future for his family. It's really too bad and when Jesus told his followers that it was easier to put a camel through the eye of a needle than it wqs for a rich man to net er heaven he must have had this very scenario in mind.
If Mr Beck and his followers truly believe they are following Christ's teachings, then I challenge them to give it all away and join the ranks of the poor and unemployed. The sick and the displaced and to minister to all those he and others are so quick to criticize.
It's very easy to quote Jesus Christ and claim to be a follower but refuse to actually follow his teachings. Please do not use His name and teachings when his instructions to us to do unto others as you would have done unto you is being ignored. Christ also said that whatever you do to the least of of Gods creations, you do to him. Calling people names and grouping them into lesser beings is not what made America great. It would behoove those who encourage this kind of mean spirited rhetoric to look back some 230 years ago and remember what drove people to fight back against oppression.
This type of non violent revolution is much preferable but no different in it's intention of freeing people from economic servitude to a powerful few.

[noloyalisti]

Worth a re-post: I guess that protesters must be sponsored by the Koch brothers to be ok for Beck ...

Beck really is a Koch Sucker moron!

[Kenny777_y]

lol well put.i really think C.B.S puts this a$$ hole in topics just to read the response,s.

[noloyalisti]

Beck is the ultimate hypocrite. Here is a guy who organized a protest of Tea Baggers and that was fine. But these American citizens protesting their horror at what the Top 1% (like Beck) have done to America are suddenly extremists.

Is anyone even still listening to this blathering idiot?

[sickofphoneytuff]

How did you pay for your education fool, These kids did not set up the for profit education model they are just paying the price and maybe from the results that we have seen for the last thirty years we can draw the conclusion that education is not one of those functions that can be effectively run on the corporate model just look att how India and China are eating our lunch in this sector Money has not made you smarter just louder and more annoying

[commonworkingman]

There are some that realize the power of education and some who don't.

[slatep]

Prostitution and Congress == the two oldest professions.

[GoUnion86]

Everytime I hear Glenn Beck speak I think to myself how is this guy any different than a wild eyed, urine-stained nut case babbling through a bull horn on the street corner. They both say the same thing except Beck has turned his lunacy into a million dollar a year job and the other guy is sleeping in a card board box and drinking water from a garden hose.

[s12552001]

Glen Becks years of being an alcoholic has pickled his brain.Yes he quit but the damage he did to himself is obvious.Glem my advice to you is to go buy yourself a bottle and do what you do best because I for one am tiered of watching you make an ass of yourself.Please just go away.

[rmonroe401]

Wow, chevyhotrod, don't you have a job yet? You can't work and have the time to post every day on this site. Or are you suckin off the government teet?

[tonyatq]

did the Black Panthers come from? Are the voices in his head telling him this stupid snuff. It amazing to me when the teabagger when to the street to protest health insurance for the rest of American, but enjoyed their government insurance and benefits they were a grassroot movement but these are taking over the streets.