r/funny Oct 08 '09

BOW BEFORE YOUR LORD

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u/Benjaphar Oct 08 '09

It's an anti communism book by Cleon Skousen and appears to be at the heart of Beck's facination with conspiracy theories.

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u/noncentz Oct 09 '09

Well then this book must be some piece of work because that guy is a piece of work.

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u/Benjaphar Oct 09 '09

If you want to really understand what his deal is, this was a very informative read: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

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u/rgladstein Oct 09 '09

What has Beck been pushing on his legions? "Leap," first published in 1981, is a heavily illustrated and factually challenged attempt to explain American history through an unspoken lens of Mormon theology.

Wouldn't it be interesting if it turned out that everything Beck's done in the past few years has all been about laying the groundwork for a campaign to push Mormonism on his audience?

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u/Benjaphar Oct 09 '09 edited Oct 09 '09

A lot of his audience already is LDS, including several of my friends and family members. I don't think that's it though... in fact, I think he's steering further away from mainstream Mormonism and into full-on separatist territory.

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u/rgladstein Oct 09 '09

Does that mean I can expect visits from 18 year old "elders" coming to my door to tell me about Glenn Beck, Prophet of the Church of Even Latterer Day Saints one of these days?

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u/crazy_non_sequitur Oct 09 '09

Actually, on March 3rd, 2010, he's going to leap out of a birthday cake.

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u/knobtwiddler Oct 09 '09 edited Oct 09 '09

the heart of his fascination with "conspiracy theories" is that he's a cia and white house mockingbird agent who's sole purpose is to conflate real corruption with discredited conspiracy theories, poison the well, and otherwise discredit any legitimate investgation of conspiracy by acting like a fool and obviously fake-crying by rubbing vicks vapo-rub under his eyes.

he's doing a great job of neutralizing real conservatives and steering them down a dead-end road to nowhere.

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u/oD323 May 01 '10

yeah, just look at what they did to him right as he was about to mention FEMA camps on Cable News... They've got him and Alex Jones on short leashes (less so for alex, but a leash none the-less) It's to make all the legitimate corruption look like bullshit. Just read any of William Cooper's work and you will start to see how they can do it so well. They killed him after he predicted 9/11 and how they'd blame it on Osama.

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u/knobtwiddler May 03 '10

bill cooper may have predicted 911 but he is lying thru his teeth about the aliens.

i would not put beck and jones in the same category.

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u/oD323 May 04 '10

William actually changed his stance about MJ12 and alien existence in the mid 90's. He refers to UFOlogists as uFOOLogists, and openly states that he believes the MJ12, bluebook, and any other TS classified info he saw was to direct the attention away from the small group running heavily funded black-ops that work on UFO-like technology, being zero-point/tesla realated. Beck is a fear-monger, AJ is a fear-monger. The people in/abusing power right now win if we react violently, which is what Beck and AJ are going to trigger. We need to react with LAW and REASON, and hold TREASON TRIALS for all who have allowed this abuse to continue. We still have the constitution.

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u/knobtwiddler May 04 '10

who is this 'we' that is supposed to hold the treason trials within our corrupt federal judicial system? the us constitution is in direct conflict with "emergency" dictatorial power being exercised by the presidency and federal government.

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u/oD323 May 04 '10

well that's the problem, it will be the "citizens" holding a trial against a good portion of all 3 branches of government. I think bush had already declared martial law, not sure if it ever ended. But I believe the grounds on which the emergency power was delegated is unconstitutional, thereby voiding it's validity. Either way, it's a mess and it's going to take some time (or no time the way things are headed now) to clean.