So, Glenn, we’re guessing that’s why you’re so afraid of us. We don’t fit neatly into your black-and-white formula. You simply borrow some of the best ideas from our 150-year-old anti-authoritarian tradition. We take those same ideas and not only run with them, but improve on them. We follow the logic to its ethical conclusion. And we include corporate media moguls like you in our Hall of Infamy.
But we’re reasonable folk. We understand that you find it scary to think about what will happen when ordinary people realize that they actually have the power to make their own decisions and take control of their own lives. So, here’s what we suggest:
Just admit you’re afraid of us. Admit that your passionate and convoluted rants are a nervous dance around your inability to support real freedom (anarchism) over unbridled power (Communism and capitalism). And then use your massive wealth and power for the forces of good.

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An Open Letter to Glenn Beck [via]

THIS IS SO GOOD..

Well, there’s a push to push this HR 2499. I see it as part of a four pronged plan that I see to really change the environment here in the United States of America. Amnesty for people who are here illegally, voting rights for criminals and felons. They wanted D.C. voting rights, something, got this little thing called the Second Amendment got in the way. They weren’t willing to put it forward, but they certainly wanted to do something I believe was unconstitutional and give Washington D.C. voting rights. And now this 2499, which is the Puerto Rico statehood bill which is being pushed by the new progressive party in Puerto Rico trying to create a federally sanctioned; that is, a U.S. sanctioned vote that they say is nonbinding but would give them the legitimacy to then come back and try to seat people in the United States congress.

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Congressman Jason Chaffetzof Utah, Glenn Beck: The 51st State?

Idk if y’all subscribe to Glenn Beck’s email newsletter (which, uh, I definitely do because I am really into talk radio as an institution) but I thought this discussion was kind of interesting.  I have become really interested in PR over the last few months and I am intrigued both by this discussion and HR 2499.

Honestly, having read the whole thing, I can’t even see why anyone in the United States would be upset about PR wanting to be a state (if they even want to be a state) unless the prob is more brown people who can vote for national reps and president.

1 : example, pattern; especially : an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
2 : an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms
3 : a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind

— paradigm - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Glenn Beck (bc, oh yes, I am watching Fox News coverage of the 9/12 rallies) needs to stop using ‘paradigm’ in a way that doesn’t make any sense. Like, there are words for what you mean Glenn. It just isn’t paradigm. Plus you are just encouraging me to be a snob by being irritated about it.