Beck Mocks Union Winter Retreat, Card Check in Show’s 'COMЯADE UPDATE'

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As part of a continuation of his "COMЯADE UPDATE" segment he started near the beginning of his show, which became a YouTube sensation, Fox News host Glenn Beck is picking up right where he left off.

Beck, on his March 4 program took on a couple new targets, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and union labor.

"Comrades! Comrades, there is good news from the Western front," Beck said. "Our glorious revolution is starting to take hold on a global scale. Just listen as Comrade Brown pounded our propaganda into the minds of the clueless capitalist pigs today. Listen up."

Beck played a clip from Brown's address of a joint session of Congress, where the prime minister lobbied for the "world" to work together.

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"We should seize this moment, because never before have I seen a world willing to come together so much," Brown said, speaking before the joint session of Congress. "Never before has that been more needed and never before have the benefits of cooperation been so far reaching."

Beck mocked Brown's "collectivist" instinct, but he also invoked the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions made up of 56 national and international unions

"If we could just have the globe all together," Beck said. "Oh, how right he is! Even a child knows that a collective is stronger than individual. That's why you'll be so pleased by the work the agents that we have planted insider our great worker organization, the AFL-CIO."

Beck ridiculed the AFL-CIO, after it was reported on Fox News the organization was holding its winter meetings at the newly refurbished Fontainebleau Hotel luxury resort in Miami Beach, Fla. He also mentioned the organization's efforts to enact the card check system, also known as the Employee Free Choice Act. The legislation is controversial because it would allow workers to join unions by signing cards rather than through secret-ballot elections in which companies can campaign against the union.

"These workers have united at their winter gatherings in Florida to improve life for you, the average worker," Beck said. "Oh, it's great. Wait until you see the opulence. We'll show it to you in a minute. They're touting our card check system. And, believe it or not, the Americans are actually starting to buy it.

According to the March 4 Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders in a videotaped address the legislation has his "full backing."

"Their fearless leader, Comrade Obama, has even promised the noble workers that he supports our bill. Yes, comrades, the greatest Trojan horse we've conceived might still work after all, but we must stay vigilant. Some capitalists are trying to save their failed state by thwarting the fearless leader's efforts."

Beck joked that organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce try to sway opinion against card check because they claim it would hurt business.

"They say that secret ballots must be protected - secret ballots," Beck added. "You must not listen to their foolish propaganda. They only fear our united front. Comrades! Our time is now."

Beck also joked about the money the federal government is pumping into the banking system to make sure they remain stable, despite questions whether the $700-billion TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) has worked, under the direction of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that got in trouble over taxes during his confirmation hearings.

"We have them spending trillions to save their precious banks," Beck continued. "We nearly have their senses in the hands of their fearless leader. We have convinced them that those who cheat on their taxes are more important than the average person, so they should be ignored. Let them work, let them work!"

He took a few jabs at Congress, and also said the road to socialism wasn't paved with violence, but instead - fear.

"And their very own agents, our agents are now in Congress," Beck said. "We are very close to our ruling party. The destruction of the West is happening just as we always hoped, but not with violence, no, no - with fear."

"And the best part is it's happening without the fear of their true enemy," Beck said. "What they would call the red slavery of socialism. Ha, ha - I laugh at that. The only thing worse to them, only thing worse than losing millions of lives, apparently is losing trillions of dollars. We have them where they want them, and in their panic, they will succumb."

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I watched that today...it

I watched that today...it was an excellent opening, followed by the CPUSA top comrade - Sam Webb. That guy looked really nervous and couldn't answer a single question about the failures of communism and the spectacular death tolls the ideology racks up.

It may be funny to watch on Beck's show, but the realities of our situation or not funny at all. Beck is right when he says we need to wake up.

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Me too

Beck is funny and takes the edge off what is really going on. You got to laugh, else what ...

That CPUSA guy was a real boob. He even tried the Hitler was right wing stuff. By now everyone knows that's a lie -- And Beck made him open wide while he stuffed it in sideways.

 

Beck rocks ...

Me Too

I can't stand people that can't answer a question without first repeating it back. I just want to give him a smack.

RODEO CLOWN...

Glenn Beck is very sharp at what he does, & how he  does it. He put himself out there as being a little nuts, & he uses that to pound those he sees as doing stupid things. When he says "...I'm a recovering alcoholic DJ & a rodeo clown,  & I GET IT!!!", & your are the target, that is a major put down. He is also nuts enough to use ANYTHING as a prop to get his point across. He was sitting with older fat guy, & he offered him some jelly beans. The guest refused, saying he was fat. Beck then took back his offer & said he would share his jelly beans with people he choose to, rather then being forced to share by the gov't. That is how he went after a guy about socialism. Very funny stuff.

I hope he does'nt lose that part of his presentation, if that happens, he will have lost much of his edge.

But the other thing is he reads ALL THE TIME, he is self educated, & that makes him dangerous to those who rely on conventional wisdom. He is outside of the box, he really has no blueprint to how he does, what he does, & he has the guts to say what he thinks when others won't go there. He is being honest with his viewers/listeners, then he is proved right more often then not, & that's why he is doing as well as he is. That & he's happy being #3.

 

 

"The Fairness Doctrine = Jim Crow laws for Conservatives".  Jim Quinn from "Quinn & Rose"

Beck was on a tear

He even had a streamer or whatever that thing across the bottom of the screen is called....IN RUSSIAN!  Uns, where are you?

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

U.K. is lost, Brown is stupid.....

The U.K is lost to Islam and Brown thinks the U.S. will save their bacon again. Sorry to inform him but he's asking a member of Islam to help him fight Islam, ain't going to happen. Remember his own words, "If the political winds change I will stand with Islam" 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

online?

shucks, I caught the show right after that segment ended.  Is it online anywhere?

I really like Glenn Beck but....

....his schtick comparing liberalism to communism seems unoriginal.

For a more edgy version, I highly recommend you visit the People's Cube.  http://thepeoplescube.com/

Very funny!

Beck is one of the best as

Beck is one of the best as far as I am concerned...I would have never heard of him if it wasn't for Roger the Shrubber, who I am eternally grateful to for giving us the heads up about him here quite awhile back now.

I couldn't take listening to Brown today, so thank you for the update of what leftist glowing tripe was spewed as they cheered and clapped in the House.

...and the Unions, I don't even want to get started with them, I despise them at the top and what their agenda is and has been from way back when... 

We have to fight out here against the enemy within with a vengeance the likes we have never seen before they swallow us all up one way or the other.

Beck was in rare form

Beck was in rare form today....

→ Biden on Probation

Joe Biden's speech to AFL-CIO convention will not be televised by order of the White House.

So if Joe is in the room for all major decisions, did he get a say in the "Let's gag Joe" vote?

We won the cold war!  Why did we surrender?

The big union thing and

The big union thing and Gordon Brown at the same time are a little hard to take. Does anyone know how many coal mines are owned by the United Mine Workers? I searched and came up with zero.

If the 'owners' are getting rich on the backs of the workers, I'm thinking that the union bosses ought to be seeing opportunity right now. Hey, they have nothing to lose but their chains, right?

 

Glenn Beck is stupid, by

Glenn Beck is stupid, by his own standards. In the January commercial for his then-upcoming Fox News show, Beck implied, in that unfunny, sarcastic way of his, that people who call other people communists are stupid.

Beck's statement in the commercial goes like this: "I'm tired of the politics of left and right. It's about right and wrong. We argue back and forth -- [unfunny, mocking voice] 'If you haven't voted for the donkey, you're just a hatemonger.' The other side -- [another unfunny, mocking voice] 'Oh, those donkeys trying to turn us into communist Russia.' Stop! Politicians -- do they know what they're doing? Are they just blatantly stupid?" 

You can see the commercial here ... http://mediamatters.org/items/200901080016

I have no opinion of Mr

I have no opinion of Mr Beck (never seen his show) -- except he was very funny and self-deprecating on Red Eye a couple of weeks ago.

But please post a link that DOES NOT take NEWSBUSTERS to that extreme loony left Soros funded webshite Media Nutters.

thank you 

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