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SENATOR CALLS BECK A CYNIC, SAYS CONSPIRACY THEORISTS NEED TO MOVE ON
South Carolina’s top U.S. Senator has a message to the so-called “birthers” who believe that President Barack Obama is not a natural born American citizen: knock it off.
Graham told a group of Washington power players that the fringe group of conspiracy theorists did not reflect the beliefs of the GOP and that they needed to move on.
“The people who are doing unfair and unkind things to the president, it says more about them than it does the Republican Party,” said Graham. “But here’s what the Republican Party has to do: we have to say ‘that’s crazy.’
“I’m here to tell you that those who think the president was born somewhere other than Hawaii, you’re crazy. He’s not a Muslim, he’s a good man. Let’s knock this crap off and talk about the real differences we have.”
The senior Senator also called right wing talk show host Glenn Beck a cynic.
“Only in America can you make that much money crying,” Graham said of Beck. “Glenn Beck is not aligned with any party. He is aligned with cynicism and there has always been a market for cynics. But we became a great nation not because we are a nation of cynics. We became a great nation because we are a nation of believers.”
Graham isn’t the first person to pick on Beck’s perpetual crying. South Carolina native and Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert did a hilarious segment in April that you can watch by clicking here.
»Leaked video: Glenn Beck ‘uses Vicks to cry on cue’
By Ron Brynaert
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 — 9:24 am
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A video posted to YouTube a few weeks ago making the rounds across the internet apparently shows Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck having Vicks applied under his eyes in order to cry on cue for a photo shoot.
One blog, Sensico, mocks, “This is only shocking video to those that love Glenn Beck and think he cries non-stop because he ‘loves this country.’”
The blog links to a montage of Beck crying jags put to the theme song of “The Crying Game” as sung by Boy George: YouTube link.
In April, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert mocked one of Beck’s tear-ups, by pretending to be choked up about it: “I’m sorry. I just love Glenn Beck’s sanity — and I fear for it.”
Of course, using Vicks to cry during a staged photo shot wouldn’t be the same as using it to produce tears on television about how the country “is turning Socialist.” So, until another tape surfaces showing Beck getting the Vicks treatment before a rant on Fox, it would be premature to speculate that he only emits fugazi tears.
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But if Beck is outed as a Vicks-enabled weeper, then there are other tricks of the trade he can employ.
A wikiHOW manual offers many suggestions such as, “Make a crying face, which usually involves closing your eyes and scrunching your face.”
“Turn the corners of your lips down a little,” the manual advises. “Try to force the inner corners of your eyebrows upwards. Wrinkle up your chin like people do right before they start bawling.”
However, the manual notes, “This may look faked.” So, another suggestion is to “try pinching hard in some sensitive parts of your body,” and “tears will automatically flow down.”
The following video was posted to YouTube on September 17:
“He’s not a Muslim, he’s a good man. ”
Can’t Muslim men also be good men? What’s wrong with being Muslim… There is separation of church and state here.
“He’s not a Muslim, he’s a good man.”
Doesn’t that say a lot about Graham? What if he were both a Muslim and a good man? Could that happen?
Senator Graham:
Your call to “professionalism” at the expense of actual facts is unfounded and unwarranted. Obama is not a good man – he is a bald-faced liar. He has betrayed all of his campaign promises – because all of them were lies (other than those promises he made in secret to ACORN, SEIU, and San Francisco extremists). He secured the nomination by pledging to withdraw from Iraq immediately. Lie. He claimed to be a peace candidate, and now he kills Pakistani civilians with drones. He claimed there would be no taxes for people making less than $250K, and his health care bill has massive tax increases for everyone. He claimed he would take at least 5 days to read each bill before it was passed, and shoved the stimulus bill down our throats without a read. He tried to do the same with his Aktion T-4 health care plan, which has been denounced internationally.
You claim he is not a Muslim, yet he recites the Shahadatan flawlessly in Arabic. Do you know what that means? That means he can lie to “infidels” without reservation in the furtherance of jihad, which is exactly what he has done. Why did he bow and kiss the ring of the Saudi king? Why has he touted the Saudi plan for the division of Israel?
As for his place of birth, why don’t you prove it? Or at least show us the evidence upon which you rely to make your claims about his birth. Warning: if you pull out the forged certification of live birth, you’ll be joining the conspriracy.
But hey, we’ll follow your lead and ignore the constitution – which is exactly what we have come to expect from Republican leadership.
I am no Graham fan, but be fair. There was not a comma between “He is not a Muslim.” and “He is a good man.” These were two statements in a list of acknowledgments about the lies being spread about President Obama and the responsibility of the GOP to disclaim and discredit them. Each of the items in his list were not connected, other than being repudiation of lies.
Let’s not discourage common decency and civility with shallow attempts to misquote Graham by changing the punctuation.
The birthers, the tea baggers, the screamers, and the deathers continued extreme minority presence will become tiresome to mainstream America, if it has not already done so. To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true, if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).
As a sitting member of the most reviled institution in America, the Senator demonstrates how important it is to clean house in DC. To “decree” that “Republicans” should turn away from citizens who have raised questions of Constitutional legality pertaining to the President’ s citizenship is simple evidence of this man’s conceit and lack of qualifications to serve in the Senate. Does he really believe he has the right to silence the People? IMO both parties have forfeited their right to govern. I also agree with others here who take issue with his blatant bigotry against Muslims. And finally, I interpret Graham’s characterization of the Pres as being a “good man” to be a signal that the Senator from the Palmetto State is ready to compromise and deal with the Obamascare faction of the Senate. This man is ethically abhorrent.
Birdman: Increase you dosge of lithium immediately! Your failure to do so will result in your being put back in the 4 point retraints. This will be your only warning.
Birthers, JBSers, NWO conspiracy theorists, Christian Identity freaks, et al – all of you can descend to Hades straight away. You are not Rightists. You are Jacobin scum. You discredit the True Right, and do untold damage.
Away with you all!!!
birdman, As near as I can tell, Obama hasn’t broken significantly larger numbers of his campaign promises at this point in his presidency than other first term presidents I’ve been around to notice (back to JFK).
Right wing-nuts think that Obama made secret promises to ACORN, SEIU, and San Francisco extremists. Left wing-nuts worry about George Bush’s secret promises to Exxon-Mobil, Halliburton, Blackwater and Saudi Arabia. Hmmm…
Obama didn’t claim to get rid of taxes for everyone making less than $250K. He said he wouldn’t raise them.
Obama doesn’t speak flawless Arabic. He misprounced hijab as hajib when giving a speech in Cairo.
Obama did bow to the Saudi king, the first time he met him, and he has kissed him on the cheek, but these actions are not significantly different than those shown in pictures of President Bush with the Saudi king. Bush was photographed kissing him on both cheeks and strolling hand-in-hand, both actions common among Saudi men. Is George Bush a secret Muslim?
Please, birdman, take your medication, and be more selective of who you believe. A lot of what you claim about Obama’s actions and biography are inaccurate assertions that originated in anonymous emails that are floating around them web. Do you believe them because you haven’t seen the facts or because you just want to.
My God, Americans are all nuts. I am just going to sit back and wait for Civil War II.
Nice try Mr. Graham: “He’s not a Muslim; he’s a good man.” Interesting juxtaposition; so one can place whatever punctuation one pleases. We get it and it’s all in the inflection. What if he were a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Taoist, or an atheist? Would he not be fit to govern?
We are all adults here, and as adults we know there are consequences for are actions, so if you do not agree with his policies, you can a) do nothing, b) support him, c) not support him, d) protest and picket, its your choice, live the dream! As for Orly Taitz, to this point she has not been successful because she does not have any proof, documentation supporting her claims except her wild rants. I would not bet the farm on this one. She has a mail-order-degree get someone with real credentials (Harvard, Yale Law School) not a crazy Russian immigrant with dual US/ Israel citizenship (where are her allegiances?). Have you even thought of who is paying for all these legal filings, her travel and all her wigs? Sorry she has no juice because she does not have any proof, documentation supporting her claims except her wild rants. I heard they are now playing the victim card as well. Please, feel sorry for us the “Birth Certificate” that we built our entire case around and that we have been dancing around turn out to be a big “Fake”. Her material might work on “Fake News” but not in a Court of the United States.
Is John McCain a natural born citizen of the USA? We know as fact that he was not born within the USA proper; he admits he was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone. The Constitution requires that the president be “a natural born citizen” of the USA, and elsewhere defines this as being born in the USA. I don’t believe any president in US history has been born outside the boundaries of the United States. It seems like tricky legal ground and there are going to be McCain hating birthers who will be all over this. This could be a problem for the Obama birther campaign because in the end isn’t the purpose to delegitimize the election of Obama and give the election to McCain? or is it Palin? Now just where was she born? Keep working on this one you birthers who are not listening to Senator Graham.
Senator have you reead “Up to Here in Election Fradu in SC, from the Chair of the 2008 DNC Convention to the Chair of the DNC”? Have you, are you in the real world? I used to think you were a smart man, but after this article have changed my mind. You can read this article at this site and see the election fraud complaints that the average citizens have taken upon themselves to clean up. You might learn that we do not take our people in Congress’s word anymore.
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