The Right Wing Radio Duck conspiracy
[Update: I’m having a couple of problems embedding video, so I’ve used links.]
The best “patchwork” video I have even seen – one constructed from a montage of sources – is “Right Wing Radio Duck”, where “Donald Duck meets Glenn Beck”, as I posted last year.
Glenn Beck in “Right Wing Radio Duck”
At the time I missed a brilliant follow-up from Rebellious Pixels, which shows Glenn Beck’s theory that this had been funded by some shadowy body in the background, rather than simply done by an individual who happens not to like him.
Wonderful.
[Update 2: Even better: This is a fuller version of the Glenn Beck reaction, in which he paraphrases Gandhi.
Glenn Beck\’s reflection on ‘Right Wing Radio Duck’.].
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May 19, 2011 at 09:39 -
Oh boy, Oh boy, Oh boy…
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May 19, 2011 at 22:37 -
I think that the greatest man made document is the US Constitution, with of course the Bill of Rights, which is an integral part of it.
Never forget that the Bill of Rights seeks to limit the power of Government .
Surely anything which aims at limiting the power of Government must by definition be good?
A comparable document is impossible for the UK, since there is no constitution to limit. So by definition, the UK government has limitless power.
To be sure, there is Magna Carta, but this has been whittled away over the centuries, and now very little of it remains.
The so-called EU constitution starts with a list of signatories, going on for 11 pages, Whereas the US Constitution has it’s signatories consigned to the back, and they fill one page only.
So the EU constitution is government focused, and the US Constitution is people focused.
The Bill of Rights ensures that in the end, power rests with the people.
The EU constitution ensures that the unelected government rules the people.
I remember during the last US presidential election, Obama’s one, there is one speech where he says, in passing, that the Constitution is flawed and needs changing.
Since then there has been a seemingly endless flow of extra constitutional initiatives from Obama, by-passing the Constitution. This flow has been dramatically slowed by the Republicans gaining the majority in the House and hopefully will be reversed after 2012.
Glenn Beck, for all of his weird presentational tricks, is fundamentally correct in publicising what Obama has been doing.
He is correct in promoting a Back to the Constitution attitude.
He is correct in supporting Israel.
He is correct in supporting Christianity.
Despite years of his programmes, he has repeatedly offered to debate his statements with anyone from the left, but there are no takers.
They cannot fault him on facts.
And so they turn to the time-dishonoured technique of smearing and producing those Donald Duck things.
I’m surprised that you, Anna, approved of them, I always thought that you were an advocate of individual liberty.
It seems like I was wrong.
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May 19, 2011 at 23:40 -
Peter,
Thanks for the comment – that’s not Anna, it’s me.
Personally I don’t see anything wrong with having a chuckle at Glenn Beck’s idiosyncracies, if that’s all they are. Though that’s not my view. I’m equally happy to have a giggle at the weird left.
I also admire excellent technical work, and this is certainly that.
Matt Wardman
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May 20, 2011 at 20:59 -
Sorry Anna, sorry Mark, I never looked at the headline for the Ducky thing and I should’ave.
I would imagine that Glenn expects that we should have a chuckle or few at his idiosyncracies, it’s part of his “thing”. And of course they are not just fun things, he has an agenda as have the majority of people on MSM, and the blogs, when you think on it.
But the “weird” left, is anything but that, it is a sustained attack on the Capitalist, Christian, West.
There is excellent technical work to admire from both sides, Beck’s is like a sailboat, bowling along in the breeze, everything in plain sight, whereas the weird left’s is like the proverbial duck (how on earth did that duck get back in?) quiet on the surface, but working furiously down below, out of sight.Anyway, I’ll be less hasty in future.
Peter Melia
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