The devastating fires continue to ravage southern California. At least one person has been killed, dozens have been injured, and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated from their homes, including a quarter-million people in San Diego alone.
Overwhelmed firefighters said they lacked the resources to save many houses.
“We have more houses burning than we have people and engine companies to fight them,” San Diego Fire Captain Lisa Blake said. “A lot of people are going to lose their homes today.”
And to hear CNN’s Glenn Beck tell it, that’s all right, because those people aren’t any good anyway.
On the October 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, host Glenn Beck stated, “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.”
I wonder what kind of psychosis leads a person to look at the California wildfires and think about the political ideologies of those who are suffering.
I guess that’s what makes Glenn Beck special.
UPDATE: John Amato: I remember when the earthquake of ‘94 hit. I was selling computer parts back then to help support myself and a purchasing agent from Alabama told me the reason the quake hit Northridge was because there was so much pornography being produced there. See, we all deserved it.
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Wow. Just, wow. What an asshole.
Funny. I’m in San Diego and most people here are conservative military-loving GOPers. He must’ve meant Malibu.
And my ex-husband’s potentially losing his house in the Rancho Bernardo area — he’s republican to the core.
Throw Beck’s worthless ass on the fire line. Somebody please [fill in violent fantasy] him.
Why/how have they been so succesful at smearing lberals with the “hate America” tag?
I have hated Glenn Beck for a while, but this is over the fucking top.
Somebody let me know how this looser is still on the air and why CNN still hired him in the first place.
This man is not a journalist. All he is a conservative nut job who sucks up to the bush admin. What a joke. CNN, just fire his sorry ass already.
“John Amato: I remember when the earthquake of ‘94 hit. I was selling computer parts back then to help support myself and an purchasing agent from Alabama told me the reason the quake hit Northridge was because there was so much pornography being produced there. See, we all deserved it. ”
Wonder if the idiot southern ChristianOfascist rednecks see the record drought accross the south as God’s punishment on them for being a bunch of bigoted, homophobic backward ass wipes?
Glenn Beck really needs to go back on drugs. He was more fun then.
This smoke is making me dizzy. I guess it’s because my lungs hate America.
Is Glen Beck saying that people who hate America should have their homes burned down?
Glenn Beck makes the Culture Warrior from Levittown look like an intellectual.
…I would like to also ad these fires are sweeping across southern California near heavily Republican Orange County, not the San Francisco area. God’s punishing who Mr. Beck?
he’s on crack(i allege)-that’s gotta be it
Unfortunately, its not psycho behavior, this guy is a nonentity trying desperately to be noticed. If not for C&L I’d have never heard of what’s-his-name or known who he is.
This guy can’t be serious! Is he trying to sound like a moderate that paints all Californians with the same brush? How is this clown on the air? Did he and Coulter make a secret pact with the devil? WTF????!!!!!
Hey Glenn,
Just because a person dislikes the president and the administration, and does not support a senseless war does not mean that you hate America.
For the love of God GET BACK ON YOUR DRUGS!
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Ruthless People @ 7:
Nah. They exclude themselves, because they’re perfect, dontcha know. When I lived in San Francisco in the early 1980s, idiots from the hinterlands would write letters to the editor saying that drought was God’s punishment on the gays.
Glenn Beck shows idiocy is not limited to any era or season. He’s a jerk.
I wonder if he (beck)will have this attitude when chimp and shooter are sentenced for treason and [Deleted. Please do not advocate the death penalty (state sponsored violence) on this site-Sitemonitor]
Stay classy, Beck.
Don’t worry, the right will come out and condemn him. wait…..wait, no they wont. They’ll count the dollars (no matter how little they are) and defend him.
Beck might be upset because we kept Blackwater out of San Diego:
http://tinyurl.com/2v5ggb
I wonder if he realizes that San Diego county is overwhelminly conservative/Republican and ex and current military……
What a moron.
What is he implying? That the fires were purposely set by people who hate the people who lived there?
“…the quake hit Northridge was because there was so much pornography being produced there. See, we all deserved it.”
That’s funny, cuz the porn is produced in Chatsworth, not Northridge. I guess he thinks God doesn’t sweat the details.
EJ @ 22:
Naw, that’s not a given — though the fire was near Potrero. We still might get Blackwater here. At least they’re still trying.
Question: Are there any petitions or sties out there to get this clown off the radio and off CNN?
If not, then I’m going to start my own. I’ve had it with this Bigot.
Beck has proven what a flippent twit he is.
I seriously doubt there are any people the ultra rich Republican part of California which is currently burning who hate America.
Can’t wait to hear the “context” in which that remark makes sense.
I’m pretty sure he was dissing the Malibu-ites, not the San Diegans.
And a guy from Alabama knows so effin much about the pr0n industry in Northridge how..?
Criminy. It never even occurred to me to wonder what political party or what kind of tax bracket these unfortunate folks fell into, but leave it to this cretin to try and, wait for it, politicize a godamn wildfire! This is made all the more interesting by Sluggirl’s comment at @2 and 3.
Beck:
total moron.
Just look at his beady eyes and sloped brow! He’s a missing link.
must be one of those Republican values I keep hearing about. I haven’t been able to find any but this certainly seems like a fine example
“I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.”
Ummm…, excuse me for thinking clearly, but, what portion of a “handful” constitutes “a lot”!?!
Glenn Beck is an idiot to be sure. But if we allow his insipid remark to derail us from the important business at hand then we are even stupider.
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Mr. Beck, I’ll be sure to let my sister-in-law and my 16 year old neice what you said. They’ve been evacuated and may very well lose their home.
Ruthless people is right..Lake Lanier….supplies water to how many?1 million maybe more?Georgia is going to take a real hard hit.It must be Gods will……….there can be no other reason….according to Becks logic.This guy just says things to get a reaction…..I think he should try being reasonable,ya know….not being such an asshole….
uh yeah, if you believe in god and heaven and hell and you believe god is omnipotent and everything happens because he wants it to happen (or lets it happen) then it makes sense that disasters and catastrophes are punishment from god.
miss_kitty @ 32:
Because it’s on the return address from his brown package deliveries.
The sad part about the comment by Beck is that he’s to stupid to know that a large portion of San Diego is Republican…but you wouldn’t expect him to do research so he knows what he is talking about…after all he’s not Randi Rhodes!
I mean words just fail me. I don’t understand WTF he’s trying to say. Is there some point to that rambling diatribe?
Not a surprise. You just knew the right wing hate machine was going to say that people from California deserved it.
What a bunch of creeps.
Udon Nomee @ 35:
I think he means a lot of the handful.
7 Ruthless People Says:
This one’s easy:
<fundy>The record drought is a punishment for their failure to wipe out the gays.</fundy>Does this guy have gills? Scales? Quills? What sort sick and abominable creature is he? He’s surely not a fellow human.
Wake me when this nightmarish Bushevik interregnum is over …
and yet he has a welcome home on abc’s “good morning america” and the love and admiration of diane sawyer.
so i e-mailed “gma” and told them i’d never watch their show as long as he was on.
you can contact them here with your comments.
http://abcnews.go.com/Site/pag.....%20America
Well ya’ll, if the fires sweep into my trailer park, I’m sure we’ll deserve it. Meanwhile I’m going home to pack a few things, just in case. Wish us San Diegans luck.
milquetoast @ 19:
What beautiful mind pictures you paint. Sigh.
Peace @ 36:
How these people frame the argument IS vitally important. I don’t consider this remark insipid at all. It is a symptom of what is deeply wrong with our society. It’s what is fueling the hate. And ignoring is allowing it to become commonplace. Acceptable. This kind of shit is not at all acceptable.
Focus on the big picture. Find the root cause. It’s language.
If God really wanted to punish the bad people in this country, we all know where he/she/it should put some natural disasters.
COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM!
I don’t know why anyone would find this shocking. This is another nut who will say anything for ratings. Even negative attention is attention. If you had low ratings and were ignored by most, you would try cheap publicity stunts too. Clearly, it worked.
Shaka Zulu @ 17:
Yeah, Moore wrote this after the 9/11 attacks. He quickly deleted it off his web site later.
Yet another reason having our National Guard in Iraq is not helping our security at home. Not to mention that since Iraq isn’t a national emergency, having the guard overseas is *illegal*.
What’s more surprising then the fact Glenn Beck would say this?
That posters are surprised that Glenn Beck would say this….
Give the man some credit though, he didn’t post the addresses of the dirty f**cking hippies who lost their homes.
The most infuriating thing about statements like this, is they’re not disprovable since God Himself is not in the habit of interrupting and clearing things up. So trolls like this can say hateful stuff like this and sit smugly back.
tiger cub @ 5:
well…
the first step is to frighten the living shit out of the general population with a lot of CNN/FOX propaganda about Islamofascism….
henceforth getting a lot of people (dumocraps/repigs) to bend over and forgo their constitutional freedoms (in lieu of) security.
Evil islamo/terror mongers are apparently much scarier to most people than a global superpower like Russia who has (many nuclear weapons)
once everyone is scared shitless…
eveything else falls into place and shazzam!!!
all patriot act protesters/war protesters are instantly non-patriotic