Really? That's how you see me?

I'm some Fox News cap wearing, Limbaugh, or Beck, parroting retard? Not that his listeners are retards, just that to listen to a pundit, then come to this site and present the argument as my own is retarded. We've argued New Deal since day 1. But because beck is now espousing his opinions in a way that garners high enough ratings for you to notice you assume I am simply picking up his baton & running it here? I was arguing these principles and many of these positions before I (or you) knew who the hell he was.

Let me clue you in on something chief ...
The 5,000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed The World.
New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America.
Liberal Fascism: The History of The Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression.
George Washington, Founding Father.

These are all books I've been reading in recent months. I chose them because they were footnoted with primary source material by accredited authors (all but one has made academia their life's work). I catch Beck's show roughly 2 times a week on radio, and 1 on television. I like him. I like him in the way I like Savage - I think they are intelligent men whom are veracious readers, who then report back their opinions on what they've read and pondered, and in an entertaining way. Which I thought was something of what we did here. I've mentioned Beck or championed his show NOT BECAUSE my library and mind are bare!! But because I find in him someone LIKE US! Someone who has an IQ, unlike Hannity who hasn't read so much as his vcr manual from 1987! AND I have mentioned my dislike of Hannity's presentation way back in the Grand days. That he was heavy with the platitudes and light on history and original commentary. The opposite of a Beck & Savage, of us. Half the time Savage is out of his gord - BUT AT LEAST ITS ORIGINAL THOUGHT laced with a familiarity of history. Unlike Fox N' Friends, which makes me want to puke, repeatedly. They are unlike anything Hannity does (he's a nice guy, just a political simpleton in my view). Unlike Rush, who while smart is obsessed with the daily political drip rather then a historical perspective.

MY POINT BEING - I read and research my own material. Posit my own thoughts. I listen to Beck & Savage because they're not boring, use history, and seem bright, even when I think they may be wrong. REMIND YOU OF ANY BLOG? Or my opinion of anyone here?

So I have to "go off" this or that network (I barely watch Fox news, I use my tv for dvd, netflix, etc), and not listen to AM talk (which I do about a total of 5 or 6 hours a week)? Huh? Is that the deal? See if I think FDR is an angel then? See if I can muster a single thought on my own?

Let me ask you something. You think Beck is knocking down massive ratings discussing Smoot-Hawley? When I link to sites in any of my various posts, do any of them lead you to Beck's site? Has even ONE, ever?

That's fine though. Since this is the impression my friends have of me I'll burn my books. I'll get rid myself of the fax machine Beck & Fox news use to send me the text of my posts here. I'm sure O'Reilly will be relieved to stop writing my material, one less to-do, he's a busy guy.

The people within the media with the highest salaries, highest ratings, and most real world influence in 2010 happen top be conservatives. God forbid a conservative on the radio or TV should have the same opinion as F. Ryan, that's crazy. I mean why would two CONSERVATIVES both object to FDR? That's kooky talk.

Look, piss on your request. I'm no drone. I listen to Beck & Savage while I get ready for work, or work out because I enjoy it. They talk like we would to each other, and they have even read a book or two. I don't listen so that I can sit with pen in hand hoping to gleam some notion of what I think today, and then post it here.

By the way - all the rantings (and very occasional praise) I spout off about NPR - where do you think I get that? From Fox? I probably listen to NPR 2nd most in my listening day. But you neglected that. My rantings about an NPR broadcast, report or special, my critiques of the BBC, I must have gotten that from where? SPIKE TV? ESPN? It couldn't be I listened to those stations, could it? Of course not. I'm huddled in a corner, rocking back and forth murmuring "socialist, socialist" like I'm fresh from a shower at Silkwood. Clinging to my guns, Fox News, and Glenn Beck, waiting for the conservative mother ship to come down so that Elvis and the ghost of William F. Buckley can take my hand and show me to my seat.

Glad to know what you think of me. See, the difference is I respect the 2 of you too much to ever question whether your thoughts are your own. I never ask you to justify your own intellect by "not watching" a show or network (which I barely have the time to do anyway) for 30 days or even 30 seconds. And this despite the fact that I am the only one within this group who's ideology and personal philosophy has basically remained 100% intact. I haven't had some sudden "awakening" that the 2nd Amendment is "important." I haven't voted for abortion-supporting, morally reprehensible candidates in conflict with the tenants of my own faith. I don't ask anyone to list, source and identify their web news resources so I can gauge whether they have posited an idea out of whole cloth, or are under an alien influence. And I SURE AS HELL don't ASSUME I KNOW what source they even use! It's ludicrous.

But that's ok. Beck makes a few comments that mirror my own position and suddenly I'm his defacto puppet. Alright. To be honest, I've never heard Beck, or anyone else, ask in FDR was a depsot. I simply came around to asking that question after reading Roosevelt's 44' SoTU. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, so I asked the question. But again, Beck made me do that "somehow" to be sure (much like New Deal "somehow" stopped all future depressions). It's not that I've formed the habit lately of comparing the most left wing presidents to texts on the founders, and drawn the conclusion that these presidents were perverting our Constitution, and thus ranked very low on my list, no where near a top 5 spot. OOOOPS, I mean Beck's top 5. Couldn't possibly have come up with that on my own.

Like I said, piss off.

And since you need only to turn on FOX programming to get MY opinion (you can even probably catch it before they fax me my day's agenda), there is no need for me to continue to express them here.