That's...seven. Joy. Is there going to be an eighth?

Perhaps Mr. Forkum can come up with a new graphic for this phenomenon.

Now we're finally hitting the nail on the head, climbing into new grease, throwing the baby out with the bath water.

WTF, I step out for Chinese take out & I come back to a headless world...

Yeah, that's the transcript, isn't it?

Damn this is fun.

re: #4 brookly red

WTF, I step out for Chinese take out & I come back to a headless world...

It's the scanners! Run like heck!

Hey, wait a second. Didn't we have a thread on Glenn Beck's head explosion already a few days ago?

Glenn Beck's head, specifically, if I read the article correctly.

re: #1 davinvalkri

That's...seven. Joy. Is there going to be an eighth?

Biblically speaking, seven is the perfect number.

re: #5 Dianna

Yeah, that's the transcript, isn't it?

** * * *
It was dated Thursday, April 16th, and sounds like the transcript Charles posted last week.

re: #5 jcm

Charles' secret plan is revealed.

Explode their heads!

Holy crap! I left for an hour. Now, everybody's head has 'sploded!

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Charles,

Please close my account.

Thanks,

Not Neo

Well. Neo, you could just go away.

OH NOOOOOOOOOO!

Piss off.

Heads explode at aisle 13 !

re: #11 alegrias

** * * *
It was dated Thursday, April 16th, and sounds like the transcript Charles posted last week.

I had to watch the video the day after, at work. It reads as the same words.

Really, not a very bright move on Beck's part.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

I don't think he/she forgot his/her sarc tag.

I'm suffocating in brain stuff all over the joint....a freakin brainicane!

re: #14 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Holy crap! I left for an hour. Now, everybody's head has 'sploded!

Vegetarian 'sploding heads....

That's seven organizations or persons who's heads have exploded inside of the past half-hour. Charles, did you save these to unleash them all in a torrent, or are all our heads going to explode before the year is out?

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Charles, please don't close my account, but please put a tarp over it for a while, because brains are getting splattered all over it from all the exploding heads.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

What?

re: #13 not neo just conservative

What, no long, dramatic goodbye rant?

Folks are getting lazy.

Charles, you are having way too much fun.

re: #21 davinvalkri

That's seven organizations or persons who's heads have exploded inside of the past half-hour. Charles, did you save these to unleash them all in a torrent, or are all our heads going to explode before the year is out?

It wouldn't surprise me. It's got the feel of that kind of year.

My head is going to explode trying to decide which exploding thread to follow.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Is there any money left in it ? I'm out of twinkies.

re: #23 MandyManners

What?

he can't answer Mandy.
His head exploded

re: #21 davinvalkri

That's seven organizations or persons who's heads have exploded inside of the past half-hour. Charles, did you save these to unleash them all in a torrent, or are all our heads going to explode before the year is out?

I'm gonna go blow my nose just to be sure there isn't any pressure building up or anything.

good LORD!....what a mess!

Dilbert.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Bye, and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. Hope you enjoy the dipshits at the counterfeit site.

Hey disgruntled folks:
It's ludicrous in the extreme to resign from a website.
Just sayin'.

re: #29 Shug

he can't answer Mandy.
His head exploded

What if one's head explodes while it's up one's butt?

This is a bit like being in the front few rows of a Gallagher show except Charles did not provide us with the Plastic!

re: #20 jcm

HAHAHAHAHA!

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Are you gonna' stomp your widdle foot?

re: #22 Last Mohican

Charles, please don't close my account, but please put a tarp over it for a while, because brains are getting splattered all over it from all the exploding heads.

What do you think this is, a Gallagher show?
/The Sledge-O-Matic!

Beck is neither a politican nor a leader of any movement.
He is an entertainer, IMO not a very good one.
If the GOP does not show some leadership, others will.

re: #35 MandyManners

What if one's head explodes while it's up one's butt?

Shit for brains?

re: #39 Honorary Yooper

I beat you.

this can all be cleared up with just two clicks....relax

I get it now!

Charles is going to rid us of all the Idiotarians in the US by causing their heads to explode like in Scanners.

Carry on.

re: #42 Truck Monkey

GMTA. LOL!

re: #34 jaunte

Hey disgruntled folks:
It's ludicrous in the extreme to resign from a website.
Just sayin'.

But he got his fifteen seconds of fame!

Charles' link was the first time I ever saw mediamatters. Wow, what a worthless spew of moronic drivel that was. Right up there with the Ron Paul forum and Daily Kos.

Were you all aware that LGF is a "warblogging site"?

re: #13 not neo just conservative

re: #40 jim in virginia

Beck is neither a politican nor a leader of any movement.
He is an entertainer, IMO not a very good one.
If the GOP does not show some leadership, others will.

You forgot to put "Discuss" at the end of your screed.

/just tryin' to help

re: #22 Last Mohican

Charles, please don't close my account, but please put a tarp over it for a while, because brains are getting splattered all over it from all the exploding heads.

Like a Gallagher concert! Ain't it?!

Wow, heads exploding everywhere!

whose pumpkins are being smashed?

should i actually be paying attention to anything on Fox, i mean besides American Idol and the odd episode of House?

is this teabag thing serious enough to pay attention to?

is a teabag a toxic asset?

these are crazy times, don't need a head anyway.

re: #40 jim in virginia

Beck is neither a politican nor a leader of any movement.
He is an entertainer, IMO not a very good one.
If the GOP does not show some leadership, others will.

Sort of like the Al Franken of the right.

re: #46 jim in virginia

It's the pompatus of self-love...

re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

crap! too late.

re: #13 not neo just conservative
All you're head asplosions are belong to us.

Folks, ya think it maybe might be time to come to the one overwhelming conclusion I take from all this? Namely, that those who trade their reason for ideology, or substitute a stone-graven party platform for critical thinking, end up as ranting zealobots or something worse.

What we're seeing in all the exploding heads and public meltdowns is the result of isms meeting reality.

Time to do the necessary mental housecleaning. If no one else is doing it, that still doesn't mean it's OK to wallow in the lowbrow formulaic mire.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Fiat lux!

re: #54 jaunte

It's the pompatus of self-love...

Must you speak of that?

re: #47 Last Mohican

Charles' link was the first time I ever saw mediamatters. Wow, what a worthless spew of moronic drivel that was. Right up there with the Ron Paul forum and Daily Kos.

Were you all aware that LGF is a "warblogging site"?

Yes. It's been called that forever; it always had me shaking my head.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Charles,

Please close my account.

Thanks,

Not Neo

B-but Glenn Beck is just an entertainer, remember?/

re: #56 Killgore Trout

All you're head asplosions are belong to us.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

re: #13 not neo just conservative

I guess Neo didn't like the fact that we're finaly going to force the conservatives to moderate - finally get the Right to abandon the crap on prolife and the evengelicals that have messed it all up. With millionsand millions of independents just waiting for a true moderate bipartisan candidate we might get back where we need to be. FoxNews has gotten so bad I've shut it off I used to hate MSNBC but theyre finally adding more conservatives over there.

Beck's whole rant sounds overly simple and sophmoric

re: #56 Killgore Trout

All you're head asplosions are belong to us.

You have no chance to survive make your time.

re: #57 Cato the Elder

Folks, ya think it maybe might be time to come to the one overwhelming conclusion I take from all this? Namely, that those who trade their reason for ideology, or substitute a stone-graven party platform for critical thinking, end up as ranting zealobots or something worse.

What we're seeing in all the exploding heads and public meltdowns is the result of isms meeting reality.

Time to do the necessary mental housecleaning. If no one else is doing it, that still doesn't mean it's OK to wallow in the lowbrow formulaic mire.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Fiat lux!

I didn't know Fiat made the Lux. I wonder if they still do....

I believe I said here a couple of days ago that Beck would be off the air in six months or so when viewers couldn't take his silliness any longer. On further consideration I shorten that span to about four months.

Ewwww, there was an internet cafe down the street, now the cops have sealed off the block...

re: #53 Honorary Yooper

Sort of like the Al Franken of the right.

* * * * *
I think Glenn Beck is a chubby Pee Wee Herman, who can scare the kids.

Did Charles post this one at
Gawker ?.

re: #57 Cato the Elder

Folks, ya think it maybe might be time to come to the one overwhelming conclusion I take from all this? Namely, that those who trade their reason for ideology, or substitute a stone-graven party platform for critical thinking, end up as ranting zealobots or something worse.

What we're seeing in all the exploding heads and public meltdowns is the result of isms meeting reality.

Time to do the necessary mental housecleaning. If no one else is doing it, that still doesn't mean it's OK to wallow in the lowbrow formulaic mire.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Fiat lux!

Et...facta...est...LUX! *Massive orchestral overture!*
(und est ward licht, and there was light)

re: #59 Dianna

Yes. It's been called that forever; it always had me shaking my head.

What does "warblogging site" even mean? It seems to me that should be a site where people who are at war blog about their experiences there, or people who study military conflict post essays about military strategy or history or something.

Why don't they just call us radioactive blood-sucking honcos? That would make about as much sense.

re: #34 jaunte

Hey disgruntled folks:
It's ludicrous in the extreme to resign from a website.
Just sayin'.

Perhaps not neo was expecting a generous retirement package.

re: #53 Honorary Yooper

Sort of like the Al Franken of the right.

But Al Franken is occassionally funny.

Does anyone recognize this guitar player? Help me out here...

re: #72 solomonpanting

Perhaps not neo was expecting a generous retirement package.

Hey I posted a song for him. ;)

re: #68 alegrias

I think Glenn Beck is a chubby Pee Wee Herman, who can scare the kids.

Hopefully he's not as "handy" as Pee Wee Herman.

re: #27 Who Watches the Watchmen?

My head is going to explode trying to decide which exploding thread to follow.

THIS ONE!

re: #73 jim in virginia

But Al Franken is occassionally funny.

He is? I've never laughed at him.

re: #72 solomonpanting

He should have known he would have to put on a better show on his way out.

re: #69 avanti

Did Charles post this one at
Gawker ?.

Stupid name?

Little Green Footballs has a long glorious but mysterious history.

re: #68 alegrias

* * * * *
I think Glenn Beck is a chubby Pee Wee Herman, who can scare the kids.

If you look at Charles' post from yesterday with P.T. Beck holding up the MLK picture, it looks like he is channeling the Church Lady.
Welllllllll, Isn't that speciallllllllllllllllllllllllllll...

re: #13 not neo just conservative

If I were Charles I'd not close your account just to torment you.

Isn't INDIVIDUALISM a great thing?

re: #76 Honorary Yooper

Hopefully he's not as "handy" as Pee Wee Herman.

*Groans* *Snickers*

re: #71 Last Mohican

You would think; however, if you thought the Iraq war wasn't the worst idea since nuclear hand-grenades, you got labeled a war blog.

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Shit for brains?

Oh, goodness me! LOL!

re: #69 avanti

Did Charles post this one at
Gawker ?.

Yet another head explodes.

re: #82 MandyManners

If I were Charles I'd not close your account just to torment you.

Send Stinky to house, make him post.........

New Motivator Poster

Pravdaism: When a media outlet deliberately lies on the behalf of a political faction instead of reporting the facts.

re: #78 Honorary Yooper

He is? I've never laughed at him.

Hell I have. Never with him. Always at him.
A distinction with a difference.

re: #47 Last Mohican

Were you all aware that LGF is a "warblogging site"?

* * * *
More of a post-9/11/01 site for non-idiots.

re: #78 Honorary Yooper

He is? I've never laughed at him.

Just wait until he gets in the Senate.
Dingy Harry will be rolling in the aisles.

The audacity of Hyperventilation

re: #35 MandyManners

What if one's head explodes while it's up one's butt?

It would cause one to reach escape velocity!

All this head exploding does is prove, like we talked about in thread a few days back, that there definitely are left wing and conservative "dogmas" and when you don't toe the line 100%, those incapable of independent though don't know what to do.

More head explosions are imminent.

re: #76 Honorary Yooper

Hopefully he's not as "handy" as Pee Wee Herman.

Did someone say "Pee Wee"?

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Charles,

Please close my account.

Thanks,

Not Neo

Actually, pretty impressive. Neo typed all that, punctuation, capital letters, everything... one handed.

Between 6:36:05 pm PDT and 7:00:19 pm PDT, seven head-exploding threads.

Whew!
Anybody exhausted yet?

re: #92 alegrias

Were you all aware that LGF is a "warblogging site"?

* * * *
More of a post-9/11/01 site for non-idiots.

You're right on there. Ive never seen LGF put up a post (in the last few years anyways) about the war that never should have been fought in Iraq

Sunset on the San Gabriel Mountains.

Sanity break.

There's another head explosion thread! Just look at the mess!

/nicely done, Head Honco!

re: #76 Honorary Yooper

Hopefully he's not as "handy" as Pee Wee Herman.

* * * *
Beck's a grown family man, not a bachelor who hangs out in darkened movie theaters.

re: #82 MandyManners

If I were Charles I'd not close your account just to torment you.

Could someone (one of us) now register the "not neo just conservative" nic and make gratuitously intelligent comments with it?

/////

David Toube of Harry's Place on the subject of taking a stand against the nuts:

As you will all know, I am the subject of a remarkable degree of abuse. [priceless!] Those who have gone into print to attack me include a Milosovic groupie, a few trotskyites, the British branch of Hamas, a leading neo-Nazi, and other similar fringe types. So what?

The fact is: we wouldn't and shouldn't be doing this if we can't taker it.

re: #71 Last Mohican

Why don't they just call us radioactive blood-sucking honcos? That would make about as much sense.

That's warblogging, radioactive, bloodsucking, war pig/cockroach hybrid honcos to you buddy.
/

re: #101 Ojoe

Thanks for the other morning. It is my new desktop. Was beautiful.

Now, assplode yer heads!

Incoming!

(-->)

Gawk at the Gawker explosion -------->

re: #78 Honorary Yooper

He is? I've never laughed at him.

I laugh at him all the time, but not because he's funny.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Just don't post any more, it is easy.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Lizardinator-800 Model 101

POSSIBLE RESPONSES:
  Bye now. Take care.
  And with that I bid you adieu.
  You don't get to post your dramatic leaving comment.
  Get of my website.

re: #13 not neo just conservative

Here's the thing for "closing your personal account," :It's like attending class at college, in that if you don't want to attend or participate, then don't go. It's that simple: If you don't want to be here, then stop visiting. No need for any requests to discontinue your account.

I'm dodging gray matter here hopping from thread to thread...

re: #47 Last Mohican

Charles' link was the first time I ever saw mediamatters. Wow, what a worthless spew of moronic drivel that was. Right up there with the Ron Paul forum and Daily Kos.

Were you all aware that LGF is a "warblogging site"?

I would prefer not to get a positive recommendation from mediamatters. They are not a "non partisan" organization.

re: #83 pink freud

Isn't INDIVIDUALISM a great thing?

WE ALL AGREE!

re: #96 ArchangelMichael

All this head exploding does is prove, like we talked about in thread a few days back, that there definitely are left wing and conservative "dogmas" and when you don't toe the line 100%, those incapable of independent though don't know what to do.

More head explosions are imminent.

There is all sorts of poltical "dogma" and plenty of punishment for not toeing the line across the spectrum. It's not just the far left or right guilty of that.

re: #113 Canoe Train

Yeah, but it's much more difficult to enjoy your plate of martyr cookies that way.
/

re: #116 NelsFree

WE ALL AGREE!

I don't.

/

Every once in a while it's nice to change it up a bit.

you can see all the head explosions from out here in space, it's spectacular

"Missing the Mark" was an enjoyable read. Thanks!

re: #13 not neo just conservative

This is becoming a bit silly.
There are some, myself included, who like to get informed by LGF, AoS and Beck (daily reads all) while often disagreeing with one, the other or all on this or that issue. This all out war where one has to choose sides is completely unnecessary.
It's not a problem of splody heads. Skins running thin more likely.

Just sayin'

Does this closing quote, dare I say "mission statement", from Glenn Beck not sound eerily familiar in these threads?

It's almost like they want to distract you from what's really important.

re: #126 Naso Tang

Does this closing quote, dare I say "mission statement", from Glenn Beck not sound eerily familiar in these threads?

Oh come on. All Glenn Beck is saying here is that evil forces are behind this spat, misdirecting us so that we fail to notice the New World Order taking away our freedoms. Is that so crazy?/

re: #127 Jimmah

I suppose that is all bmorte was trying to say too, without actually saying it.../

I have never criticized Charles - and am not doing so now. I know that it's Charles' sandbox and we play here at his sole discretion. That being said I wish there were fewer cross-blog, cross-media flame wars as topics.

re: #125 danS

This is becoming a bit silly.
There are some, myself included, who like to get informed by LGF, AoS and Beck (daily reads all) while often disagreeing with one, the other or all on this or that issue. This all out war where one has to choose sides is completely unnecessary.
It's not a problem of splody heads. Skins running thin more likely.

Just sayin'

Couldn't agree more. I'd be more interested in finding common ground. While I tend to agree with Charles that Beck is 'out there' on many topics I disagree that he is a threat to anything. I don't see his 'movement' as making any appreciable headway. I'm frankly baffled why Beck thought it necessary to mention LGF at all. My guess is his feelings are hurt by Charles's opinion and he felt he needed to respond. I have to wonder if there isn't more behind the scenes stuff going on I don't know about. Calling someone a punk is a step above the C word IMO. Not flattering. As you say, thicker skins would be in order here.

re: #127 Jimmah

Oh come on. All Glenn Beck is saying here is that evil forces are behind this spat, misdirecting us so that we fail to notice the New World Order taking away our freedoms. Is that so crazy?/

Did you see the DHS memo on the New World Order? It's a 90's right-wing conspiracy theory dontchaknow./

re: #129 jamgarr

I have never criticized Charles - and am not doing so now. I know that it's Charles' sandbox and we play here at his sole discretion. That being said I wish there were fewer cross-blog, cross-media flame wars as topics.

Most would probably agree that name calling alone is tiresome, but the other truth is that it is a competition for ideas, not to mention rationality, and perhaps simple self promotion too, which is good old capitalist principle.

As such it would be silly to pretend that all the others out there don't matter and try to ignore them, just as it would be silly to ignore a stupid opinion posted here.

Signing off.

re: #131 axegrinder

It's an extremist paranoid fantasy, and not exclusive to the left.

I am not on any side in this but I do have to admit that the video is a bit ridiculous.

Nobody in their right mind is entertaining any of the thoughts that the fat guy was going on about. Come on, digital converter boxes for mind control? Who are they going to be controlling? A bunch of old people in rural America? If you need a digital converter box then a little mind control might not be too bad. Just a joke.

Now for the clapping. The clapping was very limited and certainly not the whole crowd. I don't even think it was a quarter of the crowd and there certainly wasn't any sign that the crowd supported that stance.

I am just saying that the video probably isn't the best source of "evidence" of the fast emerging "scary" right wing.

re: #25 jim in virginia

Charles, you are having way too much fun.

Is that possible?

Heck no.

}:D     [Having a good time myself ... PULL! *shotgun up*]

Up to now Fox News had carved out a place in the mass media by proclaiming a slogan "fair and balanced" and making an honest effort to live up to it. That includes unions. Beck attacks unions like the old coal mine bosses of West Virginia before the great shootout of 1920. The guy is loose cannon seemingly with a screw loose and if Fox News doesn't want to become a caricature of itself, it'd be wise to get rid of him pronto.

re: #125 danS

"This is becoming a bit silly.
There are some, myself included, who like to get informed by LGF, AoS and Beck (daily reads all) while often disagreeing with one, the other or all on this or that issue. This all out war where one has to choose sides is completely unnecessary.
It's not a problem of splody heads. Skins running thin more likely.

Just sayin'"

Thanks for that, DanS, I thought I was alone.

re: #125 danS

You know what's the silliest part of all? That these bloggers and media people would be wasting our time going after another blogger instead of using that time and their energy on going after 0bama.

re: #138 zeebeach

"This is becoming a bit silly.
There are some, myself included, who like to get informed by LGF, AoS and Beck (daily reads all) while often disagreeing with one, the other or all on this or that issue. This all out war where one has to choose sides is completely unnecessary.
It's not a problem of splody heads. Skins running thin more likely.

Just sayin'"

Thanks for that, DanS, I thought I was alone.

So, did you read that DHS report yet? You know, the one you were screaming about without even reading it?

re: #135 willtay73

I am not on any side in this but I do have to admit that the video is a bit ridiculous.

Nobody in their right mind is entertaining any of the thoughts that the fat guy was going on about. Come on, digital converter boxes for mind control? Who are they going to be controlling? A bunch of old people in rural America? If you need a digital converter box then a little mind control might not be too bad. Just a joke.

Right, it's just a joke. Feel free to ignore it. What could go wrong?

Now for the clapping. The clapping was very limited and certainly not the whole crowd. I don't even think it was a quarter of the crowd and there certainly wasn't any sign that the crowd supported that stance.

No, it was not limited. A substantial number of people applauded, and you can see a woman nodding enthusiastically right behind the guy when he says colleges are brainwashing kids. You must have missed that.

I am just saying that the video probably isn't the best source of "evidence" of the fast emerging "scary" right wing.

And nobody said it was supposed be that. But Glenn Beck is absolutely encouraging this kind of behavior.

Oooo ooo ooo, I think I was the first to comment that she was a left winger making fun of the event. Y'all did bite that what hook, line and sinker. I think I should get some sort of medal.

I understand why Charles feels the need to point out the extremists on the far right, but to do so constantly makes this blog a tad less interesting.

re: #142 el guapo

Oooo ooo ooo, I think I was the first to comment that she was a left winger making fun of the event. Y'all did bite that what hook, line and sinker. I think I should get some sort of medal.

I understand why Charles feels the need to point out the extremists on the far right, but to do so constantly makes this blog a tad less interesting.

What was telling was the reaction of the people in FRONT of the camera to her book-burning remark. They cheered and applauded.

And the mind control paranoia wacko didn't need any help from anybody to display his nuttiness.

I find this blog to be most interesting when it points out ALL different stripes of extremists, without fear or favor. Which it does.