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(Sorry for all the Glenn Beck stuff lately 😉
I liked this brief conversation Beck had with a caller:
GLENN: Let’s go to KTTH in Seattle. Oh, my hometown, sort of.
CALLER: Hello.
GLENN: Hello, Lori, how are you?
CALLER: I had a great idea and I’m just a mom at home with kids and —
GLENN: You know what, Lori, Lori, I’ve only got a minute and a half. I’m going to hold you over to the top of the hour because I’ve got to lecture you for a minimum and a half.
CALLER: Okay.
GLENN: I hate, hate, hate when women say, “I’m just a mother.” I hate it. And here’s why. I believe that we are facing the most perilous times quite possibly in human history and I really, truly believe that — what’s the name of that show on Fox, that new show, the Terminator, what’s her name?
DAN: Sarah Connor Chronicles?
GLENN: Sarah Connor. I really, truly believe that mothers of this country need to start viewing themselves as Sarah Connor and start preparing your children and teaching your children right and wrong, black and white, good and evil, how to be strong, how to survive in all ways because we’ve so screwed this country up that our children are going to be left with just a mess on their hands and we need –– I don’t even know what Sarah Connor’s son was called, Billy Connor, and we need more Billy Connors, and Sarah Connors are the ones that are going to do it and those are the mothers of today. All right. Sorry for the lecture. Now go take on the day. We’ll be back with your comment here from Seattle in just a second.
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I love this and am linking to this.
It is probably one of the more validating things I have read recently.
Amen! Thank the Lord for people like Glenn Beck.
He is so right when he says we need to start preparing our children and teaching them well, right now. The future of this country depends on it.
I seriously doubt you want to be insisting that Glenn Beck is the oracle. Here’s just a few of his words of wisdom – this is VERBATIM:
“…you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims’ families? Took me about a year. And I had such compassion for them, and I really wanted to help them, and I was behind, you know, “Let’s give them money, let’s get this started.” All of this stuff. And I really didn’t — of the 3,000 victims’ families, I don’t hate all of them. Probably about 10 of them. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, “Oh shut up!” I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining. And we did our best for them. And, again, it’s only about 10.
But the second thought I had when I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn’t think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims. These guys — you know it’s really sad. We’re not hearing anything about Mississippi. We’re not hearing anything about Alabama. We’re hearing about the victims in New Orleans. This is a 90,000-square-mile disaster site, New Orleans is 181 square miles. A hundred and — 0.2 percent of the disaster area is New Orleans! And that’s all we’re hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we’re seeing on television are the scumbags — and again, it’s not all the people in New Orleans. Most of the people in New Orleans got out! It’s just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they’re getting all the attention. It’s exactly like the 9-11 victims’ families. There’s about 10 of them that are spoiling it for everybody.”
Yes, those are some deeply Christian sentiments.
I enjoy listening to Glenn because he is not afraid to tell the truth!
I wish there were more people willing to tell the truth….we all have to be politcally correct Yuck!!
I hope he can stay on Fox News….I am sure the goverment would love to get him off the air:)
~Renee
Anon…(It’s quite “brave” when commenters oppose a post without their names, don’t ya think?)
For the record, I never said Beck was “the oracle”, I even admit that we don’t even belong to the same religious group.
Beck’s words are strong regarding his frustrations with the handful of “victims” who were never satisified or grateful for the outpouring of help they received. I would probably never use the word “hate” regarding people, but I don’t think he was singling out people–rather his hatred for a trend among a group.
I agree with his frustrations; disagreeing with his choice of words doesn’t negate everything he says. (I’ve quoted from atheists on this blog.)
I don’t have cable, so I don’t catch his show. But that was a very thoughtful thing for him to say.
I use to be CNA in a nursing home. We usually got treated pretty badly by the patients, relatives, the LPNs and RNs. But every now and again someone, usually a director or Doctor would hear someone say we “I’m just an CNA…” and would correct them. That always brightened our days to know someone did appreciate what we do.
Really? Because Jules just said she “thanks the Lord” for him.
These people, these families, they are not the families of victims by choice. That role was thrust upon them by terrorists. That some of them have decided to become vocal advocates of improved national security measures (what we’re all apparently calling “homeland security” now) is a good thing, meant to protect Americans.
We need more advocates in this country, on a wide variety of issues. We hope, though, that they will not be made advocates because of the murder of their family members.
“…the ones we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” Which one? Is it the little boy, crying? He’s maybe five, six years old. What about the woman holding three babies who were clearly sick? Is she a scumbag? The old lady dying in a wheelchair? Scumbag? What about the blind woman, caught in her house because she had no way to get out and no one to help her get to the Superdome, not that it would’ve done her much good. Is she a scumbag? What about her seeing eye dog the police wanted her to leave behind?
I think Glenn Beck is despicable, and the fact that he touts the wisdom of motherhood doesn’t make him someone to quote, in my opinion.
Even Mussolini got the trains running on time.
Anon–
***That some of them have decided to become vocal advocates of improved national security measures (what we’re all apparently calling “homeland security” now) is a good thing, meant to protect Americans.***
I assure you, Beck’s tongue-in-cheek rant had nothing to do with peple who desire to become vocal advocates of improved security measure.
He was expressing frustration (and rightly so) over the few people who monopolize and manipulate their bad circumstances to demand a lifetime of “apology” from others.
Voddie Baucham and Bill Cosby (and others) have declared a similar “stop being a victim” to their African-American citizens in the attempt to help our nation become stronger, not weaker.
That was Beck’s underlying agenda, despite the harshess of his words. Again, not condoning what he said, but it doesn’t make me disregard everything he says.
I’ve said things I regret too. Maybe Beck regrets his choice of words.
I found this very poignant: particularly as I live in the Seattle area where it is VERY uncommon to be a stay-at-home mother–it’s almost unheard of to be a stay-at-home wife; in fact, I am still the only woman around here that I know personally who remained home prior to having children.
Since I also work parttime as an actress and I’m trying to get some of my writing published, I am frequently tempted to tell people that I am an actress or that I am a writer, even though I am not currently employed in either pursuit–both of which are only undertaken on a project-by-project basis at the discretion of my famililal and homemaking obligations, anyway. I have been convicted recently to start telling people that I am a homemaker, wife, and mother when they ask my profession–even though the response most people give me around here is, “But, when are you going to go back to work?” or “What on earth do you do all day?” or “That must be nice…not to have to do anything.” All the more reason to wear my badge proudly!
~Bethany
What does not being ashamed of being a housewife/stay at home mom have to do with 9-11 or New Orleans? Glenn Beck is absolutely right on this.
Way to go Glen Beck!!
He speaks the truth when so much of the media of today is garbage.
This was great! My hubby and I are both Glenn Beck fans, we try to catch his show whenever we can (it’s on at 4 p.m. here on FOX News).
I don’t agree with everything he says either, or sometimes the way he says things, but I do appreciate the fact that he’s not afraid to speak the truth. And I certainly agree with him that bad times are coming and our kids need to be ready for that.