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SHOUTING HEADS by Elizabeth Searle
Talking- or Shouting– Head, Glenn Beck, was in Joy Behar‘s crosshairs this week when Behar talked of having Beck ‘neutered.’ Earlier this month, Beck urged his followers to ‘eradicate‘ Progressivism. President Obama himself criticized Beck for his on-air ‘vitriol.’
Violence in various forms is all the rage for the GOP. As extremist Tea Party members are linked to vandalism and as Sarah Palin
draws fire for using gun crosshairs on her webpage and Tweeting to ‘reload,” Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele is discovered to have spent RNC money on an S&M strip joint in LA.
UrbanDaddy calls the club “a lavish new nightspot suggesting that highbrow elegance and a bit of S&M are not mutually exclusive.” 
What about high-minded political parties and ‘a bit of’ real-life violence?
Since passage of Obama’s Health Care Bill, violence and vandalism have been traced to hyped-up far-right activists. MoveOn has joined other groups to petition Republican leaders to denounce hate language. Will they?
Meanwhile, on the far-left side of the activist divide, infamous former ‘terrorist’ Bill Ayers was barred this week from delivering a speech at University of Wyoming. The NYT wondered: How much does public talk contribute to real acts of violence?
On a lighter violent note: what is up with luxury and limelight-loving Michael Steele? Are he and his bondage buddies in disgrace? Or should his clubbing expenses be seen– as some want Sarah Palin’s online excesses to be seen– as mere games?
(photos: gawker.com, interact.stitoday.com)
yes is my answer
i think there is no doubt this violent language gets unstable listeners hyped for real violence. i like this post and i like it that obama named names…
Thanks Livvy and my answer would be Yes too–
plus I agree, it was refreshing to see Obama name those names– He needs to do more of that…
yes he should have been naming names all along,
not that it will stop them and yes, i do like your name
for them
‘shouting heads’
thanks again, Livvy– will have to check and see if anyone has used Shouting Heads before; meanwhile, the full link on the Obama outburst is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/01/obama-calls-out-limbaugh_n_522558.html
It’s Joy Behar who is the star to me this week,
good for her for calling out Glenn Beck and doing it with more guts than Obama
But don’t forget that Obama called out Rush L. too
Go, Joy
Hi Kathy and good to see you back on the blog–
I have to confess I am new to Joy B. but as you say, she’s got guts!
And yes, you’re right, Obama did name Rush L. as well as Glenn B. in his ‘vitriol’ quote–
Cheers– Elizabeth
Perhaps one advantage to the rise of Beck is the fall of Limbaugh.
To Kathy K: I like the way you think– I too always seek the silver lining.
But let’s not hope for too much– I fear Sarah Palin is turning into Rush in lipstick…
I’d go anywhere to see diminatrix – er I mean dominatrix – Sarah Palin give Ann Coulter a taste of the whip.
Anywhere, that is, except the Voyeur Club. I have my standards, you know.
LOL on Diminatrix–
and on Sarah plus Ann C. plus whip–
Always great to hear from you, Litotes, and you SET the ‘standards’ for comments here on our low-down blog…
Hardly surprising the Tea Tantrumers are so detached from reality when all they watch is this kinda nonsense:
How Did So Many Republicans End Up Believing Falsehoods About Obama?
Love this link, Cosmic– it says it all! Those statistics are beyond belief: 38% of Republicans finding similarities between Obama and Hitler; over 50 % believing him to be a Socialist?
And the string of clips here is priceless–
Good to hear from you again from across the seas, where all this Tea Partying must look even crazier than it does to us.
Will have to check out the action on your own Blog too, Cosmic. Carry on!
Elizabeth
Also a significant number of Republicans believe Obama to be the Antichrist
Good point, wd–
apparently only too much is enough in this Shouting Head universe…
I’ve always found it kind of hypocritical that the far-right on one hand constantly chalk up any and all Obama popularity to the fact that he ‘gives good speeches’ (a statement that’s usually paired with a photo of Hitler) and is fooling everyone with words, then on the other deny that the incendiary rhetoric their pundits put forth is responsible for these acts of violence. So which is it? Are we as a people so gullible that we’ll listen to words over substance, or does language have no effect on people’s actions?
Good points, Tigh– so true that Obama’s speechmaking talents are seen as so sinister while the rabble-rousing of Palin et al is just good old Free Speech–
Thanks for visiting the Shouting Heads here with words of wisdom–
Elizabeth
I find Michael Steele refreshing after so many Republicans have been lackluster. Although he spews the same lies about Obama and everything Democratic, he makes me laugh. I can just see the old timers in the party wondering how this character became party chairman. He’s unpredictable and undisciplined which is unlike the GOP.