While the rest of us were remembering 9/11 with somber posts and in other respectful ways, three of the worst of the right-wing fringe had other ideas. Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson and Sarah Palin all decided to dishonor 9/11 in various degrees of derp and impudence. The trio all managed to insult the memory of the day and those who died on it 12 years ago, each in their own inimitable, stupid fashion.
Let’s begin with Caribou Barbie, who somehow thought that what AT&T did for 9/11 was a brilliant idea. While the communications giant is getting excoriated for creating and “advermorial,” Sarah isn’t getting any flack at all for doing the same thing. Look carefully at that 9/11 memorial picture at the top of this story. See that in the lower right-hand corner? Yeah, it reads, SarahPac.com. It’s not even her name which, while tacky, could have been seen as a memorial from a private – albeit media-hungry – citizen. No, it’s her political action committee! Way to remember the 3,000+ Americans who died on that day, Sarah. By asking for money for your failed political aspirations. You, Madam, are an unmitigated douchebag.Next up in the parade of idiocy is Pat Robertson. You might remember that on that dark day 12 years ago Pat, joined by his buddy Jerry Falwell, blamed the attacks on people and things they disliked: “the pagans, the abortions, the feminists and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way.” Hey guys, those things haven’t gone away but we have not had another attack like that one so I guess your hypothesis is incorrect. But Pat still has to find a scapegoat and you won’t believe who he attacked this time.
it's no mystery what Palin and Beck subscribe to but neither are ministers so that tends to draw attention to Robertson and what his empire is teaching, he is laying down with those of disparaged characters will he wake a republican racist or bigot, my guess yes but not because of these reprobates but those a little less flamboyant but just as dangerous.
He attacked former president George W. Bush for calling Islam “a religion of peace.” But Bush didn’t know what he was talking about, Pat asserts, then goes on to explain what Islam actually is – in his warped view. When he gets to it, he blames the separation of Church and State for those attacks now:“The reason is they have lost their faith in God, they have lost their faith in Jesus Christ, they don’t believe in what the Bible says and the core values of our society have gone away. We’ve done it here in America, we’ve abolished prayer in the schools, we’ve taken out Bible-reading in the schools and little by little by little we’ve eroded the rights—we keep talking about separation and this that and the other.”Well, Pat. They are Muslim so they don’t follow your book, they have their own. Saying that they’ve lost their faith in Jesus Christ is like saying that you have lost your faith in Mohammed. Get it? Well, thanks for a thoughtful, well-reasoned and touching remembrance of 9/11. We all hope you enjoyed yourself.On to Glenn Beck, who had a lot to say about President Obama’s speech on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, none of it complimentary. Also, none of it made any sense. Beck has lately been complaining that everyone thinks he hates the president.Gee, I can’t imagine why. Beck says that he’s never called for Obama’s impeachment. Bzzzt! Wrong again, Slick. Want to try for the bonus round? Sure, he does. Calling the president “a liar” and “a danger” to the country, Beck went all out in his 9/11 “remembrance.” See, Beck thinks that taking any action in Syria is, somehow, aiding and abetting the enemy. Beck continues, calling Obama a traitor:“Somebody should get the dictionary out for treason, because I’m pretty sure there has to be several witnesses to someone aiding and abetting the enemy of the United States.”I guess he’s talking about those of us who watched the president’s speech on Tuesday night. Um, no. I saw no “aiding and abetting” the enemy, though I did not agree with everything Obama said in his speech. Beck says that Obama…“… doesn’t think like an American, he thinks like a guy in the Middle East, he thinks like a foreigner. How are we seriously being asked to aid and abet the enemy of the United States of America? How’s that possible? How dead inside does he think we are to ask us to go along with it on the eve of September 11?”
this may explain why the right wing base is so addle minded when you listen to these persons one of which said "anyone who takes what i say as Gospel is ignorant", that was Beck might i say he didn't know at the time but he was speaking for those other two also.
