Offered without comment:
Olga Sanchez, 79, of Tampa, had never been to a rally in Washington. But Sanchez, a retired administrative assistant, watches Beck on television every day. And when she heard him announce plans for the rally, Sanchez called her younger brother, a trumpet player in the National Symphony Orchestra, and said she wanted to come.
“I’m a big fan of Glenn Beck,” said Sanchez, a registered Republican, sitting in her walker in front of the memorial’s first step. “He is opening our eyes, teaching us the history we didn’t learn in school.”
They are stupid. I will add that I am living in DC right now, and saw a dozen or so Glenn Beck people walking around my hood today. They were, without exception, middle-aged and lily-white. About half were also obese to morbidly obese.
Granted, middle-aged folks are going to be more likely than other age groups to have the means and capacity to take a trip away from home. But it doesn’t cost younger people much to buy a ticket on an overnight Greyhound bus, and I ain’t seeing any of them around here.
They were busy playing the latest version of Kill All the Muslim Terrorists! video game to preparer for the coming battle with Islamic insurgents. Much more important for the future of our nation. <snark>
“Lily White”…Progressives…please enlighten me as to how this is not a racist comment.
“Please enlighten me as to how this is not a racist comment.”
Here Ya Are LFA… Look at it’s Origins…
lil·y-white
adj. ˈlɪliˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt; n. ˈlɪliˌʰwaɪt, -ˌwaɪt Show Spelled[adj. lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt; n. lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt]
-adjective
1.
white as a lily: soft lily-white skin.
2.
pure; untouched by corruption or imperfection; above reproach: He tries to pass himself off as some sort of lily-white saint, but he’s not.
3.
designating or pertaining to any faction, organization, or group opposing the inclusion of blacks, esp. in political or social life.
-noun
4.
a member of a lily-white organization, esp. a member of a former faction of the Republican party in the South opposed to the inclusion of blacks in the party or in political life in general.
Origin:
1275-1325; ME lylie-whyt
–Synonyms
3. segregated, discriminatory, unintegrated.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
Helping provide a modicum of intelligence to the stupid among us…..
why would the observation be racist?
I feel sorry for the overweight people – may reflect poverty (lack of accessible nutritious food) or lack of education on nutrition
I’d say it’s time for Ms. Sanchez to break out her reading glasses and a good history book from Texas. She could continue to learn history she didn’t learn in school.
Oh, and grab the Bible while she’s at it. And perhaps a Flintstone’s comic book.
There’s a lot history they don’t teach at school. Did you know the earth is only a little over 6000 years old? Or that God created the earth in six days?
Or that every signer of the Declaration of Independence believed in the inerrancy of the Bible?
Or that Slavery had nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with the
Civil War,War between the StatesNorthern War of Aggression?Or that Negroes were happier when they were slaves?
Or that America never fought a war of aggression? That all our wars were justified to defend our freedoms and liberty?
So much untaught history. It boggles the mind. I can’t wait til our local Pastor gets to decide what the schools can teach our kids.
In some areas of the country isn’t that pretty much what is happening now?
Partly, but all of my parents’ church friends homeschool their kids.
So it’s kind of like a pastor, seeing as the only reason they’re doing it is to shelter them.
“He is opening our eyes, teaching us the history we didn’t learn in school.”
And if he were teaching you to eat feces, would you brush before or after?
From Reagan’s “Back to Basics” to Glen Beck!
Stupid is the new normal.
Yet, Beck is right on as far as making himself a multi-millionaire is concerned. Today he carefully avoided his inbred racism and idiocy.
If only Progressives would get together and push for the same cause…
Yeah, schools don’t normally teach shit that one makes up, Glenn.
My 84 year-old mother told me a few days ago that the reason that Obama won’t show his birth certificate is because he’s illegitimate. She watches Fox.
Olga’s children,(great) grandchildren, or grand-nephews and nieces should be ashamed of themselves. Leaving Olga alone so often she watches Fox News and not watching over her like a good Latino Family should.
STUPID BY CHOICE IS DOUBLY STUPID.
we have access to millions of books, unlike many poor people around the world. yet something tells me those poor people are smarter than many Americans.
It’s not about intelligence – ppl who don’t have 24 – 7 access to mind-numbing media may be less mind-numbed, though malnutrition and physical stress are also mind-numbing.