Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"Glenn's like the high school government teacher so many wish they'd had."
-- Sarah Palin

"Please, America, take this man for what he says....Read Mein Kampf."
--Glenn Beck on Obama

"Is this where we're headed?"
-- Beck, showing photos of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin

You know, I've had a couple of morons over the years. I had an electronics teacher who, in 1978, thought transistors and vacuum tubes were a swell idea and integrated circuits were a passing fad. I had a computer teacher in college who thought Cobol wasn't used much any more (it's STILL the largest installed base of code in the world and now supports an object model including inheritance and polymorphism, along with database functionality). But if I had a teacher like Beck, I'd change schools to get as far away from him as possible.

Speaking of Beck, well, speaking of Birthers, Hawaii passed a law that the department of vital records can ignore repeat requests for Obama's birth certificate if they receive more than one from the same person in one year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/politics/14hawaii.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1989057,00.html

Comments

[deborak]

Beck is definitely not a birther. He condemns them repeatedly on the air and in his writings. One may not agree with Beck's political opinions on current government personalities, but he *does* represent past history accurately. I would certainly prefer him to be my kid's history teacher vs. say, Joe Biden, who thinks people were watching FDR on TV during the depression.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I misspoke re: Beck being a Birther. He was at one time questioning Obama's natural born citizen status, but I had not heard him doing that in quite a while.

[silveradept]

Mr. Beck seems curiously unable to orient himself properly, claiming that a supposedly liberal and socialist president is leading us to a path that is generally considered authoritarian and right-wing. I prefer my lunatics to at least be spectrally consistent.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I don't know if you read the web comic Two Lumps, but they had a wonderful series last week re: a goldfish who was not spectrally consistent (love that phrase!)

[silveradept]

Research'd. Good series, although a little too close to reality for many tastes.

And hooray for newly-minted phrases.