What University of anything says ‘had writ?’ Holy cow. It sounds more like MOO U.

Olbermann handles this much better than I do.

Sadly, Beck sets himself up as an intellectual… along with Professor “Had Writ” Barton.

I think I will just enroll in Debunk U.

21 Thoughts to “Keith Olbermann: Glenn Beck University- Beck U”

  1. Yawn. Let’s go with substance here. Do you not think the Beck U is a bit …out of the ordinary? Making up history to suit one’s political needs seems a bit contrived to me.

  2. RingDangDoo

    Olbermann could’t reason his way out of a wet sack with a chainsaw.

    Meanwhile, your buddy Stewart is on FoxNews.com………

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/11/virginia-lawmaker-challenges-feds-sue-state-immigration-enforcement/

  3. marinm

    Too bad it’s not accredited. Would be interesting to have a Bachelor’s from Beck U and use it for a job interview. That and the secret handshake might get me an executive position! 🙂

  4. Shoot, ring, I was looking around for Jon and I get Corey. Actually I had missed Capt. Soundbyte today. Thanks for posting it. I find his continual shrieking about the United States govt. to be almost UN-American. I can’t imagine why he would want Vriginia sued other than he could get hold of a microphone a little easier. That’s all this is about, in his case.

  5. Marin, it also might get you laughed right out of the place. News flash, most of America doesn’t think like you do.

    I can’t explain the attraction to Beck other than people over the years have been facinated with icons over the years. Most were not icons who did much for the country. I guess the same reason Rush had a huge following during the 90’s.

  6. marinm

    ……wow. Sarcasm in #5 was totally lost. I know, 50,000 unemployed comedians under the Obama administration and I tried to make one joke. 😉

  7. I can’t tell with you…@ marin. On the other hand, is this where I am a smart A$$ and say don’t quit your day job?

  8. marinm

    Yup. 🙂

    And I won’t…yet. Have to leave this job and all my friends to go to another one because of one issue… healthcare. But, thats how life works.

    Thanks for seeing #5 was a joke. 🙂

  9. Wolverine

    I think it might be a mistake to debunk the importance of religious influence in that period. The immediate pre-Revolution period became known to historians as the “Great Awakening” in which religious fervor reached a high pitch among many. This was a widespread, multi-denominational revival which swept across the colonies and certainly had to have some influence on all the Founding Fathers — Ben Franklin and Tom Jefferson possibly excepted. The Baptists were particularly active. There was tremendous Baptist growth in the South in particular, sparked largely by revivalist preachers in the Piedmont of the Carolinas. But, even in New England, the Baptists were finally able to unite their separate factions. If there was some tension, it seems to have been the New Englanders taken a bit aback by the emotionalism and ecclesiastical irregularities of the Baptists in the South. At the end of the Revolution, there were 494 Baptist congegarations in the U.S. By 1795, the number had risen to 1,152. And the former staid Calvinist inclination of many Baptist churches was now giving way to the evangelicalism which marks the Baptist churches to this very day. During the “Great Awakening”, the Baptists were even able to make the all-powerful Anglican Church in Virginia take a step backwards when the first Baptist association in Virginia was established at Ketochton in Loudoun County.

    But examine as well a colonial religious denomination not so given to emotionalism. The “Great Awakening” also had a strong effect on the Dutch Reformed Church, based largely in New York and New Jersey. This was the first Reformed church of continental European origins to establish itself in North America, specifically at New Amsterdam (New York). It was the state church of the Dutch colonies in America. When the British took New York, they allowed this church to continue to answer to the Classis of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. As feelings began to rise in America against European control, this church also split. A “colonial” party, led by pietest preachers advocated freedom from the Classis of Amsterdam, free use of the English language in worship services, support ot revivals, and Americanization of theological training. The “conservative” side supported Dutch theological authority, training of the clergy in the Netherlands, and the exclusive use of Dutch in worship services. The “colonial” party prevailed, and with American independence came the independence of this church from the Netherlands under a new constitution drafted in 1784-1792. The one-time Dutch Reformed Church in the United States now became known as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. By 1820, use of the Dutch language in these churches had almost totally ceased, not returning until new waves of Dutch immigrants came to America in the mid-19th century.

    With all this going on, if you believe the Founding Fathers were not influenced by religion, you have to believe they were all penned up in a windowless cell somewhere. I would opine that they acknowledged in their work the basic importance of religion to the American people but also very wisely decided that the diversity of denominational opinion called for both the First Amendment and a fair and equal treatment of all those diverse religious views.

  10. Churches had a dominant role in colonial times (and later) because it was the center of the community…either that or the tavern.

    My biggest problem with Beck is that he is often full of it and gives out false information.

    I try to be respectful of other people’s religion but Beck makes it tough.

  11. hello

    Does anyone even watch Olbermann any more? Did you hear his really lame attemps at making jokes in this clip. No wonder he only has about 10 people that watch his show, well, with Moon that makes 11.

  12. PWC Taxpayer

    I am curious, what history in #3 do you think he has made up?

  13. Hello, you have no idea what I watch and what I don’t watch.

    TP, he misrepresents a great deal. I don’t recall off the top of my head what is incorrect. When listening to him, it all becomes one big blurr.

  14. PWC Taxpayer

    Thats what I thought you’d say. History can be selective retrieval or it can be selective acceptance. I Beck’s case , I think he is aptly showing how the mass media and acedemia have used selected retrieval and how liberals today have reacted with selected acceptance.

    Being demonized the way he is without specific retort should worry all of us.

  15. Trust me, I didn’t get a liberal, modern view of history, given my age and where I went to school.

    PWC, some people are blinded by mass media and whatever ‘guru’ presents him or herself. Apparently you are one of those.

    Beck reads enough books to support his case, rather than forming an opinion from extensive reading. There is a huge difference.

    When a person is frequently wrong, like Beck is, who remembers. I prefer my intellectuals to be not pseudo and not part of the media.

  16. PWC Taxpayer

    No, My guess is that you got the sanitized, very limited view of history and our local in a public school.

    I am what again – blinded by the mass Obama sycophant media – LOL!!! Books read – I wish I could read that much or that fast. Done with a little humor and some showmanship, Beck is increasingly dangerous to liberals because he is educating – even asking them to do their own research – not just preaching to them.. And his audience keeps growing in multiples of all the competition talking head combined — Democrats have to make him a target and you are just another tool in that process. And again, as he himself has challenged – describe were he has it wrong. By now I would have expected a liberal Moore documentatry on that alone. It must be in development.

  17. I graduated from a private school, actually. And you certainly can’t say it was liberal. So once again, you are full of crap.

    Glenn Beck is a horse’s ass. I don’t think I can have a serious conversation about him. He isn’t just dangerous to liberals. He is dangerous to America.

    As for me being a tool. Again, you are full of crap.

    Go have some more kool aid. WE don’t serve it here on this blog.

  18. PWC Taxpayer

    Private school? OMG, a limosine liberal, private school preppy with a built in old south guilt complex and a public pension that seeks to use government spending to correct all the wrongs of the world and life – and I am “full of crap.” Too funny!

    Just curious Moon, first, are or have you or any in your family been associated with the Democrat Party or an elected official on a professional or volunteer basis.

  19. You aren’t even close. And you are still full of crap and are making a total ass out of yourself because you are assuming.

    I have gone to both private school and public school. I also went to a state supported college.

    You also know very little about the old south, whatever that means.

    As to your question, my double third cousin held a cabinet post for a while under Ronald Reagan. Is that what you wanted to know about? He wasn’t a Democrat.

    Most people in the south were Democrats before Linwood Holton served as the first Republican governor of Virginia ( 1970-1974) since Reconstruction.

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