Is Glenn Beck Too Cowardly To Go After Rahm Emanuel?

I ignored Beck's hysterical tweets (below) when they came in last week-- all his tweets are hysterical and I basically ignore all of them although hoping one day that he'll announce in advance when he plans to commit suicide on the air. To be honest, I didn't pay much attention-- aside from recommending it-- to Keith Olbermann's short mocking post yesterday: Send Me Everything You Can About Glenn Beck.


It's kind of intuitive-- intuitive enough for Fox to crow that Jones' Resignation Could Embolden Administration Critics-- that once these terrorists and fascists have tasted blood, they're going to increase their frenzy, not be sated. Jack and Jill Politics:

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the movies, it’s that “The United States of America does not negotiate with terrorists.” Yet this White House is willing to let these psychological terrorists set the terms of the debate and negotiate from their insane positions. One group of people is trying to talk about co-pays. The other thinks the president is a secret Kenyan. One group of people sees the creation of domestic, sustainable jobs as a cornerstone of the 21st century economy. The other thinks the president is going to murder your grandmother. This is not legitimate political discourse and to make decisions acknowledging terms so far apart in their reality is just plain stupid.
Van Jones was one of the good guys. A really, really good guy. He used his education and his passion to combat police brutality and the massive, wasteful incarceration of so many of this nation’s young, brown people. Having fought in the trenches for so long, he saw an opportunity to build hope and jobs and tangible communities as the world responds to the climate crisis. He connected the dots and inspired action and had a vision. He was the rare outsider who got a chance to move inside, and move he did.

Van was the kind of guy that gave me real confidence in this administration’s seriousness. President Obama meets with generals every day and sees scary reports and wants to get re-elected. I can always make some politics-based allowances for his underwhelming actions. Van, however, was truly one of us. He got it. And to give someone like him power gave me more faith in the president. So when the lynch mob came after Van, it was a test. The same test so many Democratic administrations have failed time and time again. When the going gets tough, do you back your people, or do you fall back on excuses.

This White House, this administration and this president failed Van, failed its supporters and failed to honor the efforts of millions that got them into office in the first place. What’s the point of having power if you don’t use it? When will this White House realize that nothing it does will ever be acceptable to the loud-mouthed, ignorant minority? When will it learn that you cannot negotiate with terrorists??

I’m heartbroken over Van’s departure because it’s these little meaningless concessions that undermine people’s faith in the system. You get folks all riled up about change. You empower a man who embodies that change. And they you let him be run out of office by fucking Glenn Beck? So Glenn Beck is running the White House now? Is that how it’s gonna be? Just tell me that I knocked on all those doors for nothing, and I can start the grieving process, but don’t pretend this will solve anything.

I can’t help but look at this spineless response and see it in contrast to the previous administration. You know how gansta they are? DICK CHENEY IS STILL TALKING SMACK! You don’t see anyone of prominence telling him to shut up. The man who has been wrong about everything gets the full support of his party, yet President Obama can’t find enough audacity to stick up for a true change agent?

How do you expect folks to continue to go to the mat for your agenda, when you so easily sacrifice our best and brightest at the whim of an illegitimate lynch mob? How do you expect the next generation to invest themselves in the political process when they see that despite their good works, they can be taken out over nonsense, especially when the double standard is so abundantly clear? How can you ask from us what you won’t do for us? And when will you realize that you cannot negotiate with terrorists?

So now everyone wants to know who the far right cheering squad for Obama and America to fail-- your Mike Pences and Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs and John Cornyns-- will go after next. According to Beck's urgent capitalized tweet to his drooling followers, it looks like Cass Sunstein. In the best of times, Sunstein isn't the kind of befuddled, compromised "moderate" I would want to defend. And, as repulsive as the Beckites, dittoheads and teabaggers are... Obama and the creeps who decided to let Van Jones sink, can figure this one out on their own. Best of luck to 'em. And in fact, when Beck goes after Emanuel, I hope I'm paying better attention. I bet I have some stuff in the archives he can use.