LOON WATCH: Glenn Beck Show issues a wingnut call to arms
Posted Apr 10, 2009, 3:13 PM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Apr 10, 2009
Earlier today, Glenn Beck got some guy to dress up in a Thomas Paine costume and issue a call to arms.
Beck’s ‘Thomas Paine’ delivered some of the wing-nuttiest rantings ever to be broadcast on Fox — and that’s saying something. Among the gems:
- The time for talk is over.
- Your complacency will only aid and abet our national suicide.
- The stimulus package was as bad as 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
- Democrats are as bad as al Qaeda.
- To show you agree with the preceeding, at twelve noon on April 15, honk your horn three times.
- After the teabag parties, there will be a million man “we the people” march on Washington.
- It’s time to hoist this battle flag once again.
- His name is Thomas Paine, and he’s ready to take back America.
Here’s video:
Here’s a transcript:
The time for talk is over. Enough is enough. Your democracy has deteriorated to government of the government, by the government, and for the government.
On April 15, that despicable arrogance will be soundly challenged for hte whole world to see. Our friends will applaud it. Our enemies will fear it.
In an unprecendented moment of citizen reponse not seen in recent history since December 7, 1941, millions of your fellow Americans — neighbors, friends relatives, will bring their anger, and their determination into the streets from Bakersfield to Bangor, Maine, from Indianapolis to Dallas in national tea parties, protesting much more than taxation without representation.
They’re rising above their differences, they’re marching not as Republicans or Democrats, black or white, right-wing or left-wing, they’re marching as Americans finally united to send a new shot heard round the world.
The silent majority is silent no more. We’re mad as hell and we’re taking back our country, demanding our unrepresenting representatives in Congress restore common sense to the national debate, and sending a message to our children, and our grandchildren that being an American is not an entitlement.
You never earned it, you never deserved it, it was handed to you on a silver platter by men and women much better than you and I. Your cellphones, and iPods, and big screen TVs, even your right to declare you’re a victim and blame everyone and everything for what’s happening to you except the face staring back at you in the mirror was bought by the blood and lives of 21 generations of our war dead.
Well now you have the opportunity to earn the right to be an American, because you’re losing your country, and you can do something about it. Do not allow your reluctance to participate to reduce you to nothing better than a flock of timid and industriouos animals of which the government is the shepherd.
Stop allowing yourselves to be neutered by a system that thrives on your unwillingness to demand your voice be heard. You’re corronating corruption and declining by doing nothing.
At a time you have the power to bring back America to common sense, and restore our values, traditions, and pride in saying I am an American, join the April 15th tea party, and the 9/12 project elevating us above petty policies and uniting us with a national discussion of values and principles as our Founding Fathers originally envisioned.
Your complacency will only aid and abet our national suicide.
Remember, they wouldn’t dare bomb Pearl Harbor…but they did.
They wouldn’t dare drive two planes in the World Trade Center…but they did.
They wouldn’t dare pilot a plane through the most sophisticated air defenses in the world and crash into the Pentagon, but they did.
They wouldn’t dare pass the largest spending bill in history in open defiance of the will of the people, but they did.
If you can’t be at a tea party, you can show your support in a very effective way, at twelve noon on April 15, whether you are driving your trucks and automobiles on the freeway or in your driveway, honk your horn three times in solidarity with we the people.
The power to change the course of history comes to very few people in a lifetime.
On April 15, you can take the first step. The second step is a one million “we the people” march on Washington.
This is one of the first flags that America fought under. It doesn’t say ‘Congress knows better than I. I will do nothing.’ It’s reflect the spirit and passion of an oppressed people and defined their national character. It said ‘Don’t tread on me.’
It’s time to hoist this battle flag once again. Now is the right time to be a patriot.
My name is Thomas Paine, I’m ready to take back America. Are you?
