An ironic post, given the theme of the thread.
Don't get me wrong, I think the second wuote was
very badly worded. I understand what he's
trying to say though, and it isn't far from the truth. He decided to air his views in the strongest possible words. I think he overshot the mark. Although so does he, it seems, as he went on to clarify his statement.
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In Chapter 1 of An Inconvenient Book he clarified this viewpoint further, pointing out that one of the key elements of Fascism was "controlling public thought using fear to silence dissent". He went on to quote such advocates of alarm over global warming as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Christine Stewart, Stephen Schneider, George Monbiot, Jacques Chirac, Paul Ehrlich and Prince Phillip making a wide variety of representative statements to illustrate their use of fear and desire for control.[8]
Beck also writes: "God bless you, Hollywood, for speaking out. But what you have to understand is that if you find yourself in the minority opinion, it's not because of some vast, right-wing or left-wing conspiracy. It's because you're out of step with everybody else. You're not going to be rounded up in the middle of the night and taken to jail...That doesn't happen in America".
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Your first quote, however, is taken so far out of context that it's bordering on deceit. Which should have been obvious, given you only quoted three words. In full;
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Beck supports the war in Iraq. On his April 24, 2007 Headline News show he said, "Either you think that we should have never gone there in the first place and we should get out immediately, or you're like me and you think we should FINALLY start fighting this with everything we've got."[10]
He went on to say, "If we withdraw from Iraq right now, it will be our country's biggest moral scar since Vietnam." He claimed that one reason some Democrats were trying to add a timetable to withdraw from Iraq was to "throw a bone to some of your anti-war base and say, "Hey, look, we were just -- we're just like you, you know, liberal hippie communists. We tried, but the president is a big, bad man and he won't let us." He said, "It is immoral for us to do what we're doing right now, to abandon these people and let them get slaughtered after we started it. If we did that now, this would be America's most shameful act of immorality since slavery."
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It seems jrly has inadvertently given us a lesson in media spin.
All quotes taken from
Wikipedia.
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But anyway, back on topic;