S01.E34: Glenn Beck; Syrian Refugees and Veterans

[formerlyfreedom]

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Sam interviews Glenn Beck.

Since this may be a big episode, we're going to do a separate episode topic tonight. Thanks!

[zxy556575]

Goodness, Sam made Glenn Beck funny. Now that's Emmy worthy.

[Sesquipedalia]

OMG, Sam Bee and Glen Beck lolololol. I honestly don't know what else to say. That was surreal (Merriam Webster word of the year.).

[Primetimer]

Definitely watch this and not the Glenn Beck interview, certainly.

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[NorthstarATL]

"But I feel your time would be better served by Allana Harkin's report on the choice right-wing media keep offering between helping Syrian refugees and serving the needs of U.S. military veterans" Really? When and where was that choice proposed? That is new to me. I do not understand how you even make a connection between U.S. military vets and nearly impossible to vett refugees. Apples and oranges...or dates, if you will.

[teddysmom]

I have to agree with Tara's review of this episode.  I never quite got the Rally to Restore Sanity either.   It's interesting to see that Glenn Beck recovered his soul, but how do we have conversations with people who think Trump won the popular vote, Sharia Law is enforced in Dearborn Michigan, unemployment is higher than when President Obama took office,  etc.? 

And all the things Trump said he wouldn't do, but is now doing, are okay to them, because, oh well, they all lie. 

The segment with the Syrian refugees and veterans had me in tears. 

Edited December 20, 2016 by teddysmom

[Tara Ariano]

1 hour ago, NorthstarATL said:

"But I feel your time would be better served by Allana Harkin's report on the choice right-wing media keep offering between helping Syrian refugees and serving the needs of U.S. military veterans" Really? When and where was that choice proposed? That is new to me. I do not understand how you even make a connection between U.S. military vets and nearly impossible to vett refugees. Apples and oranges...or dates, if you will.

Watch the clip?

[NorthstarATL]

22 minutes ago, Tara Ariano said:

Watch the clip?

Indeed I did. I had actually SEEN the original segments that those clips were edited from, so I didn't take the bait. Straw person arguments are so last year.

[Tara Ariano]

1 minute ago, NorthstarATL said:

Indeed I did. I had actually SEEN the original segments that those clips were edited from, so I didn't take the bait. Straw person arguments are so last year.

If your position is that refugees should be presumed to be criminals, (a) we have nothing to talk about, and (b) I don't know why you watch Full Frontal.

[ChelseaNH]

1 hour ago, NorthstarATL said:

I had actually SEEN the original segments that those clips were edited from, so I didn't take the bait.

So your point is that the right-wing media has not actually presented a choice between helping vets and settling refugees?  How have the clips been edited, and what were they really saying?  And what does that have to do with the vetting process for refugees?