Glenn Beck PWNS me, Cajole, BrandNew, etc.

[The Fake Shemp]

Oh. My. God.

Immediately deleted from my Zune folder.

[demi]

lmfao

[CajoleJuice]

I don't like the new album though!

GODDAMN IT

[OptimoPeach]

"Libertarian!"

[CajoleJuice]

But really, if you cared about stuff like this, you should've deleted Muse a long time ago.

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Bellamy believes the September 11 attacks to be an "inside job", claiming:

    "September 11 is clearly an inside job, there's massive evidence that suggests that it was either allowed to happen or even worse, deliberately made to happen. There was a document called Project for the New American Century which was made by neo-Con writers in the '90s who supplied most of the agenda that Bush is putting into place now, which clearly says, 'We need a Pearl Harbor-level of event so we can have an excuse to invade the Middle East."

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[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Now I can't listen to Uprising again without thinking of Beck.

[TakingBackSunday]

Muse 

[OptimoPeach]

But really, if you cared about stuff like this, you should've deleted Muse a long time ago.

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Bellamy believes the September 11 attacks to be an "inside job", claiming:

    "September 11 is clearly an inside job, there's massive evidence that suggests that it was either allowed to happen or even worse, deliberately made to happen. There was a document called Project for the New American Century which was made by neo-Con writers in the '90s who supplied most of the agenda that Bush is putting into place now, which clearly says, 'We need a Pearl Harbor-level of event so we can have an excuse to invade the Middle East."

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Mos Def is a 9/11 truther also

[The Fake Shemp]

Oh well, Arcade Fire is still sane, right?

[Phoenix Dark]

The lyrics are laughably bad, well assuming you're not 16 years old. SMH

[Joe Molotov]

"Libertarian!"

The battlecry of the new one party future.

[Robo]

I thought everyone knew Matt Bellamy was a fucking nutbag already, but just didn't care, kinda like Beck (Devil's Haircut Beck, not whore for corporate interests Beck) and his Scientology background.

[Phoenix Dark]

I had no idea. I kinda assume all British singers are liberal extremists

[recursivelyenumerable]

  If you let Glenn Beck dictate your musical tastes (directly or indirectly), Glenn Beck wins.  

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Libertarian!

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[Raban]

I win anyway because music > politics (especially that of the musician/s) considering that most musicians are just rich fucks flapping their gills to appeal to an audience that can't enjoy music unless they feel they could be best buds with the band.

[Flannel Boy]

I don't see this as a reason to hate Muse as musch as i see it further damning Glenn Beck. 

 

[etiolate]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Tauntaun]

TWITTER TRACKER! TWITTER TRACKER! TWITTER TRACKER! TWITTER TRACKER!

[Disposable White Guy]

I don't see this as a reason to hate Muse as much as i see it further damning Glenn Beck. 

This.  Also, this thread is the real inside job.  Willco doesn't even like music.  He tried to throw my iPod out the window of my car.  While it was in motion, no less!

[The Fake Shemp]

Whatever, you liked Muse.

[BlueTsunami]

I don't see this as a reason to hate Muse as much as i see it further damning Glenn Beck. 

ouch

[Disposable White Guy]

Whatever, you liked Muse.

[Mr. Gundam]

Glenn Beck is going to be in Seattle on Saturday, people aren't very happy about it.

He's also going to be given the key to the city of Mount Vernon (where he grew up) by the mayor. Almost everyone in Mount Vernon (including 6 of the 7 city council members) are pissed about it.

[The Fake Shemp]

I read about that, actually.

The mayor said something along the lines that he is celebrating his professional accomplishments and not his political ideology, or something like that.

Seems awfully silly, especially if that mayor is looking to get reelected.

[Mr. Gundam]

As dozens of companies pledge not to advertise on Glenn Beck's Fox News Channel show after he called President Obama a racist, and as his controversial on-air behavior draws more scrutiny, the mayor of Mount Vernon ... is presenting him with a key to the city.

Mayor Bud Norris announced that Beck, who grew up in Mount Vernon, will be on hand to accept the award Sept. 26, which Norris will also proclaim "Glenn Beck Day." Tickets for the Saturday evening event are $25.

Beck's advertiser abandonment has snowballed since he called Obama a racist on July 28, adding that he believed the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

Which makes Norris' timing provocative, to say the least. Critics say his announcement amounts to an endorsement of that and other extreme views of the television and nationally syndicated radio commentator — which have also included ruminations on killing filmmaker Michael Moore and poisoning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as barking like a dog over a Hillary Rodham Clinton audio clip and perpetuating the "death panel" claim about Obama's proposed health-care reform.

"That's certainly their preference if they choose to view it that way," Norris said Wednesday. "This isn't about his political views. It's about recognizing someone who has a history with our city."

Norris, mayor since 2004, said he'd been planning the Beck event for "six months to a year." Beck also has a Seattle speaking engagement that day.

Not only was it Norris' idea alone, but when he asked City Council members if they wanted tickets, six of the seven declined.

And if people view it as support for Beck's views, Norris said, "There are a lot of his that I definitely agree with and there are some things he said that I disagree with."

Specifically, what about the Obama "racist" one? "That's not something that I would have said, but he's entitled to his opinion."

Why hold the event in the first place?

"Because I think he's a person who's gained a level in his profession of national recognition and notoriety, and it's nice to recognize a native son that has done that well," Norris said.

According to Beck's Web site, he began his radio career in Seattle when he was 13, and worked as a disc jockey at various radio stations around the country after graduating from Bellingham's Sehome High School. He began his career in talk radio in 2002, and "The Glenn Beck Program" now appears on more than 350 stations. His Fox News show debuted in January, after he had hosted a nightly show on CNN Headline News for the previous two years. Beck, 45, now lives in Connecticut.

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The Mount Vernon honor already has begun drawing a landslide of attention. The mayor's office was besieged by so many phone calls Wednesday that his assistant rerouted them to a different city office.

And members of the Young Democrats of Skagit County were protesting outside City Hall with signs reading "Change the locks," KOMO-TV reported.

"The timing is probably unfortunate with everything that's going on," said Kristen Whitener, director of Mount Vernon's Chamber of Commerce. Her phone had been ringing, too.

"We've gotten phone calls from people who are very upset. People are threatening not to shop here, things like that," she said. "I think it's unfortunate that some of the phone calls we're getting from people are being negative to Mount Vernon because of it. I hope they would understand that one decision by one person doesn't reflect everybody.

"I hope that it won't put us in a negative light," she said of the city, about 60 miles north of Seattle with a population of about 33,000.

Beck, Whitener said, "has definitely crossed the line on a few things. I've never met him and didn't really realize he was from this area."

In fact, Norris' news release notes that "Glenn's introduction to radio/TV came after winning a contest and doing an hour show on Mount Vernon's own KBRC radio station." He moved on to Seattle broadcasting en route to national notoriety.

Norris, the release says, "remembers Glenn as a young man growing up in Mount Vernon who worked with his father, Bill Beck, at the popular City Bakery, which was located downtown near Mayor Norris' own retail shop."

What kind of kid was Beck?

"Very good, well-organized and well-behaved," Norris, 64, recalled in an interview. "He was a kid who had an interest in entertainment since he was quite young. He was an amateur magician. He got into radio at an early age and has been driven to succeed in that profession. I think maybe a lot of people don't view him as an entertainer, but that's how he sees himself."

Neither Beck nor his producer immediately responded to e-mails asking for comment.

Beck's detractors — most visibly on Fox rival MSNBC — accuse him of cheap (and inaccurate) demagoguery and florid insanity; they ridicule his inability to spell "oligarchy" on a recent show and his on-air weeping breakdowns.

The advertiser boycott, organized by Color of Change, a black political-advocacy group, secured pledges from at least 36 companies — including Wal-Mart and Sprint — not to advertise on Beck's Fox show. Some of the companies were not Beck advertisers to begin with.

Despite the advertiser exodus, Fox has said many advertisers have simply moved to different time periods on the network, and that Beck's viewership has been rising.

[The Fake Shemp]

His logic is pretty silly. That'd be like a mayor of Atlanta awarding the key to the city to Kanye West after the Taylor Swift incident for West's ability to reach a new "level" of notoriety nationwide.

[Mr. Gundam]

I like the "There's lots of things that I agree with him on, but there are also things he has said that I don't like."

The Mayor probably hates Muse, but agrees with his other loony bat shit ramblings...

[BlueTsunami]

Yeah, I was gonna post that the Mayor is pretty transparent on how he views Beck and why he's doing this. Fortunately there probably will be a lot of locals that end up hating the fuck out of him.

[brawndolicious]

Well the mayor says that he was planning the event for 6-12 months so I wouldn't really blame him if he wanted to go through with it even though Beck called Obama a racist two months ago.

[The Fake Shemp]

Of course he said that, but he only announced it recently, dude.

[Mr. Gundam]

Yeah, I was gonna post that the Mayor is pretty transparent on how he views Beck and why he's doing this. Fortunately there probably will be a lot of locals that end up hating the fuck out of him.

There are tons of locals already hating on him. Mount Vernon is known for a being a hippie town.

[brawndolicious]

Of course he said that, but he only announced it recently, dude.

The event was announced just 3 days after Beck made the Obama=racist comment.  Mount Vernon seems to be a kinda poor, backwater town so I don't blame the mayor for not wanting to bail on the event.

I doubt he's doing this to snowball Beck's ego/support his politics.  If he was, he would have waited a few weeks for he media hype about Beck's comment to die down.

[Diunx]

Luckily I don't follow USA politics so I don't know who the fuck this guy is.

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