Glenn Beck is a Fucking Liar

Not that it comes as any surprise, but Glenn Beck went on the air today to lie about the attendance at his 9/12 teabagger orgy of misdirected rage. Beck claimed that "The London Telegraph is now saying that the number is over a million. They quote a source from the park service, the National Park Service saying that it is the largest march on Washington ever. . ."
". . . Now you’re not going to get that in the mainstream press in America, but that is what The Daily Mail is reporting today.”

Of course the reason that you won't hear that number in the mainstream press in America is that it is blatantly untrue. Another place where you won't get it is The London Telegraph!

Here's what the London Telegraph actually said: "There was no official crowd count. Organisers, who had expected between 25,000 and 50,000, put the total at 75,000 but many estimated that it was much higher."

So where did Beck get the One Million figure? Who the fuck knows? Maybe he thinks he saw that figure somewhere, maybe he's thinking of the million-man march, maybe he's just making shit up out of thin air. It's always hard to tell with someone like Beck whether he's lying or delusional.
Here's the audio:





See, this is why you can't reason with people like this. You can point out to them, hey it says right here in the paper that the crowd was probably about 20,000 to 50,000 . (Nico Pitney: “I’d put crowd at 10-20k. Only crowded area is b/w Capitol and 3rd. First part of mall is 1/4 full.” David Schuster: “I’ve covered rallies at dc capitol for 20 years. When the crowd goes only as far as 3rd st, it is 50,000 or less.”)And if you did that, a normal person would say, "oh I guess I must have heard wrong." But a paranoid conspiracy theorist like Beck will say, "Oh, sure the mainstream media isn't going to give you the real truth, they're in on it!"

Which is why everyone in DC should just ignore these teabaggers and get on with the business of healthcare reform. You're not ever going to convince this small group of wackadoodles that there aren't death panels or that Nazi Communists aren't pulling the strings behind the scenes. Just ignore them. By adressing their concerns, you just give them a veneer of legitimacy.

UNDEFEATED!

One Down, Fifteen To Go!

This Shit is Getting Way Out of Hand

The Teabaggers are pretty much openly threatening violence.













These people are not joking. They really believe all the paranoid conspiracy bullshit, and people like Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, etc. keep egging them on.

One of these lunatics is going to be the next Timothy Mcveigh, and people are going to get killed, and the Becks and Limbaughs of the world are going to be shocked, shocked! that such a thing would happen. But they will have blood on their hands, too.

Now It All Makes Sense!

It's Oprah! It was Oprah all along!




















Oh, no wait! It's Nancy Pelosi!

Micheal Jordan is a Dick!

What the hell happened to Jordan? He used to be the King of Basketball, now he's the King of Acting Like a Big Jerk! (Zing!)

He's getting inducted into the Hall of Fame, this should be one of the proudest, most satisfying moments of his life, but he's up on stage taking cheap shots at everybody. Pathetic!

Here's a crap bomb he lobbed at former GM Jerry Krause:

"Jerry's not here," he said. "I don't know who'd invite him. I didn't. I hope he understands it goes a long way. He's a very competitive person. I was a very competitive person. He said organizations win championships. I said, 'I didn't see organizations playing with the flu in Utah. I didn't see it playing with a bad ankle.'

Look, dude, we already know how great you were. You don't need this. It's like you think people don't realize your impact on the game. If your basketball abilities were being disparaged, I could see where you might bring up the "Oh, I was playing with the flu, or I was playing on a bad ankle," but this is the night you're being recognized as possibly the greatest player of all time. Totally weak.

...he flew his old high school teammate, Leroy Smith, to Springfield for the induction. Remember, Smith was the upperclassman his coach, Pop Herring, kept on varsity over him as a high school sophomore. He waggled to the old coach, “I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude.”

Wow, insulting the old coach and humiliating a former teammate, what a two-fer!
I can imagine poor Leroy Smith being all excited, "hey, Micheal invited me to the induction ceremony! Wow, I didn't think he'd even remember me!" Then sitting in the audience and hearing that cheap shot. "Oh, he only invited me to point out how much I suck in comparison to him."
Yeah, Mike, you were MVP like what, 5, 6 times? Everyone sucks compared to you. We don't need to be reminded, and Leroy Smith did not need to be singled out for comparison to your awesomeness. And I'm sure Pop Herring had better things to do than fly to Springfield to be insulted.

Jordan remembered scoring around 20 points in a row late in a game to pull out a win, which was followed by a conversation with Bulls assistant Tex Winter.

“Tex reminded me that there’s no ‘I’ in team,” Jordan said. “And I looked back at Tex, I said, ‘There’s ‘I’ in win.’ So whichever way you want it.”

see, that's the sort of thing that you should look back at and cringe, and think, "God, I was such a cocky young punk back then," not trot out as a witty bon mot 30 years later. Look let's let John Stockton show you how to be gracious in triumph:

“I thought they’d figure me out pretty quickly. I thought the Jazz would figure out that they’d made a mistake, so first paycheck I saved every cent,” Stockton said. “I was pretty sure I was a one-year-and-out guy.”

Notice how he didn't take cheap shots at anyone? Neither did David Robinson, Jerry Sloan, or anyone else but you. Micheal Jordan, you're a dick!

And for my money, Oscar Robertson was the greatest player ever.