tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post7962985476313510645..comments2024-03-28T14:52:13.218-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: One Pathetic Excuse for a Man and an AmericanJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-52257826134485573452011-04-15T11:58:02.078-05:002011-04-15T11:58:02.078-05:00I spent a couple nights in Wall a few years back. ...I spent a couple nights in Wall a few years back. Breakfast at the famous Wall Drugs was a great experience. <br /><br />We spent a fascinating week hiking Rushmore, Crazy Horze, The Black Hills, and the Wounded Knee on the Oglala/Pine Ridge Reservation. I'd forgotten that Rushmore was actually an hour's drive from Wall. Thanks for reminding me.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-55832152577944639132011-04-15T10:29:33.298-05:002011-04-15T10:29:33.298-05:00Mount Rushmore is 70 or 80 miles west of Wall, SD....Mount Rushmore is 70 or 80 miles west of Wall, SD. The nearest town I can think of is Keystone, SD. And it's not in the Badlands. It's in the Black Hills National Forest.<br /><br />Not trying to be a dick. It's just that if I can't convince people that there's more to my state than Mt. Rushmore and anti-abortion laws, I can at least make sure they're able to find the damned monument.<br /><br />Other than that, excellent post. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23709675111435449232009-09-30T17:36:26.826-05:002009-09-30T17:36:26.826-05:00Wow. I guess going away to England for two weeks ...Wow. I guess going away to England for two weeks wasn't going to make the crazy stop after all.<br /><br />(Thanks, Jim, for writing this stuff. It alleviates in me any pressure to comment on the crazy, and actually makes me feel like I can spend my time doing other things. Plus, I enjoy your writing.)Dicing with Dragonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23284804599734627102009-09-24T11:37:06.446-05:002009-09-24T11:37:06.446-05:00And TR vs. FDR. TR was the progressive, FDR the li...And TR vs. FDR. TR was the progressive, FDR the liberal. The labels were commonly used in their time and are still today.<br /><br />FDR was a class traitor for being a Democrat and for the people.<br /><br />TR a party traitor for not upholding big business above all else (and letting them mine/forest what is now public land).<br /><br />My wife's neighbor's held a cocktail party in celebration of FDR's death, during WWII. <br />Good Republican Westchester folk. (My wife hadn't quite been born yet, D-Day took her birth announcment off the front pages of the papers.)ntschttp://blog.charcuteire.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23736006445810007042009-09-23T18:59:26.799-05:002009-09-23T18:59:26.799-05:00Beck is still just a shock-jock. He doesn't a...Beck is still just a shock-jock. He doesn't actually believe in <em>anything</em> except what gets a rise and gets him ratings. His core audience reads and understands even less than he does, so he can get away with anything.<br /><br />It's all schtick.Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-76215707267796037412009-09-23T18:27:58.258-05:002009-09-23T18:27:58.258-05:00Neither Limbaugh or O'Reilly seem to be concer...Neither Limbaugh or O'Reilly seem to be concerned with telling the truth. In my mind that equates with having no principals.ntschttp://blog.charcuteire.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-78345618221404563662009-09-23T16:53:38.469-05:002009-09-23T16:53:38.469-05:00Part of the thing I'm figuring out about Beck ...Part of the thing I'm figuring out about Beck is that he has no idea <i>what</i> he means. FDR, TR, hell, you could ask him if he meant <i>Eleanor</i> and he'd probably be agreeable.<br /><br />He doesn't have a clue and he doesn't much care. In so many ways this makes him a worse human being than somebody like Limbaugh or O'Reilly who actually has principles, however sick and twisted and just plain stupid. Beck can't see far enough beyond his own messed up head to realize anything he says might have some kind of real-life consequences and his appeals to patriotism or pride or whatever are oh-so-many vapid words.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-40682813906254473212009-09-23T15:32:37.106-05:002009-09-23T15:32:37.106-05:00Dr Phil, the wind and Lion is also one my very fav...Dr Phil, the wind and Lion is also one my very favorite movies. One of Brian Keith's best roles ever and I think John Milius' best movie. Though the Milius prequel, the made foe HBO Roughriders, is a very close second and probably the best ever portrayal of TR. An excellent mini series if you haven't seen it. <br /><br />On the original post, saw an article this morning comparing Obama to FDR - so maybe the comment above saying beck meant FDR is correct. Of course that makes Beck an even bigger idiot.Jim Wrighthttp://www.stonekettle.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-18424548448353947182009-09-23T15:01:08.731-05:002009-09-23T15:01:08.731-05:00I am not sure The Peter Principle can be applied t...I am not sure The Peter Principle can be applied to Beck. There HAS to be a level of competence to overreach.Some dude stuck in the Midwesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852056495927941030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-51356881441162947042009-09-23T14:43:45.419-05:002009-09-23T14:43:45.419-05:00T.R. is a hard one to classify. One of my favorit...T.R. is a hard one to classify. One of my favorite, yet no doubt flawed, cinematic portrayals of T.R. is in The Wind and the Lion. I don't care if its historically accurate, I love that movie. (grin)<br /><br />Dr. PhilDr. Phil (Physics)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11943336276878704753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-26200361161319514732009-09-23T14:27:04.209-05:002009-09-23T14:27:04.209-05:00Looks like Beck just reproved the Peter Principle ...Looks like Beck just reproved the <i>Peter Principle</i> and risen to his own level of incompitence once again.<br /><br />Ass.WendyB_09https://www.blogger.com/profile/03788918629240949526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-75828250938786961422009-09-23T09:32:35.219-05:002009-09-23T09:32:35.219-05:00No, I'm pretty sure Beck meant TR.
TR is rega...No, I'm pretty sure Beck meant TR.<br /><br />TR is regarded within the extreme fringes of the GOP as a traitor to the party. He championed the common citizen over the large corporations, he was an outspoken defender of the environment, and believed in racial equality. Most of what TR believed in and fought for would be regarded as the purview of the Democrats today. He was commonly called a progressive (one of the planks of the Bull Moose Party) and the extreme right tends to vilify him for it. <br /><br />No, I think Beck said what he meant - especially as a comparison to McCain.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-56362878240853346462009-09-23T08:20:26.432-05:002009-09-23T08:20:26.432-05:00Salon has been running a fascintating/appalling th...<i>Salon</i> has been running a fascintating/appalling three part bio of Beck that's probably worth reading (<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/glenn_beck" rel="nofollow">part one can be found here</a>). The gist of the <i>Salon</i> take can probably be summarized as "Glenn Beck is a 'morning zoo' radio DJ who has risen above his proper place in the world and is more interested in generating ratings (by stirring shit up) than any particular principle." It should be taken as a standard caveat that <i>Salon</i> isn't an unbiased source (and that aside from being a liberal joint, seems to have a special loathing for Beck--of course I happen to be a liberal who thinks that loathing is justified, for whatever that's worth).<br /><br />A "classic Glenn Beck story" appears to be the time he called a rival DJ's wife <i>live on the air</i> while she was recuperating from a miscarriage to ask her about it. Classy.<br /><br />Beck is, plain and simply, a pretty awful person if even a <i>tenth</i> of the <i>Salon</i> bio is accurate, and judging by his current persona it's likely that far more than a tenth is accurate. This leads to a bit of a conflict for me, since there's part of me that thinks he should be exposed as a bastard and another part of me that thinks that every single pixel of coverage the man receives is more than he deserves: he's made a career out of the cliche that there's no such thing as bad publicity.<br /><br />Steve, you're probably right that Beck meant FDR (you should have pointed out that FDR was what Beck would call an "oligarh," heh), though the awesome thing about TR was that he indeed was largely a progressive. As Jim says, TR was made of awesome. Personally, I think both Roosevelts were, but I would say that, wouldn't I?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-43192798622923297632009-09-23T07:31:43.572-05:002009-09-23T07:31:43.572-05:00Oh, forgot to mention, I'm sure he meant that ...Oh, forgot to mention, I'm sure he meant that other Roosevelt. You know, the one we don't remember. (it's like watching a fire-breathing preacher when he screws up his biblical references).Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-74526332817573248462009-09-23T07:30:22.874-05:002009-09-23T07:30:22.874-05:00I think it's mostly a part of his "I'...I think it's mostly a part of his "I'm not a party line man" and his "9/12 project is about people of <i>both</i> parties" crap. It's the same level as commentators on a certain blog we all love who claim, "I was a liberal until I stopped drinking/discovered logic/lived in the real world/whatever." It's all good and fun to say, "I would have done this" once the ship has sailed. Can't disprove it, and it's an attempt to make him seem reasonable. Plus, you know, McCain = RINO. At least Hillary is true to her nature. At least in how Beck's mind works.<br /><br />And yeah, Glen, I don't normally encourage this, but start drinking again. Okay? Your country asks it of you. (I'm normally a nice guy until the opposition proves themselves to be unworthy of the effort - said with my sarcasm knobs turned to 11).Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.com