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Progressives also gave us the 16th Amendment, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, interventionist foreign wars, and the greatest centralization of power in the New York-D.C. corridor in American history....I guess those piddling little facts don't count, though.At 10:45 Beck states that progressivism was "designed to destroy the Constitution." In fact progressive policies included Constitutional amendments which established, among other things, the direct election of Senators under the 17th amendment. Before that "progressive" policy U.S. Senators were selected by State legislatures who often were controlled by the kind of "party politics" Beck complains about just a minute earlier. The "progressive" policies also included the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. Progressive woud argue these two measures were designed to protect not destroy the Constitution.
And that's pretty much the point....Looks like the author failed to mentioned that the progressive/socialist wing of the Democrat Party stole the term "liberal" in the 1920s, to obfuscate their true proclivities.At 47:50 Beck argues that progressives keep changing their names from liberal to progressive to liberal again and so on. In fact the two terms have always been used interchangeably though it is debatable as to whether they mean exactly the same thing in American politics.
The writer is obviously an apologist flack for progressives and Keynesian economic voodoo....Most of the linked "fact check" op-ed is GIGO, notably:
Progressives also gave us the 16th Amendment, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, interventionist foreign wars, and the greatest centralization of power in the New York-D.C. corridor in American history....I guess those piddling little facts don't count, though.At 10:45 Beck states that progressivism was "designed to destroy the Constitution." In fact progressive policies included Constitutional amendments which established, among other things, the direct election of Senators under the 17th amendment. Before that "progressive" policy U.S. Senators were selected by State legislatures who often were controlled by the kind of "party politics" Beck complains about just a minute earlier. The "progressive" policies also included the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. Progressive woud argue these two measures were designed to protect not destroy the Constitution.
And that's pretty much the point....Looks like the author failed to mentioned that the progressive/socialist wing of the Democrat Party stole the term "liberal" in the 1920s, to obfuscate their true proclivities.At 47:50 Beck argues that progressives keep changing their names from liberal to progressive to liberal again and so on. In fact the two terms have always been used interchangeably though it is debatable as to whether they mean exactly the same thing in American politics.
Selective memory my ass.the author definitely has selective memory, but the article does debunk some of the stuff already being spouted about beck's speech.
Maybe you should watch the speech before you decide to fact check it. Tends to help you out better.
I am entertained as hell. Funny shit. We fact check the tv guy and not our politicians. Welcome to dumbed down America.
I did watch that bunch of crap, and there were several places where Beck was wrong.
Incidentally........thought it was stupid for the crowd to give a round of applause to a blank chalkboard. But...to be expected I guess.
You know......because MSNBC was running Olympics, and because CNN was running something else that I wasn't really interested in, I tuned into FAUX Noise right at the beginning of Blech's speech.
It was disturbing.
Yes, that fucking racist hate merchant SHOULD be fact checked. At least then, when he goes on his diatribes about revolution and overthrowing the government, people won't listen to him and crash their planes into buildings in Austin.
You know......because MSNBC was running Olympics, and because CNN was running something else that I wasn't really interested in, I tuned into FAUX Noise right at the beginning of Blech's speech.
It was disturbing.
Yes, that fucking racist hate merchant SHOULD be fact checked. At least then, when he goes on his diatribes about revolution and overthrowing the government, people won't listen to him and crash their planes into buildings in Austin.
That pilot was a Liberal, quoted Marxism & hated the catholic church.
Fact check your own BS.