Glenn Beck getting keys to Mt Vernon.

The lefties are bursting arteries.

So laffin'................................at Mt Vernon.

Yay.

That's like keys to a Vega, or a Pinto wagon with simulated wood-grain paneling, isn't it?

Guess it's his home town...so prolly more like a Cosworth Vega to him. The local news says there's going to be a bunch of protesters..you know the kind that wan't to halt free speech.

There are better people who grew up here that should get a key .
But I will be checking out the protesters just for the fun of it

I saw a posting on CL recruiting protestors......strange days indeed as John Lennon would say.....

The funny thing that alot of people don't seem to understand in the slightest, is that Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, and others that do similar shows, purposely rile up their listeners to boost ratings!

These shows are for entertainment purposes, and are not completely based on fact. Thay are based on opinion....If even after they "strike a cord" you think they are based entirely on fact, pull your head out of your ass!

The whole thing is dumb. Mt. Vernon is a good place says this former MV and Skagit County resident. Unfortunately the mayor is also dumb. That isn't the main reason he was elected, but that doesn't hinder local elections. The mayor is a local good old boy who sorta' made good by getting drafted to warm an NFL bench. Consequently he is immensely popular even tho he is dumb, and has done what looks like to many as a dumb thing - extending a key to the city to another local boy made good - Glen Beck - who just also happens to be a dummy.

But the overall idea is good, and Mayor Norris should be commended for that. Even if Beck is dumb, he is popular with all the local dumb conservatives who soak up self righteous conservative talk radio like sponges. So they sold a ton of tickets at $25 a pop (900 I heard) to people who have nothing better to do with their lives or money to listen to Beck foam at the mouth. And the money goes to a good local cause, preserving and maintaining the Lincoln Theater which hosts plays and concerts that are actually attended by slightly more liberals than conservatives. Therefore it makes absolutely no sense for the liberals to get upset over letting Beck have a symbolic key and letting conservatives pay more than their fair share to preserve the Lincoln Theater.

So even tho it's irrefutable that Mayor Norris is dumb as a stump, this is actually one of the brightest ideas they guy has ever brought forth - a simple and effective fund raiser for the community. That there is a controversy is as dumb as the mayor is on a typical day. Yes I used to know Norris.

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I agree Chuck, who the hell has time to listen to talk radio anyway?

Listening to talk radio is way easier than actually thinking.

Freespool,

I beg to differ. I tried listening to talk radio a few times. Painful. I'd much rather think. As hard as that can be, it isn't near the pain of listening to talk radio.

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You're not a right-wing extremist though Salmo. It does make a big difference!

As if that weren't obvious! (sarcasm intended)

Sg

Truthfully.
Is a right wing extremist any worse than a left wing extremist?

No...left wing wackos are way worse.

Really? Do a body count by RWWJs vs. LWWJs, then tell us LWWJs are way worse.

I don't want extremists of either end running our country.

Neither does the majority of Americans, that's why she's been reduced to giving embarrassing speeches in China.

True, research would result in facts, and you just can't have none of that, now can ya, Hank.

Saving the world from Russia considered whackjobbery? Saving the world from Hitler whackjobbery? As is retribution for Peal Harbor and defending America from Japan?

I'll give ya #4, though.

RICHEY you been caught!!!

'LWWJ #4: Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam fiasco.'

Well Hankster, you don't get full credit for that one. Granted, Johnson escalated the US involvement after the contrived Gulf of Tonkin incident in August of '64, Eisenhower was the first Prez to send 'advisors' into Viet Nam in 1955. The first US Viet Nam casualties occured in 1959.

Also... while LBJ and "give 'em hell Harry" were both Democrats... they were FAR from being LWWJ's.

That's one of the many problems with the RWWJ's though... they lack the cognitive capacity to understand the difference.

Yup, Medicare and civil rights were real disasters... weren't they!

You might possess a little cognitive capability Hank... but you hardly ever use it.

Lady Bird was the liberal in that family. LBJ sometimes had to be brought along kickin' and screamin'. Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy deserve a little credit too.

Also... Barry Goldwater was preachin' the same message you just did above back in '64... and look where it got him.

True. I'm thinking we should have a Demi Moore Day given that she went to school at Laventure Junior High.

But at least our city council had some common sense:

From the Tribune this morning:

...a bunch of salmon huggers.

While we're talking about body counts, wasn't it under R leadership that we had the most Americans killed in war? 1861-65.