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Sep 22, 2009Today my family discovered the power of ~iTunes Home Sharing~~~. So instead of doing my homework I spent an hour downloading Howlin’ Wolf and Micachu & The Shapes off my dad’s iTunes (still, I did a week’s-worth of math). OH! The Pickle-in-a-Pouch has been returned! I gave it to my teacher, who loved it (somewhat surprisingly), and I think is actually going to eat it. I still don’t know, man. Mushy pickles in individual plastic packaging still sounds weird to me. I’m just so not with the timez, I guess. Who’s this Barack guy again? Hussein? What?
Sounds so fun to play! And the recording is great. That’s always nice when a good song is also a good recording. I might get to see them this Friday.
Following the topic of, eh, not knowing who our president is.. I saw this video today at my dear Canadian friend Andrew Wilkinson’s blog, which almost made me cry. Almost. After watching it I barfed three hundred words about Glenn Beck. Word-barfed, that is. OUT OF MY BRAINNNNN. I can’t tell if it’s biased, irrational, none of the above, or all of the above, but I think it [my barf] might be worth sharing. I recommend watching the video first.
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You make me cry, Glenn Beck.
You make me cry, for the sanity of our nation. For myself. For our people. It’s sickening to a point, I cry, because you are a human being so smart, so manipulative, so powerful, so mind-twisting, you can send people, unaware of their own cause, to march and make a so-called “political statement,” who, when asked a simple question about their own cause, cannot answer. They cannot answer because not only are they uninformed, but they are mislead. And you, Glenn Beck, are their nasty ringleader.
And this makes me cry.
I have faith in this nation. In myself. In our people. Last year, we elected a black – African American – president (whom, some of your followers believe is not actually black), despite centuries of prejudice and discrimination against his kind, which really isn’t any kind at all. We’re all human, no? You are human, Glenn Beck. Yet, to you, Barack Obama is unhuman. He is a liar. He is the anti-christ. Things I don’t believe are true, Glenn Beck. But I do not know what’s true. [Fudge], I’m a thirteen year old kid. I can have opinion, though. And I can think.
I don’t know what you believe. I don’t know if you yourself believe what is told to your – our, the world’s – people. I do think, though, that some part about you is aware of how we feel. Some, empathetic region of your brain, knows that you frighten, and discourage, and bring tears to other human beings. Including a thirteen year old named Spencer Tweedy.
You make me cry, Glenn Beck.
Please stop scaring me.
Please open your eyes. Even if you disagree, please open your eyes for a moment.
Love,
Spencer Tweedy
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And that was that. Anyway, I got some sleep to catch. *smiley face*
Wow… that video is eye-opening. I can’t beleive people would do that kind of thing without knowing what they were doing. It’s ridiculous.
Also Micachu rocks. Love ‘em
Hi Spencer. I only found your blog last night and I think it’s excellent (and so are you:))
This video made me feel really sad too. But we can’t let a few people like that get us down. Hopefully the awesomeness of people with open and inquisitive mind like yours can outshine the hurtful lies that people spread. Here’s hoping that one day soon the people in that video stop blindly following the pack and find a worthy cause to follow that they (fingers crossed)actually understand.
The problem I have with that video is that the guys doing the filming and interviewing are obviously going to edit it and/or find the most outrageous people they can to try and make people who hold any conservative views look like a bunch of fools. There were hundreds of thousands of people at that rally, and if they wanted to, they could have easily found someone who could back up their positions with intelligent, reasonable arguments. Instead they found the Joe Wilson guy (which was pretty funny) and that hysterical redneck woman. On the flipside, look at the people Penn & Teller (who hold libertarian views) found at a music festival to ban water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
aaaah i love micachu and the shapes!
they really annoyed me at first but then i realized i was listening to lips like 100 times a day ahaha
Good on ya, Spencer. I hope you send this beautifully written barf missive to GB. And thanks for sharing it here. It’s so important for everyone to keep talking out about this – this undercurrent of hate and intolerance – at every opportunity. It needs to be squelched.
I can’t bring myself to watch the video…because I am surrounded by the people that I assume are in the video…and I word-barf [mostly only into my mouth] about 83 times a day already. My small victory was getting them to stop playing Glenn Beck at the coffeeshop here at work. When I would go in there, I would have to hum really loud in my head so that I wouldn’t be subjected to his hate and fear, but you can really only hum so loud in your head and I would always leave there feeling so gross and so sad. Now they play Top 40 which pretty much leaves me feeling the same way, but it’s easier to shake off.
Those people really get me mad.
I still love to hear Obama speak. Watching him on Letterman the other night I don’t see how anyone could disagree with what he said. Everything made perfect sense. I’ve never felt this good about any president in my life. BTW, thanks to your father for playing a small part in helping to get Obama elected through his support.
Second time a blog has brought me to tears this week. Asking permission to RT
Glenn Beck is mentally unstable. Or, he’s the best actor ever. Either way, he’s unwatchable as a TV personality and yes, those that go out in his name are mindless drones.
I’m having a hard time even sticking with the news of late – on any front. Everything’s so damn biased and the left ain’t often better than the right. Not that the middle has any refuge for me, either. Everything’s at such a high pitch these days and there isn’t much in the way of calm, rational thought being allowed in.
Cant’ say I agree with you (or your dad) on Micachu & the Shapes … maybe I should give them another chance?
dont give guys like glen any attention because that is what they lack, and please do not let a guy like that scare ya, and you know where he can find that other N,
Here’s something that might make you feel better about the existence of crazy people like those in that video: http://yepyep.gibbs12.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/sotrue.jpg (check out the guy in the striped shirt)this is from when President Obama visited the NH seacoast this past summer. Your Uncle Danny suggested I check out your blog many months ago when he and Kendall visited us here in Maine – I’m glad I finally listened to him! Very cool blog!
All I can think after watching that video is that education is as critical an issue as ever. It may be too late for many of those folks, but it’s not too late for their kids to learn how to think critically – if public schools are funded and managed better. Of course, a lot of those folks probably home-school their kids (scary thought…). And, it drives me nuts when “Christians” are against universal health care – what happens to the teachings of Jesus in their logic is a mystery to me.
Keep up the good work. In the immortal words of Rosy Grier, “It’s all right to cry.” Don’t think he wrote it, though.
Have you seen the movie Network? If not, you really need to see it. Glenn Beck reminds me of the anchorman’s mental breakdown in the movie. I half expect him to start telling everyone to open the window and shout “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it”.
Spencer, you give me hope for the future.
Have you read “What’s the Matter With Kansas” by Thomas Frank? I bet you’d enjoy it; it sort of explains where these Glenn Beck fans really come from.
you do know you’re smarter than Glenn Beck…
Hey Spencer,
Nice blog. Besides maybe intelligence and perspective there’s really no difference between him and say Keith Olbermann. Populist mantra has its place in the American political sphere and dates back to the very revolution itself. Its a powerful force that has been both good and bad here in America, bad in the sense of Andrew Jackson (genocidal maniac elected President) and James K Polk (George dubya’s hero-he set the precedent for having America go to war based on lies). Yet populism is also based on the inherent mistrust Americans have in our elected leaders, and this aspect keeps them on the edge, preventing corruption and our enforcing our truly transparent system of government (watergate). Anyways, At the end of the day Beck and \papa bear\ Bill O’Reilly are just entertainers, its those in power on both ends of the spectrum that act on populist notions that really scare me.