tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post4626148242308133919..comments2014-08-27T15:31:25.014-05:00Comments on Overton Window: Chapter FiveDeekyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08148199460732217808noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post-8876694331773718262011-02-16T00:27:49.842-06:002011-02-16T00:27:49.842-06:00"No other product could demonstrate the essen..."No other product could demonstrate the essence of their work as perfectly as the lottery. The ads and jingles might remind all the suckers to play, but it was the PR hocus-pocus that kept them believing in the impossible, year after year. ... Take their money and give them nothing but a scrap of paper and disappointment in return, and then— and this is the key— make them line up every week to do it again."<br /><br />As a psychology student I have to call bullshit on this. I'm certain a good PR campaign helps, but all a lottery needs to succeed is to exploit basic human psychology. We're predisposed to think shelling out two bucks for a chance at two million is a good deal, even if we have a greater chance of being struck by a meteor and lightning at the same time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post-17722899402773879652010-09-24T11:24:17.627-05:002010-09-24T11:24:17.627-05:00that's sort of the basis of the whole conserva...that's sort of the basis of the whole conservative ideology, isn't it? "fuck everyone else. i've got mine, and you can go to hell"? that's my impression of it anyway.Deekyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08148199460732217808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post-67761514117061963542010-09-24T09:23:13.992-05:002010-09-24T09:23:13.992-05:00This Africa do-gooder thing really threw me. I don...This Africa do-gooder thing really threw me. I don't know what to say or think about somebody who believes this shit.<br /><br />What Beck is saying, if I'm reading him rightly, is that you shouldn't try to help desperate people in Africa--or presumably, by extension--anywhere else, since the money or supplies you send, or the work you do, might end up in the wrong hands and the people who might steal it might do something abd with it. In essence, what he's saying is that we shouldn't try to help others, since something might go awry: Don't feed that starving child! He might grow up to be the next Hitler, or, even the next Glenn Beck! Better we should just let him starve. That way, when the next Hitler, Stalin or Beck arises, we can tell ourselves we had nothing to do with it.<br /><br /> <br /><br />This guy calls himself a Christian. I guess he would have had a few stern words for Jesus: "Give some poor lowlife the cloak off your back? What are you, some kind of communist? And what if the guy you give your cloak to strangles somebody with it? What if he strangles a BABY with it? You call yourself the Messiah, and you're O.K. with helping baby stranglers?"<br /><br />Of course, Jesus could shoot back with, "Yeah, but what if the baby grew up to be the next Hitler, and the guy who would have strangled the baby with the cloak I gave him would have saved millions of lives by killing Hitler, Jr.?"<br /><br />But that wouldn't be much good, since Beck would answer, "Yeah, but what if one of those millions of victims who never died, because the baby never got a chance to grow up and kill him turned out to be a HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATE? Huh, Jesus? What's your answer to THAT?"<br /><br />And at that point, Beck wins the argument, since, you know, mass slaughter is all really bad and all, but it isn't as bad as pushing the "homosexual agenda". And Jesus slinks away in shame...Mumphrey O. Yamm, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03761865376467571192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post-8707853787368713402010-09-23T21:03:20.223-05:002010-09-23T21:03:20.223-05:00Does "every president since JFK" also in...Does "every president since JFK" also include Shrub? It seems like that might turn off the intended audience.<br /><br />And what did the story of his friend trying to help Africa have to do with anything? Or did Darthur engineer that, too? (With the "hijacking" having been the plan all along.)<br /><br />Glenn Beck (and or the ghostwriter) is really beginning to confuse me. What, exactly, isn't evil?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post-60898460573481156972010-09-23T17:03:47.223-05:002010-09-23T17:03:47.223-05:00Yeah, I was surprised by that as well. A true acco...Yeah, I was surprised by that as well. A true account (except for the Gardner part) of a lie used by a Republican president to get us into war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821450983903844905.post-6148708137385585982010-09-23T15:10:56.057-05:002010-09-23T15:10:56.057-05:00Interesting. He appears to be trying to distance ...Interesting. He appears to be trying to distance himself from the Bush military ventures, believing that the Gulf War, at least, was prosecuted under false pretenses. Judging by all this, he also seems to be casting doubt upon the latter Bush's ventures as well.<br /><br />...<br /><br />So, WHERE THE FRACK WAS HE EIGHT YEARS AGO?!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06337535023707813369noreply@blogger.com