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Sponsors are pulling ads from Glenn Beck

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/geico-pulls-its-ads-from_b_256724.html

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Companies that have run ads on the Glen Beck show are pulling them. (It's about time)
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183 comments // Sponsors are pulling ads from Glenn Beck

  • GoodGodGuy
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      GoodGodGuy  

    • Doesn't anyone think that adds are being pulled because the corps. are afraid that they will be boycotted by half the nation??
      Money talks, Morals walk.

    • 2 years ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  

    • Today, Wal Mart pulled their sponsorship.

      Lookes like all that hate and lies are not selling anymore.
      Now there are other liars on Fox that need to lose support next.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • Future_America
  • artemis6
  • morirjedi
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      morirjedi  

    • Well if you point the finger enough it wil point back to yourself. He had to have known that would not fly. In the mainsteam media you cannot step that far to one side and expect the same treatment. Atleast we know how he really feels now.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
  • truthseekermatt
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • @mattkwooten, NEWSFLASH, the bible is not the WORD OF GOD and the constitution didn't establish this country as a CHRISTIAN NATION.

    • 2 years ago
  • mattkwooten
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      mattkwooten  
    • jubal:

      can i ask were you quoted me saying that.
      that sounds like something i used to believe. i most likely said that, i am just a man, i make mistakes, not like your boy in the white house.
      all comments aside, this is setting a bad image of current to support this, i think. attacking the ONE conservative news channel by staging a boycott against its advertisers is not only bad for fox, but bad for American economy. I read that kraft was one of the companies advertising on fox. Can you imagine how many Americans are employed by kraft.
      If the "mafia left" have nothing to worry about then they would look forward to scrutiny, not try to silence the only voice that opposes them on a nation level.
      I read on your profile that you are against money and private property. My friend there will never be a UTOPIA in witch would accommodate your demands. When a large group of people all work, but don't exchange currency and own np land , it is called slavery.
      I have health care, and money, and "private property" and i earned all of it with hard work. I don't know you personally but I'm guessing you work hard for a living. I know i do. I don't want to have to pick up the slack of people who don't share my initiative. I say let them stay lower class, I'm happy right in the middle.
      This is not only hurting Glen beck and fox, but thousands of out countryman.

    • 2 years ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  

    • I went to the store today and bought no P and G and no Kraft as they are sponsors on Fox. I have a list and am boycotting all their advertizers.

    • 2 years ago
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  
    • carmalite:

      Interesting fact about Kraft... they are owned by Philip Morris... the maker of Marlboro and two or three dozen other cigarette companies... amongst many other ventures... yeah, those people... they are one of the largest companies in the world.

    • 2 years ago
  • blue_blooded
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      blue_blooded  

    • i'm glad to see Beck getting some negative feed back, but not because i think it will effect him but because i hope his viewers might wise up. Unfortunately, i don't think we will be seeing the end of Beck even if ALL the sponsors pull their ad. Rubert Merdock has admitted to using Fox "News" to push his agenda, and he's gotten so good at it that he may not care about losing a little bit of money.
      But the sponsors pulling their ad is something...now what can we do about this Palin character?

    • 2 years ago
  • revolutioninamerica
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  

    • It's the mighty hand of FREE-MARKET economics at work. The liberal media has nothing to do with it. You lie, we don't buy. Rock on America!

    • 2 years ago
  • margaret58
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      margaret58  

    • I have seen two clips of GB using the Holocaust as his means to attack the current administration. HOW DARE HE! I used to think he was "Rush" all cleaned up and packaged ina more palatable form...no more. He is an embarrassment to our species.

    • 2 years ago
  • donnyin3d
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • donnyin3d:

      I guess you missed on the 1st page of this post that I already suggested that.

      When his show is cancelled they could cut out the middleman and Beck could go work on the Colbert Report since Colbert already gets so much material from Beck already it would be easy and put to better use.

    • 2 years ago
  • Randle51
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      Randle51  

    • It is one thing to disagree with President Obama or anyone else on policy issues and certain rights are allowed as protected speech under the FIRST AMENDMENT, but a caricature of Barack Obama with the facial makeup of the 'Joker' from the "BATMAN" movie portrayed by the late Heath Ledger is going just too far. The sponsors who are essentially pulling the plug on Glenn Beck's show have apparently had enough of his over-the-top demagoguery.

      The one thing that makes this image disturbing is that in the movie, the "Joker" was an unfeeling, depraved and twisted psychopath with no moral center. The message is clear: America is heading in a new direction and although people still have the right and freedom to dissent and make known their grievances, but not at the risk of allowing someone to be racially, and maliciously slandered or libeled. Other people such as Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Neal Boortz, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Mark Levin need to take notice because one of them may be next.

    • 2 years ago
  • WTFitsMeSarah
  • bitchpleez
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      bitchpleez  
    • WTFitsMeSarah:

      Are you saying off with Glenn Beck's head or the President's? Espousing the later can and will get you jail time. TRUST. There is no room for violence or threats of violence in any intelligent debate.

    • 2 years ago
  • ReganMann
  • cego
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      cego  

    • I watched him like 3 or 4 years ago (on CNN) and he was actually not that bad, but I guess lately hes really shifted right
      either that or i missed something

    • 2 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
  • donnyin3d
  • ferrjuan
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      ferrjuan  

    • About time! Glenn Beck at this point be must crying his eyes out for real this time around! This is by far the best news I have read this week!

    • 2 years ago
  • cikesef
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      cikesef  

    • Truly, it's about time. I hate how he uses false information to mislead viewers into following him blindly. We may yell and jeer at people who listen to him, but Beck's the one responsible for misleading them.

    • 2 years ago
  • osixo6
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      osixo6  

    • Glenn Beck is the one of the biggest douche bags on the face of the planet... just look at the photo if you disagree

    • 2 years ago
  • KefKef
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      KefKef  

    • Let me say this: WHO CARES!!!

      If you like him, good for you.

      If you hate him, good for you.

      Is he still gonna have a show?: YES!!

      Will there be crazy people on TV/Radio?: YES!!

      Can you start your own crazy show and become famous for it?: Fuck yeah!! Go for it so you can offend people to the point they boycott you.

      Is there other articles on this page that should be above this article?: Maybe, its your call.

    • 2 years ago
  • maof4brats
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      maof4brats [removed]  

    • To dbane this is not the fact that he called President Obama a racist it was when he was talking about putting poison in Nancy Pelosis wine. Watch the video I posted the day it happed. He wasn't on the next day.

    • 2 years ago
  • rmann0581
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      rmann0581  

    • Glenn Beck is not somebody I would listen to all of the time, but he covers some issues that are not really covered on other TV shows. For example, have any of the shows that "progressives" watch had anybody on to talk about HR 1207?

    • 2 years ago
  • Zekiel
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      Zekiel  

    • @Regulator22 haha. I think you missed some letters when you did your copy and paste dude. Too bad you must resort to copying text from other sources instead of understanding what's going on. Whatever works for you tho I guess is cool

    • 2 years ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
  • KefKef
  • kgt6969
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      kgt6969  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      maybe dabne meant for milliseconds people watched...
      ive watched mr beck... ive listened to mr rush loudmouth... and i still do... the reason is for comparison between rational & unrational.. the truth vs half truths and utter distortions... then i do my own research.. i find msnbc's exposure thru shows like rachel maddow & kieth oberman, the ed show.. to name a few the shows that lead me to the truthful information by provifing actual facts... not the ol faux news cut&paste repeat of misinformation. well to each their own but really.. millions of people dabne?
      kgt

    • 2 years ago
  • dabne
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      dabne  

    • Glen Beck just speaks what he believes in. As it turns out tons and tons of Americans think the same way. That is why he is so popular, same with O'rielly and Hannity and Rush. Extremely popular talk show hosts with millions and millions of people who think the same way. They are not news sources, just talk shows. They are tons more popular than the talk show hosts on the other networks. Fox is the most popular news network on cable. That is why they scare Msnbc and the Obama admin, who are one in the same. Fox is the only outlet that doesn't jizz in their pants when Obama walks into a room. For that I give them credit. The American people can tune them out if they so wish, but instead they have chosen to embrace Fox News, hence their powerful status. Sponsors may pull out, hell they pulled away from Letterman too. But the people will keep watching, because they think the same way.

    • 2 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  
    • dabne:

      Millions is only a tiny fraction of the population...
      And maybe 1% to 3% of the American populous.

      And if they aren't News programs then why do Republicans keep quoting their talking points as if they are facts?

    • 2 years ago
  • magnusdeus
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      magnusdeus  
    • dabne:

      The people don't think the same way. They don't think much at all. Most people don't really give a shit about the government as long as they and their family have everything they need. Fox manipulates them using scare tactics and the next big threat on the horizon. Communism, Socialism, healthcare oh my! Clearly the network isn't doing its job because they seem to be failing in a pretty big way on the "news" part of their broadcasts. Viewers tend to be the least educated on the issues but they're sure as hell the angriest. For example, it seems to me that nearly everyone flipping a shit at town hall meetings with their Faux talking points think Obama's going to screw up their MEDICARE with government run healthcare. Really? Medicare's going to be destroyed by government run healthcare? The congressmen at these meetings must have been shocked by the ignorance.

      That's without even addressing the "death panels." That whole idea is fucking absurd.
      #1) How did that shit ever get broadcast?
      #2) How could anyone believe it?
      Millions of people actually believed the government was going to start exterminating old people because they cost too much. Tell me in what way is that ethical news?

    • 2 years ago
  • alivein85
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      alivein85  

    • Any chance this whole "Glenn Beck" thing is just a giant hoax, like Andy Kaufman? Right? C'mon, who here saw Man on the Moon?

    • 2 years ago
  • PirateSauce
  • CalgarC
  • metalcookiesxy70
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      metalcookiesxy70  

    • Oh humans and their foolish assumptions, only the rich would be capable to spread their lies on national, public television...How sad....

      Fox News is never news, its only comedy for its own good......its part of the media which spreads ignorance....

      I wouldn't say all the time, but in most cases(98%) of the time...

    • 2 years ago
  • bitchpleez
  • PajamaDan
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      PajamaDan  

    • Good. Maybe once his sponsors leave,... he'll drop the nutbag act and start behaving like a non-batcrap TV host. Unless of course he really is a genuine, blood-crying schizo (good possibility).

      P.S. The InfoMania piece on Beck was effin' great!

    • 2 years ago
  • larrysnotes
  • kreddig
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      kreddig  

    • This is a mediamatter.org story. So what. He will just get more sponsors to replace them. Does anyone know how much it costs to buy airtime on either of his radio program or tv show? Ha. Besides, Beck talks crap about Progressive insurance all the time because the founder of that company is a "progressive" liberal (hence the name), whom he disagrees with. Glenn's tv show is sucks, however anyone here getting excited over the idea of Glenn Beck disappearing, just makes me laugh. He has the third most listened to radio show in the country and his last two books have been New York Times bestsellers. He's not going away no matter how Mormon he is.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • AndrewH13
  • KefKef
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      KefKef  

    • I love how this is JUST an article on someone, that 70% of this community hates, is losing his sponsors. He is not dead, he is not captured by Obama's SUPERFRIENDS Police, he did not join Bush's SUPERFIENDS Allaince, he lost sponsors.

      I just wanted to point this out and hopefully explains why I stay away from news section in Current.

    • 2 years ago
  • metalcookiesxy70
  • maof4brats
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      maof4brats [removed]  

    • I am sooooo glad this has happen. As I posted the original story he talked about putting poison in Nancy Pelosis wine. I got sooooo many people saying it was just a joke! Not a JOKE! HUH! I stayed up untill 1:00 am to write the companies that advertised on Glenns show I hope it really works!Power in numbers!

    • 2 years ago
  • RRnnRR
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      RRnnRR  

    • Don't get mad at me, but I admire Glenn Beck's skill. He is an amazing orator. If you listen to him and analyze his arguments, you'll see debate tactics that take advantage of the viewer's ignorance. It's a masterful process, and shows that at last a few people at Fox were well educated.

      Unfortunately, Beck's style of news is unethical for a professed news organization. It's more preaching than news, and most of his audience prefers blind faith before reason.
      Beck would probably counter that his work isn't news. He's admitted that he's "...an entertainer. 'I’m a rodeo clown,' he said in an interview, adding with a coy smile, 'It takes great skill.'"

      If you use Beck's tactics, and take things out of context, you too can influence others to hear and do what you want.

      For example, Beck said the following:
      “The truth is — that you are the defender of liberty,” he said. “It’s not the government. It’s not an army or anybody else. It’s you. This is your country.”

      Yes. This is our country- and in our America, we vote with our dollars- and the advertisers have heard!!! Protect your country! Be patriots- and DON'T BUY PRODUCTS PROMOTED ON GLENN BECK!!!!

      Capitalism lives. Regulator- your country is safe.

      Quotes from:
      Nytimes.com-- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • I remember a few years ago when Beck was on CNN and this fellow that I made truck delivery's too, said you have to watch Beck he is in the middle Neither a D or R
      and he is really got it right. So since we enduring the Bush catastrophe for 4 years or so, I tuned in and low and behold he was who he was back then a right wing slam machine. He has only got worse and the revealing
      side of him that claims that he is a reformed alcoholic made sense then and it does now. I gave him a chance but that was time wasted and I'll never get back.

    • 2 years ago
  • MilchMann
  • dabne
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      dabne  
    • MilchMann:

      Nice, encourage people to sign a petition against free speech.

      Boycott advertisers who advertise on the most popular News Network in the United States.

      To each his own, but pretty pantie waste if you ask me.

      Glen Beck called the President a racist? My God, burn him at the stake.

      This is fucking America idiot, we don't shut people up for dissenting against political figures.

    • 2 years ago
  • Macol
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      Macol  
    • MilchMann:

      @ dabne

      Yeah... but you do realize Rupert Murdoch (Owns Fox and many satellites/cable stations) owns a hefty piece of the media pie?

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch

      It's not a democratic society when one man has a say in what information is available to the public.

      In reality the liberal media is a very small portion of what's being expressed around the world. And because it's such a small voice it's attacked most often.

      Seriously, read up a bit more before making this type of statement.

    • 2 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  
    • MilchMann:

      Hey Dabne, you don't like it, then don't boycott. No one is forcing you to watch CNN or buy from their advertisers.

      Just because you like it doesn't mean people like me have to, and because we don't like it, then we have the American right to voice that opinion in any non-violent way possible.

      If Fox News has the right to free speech, then Americans have the right to speak freely about Fox News. If that something you don't want to hear, I think that Red State has a message board...

    • 2 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • Beck is a charismatic psychopath.

      Like a second rate preacher, Beck can con a minority into following his lunatic ranting, a following consisting of the ignorant and the disturbed.

    • 2 years ago
  • isnamthere
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  
    • unimatrix0:

      oh lord, the takes one to know one argument.

      Well sir, psychologically speaking you are required to not be one to recognize one... do not believe me... go find a diagnosed bipolar person of what ever persuasion you are attracted to ask them if they are crazy... and then proceed to spend a few years with them, report back here and tell us if you have to be crazy to know crazy... or if crazy people just think they are perfectly sane. Stupid BS arguments...

    • 2 years ago
  • carmalite
  • Macol
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • unimatrix0:

      You don't have to be crazy to recognize crazy, as you don't have to be Asian to recognize Asian, or Black to recognize Black. You don't have to be anything to observe and report.

    • 2 years ago
  • Raven6
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      Raven6  

    • It's about time the silent majority spoke up. Beck is a truly disgusting personality who poorly attempts to hide his vile attacks as "humor".

      While I was not aware of any boycotts, I completely back the idea and will not purchase from anyone who continues to sponsor Beck.

      Bye bye beck.

    • 2 years ago
  • clownpuncher
  • Nettle
  • isnamthere
  • carmalite
  • Hou_Kairs
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      Hou_Kairs  

    • Yes, what took so long! Glenn Beck is a nut job on par with rush. I mean seriously, the crap that comes out of his mouth is utter nonsense.
      Talk about conspiracy theories, jeez, this guy has lost it. Now only if Rush and Mr. I'm gonna scream over you so you can't even make a point and then hang up on you Mark Levin would get sponsers pulled as well or better yet of the air (they all are annoying to the point of a headache)

      Hey Mark Levin .... the emptiest barrel makes the most noise, and your def good at that, and Joba the Hut Rush .... need I say more? Go pop an OxyContin from your illegal maid you dork. None of you are fooling anyone except yourselves. Go get lives Already!

      And I would actually listen to Mark if he wouldn't scream so much.
      But Glenn and Rush, you must have been dropped on your heads as children, and the sad thing is that idiots like Palin actually listen to you guys ......Either Listen to Megan McCain or you guys won't have a career for much longer. Just Plain IgnoRANTS!

    • 2 years ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • MilchMann
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • jubal
  • pjacobs51
  • RRnnRR
  • pjacobs51
  • Bluebelle51
  • ibrake4rappers13
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      ibrake4rappers13  

    • I really like Glenn Beck because he brings up issues no one else would on mainstream news some of the things he does on his show i dont agree with but there are alot of things things he does that i do

    • 2 years ago
  • stardate
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • MilchMann
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • quixotic12
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • RRnnRR
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      RRnnRR  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      ibrake...

      I suggest using punctuation. It would improve your argument quite a bit. You might still be wrong, but at least we'd understand where a sentence begins and ends.

      Seriously- I'm just trying to help.

    • 2 years ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • Ihatethemall
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      Heh, wish I did not have to repeat this so much... but... anyone can find someone that will agree with them if they look hard enough... you can still find doctors that will tell you that smoking is not bad for you if you go to enough of them... it is time to stop lying to your self... like the right now. Poof you are not zealot any longer.

    • 2 years ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • MilchMann
  • Macol
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      Macol  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      Yeah... everyone is going to say stuff you agree with... and then they'll say things you don't.

      It's called human nature. No one is perfect.

      BUT

      Does the persons body of work help people? Is it truthful and honest? Or is it opinionated and well... pulled right out of his/her ass?

      Glen Beck is hopelessly and painfully full of shit. He spouts ideas that most five year olds would have to think twice about.

      Sadly we follow these people as if they knew better, without taking even a moment to research their ideas.

      You see there are levels of ideas. A gray area, if you will... TV generally scrapes the surface and rarely digs deeper.

      Glen Beck is the personification of this uneducated, opinionated ideal that a good portion of America flocks to.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      @ IBRAKE:

      WOW what a concept, listening and researching for yourself. To bad others did not do the same. Instead they blindly follow the DNC who tells them to rip to shreds anyone who disagrees with the party and label them as mobs, crazies, wing nuts or any other label in an attempt to silence them.

      Never allow yourself to be silenced......silence is golden, unless your a coward, then its yellow.

      I hope I got my writing down good enough to get a passing grade from the English teacher here today.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • RRnnRR
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      RRnnRR  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      A ten year old could read it without punctuation because he's only beginning to use punctuation. He hasn't yet entered the grown up world of political conversation, but he is being taught to use punctuation.

      I assumed ibrake was older than 10. My apologies if he's not that old.

    • 2 years ago
  • MilchMann
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      MilchMann  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      Fixed it or deleted it... bit of a difference there... you definitely fail the expressing your actions class... and an English teacher I am not...

      So is this yellow kind of like the yellow journalism that Glenn Beck tries to proffer to the public?

      "We will be heard" ... I remember hearing that for about 8 years sometime pretty recently... oh yeah... and we are now being heard... you had your chance. YOU flunked.

    • 2 years ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • Macol
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      Macol  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      Dude you guys are arguing over punctuation?

      Sigh....

      - Steps out side to breath fresh air, looks off into distance and quietly slits wrists out of frustration for his common man. -

      jk guys! Seriously? WTF!

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      @milchmann

      For starters I am not a republican so I don't know what the fuck your talking about having my 8 years.

      2nd, I did not delete anything. I fixed the one letter in the word UNDERSTAND. UNDERSTAND?

      3rd, I have been posting here a year or so and I very rarely make mistakes, feel free to waste your time and check it out.

      4th, do you have anything here to add of any value or are you here trying to see if you can make it as an english teacher?

    • 2 years ago
  • RRnnRR
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      RRnnRR  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      I didn't want argue over punctuation. I honestly think it helps people understand each other, and I wanted to express that. Everything after that was mostly just fun responding about a pointless issue.

      @ibrake: I dont feel better about myself now. I feel worse having actually spent time on it. Nevertheless, it is important to express ourselves well, regardless of where you're writing/talking.

      FYI- I'm not an English teacher, nor do I want to be. My apologies if I've really offended you.

    • 2 years ago
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