Glenn Beck Slams Obama Encouraging Volunteerism: "Almost Like We're Living In Mao's China" (VIDEO)

The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a Hollywood charitable organization, has helped to organize a push in the television industry to encourage volunteerism among the citizenry. The support for volunteerism will be spread across 60 shows, and in some cases woven into the plot lines.

Enter Glenn Beck, who reads in this yet another conspiracy theory that President Obama is using Hollywood in an attempt to turn American in a communist nation: "Well, this is fantastic. It's almost like we're living in Mao's China right now."

Beck seems worried that by encouraging more volunteerism we're creating a problem, or a crisis, that will be exploited later, but it is difficult to follow the logic. Basically, Beck's main point is that President Obama and Hollywood and the media are colluding to control your lives by promoting more community service and civic participation:

Celebrities are coming together to make it cool to volunteer. Disney gives you a free day at the park. This is all fine, but doesn't it seem a little bit convenient that all of this comes out now at the same time the Obama administration is calling for it? Obama controls the message through the media he holds in his pocket. Or in his little hand. And soon if you disobey, he'll just go [Beck slaps his hand]. Now the message will be embedded in television shows. Isn't this great? Aren't you proud of what we're doing? Oh, this certainly is change.

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Comments

[mikebarden]

Apparently, Internet Exployer is mad at me. It won't let me go to the polotics page.
Oh well, I need to put a stereo in the Z anyhow.

[mikebarden]

I'll just put it on my FaceBook Wall.

[mikebarden]

You guys sure are slow readers.

[mikebarden]

I'll be back!

[mikebarden]

How long is it gonna take for you to read that one?

[mikebarden]

I'm gettin' impatient.

[mikebarden]

I'm un-employed! I can do this all day!
or at least, until it's time to go eat dinner with Dad.

[mikebarden]

So that's the way it's gonna be, hah!

[mikebarden]

Heh Glenn! Now ya let Cartman scoop ya with that 'Wendy is a slut!' story?
Boy, you're slippin'.

[fmarquez]

this is good entertainment, watching the "foot in mouth disease show"

[Jefferson78]

The White House directing organizations that receive federal funding to do his bidding is vintage fascism. Paying "volunteers" (like ACORN) if they do the President's bidding is simply unAmerican.

[Eris23Skidoo]

So. My volunteering to join the military is part of some kind of communist plot, how exactly?

[Eris23Skidoo]

As if Glenn Beck or his fans do anything without getting paid for it anyway. They don't volunteer. They even go to church for a payoff--they're trying to get into heaven and seriously think they're going to fry in hell if they don't. Beck is completely selfish and he's using his commentary to justify his selfishness and to appeal to others to be lazy in their leisure. Right wingers take the low road on every issue, it seems.

[CalebAbell]

So I guess all that crap that 41 and 43 pushed about a thousand points of light was just another commie plot.

[Eris23Skidoo]

Nah, since that came from a conservative mouthpiece it was all grand and patriotic, right?

[JohnBryansFontaine]

The true irony here is that it was Ronald Reagan who also encouraged volunteerism back during his presidency.

[dianhow]

John Reagan also "
1. PASSED TOXIC DEREGULATION- TRICKLE DOWN REAGANOMICS
THAT LED OVER TIME TO GLOBAL MELTDOWN
2. TOOK US OFF THE GOLD STANDARD
3. FOUGHT AGAINST MEDICARE I N THE 60 'S CALLED IT SOCIALISM-
GOP BS - MESSAGE DOES NOT CHANGE
4. LOWERED TOP TAX RATE FROM 70 % ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 30%
BUSH DID THE SAME - TWICE- WHILE WAGING 2 WARS .