We all know Glenn Beck is a despicable human being in so many different ways. Recently he displayed his bigotry towards Keith Ellison, the new Democratic Congressman from Minnesota who just so happens to be a Muslim. Big deal Glenn, get over it!
Yesterday's comment hit a little too close to home. As a New Yorker that loves his city very much, Glenn Beck went over the top with me and probably a great many fellow New Yorkers. In response to NOAA's Christopher Landsea comments that a large hurricane in a specific position could flood most of the city and result in a heavy loss of life, Beck said "Actually, that would clean the streets out. It might not be bad."
You sir are going to hell!
Why is that outrageous? Why shouldn't I just SMFPH? Couldn't Beck's bad jokes just refer to the city's litter problem? No, when it comes to Beck and his racist, bigoted attitude....my gut says he means something far more insidious.
CNN has no right having this man on the air every night, poisoning the minds of hapless individuals that flip to CNN Headline News. For someone who never has seen him before he gives off this 'aw shucks, I'm just a regular guy' vibe at first and then attacks like a rabid animal.
Here are just a few examples:
Glenn beck told a seven year old that wrote a poem about Africa to go there and never return.
He called Cindy Sheehan a slut.
He called Katrina victims 'Scumbags'.
Threatened that Muslims will be looking through a razor wire fence at the West
And of course the comment that started all the commotion around Keith Ellison:
I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.'
New York City is my home. A hurricane packing a 30 ft storm surge is no laughing matter. It can kill thousands and destroy the lives of millions. The geography surrounding New York can double the impact of a hurricane's force. LiveScience rates this catastrophe in their top 10.
From Live Science:
Because of the population density, a successful evacuation of vulnerable low-lying areas in and around New York City and metropolitan New Jersey would actually have to start sooner than what is typically ordered in Florida and elsewhere, officials have determined based on studies by the Army Corps of Engineers.
But hurricanes move more quickly and become very difficult to predict when they head north of the Carolinas. In a likely scenario, experts say, there might only be hours of warning.
History reveals that New York and the Northeast have been hit hard before, and with little warning. Scientists say the next major hurricane to strike the city is a question of when, not if.
'When' is the key word. In 1938 New York faced a similar situation:
In terms of fatalities and property damage - the 1938 hurricane stands as one of the worst disasters in American history. In a matter of hours, 600 people were killed, 3500 were injured, and more than 75,000 buildings were damaged. The states of New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, suffered their worst natural disaster in recorded history. The tidal wave like storm-surge that hit Long Island and Rhode Island was so severe, that earthquake instruments 3,000-miles away recorded it on seismographs. As a final cruelty - the residents of the northeast had little or no warning that this extreme meteorological event was unfolding before them.
The economics of the matter are also gigantic, from NY Magazine:
Were another Long Island Express to barrel in, AIR Worldwide Corporation, an insurance-industry analyst, estimates $11.6 billion in New York losses alone. On AIR’s list of “the top ten worst places for an extreme hurricane to strike,” New York City is No. 2, behind only Miami. New Orleans is ranked fifth.
Some of the damage wrought by the Hurricane
So you can see this is serious business. Michael Bowman has proposed building strategic barriers to keep the storm surge. Whether it would work or not is debatable yet it is essential that something must be done.
To make a joke about this is the farthest thing from funny. You think New Orleans is laughing about Katrina? You think the Indonesians and Sri Lankans and everyone affected by the Tsunami two years ago are laughing?
Glenn is a sick bastard, the
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