Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Teh Internets Glenn Beckwatch: The Beckington Post
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:39 PM
The one thing I have to give Beck's site is that it is way more attractive than the Huffington Post: Stories have clear headlines, and there is a little bit of text on the main page to guide you into the story. It's not nearly as complex as the Huffington Post, either (seriously: Have you looked at the main page of HuffPo lately? It's a spazzy, overcomplicated mess), but I expect that will change as The Blaze becomes more popular. But on the negative side of things (from a web design perspective), it's not really updated that frequently; only two new stories have been added in the last ten hours, and for a couple hours there the whole site was unavailable.
As Gawker pointed out, most of the "news" stories have something to do with Glenn Beck, and the main sponsor of the site is the Beck-endorsed Goldline. And as always, the commenters are fascinating: racist, proudly ignorant, and hyper-religious:
it is time. we get texas, alaska,the carolinas,virginia, any one island from hawaii, florida and a few grain producing states. give them the rest. they can live like they want and we can live like we want. (see me in 20 years and let me know how living in ‘community’ goes)
I learned everything I need to know about ISLAM on 9/11…
And, in a post on bed bugs:
Bring back the DDT and see those bugs disappear.
filth brings bedbugs, people coming into this country visiting, illigally, carry germs,bugs and only
god knows what else. This country is clean, In the 40-50′s bugs and childhood diseases were non-existen. now with all the border crossings, we’re back where we started
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But Beck probably thinks Europe is next to Iraq.
So, I give you Molokai and a bunch of states I have no interest in, and I get to keep the entire (contiguous) west coast and most of the east? Sure, sounds good to me. I'll call my friends in Austin to tell them it's time to move.
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"I read an uplifting blog post this morning from a black man who stood with us at the 828 Rally. He described his experience as “a chocolate chip in a big sugar cookie”. I love that analogy."
Facepalm.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/31…
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*eyeroll*
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social conservatives are deluded if they are trying to take credit for socially progressive policies.
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Yep, definitely designed for old, blind, white people with junior high school reading comprehension skills...
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