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| They're coming after Glenn Beck--and they're using haiku! |
| 2010-04-08 |
| Beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, and for the following 24 hours, the Jewish Funds for Justice plans to tweet the heck out of Glenn Beck. The social justice group plans to unleash a "Twitterstorm" on the Fox News host to protest his recent remarks mocking the faith-based idea of "social justice." JFSJ has collected more than 1,500 haikus (Haik U Beck, they call it) mocking Beck. Haiku! This is serious! The group plans to start tweeting the verses to Beck's personal Twitter account, one every minute, "to confront Glenn Beck about his bizarre and incongruous opinion that there is no place for social and economic justice in religion." "And if that don't get his attention, we've got common meter . . . Iambic pentameter . . . a whole arsenal of poetic devices loaded and ready to fire. Do yourself a favor, Mr. Beck. Yield now, before we have to go full nuclear and roll out the Sanskrit prosody!" |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #13 #10 Be careful what you wish hope for, ed. You might get a Code-Pink "quality" of idiots at that die-in. :-( |
| Posted by: Beldar Threreling9726 2010-04-08 20:15 |
| #12 Years ago, someone wrote an haiku bad horror movie epic. It involved negligee clad co-eds trapped in their dorm while being attacked by radioactive mutant land lampreys. Yes, that bad. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-04-08 19:38 |
| #11 #7: If it doesn't wirk, and it won't, they'll use the nuclear option...mime videos on You Tube. Posted by: tu3031 coming soon: Mime protests on radio and loudspeakers |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-08 19:35 |
| #10 Be careful what you You might get a Code-Pink "quality" of idiots at that die-in. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-08 19:05 |
| #9 Ima hopin' for a nekkid die-in. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-04-08 17:08 |
| #8 Glen Beck, I hate you You drive me over the edge And make my head pop |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-04-08 16:43 |
| #7 If it doesn't wirk, and it won't, they'll use the nuclear option...mime videos on You Tube. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-08 16:30 |
| #6 Oh my, I certainly hope they don't escalate to dramatic irony, parody, litotes, or the dreaded ... sarcasm. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2010-04-08 16:10 |
| #5 it's not charity if it's mandated by the gubmint. I've had so-called religious folks w/a socialist slant (on the greatness of giving taxes for the good of your fellow man) tell me how Jesus wants us to be charitable - my reply is that I don't think Jesus meant at the tip of a Roman Spear. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-04-08 15:11 |
| #4 Whatever happened to "Behead those who offend against Judaism"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-04-08 14:16 |
| #3 Beck made it perfectly clear he was not talking about Jesus inspired 'social justice' but rather state controlled and administrated 'social justice' A big difference. the Christian churches have become infiltrated with socialists nuns & priests that don't seem to understand the difference. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-04-08 14:08 |
| #2 If I were Beck, this would be my response: Roses are read, Violets are blue. I don't like poetry, so just fuck you. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-08 14:00 |
| #1 Roses are red, violets are blue, Glenn Beck is a wimp if he buckles under Haiku:) |
| Posted by: Whatch Dingle9559 2010-04-08 13:53 |