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The Sick Farce of Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally
America, the first step in your spiritual and political redemption is finally at hand.
Or so Glenn Beck would have us believe. After an eight-month build-up that began at an Orlando retirement community last November, Beck is now making the final preparations for his “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall, scheduled to begin early on Saturday morning with a salute and a prayer in front of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of the Fox News host’s loyal fans.
On a stage at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, Beck will headline a bevy of conservative guest speakers familiar to his radio and television audiences. Most notable among them will be Sarah Palin, whose political career received early and enthusiastic support from Beck. Despite the event’s sponsorship by the NRA, the host maintains the rally will be a “non-political” event, meant to honor American troops overseas and grounded in the nonpartisan themes of “faith, hope, and charity.”
Since Beck first announced the event, much critical attention has been paid to the date. This Saturday is the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that is also enshrined in the national mythology as one of the finest expressions of American ideals. Beck claims that the scheduling is mere coincidence. But he has eagerly claimed King’s legacy, and the meaning of Aug. 28, as his own. On the May 24 edition of his radio program, he described himself and his conservative-activist legions as “the inheritors and the protectors of the civil rights movement”; liberals, he claimed, “are perverting it.” He said he “wouldn’t be surprised if in our lifetime dogs and fire hoses are released or opened on us. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of us get a billy club to the head. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of us go to jail — just like Martin Luther King did — on trumped-up charges. Tough times are coming.” Two days later, he reiterated his intent to “reclaim the civil rights movement,” since “we were the people that did it in the first place.” More recently, he has described the alleged scheduling coincidence as “divine providence”—as God’s way of telling Beck he walks in King’s footsteps.
If this is true, and a supreme being did in fact decide that Beck should hold his self-branded Tea Party rally in the shadow of Martin Luther King, then we should take this as proof that God has a very dark sense of humor.
Far from being a civil rights icon, Glenn Beck has built his empire and fame in part by being a master divider along racial lines. Especially since the inauguration of Barack Obama on the eve of his Fox News debut, Beck has emerged as the media’s boldest manipulator of white racial anxieties, fears and prejudice. His willingness “to go there” has even earned him grudging respect from hardcore white nationalists who usually have little patience for major media.
Most people are aware by now that more than 100 sponsors have fled Beck’s program since his June 2009 claim that President Obama was a racist “with a deep-seated hatred of white people.” But this is only the best known event in a 30-year career in broadcasting that has been partly defined by racist humor, racially charged venom, and advocacy for far-right foes of the civil rights movement.
Throughout his career in Top 40 radio, Beck was known for his imitations of “black guy” characters and racist tropes. According to Beck’s former colleagues in the late 90s, this included mocking unarmed blacks shot and killed by white police officers. Such was the case of Malik Jones, the victim of a controversial killing that took place in 1997.
“After the shooting, Beck sometimes did a racist shtick,” remembers Paul Bass, a former radio host and Beck colleague at a Clear Channel station cluster in New Haven. “Glenn did routines about Jones’ grandmother being on crack. Generally he made fun of his family and the loss of life—as joke routines.”
Beck’s racially tinged tirades did not disappear after he switched formats in 1999. During his first talk radio stint in Tampa, he often referred to the Rev. Jesse Jackson as “the stinking king of the race lords.” Most recently, Beck has worked to resuscitate the names of famously anti-civil rights figures from the history of his adopted Mormon faith. He has respectfully played tapes of Ezra Taft Benson, who thought Martin Luther King was a communist agent out to destroy the Mormon Church (and who once wrote the foreward to a book of race hate whose cover illustration featured the severed, bloody head of an African American). Beck has also implored his viewers to read the “divinely inspired” books of W. Cleon Skousen, another John Birch Society fantasist who believed that the civil rights movement was part of a worldwide Communist (and, later, “New World Order”) conspiracy.
The above gives some sense, but barely scratches the surface of, Beck’s long and disgraceful record on race. The Fox News host has also played a key role in the conservative attempts to whip up white opposition to Barack Obama by painting the president’s health and environmental agendas as Trojan horses for “stealth reparations” for black Americans. For much of the summer of 2009, Beck ranted about the alleged “black nationalism” of Van Jones, a White House environmental official who resigned last September after what Jones described as conservatives’ “vicious smear campaign” against him. Beck also helped lead the racially charged cavalry charges against ACORN and Eric Holder’s Justice Department (for its handling of the New Black Panther Party “scandal”.)
So, no, Glenn Beck is not the inheritor of Dr. King’s mantle. Had the two men been contemporaries, it is a very safe best that Beck would have excoriated King for being a “progressive cockroach”—an enemy of the Constitution who sought to destroy America by spreading the “virus” of social justice. We know he would have done this because it’s the same playbook he uses every day on radio and television. That’s just who Glenn Beck is and always has been. It’s a fact that all the deranged posturing in the world can’t hide, regardless of the date printed on his coveted event permit.
on August 24th, 2010 at 7:55 am
Glenn Beck does not speak for me.
on August 24th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Thank you SPLC for specific facts re: Mr. Beck’s past and current racially bigoted, inflammatory remarks. I think I will post a separate fact every hour on the day of his “non-political” rally.
on August 24th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Glenn Beck does not speak for me, either!
on August 24th, 2010 at 8:51 am
You people are pathetic. I am a black American and I love Glenn Beck and his message of restoration of America from leftist progressive thieves and useful idots. Read some history and stop perpetuating lies.
on August 24th, 2010 at 8:58 am
This is actually what progress looks like. Dr. King is now embraced across the political spectrum.
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Is it my imagination, or is this article basically fear-mongering hate speech, filled with bigotry (albeit PC bigotry)?
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Traci,
I highly doubt you are black. You are more than likely a manipulative white supremacist shill.
Walter
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:41 am
I am the Entertainer,
An Idol to behold.
No reason to Reason,
Just ratings for the season.
And the Entertainer buys more gold.
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Pathetic! I listen to Beck’s radio and tv problems. What I have heard is he wishes to “restore honor” and he wishes Americans to focus on “content of character.” No one owns the MLK legacy but America, and of course the King family. Beck has shown deep reverence for Dr. King. He wishes to honor American soldiers Saturday and promotes “Faith, Hope and Charity.” Are his foes so jaded they are opposed to the sacrifices of our fallen heroes and our founding father’s principles? In its own way, this post is as racist as anything Beck is accused of. I don’t want to live in that view of America. Yet, I have every right to hope to live in an America I believe in.
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Glenn Beck and all of his followers are a small sect of society that want America to go back to the 1800′s. After the election of our first Black President, they have systematically gone off of the deep end and their hateful hearts can’t hide anymore. Change has come to America and I for one do not want to go back to the way things were….Honor was restored to America when Barack H. Obama won the election and started running things with some sense.
on August 24th, 2010 at 10:00 am
I think we should just start quoting from the Book of Mormon whenever Glenn appears. Do his Calvinist fundamentalist fans know he is a heretic?
Time to let them know they are mere stooges for the Latter Day Saints endtimes drama Glenn believes in.
on August 24th, 2010 at 10:41 am
This is ludicrous.
Civil rights as a concept in American polity emerged from the natural rights embraced by Enlightenment thinkers and transposed into our Founding documents.
Those natural rights can be traced in great measure to John Locke, who is considered the founder of modern liberalism. Though progressive in my politics and liberal, I am also “conservative” in that I respect those values and believe they are as true today as they were then.
Now today, contemporary “conservatives” seek to trash our Constitution and trample on the basic tenets of equality and social justice. The right wing used to maintain a certain decorum, but today they have become this mindless monster of diatribe and hate.
It’s not clear to me what they stand for, exactly, and I think they would be hard pressed to define it themselves.
So, they turn to the great and grand to do their thinking for them, and to provide some sense of political purpose even though they remain disinterested in the practical effects and implementation of the very policies they defend. It is enough to simply get angry.
Glenn Beck, while perhaps having claim to some brilliance himself, in the way that Hitler was brilliant, has devoted his life profit by duping the easily led and simple minded through grand gestures of emotional appeal and gratuitous social discourse aimed at bolstering the very inequalities that define injustice in America.
If he is indeed guided by spiritual precepts, as he claims, I believe he will have a surprise waiting for him.
on August 24th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Don, notice that none of the Beck haters here uses their own name, although there’s certainly no reason not to. It’s also painfully obvious that neither they nor the author of the article has actually listened to any of Mr. Beck’s broadcasts. It’s likely all the same person pretending to be several — possibly the author of the article, even.
The fact that MLK’s niece approves of Glenn Beck — because, as she stated, he “speaks the truth,” — says volumes. As for me, I give more weight to her opinion than to that of the person who wrote the article and the later “responses” who is so full of blind hatred … whoever it is.
on August 24th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Some should go to the National Mall with recordings of glenn beck’s “jokes” and such and walk around the crowd and let them decide. Of course it would be dangerous. There has to be a way to silence this hate. Of my sixty years as an American citizen, born and raised, I fell so ashamed that these people call themselves as Americans. It is absolutely frightening. Banana Republic anyone?
on August 24th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Walter makes my point…lol…he tries to discredit me and who I am (which is a beautiful black woman) instead of dealing with the substance of my argument or opinion. Again, I say, pathetic.
on August 24th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
MMSands,
When you mention a niece of MLK do you refer to Alveda King? If so, there’s probably no better example for showing how meaningless being a descendant of such a great man can be for determining one’s character. Perhaps you are aware of the fact that Alveda has made the news recently for her stance against a different civil rights movement, that of the LGBT community in the United States.
Her recently stated position is that allowing same-sex marriage will lead to the extinction of the human species. Yes, extinction, her words, not mine.
Of course, MLK’s family is hardly united on any issue, and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was a proponent of LGBT rights, including marriage before her death in 2006. I mention this here because what Alveda has to say about that difference in position is a good window into her character, and into her feelings about her uncle’s legacy.
At a rally in Atlanta: ‘I have the same DNA, Coretta Scott King was only married to him.’ Quite the dismissal of a woman who dedicated her life to ending the evils of racism, poverty and war, and who carried on the civil rights movement after her husband’s assassination up until her death at the age of 78. Not the kind of dismissal that leaves me with much respect for her opinions.
Of course, it’s possible you were referring to a different niece entirely. In either case, my point is simple. The mere fact that someone who shares MLK’s blood is a fan of Glenn Beck does not make Glenn Beck an inheritor of MLK’s legacy, nor does it do anything to change Beck’s history of racist comments and race baiting. By all means her opinion is notable, but shared blood does not the truth make.
PS: I’m using my real name, so perhaps that part of your post was a bit premature.
on August 24th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
“Restoring Honor” is code for “restoring white supremacy.”
Disgusting. A bizarro-world perversion of MLK’s legacy.
“Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path.
At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don’t mix, they say. Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people, they ask?
And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.”
“Beyond Vietnam”
http://www.stanford.edu/group/.....ietnam.htm
on August 24th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
I hope most people realize the Glenn Beck doesn’t represent the Mormon church nor does the Mormon church claim him as a representative of the faith. As a Mormon myself, I get frustrated when he uses his Mormonism and spirituality in attempt to prop up his opinion. I know more Mormons who are frustrated by him than than enjoy him. He is merely a man with an opinion who is correct sometimes and wrong in others.
on August 24th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Heh. I guess it’s no surprise people like Beck misinterpret and pervert MLK. They’ve been doing it to Jesus for centuries.
on August 24th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Glen Beckkk does not speak for me…..ever!!!!!
on August 24th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Glenn has a very large bag of crap wrapped up in the flag and with crosses at the ready. He is the face of a delusional paranoid who would love to outlaw those who do not think like him. Some day we may look back at this and wonder where the hell common sense was during the unending scam of his and the LOST Republican Party. If this is the Right, I leave.
on August 24th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
For those that think “we” never watch Mr. Beck, recall the sick and sad scene of his mocking Speaker Pelosi’s tears as she recalled the assassination of San Francisco Councilman Milk. If the reader’s mind went to mocking as well, then you do not deserve a claim to Dr. King’s legancy any more than Mr. Beck. If you, like the rest of us on the west coast (regardless of orientation) recall where we were when we got the news, just like the Challenger tragedy, or the Kennedy assassination, then “the dream” is alive and well within you.
on August 24th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
If Martin Luther King was alive today he would be denounced by Beck and the other bigoted war mongers as a traitor for opposing the war and for standing in solidarity with his Muslem brother and sisters.
on August 24th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Peter Butler has it right when he opened his comments thus:
And it’s probably just me, but you could just imagine Glenn Beck setting up a shrine to apartheid-era South Africa’s debauched false equivalence of “race honour = national honour,” and its leadership. With its most prominent feature an apartheid-era South African flag.
That, and suggesting that his audience of Happy Little Vegemites, so to speak, study the model of apartheid South Africa as one with America’s Last Hope for Her Salvation From Herself.
on August 24th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Take caution, Southern Poverty Law Center. I have a deep level of respect for the work you do. Beck is a divider, you are a uniter. Don’t let him divide you from his conservative white audience, who most needs to hear your message.
I am a white person from the midwest, and Glen Beck does not speak for me.
There was a man like him, years ago, in my Grandmother’s country. Those who opposed him were killed. Millions died. He rose to power by manipulating an impoverished democratic society much like our own. You can read his message in a book very similar to Beck’s messages. It is called “Mein Kampf.”
on August 24th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
All I’m seeing — except from people like Traci — is a witch hunt. Of course, it’s hard to see the log in one’s own eye when one is busy judging others (to mix my metaphors). There’s a lot hearsay, rumors, finger pointing, and except for the one brave soul who came out from behind his mask (if he’s to be believed, of course, although the credibility of this crowd is a little strained at this point).
I’ve actually watched Glenn Beck’s shows. Mostly he exhorts his audience to follow the precepts of people like King and Ghandi, Washington and Franklin; to learn history from the original sources rather than from third parties; and to question everything with boldness, including the existence of God, but to be willing to accept the truth no matter how difficult that may be. His “vicious” attacks on people generally consist of playing their own words back — but for real, in full context, not based on what someone (whose credibility we have no reason not to question, or at least, establish) says they heard 15 years ago.
Truth is, I think you guys have it wrong. It’s you who would be attacking MLK if he were alive today, not Beck. As for the Southern Poverty Law Center … I have nothing but respect for those who speak up for and live what they believe. The minute they try to force anyone else into submitting to them, they lose my respect — and my interest. It’s an American thing.
on August 24th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Interesting there are comments that Beck doesn’t represent the Mormon church. Russell Pearce from Arizona is Mormon! Does Pearce represent the Mormon church? Didn’t the Mormons say that blacks were naturally cursed? Oh, and wasn’t it just recently that blacks were allowed to attend services at the church? When I say recently, I’m not speaking 30 years.
As far as FOX goes, I’m sitting back waiting for the day when the Saudi Prince gets into a proxy fight with Murdoch for ownership of the media conglomerate. I’m just shocked that FOX can continue to talk smack about blacks and muslims without due recourse – but, maybe there is something being worked out behind the scenes. And for FOX and CNN to say that 70% of Americans oppose the mosque – apparently they are referring to white Americans. I wasn’t asked and so were many others. There are, in fact, muslims in the U.S. prison system that have been in place for centuries, and they happen to be black. Did they ask Louis Farakhan if he opposed this mosque? What about his followers? Again, here’s a classic example of whites trying to destroy black people and demonize them. Such cowards, liars and thieves.
on August 24th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Sorry — that was a bit incomplete — I was interrupted by workmen while writing and forgot to proof read. The sentence at the end of the first paragraph should have finished with “people who might as well be wearing white hoods to disguise themselves.” A disguise is a disguise, and no one can tell me that it takes any courage to speak the PC “Leftist” stance.
on August 24th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
What a bunch of bigoted hate filled tripe this BS is. I used to listen to the fear mongers slander Beck and believed what they said, then one day I actually watched him, and since that time, I have never once seen him show any bigotry. I have heard him say repeatedly that he wants freedom and equal rights for all but he does not want the government to enslave people. And face it, if the government gives you anything, it always comes with strings.
I am black, and I attended a black church. I am presently switch to Celebration church after attending a few times. All races go to church there and there is never any strife and I have never had one person look at me wrong, or speak to me wrong. In fact everyone smiles and speaks kindly to me. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of me because my old church often spent a lot of time spewing hate and resentment towards this country.
And remember the government strings? They would talk even more about politics but the problem is by accepting the tax free charter, they give up the rights to speak about politics. But in truth, they do cross that line regularly. At Celebration Church in Jacksonville I just learn about love and mutual respect based on God’s love for everyone equally. it’s no wonder it is the largest and fastest growing church in Florida. I am an educated black man, a graduate of UNF.
I am also a registered independent. In Florida that means you can’t vote in primaries and you get an Npa on your voter card, but I refuse to be a slave to a political party. I am my own man and I make my own decisions. Just like I made my decision that Glenn Beck is not a racist, nor a bigot. he rightfully fears for our freedoms in this country because the Federal government has escaped from the cage the Constitution was supposed to lock it into. I’m with him on that one.
I’ll not check back here. I am done with this idiocy. I prefer to stick to sites that are positive and uplifting. I’ll be at that rally and I encourage all black people to show up be respectful and just listen. Don’t show up to protest…show up to listen and then do what free men do…make up your own mind. You might find that the fear mongers have been leading you by the slave’s collar. I left the Democrat party for that very reason. Plantation politics. They’ll never do anything for the black man so long as the black vote is a sure thing. So I left. I am an independent. Don’t believe me? The black vote has been solidly in the corner of the Democrats for many decades. And where has that gotten us? We still lag behind other minorities in nearly everything. We still have ghettos full of black people. Obviously the show up and get a fish for the day policy of the Democrats hasn’t worked. So I switched to the conservative policy of here’s how to fish, now go catch all the fish you want. I am far more successful now that I adopted the attitude that I am responsible for myself. I’m on my own and doing far better than I ever did while listening to the Democrats. I also feel less hate directed toward me because while a Democrat I felt nothing but hate. I was encouraged to be a divider. Now the people I hang out with encourage me to be a uniter. I feel more hope than I ever did as a Democrat.
Good luck with your hate and fear mongering. I’m out.
on August 24th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
If your minds are made up so that no facts can change them, then say so. Have that much dignity, at least. You don’t watch Beck with an open mind. You look for things to object to. there’s a huge difference.
And please: don’t try to tell me what I am or am not. You don’t know me, nor have I mentioned anything about myself. If you claim to know what I’m about, it’s strictly prejudice on your part.
on August 24th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Bravo, RussellH! You go, Dude!
on August 24th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Could some PLEASE explain why this guy is so important?
He’s an entertainer. Like Limbaugh, Mel Gibson, or that young blond woman with the drug problem (I forget her name)…. This fellow is just so guy on the radio (or TV). Are we actually giving credence to the opinions (& digressions) of people in the entertainment field?
Some of you folks have a great deal of intelligence; could you explain why this fellow is such a big deal?
I really am curious; [however, I really don't give a rat's ass what some actor or comedian, or entertainer said about important issues]. But if someone could explain why this guy is SO important, I’d enjoy listening to the reason….
They are actors for crying out loud! They are paid to BS. They pretend they are heroes, heroines, and whatever…..
Charlie Sheen – NAVY SEAL ! What a JOKE! THEN some DOLT asks him bout something serious or “his training”…Haaa, Haaaa!
on August 24th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I fear the rise and increasing bellicosity of the extreme right. There is no telling what they would do it. Remember a certain Adolph Hitler? A true monster. However, there are ppl who share his ideas. Now our history is different from that of Germany which is fortunate I guess. It’s like they are using the reptilian part of their brains. How can ppl live that way? It’s so poisonous. It’s like acid (no not LSD, that acid)
I fear what certain McVeighs in their ranks have in mind for our Pres., mainly because he is Black, but also he’s not a bully like Beckkk and that nasty ilk.
on August 24th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
rupert murdoch must be a racist himself!….why else would he keep someone like loser beck on his payroll?…i guess beck is saying all the things on the air that murdoch wishes he could.he lets beck do all the dirty work for him.
on August 24th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
You’re right, Russell. It’s pointless to stay. These people are determined to hate and promote discord. Apparently they really believe that they can determine the inner thoughts of others, understand an entire line of thinking based on a sound byte taken out of context, They also apparently see themselves as inherently superior — more intelligent, more aware, etc etc.etc. It’s obvious they want censorship, and want to squelch free speech altogether. I quake for the United States of America, but — as the I Ching says — the best way to fight evil is by vigorous progress in good. To stick around and let one’s self be mired in this filth is to give strength to the hate and the divisiveness that is being encouraged and in fact, spewed pretty uniformly.
Bye, guys. Enjoy the sound of your own voices, You’re obviously in love with that and that alone.
on August 24th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
What are you Glenn Beck haters so afraid of? Ignore him if he’s so inconsequential.
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
I find it hilarious how opposition to Glenn Beck is brought out, all of a sudden his fans accuse others of being close-minded.
The man knows what he is doing. He has successfully divided America by playing his flute of paranoia in front of those who don’t know any better.
“Fighting for rights and freedoms”. Give me a break. The only thing he has brought to the table is paranoia, and like good little boys and girls, they ate it right up.
Let’s not forget that those who cry “SOCIALIST SCUM!!” are the ones who are on welfare or other forms of social assistance.
Bunch of hypocrites.
By the way, MMSands. “They want to squelch free speech altogether”. Last I checked, freedom of speech also applies to those you oppose. They are just as allowed to form opinions as you are. If you don’t like it, nobody is forcing you to stay. Take a hike.
on August 24th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Someone on here, defending Beck, said to “read history”. Yes, I support that idea, because if you actually read history you will understand that Glenn Beck is a complete moron who has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. Beck often talks about various historical figures without having done any research about him whatsoever. He doesn’t have to check because he knows his audience will never check. Thomas Paine, Samuel Insull, and Elizabeth Dilling are just a few figures Beck has written or spoken about at length, clearly with no background knowledge.
If Beck were Beck back in the 1960s, he’d be calling MLK a Communist traitor, just like every other conservative ideologue back then, and just like his ideological mentor W. Cleon Skousen. One thing is for sure- Martin Luther King came out in favor of what he called “Democratic Socialism”, so it isn’t difficult to imagine what Beck would say about him.
Beck’s fans are flopping around trying to defend them here because Beck has not taught them how to argue. His chalkboard sessions are absolutely ridiculous(Beck can thus be “connected” to “Communist China” and a certain Saudi Billionaire). His book “Arguing with Idiots” features Beck advising his fans how to destroy arguments that he himself made up.
The more people listen to Beck, the less they actually know about history, politics, or economics.
on August 24th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Glen Beck has free speech! He uses it,abuses it and confuses it,but he has IT! I also have it,and I believe he is mentally ill!!!
on August 25th, 2010 at 12:35 am
Looks like the Faux News Flying Sock Puppets are out in force, leaping to the defense of Beck. Simply amazing, and it would be scary if it were really more than a dozen or so of them tapping away at their keyboards.
on August 25th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Traci,
I too am Black, and would deeply appreciate you refraining from commenting anymore. You only perpetuate the idea that Blacks are easily duped and gullible, unable to decipher what is in their best interests. So, if you are Black, please stop embarrasing thinking Blacks and Whites, and Asians and Native Americans. You only provide a glaring example of that stupidity for racists like Beck and MMSands, and others of their ilk. People who have accomplished little, or more specifically, failed to live up to their own expectations almost always look for a scapegoat, and someone to blame for their inadequacies. I fear this is Traci, and MMSANDS, et al. (conservatives). As hard as they may try to stave off the inevitable, demographics will take care of futile desire to “conserve” as opposed to “progress”. And by the way, I have listened to countless numbers of Beck’s diatribes ( its good to know what the enemy is thinking…..and he is no doubt my enemy). And Dennis is my name!
on August 25th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Beck presents a lot of researched information. He seems willing to commit himself to his beliefs. We are in a time when massive efforts are being made to alter our way of life and system of government. Our borders are being challenged and our government challenges the citizens rather than protect them. Beck is not all wrong as he is not all right.
Perhaps there is something to be learned. A racist, I think not. A bit compulsive, for sure.
Think for yourself, be rational and be involved and work towards positive outcomes.
That is why I am running for local office and I am 68.
Have a great day. Gary
on August 25th, 2010 at 9:40 am
It is my belief that today’s “conservatives” don’t have any claim to that title.
Real conservatives uphold our Constitution and respect our institutions and traditions.
The reactionary rampage going on in America today is a result of their own ineptitude, They have so little to stand on, that the only way to achieve any kind of cohesion in the fragmented, directionless, and fraught with infighting party is to unify around the banner of senseless emotional diatribe, anger and hate.
That is all they’ve got.
They’re so lost, intellectually and morally, that they hold to this shadow of former GOP values and some kind of 1950s era mythical shangri-la that seems to appeal amid the complex conundrums of our day. They fear the future. They want to turn back the clock.
How will that ever work? Do they think that time will stand still if Eisenhower becomes President again?
Ruslan said it the other day and his comment continues to resonate with me, as I am sure many others resonate with others.
They are on the losing side of history.
on August 25th, 2010 at 10:24 am
No Gary, Beck does not provide “researched” information. Half the time he doesn’t even check who his sources are. This is why he recommended the writings of Elizabeth Dilling, not knowing that she was an anti-Semite and Nazi supporter. He doesn’t bother to check, and he knows you won’t check. See how much he thinks of you loyal followers?
He babbles on and on about Thomas Paine, who in real life hated Christianity(he called it absurd) and advocated welfare state policies. He tells a go-nowhere pointless story about Samuel Insull in his idiotic book Arguing with Idiots, not knowing that Insull was an advocate of government regulation of the private sector(something that Beck incorrectly calls ‘socialist’) to prevent monopoly. In the same book Beck absurdly suggests that capitalism isn’t responsible for the current crisis because so many different countries with different systems were affected by the crisis. Apparently nobody told the moron that nearly all the world is capitalist today- capitalism is a mode of production; state intervention and even nationalized enterprises don’t automatically make a country socialist.
What I don’t understand about people like you Gary, is why you never check what these people say on your own, and why you continue listening to them when its been proven that they have lied. I used to listen to conservative talk radio religiously when I was an adolescent, but over time I started to learn that many of the claims they make about a number of issues are simply totally false. They just pose as experts and blab on about these things without ever checking, and knowing or thinking that you’ll never check.
Doesn’t that make you angry at all? Should the perception of shared values be enough to justify blind loyalty to some charlatan who leads you around by the nose?
on August 25th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I came across this website as I was researching the 8/28 Restoring Honor Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. I read through many of the posts and found that most of the anti-Beck posts have a common theme of out right hatred towards Beck and anyone who supports his principles and views. The people who post against Beck and his supporters do a fantastic job of personally attacking any and all of his supporters. Some of the anti-Beck posters even accuse Beck’s African American supports of not being Black.
Most of the posts from the Beck supporters are more respectful and make solid attempts at explaining why they support Glenn Beck. Many of the examples that are used to discredit Glenn Beck and his beliefs are half-truths or fabricated. I could sit here and defend them individually, but I don’t have the time at this moment to do this. Rather, I would like to focus on a question that Carter asked in this Post on August 24th at 4:35pm:
WHY IS THIS GUY SO IMPORTANT?
Why do you all take the time out of your busy days to smear a guy who you believe is just an entertainer, has terrible beliefs, and is trying to bring us back to the 1800′s? If all his supporters are uneducated simple minded followers, then it seems to me that you shouldn’t have anything to worry about…just don’t listen to Glenn Beck and you won’t know he exists. This would save you all an awful lot of time to do more important things.
on August 25th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Way to go Russel H! Thank you for sharing your story.
I too, am a victim of hate speech. I am a conservative and a fan of Glenn Beck and people call me a racist that don’t even know me. In their mind all they need to know is that I’m a conservative and that must mean I am a racist. There is no more prejudiced thought in the world than if you think a conservative is a racist, just because they are conservative.
I agree with Russell H on his view of how the Democrats have treated black people. He said it all.
It seems the racist label is meant to scare people from becoming conervative, or even looking into what conservatives believe. Don’t be scared by that label – it’s just a scare tactic. Know your principles and what you stand for and names and labels won’t bother you.
Hopefully, the hatred shown here in these comments aren’t representative of most liberals, but I am hard pressed to find a liberal who doesn’t call other people ractists.
If you are a liberal who can have a rational conversation without calling the other person names, I would love to know where you are, because I can’t find any in my world. Every liberal I come in contact with is full of hatred toward conservatives and toward my beliefs. It certainly is a sad. Respect my principles and values and I will respect yours. Don’t be hateful.
Thanks!
BC
on August 25th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Darrin, Beck’s supporters are simple-minded because as I have pointed out numerous times in this comments section, the do not check the information he gives them. Of course Beck engages in a lot of logical fallacies as well, sometimes his logic seems like it would cause the space-time continuum to rip apart, but in this case what is far more important is how he will make claims which are checkable, but false. And besides, if someone still supports a DJ after he actually claims that ACORN is like the SS, they are a moron. Sorry, no negotiating- moron, period.
And I’m sorry but “just ignore him” isn’t an option. Beck wants attention, and his followers want attention. If they wanted to be some kind of community of their own, they wouldn’t be marching around in the streets. If a group of people says “we’re going to take our country back,” people should ask, back to what exactly. Such people cannot simply be ignored.
on August 25th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
What is respectable about your values, BC? This is not a rhetorical question or a snark. I just don’t understand what it is you would like me to respect.
State funded executions?
Enforcement of laws with disregard for rights?
Telling a woman what to do with her body?
Trying to force compulsory heterosexuality, while denying the rights of homosexuals?
Repealing the 14th Amendment?
Supply side economics?
Toppling dictators with my tax money?
Hectoring Muslims?
Could you please elaborate on what exactly is worthy of respect?
on August 25th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
I hear that Albert Speer will be in charge of the pagentry for Beck’s rally.
on August 25th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Thanks beholder, you’ve proven my point. Why would anyone engage you in debate with the hateful tone you project?
BC
on August 25th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Ruslan Amirkhanov, I appreciate your feedback. You make a good argument as to why Glenn Beck and supporters cannot be ignored by people with your beliefs and point of view.
However, can we start a conversation based around your claim that Glenn Beck’s followers are simple minded because they don’t check the information given by him? Give me a good example of something Glenn Beck has said that is not true and cannot be backed up by fact? I’m not saying that Glenn Beck has or hasn’t given false information, but if he has, it should be looked into. A good example would be great.
Thanks
on August 25th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
BC, you are quite possibly the WORST debater I’ve ever seen.
In fact, I’d go out on a limb and say that you’re no better than the Tea Party itself.
“Thanks beholder, you’ve proven my point”.
Uh, no, he didn’t. He asked you a series of questions, that you clearly have no answer for, since you are now retreating to your shell of “I’m better than you nyer nyer!”
I could ask the same of you…why would anybody want to engage YOU in debate with your condescending, all-knowing attitude?
on August 25th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Well, let’s take for example his question: “Telling a woman what to do with her body?” I assume he’s talking about the abortion issue. Instead of asking a normal question like, “What is your stance on abortion,” he has to frame it like he did. What if I said, “Oh, you mean the killing of unborn babies?” And where does that get us?
I wasn’t asking for a debate right here right now anyway, I was just explaining the fact that all I run into are hateful liberals who hate you based on the fact that you are conservative. They can’t even ask a fair question, it all has to be framed negatively or hateful. They are all questions like, “When did you stop beating your wife?” It’s just crazy. If you truly want to debate someone or find out what their views are you don’t put them down every chance you get.
on August 25th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
MLK would be at the event, if he could. It’s exactly the kind of event he would be a part of. He would be proud of how far we’ve come, while acknowledging the miles yet to go. I believe he would be there and he would stand with all of us. It’s the kind of America he died for, where people of all races and creeds could come together in a free society to speak out in one voice. He would also forgive people like those here who are blinded by their own hardened hearts and who choose to speak in anger rather than to find love in our common ground. Yes, I believe MLK would be there and I’m willing to believe he will be.
on August 25th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Any takers on the above post from August 25th at 4:57pm?
I am just looking for an honest debate of the facts.
Thanks.
on August 25th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
They will do absolutely anything to distract discussions about the Bush Tax Cuts. Best revenge, NEVER shut up about them and make sure they aren’t re-instated. It’s all they care about. Money is their form of God. Write your congressional representatives and make sure the Republicans lose their Bush created tax favors.
on August 26th, 2010 at 12:32 am
Darrin, if you look at my previous comments in my thread you will see numerous references to things that Glenn Beck has spoken about at length without knowing anything about. Elizabeth Dilling, W. Cleon Skousen, Thomas Paine, Hitler, the history of fascism and socialism, the very definition of socialism- these comprise a number of topics on which Beck has spoken at length, and yet clearly knows nothing about. Of course this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone- Beck is a DJ. He has no academic background in any field related to history, economics, or sociology. Of course one can be educated in these fields simply by reading the relevant literature, but Beck apparently doesn’t do this.
on August 26th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Ruslan, I again appreciate your feedback, but I don’t think I can agree that he knows nothing about the things you mention. I don’t know that he can get it ALL wrong. I guess what I am looking for is specific examples of facts that he has gotten wrong. Given your examples above, what specifically has Glenn Beck said regarding these people and other topics that are false? I have to be honest, the things I have heard and read about discrediting Glenn Beck in the Media and from friends seem to be very weak at best. Still, I don’t just believe everything I am told and would like to find some concrete falsehoods that Glenn Beck has put out there.
Another thing, does anyone really need to have an academic background in any field to really know it and understand it? I don’t think so. I am college educated, but my field of work has nothing to do with what I went to college for, however, I have mastered my profession and have been very successful. Yes, it is nice to have an academic background, but it is not the end all. I understand that Glenn Beck used to be a DJ, but I used to be a stock boy in a liquor store…does that mean I am still just a stock boy.
Just some thoughts. I don’t mean to come across as a total supporter of Glenn Beck, I just make decisions on pure fact. I challenge you or anyone on this board to start by stating one fact that Glenn Beck has gotten wrong or lied about.
Thanks.
on August 26th, 2010 at 8:48 am
I don’t know how many times I have to direct you to read my specific comments on this very thread…but let’s go AGAIN..
1. First of all Beck is trying to steal the image of MLK. MLK was a radical leftist, as is apparent from his own words. In fact he even voiced support for something he called “democratic socialism”. Well we know what Beck thinks of socialists. But we also know that in MLK’s times, his opponents accused him of being a Communist. In fact Beck’s ideological mentor, W. Cleon Skousen made this claim. Are we to believe that Beck would have been opposed to the man whose ideas he spreads today back in the 60s? Unlikely.
2. Beck recommended the work of Elizabeth Dilling, portraying her as an American patriot. In fact Dilling was a pro-Nazi traitor, who attacked Jews as a people in her writing.
3. Beck has spoken with admiration about Thomas Paine, yet Paine’s values contrast sharply with those of Beck. Paine was anti-Christian, he supported the idea of a welfare state, and also found it foolish for people to idolize the founders of the country.
4. Beck’s Arguing with Idiots is jam-packed with strawman arguments, debunked in ways that actually makes Beck look like more of an idiot. For example, he again repeats the debunked meme that the credit crisis was due in part to the Community Reinvestment Act.
5. Beck’s series on Communism was laughable, with a paltry handful of sources often by well-knowned biased “historians”. For example, he relied on a well-debunked documentary called the Soviet Story, put out by Baltic nationalists.
6. He compared either the SEIU or ACORN to the Nazi SA, somehow neglecting to remember that the Nazi SA spent nearly all its time fighting with Communists.
7. Beck’s chalkboard graphs are largely meaningless. Using all kinds of isolated facts, we can easily draw a line between Beck and “Communist” China, and a certain Saudi Prince who owns stock in Newscorp. As you know, Fox pays Beck a lot of money and Rupert Murdoch earns a great deal of money from his satellite network in China. Murdoch also spends a great deal of his time in his mansion in China. I guess he likes China more than America.
Beck continually likes to speak about “facts”, but facts are not enough to determine truth. First we must have ALL the facts about a particular issue, and then they must be interpreted. Beck’s claims often begin with assumptions which are not true. For example, Beck in Arguing with Idiots attempts to claim that “capitalism didn’t fail” in the credit crisis because there are so many countries with so many systems that were also effected by the crisis. This is based on a false assumption. The world is not full of many different systems other than capitalism(which Beck doesn’t really define). Nearly all the world, save for North Korea and Cuba(both of which are still affected by capitalism), operates via the capitalist mode of production.
You can find dozens more debunkings of Beck claims at websites like Mediamatters.org, complete with videos so you can see the context.
Lastly, I never claimed one must have an academic background in a particular field to understand it- but if I want to get information on history, politics, and economics, I would want to seek out a source who DOES have a background in such disciplines. Moreover, Beck does not get his information from such people. He gets his information on fascism and socialism from Jonah Goldberg, a right-wing pundit whose thoughts on history are simply laughable and fly in the face of the entire field of history. He gets a lot of his other ideas from the radical Mormon W. Cleon Skousen.
Getting information on history, politics, or economics from Beck is basically the blind leading the blind.
Now if there are any other Beck claims you want debunked, I suggest you present a particular, specific claim of Beck that you are interested in.
on August 26th, 2010 at 9:35 am
While I would still encourage you to bring up any specific Beck claim you are interested in, to include ones that you claimed the media “weakly” debunked, if the above post is too long you could take one example from Beck’s book Arguing with Idiots(I mention this book a lot and I should point out that yes, I have this book in audio format). In the book, Beck labels France ‘socialist’. France is not socialist.
on August 26th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Darrin said,
I don’t know that he can get it ALL wrong. I guess what I am looking for is specific examples of facts that he has gotten wrong
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Sorry to interject here, but I would like to point out that Beck himself has admitted in a number of ways that he is an entertainer, not a journalist, and that he does not check his facts. He is providing political theatre. The danger is that people believe the theatre and don’t look at the facts, taking it for granted (as you seem to do) that he knows what he is talking about when he doesn’t.
Hence the opposition to Beck.
On the View, Barbara Walters said, “You are an investigative reporter.” Beck said, “No, I am not.” She said, “You are a reporter.” Beck said, “No, I am not.” She asked, “So, you check no facts at all?” Beck said, “No, I am a commentator. I commentate on life.”
Here’s the video, see for yourself:
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Glenn-Beck-The-View
Here is his Forbes interview, where he famously described himself as an entertainer out for the money, without a serious interest in politics. Anyone who follows him as their guru is getting played like a chump:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2.....k-inc.html
on August 26th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Brian Chorley said,
on August 25th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
I assume he’s talking about the abortion issue. Instead of asking a normal question like, “What is your stance on abortion,” he has to frame it like he did. What if I said, “Oh, you mean the killing of unborn babies?” And where does that get us?
———–
Obviously you confuse any view that questions your “conservative values ” as a form of hate. There is no hate whatsoever in that question.
Can’t you answer it?
on August 26th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Not sure the homeschoolers realize that Beck and FOX are financed by the Saudis. So, tell me, wno would Glenn Beck tell you to hate?
on August 26th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Glenn Beck…non-political…same sentence??
ROFLMAO. Good one.
on August 26th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
“Obviously you confuse any view that questions your “conservative values ” as a form of hate. There is no hate whatsoever in that question.
Can’t you answer it?”
OK, I’ll answer it.
Abortion is a terrible thing and they should be rare and hard to get. By hard to get, I don’t mean only one doctor in 3 states does them, I mean there should be a process the parents would go through in order to have the abortion.
Abortion is the taking of a life and we can’t take that seriously enough. We should try to have fewer and fewer abortions and they should not be used as a way to escape responsibility for your actions. The biggest problem I have with abortions today is that it is too easy to say oops I made a mistake and get an abortion to take care of it.
We need to take more responsibility for our decisions in this country. Adoption should be the first option available to people who have an “unwanted pregnancy” and I think abortions should be reserved for only the extreme cases involving physical problems.
My wife and I were put through this decision making process not long ago. We learned that our unborn baby had a risk for Edwards Syndrome. Now, if you don’t know what Edwards Syndrome is, it’s a horrible syndrome that includes severe deformities both internal and external. They say only 50% of the cases survive birth, and even then only something like 10% make it to age 1. And only the mildest cases struggle to reach age 10. This was not a future that was easy to face. We learned about it on a Friday and had an appointment for more tests on that Monday. It was a very hard weekend. With lots of prayers and researching Edwards Syndrome, we felt like we could handle any outcome that came our way and that abortion would not be an option. However, going through that experience, I fully understand how hard it is to make such a decision.
I think abortion should only be reserved for what I call “unhealthy” pregnancies, where there is some extraordinary physical risk to the child or mother. I think this decision needs to be made by the parents and not the government. It should be a case-by-case basis and not one answer fits all.
However, I fell that simply because a pregnancy is unwanted should not be a reason to have an abortion. Adoption should be an option that is used more often; especially since there are a lot of people out there waiting to adopt.
Just my two cents.
Thanks,
BC
on August 26th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Why should all women conform to your particular moral perspective? Many people feel that the fetus is not a human being. In fact it is literally a parasite.
on August 26th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
It is apparent that there are forces in this country that wish to bring on a racial holocaust. It is time for all people who love justice to stand up to this threat. On Sep 9 I will stage a protest outside of Fox Network in New York City, the purpose is to personally condemn them for being the main engineer of drive a racial and racial wedge in this country. I will be standing outside with a megaphone and I will read my statements. It may be an exercise in futility, however, I know it is necessary for us to bear witness. Anyone interested can contact me at ***************.
May God Bless our Country.
on August 26th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Sorry Bob, we had to remove your contact info. If you have a website to link to, that will work.
on August 26th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
“Ruslan Amirkhanov said,
on August 26th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Why should all women conform to your particular moral perspective? Many people feel that the fetus is not a human being. In fact it is literally a parasite.”
I’m sorry you feel that way. I guess it’s good for you that your mother didn’t feel that way. If you think a growing living embryo or fetus is not human, then you must either have a cold heart or no knowledge of the human fetal development process.
Using the website I entered as reference, by the time the embryo enters the fetal stage, “everything that is present in an adult human is present in the developing embryo.”
If you haven’t seen an 8 week ultrasound, or have not heard a baby’s heartbeat at 7 or 8 weeks, then you really don’t know what you are missing. You really should experience that to understand that an embryo and a fetus are in fact human life. That life needs to be protected and given a chance to be born. “All babies want to get borned!” (from the movie Juno) If you don’t see that, then I am sorry for you.
on August 26th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Agreeing with Ruslan on the “parasite” outlook.
Now, waiting for BC to come back and start using church logic. That’s going to be a hoot.
on August 27th, 2010 at 1:52 am
Look Brian, when I say it’s a parasite that’s just a definition. It doesn’t mean babies are bad, it just means that it is not a human being on equal standing with the mother.
My only problem with most anti-abortion types these days is that the seem to only care about unborn babies and people who have become brain-dead(e.g. Terri Schiavo). Everyone else can go to hell for all they care it seems- Iraqis, Afghans, poor people, and so on.
on August 27th, 2010 at 8:40 am
Undermine the Constitution at every opportunity; call good evil and call evil good. Every Anti-American comment or action that the SPLC propogates will be accounted for. Go ahead and ridicule those of us who understand why millions of HONORABLE American soldiers died. In the end, HIS will be done.
on August 27th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Please explain Ronald, who is undermining the constitution at every opportunity and how. Tell me, how many American soldiers died to deny freedom of religion to Muslims in America?
on August 27th, 2010 at 10:05 am
I am a Republican and thinking about Glenn Beck makes me want to throw up into my mouth a little.
The man is a complete and utter sociopath, but the worst part of all of this is that people actually listen to this sick demented human being…
Don’t get me wrong, he has the right to spew his hate filled visceral garbage all over the place…that’s America’s greatest strength…and biggest weakness. However, if he has the right to speak than we have the right to call him out for his lies, manipulation and disgusting rederick.
Glenn Beck is right about one thing, we are losing our country. The Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the world are trying to take it from us, trying to take us all down a very dark path.
At this time Democrats and (the sane) Republicans need to put aside ideological differences and work to make people like Glenn Beck irrelevant and show that neither side will tolerate his kind of political discourse on the public airwaves.
I still consider myself a Republican (barely) and I want my party back dammit.
on August 27th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Affraid to share “the dream” with a white recovering alchoholic that used to make racial jokes and now persues a more humanistic approach?
on August 27th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
What one reads in this comment section is truly sad.
All Beck is trying to do is unite the country, and all of you so called pundits do nothing but continue the hate.
By attacking one of the few people who seeks to look past our differences and see whats possible.
Sure Beck has faults, but who doesn’t. Let the first one among you cast the first stone. At least he’s trying to find common ground to meet on. At least he’s seen his faults, and done something about it. How many of you have accomplished that much ?
Faith, Hope, and Charity. Everyone would do well to try it some time, instead of attacking each other. And those who are trying to heal our country.
Many of you just don’t get it… this country is in real trouble. Weather you admit or not. And Socialism is NOT the answer. Regardless where he gets his facts from, they are correct. History has been re-written by those who seek to change our future.
That’s why you think his facts are wrong. Progressive thought is just short of Marxism. Is that what you want for our country ? The loss of being who you want to be ? Being ruled by an elitist class that doesn’t care one bit about you. Making decisions about your life, and your families lives. If that’s what you want, move to Cuba. Castro or Hugo would love to have another slave worker to exploit. Or would you rather heal our country by recognizing our differences, and uniting for the common cause of getting our country back on track. The track to restoring Our founding fathers intents. Black, White, Yellow or Brown, it shouldn’t matter. What should matter is, working together. Bridging the void of suspicion and hate. To bring about a country of people who care about one another. Doing whats right in the eyes of God.
Not for the special interests of those who would feed off the backs of others.
Man is intended to be free. Free from the oppression of tyranny and those who would enslave others.
To start upon the pathway to achieving just that is started with an event like the one this week end.
I challenge all those who would mock this event. What do you really want for our country ? The same old path to hate and destruction, or the path way to peace, good will and freedom for all.
Those who would be true to their hearts, will choose wisely. Those who will choose by their ideology, will sadly, choose poorly.
on August 27th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Watch and then judge after actually seeing what he says.
If you pre-judge the event before you ever see it you are no better than someone who judges others based on skin color or cultural or religious heritage.
Put down your anti conservative bigotry and watch it on C-span if you’re so concerned about what he might say.
You might actually learn something about the American people in the process.
If your anti conservative bigotry is what guides you then don’t watch if you are so inclined.
The character assassination of Glenn Beck that SPLC is engaged in with this article is despicable.
on August 27th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Hello!!!! All this vitriolic name calling over something that hasn’t happened yet. Wow. But….Here is the kicker….I chose to watch Glen Beck. No-one forces me to watch him. Its because I can look at his facts and check for myself. At least he explains his position. Compare that with NPR. I remember several times where they had their biased commentary and then several “experts” to rip into George Bush. Never once did they actually play his actual words. Why do you suppose that Fox News has more viewers that all of the other new organizations combined? If you watch Beck you see that he often plays the “liberals” sound bite. You can see them putting their own self interest above everything. Guess What!!!!! There are somethings more important that what the Democrats are doing to us in Washington today.
on August 27th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
The SPLC used to ACTUALLY stand for something but apparently your honor has a price tag. When I voted for Kennedy, Mondale, Dukakis and Clinton I thought I was doing right by America, you just proved that those feelings were completely misplaced.
Will you restore your honor and retract this smear piece or will you stand by it and wash away any credibility you once rightfully held?
The SPLC was actually able to claim non-partisanship and righteous honesty at one time but apparently those values have a price in your world.
on August 27th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Wow, what a Glenn Beck hate fest! You peopple are ridiculous, ludicrous, hateful and disgusting!
on August 27th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
SPLC is a quack outfit going back to Morris Deis. This is more of the same comintern bs they’ve been spewing since day one. Glen Beck is far from a divider. The Left and their faux-civil rights stands are simply flacks for progressive slavery hiding behind real slavery and suffering to advance their agenda. Wait until the rally takes place before trying to “recap” it.
on August 27th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Hilarious threads here, truly.
Well, I think that we can all agree on one thing: Mr. Beck is brilliant at what he does. He knows his demographic and he knows what they want to hear. (People only really ever hear what they want to hear anyway, but I think that we all probably know that by now). He’s putting on a terrific show and he’s laughing all the way to the bank!
Good for him, I guess. Must be nice to be a millionaire……Ah, the American dream.
But to think of him as some sort of great leader who aspires to follow in the footsteps of MLK, well, that’s just plain silly. Supporters of Beck, who defend him so staunchly, do you really think that he’s trying to unite the people of America and fight racism and fight intolerance? Is he some sort of great prophet? Is he truly “doing what’s right in the eyes of God”, as so many people appear to be claiming? What is he? The second coming of Christ? No, of course not. He’s just a dude. He’s a dude who happens to be number 42 on the list of richest celebrities, sandwiched in between George Lucas and Ryan Seacrest, and bringing in an estimated 35 million a year! He’s a talking head. He’s a fantastic capitalist. He’s putting on a show and people are eating it up. But, sorry, I personally, am not buying what he’s selling. Sure, it’s a pretty message, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like we should all link arms, sing kumbaya, and love each other. Awwww.
*By the way, is that what the rally is really supposed to be? A giant love-in? Actually, Beck defenders, you guys sound more and more like a bunch of hippies every day. Just a few snippets from previous posts:
“I’ll not check back here….I prefer to stick to sites that are positive and uplifting”. -Russell H
“What should matter is, working together. Bridging the void of suspicion and hate. To bring about a country of people who care about one another”.
-Brooks
“Respect my principles and values and I will respect yours. Don’t be hateful”.
-B.C.
…Sounds like the sort of dialogue you’d expect from the bleeding heart liberal activists, don’t you think?
Glenn Beck wants your attention and support but most importantly, he wants your MONEY. Hell, he even asks for donations on the Facebook page for the the Restoring Honor Rally. (From the Company Overview section):
“Please note this rally is compliant with IRS Rules and Regulations found in IRS publication 557 and IRS publication 4221-PC. For tax purposes a gift to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation is deductible in accordance with Internal Revenue Service’s tax laws. No goods or services were provided in exchange for your contribution. The purchase of Restoring Honor Rally merchandise is not a donation to SOWF, but all net proceeds from the sale of Restoring Honor Rally merchandise is being donated to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation”…..
And then:
“All contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) will first be applied to the costs of the Restoring Honor Rally taking place on August 28, 2010″.
So, he’s basically encouraging you to give him money in the name of a charity that will probably never get any of it because the Rally has to be paid for first. He creates a “free” Rally and then asks you to pay for it. So, whip out your checkbooks, people. Buy his books, subscribe and pay to look at his website, keep tuning in to his radio show and his tv show so that Fox will continue to give him millions of dollars a year. It’s all about the profit. He’s using the memory of MLK for profit. Like I said before, it’s brilliant.
on August 27th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I love seeing the left squirm when faced with the truth, it is LOL funny. Everything is free speech unless you say something that disagrees with them, then they scream at you and cry ’cause their feelings get hurt. Thier arguments are weak and stale, and they will never know the truth.
on August 27th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
I claim Dr. Kings Legacy as well. We all should. Because when we stop fighting for power and wealth and do what is right then this county will be a better place. But no, certain people claim Dr. King’s legacy belongs exclusively to them alone. No one has the right to celebrate his character and life on that date at that place but them. Those are the poverty pimps and manipulators who would keep us all down. The race baiters and the real racists. Unfortunately, as so many white people, Asians, black people, Europeans and others saw progress the pimps and phonies come out and sabotage things to the best of their ability. You see, there will be no profit for them when all of us are harmonious. They need turmoil and divide the public to have it. People, you are all doomed if you continue to be led around by the nose by these idiots and dirtbags. If you don’t start thinking for yourselves and making up your own mind you are doomed. And so is our country so we are all doomed. The political class in this country are a bunch of parasitic criminals. If you listen to ANY of them, dems or repubs and trust them we are through.
on August 27th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
P.S. The SPLC is one of the orgs that contribute to our division and have an interest in the people being divided. Their political aims are contrary to peace among us.
on August 27th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
My previous comments were not to condemn Glenn Beck. He is not the hate monger the left makes him out to be. I will tell you though, he is definitely a threat to those who want turmoil and strife and hatred. And that is why they manipulate you and lie to you to make you believe he is what he is not. If you watched him for a while and began to understand the issues (something that the leadership of the left is terrified of you doing) and his position you would see how you are being manipulated. They continuously lie to you and manipulate new and information in every form from speeches to documentaries and broacast news in order to lead you by the nose. I can tell you from personal experience how liberating and truly free you will feel when YOU make up your own mind and form YOUR OWN OPINIONS. And for those of you who are unable to think for yourselves, read and educate yourselves and go to sites and channels that you don’t agree with because I know when you see how you have been mentally raped you will be furious. But you then also be free. If you do this you will begin to see the truth, or at least some of it. I do not tow the party line for Repubs or conservatives. I take the liberals side on a small number of issues. Just do yourselves a favor and quit being slaves to the manipulators and liars on both sides. I used to think that Republicans and conservatism were the only answer. Now I think for myself and know that the Republicans are for the most part a bunch of scum just like the Dems.
on August 27th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I’ll just be praying for those of you who simply choose to hate others who disagree with you. For you, there is no discussion….only name calling. Therefore, nothing that anyone can say will change your mind. I won’t try. If your heart is to be changed, it will come from God. If not, then I pity you, for you will suffer much more for your internal hatred than anyone at whom it is directed.
on August 27th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Let’s all celebrate 8-28 by donating to the SPLC or CAIR.
on August 27th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Wow! I seriously doubt that those of you bashing Glenn on here have ever even listened to him. Sure, he goes off sometimes on a rampage, but that’s passion for our country. You want to smear 8/28…….why don’t you first look at who all the guests are and hear what they say, then form your opinions……oh yeah I forgot, he’s conservative and we are ALL evil, so of course this rally is going to be a “bad thing”.
You want to talk about “haters”……wow you people hating Glenn Beck is amazing……esp. since a few weeks ago he did a whole show on black history (with lots of black men in our past history who were heroes) but, OH YEAH, Michele O made a speech awhile back stating that we need to CHANGE our HISTORY…….history is our past, how do you change the past??? Guess the “Chosen one” Mr. O also has a time machine to go back and “FIX” history.
These are typical smear tactics……..can’t wait till Nov. to vote out your liberal shits, then maybe things will finally start to turn around………..God bless America and God bless Glenn for putting this together…….we’ll see what the end result will be…….but at least he’s TRYING, something our arrogant president is NOT, since he’s apologized all over the world for our country, snubs important events almost always attended to by the president, and has told us all not to take vacations while the 2 of them are on like their 6th one in 2 years. Gee thanks a whole lot mr. president
on August 27th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Just because Glenn Beck says what the average American thinks, progressive libs have to get their panties in a knot. The average left wing blog just copy/pastes the same vomit over and over till they themselves believe what they propagate. Hate-mongering and fear-mongering is all they have, they have no time for “facts”. God forbid any use “logic” or “reason” to seek out the “truth”. Instead they further the agenda bread into them by 8 years of bush weakening our civil liberties, and now no dem/libtard can do wrong.
on August 28th, 2010 at 4:19 am
It’s so obvious that so many Americans remain asleep and in the dark, politically. Wake up, use your own brain, do you truly like what you see? Glenn Beck will blow your mind, exposing the truths, the corruption, the sickness that has taken over.
on August 28th, 2010 at 7:04 am
Glenn Beck has done more for this country by exposing this band of Marxist thugs in the White House than anyone, and thank God for him. Glenn, as anyone knows who watches him, has a crew of researchers, historians, etc., who are helping him teach our history daily. Beck is a great history teacher. Beck takes videos and the words come from these people’s own mouths. In the case of Van Jones, there is ample tape of him telling you himself he is an avowed communist. Are you people afraid of the truth? Glenn backs up everything he says with facts and evidence. Either you loony liberals don’t watch his show, or nothing will ever be proof enough for you. You’re going to see a crowd today like nothing you’ve ever seen before, and on election day, you are going to see a sweeping of democrats from the house and senate like you’ve never seen. Be very afraid!
on August 28th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Ah yes, Beck just wants to unite the country, which is why he calls people Nazis and Communists.
Alright, members of Beck’s flock, ye who get your historical and political education from a radio DJ. Now is your chance to defend Beck. Choose any comment or claim about Beck made by this article or other commentators on this blog, and debunk it. Anything at all.
on August 28th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Barry- If you bothered to actually read these comments you would see that I addressed several claims that Beck has either made on his show, or in one of “his” books. Feel free to debunk my debunkings.
Karen- Please explain how anyone in the White House is a “Marxist” thug, explain what you think Marxism is, explain why Wall Street banks gave a “Marxist” thus 3 million more dollars in campaign contributions than his opponent. Also were you aware that the Fox Network’s parent company, Newscorp, makes billions of dollars off of “Communist” China?
See, this is why we make fun of you Beck fans, because you deserve it. You spit out words like “Marxist thug,” “Nazi”, “Constitution”, “Founding Fathers”, and you have no idea what you are talking about because you are regurgitating information from a DJ who also didn’t know what he was talking about. You lack the ability to look at sources objectively and determine who probably has more expertise to speak or write about something. If it doesn’t fit the narrative put out by some slick commentator, it must be “liberal” and thus biased.
on August 28th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Can someone explain to me how one is able to reserve the
Lincoln Memorial? Can it be given to Neo-Nazi’s or the KKK? What process is there to obtain it for a rally?
Anyway, it’s shameful and chilling. The Republicans are divisive – that’s their M.O.
on August 28th, 2010 at 10:25 am
This is my first visit to this web site. What a fever swamp! I naively thought that SPLC was a professional, public spirited organization. How wrong can one be. Shameful.
on August 28th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Guess you were wrong, SPLC. Not political at all; Just getting God back into the hearts of men and women all over the world. Something that has been needed for years. As usual, the hate comes from those whose minds are so narrow they refuse to listen to the likes of Glenn Beck, Dr. King, Abraham Lincoln, and Jesus Christ. I pray for you. (does that offend you?)
on August 28th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
The fact that his rally is called ‘Restoring Honor’ is another example of the unfounded rhetoric that pings the white-trash masses. Restoring honor means what? The honor of a drop out whose documented racism is his battle cry. The Mormon convert who admonished church-goers to leave their churches if they preached Jesus’ message of social justice? The good husband and father who abandoned his child with cerebral palsy? On what Honor is this built? This is simply another hate-cult and Beck is luring the roaches out for a day of racism. It is the most disgusting act of insult by a dwarf of a man at the memory of a giant in recent memory.
on August 28th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
the likes of Glenn Beck, Dr. King, Abraham Lincoln, and Jesus Christ. I pray
ARE YOU INSANE??
THIS MAN IS A SECOND-RATE TALK SHOW HOST AND COLLEGE DROP OUT.
He adds no value to the public discourse – there are 350 million people in the US – less that 1% even know his name.
on August 28th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
All the naysayers are so quick to jump to a conclusion that simply doesn’t exist. Glenn Beck is simply implying that as Americans, we should all seek to fulfill the dream of MLK and his supporters – both Black and White. Equal justice is a human endeavor and one that both believers and non-believers (Christian, Muslim etc.) should all strive for. This level of negativity is amazing.
on August 28th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
If anyone “owns” the civil rights movement, it is the SPLC. When was the last time a right wing extremist sued the KKK?
on August 28th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I notice that Beck fans are not addressing any of my points or facts about Beck, which I guess I should expect. But here we go again.
@Zac- What about the people who don’t want “God”, or I should say your god(I doubt Beck has a big Hindu or Muslim following)? Do they get to live in America too?
@”Proud American”- Were you aware that MLK’s dream involved something called “democratic socialism”, and that Beck’s equivalents in those days called him a Communist? In fact one of Beck’s ideological mentors, W. Cleon Skousen, believed MLK to be a Communnist and believed as many conservatives did at the time that the civil rights movement was a Communist plot.
on August 28th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Also if anyone wants to see what real radical leftists, Communists, socialists, etc. think of Obama, I suggest following this link.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/pres.....index.html
Be advised, ever-afraid conservatives, you will be exposed to ideas not approved by the right-wing noise machine.
on August 29th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Anyone who takes it upon themselves to “identify” dangerous groups in America sets off red flags with me. I see this SPLC guy on newscasts acting like he’s the guardian of some pure America, and he reminds me of the thuggish, low level Germans, who savored the power they got from pointing the finger at others. SPLC are like thugs.
on August 30th, 2010 at 2:28 am
@ Brian Chorley
you realize that Liberal anger at conservatives is the result of 40 plus years of right wing smear campaigns thrown at the Liberal movement.
I for one have encountered lots of hateful conservatives online who routinely through insults my way. Before you try taking the high road, the movement you support needs to tone done the rhetoric and inflammatory remarks. Maybe once the conservative movement shows a little good faith towards those they disagree with, especially when things don’t go their way, you’ll find that those you complain about will be a lot more civil. The Ball is in the conservative movement’s court and it is time for them to practice what they preach.
Until then stop singling out a few random people and making them look like they are the face of the liberal movement.
on August 30th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Yeah Hobbes, the SPLC are “thugs” always talking about who real Americans are. That’s some interesting projection you people engage in. Tell me, how many incidents of violence have SPLC “thugs” been involved in.
on August 30th, 2010 at 10:19 am
What bothers me about Glenn Beck is how dangerous he is. His ideas are blatantly wrong and his style of presentation is manipulative and condescending, but it is the way he poses his wild-eyed conspiracy theories as FACT that makes him so terribly dangerous. People who watch him and come to agree with him will go on to act on these warped ideals. The chief difference between Beck and, say, Stephen Colbert is *honesty*. Colbert makes no bones about the fact that he is playing an exaggerated caricature and that nothing on his show should really be taken seriously – it’s quite clear that he’s just an entertainer putting on a show. But Beck is obviously very serious about what he’s saying and doing, he speaks like a preacher, boldly trying to lead his congregation to the truth … except that he is not a preacher and his message is very short on truth and, instead, sports a fantastic amount of political fear-mongering and thinly veiled manipulation. The rally on Saturday was a loving tribute, not to Dr. King, but to the legendary showman, PT Barnum – there really is a sucker born every minute. If you want Truth, go find it yourself. 5 minutes’ research debunks most of Beck’s claims and the very few facts you can catch in his program are best viewed without the tainted commentary warping them into the mold Beck creates. Make up your own mind and don’t allow Beck to hoodwink you into being afraid of the whole bloody world. Oh, and as a side note, the Founding Fathers he’s always banging on about were not the devout Christians he proclaims they were. Washington was agnostic, at best, Franklin was a self-described atheist, Jefferson actually rewrote the Bible to suit his ideal of what the Christian faith ought to be about (specifically, the character and teachings of Jesus) and all of them were very adamant that religion should never influence the formation of our laws or the governance of our country, which is why it was Founding Fathers who placed the separation of church and state into the constitution. The words “one nation under God” were added to the pledge of allegiance in 1956, “In God We Trust” was added to the dollar bill in the mid 1950′s … it was likes of McCarthy who began to implant this notion of America being a “Christian Nation” and we all remember how *good* Senator McCarthy’s agenda was for America, right? So, yeah, before you follow the Prophet Beck, do a little homework and find out how misleading he really is.
on August 30th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Let’s see, 107 replies and not one Beckite has even attempted to dispute the points I made about Beck’s phony or distorted claims. Where’s all those “facts and evidence” I heard about?
on August 30th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Brian Chorley:
Two questions about your stance against a woman’s right to terminate pregnancy, based on the arguments you provide. I would be very eager to know your answers:
1) Do you or do you not support capital punishment?
2) Since you feel life begins at conception, do you not agree that any fetus conceived in the United States by foreign parents, who are not in the country at the time of birth, is entitled to birthright citizenship per the 14th Amendment?
This of course has nothing to do with the fact that once the child is born the Republicans no longer give a damn one way or the other what happens to it or the mother.
on August 30th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Brooks said on August 27th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Many of you just don’t get it… this country is in real trouble. Weather you admit or not. And Socialism is NOT the answer.
———
Brooks I am curious to know how many books or even websites you have read about socialism that lead you to make this statement. Can you name a single book you have read on the topic?
According to the CIA World Factbook, nine European countries rank above us in terms of per capita GDP — Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Netherlands. The United Kingdom, Austria, Canada, Australia, France, and Germany rank right below us.
All lean toward socialism.
Would you care to rethink your views once you have sufficient information to be able to make a rational comment about socialism?
on August 30th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
i think that the only thing that beck would like to see restored is that bygone era when white men dictated everything in this country and minorities were still under the heel of oppression.beck has chronic nightmares ever since obama became president…..has anybody noticed how he sometimes wears that nazi youth outfit!….oh well i guess he doesn’t mean anything by it….yeah right!!
on August 31st, 2010 at 7:29 am
Drink the Cool-Aid my brothers and sisters ;(
on August 31st, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Jimmy Jones,
The Jonestown incident involved Flavor Aid, not Cool Aid.
See how myths overtake facts? That’s exactly why Beck’s abuse of information presented as fact is being discussed in this forum in the first place.
on September 1st, 2010 at 9:35 am
Since nobody is taking up the challenge to defend Beck, here’s some more of his wisdom:
Glenn Beck: Today, we announced the first 15 minutes of the 8-28 event and the people that will join me on stage. We announced that we are going to start — restart the Badge of Merit that George Washington gave his troops. It’s what the Purple Heart is based on, except the Progressives — what a surprise — in 1933 introduced the Purple Heart.
The Purple Heart was based on the badge of merit by George Washington. It had nothing to do with being wounded in action. It had everything to do with doing something of honor and integrity, something to — something that — where you really put your neck out and you did something of real merit, not just getting shot — not that that’s –
But he was trying to build people that understood honor and merit and integrity and God.”
Take THAT, 442 Regimental Combat Team!!! Glenn Beck is NOT impressed by your exploits!!
on September 2nd, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Americans need to wake up the fact that Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology and he mixes this with his personal make up as a dry alcoholic. He does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, has no college degree, has no qualifications and he is definitely not a true conservative. But then, what can anyone expect from someone who can’t find anything filthier than their own personal reflection. Since people like Beck cannot survive on the basis of any personal merits, they survive by puting others down with lies and half truths in order to feel good about themselves. The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcholics. He flippantly throws around Christian terms like “God”, “Jesus”,”Holy Spirit” as well as voices of other so called “Spirit Powers” on his radio talk show. Beck
is a mormon in active standing with the mormon church and is not a Christian. Mormonism teaches many gods, that the god of the earth was once a man who attained godhood status, there is no trinity, the cross of Christ means nothing and that Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers. Because Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, he is the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. The people who love what Beck says are no different than the impressionable sheep who loved every speech made by Adolph Hitler in his early years when he brought Germany into an era of economic
prosperity These same sheep also blindly followed Hitler into one of the darkest chapters of world history. Beck and the Fox Network both cater to the same lowest common denominator of demagogery. Beck would not know the first thing about God as he is a mormon. Someone should ask him which of the many mormon gods he kept talking about during his argument with himself on Saturday on the square in DC. Like a typical dry alcoholic, Beck even lied on national television when he spoke about holding a
document signed by George Washington. That event never took Place. Unfortunately, people who love
being led around by the nose do not realize that he is talking about a different god than that of Christianity, Judaism or Islam and that he has been a product of mormonism cultism from the day he started doing a radio talk show as an opinion pusher. You don’t have to have a degree in psychology to see that he exhibits all the signs of a dry alcoholic. The only reason this unstable impressionable idiot fell into mormonism was because the woman he wanted to have sex with would not do so unless they got first got married and from that point, they joined the mormon cult. Glenn Beck is as big a charlatan as Josephs Smith or the 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russel) who started the Jehovah’s Witness cult.
on September 3rd, 2010 at 10:10 am
I have operated a website called GlennBeckReport for nearly a year.
The only item I wish to add to the comments above is addressed to those who accuse Beck’s detractors of not watching his show.
I am a Beck detractor on steroids and I watch his show down to the painful act of having to transcribe from it from time to time. If you fall for his garbage you are a weak-minded, uninformed, sentimental fool. You had best start taking a hard look at his revisionist, hate-filled, racist history and start doing some critical thinking. If you believe his version of either the past or the present you are living in a world of paranoid delusions, not some kind of Everyman truthout. Get a clue. Drop your superstitions. Think.
-Wexler
on September 3rd, 2010 at 11:46 am
dennis…. you are so right calling beck a fraud!.how can this nut stand in front of thousands of people and lecture people about christian values when he is not even a christian.mormonism is a cult religion with whacked,way out there racist beliefs and that message is very agreeable to the far right which is why he has so many as you say blind sheep followers…i posted this on another thread here at splc….but let me tell you i worked with two mormon brothers a few years back and sometimes during lunch they would talk too me about there beliefs and i thought to myself how can any intelligent person believe what they are saying!….they would tell me that black people were born evil cuz they were the descendants of cain and were cursed . they also said that all mormons wore some kind of under garments that had special powers to keep any harm from happening to them i was kinda stunned with what they would tell me.i can see how beck can actually believe all the garbage that he says cuz he’s a few beers short of a six pack but i just cannot see how other people can take this guy serious!…..blind sheep is all i can think of.and how about family values that he was talking about isn’t his religion the same one that turns a blind eye to old perverts having young concubines?if he was trying as i believe to tell us about the wonders of being a mormon and come join in all i have to say to this fraud is no thanks pal.
on September 6th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Glenn Beck is a two bit huckster taking advantage of people who want someone to do the thinking for them.He has a daily soapbox from which he can fuel the fires of ignorance and hatred.In almost any other period in time he would be taken for the clown that he is.Unfortunately in this political climate he has found an audience.willing to accept his garbage as fact.We all should be very concerned.
on September 6th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Glenn Beck is the whiteman’s Jessie Jackson and Shawn Hanity is Al Sharpton…
on September 17th, 2010 at 2:00 am
What sick, twisted people these are who are behind this website and those who commented showing what lost souls they are. Clearly, they are Godless and without any moral character or principles.
But I’m curious what they have to say about the “fact” that Dr. Althea King loves Glenn Beck. Let me guess, she must be sick or something, right?
on September 17th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Wow….listen to the hate spewed here…you all act like klansmen or something!