On 4 Sep 2009, at 21:21, Charles Bennett wrote: >> This morning on Fox and Friends, Fox host Glenn Beck accused >> President >> Obama of being "a racist." >> >> The group was discussing the recent Gates controversy, and Beck >> exclaimed that Obama has "over and over again" exposed himself as "a >> guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white >> culture. I don't know what it is..." >> </quote> > > I found the video. He makes the claim but doesn't back it up.
As appears to be a general modus operandi of his: make accusations, often in the form of a question, and then demand that others prove you wrong - and use somebody's lack of denial as support for your accusations. Hence this ... 'satirical' site: <http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/ > ... which Keith Olbermann actually blasted as one of the worst people in the world right now, see <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk3JunQMyPo > . > Brian Killmead (sp?) even calls him on it at the time saying something > like "you can't say that, 70% of the people we see him appoint are > white.." and proceeded to name them. > > I think that is absurd. Way more left than I'd like. sure. Do I > oppose his policies? yep. Racist? Please. > Van Jones? Perhaps more so.. > > I'd give Obama crap for sitting still for rev. wrights racist rants, > but even that *I* assume was to give him access to a political base. > I don't see his actions as more racist than "i'd like chicago black > people to vote for me, so I'll go the the popular church.." Indeed. The fuss in question also involves things like this: <quote src="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/08/17/as-advertisers-abandon-glen-beck-will-fox-pull-his-plug/ "> As advertisers abandon Glen Beck, will Fox pull his plug? Can Fox News Channel's Glen Beck survive the desertion of his corporate advertisers? After watching this video clip of him encouraging a guest to argue that the only way to save America is for Osama bin Laden to detonate a major weapon here in the U.S., it made me wonder whether any of the advertisers had actually watched Beck before they bought advertisements. The list of those former advertisers is growing. For the moment, it includes GMAC Financial Services, ConAgra Foods (CAG), Procter & Gamble (PG), Progressive Insurance (PGR), Geico, Sanofi Adventis (SNY), Roche Holding (RHHBY), Radio Shack (RSH), Men's Warehouse, Lawyers.com , and Sargento. </quote> and this: <quote src="http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/09/03/2009-09-03_advertisers_.html "> Advertisers continue to abandon Glenn Beck after pundit had called President Obama a 'racist' The trickle of advertisers saying goodbye to Fox News fire-starter Glenn Beck for calling President Obama a racist has turned into a torrent. Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, HSBC, Discover and seven other big firms are yanking their ads from Beck's show, boycott organizers said Wednesday. </quote> >> And the other day, his claims about the Rockefeller Center in New >> York >> being some mix of communist / fasctist / progressive - see, for >> instance >> >> >> http://thejoshuablogs.blogspot.com/2009/09/keith-olbermann-dissects-glenn-becks.html >> >> I think that those are more the kinds of things that are involved in >> 'the fuss' regarding Glenn Beck. > > > Ah. That's kind of nuts. Precisely. > Art with hammers and sickles depicting workers and industry are pretty > common before and after the communists. Yup. Also note that he's cheerfully mixing fascists and communists and 'progressives' all up. > Where an industrial revolution happens in a mostly agrarian society, > what other kind of artwork would you expect? > > Let's see. steel workers.. farmers.. *sigh* Indeed. But then, perhaps he's not quite aware that much of the success of the USA was built on, well, agriculture and industry ... which makes those very people, farmers and steel / factory workers, an important part of how the wealth was built. > Hey! I want to play too. > > You see > <http://www.louisvilleartdeco.com/architecture/Cincy-UnionStation/S_P1030577.JPG >> (the art deco Cincinnati train station is actually beautiful [1] ) > > That world with wings isn't "transportation" it's the rise of the nazi > party being carried on the back of mercury (with boobs) signifying > that nazis like American's with boobs and they are coming for them by > train. > > What? No one has noticed the nazi plot amongst us? Don't you ride > trains? > > gagh... Yup. The guy, just form the few clips I've seen, certainly seems to be an idiotic nutjob. The fact that Fox News is keeping him on and putting him on the air is, alas, saying a few less than flattering things about Fox News and their audience (because I presume they did some audience research before deciding that he would be a good match for them). > =c= // Christian Brunschen > [1] > http://www.louisvilleartdeco.com/architecture/Cincy-UnionStation/Cincy-UnionStation.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
