Glenn Beck's bizarre race card play

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It seems that Glenn Beck has gotten himself in a bit of a spot with fellow conservatives by saying something really stupid:

Glenn Beck: Tea Partiers Who Support Newt Are Racist

Speaking on Friday to Fox News’ Judge Napolitano, Beck had some harsh words for the tea partiers who are now apparently rallying to the former House Speaker’s side in the wake of Herman Cain’s implosion.

“I issue a challenge to the tea party members,” Beck said. “You look at his record, you read his words… see what he believes.” If they do, he claimed, they would see “this man is a progressive, he knows he is a progressive.” His conclusion seemed to startle even Napolitano:

“So if you’ve got a big government progressive or a big government progressive in Obama, one in Newt Gingrich, one in Obama, ask yourself this Tea Party: Is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears to be to me. If you’re against him but you’re for this guy, it must be about race. It’s the policies that matter.”​

Beck has long made it clear he disapproves of Gingrich, whose main sin in Beck’s eyes appears to be citing Theodore Roosevelt as one of his favorite former presidents. Beck regards Roosevelt as the true founder of the dreaded “progressive movement” that did so much to move the country away from what he sees as the founding fathers’ principles. The pair recently clashed over this on Beck’s radio program.
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Newt a "progressive"? :confused:
He's a lot of things, but "progressive" ain't one of them.
And he could have made that point, as dubious as it is, without bringing race into it.

Andrew Breitbart was none too pleased:
Breitbart to Beck: You're a Liar and a Coward, "Dead to Me"

On Sunday, Breitbart called into a radio show hosted by Steve Bannon. (The director of the Sarah Palin doc "The Undefeated" now lives in a D.C. house rented by Breitbart et al, to organize and lead new journalism projects.) At Bannon's prompt, Breitbart told and re-told the history of Beck's exploitation of conservatives. "Beck is a coward and won't defend himself when he makes a mistakes," said Breitbart, "the self-appointed historian of the conservative movement, an autodidact who's read a lot of books over the last few years." The mistake he would never admit: "He lied to his audience on television, saying that he didn't do the Sherrod stories on his radio show." Doing so, he "jumped the gun, and in essence jumped the shark."

After that, Breitbart (who'd been "warned about Glenn Beck by my intellectual betters") needed to point out that Beck ripped off him, his writers, and millions of other people. "He took bloggers' content to put them on his infamous chalkboard," said Breitbart. He accused him of keeping the rip-off going at his new site, the Blaze. "He wants to create the New York Times overnight. How do you do that? You take Breitbart's content and don't credit it." And you know who else he was ripping off? Conservative listeners, whom he scared into panics about FEMA camps and manufactured crises.

"He's creating a hysteria that there's going to be food shortages because of a crisis that's coming," said Breitbart. "He's profiting off this. This guy is a huckster."

The impetus for all of that -- Beck's suggestion, as Breitbart and Bannon saw it, that the Tea Party might be racist. Unforgiveable.
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:popcorn1
 
This should be an interesting thread. So many of the liberals around here have claimed that any opposition to Obama must be racist; will they agree with Glenn Beck?

Yeah, get out the popcorn, this should be funny.
 
Great...
Thanks Puppycow. Now I keep seeing Briebart cornering Beck going...
"You're a lair, a coward, & you're (DOOOF!!! As Beck punches him in the face Ala Aldrin)..."
 
Brainster said:
This should be an interesting thread. So many of the liberals around here have claimed that any opposition to Obama must be racist; will they agree with Glenn Beck?
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No. A large part of the visceral hatred toward Obama is racist, but there are other reasons why various and sundry of the tiny-brained folk dislike him.
 
Since "ejecting himself" from Fox, Beck has been trying desperately to get some media attention. It is sad to see the way he now goes after Jon Stewart, hoping beyond hope that Stewart will start paying attention to him again. Beck seems to be saying more and more inflamatory things for this attention, and to hopefully get people buying his stuff, subscribing to his content, and attending his events. And one of his brands is now the term "Progressive", which he seems to have expanded to mean some kind of generic curse word, or perhaps to mean a non-endtimes-believing-Christian.

So I think Beck is loving the attention he is getting with this.
 
Gosh, it's almost like a speeded-up example of a religion. The different sects pick their favorite infallible prophets and start diverging and squabbling, even though, superficially, they are all Conservatives. Will the next Northern Ireland-like situation be between the Newties and the Beckies?
 
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Tricky said:
Gosh, it's almost like a speeded-up example of a religion. The different sects pick their favorite infallible prophets and start diverging and squabbling. Will the next Northern Ireland-like situation be between the Newties and the Beckies?
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Okay, here's one. WHY do all these right winger conservatives have freakish large heads? Gingrich, Limbaugh, Cheney, whats up with that
 
Nobody should be surprised... when you mangle the definition of a word, it suddenly starts being thrown at people that it has nothing to do with.

There is a persistent faction on the right that wants not only for the word "liberal" or now "progressive" to be an insult. They want it to be the definition of everything conservatives don't like.

Hitler? Progressive.
Idiotic teacher? Liberal.
Puppy eating? Liberal.
 
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Neally said:
Didn't take long...
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That cite doesn't support the claim. The claim was, "So many of the liberals around here have claimed that any opposition to Obama must be racist".

One person is not "so many", and what Lefty said in this quote was not the claim that "any opposition to Obama must be racist". [ETA: That is, there is a stark logical difference between "a large part of the visceral hatred" and "any opposition".]
 
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Neally said:
Didn't take long...
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a) "a large part" isn't "any"

b) "so many of the liberals around here" don't agree with Lefty, don't think he speaks for us, and wish he'd crank his rhetoric back, so he's far from an example in support of Brainster's claim that there are a bunch of us who think "any opposition to Obama must be racist".

EDIT: And JoeTheJuggler beats me to it.
 
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johnny karate said:
Cite needed.
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Didn't take long...

leftysergeant said:
A large part of the visceral hatred toward Obama is racist, ...
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Nope, didn't take long to quote that out of context.
leftysergeant said:
A large part of the visceral hatred toward Obama is racist, but there are other reasons why various and sundry of the tiny-brained folk dislike him.
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Now let me make it clear, I am not defending Lefty's constant name-calling. I find it disgusting and I wish he'd stop being such a biased jerk. But what you did was quote him in a way to make him sound like he was saying exactly the opposite of what he was.

Have you considered a job with Fox News?
 
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