Did Glenn Beck watch his own 9-12 rally?
September 17, 2009 3:27 pm ET by John V. Santore
Following a spate of violence associated with the extreme far-right fringe, Glenn Beck has made a point of portraying the 9-12 protesters and those who sympathize with them as peaceful, civil Americans who are simply engaged in a substantive, issues-based disagreement with the Obama administration.
Yesterday on his Fox program, he made that point again, dismissing the idea that racism or violent thoughts had anything at all to do with the conservative opposition to the progressive agenda or the White House. Here's how he put it:
BECK: Do you want -- do you want to call somebody a racist? If you do, you better have some facts to back it up. But in today's America, does anybody even care? Does anybody even ask you, why would you say that? Is anybody asking, why -- how is he suddenly a racist?
NBC did this report last night on the tea party out in Washington, D.C., where people were hugging, singing -- singing national anthems, "Star Spangled Banner," hugging, peaceful, no arrests, zero, no arrest. And yet NBC does this thing of a growing violent crowd. What? Can you back that one up, Brian Williams? Help me out on that one, will you?
Beck's ignorance is deliberate and willful. He is choosing to ignore what is going on at his own events. Consider the following signs from the 9-12 rally, photos courtesy of NineTwelvePhotos on Flickr:
Not to mention the warm welcome that birther Orly Taitz received:
If Beck refuses to see the violence and racism in front of his nose, it's because he doesn't want to acknowledge the true consequences of his work and others in the right-wing media.
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Goodluckwithat!
They're not saying that there is no racism on the right.
They're just angry at people who are saying that all criticism of Obama is racist.
Of course, these people don't exist, and are an invention of the right, but that doesn't make them any less angry at these imaginary people !!
There is also no implication that any one side "invented" racism. Angry or not, the fact that these events manufactured for one reason of another (the real reason being unclear) brings out factions that seem to lean toward the more unseemly side of the conversation is curious, don't you think?
Has this job FORGOTTEN that he called Barack Obama a racist... and without backing it up? Unfreakin' believable...
Meant to say "nut job"... but that's pretty obvious....and redundant if you simply say Glennn Beck. ;>)
Let's roll...
He died in 1972.
My guess is that would be the pressure of six feet of dirt......
Read the article here...
How much fear, hatred and armed violence can one man foment?
We're about to find out.
Oh, that was the Vietnam war protests footage from the 60s?
Never mind.
If we can eliminate funding for Beck on Fox...we should be taking on those who glorify his actions as well! Perhaps a small individual protest, but by holding those accountable who are rewarding his lies should not be tolerated or given a free pass!
The way they evoke emotions and the nation, as well as pointing out enemies of the state, etc...
Poetic justice if Oily Taitz's law license is taken away from her permanently by the judge right then and there for wasting his/her time, the courts time, and the American people's time!
Then again... is she even a legitimate lawyer I ask aloud?
I don't understand. Why not just produce the document?
Then he's given millions of dollars so he doesn't have to hang out at the places where the teabaggers do.
* Apparently, the extent of one's patriotism is determined by the number of articles of American-flag-based clothing worn at any given time. (Bonus: being morbidly obese gives you more surface area on which to display said patriotic clothing.)
* This is America. If you can't speak English, then get the hell out. On the other hand, if you're a natural-born citizen who can't even string five English-language words together to create a comprehensible posterboard-and-magic-marker sign, then by all means...
* Orly Taitz has the soothing voice of an angel.
* Four out of five white, middle-aged, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing protesters support tort reform.
* America is the greatest country in the world. Only in the USA could an immigrant like Orly Taitz, armed only with a law degree from an unaccredited correspondence school, seek the ouster of the rightfully-elected President based on a phony Nigerian birth certificate she drew freehand in crayon on the back of an IHOP kids' menu.
By the way: the camouflage-wearing guy standing just behind Orly Taitz in the YouTube clip? None other than veteran comedian Jonathan Winters.
I found this interesting because Fox's favorite investigative journalist James O'Keefe, who brought us the ACORN videos, references Alinski heavily in his article for the New Guard Magazine, in which O'Keefe wrote that activists must do "whatever necessary to disrupt and annoy power structures, applying constant pressure and opposition".
He also mentions that activists "need to be their own media, and use their independent media to obtain their goals."
It does not sound like issue driven debate, but outright conservative activist attacks on "power structures"...
IMHO Orly just wants the attention, if we ignore her and her ilk they'll go away...
Well we can hope.
You just want these White Americans to hurry up and die so you can so you can start your communist utopia. But every time they assemble, you realize that we're not quite there yet. That makes you very angry.
You think that if you could sufficiently FORCE egalitarian and multi-racial dogma on enough people that you could "re-program" them into believing that they actually want it. Why don't they just cooperate, you wonder.
Keep it up leftists. Keep calling regular White people RACISTS because they don't agree with your agenda! You're doing a good job of stirring much needed activism.
The purpose of the rally is to make Congress and the White House
aware that their days are numbered unless they listen to the
type of voter who opposes out of control spending and big government control!
Yea, the "Birthers" are idiots, and will always think that our President was born in Africa and not America. But that's questioning his Nationality, not his Race. (there is a difference)
Beck is stirring the pot. And the only defense against that is to stir it back. But we gotta be honest as we go about it.
Right wing hate speech has already spawned violence in Knoxville,Pittsburgh,DC and Kansas City THIS year!!!How can anyone sane not agree with Nancy Pelosi that we need to ratchet back the rheoric but somehow(per Fox News/Right wing talk radio,) she becomes the catalyst for it!!!
The hypocrisy of the recent concern for WH Czars is beyond pitiable..Even Republican Senators/Congressmen are attacking an established institution going back thru several Presidents AND even though the Bush Administration had MORE than the Obama Administration!!!
So add to Obama Derangement Syndrome,Selective Deficit amnesia(just one type of selective amnesia disorder being seen)..we have Delayed Czar-Phobia...very dangerous since it develops slowly over decades!!!!
conservative=racist
So, what was the question again??