Glenn Beck smears Obama's 11-year-old daughter

No Racial Component? He's mocking her in a stereotypical dialect! He's digging his own grave!

Personally, I'm hoping for a severe and burning reoccurrence of his hemorrhoids. A brain hemorrage, after all, wouldn't do much to this evil, dimwitted bastard.

I disagree strongly with Beck on almost everything, but I certainly wouldn't go as far as to wish harm on him. I hope you really don't feel this way, Major Tom.

Ummm, the radio airwaves are FREE. You are whining about his radio show. It is broadcast over RADIO waves. They are free, but you're welcome to whine to his producers and promoters, if that will make you feeeel better.

Agreed, and I think it's important to remember that while Beck is a major voice in the so-called 'Tea Party' movement, its important to note that he says far more outrageous things on his radio show than his tee-vee show because he's doing what he was trained to do: comedy.
Far too often we take Glenn too seriously because we know there's a group of so-called 'conservative' voters out there that take Glenn too seriously as well and that bothers us.
Glenn says what Glenn says because he is trying to entertain. The guy is an ironic comedy act cause it makes him teh $$$. He knows that if he says things that make 'libruls' mad (like Rush), he energizes his base regardless of whether what he says has any shred of truth to it.

And of course, as liberals, if we say he's lying, his base thinks he's telling the truth even more. I wonder what would happen if we just laughed at him instead.

The right is pro-birth, Captain On-topic; once the former fetuses are born they're on their own. Your pal Bleck is illustrating quite nicely just how much respect for human life he has.

No, the phony right is "anti-abortion," they are not pro-life. Two different things. If they were truly "pro-life," they would be against the death penalty, and they wouldn't have hoorahed the unnecessary invasion of Iraq. I'm pro-life, anti-abortion and pro-choice. I'm pro-life and anti-abortion because of my religious beliefs, but I, as an American citizen, cannot tell another woman what choice to make or force my religious beliefs on her.

Quit trying to defend the indefensible . . . it makes you look as ignorant and unfeeling as he is.

The right is typically pro-life you mean against a womens right to choose. While Hitler was practicing "eugenics" in Europe the right was saying leave him alone and stay out of the war. Segregation was the law of the land in this country until Brown v. Board, and prior to that Jim Crow laws supported and promoted by Southern conservatives Democrat and Republican alike allowed for the lynchings,beatings and brutality of blacks to equate the present movement for womens equality and the right to choose is dishonest and quite like Beck. What Beck was doing on his show was despicable and cowardly.

Where the hell did you get that impression?

I got it from the clip of Glenn Beck mocking an 11-year-old black child.

The proof is in the pudding to justify Ninure's comments. There's not a day that goes by that some of the conservatives in my very red southern state take a break from making extremely derogatory statements about African American children and others they don't like. Some of the things they say include:

**blaming them for the failure of public education (along with the children of immigrants)

**talking about their parents by calling their moms welfare mavens without any proof

**jumping to the conclusion that all of us African Americans don't care about our children, without any proof

**pushing the meme that all African American males abandon their children, without any proof

**describing all African American males as thuggish which is nowhere near the truth. I have 5 AA brothers, and none of them are thugs, and none of them have ever been in jail for any crime

**saying that all African Americans are unintelligent, lazy, and incompetent, without any proof

The list goes on and on. Among some in this country, if you don't fit into their idea of what an American is/should be, you're less than human, and it is okay to smear them by creating unsubstantiated claims and discriminating against them. Among those thrown into this category are African Americans, homosexuals, Muslims, immigrants, Asians, and others. The proof of Ninure's comment is in the way that some in this society treat these groups.

The most important question is, if these groups are worthy of respect, why is there such a drive to deprive them of their constitutional rights? To say you respect members of these groups as humans and not do it is the height of hypocrisy.

I taught classes on the Constitution for 33 years, and I never found any part of it that allows one group to deprive another of its' rights. Never. Any group that attempts to deprive another of its' rights while waving around copies of the Constitution would do better to burn it since they have no intention of reading what it says and putting it into action.

"Where the hell did you get that impression? So, do you think that Walter E Williams, a Conservative, would say that? How about Alan Keyes?"


Nah, Keyes just disowned his daughter for being gay. What a great father.

You forget, too, that the right is typically pro-life. It is those on the left of the aisle that make abortion readily available to women of all races, particularly to blacks

The "right" is a bunch of lying hypocrites! They're the "do as I say, not as I do" party.

They're the "it's ok for ME to cheat on my wife with (take your pick)a hooker, married woman, single woman, married man, single man or child", and claim "family values" but it's not ok for you for you. They're the "it's ok for MY daughter to have an abortion, but if your daughter had one do, it's called murder".

And please, STOP hold up Plan Parenthood as some type of example of the left trying to exterminate African American children. As an African American and a woman, it's insulting to my intelligence!

Google "Margaret Sanger Negro Project", and tell me it's a conservative mindset.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Upon Accepting THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA MARGARET SANGER AWARD...
Family Planning — A Special and Urgent Concern
by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us. I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.

There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess.

What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims.

It is easier for a Negro to understand a social paradox because he has lived so long with evils that could be eradicated but were perpetuated by indifference or ignorance. The Negro finally had to devise unique methods to deal with his problem, and perhaps the measure of success he is realizing can be an inspiration to others coping with tenacious social problems.

In our struggle for equality we were confronted with the reality that many millions of people were essentially ignorant of our conditions or refused to face unpleasant truths. The hard-core bigot was merely one of our adversaries. The millions who were blind to our plight had to be compelled to face the social evil their indifference permitted to flourish.

After centuries of relative silence and enforced acceptance, we adapted a technique of exposing the problem by direct and dramatic methods. We had confidence that when we awakened the nation to the immorality and evil of inequality, there would be an upsurge of conscience followed by remedial action.

We knew that there were solutions and that the majority of the nation were ready for them. Yet we also knew that the existence of solutions would not automatically operate to alter conditions. We had to organize, not only arguments, but people in the millions for action. Finally we had to be prepared to accept all the consequences involved in dramatizing our grievances in the unique style we had devised.

There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger's early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist — a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Negroes have no mere academic nor ordinary interest in family planning. They have a special and urgent concern.

Recently the subject of Negro family life has received extensive attention. Unfortunately, studies have overemphasized the problem of the Negro male ego and almost entirely ignored the most serious element — Negro migration. During the past half century Negroes have migrated on a massive scale, transplanting millions from rural communities to crammed urban ghettoes. In their migration, as with all migrants, they carried with them the folkways of the countryside into an inhospitable city slum. The size of family that may have been appropriate and tolerable on a manually cultivated farm was carried over to the jammed streets of the ghetto. In all respects Negroes were atomized, neglected and discriminated against. Yet, the worst omission was the absence of institutions to acclimate them to their new environment. Margaret Sanger, who offered an important institutional remedy, was unfortunately ignored by social and political leaders in this period. In consequence, Negro folkways in family size persisted. The problem was compounded when unrestrained exploitation and discrimination accented the bewilderment of the newcomer, and high rates of illegitimacy and fragile family relationships resulted.

For the Negro, therefore, intelligent guides of family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life. There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command.

This is not to suggest that the Negro will solve all his problems through Planned Parenthood. His problems are far more complex, encompassing economic security, education, freedom from discrimination, decent housing and access to culture. Yet if family planning is sensible it can facilitate or at least not be an obstacle to the solution of the many profound problems that plague him.

The Negro constitutes half the poor of the nation. Like all poor, Negro and white, they have many unwanted children. This is a cruel evil they urgently need to control. There is scarcely anything more tragic in human life than a child who is not wanted. That which should be a blessing becomes a curse for parent and child. There is nothing inherent in the Negro mentality which creates this condition. Their poverty causes it. When Negroes have been able to ascend economically, statistics reveal they plan their families with even greater care than whites. Negroes of higher economic and educational status actually have fewer children than white families in the same circumstances.

Some commentators point out that with present birth rates it will not be long before Negroes are a majority in many of the major cities of the nation. As a consequence, they can be expected to take political control, and many people are apprehensive at this prospect. Negroes do not seek political control by this means. They seek only what they are entitled to and do not wish for domination purchased at the cost of human misery. Negroes were once bred by slave owners to be sold as merchandise. They do not welcome any solution which involves population breeding as a weapon. They are instinctively sympathetic to all who offer methods that will improve their lives and offer them fair opportunity to develop and advance as all other people in our society.

For these reasons we are natural allies of those who seek to inject any form of planning in our society that enriches life and guarantees the right to exist in freedom and dignity.

For these constructive movements we are prepared to give our energies and consistent support; because in the need for family planning, Negro and white have a common bond; and together we can and should unite our strength for the wise preservation, not of races in general, but of the one race we all constitute — the human race.

About two weeks after the award ceremony, Dr. King wrote the following letter to Cass Canfield, chairman of the Executive Committee of the PPFA — World Population Emergency Campaign:

Dear Mr. Canfield:

Words are inadequate for me to say how honored I was to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award. This award will remain among my most cherished possessions. While I cannot claim to be worthy of such a signal honor, I can assure you that I accept it with deep humility and sincere gratitude. Such a wonderful expression of support is of inestimable value for the continuance of my humble efforts.

Again let me say how much I regret that at the last minute urgent developments in the civil rights movement made it impossible for me to be in Washington to personally receive the award. My wife brought glowing echoes of the wonderful reception and impressiveness of the total occasion.

I am happy to be the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award and I can assure you that this distinct honor will cause me to work even harder for a reign of justice and a rule of love all over our nation.

Sincerely yours,

Martin Luther King Jr.

I see I hit a touchy subject. Yes, Roe v Wade is about so much more than just a woman's right to an abortion, right? It's about keeping a billion dollar industry alive.
I love all the preaching about "keep your hands off my body", but when it comes to everything else, far too many people are willing to let the government take care of them and tell them what they can do, what they can eat, where they can smoke, etc.

rupert murdoch is subsidizing beck. half of his ads are news corps and other properties owned by murdoch

Like that "demonstrably manipulatable audience" from the left who hangs on every word out of his mouth? Mmfa has done more advertising for Beck than many of the paid advertisers. And, considering that mmfa brings so many lies and so much misinformation, it's no wonder his show is #3 in the nation.

No Republican will step and condemn him - they don't want to make enemies with someone who works the right-wing hate machine so well in the GOP's favor.

Anything the White House says against it will be looked at as them trying to "silence the dissenters." So it's a no win situation for Obama, someone else has to come out and denounce it.

I'm sure they'd call it satirical... even if they couldn't tell you what was being satirized.

then maybe MMFA should stop directing attention to him with its obsessive smear campaign?

Damn! I thought it would be that seahawk guy!!!

you've got nothing.

What in your twisted mind doughpoo was that link supposed to prove? I'am still laughing at your Alan Keyes.

ummm nice try. but you have nothing. you are simply pathetic and your defense of this man is just a pathetic.

Dough:

Are you insinuating that a cheap, high-school level sex joke used within the context of a child is funny?

You're absolutely right, jediknight65. I was reading on the Immoral Minority on yesterday about how Palin lied about Joe McGinniss moving into the house next door. She made it seem as if he was there to stalk her and her family, peering into one of her daughter's bedrooms, invading their "swimming hole," and looking at Trig play. The rw blogosphere exploded in outrage. Turns out that Mr. McGinniss' son reports that a neighbor that did some work for Palin, that Palin refused to pay for, invited Mr. McGinniss to rent the house as revenge for not receiving the promised payment. Palin used her kids to tell this lie, and the rw immediately went on the defense. Glennie had the nerve to get involved by issuing a threat to the company that publishes his books because the same company has published some of Mr. McGinniss' books.

An uneducated professor. most professors need a PhD in their discipline. Funny how much conservatives disdain education and praise uneducated schmoes like Palin, Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh with one college degree between the four of em.

Ah yes, BJ Fan, another masochist who should know better than to come to MMFA for any real information.

I'll say again, either you're on Beck's payroll or you ARE Beck. Cheesh, buddy. He's married.

Hate black people actually was the quote I believe.

Beck is a con-man and a fraud. I've never said he was a "right-winger." He's no conservative, either. His knowledge of history is NIL. His knowledge of Christianity is NIL.

The man is a con man . . . Harold Hill.
And, it sounds like that you are either the one being conned or the one doing it.

No, it's what everyone here DOES understand. Doughboy is a lying, manipulative, reactionary punk who resorts to attacking little girls in order to advance the deranged and antidemocratic goals of the far right. You're the only one here who is so lip-didlingly stupid to get such an obvious reality.

Wrong - I watched his first show on CNN back when. He said he is a conservitive, a cristian and far to the right. His words!

Thanks for your presumptions, but I am ambivalent about Beck, and in fact have never watched him even once. Nonetheless, I still feel that Obama opened himself to this kind of thing by even uttering such BS. I stand by my point. It's not like Palin opened her stupid trap and used her daughter to make a point. Her treatment in the media is entirely incomparable to Obama's. I sense you're more the partisan trog as I remain unaffiliated.

In other words or in short anything for ratings.

Sorry, this is the Internet, not Arizona.