Beck attacks Obama's family. Again.
June 11, 2010 1:20 pm ET by Matt Gertz
Glenn Beck, who apologized last month for his vicious smear of President Obama's 11-year-old daughter Malia and commented that "there is absolutely no excuse or reason to ever, ever, ever, ever even come close to the line of dragging somebody's family into the debate" today attacked Obama's wife, parents, and grandparents.
Riffing off Obama's statements about BP CRO Tony Hayward and Obama's reference to his grandmother in his 2008 speech on race, Beck attacked Obama's parents as "revolutionar[ies]" and his grandparents for purportedly attending a "communist Little Red Church." Beck concluded that "it's almost like Marxism has been bred into" Obama. Later in the program, Beck said of Michelle Obama, "I don't think she" has "a love of her country."
While Beck has angrily told his alleged persecutors to "leave the families alone" and claimed to have never "dragg[ed] somebody's family into the debate prior to his attacks on Malia, Beck has in fact repeatedly brought up Obama's family in his commentary over the last several months.
BECK: Using his own words to describe his grandmother, that when you see a 'typical person' like the president of BP, he has a reaction -- um, you know -- to those people that has been bred into him. Ok. Alright. Now that actually kind of works, if you understand who his parents were. And who his grandparents were. Because they're not really the 'typical white people.' His mother - his mother wasn't. His mother was a revolutionary. His father wasn't. A revolutionary. His grandparents, they went to the communist Little Red Church just outside of Seattle. They had communist friends. So it's almost like Marxism has been bred into him.
BECK: And I think that's who she is. I don't know her at all, other than her own words. And her own words are not in sync with America. Americans are proud of their country. They may not like what's going on in their country under Bush, under Obama, under Reagan, under Clinton, it doesn't matter, we are not happy with the way that our country is run from time to time, usually most times. But we have an underlying belief in our country and love of our country. I don't think she does. Maybe she does, but her words say differently.
How many times did O'Reilly repeat, "Tiller the Baby Killer," over and over? Was/has he been held accountable for playing any part in Dr. Tiller's murder?
Censorship "lectures" from the professor of hyperbole himself
"I'm a victim" screeds
Commie/Pinko/Marxist/Fascist/Socialist plots against him
On the other hand, we WOULD be rid of this annoying twit, so the tradeoff might be worth it.
If the President and his defenders are afraid of Glen Beck, then this country has far more problems then we know.
What Beck is doing for MONEY is irresponsible and the people who are facilitating this crap are complicit in that irresponsibility.
Has nothing to do with his alleged political ideology [I don't think he has one, nor does he really care], it has to do with his lies and his incitement. Personally, I have defended Laura Bush when I've seen people make the ridiculous claims about the wreck which occurred when she was 17. She did nothing wrong . . . it was a very unfortunate accident. I've seen many just like it.
Open your eyes and quit defending the indefensible. Glenn Beck is dangerous.
What is being discussed here is Beck attacking Obama's family.
Yes, it was wrong when people tried to assert that Laura Bush must have purposefully hit that classmate's car, and the idea made no sense on top of that - the idea that a teenage driver could perfectly judge when another car would reach an intersection so that she could cause a deadly 't-bone' accident is ludicrous! It could ONLY have been an accident caused by inattention. (Just like Blumenthal telling falsehoods once or twice when he told the absolute truth over and over and over again could ONLY be explained by him making a misstatement, and not lying!)
And mocking the Bush daughters was pretty unfair too - too many people think that making personal attacks is okay, and it's not.
And that's why ANY previous examples you can raise of others attacking Bush and his family in inappropriate ways has NOTHING to do with this subject, since two wrongs don't make a right.
Have you gotten this concept through your thick skull yet?
Liberals actually DON'T bring that up. Gore didn't bring it up during the 2000 campaign. The "liberal media" didn't bring it up. Hell, most people I know weren't even aware of it, and probably still aren't!
However, let's talk about a tragic accident involving a political figure that the public IS fully aware of: Chappaquiddick. And why are they so intimately acquainted with every single detail of that tragedy? Because you guys used it to smear Ted Kennedy for decades without end. It started with Nixon to head off a Kennedy challenge in 72 (which Nixon would have lost) and it didn't freaking end till the man died!
To even suggest the left has EVER made an issue of the Laura Bush car accident is totally absurd. As usual, you guys are projecting your own worst qualities onto others and hoping nobody will notice.
Lying assh*les.
Lefties who comment on blogs like this sometimes bring it up, usually after someone brings up something like Chappiquiddick. It shouldn't get brought up, because it was clearly an accident and she was never running for office in any case....
But it does get brought up occasionally. And I agree, most in the public aren't aware of it, whereas many more people are going to be aware of Ted Kennedy's issue.
I admit to not being interested or educated as to what Obama's ancestors or extended family are like, but giving Beck's McCarthyistic fervor, I'm a little skeptical that they are the communist/nazi/marxists that Beck says they are. I think he's just name-calling. Again.
Everyone just has to watch a car wreck.
Psychotic? No. Sociopath? Probably.
a NORMAL person knows that 2+2=4
a NEUROTIC person knows that 2+2=4, but can't stand that fact.
a PSYCHOTIC person knows that 2+2=5
But I'mma gonna still tell you what she thinks!
The BECK M.O.
He will preface a smear with "I don't know much about_____, but they are _______!!!"
and no one challanges him.
It's slimy, weak, childish and what is worse is he gets away with it.
I think. Because otherwise, Glenn would have to viewed as a hypocritical liar.
You're jealous and injured from your dark and ugly past. So lash out... but do it in private with your legions of therapists, rehab Doctors and AA sponsors.
But Americans have an underlying belief in our country and love of our country. I don't think I do. Maybe I do, but my words say differently.
There you go Glenny boy. I fixed it for you.
Just what makes Tony Hayward typical? Beck doesn't say. I think it's time someone asked him.
Beck is an ignorant, bigoted ***kwad.