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UPDATE: Beck removes favorite Twitter posts including most recent from White Nationalist “forum”

August 04, 2010 1:01 am ET by Karl Frisch

Earlier this evening I noted that Glenn Beck had marked a Twitter post from a “White Nationalists” website as one of his favorites:

 

Beck (or the person controlling his official “verified” Twitter account) has no removed all of the Fox News host’s favorite posts:

h/t: @StopBeck

Tags: Glenn Beck

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    • Author by MidnightWriter (August 04, 2010 1:12 am ET)
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      Why look. Beck is scrubbing history.
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    • Author by phredicles (August 04, 2010 1:49 am ET)
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      But MMfA has documented it, complete with screen capture. I'll be interested to see if there's any explanation or (yeah, right) accountability.
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      • Author by cst (August 04, 2010 6:53 am ET)
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        Evidence from MMfa won't matter; he'll deny it ever happened and say, "Who are you going to trust- ME or LIBERALS?"
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        • Author by soze169880 (August 04, 2010 7:00 am ET)
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          Or since there's photographic evidence, to quote Richard Pryor, "...me or your lying eyes?"
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          • Author by AB-001 (August 04, 2010 8:32 am ET)
               
            Or Chico Marx in Duck Soup, "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"
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    • Author by Agent Mulder (August 04, 2010 5:12 am ET)
         
      Yeah, didn't Glenn tell his followers not long ago to scour the internet looking for negatives about the left, and then tell them to make sure they took screen shots or burned pages to cd's because "they will scrub them"?

      It looks like Glenn's following the "playbook" for radicals, too.
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    • Author by OrchidBlack (August 04, 2010 7:38 am ET)
         
      He'll just say someone else controls his account.
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    • Author by worrierking (August 04, 2010 8:21 am ET)
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      Purfessor Beck's got himself a memory hole.
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    • Author by stevensm (August 04, 2010 8:34 am ET)
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      So "embrace white culture" is (or, was, apparently) one of Beck's favorites? Not surprising, I suppose. Btw, Beck, when are you going to get around to giving us your definition of "white culture"? You refused to answer Katie Couric when she asked but clearly you do have an idea of what it means to you. Please, Beck, enlighten us.
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      • Author by soze169880 (August 04, 2010 8:45 am ET)
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        Alexander Zaitchik's "Common Nonsense" correctly points out that Beck doesn't need to define "white culture", because he's spent his career defining, and deifying, it: it's his shorthand for midwestern, Protestant, small-town, completely homogeneous "real America". So really, a biracial college graduate from Chicago by way of New York by way of Hawaii was never going to get Beck's White Culture Seal of Approval no matter what he did.
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        • Author by stevensm (August 04, 2010 10:51 pm ET)
             
          Yes, no doubt that's Beck's idea of what white culture is. However, when he goes on national TV and declares that the President hates "white culture", he should at the very least describe his definition of it when asked in an interview. If he has built his career on that particular idea, then he should have no problem explaining that to us instead of running away from it.
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    • Author by GabeSmall (August 04, 2010 8:44 am ET)
         
      You can see the Google cache from July 8 here:
      http://tinyurl.com/2fb6b4p
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