After calling birthers "idiot[s]," Beck promotes candidacy of birther Tom Tancredo
October 29, 2010 11:59 pm ET by Zachary Pleat
Glenn Beck appeared to reverse his history of ridiculing birthers tonight by promoting Tom Tancredo's candidacy for governor of Colorado on his Fox News show. On more than one occasion, Tancredo has repeated the long-debunked birther conspiracy theory by claiming that President Obama has not revealed his birth certificate.
Beck, who previously labeled a birther protester an "idiot" and begged people to "please run away from the birther movement," introduced Tancredo as one of the 2010 candidates he thought was "worth talking to."
As Think Progress reported, Tancredo questioned Obama's birth certificate during the April 27 edition of Alan Colmes' radio show [emphasis from Think Progress]:
COLMES: Do you really believe -- you know he was born in Hawaii right?
TANCREDO: I have absolutely no idea where he was born.
COLMES: You've seen he was born in Hawaii; he was in two Hawaiian newspapers within two days of his birth.
TANCREDO: Anybody can put an article in a newspaper. Just show me your birth certificate!
Think Progress noted that Tancredo again jumped into birtherism during a rally in Phoenix in June [emphasis from Think Progress]:
I used to think, I used to believe that the greatest threat we ever had to this country -- I remember when I was a kid, it used to be Russia with the atomic bombs, and after that it was al Qaeda -- but there is somebody who is a greater threat to American liberty today than anybody else I can think of. His name is Barack Obama. He does not see the America that you and I see. He looks at a different place. He looks at the America that you and I love, he looks at the America that the Founders put together, and he says, "I don't like that, I'm going to create something else." And he says, when his friend, the President of Mexico is here, he says, "We are not defined by borders." Well maybe he isn't defined by borders. Citizenship is not important. I can understand why somebody like Barack Obama would say citizenship is not important since he refuses to even produce his own birth certificate!
Glenn Beck is so enthused about Tancredo's candidacy that on October 27, he said he "may move to Colorado" if Tancredo is elected governor.
Beck also did his part for FoxPAC's campaign efforts tonight by hosting two Republican candidates for Congress, Ruth McClung of Arizona and Ryan Frazier of Colorado. Fox News has relentlessly promoted GOP candidates all week long.
He seemed flattered, and thanked me. I then explained how low the bar was set, how relative the term was, that simply being sane enough to call the birthers crazy qualified him as a "reasonable conservative".
He hung up on me pretty quickly after that.
Doesnt matter, cause lets say Obama did all that, All of it, hard copies of every last thing, sworn testimonies, etc etc. Heres what would happen.
Beck: "THis is it, the end of america. The evil liberals have taken over the country, and they're attacking good, innocent people. With George Soros secretly funding their operations they could bribe all the scientists and doctors they needed, they can fake anything they wanted...Soon, they'll be coming for me, I dont think i'll be able to make it. I challenge them too much...But you'll hold on. Hide your children under a bridge, dont tell anyone they exist, so you can protect them. All it would take is a word by the tyrannical left and they would be taken away forever, and I will stop anyone who tries."
Despite how it might seem, this is not off topic: it is the path every teabagger makes on their eternal quest to never grow up or learn how to seperate fantasy and reality. This EXACT SAME course of events happens in every one of their meaningless arguments, to the point where its mass become infinite, and their addled mind drifts into realms unheard of by man or god.
There are NO new issues. They just put new words together and throw it at the exact same spot, over and over and over until some tiny thing sticks and distracts their voters, driving them into their usual threat-filled hate marches.
Such is the way of Conservatives, such is the way of the tea party. "Change is evil, change is wrong, stasis is good, stasis is all that matters." It seems especially odd for a party that thinks changing your mind is one of the worst things a person can do: like the 2004 election coverage of Kerry, who was attacked hard by the "Flip-Flopper" meme. But then people like McCain and Palin, Beck and O'reilly, Hannity and Limbaugh, started changing their opinions from one hour to the next! Its l Did they attack each other? Nope. Did their viewers notice? Nah. Did the rest of the press care about the glaring hypocrisy they would attack anyone else for? Sure dont think so.
I love watching Palin transform absurdly incomprehensible bumper sticker slogan twitter posts into 30 incompatible things over the course of a day, then starting over the next day as if the previous never happend. Truly, it is the first communication medium that seems built for people who have absolutely no desire to explain their own actions.
Birthers for Hawaii Statehood
And I estimate the crowd at 800 million.