Beck repeats distortion to claim Obama was silencing tea party protesters

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He's quite clearly pointing to the previous administration and Republican lawmakers. Would you agree with that? And if so, would you agree that Beck misrepresented the President's remarks as an attack on the Tea Parties?

I think I will agree with that in this case. I disagree with Beck that Obama was referring specifically to Tea Party protesters. He misrepresented what Obama was saying.

I agree and yet I disagree. Yes, Obama is definitely referring to the previous admin when he refers to "the folks who created the mess", but it seems that Glenn might have been listing his defense on how he thinks Obama is not the uniter he claims to be by legitimizing discourse. It seems he is giving examples to back up his statement (intentionally disparate) that whenever Obama is "met with opposition", Obama resorts to mockery rather than "honest debate."

It seems to me that the mocking of Tea Partiers is one example, and then the video clip of Obama saying he doesn't want to hear a lot of talkin' is ANOTHER example of how Obama disdains debate and just makes a joke out of dissent. That's just what I get out of it - 2 examples to back up Beck's claim.

The problem here is that this is just a short clip of this show - I cannot realy disect it without full context - What did Beck say before this and what did he say after. . . it seems he is making a bigger point that we are missing as noted by that blackboard in the background which has something about Florida on it. I cannot tell if this clip is taken out of context or not. And neither can anyone in this forum unless we have the full clip. If Beck had been ranting about the Tea Party for some time before this clip started, I might see more value in the initial claims and reasoning for the title "Beck repeats distortion to claim Obama was silencing tea party protesters."

I like honest, respectful debate, but I find it in so very few forums - even in this one there are 1/2 dozen or so logical discussions and then dozens of senseless silly mocking of Beck. I'm not interested in the personality, I'm interested in the meat of the subject and I find what Beck says actually, sadly to ring very true. Too many do choose to debate, and worse yet, do not have any debate skills whatsoever - thus they mock.

Now if we follow Saul Alinsky, then mockery is EXACTLY what you do to those who disagree (when you don't have a legitimage point of opposition!) and Obama does follow that line of thinking as many in the political realm do. I'm old school and like a good, healthy debate!

You'd think he was talking about the health insurance industry and HCR by the way Beck framed this clip, but that's the remarkable thing: this passage from Obama's remarks were about the economy in general. Beck -- in my opinion, anyway -- completely misrepresented the context and substance of Obama's reference to "the folks who created the mess."