Beck defends his attacks on Obama's father: “I hate to get third grade, but he started it” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 08/11/10 12:25 PM EDT From the August 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: Video file Previously: Beck: Obama has “clearly been heavily influenced in his political ideology” by his father, Jeremiah Wright Beck: Obama and his father's dreams “are not the dreams of my dad” or “Martin Luther King's father” Beck: “Congratulations to the Obama family” for achieving dreams from his father of “Marxism” Beck continues smearing Obama via his father's purported “dreams” of “old-style Soviet Marxism” Glenn Beck: Don't judge anyone based on the “sins of the father”... except Obama Beck dreams up new dreams from Obama's father