Beck: No surprise Obama, “whose mother sent him away,” has “idea that government is the parent and needs to be the parent” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 10/07/10 12:42 PM EDT From the October 7 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: Video file Previously: Beck: Because of Obama's parents, grandparents, he “didn't have a chance to actually think anything but radical thoughts” Beck's war on Obama targets the president's family