Using Beck's Logic, We Discover His Ties To The KKK

Written by Solange Uwimana

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Glenn Beck said tonight on his show that he knows why President Obama has not condemned Libya's Moammar Gadhafi “by name.” In fact, Beck said, Obama “hasn't mentioned his name ... at all in at least a month” and the “interesting” reason behind that, Beck revealed, has everything to do with Obama's past relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Proceeding to play his version of Connect Four in three moves, Beck showed us exactly how Obama is tied to Gadhafi through Wright.

This is what Beck said his crack research team uncovered: Rev. Wright is Obama's former longtime pastor. According to a clip Beck aired from a February 2008 interview of then-candidate Obama with NBC's Tim Russert, Wright once “said that Louis Farrakhan 'epitomizes greatness.' ” And in 1984, Wright reportedly went to Libya with Farrakhan to meet with Gadhafi.

If we went digging into Beck's past going back decades and applied the same loose logic he uses, how many out-and-out crazy people would we find? How many statements would Beck have to distance himself from? I went ahead and played my own connect-the-dots and this is what I uncovered:

  • Beck has hosted League of the South founder Michael Hill and one-time member Thomas Woods on his shows on CNN Headline News and Fox. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified the League of the South as a hate group and “a neo-Confederate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by ”European Americans." The Anti-Defamation League says of the group: “The League of the South is a large neo-Confederate group that seeks to create a south predicated on ”Anglo-Celtic" cultural dominance, which is essentially the group's term for “white.”
  • According to the SPLC, Hill has “publicly defended antebellum slavery as 'God-ordained' ” and has “called for a hierarchal society composed of 'superiors, equals and inferiors, each protected in their legal privileges' and attacked egalitarianism as a 'fatal heresy.' He said people other than white Christians would be allowed to live in his South, but only if they bowed to 'the cultural dominance of the Anglo-Celtic people and their institutions.' ”
  • The SPLC reported that League founding member Jack Kershaw, a lifelong segregationist, “once was an official in the anti-integration White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s.” Kershaw reportedly told a reporter in 1998: “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery. ... Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America?”
  • According to the SPLC, another leading League activist in early 2000, Michael Tubbs “was actually a convicted 'Aryan' terrorist, a man who while in the military had robbed fellow soldiers at gunpoint of their weapons.” The SPLC went on to report that "[d]uring one such theft, he and an accomplice had reportedly shouted, 'This is for the KKK!' "
  • As StopBeck.com has reported, Beck's Twitter feed once listed as a “favorite” a post by MalevoFreedom, who's bio describes the account as “White Nationalist News And Forum.” The tweet read: “Embrace White Culture @GlennBeck WHITE-PRIDE.” (The tweet was later deleted from Beck's account but you can see it here.)

How many people would conclude from my crack research that Beck has ties to the KKK?