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Liberal Intolerance on TV

Ah, liberal tolerance.

NBC wants Fox competitor Glenn Beck fired.

Chuck Todd and company at NBC News are outraged that conservative talker Beck won't --or can't-- be fired for calling President Obama a "racist." They blogged as follows:

*** On the Glenn Becks and Howard Beales: The White House doesn't want to give Glenn Beck a bigger platform or extra oxygen -- especially regarding his remark yesterday that the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" -- so they won't comment, even off record. Beck, after all, is a radio DJ who somehow ended up getting a national platform to give his opinion on politics. What's most amazing about this episode is that what Beck said isn't a fireable or even a SUSPENDABLE offense by his bosses. There was a time when outrageous rants like this would actually cost the ranters their jobs. But not anymore; if anything, it's now encouraged. And all of this could turn ACTUAL journalists into the next Howard Beales. It's getting nuts that the folks who are creating the perception of an ideological/polarized media world are people who have never really spent their lives being journalists. Whether it's former political consultants-turned-TV execs or former radio DJs, or former California socialites, the folks helping to accelerate the public's perception of the media off a cliff made their livings trying to do other things. Of course, Beck's crazy language could have one unintended consequence: It could cost him bookings with any Republicans who want to be popular outside Beck's hard-core bizarro-land viewers.

So much for the national discussion on race relations that leftists and journalists say America desperately needs.

Of course when liberal demagogues maliciously declare their enemies racist in the complete absence of evidence, such as when House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel (D-New York) said Republican tax cuts were racist ("It's not 'sp--' or 'ni--er' anymore. They say, 'Let's cut taxes.'") we hear barely a peep from the liberal media.

Meanwhile, a radical pressure group called the Southern Poverty Pimp Law Center wants adversary Lou Dobbs of CNN canned.

The SPLC's Richard Cohen claims he wants Dobbs off the air because "[f]or years, Dobbs has been trading in baseless, conspiratorial claims that originate on the radical right."

Anyone who has monitored this fundraising powerhouse that masquerades as a public interest law firm knows the SPLC hates --and I don't use that word lightly-- Dobbs because of the hard line he takes on immigration issues. 

The group continually smears Dobbs as a racist and this helps its coffers grow.

Comments

Brittanicus| 7.30.09 @ 11:59AM

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Ellis Wyatt| 7.30.09 @ 12:26PM

Chuck Todd and the liberal media establishment are paying the price for their bias and how it has hampered them from doing their jobs. There is reason people like Chuck are no longer trusted and ratings are in the tank, and it ain't Glenn Beck or whoever else they try to demonize. Perhaps Chuck should investigate Obama and ask him some hard questions that the American public wants to hear answers to instead of coddling the left in Washington and merely acting as the mouthpiece of the democrat party. Chuck's statement show sthe desperate point the liberal media has fallen to.

John G.| 7.30.09 @ 12:36PM

""Beck, after all, is a radio DJ who somehow ended up getting a national platform to give his opinion on politics. ""

Yeah. What a tragedy. It's not like he was a former ESPN anchor and sports broadcaster spewing his opinions on politics. That's REAL credibility...

Kevin| 7.30.09 @ 12:42PM

Yeah Chuck, we listen to DJ's for the news, cause u so called journalists won't give us the news, only ur liberal leaning so called news

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Nobama| 7.30.09 @ 1:11PM

Ah, Liberals--we know what you believe: "Free speech for me but not for thee." Sorry, it doesn't work that way in the real world--at least not anymore.

It must be painful for you to come to this realization, but you'll get used to it. You have no choice.

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NBC’s Chuck Todd Wants Glenn Beck Fired | Be John Galt links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…be “redistributed”. Home About NBC’s Chuck Todd Wants Glenn Beck Fired 2009 July 30 by bc3b First the left wanted Lou Dobbs fired. Now, apparently NBC’s Chuck Todd believes FNC’s Glenn Beck should be fired for referring to Barack Obama as a racist. It appears the left doesn’t want any views presented that are contrary to theirs. I am sure you will be shocked to learn this, but Chuck Todd is…

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 1:31PM

There is nothing about true conservatism that is racist.

However, the "conservative" movement given most air time on commercial radio and television is without question tapped into America's dark racist subconscious.

The "Pimp" remark above is a pretty good example. The porcine Beck, a giftless windbag, is a hateful racist.

Former Marine '69 '72| 7.30.09 @ 2:15PM

re:Liberal reader, you flunked debating skills, pay attention...

An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the person", "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim. The process of proving or disproving the claims is thereby subverted, and the argumentum ad hominem works to change the subject.

You attack the person instead of the message. See the difference between liberals(progressives, you are not liberal, the word was hijacked) and Conservatives.

Nobama| 7.30.09 @ 2:33PM

You just got schooled by a true American, LibReader/Jeremiah! Semper fi.

Nobama| 7.30.09 @ 2:37PM

The only pimp here is you, LibReader/Jeremiah. Fascist liberal whore, you sold our country out long ago.

Susan| 7.30.09 @ 2:41PM

Gads! Brittanicus...you hit is dead-on target!
Washington politicians would vote us the American people [and Baby Boomers a death sentence with] a national health care system that would deny elderly medical attention unless it was deemed cost effective [and by who?]--while they made comments about their own health care system. I really enjoyed the Prez 's comment about he already has a good health care system. Bully! But he has no problem damaging mine!

Tim| 7.30.09 @ 2:46PM

In The New Order, the only opinions available to the public will be from government licensed professionals, those with Harvard or Yale or Columbia degrees.
No more smelly opinions from plumbers, DJs , Alaskan governors and (ugh) fat people.

ds80| 7.30.09 @ 3:22PM

Sorry, but "porcine", "giftless windbag", and "hateful" make the statement "There is nothing about true conservatism that is racist" disingenuous and patronizing.

Matthew Vadum publishes an article illustrating liberal intolerance when a conservative (Glenn Beck) calls someone a racist. A Liberal Reader responds (7.30.09 @ 1:31PM) by calling Glenn Beck a "hateful racist".

Spot on, Mr. Vadum. Spot on.

Solo| 7.30.09 @ 3:43PM

From the article:

"It's getting nuts that the folks who are creating the perception of an ideological/polarized media world are people who have never really spent their lives being journalists. Whether it's former political consultants-turned-TV execs or former radio DJs, or former California socialites, the folks helping to accelerate the public's perception of the media off a cliff made their livings trying to do other things.".

LOL! That's funny!

Now go preach that to Paul Begala, James Carville, "Boy" George Stephanopolis, Chris Mathews, et al who fill the ranks of the "mainstream" media. For that matter....go tell it to Dan Rather of the forged document fame or Jason Blair of the vaunted New York Times.

Yep! Those damned conservatives are screwing up everything!

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 4:02PM

If you read current public statements by explicitly racist hate groups like the Aryan Nation, more often than not you find them making arguments about "reverse racism" and the need to defend "white culture."

Rather than cheering on lynch mobs, these groups often appropriate the language of civil rights groups: whites, whose "native" culture is under attack, and who are now victims of "racism" need to band together as an aggrieved minority.

I think this same kind of rhetoric is everywhere on the right these days, and not just confined to a hostile and extremist wing.

Because being called a "racist" is perceived as insulting someone's social class (white racism being associated with being poor, rural, and white), whites object strongly to the charge.

By repeatedly calling black and hispanic figures "racist," they attempt to drain the word of its meaning, or, more probably, to tire people of hearing about it.

Can't we all just get along? people cry.

The truth is, we can. But we need to be honest about what racism actually is in this country (white supremacism), and not flinch from discussing the issue just because a mob howls and cries when you do.

The tea-bagger birther types get frustrated and stamp their feet when the grown-ups are trying to talk, but we can no longer let them interrupt the conversation -- whether their screeching the Pledge of Allegiance to drown out civil dialogue, or using any other tactic.

The hatred on this thread -- always present when race is an issue on this site -- merely illustrates my point.

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 4:10PM

Furthermore, I find it truly amazing and powerfully revelatory that people who claim to love Rush Limbaugh are also so anxious to defend Glenn Beck.

The two are very different. In terms of talent and intelligence, Beck is simply not even close to his older rival. I do not know a single person of wit, taste, or intelligence that would squander an hour listening to Beck.

Now, here's what's interesting.

The Liberal Reader is perhaps not a more devoted fan, but he is a much, much better fan of Rush Limbaugh than any of you.

By this I mean that I do not like Limbaugh's program simply because he says outrageous things, which is Beck's entire gig. I genuinely appreciate his mastery of the craft of talk radio, which I love, and his satirical if mis-informed speeches.

Oh, am I intolerant! I am a heartless Nazi of intolerance to be sure!

God, all these spats on the right are so mediocre. That's what the right is becoming: mediocre.

Matthew Vadum| 7.30.09 @ 4:37PM

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 1:31PM

What is it about my mockery of SPLC by calling it the Southern Poverty Pimp Center that offends you? You seem to be saying that use of "Pimp" (crossed out, BTW) somehow taps into "America's dark racist subconscious." SPLC founder Morris Dees views liberals as easy marks he can take advantage of as he grossly exaggerates the scope of racism in America. Cha-ching! They're SPLC's ATMs.
Spare us the undergrad diversity lecture. I'll bet you were cheering Kayne West on when he spewed that drivel that "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 4:52PM

Vadum --

Until very recently I would have concurred that talk about racism is sometimes exaggerated by people on the left.

Even last week, as the moronic controversy over Obama's remarks about the police raged on, I was convinced the "racial" dimension was being a little overdone.

This morning, of course, we read of a Boston police officer's widely circulated email calling Professor Gates a "banana eating jungle monkey."

Was all that talk about race so over done? Maybe so.

In the past few weeks, however, we've seen people on the right attempting to appeal to a resentful, hateful minority in their ranks.

I presume you can see why Beck's calling the president "racist" is stupid, but I suspect too you understand why it is racist as well, as were the countless accusations of "racism" leveled at Sotomayor.

Conservatives were once outraged by moral relativism. We don't here so much about that anymore, and I think that this is because moral relativism has become their strategy.

Whites are not victims of "racism" in this country in anything like the same way blacks have been and are. To compare the two is morally wrong.

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 4:57PM

One other thing, Vadum. I didn't so much as mention "diversity," and praising or dispraising it wasn't the topic of my post.

I suspect that's just your stock response to anyone who has the temerity to discuss race baiting in the right wing blabosphere.

The ironic thing is that many conservatives are waking up to what extremists like you are doing to the Republican party, but they've ceded so much airtime to the hate mongers, they can't regain control of the party.

arlenearmy| 7.30.09 @ 5:07PM

Who the hell does NBC think they are to demand Fox to fire Beck? NBC needs to drop kick Communist Olberman & "tingle up his legs" Matthews.

What Beck said is true. Obama is racist & we all know it!

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 5:10PM

Arlenearmy --

Only a fool would buy into that cheap, degenerate rhetoric. Obama is a racist?

More like you're searching around for some way to excuse your own racial bitterness and bigotry.

You blame others for your own aggravated conscience. It won't work, my friend.

Matthew Vadum| 7.30.09 @ 5:11PM

Liberals like you, Liberal Reader, don't seem to understand that legitimate opposition to politicians is not a hate crime.

Many Americans, particularly those on the left, throw around the epithet racist with abandon in order to silence their opponents, but what exactly is racism?

The best definition of racism I have read was devised by the late philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (birth name: Alisa Rosenbaum) who as a Jew was a member of an ethnic group persecuted and slaughtered throughout history. Rand described racism as "the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism." She said it is "the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."

If you don't like Rand's definition, go with the one at dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racism
"1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races."

Sonia Sotomayor made a "racist" comment when she said she would "hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." I wrote an article here about the mediocrity Sotomayor: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/14/trumping-the-race-card.

Her comment was unquestionably "racist."

Missy| 7.30.09 @ 5:59PM

Matt, RET has said Sotomayor is a racial supremacist.What do you think about that?

Sheila| 7.30.09 @ 6:09PM

Liberals don't think they can be racist--how convenient.

Missy| 7.30.09 @ 6:15PM

The only reason LibReader is attacking Beck is because he knows Beck is close to exposing the ugly, sordid truth about ACORN and how it relates to the democrats. If Beck is successful it could destroy the democrat party. There is a lot at stake here.

Any information about Nancy Armstrong? Anyone investigating ACORN should be very careful, Matt.

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 6:21PM

Vadum,

Dictionary definitions are a fine beginning. I read Ms Rand's definition, by the way, as an undergraduate.

However, there is a particular history of race in this country that your dictionary definition conveniently elides.

In this country, the vast majority of what can be called "racism" has been directed by whites at blacks.

Surely you don't need a lesson, but the sheer numbers, the awesome weight of the history means that the word "racism" is abused when simply transferred to blacks whenever whites feel uncomfortable with the way race is being discussed.

That erasure or elision is itself racist, just as Holocaust denial is anti-semitic. A denier could say, "I don't have anything against Jews; I just think the Holocaust didn't happen." But we know this is a way of negating the horrific experience of the Holocaust.

So too when whites in America attempt to appropriate the language of racial victimization.

It's not right.

Does this mean a black person can never be "racist," or that white people can never be hurt by race-based beliefs or policies?

No. But you have a responsibility of weighing these issues with care, and you have a responsibility to consider your rhetoric. Race baiting is how reactionaries divide people, and it is a loathsome thing.

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 6:24PM

Missy --

Yes, you've exposed my secret motivation. I'm worried that Beck is going to uncover some awful secret being hidden by ACORN.

I'm exposed! You caught me! I'm undone!

Or should I say .. Me deshago!

You and Vadum -- minds like steel traps. Nothing ever gets by you!

I suppose next you'll expose my membership in Obama's new SA, and our secret plan to build concentration camps in Colorado!

Grzmlyk| 7.30.09 @ 6:31PM

Liberal reader is also very young and lives purely in a theoretical world.

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 6:36PM

Grzmlyk --

Actually, I am saying that real world, physical, actual realities prevent us from using words like "racism" in an abstract way.

The "theoretical world" is the world in which all judgments based upon race are equally "racist."

In a country where blacks were enslaved for 300 years and kept as second class citizens for an additional 100 years, there is a tangible, material reality to "racism" that must be considered.

But I take it your post was amiable enough, for which I'm grateful.

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…professor fawning coverage of the beer summit/ and Obama made Crowley pay for his hotel and flight Breaking: Obama insults the Philippines. Dan Rather wants Obambi to save the media NBC wants Glenn Beck fired for calling Obama a racist   Newsweek’s Embedded Obama Campaign Reporter Joins Obama Administration Just making it official:  his comrades are all the Public Relations branch of the Obama Administration.…

Matthew Vadum| 7.30.09 @ 7:24PM

Liberal Reader, why do you liberal fascist pseudointellectuals always evade and use misdirection? You refuse to be honest and admit that you believe in using institutional racism against Americans in the pursuit of so-called social justice.

Just about no one here is stupid enough to allow you to define the terms of this argument. I don't accept your premises and your underlying assumptions, nor should anyone else.

No one who is alive today benefited directly from or suffered as a result of slavery in the U.S. No one. It was the law of the land way back then but things changed and the law changed with it. No one is entitled to any kind of reparations in the form of cash or government policies that favor one racial or ethnic group or groups over others.

You argue that discriminatory, institutional racism must be practiced against non-minority Americans in order to make up for the wrongs of the past. Well, I wasn't around then and I'm not paying reparations. I didn't do anything wrong nor did any of my ancestors.

Besides, Democrats protected slavery. Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws. Democrats fought racial integration. Democrats support affirmative action (though Nixon came up with idea much to his eternal shame) today.

Democrats are almost always on the side of the racists. Moreover, progressives are the most active practitioners of racism in American history, from Woodrow Wilson to Margaret Sanger to Bull Connor.

Racism is racism is racism. I wish you would just have the integrity to admit that you support government discrimination against non-minority Americans in the service of a higher ideal.

But you won't because people like you are fundamentally dishonest and dishonorable. Arguing with someone as obtuse as you is pointless. It is better to work to defeat you and your evil ideas and that's what I'm going to go back to doing right now.

Don't bother responding. I've made my case.

Matthew Vadum| 7.30.09 @ 7:26PM

Note: I should have written that Bull Connor was a Democrat, not a progressive. I don't know if he was a progressive. My mistake.

Liberal Reader| 7.30.09 @ 8:15PM

Vadum,

Your response to my post is intellectually dishonest.

You distort what I write and suggest I'm saying things that I'm not. I'm not surprised you ask me not to respond, since clearly you want to be able to make my points as well as your own.

In addition, your history is simply distorted. Democrats did support segregation and slavery. But the party changed. When the Democratic party embraced civil rights fully, southern whites fled to the Republican party. You've heard of the "southern strategy," have you not?

I never said that people need to be discriminated against for there to be "justice," and I wasn't talking about affirmative action. Your confusion of these issues betrays laziness or ignorance.

While it is partially true that "no one alive today benefited from slavery," it still does not erase the consequences of slavery from our society. You'd have to be completely obtuse not to recognize this.

The term "liberal fascist" is so ridiculous, I actually feel ungrateful for not appreciating so comic a turn of phrase, but I would be more hospitable if it weren't so hateful and so goddamned ignorant. To call it an oxymoron doesn't capture how offensive it is to reason.

"Liberal," "fascist," "racist,""progressive." To you, these are just labels that you fling around and substitute for one another for whatever lame rhetorical purpose suits you at the moment.

Missy| 7.30.09 @ 9:05PM

Cute trick: Democrats fought a war to keep blacks enslaved and now they use their abhorrent past behavior to bludgeon us about our country's racism toward blacks. Got that?

Talk about disingenuousness--you fascist liberals take the cake, Jeremiah.

ds80| 7.30.09 @ 10:11PM

Liberal Reader: PWNED, dude.

The operative word was "obtuse". Zing!

Louise W.| 7.30.09 @ 11:16PM

I'm amazed at the inabbility of Liberal Reader to stick to the business at hand and go off on a tangent.

Listen...as long as there are distinct ethnic groups in any society there will be differences. To call these differences racists shows ignorance. Furthermore, for the President of the United States to start a racial discourse is abominable and totally unacceptable in a leader.

I am in complete agreement that Democrats have in their agenda the intention of keeping a racial divide alive. It is to the minorty groups that Democrats go to for their votes. I am surprised that these groups have never caught on to the ploy. They are being "played."

Mark Anderson| 7.31.09 @ 9:37AM

Of course everyone here has benefited from slavery, slavery didn't really end until WWII. It wasn't called slavery but in the south, African-Americans were arrested on any charge, and used to work for many, many companies, including U.S. Steel, who would pay the county for the privilege. Slavery in everything but the name. I'm surprised you conservatives don't know your history. It ended when finally the Federal government, worried about propaganda the axis powers might use against America, stepped in with arrests.

jim| 7.31.09 @ 9:44AM

There are two real issues here; a double standard, I mean come on, when was there a day that went by when G. Bush wasn't called something other than Mr. President. The other issue is that if they, the liberals, keep up the racial overtones or the 'great divide' they create a smoke screen and some cover for all the other stuff going on; healthcare, cap and trade, nukes in Iran, etc, etc. These folks are an arrogant bunch, can you imagine the outcry the 'beer summit' was hosted by a republican. It's too bad that the elites really don't understand how informed and educated the population is, they are the ones that actually look pretty foolish.

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Liberal Intolerance on TV « links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…about this episode is that what Beck said isn’t a fireable or even a SUSPENDABLE offense by his bosses. There was a time when outrageous rants like this would actually cost the ranters their jobs. Read More: Tags: Glenn Beck, Liberal Intolerance on TV, Liberal Media Bias This entry was posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry…

Jim Hartman| 7.31.09 @ 11:37PM

Obama IS a racist. A half-white racist.

HERM| 7.31.09 @ 11:40PM

THANK GOD FOR NEWSCASTERS WHO HAVE THE GUTS TO STAND TOE TO TOE WITH ALL THE LEFTIST DEMOCRATS AND LOONS.
MY WIFE AND I ENJOY HIS TV SHOW EACH AND EVERYDAY AND BELEIVE WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE DECAY OF THIS COUNTRY.
STAND UP AMERICA AND DON'T LET CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT OBAMA GET HIS WAY AND SEE THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY GO B.K. BEFORE OUR EYES.

Reasonable White Man| 8.2.09 @ 2:20AM

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and most conservative crazies like them are racist, and any white person who got offended by the "acted stupidly" comment is a racist themself, and as a white person myself, I am not offended at all, because I am not that stupid. But Glenn Beck stands out. He is a crazy, scary lunatic who yells wildly like a mental nutcase at people he disagrees with on the phones, and anyone who would take him seriously is just as crazy as he is. Aside from Glenn Beck, though, the bottom line is some cops do act stupidly, especially in suburbs and wealthy white areas where people are profiled for the color of their skin. However, the vast majority of cops are not like this and do their job properly, including Sgt. Crowley. The reason I give Sgt. Crowley the benefit of the doubt because of his background in standing against racial profiling, and he seems to be a good, honest person. President Obama did a great job reaching out to Gates and Crowley by inviting them to the White House for some beers, and Gates and Crowley have agreed to meet again, so the meeting was effective and this should be put to rest. The conservative crazies like Glenn Beck will not put it to rest, becuase all they care about is the failure of Barack Obama and the democrats, and they believe in the fantasy known as reverse racism, or racism against whites. Chuck Todd is right, Glenn BEck should be fired from FOX News, because what he spews is not news, it is opinion. He has the right to spew his crazy beliefs and hatred on the radio as a talk show, but this kind of crap should not be allowed on anything that is billed as a news network.

Gavin In Tucson| 8.3.09 @ 11:42PM

Reasonable White Man, I think I'll leave it up to Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc, to decide for themselves what they air on their networks. If you honestly believe that "opinion" shouldn't be broadcast on a news network, then all of the networks mentioned above would have to cut about 1/3 of their shows.

Do you also believe that newspapers shouldn't have an op-ed section?

Push Play| 8.4.09 @ 12:02AM

It's amazing how many people here think they have a right to decide what people can or cannot say, and when or where the can or cannot say it.

What ever happened to the liberal spirit of, "I may not agree with what you're saying, but I'll defend your right to say it." (?)

Free speech is slowly dying in this country, because people are buying into the notion that free speech only protects the speech they agree with. Free speech is meant to protect the opposite, folks.

If you can't handle that, move to another country of your choosing (right-wing or left-wing), where you won't have to be bothered by the inconvenience of dealing with an opposing opinion.

Louis Vuitton| 8.14.09 @ 11:07AM

I love Glenn Beck, he is the best ex-pothead DJ ranter ever. With no real journalism experince, he just gets it. I mean how could we let this president just put all those white people in fields, let people spit on them, make them eat in designated areas for them only, beat and lynch them, rape them, buy and sell them, hang them. Obama the racist and his crazy plan to get people into see a doctor at an affordable price, what a joke. When will this country wake up and make Rush president? We can get rid of all those Mexicans, let teen pregnancy grow the population and then let all the poor babies starve. You know what though, at least they had a chance right. Its a good thing we have people that know a thing or two about being racist to call out people when they are being racist. Thank the USA for Glenn Beck the champion of free speach. I wonder if they will do to him what they did to those DIXIE girls?

Myron| 8.18.09 @ 4:44PM

Yes, all those darned liberal companies are pulling their ads from Glenn Beck: Wal-Mart, Best Buy, GMAC, ConAgra, CVS, Geico, Procter & Gamble etc. etc.

Darn liberals!

moonunit| 8.25.09 @ 5:01PM

@ Reasonable White Man:

Racial profiling? You are way above that. Right. I'd like to remind you that you feel that way right before I kick your enlightened ass out of the car and onto a dark street in Milwaukee Northeast. Glad to see you earned those 3 diversity credits, though.

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