FoxNews.com currently has a poll asking, “What Do You Think Tea Party Movement Is About?” At this moment, the leading response is “Fruitless mix of racism, conspiracy theories.” Classic!
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The following quote is from Glenn Beck while discussing the U.S. census…
BECK: African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Ok so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you [...]
Remember back in July, Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist? Of course you do… it resulted in Beck losing 80 advertisers! So, now, why in the world would the CEO of Fox News‘ parent company, Rupert Murdoch, publicly defend Glenn Beck and agree with Beck’s assertion that Obama is a racist?
“On the racist thing, [...]
Make that lack of research…
Bill O’Reilly claims that “[f]air-minded Americans know that playing the race card is easy and hateful. The only thing we can find about Rush Limbaugh is that he thinks quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated by some people who want black quarterbacks to succeed.” O’Reilly needs to fire his research staff, [...]
While speaking to Katie Couric, Glenn Beck was presented with a question from a Twitter user. He was asked what he meant by “white culture,” the phrase he used while calling President Obama a racist. Beck refused to define it any of the dozen times Couric prompted him for an answer. Whatever answers he did [...]
Take a look at this clip from 2007 that shows Glenn Beck saying that Jesse Jackson claiming that President Obama is acting “white” is racist. Keep watching for a Glenn Beck clip from earlier that year, during which Beck states, “[Obama] is very white in many ways… he is. He’s very white.” So, to Glenn [...]
Fox News’ Juan Williams was on C-Span, commenting on divisiveness at Fox News, including the topic of racism. When asked about Glenn Beck calling President Obama racist, Williams had this to say:
WILLAMS: I’m just stunned by it. I don’t understand it. I think in that situation, people are just saying things to stir the pot [...]
Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report blasted President Obama for taking sides in what he equated to farts – things that shouldn’t be discussed… Colbert then took on Glenn Beck over his comments about Obama being a racist, questioning Beck’s logic.
COLBERT: Right, that’s not saying [Obama] dislikes white people. He’s saying that [...]
In response to Glenn Beck calling President Obama a racist, MSNBC’s Morning Joe ripped into Beck for an entire segment:
WASHINGTON POST’S JONATHAN CAPEHART: How is it possible that this guy can sit on national television and call this guy a racist? The President is half white!
MSNBC HOST MIKE BARNICLE: In reality, Glenn Beck is just [...]
Daily Kos user aggregatescience reported that MSNBC / CNBC’s Donny Deutsch has called for a boycott of Glenn Beck’s advertisers due to Beck’s asinine claim that President Obama is a racist. Deutch announced the charge on his show, The Big Idea:
DEUTSCH: He called this president a ‘racist’ and a ‘hatred of white people’, okay? This [...]
