If you watched the videos that preceded this post, you will see how hypocritical Glenn Beck is. He loved George Bush's dirty drawers. With President Obama, he dedicates every show that he does to trying to discredit & destroy his presidency. If he loves his country so much,what happened to that patriotism back in 2007? Even though Bush was dragging the country down,Beck was gushing over him like a young schoolgirl.
What was so great about a president that lied to the country about weapons of mass destruction? Bush led us into a false war & used a terror attack to strip Americans of their civil liberties! Remember the Patriot Act,Glenn Beck? Where was all of his talk about the Founding Fathers when Beck reported his meeting with George Bush back in 2007 ?
There is nothing objective about you, Glenn Beck! It's obvious that you are nothing more than an extreme right-wing propagandist. And you want to drag this country back to the days of the Founding Fathers.You know,the good ole' days when blacks were publicly regarded as being less than human.
Ever since we have put a black president into office,Glenn Beck has become obsessed with discussing race. All of his shows center around the Obama administration. He wants to draw a distinction between Dr. Martin Luther King & President Obama for his own nefarious purpose.
Here's more on that from TJMS:
"Roland Martin discusses the fears of America becoming a majority minority country. Thirty-years ago we would often hear that phrase. People said that it was thirty years away but now it is here. In seven states across America, minorities under the age of seven-teen out number whites.
In speaking with John Avalon, author of Wingnuts, about all the craziness with the Tea Party and people making outlandish comments came to the conclusion, we are of watching the rise of White victimhood.
All of a sudden in the Age of Obama, there are White people in this country who are freaking out by saying “Oh my God we are losing our grip on this country”.
Then there is Glenn Beck, who is now comparing himself to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beck and others are trying to take the moral standing of the Civil Rights Movement and claim it as their own. On August 28th, the same day as the March on Washington, the same day that then Sen. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Nomination for President, Beck is going to have a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to reclaim the Civil Rights Movement."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.
When he was talking about voter intimidation today,Glenn Beck told his television audience:
"We are about to repeat the mistakes of the past."
And he let them know that "this time the enemy is different." Who is the enemy? Well,its the NAACP, the Black Panther, Black Muslims, Acorn, etc... Do you see a pattern here? All of these groups are composed of minorities. He is talking to those real Americans that his friend,Sarah Palin, was addressing in her campaign speeches. Glenn Beck is sending subliminal messages.
Comparing the New Black Panthers "voter intimidation" case to what the KKK did to blacks is only meant to incite fear. Because there is nothing similar about those two groups. The KKK was started by oppressors who wanted to continue to oppress an entire race. The Black Panthers & other similar organizations are composed of oppressed peoples who are tired of being kept down.
Who have the New Black Panthers lynched & killed? But,more to Glenn Beck's point,where are the white voters that were supposedly intimidated by the New Black Panthers?Both Media Matters & I would like to know!
Here's more from Media Matters:
"On Glenn Beck's show today we were treated to more revisionist history (also, the sky is blue). This time, Beck attempted to equate the New Black Panther case with previous incidents of voter intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan. Beck also conveniently failed to mention that the conservative noise around the case is pretty dishonest.
The most glaring problem with this Beck comparison is that not a single person has come forward to say they were actually intimidated by the New Black Panthers at this polling place. Nobody. That's actually one of the reasons the Department Of Justice obtained an injunction against the man seen wielding a nightstick, but dropped charges against other parties in the case.
Beck compared this action to the Klan. The problem is the Ku Klux Klan has a very long and bloody history in America of not only intimidating voters, but doing so through violence:
- Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of orchestrating the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were attempting to register black voters in Mississippi
- The Klan assassinated Rep. James M. Hinds in 1868, along with other Republican officeholders in the reconstruction-era south
- In 1868 the Klan engaged in a campaign that killed, wounded or otherwise injured over 2000 people in Louisiana in the weeks prior to the presidential election in what was described as a campaign of "constant terror." Numerous parishes saw vote totals plunge for the Republican ticket in the presidential election as terrified black voters stayed home. For example: in St. Landry, Republicans went from carrying the parish by 678 votes to receiving no votes at all. Congress passed the Force Act of 1870 as a direct reaction to the Klan's actions.
Added to that is the history of the Klan engaging in all sorts of racial violence not directly connected to voting and voting rights. So, on one hand an incident with no complaints of intimidation, on the other hand an organization that has plagued Americans trying to exercise their constitutional right to a vote. In the mind of Glenn Beck, these are one and the same. By bending facts to fit a narrative, Beck insults those who have actually suffered from racial discrimination and violent intimidation."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.
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