Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Why Is Glenn Beck Really Trying To Destroy President Obama?



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.

Beck uses Dr. M.L.K. as an example of a true unifier.The reason Beck does this is because he knows that he must elevate one black man if he is to destroy another. That way he can claim that he is not a racist who is using race to divide the country. Even though it is pretty apparent that is precisely what he is attempting to do on The Glenn Beck Show.

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.

He is trying to make the point that President Obama, Van Jones, Eric Holder, & other blacks want real "social justice" now! The underlying theme of all the shows that he has done on President Obama is reverse racism.These blacks who are in power want to use it to exact revenge on whites for past wrongs,according to Glenn Beck.Far from trying to unify this country, Glenn Beck is playing the race card to the fullest. By trying to prove how racist President Obama is, Beck has only exposed his own deep-seated racism.

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.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

I Guess Bill Clinton Thinks It's Okay To Join The KKK If It Can Help You Get Elected


Bill Clinton's remarks at Senator Robert Byrd's funeral should make those who call him "the first black president" regret that sentiment
. There is nothing even remotely "black" about a white man that says "it may have been wrong" for someone to have been a member of the KKK. It is explicitly wrong to join a group of racists who lynch & kill folks.

There's no maybe about it for me. But,Bill Clinton seems to think that if "a country boy" can get elected that way,so be it. Join the KKK or any other racist organization if it can further your agenda. I find that line of reasoning to be absolutely deplorable.

And it makes me wonder if Bill Clinton only dealt with blacks so that he could get elected. Because as an Arkansan,that's what "a country boy" would do.

Here's more from Talking Points Memo:

"Former President Bill Clinton referenced the late Sen. Robert Byrd's membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a young man during his eulogy for the longtime senator this afternoon in West Virginia. Clinton was the only speaker to reference this dark chapter of Byrd's history, which has been a topic of much discussion over the years.

Many of Byrd's colleagues have said that Byrd learned from the experience and that he championed civil rights later, and took pride in endorsing Barack Obama in his bid to become the nation's first black president.

Clinton said at the memorial service that Byrd's obituaries have speculated what it meant he was in the KKK.

"I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected," Clinton said. "And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Oakland Is On Edge While Jurors Deliberate In The Oscar Grant Trial!


All over the local news,there are nightly updates on the Oscar Grant trial.Here in the Bay Area,folks are on edge about what will happen after the verdict is announced.The police are gearing up to face a serious battle if the streets react violently to a Mehserle acquittal.

Bay Area residents are saying that they will avoid riding Bart & drive to their destinations instead.Everyone I know wants to avoid getting caught up in the mayhem that is sure to ensue if jurors reach a decision that favors Johannes Mehserle.

Honestly,I can't fathom any other verdict than guilty.Either second degree murder or voluntary manslaughter would make sense to me.I don't see how any other conclusion can be reached.He certainly shouldn't be found not guilty.

Here's more on the status of this case from CNN:

"Jurors wrapped up deliberations Friday and will continue next week in the racially charged murder trial of a white former police officer in Oakland, California, accused of killing an unarmed black man.

Jurors deliberated for nearly three hours Friday afternoon without reaching a verdict in the case against Johannes Mehserle.

Mehserle, a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, is accused of shooting 22- year-old Oscar Grant dead on a California train platform on January 1, 2009.

The jurors will resume their deliberations Tuesday morning; court is closed Monday due to the extended holiday weekend. Closing arguments concluded earlier in the day Friday.

Mehserle could be found not guilty, guilty of murder, or guilty of a lesser offense like manslaughter.

The shooting was captured on a bystander's cell-phone video camera. The video was widely circulated on the internet and on news broadcasts, and it spurred several protests and riots in and around Oakland."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.