Glenn Beck FAILS
9/21/09 Glenn Beck Fails On “White Culture” Question From Katie Couric
Glenn Beck has been tap dancing all around his racist lingo ever since Obama came onto the scene. And he knows exactly what he’s doing, namely, validating and expressing the white supremacist rage at our black President without really saying it. Once in a while he slips up, though. like when he called Obama a “racist”, then immediately tried to backtrack with what he thought was a milder remark. That’s when he said that Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for whites and white culture”. Hah. Some backtrack!
Couric tried to nail Beck down on this statement, transcript below provided by FoxNewsBoycott.com:
COURIC: A twitter question is, adrianinflorida: what do you mean by white culture?
BECK: Um, I, I don’t…
COURIC: You said he had a deep-seated hatred for the white culture, what is that? What is the white culture?
BECK: I guess it’s…gosh. I’m so tempted to make news here today.
COURIC: No no, I’m just curious, this was actually adrianinflorida.
BECK: What to do? What to do? Adrian, Go to glennbeck.com. Listen to it. You can hear all of it.
COURIC: No, but you didn’t really address white culture, I think, in your explanation about President Obama, I haven’t seen the whole show, but can you? Just for our purposes?
BECK: Just for your purposes? So this will be a little secret between us?
COURIC: No, for this show, can you explain what you mean by the white culture? Because some people say that sounds kind of racist.
BECK: Really? It’s amazing to me that, for the first time, I think in history somebody can ask a question and say, “Don’t you think that maybe we have several pieces here?” We have several pieces; George Bush says my grandmother was a typical African-American that had, that had her views bred into her. You don’t think maybe we would ask questions about that comment? How is it that the first time I think in history, you should check on it, somebody says, “Hey. There’s some red flags here maybe we should look at?” … How am I? How am I the target for asking questions?
COURIC: People just want to know. What is white culture?
BECK: I’m going to see if I can play your game. People just want to know.
COURIC: You know, well, Adrian wants to know.
BECK: That’s good for Adrian.
COURIC: No but I mean it’s fine if you make a statement though, shouldn’t you be able to defend exactly what you mean by it. I’m not –
BECK: Katie, how many times have you said, how many times have you said something where you’re like, “I didn’t think. What’s white culture? I don’t know. What’s the white culture?”
What? What is the white culture? I don’t know how to answer that that’s not a trap.
COURIC: Mhmm.
BECK: You know what I mean?
COURIC: Yeah I’m not, I’m just, I’m not trying to trap you, I’m just, I think people wanted to know what that meant exactly.
BECK: Well we know Adrian does.
COURIC: Yeah, and you’re not going to answer her?
BECK: I’m not going to get into your sound bite gotcha game which we already are. We already are.
COURIC: No we’re actually, this is completely unedited so if you felt like you wanted to explain it, you have all the time in the world.
BECK: Mhmm.
COURIC: No? Don’t want to go there?
BECK: Nope.
COURIC: But basically, you stand behind your assertion that in your view, President Obama is a racist.
BECK: I believe that Americans should ask themselves tough questions. Americans should turn over all the rocks and make their own decisions.
Watch the entire equivocating bloviation-fest below:
Read more: http://foxnewsboycott.com/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-refuses-to-define-white-culture/#ixzz0SyMRXKEH
9/23/09 Glenn Beck Fails to get support of Mt. Vernon City Council
Mayor Bud Norris of Mount Vernon, Washington thought it was a good idea to give the first ever “key to the city” to famous man-baby Glenn Beck on September 26. However, the City Council disagreed. They unanimously passed the following resolution on September 23:
“Mount Vernon City Council is in no way sponsoring the Mayor’s event on September 26, 2009 and is not connected to the Glenn Beck event in any manner.”
Here’s Mayor Bud Norris’ contact information if you want to let him know what you think:
Mayor: Bud Norris
PO Box 809
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Phone: 360-336-6211
Email: mvmayor@mountvernonwa.gov
FAX: 360-336-0623
9/26/09 Op-ed, Dallas Morning News Rod Dreher says Beck’s “conservative” credentials FAIL
It’s not usual for me to be quoting from the Dallas Morning News. They’re a conservative rag from the carbunkle on the rear end of the Bible Belt. But here’s conservative spokeswriter Rod Dreher bashing Glenn Beck for being a phony conservative. Earlier in the article he refers to Beck’s Mormon anti-government theories, which I will quote elsewhere. Enjoy.
There are conservatives who know perfectly well that Beck is an unhinged buffoon who traffics in crude, ridiculous ideas. But unlike the hapless GOP, he’s popular and effective in the political war against Obama. So these conservative cynics adopt a “no enemies to the right” approach to Beck, even though he’s mainstreaming the ooga-booga worldview of a crank prophet who believed, with the John Birch Society, that Eisenhower was a closet commie.
This is foolish. Not every enemy of Obama is a friend to conservatism. In 1962, in a time when conservatives needed all the help they could get, William F. Buckley nevertheless published in National Review a lengthy denunciation of paranoid Bircher Robert Welch. How long, Buckley asked, can the right tolerate his malicious gibberish without losing credibility? National Review eventually sidelined the Birchers for good over their “psychosis of conspiracy,” thus doing the right an enormous service by making conservatism more credible with the American mainstream.
Today, poor Bill is in the grave, Glenn Beck’s ratings are soaring, and most conservatives don’t see what the problem is. One way or another, they will.
10/8/09 Glenn Beck exposed as a phony with conflicts of interest. He’s telling his faithful to buy gold while having 3 gold sellers as sponsors. He even did one of the ads HIMSELF. FAIL.
10/8/09 Glenn Beck FAILS again… this time he’s called a “taint” by the Boston Phoenix! Now I think they meant the OTHER kind of taint, but to me he’s always going to be BOTH. You can read the article HERE.
