Coward, liar, psychopath

By now everyone in the US who hasn’t been hiding in a cave ought to know that Glenn Beck is on a jihad against black people in general and one particular black man in the White House. Ever since Glenn convinced the GOP to go even fringier than normal and take after Van Jones, he has puffed himself up to believe that he actually might be onto something, after all. I guess you can get the DTs from cocaine, too.

Enter Obama’s political affairs director Patrick Gaspard. The American Spectator, a conservative online newspaper trying to make a name for itself, got a quote from Wade Rathke’s blog which they quoted as saying:

Tell me that 1199′s former political director, Patrick Gaspard (who was ACORN New York’s political director before that) didn’t reach out from the White House and help make that happen, and I’ll tell you to take some remedial classes in “politics 101.”

In fact, Wade Rathke’s blog did indeed say that. But one problem; it wasn’t true and for once somebody who printed a false statement about the Obama Administration retracted it. Not an ordinary retraction, I might add, but a kick to the privates of the phony whining “conservatives” who trade in falsehoods and impossible conspiracy theories. Rathke posted, in part,

Patrick was never on the staff of ACORN. I double checked with people I still know there, and it appears that I dropped a stitch there. Hopefully my misstatement won’t lead to the White House throwing him in front of the bus in this rush to neo-McCarthyism that has become so prominent. In this case, my memory tricked me. I’m glad to carry the weight and simply say I made a mistake, and damned if I’m not sorry and hope no damage is done to a good man doing a hard job.

Let me quickly add, since I read Google alerts and have noticed that there is a attack squad at all manner of friends and associates I have had over the years, that for the formal record, I have NO friends. If there’s a problem with me, then bring it on, but for the rest of you, if you see me on the street, just nod and pass on by, if you are worried about it. Until we learn to all stand together and oppose this kind of blood sport political targeting, it’s going to be like this for a while. I’m just not sure how long it will take.

As of 10:00 PM Central, American Spectator, fine conservative noisemaker as they are (I kind of picture them as a whoopee cushion) have failed to take down the story or publish a retraction. Ditto for Breitbart. Fox News, ditto, because if it’s the Fox Nation, it must be TRUE! Matt Drudge, wow, you took it down! But it’s nice to see that you still slather ink over tsunamis, earthquakes, and Dan Rather. (Is it possible to have a fetish about earthquakes? Paging Dr. Freud, Dr. Freud…)

So what, you may ask, does a phony non-story ginned up by a crummy online newspaper and amplified by the conservative noise machine have to do with Glenn Beck? Glad you asked, but I think you already know the answer. Glenn Beck jumped all over this like a BIG DOG! Ruff ruff, go sic ‘em, Spot! You might want to skip ahead to about 4:45 in the video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9g5y8qUw9s

Of course, Beck’s staff has taken down the story from his website, but… I have the VIDEO… so enjoy! I will cut out the first 4:45 of it tomorrow and repost so you don’t have to wait for the fun and games! Did you know that Gaspard was CEO Bertha Lewis’ “right hand man”! “In FACT!” LOL… and did you know that SEIU and ACORN are really the SAME ORGANIZATION??? And, to top it off, Beck says the President has “ZERO CREDIBILITY!” Oh, I just can’t stand it. I’ll finish this story when I can stop laughing uncontrollably!

Update September 30… National Review still has it up. New article by Kurtz, claiming that Obama has ties to labor. Gee, isn’t that what Democrats do? The Dems support the little guy, the GOPERS support the corporations. That’s why they lost the election. They suck up to money, not to votes.

Update October 1… National Review Online has taken down the Kurtz article. It does not appear in the “searchable archives” for the week. Anatomy of a GOP lie… make it up, spread it around, it gets debunked, take it down quietly.