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Glenn Beck On His Obama Racist Comments

September 22, 2009 2:37 PM

In an interview with Katie Couric, Glenn Beck defends his controversial remarks about President Barack Obama.

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by jeffparm0519 August 7, 2010 6:16 AM EDT
Once one always one it is called a Freuden slip. You let the truth slip out!
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by megdey November 2, 2009 12:26 PM EST
Officer Crowley, who could very well have overstepped his authority, simply messed with the wrong individual. Louis Gates is a renowned professor of black cultural studies, and was, perhaps, predisposed to concluding he was a victim of racial profiling. It's just a sticky situation.

And Glenn Beck is just another white male unaware of his own privilege. OF COURSE our backgrounds--race, gender, class, geographic origin, etc-- inform the decisions we make. I equate Beck's criticism of Obama with the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, where she was grilled with regard to the influence her gender and Hispanic heritage would have on her voting record. These questions are almost exclusively directed at women and people of color--that is, NONWHITE individuals. Financially secure white males are the default political subject. Who questions whether a white Republican from South Carolina is unduly influenced by what Glenn Beck has termed "white culture"?

This differential treatment of political subjects based on personal identity isn't "racist" in the typical sense. It might not be malicious, or even conscious. But individuals from minority groups are already marked as "different," with views potentially antithetical to dominant white culture ideologies. So what if Obama empathizes with Henry Louis Gates? Glenn Beck was raised in a predominantly white Roman Catholic church, which could affect where his sympathies lie.

Politicians need to drop the conceit that race, class and gender don't matter. They do. Black presidents and white pundits alike should be cognizant of how personal identity affects political leaning, and do it publicly--though not apologetically.
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by sundayweiss October 24, 2009 5:58 PM EDT
really, am I supposed to believe race had nothing to do with the arrest on the part of the arresting officer, well, I can't swallow that because everyone knows drug dealers, and wife beaters in a different zip code ragardless of race, creed and, color, are not arrested when complained against daily in the same state.
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by sundayweiss October 24, 2009 5:53 PM EDT
wow, to many typing errors, bottom line, that arrest stunk once you remove the color of the arrested,... and the arresting officer, it was shiesty to ask the arrested outside of his home, after you asked him questions and had a heated discussion inside the home, that is entrapment in my book. the officer had the homeowners ID, he could have let the heated discussion go, and went to find violent criminals that are truly a danger to the society. that was a creepy arrest even for the color blind, in America.
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by sundayweiss October 24, 2009 5:49 PM EDT
Even though the conversation was heated between any police officer, of any race, gendar, creed, or color, to take a man who has produced Identification, and ask him to step outside his home after the heated conversation, so that you can arrest him possible on the public nusiance charges because those would have been more difficult to use unless the officer asked the professor first to have a conversation in his own home, then ask the professor, (of any color, race, or creed to step onto their front porch to arrest them for a conversation you initiated in that persons home, for me none of that was anything other regardless of the color of rank of anyone, it stunk to high if the home occupant was white and the officer was black I would still feel the way that arrest went down was totally uncalled for, and Glenn Beck is nit picking to find anything wrong with Pbama and deomcrats because his party and ideaologys are so vastly different than the majority of elected officials in the United States today.
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by sensiblelady67 October 20, 2009 1:35 PM EDT
Glenn Beck is a typical alcoholic on a very dry drunk. Religious fanatic, whinning, craves attention by anyone who will listen. skitzo to the point of destroying. He is able to twist a not too intellegent person to believing what insanity he is spewing. A very dangerous person. This man needs help. Unfortunatly, he has a following not unlike Jim Jones or many other wanabe fruitcakes. Just like most alcoholics I bet he can sell ice cubes to eskimos.
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by mark06nomad October 19, 2009 1:01 PM EDT
its been entertaining!
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by mark06nomad October 19, 2009 12:58 PM EDT
have r great day!
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by mark06nomad October 19, 2009 12:50 PM EDT
amen again.
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by mark06nomad October 19, 2009 12:40 PM EDT
amen.
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