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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 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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by mark06nomad October 19, 2009 12:27 PM EDT
amen.
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by mark06nomad October 19, 2009 11:55 AM EDT
Obama is an ego-maniac and "politically correct " ppl cant and wont admit it. Those who support his socialist maybe even communist agenda will either feel extremely stupid REAL SOON or say "we didnt know". As far as Obabma being racist, i think ppl who usually play the race card are either racist themselves or a hypocite!I find it very disturbing the white house is attacking Fox news..so much for freedom of speach. PPL wake up!!! Silence your critics or smear them sound familar?
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by cmlarson3 October 7, 2009 10:02 AM EDT
It's business as usual. The right-wing extremists have been given the daily task by their puppet-masters Limbaugh and Beck, to spread the message of impending doom for the white race in America. Your comments all repeat the same mantra over and over, one of fear and racism. Your rage against a powerful federal government which meddles in the affairs of private citizens is highly ironic considering your daily actions and
world views have been molded and shaped by a small group of fanatical
narcissists. These so-called saviors of democracy promote power through a large military force. This Beck/Limbaugh idea was promoted in the past, most recently in Nazi Germany.
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by Samjia September 30, 2009 1:59 AM EDT
Who on earth cares what a racists thinks, we know what they are doing and what they think as we had 8 years of that stuff. Please do not give this idiot ANY more air time, we don't want to hear him =wise up CBS, you degrade your audience by giving a "miserable excuse for a human being" a platform to speak.
Please do not make this mistake again -these racists are poison to the world of peace.
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by hush_puppy September 29, 2009 6:57 PM EDT
Beck is perturbed because he is not able to screw himself. What a pig.
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by JoePL123 September 29, 2009 12:08 PM EDT
HEY COURIC, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET ANOTHER RECTAL EXAM ON NATIONAL TELEVISION??? . . .ON SECOND THOUGHT, ONE NATIONALLY TELEVISED ANAL EXAM IS ENOUGH, ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS A PRETENTIOUS MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN.

EVER SINCE I SAW KATIE COURIC GET A NATIONALLY TELEVISED ANAL EXAM, I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. EVER.

if you haven't seen Couric get a anal exam, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JsYSZIT-Q
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by JoePL123 September 29, 2009 12:08 PM EDT
HEY COURIC, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET ANOTHER RECTAL EXAM ON NATIONAL TELEVISION??? . . .ON SECOND THOUGHT, ONE NATIONALLY TELEVISED ANAL EXAM IS ENOUGH, ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS A PRETENTIOUS MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN.

EVER SINCE I SAW KATIE COURIC GET A NATIONALLY TELEVISED ANAL EXAM, I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. EVER.

if you haven't seen Couric get a anal exam, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JsYSZIT-Q
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by Jajh September 29, 2009 2:09 AM EDT
Has everyone forgotten the old saying "It takes one to know one?" Those yelling "racist" are the ones fomenting racism. It is so hateful to label and attack people you don't know. It's racist, hateful, and does so much harm to the healing process that has been progressing quite well, over the decades, in our country. YOU are driving things backward. It is TRUE EQUALITY to be able to protest against the policies of any president, with NO regard for the color of his skin. It's the quality of his character that is under attack, and being black is no excuse for him to promote some of the things he's pushing. He's hiding behind that half-blackness, and the majority of Americans of all colors are NOT falling for it. We're judging the policies and principles, and finding them more and more anti-American in fact. He could be green, and we would not be fooled or silenced.
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by chipw6 September 29, 2009 12:56 AM EDT
Is there more to Van Jones than he once called himself a communist? Would he have been good at the environmental job he was appointed to?
Is there more to Jeremiah Wright than his white-bashing? Why did Obama attend his church?
What's the entirety of what ACORN does? All in all, do they do good work?
Glen Back doesn't care about the bigger picture. Neither do his followers. Beck likes having the power to destroy.
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by pullwool September 28, 2009 2:16 PM EDT
I will say it again, Watch him long enough and you may be asked to drink the Kool-Aid..
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by pullwool September 28, 2009 2:16 PM EDT
I will say it again, Watch him long enough and you may be asked to drink the Kool-Aid..
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