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| Mon, 09-28-2009 - 8:33am |
Someone here claimed that Glen Beck is a racist. I've been watching his show this last week. I now understand that he is thought of as a racist because of his negative remarks about President Obama! But, hey, as far as I'm concerned President Obama is NOT a black man. His mother is white. That makes him bi-racial. Other than that I havn't heard one racist remark from MR. Beck.
Now, I am still trying to figure out why he was labeled anti-semitic. I havn't heard one anti-Jew remark from him yet....I'll keep watching!
Thanks!

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I think "incendiary" is more the word for
Yes very well paid!
Segments below are from......
Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1924348,00.html
>"Fears of a Clown
Beck is 45, tireless, funny, self-deprecating, a recovering alcoholic, a convert to Mormonism, a libertarian and living with ADHD. He is a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies — if he believed in conspiracies, which he doesn't, necessarily; he's just asking questions. He's just sayin'. In cheerful days of yore, he was a terrific host of a morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station. But these aren't cheerful times. For conservatives, these are times of economic uncertainty and political weakness, and Beck has emerged as a virtuoso on the strings of their discontent. Rush Limbaugh, with his supreme self-confidence, holding forth with "half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair," found his place as the triumphant champion of the Age of Reagan. Macho Sean Hannity captured the cocky vibe of the early Bush years, dunking the feckless liberal Alan Colmes for nightly swirlies on the Fox News Channel. Both men remain media dynamos, but it is Beck — nervous, beset, desperate — who now channels the mood of many on the right. "I'm afraid," he has said more than once in recent months. "You should be afraid too.""<
>"As melodrama, it's thumping good stuff. But as politics, it's sort of a train wreck — at once powerful, spellbinding and uncontrolled. Like William Jennings Bryan whipping up populist Democrats over moneyed interests or the John Birch Society brooding over fluoride, Beck mines the timeless theme of the corrupt Them thwarting a virtuous Us."<
>"In June, estimators at Forbes magazine pegged Beck's earnings over the previous 12 months at $23 million, a ballpark figure confirmed by knowledgeable sources, and this year's revenues are on track to be higher. The largest share comes from his radio show, which is heard by more than 8 million listeners on nearly 400 stations — one of the five biggest radio audiences in the country. Beck is one of only a handful of blockbuster authors who have reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller lists with both nonfiction and fiction. (Among the others: John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and William Styron. Unlike them, however, Beck gets a lot of help from his staff.)"M<
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~Someone here claimed that Glen Beck is a racist.~
Where (link, please)?
Again, I'm not sure what you mean, sorry. People most certainly can and do make racist comments about people who are biracial.
I don't know of anybody who thinks Beck is racist simply for making negative remarks about Obama. Do you?
~Now, I am still trying to figure out why he was labeled anti-semitic. I havn't heard one anti-Jew remark from him yet....I'll keep watching!~
Oooh... is this the post you meant?
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-elinthenews/?msg=16157.21
"Are you saying then that companies should continue to sponsor highly paid "personalities" who make racial or anti-semetic comments?"
Note, she didn't say anything at all about Beck himself, but instead was asking a general question re: your stance on boycotts. She didn't label any individual (let alone Beck) as racist or anti-semetic.
eta If you meant that another post labeled Beck as anti-semitic, please post the link for that as well, thanks :)
Edited 9/28/2009 3:14 pm ET by oh_kate
"Again, I'm not sure what you mean, sorry. People most certainly can and do make racist comments about people who are biracial."
Exactly, Tiger Woods is as multiracial as you can be and he gets death threats because some people perceive him only as a black man. As much as he downplays that and up plays his diverse background, it doesn't mean diddly squat to racists. They see the color, period. Just because someone has some white blood doesn't mean he won't get a cross burned on their yard. Just as the KKK. They don't ask for DNA samples.
Also, my understanding is that the KKK is quite opposed to conception of biracial children, particularly re: caucasian and other "races" mixing, as they don't approve of social let alone sexual, genetic, or familial mixing of races.
They believe in maintaining the (mythical) "purity" of the white race and pretty strict racial segregation.
(As an aside, in July someone claimed that a KKK Dragon, Daniel Carter, had a biracial grandchildren. His response was that all of is children "know better".)
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