But what else has he done? This represents my only serious concerns involving Beck. Otherwise, I doubt I’d be much interested in him at all. He’s called Barack Obama a racist, for one.
I would recommend that Mr. Riehl does some more research. He’s caught in the trap of believing that personal actions must always be at one extreme or the other. Either a person must accept all people at face value, or they must be raving segregationists.
I highly recommend reading Where History Gets Weird by Mark Butterworth.
As for Barack, he is half-white and raised as a relatively privileged white boy except for his time in Indonesia when he was bullied for being culturally different and black .
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But, some will say, the Obamas are surrounded by whites, they have white friends, they’ve always worked and played with whites. They can’t be racists.
Liberals think that white racists, KKKers must hate all blacks. That’s not how it works. A person can very much like, enjoy, work with individuals of other races without any difficulty, but find collective fault or general dislike for another race as a whole.
Barack gives Bill Ayers and the other whites of his circle a pass because they have transcended membership in an evil class of people by despising their own race as much as people from other races and cultures do. Marxists and liberals deracinate themselves in the eyes of people like the Obamas; just as people like Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Junior, Louis Armstrong, and numerous other blacks seemed deracinated and non-threatening to whites throughout the 50′s and 60′s.
Glenn Beck, like Rush Limbaugh, is primarily a showman and entertainer, not a “just the facts ma’am” journalist. However he backs all of his statements up with research and facts (I’ve got to get a copy of his new book Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, which is nothing but facts and research. The material that you hear on his program is not often brought up elsewhere and he provides a valuable service.
BTW, re ACORN: I never heard him claim that he was the only or even the first person to discover this; indeed Hannity interviewed James O’Keefe at about the same time.
