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Communist

28th July 2009, 22:45

found here (http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/entertainment/0/APNews/General-Entertainment/20090728/U_US-TV-Beck-Obama?pageid=1), and probably everywhere else too

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Fox's Glenn Beck: President Obama is a racist

AP - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:18:46 AM http://ll.vimg.net/imagesoa/cms/images/APNews/General-Entertainment/20090728/US-TV-Beck-Obama-12467822-ca36-4d4a-9a1f-c103c48e14e2.jpg?width=300&height=2048&type=fm&watermark=&detectface=1&faceratio=&watermarkloc= (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:void%280%29) Photo By AP

Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck says he believes President Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

His remarks came during a discussion of Obama's reaction to the arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Gates is black and was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white police officer over a misunderstanding about a break-in at Gates' home.

There was no immediate response from the White House.

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FreeFocus

28th July 2009, 23:40

Apparently Beck defines "white culture" as a "culture in which it is all right for a white man who is an armed representative of an institution dominated by whites to arrest and otherwise have their way with non-white individuals."

If he is correct, I suppose that I, too, am racist, and a hater of what he considers "white culture."

What a fucking turd.

scarletghoul

29th July 2009, 00:05

Haha, white culture. Glenn Beck is such a nob. I hope he drowns in human fæces.

RaÃºl Duke

29th July 2009, 00:08

or the white culture.

There's no such thing as the "white" culture considering that there's many nations made up of people who are "white" (like all the countries in Europe, etc) and they aren't all the same.

FreeFocus

29th July 2009, 00:09

Haha, white culture. Glenn Beck is such a nob. I hope he drowns in human fæces.

When I first read that I thought you wrote "faces." :lol: That would work too though, seeing how anti-human he and his positions are.

h9socialist

29th July 2009, 00:09

Glenn Beck is a five-alarm bourgeois idiot. Enough said. Let's move on to more important considerations.

el_chavista

29th July 2009, 01:34

I think he is being paid for saying that.

progressive_lefty

29th July 2009, 02:01

found here (http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/entertainment/0/APNews/General-Entertainment/20090728/U_US-TV-Beck-Obama?pageid=1), and probably everywhere else too
Fox's Glenn Beck: President Obama is a racist

Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck says he believes President Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

Brainstrust! Maybe this further legitimises Fox News and it won't become more material for comedy shows?

Kwisatz Haderach

29th July 2009, 02:05

Interesting. The most reactionary wing of the American ruling class is trying to play the race card, and adopting the kind of discourse found in the likes of the BNP and other fascist organizations.

Comrade Kaile

29th July 2009, 12:42

hahaha i love glenn beck
i remember watching one show, you guys may of seen it, with some idiot from the ayn rand institute who stated nazism was elftist due to it being "national socialism"

ironic that obama is half white half black, and im sure one can not be racist to their own race/heritage
"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."
there is unfortunately something about this sentence that im just not sure works...

its a pity he's still working on tv, spreading his delicious misinformation

ZeroNowhere

29th July 2009, 13:07

Your white culture has nothing on my brown culture!

Communist

29th July 2009, 15:10

some idiot from the ayn rand institute who stated nazism was lelftist due to it being "national socialism"

Beck said basically the same thing to Sam Webb of the CPUSA, who as I recall didn't have any actual response.

rednordman

29th July 2009, 16:05

I think he is being paid for saying that.Too Right, I wouldnt say that on live TV, even if someone offered me £1million pounds. What a Goofball.

VILemon

29th July 2009, 16:57

Beck said basically the same thing to Sam Webb of the CPUSA, who as I recall didn't have any actual response.

Sam Webb was Beck's show? Where can I find this? I'm no fan of CPUSA but I would have thought that he'd have some answer to the charge that the NSDAP was leftist (I cannot even imagine this claim getting past a right-wing historian or political theorist.)

Stand Your Ground

29th July 2009, 17:01

I think everyone at Fox news is just mad our president is black.

scarletghoul

29th July 2009, 17:13

Sam Webb was Beck's show? Where can I find this? I'm no fan of CPUSA but I would have thought that he'd have some answer to the charge that the NSDAP was leftist (I cannot even imagine this claim getting past a right-wing historian or political theorist.)
It's a pretty lame interview, and painful to watch, but here you go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxG98hNSDQI

edit: and I love when Glenn says, rhetorically, "China doesn't drown their people in rice bags?!?"

Sarah Palin

29th July 2009, 17:33

Glenn Beck calling Obama a racist is similar to me calling Obama a communist.

VILemon

29th July 2009, 17:35

It's a pretty lame interview, and painful to watch, but here you go

edit: and I love when Glenn says, rhetorically, "China doesn't drown their people in rice bags?!?"

Well, while he wasn't really allowed to get a word in before Glenn Beck started screaming and talking about how great a person he is, the whole time I couldn't help thinking:

"This is the most eloquent advocate for socialism the CPUSA can find?" I know he's the chairman, but they have to have someone more capable of argument than this.

edit: p.s. ugh...

Communist

29th July 2009, 17:56

"This is the most eloquent advocate for socialism the CPUSA can find?" I know he's the chairman, but they have to have someone more capable of argument than this.

Not in the leadership.
It's very sad, but the CPUSA barely even qualifies as socialist anymore, much less communist. Their revisionism started in the late '50's and early '60's, and now they're little more than the (somewhat) far left wing of the Democratic party. There are still some genuine revolutionaries in the membership, but not many are left and they don't want to accept new ones in.
If it keeps going at the rate it has within the CPUSA, in 25 years they'll be sounding much like Glenn Beck himself.
That is, if they haven't dissolved into the Democrats completely by then.

JimmyJazz

25th August 2009, 21:51

I think he is being paid for saying that.

not anymore XD

NEW YORK (AP) - Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel after a vacation on Monday with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.

A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago.

http://www.komonews.com/news/entertainment/54322402.html

http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/

:redstar2000:

Dr Mindbender

25th August 2009, 22:03

Get off my phone!!:D

Dimentio

25th August 2009, 22:15

NecroCommie

25th August 2009, 23:21

Some of my daydreams/fantasies involve Glenn Beck and a blunt axe during a communist revolution.

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I would put him to work in a forest with a blunt axe! :D

Axle

26th August 2009, 03:17

Some of my daydreams/fantasies involve Glenn Beck and a blunt axe during a communist revolution.

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I would put him to work in a forest with a blunt axe! :D

I'd give him a blunt axe and abandon him deep in Michigan's Upper Penninsula.

Uncle Hank

27th August 2009, 03:19

I once saw a Facebook group that thought Obama had a policy to abort every white fetus and he wanted it enacted. Maybe Glenn Beck created this Facebook group.

*Viva La Revolucion*

27th August 2009, 03:43

His mind has gone so far to the right he's lost the left side of his brain; I fear he may have this:

''The left side of the brain is concerned with the expression of language and its comprehension. Those who have lesions in the area called Broca's Area - which is responsible for the expression of language - will have some difficulty in the expression of language. Even though they may know what to say, they cannot put it into a recognisable sentence. Those who have lesions in the Wernicke's Area - which is responsible for the comprehension of language - can speak with great fluency, and indeed, in grammatically correct sentences. The content of the sentences on the other hand is pure gibberish. In both cases, the difficulties resulting from these lesions leads to Aphasia - a difficulty in the expression and/or the comprehension of language.

And The Right:

It also seems to be the location for the area which deals with 'emotionally potent language' - or in other words, swearing. This is evident in those who have lesions in both the comprehension and expression of language areas on the left side, and thus be unable to speak.

Communist

27th August 2009, 04:49

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Is Glenn Beck Finished?

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. Posted August 24, 2009.

http://www.alternet.org/story/142163/is_glenn_beck_finished/?page=entire

In his eight months at Fox, Glenn Beck has repeatedly
prophesied the advent of both Socialism and Fascism.
He's wished for Osama bin Laden to attack America. He's
hosted 911 truther Alex Jones on his show, and helped
fan the bizarre conspiracy theory that FEMA plans to
imprison dissidents in internment camps. He paces,
rants and cries on the air like a crazy person. Once,
he pretended to set someone on fire.

Beck's weird theatrics and paranoid right-wing rants
have earned him the 3rd highest ratings on Fox (Bill
O'Reilly still regularly beats Beck, Sean Hannity beats
him sometimes), even as liberals, many corporate media
pundits and most non-crazy people shrink away with
equal parts bewilderment, horror and disdain. The week
before last Beck averaged 2.4 million viewers a day,
edging out Hannity for the number 2 spot.

But a Color of Change campaign urging advertisers to
drop Beck has already been so successful that Fox may
have to reconsider whether Beck is worth it, despite
his popularity with the right-wing fringe. At last
count, 36 advertisers have pulled their advertising
from Beck's show. These include: GEICO, Radio Shack, SC
Johnson, Progressive Insurance and Sprint. Last Monday
Wal Mart - hardly a poster-child for progressive
politics - also dropped Beck's program.

Color of Change, an African-American grassroots
organization devoted to ensuring that the interests
Black Americans are represented in political life,
launched their petition against Beck in response to the
talk show host's predictably over-the-top, bizarre
contribution to the debate surrounding the arrest of
Professor Henry Louis Gates. On a July 28th guest
appearance on Fox and Friends, Beck pulled a popular
right-wing trick - whining about reverse racism when
confronted with real racism - and absurdly claimed,
"The President has exposed himself as a guy . over and
over and over again . who has a deep-seated hatred for
white people . or the white culture.. I don't know what
it is".

Even Brian "we've diluted our gene pool" Kilmeade gaped
in shock, and asked Beck how the President could hate
white people when almost his entire cabinet was made up
of them. Beck clarified his point: "I'm not saying he
doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem.
This guy is, I believe, a racist."

Beck's comments set off a firestorm of controversy.
"Has he gone too far?" headlines abounded. Talking
heads slammed Beck for absurdly arguing that a man
raised by a white mother and grandparents hated white
people. Even fellow conservatives like Joe Scarborough
expressed outrage. Like the standard fare peddled by
many luminaries of right-wing hate talk, Beck's
accusation insinuated the President's "otherness",
hinting at some nefarious plot to bring about general
doom by way of Islam/socialism/fascism/racism/ACORN.

For Color of Change, Beck had crossed a line into
flagrant race-bating.

"What Beck has done is use his platform to stoke fear
and incite a certain kind of paranoia that can actually
lead to violence and really negative consequences in
terms of public discourse. That's essentially his
schtick" says James Rucker, co-founder and Executive
Director of Color of Change.

In fact, Beck's comments are reminiscent of the
shocking hate speech that popped up at McCain/Palin
rallies during the election. As Rucker points out, "All
[Sarah Palin] had to say was, "Who is this guy really?
And you had this idea emerge that he was a Muslim, and
so on. That resulted in people shouting "Kill him!
Traitor!" That's essentially in so many ways is what
Beck is doing."

One difference between then and now, of course, is that
these days, riled up right-wingers with ties to militia
groups are bringing weaponry to Presidential events.

Rucker says that the looming threat of right-wing
violence -- stoked by conservative media stars like
Beck -- inspired Color of Change members and many
others to take part in the boycott.

So far, the campaign has amassed more than 160,000
signatures. Color of Change members also took to the
phones, making up to 2,800 calls urging advertisers to
sever their relationship with Beck. "I think people
sensed there's something dangerous here, beyond it
being offensive. So our members were like "Yeah. This
is a problem."

Advertisers, however, were not as eager to dive in. At
the start of the boycott Color of Change got the brush-
off from many of the companies that sponsored Beck. "We
had folks give us the following lines", says Rucker,
"That 'We don't control the content of the program; we
don't take political sides; we'll take what you're
saying under advisement, thanks, Goodbye."'

"We'd simply say, that's obviously not satisfying.
You're not addressing the fact that your dollars are
enabling this" continues Rucker.

GEICO, for example, initially replied they were
confident Fox would take care of the problem. Their
confidence was misplaced. The bellicose network is not
known for admitting fault and saying sorry, and their
only official response to Beck's comments was to say
that Beck's views do not reflect those of the network.

Rucker says Color of Change alerted GEICO to Fox's
statement. An email exchange and several phone calls
followed. Then, GEICO stopped answering the phone. In
response, Color of Change posted a webpage asking "Why
does GEICO support hate?" with a montage of Beck's
worst comments, assembled by Media Matters. The site
juxtaposed GEICO's statement that Fox would do the
right thing, with the Fox statement making it quite
clear that this was the last thing they planned to do.
After telling GEICO they would continue to push with
more letter-writing and calls, the company decided to
deal with the problem and remove their ads from Beck's
program.

"When we made it clear what is at stake in terms of
there being a public conversation about their brand and
Glenn Beck, they tended to decide they should address
the issue", says Rucker.

Once advertisers started to pull out, their company
spokespeople did not mince words. "Our position is
simple," said Carolyn Castel, Vice President of
Corporate Communications for CVS Caremark, in email to
Color of Change. "We support vigorous debate,
especially around policy issues that affect millions of
Americans, but we expect it to be informed, inclusive
and respectful, in keeping with our company's core
values and commitment to diversity."

Some advertisers even said their ads should not have
run on Beck's show at all. "No P&G ads should have
appeared on this program in the first place," said
Martha Depenbrock, Brand Building Stakeholder Relations
for Procter & Gamble in an email. "To be clear, if any
of our advertising appeared on the Glenn Beck show, it
was in error and we appreciate you bringing this matter
to our attention. We will do what we can to see that it
doesn't happen again."

As more and more advertisers drop Beck, others will be
encouraged to stay away. "Once you've gotten a handful
of large companies to distance themselves from the
show," says Rucker, "Others are going to look at that
and say 'They decided to steer clear, maybe we should
too."

So is Beck screwed?

So far Fox has tried to play it cool, claiming the
campaign has not led to a loss in earnings. A Fox
spokesperson told Mediaite last week "The advertisers
referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to
other programs on the network so there has been no
revenue lost."

But whether or not that's true, the boycott puts Fox in
an untenable position as it continues to gain momentum.
Cable news ad buys are based on ratings. Since only
O'Reilly and Hannity regularly beat out Beck in
viewership, it doesn't make sense that a redistribution
of advertising dollars to other parts of the network
would keep everyone happy indefinitely (especially once
current contracts expire).

Plus, at least one company - UPS Stores - has announced
they will pull all of their advertising from Fox for
the time being.

Jonathan Morris, a media analyst focusing on cable news
says, "It's OK to lose a few [advertisers], and may
actually be a good thing from a ratings perspective.
But when it goes too far it's bad - and he's lost a lot
of advertisers."

Kevin Sandler, a professor of media industries, agrees.
"Advertising dollars always move around. And there's
plenty of other people they can go to. But Fox has a
lot to lose."

One thing Fox might lose is advertisers who actually
pay them. As Jim Edwards on BNET notes, "Fox has been
reduced to running "house" ads, spots for its partner
properties for which it may or may not receive
revenue." Advertisers that have stepped in include
DirecTV, Honda, and the Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen channel.
The Wall Street Journal, which of course, is, of
course, a News Corps property, is also running ads on
Beck's show.

And as the drain of sponsors results in less and less
demand and competition for Beck's time slot, his fees
will go down regardless of the ratings he pulls.

But there is much more at stake for Fox. In the past
decade the conservative network has carved a profitable
niche for itself by appealing to disgruntled right-
wingers - an especially successful strategy with a
popular Democrat in office. "In today's media
environment," says Morris, "catering to extreme
audiences is economically beneficial. Fox found that in
this day and age, that's a profitable way to market
yourself."

But Fox can't risk becoming too extreme. Despite the
deep reservoirs of racism that remain in the U.S.,
flagrant, open racism is not too popular with the
mainstream. As Rucker points out, "I don't think [Fox]
is comfortable with or ready to deal with being
considered the network that race-baits. There are
consequences to that. There are a lot of folks that
would be very deeply concerned and would really turn
off Fox if that's what Fox becomes about."

What can Fox do? Tell Beck to shut up? Encourage him to
keep spouting the crazy right-wing fodder that boosts
ratings, but just abstain from stirring up racial
hatred? Fire him?

Dropping Beck or having him significantly alter his
M.O. are both pretty unsavory options for the network.
Beck is very, very good at pandering to the right-wing
fringe. "Among a lot of right-wing viewers, what Glenn
Beck said [about Obama], they believe. He's targeting
those people. He knows they're out there. And it's in
Fox's interest to stay profitable" says Morris.

And Beck's devoted fans have not stayed quiet. From the
start of the Color of Change campaign, there was a
concerted effort in right-wing blogs to counter the
boycott. On Tuesday, Beck's 912 Project - a weird
assembly of right-wingers ostensibly devoted to
"American unity" and the Constitution, but most
recently linked to town hall violence - asked followers
to sign a letter telling Fox to support Beck, and
threatening companies that have dropped his program
with a counter boycott.

On the 912 counter-petition site, where Beck's
supporters (disturbingly) state their case, it's easy
to see why Fox has thus far kept quiet. It's also clear
that Beck's statements, which he often defends as "mere
entertainment", are not taken lightly by his followers.

Scott W. from Odenville, AL, sees Beck as leader of a
revolution, a somewhat unsettling take given the
prevalence of right-violence in recent months:

Today we are facing some of the most troubling
times ever in the history of The United States. A
revolution has started, a revolution brought on by
Mr. Beck himself as well as others. I believe Mr.
Beck has played an undeniable part in "Awakening
The Sleeping Giant" and because of him, we will
turn this country back into the great nation it
used to be!

Janet and John A., from O Fallon, MO see Beck as the
last bulwark against the hordes of Socialists bent, of
course, on destroying the country:

Before our very eyes, we are watching the
systematic dismantling of America by
socialists/marxists who have taken over our
government. Nowhere on television but on FOX is the
truth being told. FOX, thank you for the great
service you do for our nation. Please stand firm
against those who hate and want to destroy America.
We must take this country back for our children and
grandchildren. Americans, get off the couch and
join our fight or you will have no one to thank but
yourself when your freedoms have disappeared
forever.

"Name not displayed", from Washington, PA, takes the
outright racist route, implying that Obama is an
undeserving beneficiary of affirmative action:

For a Columbia undergrad and a Harvard Law grad who
worked the race card and all other USG giveaways to
have his way paid through these almost financially
impossible institutions, obama's brain seems to be
stuck in High School OR he is deliberately trying
to wreck 233 years of the best Economic Model in
history: CAPITALISM. May he and his policies,all of
them,fail. He's my President in name only. His
policies are my greatest nightmare in real time.

Sandy O. of North East, PA beseeches Fox to stand
behind Beck because "He is one of the very few whom is
keeping us up to date on all the corruption in
Washington. If Glenn is silenced we will never know
what is going on behind the scenes."

Clearly, the effort seems designed to warn Fox that
"silencing" Beck or dropping his program will not be
taken lying down by the network's fervent followers.

Far more disturbing is the backlash against Color of
Change, and the initial reaction to advertisers who
dropped the program. Rucker says that at the beginning
of the boycott, the spokespeople of some of the
companies that pulled their advertising asked to be
removed from press releases due to threatening emails
and phone calls they received.

Color of Change members also got some horrifying
responses. "I got the "Go back to Africa, monkey," says
Rucker, "And variations of that, some of them somewhat
threatening."

According to Rucker, many of the people protesting the
campaign threatened to boycott the companies that
dropped Beck, saying essentially "I'm done with GEICO,
done with progressive. They're trying to threaten the
pushback and people and organizations".

Meanwhile, Beck has yet to directly address the
campaign. But he certainly hasn't given any indication
that he's sorry. After spending last week on vacation,
Beck spent a good chunk of his first show back on
Monday smearing Van Jones, White House environmental
advisor and co-founder or Color of Change. This doesn't
appear to be a coincidence, and may in fact be Beck's
way of pushing the entirely non-existent connection
between Jones -- and therefor Obama -- and the Color of
Change campaign. (In fact, Rucker says Jones had
absolutely nothing to do with the petition.) Beck also
used his radio show Monday to vaguely speak about
"evil at play" in the Obama administration and hint
they are trying to destroy him.

Given that no one really knows what Beck, or his far-
right supporters will do next, it's probably in Fox's
best interest to wait things out and hope the whole
thing goes away. But Color of Change will continue to
keep hammering at Beck's remaining sponsors, and others
who fill the empty spots.

As long as Beck retains his plum prime-time slot, in
his current form, Color of Change will not let up,
Rucker says.

"There are a few outcomes I would desire," says Rucker.
" I'd love to see him vanish from Fox. Or, maybe I
think he could have a 'Come to Jesus' moment. He's a
very Christian guy, he can realize what he's done (I
wouldn't hold my breath for that) and actually change
what he's doing. I think if he were moved from Fox to
simply radio and had less reach, that would be a
positive. If he stays on and all the advertisers are
direct response advertisers it's clearly a marginal
place. He's clearly outside the mainstream."

Rucker continues, "I'd protect his right to stand on
the corner and say whatever he wants to say, but no one
has a right to have a platform on television. That's
not something he's entitled to."

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