Posted on 04/02/2011 6:11:47 AM PDT by wistful
I’m really over Glenn Beck. He persistently promotes himself as someone who cares about the US Constitution, yet here he is on the O’Reilly show sneering and scoffing and trying to belittle Donald Trump (on the BC issue) with as much gusto as any leftist. How can he do this and then be sincere in his professed concerns for the application of Constitutional law?
Trump is in the right, he’s brave, and we need to support him on this issue. If Beck cannot do that simple thing then he’s off my Christmas card list. There is absolutely no reason why Obama can not be hit on his BC and policy simultaneously, and there is not one shred of proof for the claim that Karl Rove so often makes, that Obama is setting the BC issue up as a diversion.
In my judgment, the Democrats and their media collaborators betray again and again that their attempts to downplay this issue are fake and they are really, underneath their smug and arrogant veneer, as worried as hell.
As I watched the segment today, I found my respect for Beck slipping quickly away. I just do not like him anymore.
I have been a huge Glenn Beck fan since he moved to Fox ... but he is wrong on this, so much to the point that we all should send nice, polite emails to tell him how wrong he is.
Trump may be the only candidate that beat Obama. As much as I love Sarah, the media will destroy her. Bachmann is also a favorite but I am not sure she has what it takes to get over the finish line. Newt, Huck, Mitt, et al, - are you fricking kidding me?
We need to show Glenn that he is wrong about Trump. I think it would be great if Glenn would have Trump on for a whole hour and discuss the issues of the day.
Any republican who is not now suspicious of this presidents birth issue are culpable.
After this little ditty by Trump, there are so many questions that you’d have to be Deaf, Dumb and Blind if you dint see a problem.
“so much to the point that we all should send nice, polite emails to tell him how wrong he is.”
I’ve done just that on frequent occasions. Beck seems completely impervious to reason on this issue.
For you to allege I am taking money from Trump is just a cowardly and completely baseless smear unbecoming to this forum.
I agree.
Seems very alinsky like to me ... but that’s just me
As detail oriented as Beck is about Obama and his associations,...
I agree. Beck loves to connect the dots. Perhaps Glenn, it too, fits into the puzzle which is Obama? Why does he throw this dot under the bus?
Suddenly Trump, who has trashed Sarah Palin and gushes over Mayor Bloomberg and was pro-choice until about a month ago, is a conservative?
Beck is a phony. He proclaims to be all for defending the Constitution but mocks and ridicules those who seek to defend the Constitution against the biggest Constitutional crisis of our time.
“If you don't believe he has a birth certificate, you can say ‘I don't believe he has a birth certificate.’”
Beck affirms that it is perfectly OK with him for Trump to say that Obama doesn't have a birth certificate if that is what Trump believes.
Beck's objection and mockery of Trump was regarding Trump's sloppy research in suggesting that Obama’s BC might say he was born a Muslim. As all FReepers know who have been following this issue, there is no religion field on the Long Form, which even the London Daily Mail was able to point out IIRC.
Trump undermined his credibility and seriousness on the issue by failing to do his homework or alternatively, it Trump knows there is no religion field on the BC, he was just being provocative to get attention, which is what both Beck and O’Reilly were pointing out as being counterproductive and undermining of the GOP. Do your homework, Trump!
What is most significant to me is that neither Beck nor O’Reilly slammed Trump for stating a belief that Obama did not have a BC, and neither one said “Obama already released it” or “The newspaper announcement prove he was born in HI”.
Again, Beck said “If you don't believe he has a birth certificate, you can say ‘I don't believe he has a birth certificate.’” O’Reilly said it was would be good for Trump to get in the race to shake things up.
Since O’Reilly wasn't referring to the “Muslim” suggestion by Trump, O’Reilly can only be expressing his actual approval of Trump raising questions about Obama’s failure to produce a 1961 BC, IMO.
Same here, Beck has lost me, for this and other reasons.
My God, is there no one....I mean is there no one, out there who can bypass this BS on the birth certificate and raise the issue of Natural Born Citizenship?
Trumps kids were born to Ivana and Donald Trump. Ivana was at the time NOT a US citizen, thusly their children would not be eligible to run for the presidency.
I doubt that there is a Hawaii birth certificate. There can’t be, because he wasn’t born in Hawaii. His grandma simply announced the birth that took place in Kenya, CAnada or who knows where.
Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Hannity, BOR, Beck... not one single person brings up the question mark about the guy’s school records...his writings his college...his social security questions etc....
One thing for sure, the BC issue will now NOT go away. It will be like the Swift Boat issue. Obama will not be able to ultimately sweep this away....
I don’t see Trump dropping it either, in fact, I see him becoming a student of all this....
I tire of Beck. I can’t listen to his radio show as I can’t listen to Hannity’s either. They bore me....
On the other hand, I am still riveted listening to Rush.
We are living in an upside down world when Mr King Conspiracy Theory (he who can only get advertisers hawking gold, food insurance, bomb shelters) finds the BC issue to be a non issue.
“How much has Trump paid you to be his shill”?
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What an offensive comment, but pretty darn understandable coming from another coward like Beck, O’Reilley, most of the GOP and the Rats who want to deep six this issue. Sorry pal, it ain’t going away much as you and your ilk would like it to.
Go Trump! Hehe.
it was ok, but just that, a bit condescending perhaps. But I have noticed a trend with Beck and it is a blind side and almost rude. He seems to have a disdain for all of those in popular culture, when Liz Taylor died him and his crew on the radio were almost as bad as the Sternzee FM shock jocks, not a good word to say, that I find odd, given we find out she was a staunch supporter of Israel after her death.
Nasty, snarky, classless, tasteless comment unbefitting a Freeper.
Leni
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Suppose we flood the Beck show out with emails?
Proof positive that Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud and Obama is NOT a natural born citizen:
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This has nothing to do with being a shill. It has to do with ANY American’s right to free speech, to speak his or her mind, and most especially to the rule of law. Obviously, Beck has been sneering at this issue the past 2 years. Fine, he can sneer all he wants to, but he’d better never lecture me on the Constitution and the rule of law. The law is the law. Follow it,...or sneer at it. I am a patriot, a Conservative, and I follow the law. Had Congress and the states done so more than two years ago we might not be in the mess now. You want to be a shill for Beck and BOR, be my guest. I’ll follow the Constitution!
The truth is that we have no proof that Obama is even an American citizen!
The truth is that we no proof that Obama is a natural born citizen!
The **only** evidence available are Internet images of dubious origin, legally masturbated statements by Hawaiian officials that confirm NOTHING, and hearsay from Lingle!
“Believe”, “Believe”, “Believe”....When will we KNOW!
Everyone who wants to run for President should prove they are a natural born citizen.
I think Beck came so close to destroying his career on the “FEMA trains” that he is terrified of being on the wrong side of the birther issue. He has decided that 911 Truthers, FEMA trainers, and Birthers are all the same, move along. He can be pig headed or bull headed (choose your favorite farm animal) and is being so to the extreme on the Birther issue. I don't excuse it, but we can all be wrong sometimes. He is making a HUGE mistake here and it is hurting his ratings. He should just STFU when it comes to birthers until he wakes up.
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