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Fox News commentator calls Barack Obama racist
Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | July 29, 2009

Posted on 07/29/2009 6:21:43 AM PDT by Schnucki

A Fox News Channel commentator, Glenn Beck, said he believed President Barack Obama was a racist.

Beck made the statement during a guest appearance on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Mr Obama had exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture".

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

Mr Gates is black and was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white policeman over a misunderstanding about a break-in at his home.

A spokesman for Mr Obama said the White House had no comment.

Beck's statement was challenged on the air by Fox's host, Brian Kilmeade, who noted that most of the people who work for the nation's first black president are white.

"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."

Beck wondered, during the discussion, what other president would immediately jump on the police for their actions in the case.

Mr Obama said in a news conference that he believed the police acted stupidly in the case, but later backtracked from the statement and invited Mr Gates and the police officer, Sgt James Crowley, to the White House for a conciliatory meeting later this week.

Bill Shine, Fox News senior vice president of programming, told the TVNewser web site that Beck had "expressed an opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beck; blackkk; blaze; captainobvious; duh; foxnews; glennbeck; henrygates; henrylouisgatesjr; mrskippy; nobrainer; obama; racism; skipgates; theblaze
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To: Schnucki

He certainly is a racist. It’s pretty obvious to anyone who has paid attention. He’s also anti Jew. People may refuse to see what’s staring them in the face, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.


81 posted on 07/29/2009 7:55:49 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: raybbr

My point is, many non-whites embrace American culture and many whites (Liberals) reject as much as Obama does.

You are correct that America has been a predomidantly white society, but that cuts both ways. While, patriotic conservatives have been predominantly white, so have Statist Socialists. So, you could just as easily label, collectivism, licentiousness, and dozens of other negative things as part of “white culture”.

Calling traditional, American culture and values, “white”, is making the same error that too many black Americans, and especially the race hustlers make. It sickens me when some blacks consider working hard, becoming well educated, and being a productive, law-abiding member of a civil society to be “acting white”? We don’t need white commentators adding to this problem. I give Beck the benefit of the doubt, in terms what he meant, but I believe he misspoke.


82 posted on 07/29/2009 7:59:28 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: penelopesire

bttt


83 posted on 07/29/2009 8:03:58 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: autumnraine
"That is political. He hired a lot of white people to look good politically. It has nothing to do with his internal feelings for white people."

Well...he does have to have some competent people running things.

84 posted on 07/29/2009 8:23:34 AM PDT by blam
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To: Zeddicus
Hey, O'Reilly, you cowardly scarecrow !

Everyone with half a brain and even a modicum of history retention knows that Glenn Beck's lederhosen skit was a direct parody on the Hitler Youth movement in pre-war Germany.

He was using black humor to warn the country of the big plans Obama has for Americorps (Obama Youth) in the years ahead.

You pretended ignorance of this in your interview with Glenn......hoping to get Beck to utter the words (shhh, "Hitler Youth") so they wouldn't (perish forbid) fall from your own wet, quivery lips and you might be subject to criticism.

Glenn wouldn't play your juvenile game and you were forced to say the verboten words yourself at the end of the interview.

I'll bet you went home and washed your mouth out with cheap Rhine wine. Glenn has courage you can only dream about, you fence-sitting, Obama-excusing, strutting castrated peacock.

GLENN BECK FOR O'REILLYS PRIME-TIME SPOT ON EVENING FOX!

Leni

85 posted on 07/29/2009 8:50:56 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Mean Maryjean

“my much younger years, I was pulled over on 8 separate occasions....for speeding!”

Cops usually let females off the hook. SEXISM! =)


86 posted on 07/29/2009 8:57:55 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: y6162

Well, in my case, that only happened once! In Maryland of all places...I just KNEW I was going to get a whopping ticket, but much to my surprise, the officer let me go with a warning...


87 posted on 07/29/2009 9:44:07 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: Schnucki

Obama’s knee-jerk reaction to the Gates affair gave the game away. All the more funny considering Obama’s AND Gates’s large European heritage. Race is a myth, but that doesn’t mean some people can’t be racists. Racist is probably a handier epithet to use than ethnophobe.


88 posted on 07/29/2009 10:55:24 AM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: driftless2

I think the fact of 0bama’s and Gates’ “European heritage” is what makes them all the more bitter and racist.

For some reason, they feel like they have to hate whitey more than the next guy or they’ll be ostracized for being half white.


89 posted on 07/29/2009 10:57:36 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Travis McGee

Amen! Beck is not afraid of the left or the bias media. He tells it like it is.


90 posted on 07/29/2009 11:56:58 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Schnucki
Did someone say racist?


91 posted on 07/29/2009 5:05:58 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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