Posted on 07/30/2009 11:46:27 AM PDT by FlorianG
Right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck took 24 hours to consider the storm he sparked by branding President Obama a racist - then said it again. Beck took time out on his nationally syndicated radio show to defend his comments, made in connection with the arrest of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a white police officer. The Fox Network star told his listeners: 'I said yesterday on Fox News & Friends that the president is a racist; I think he has race issues. 'Don't know if he hates whites but there is something going on with the president'Well, I stand by that - I deem him a racist, really, by his own standard of racism - the standard of the left.'
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Not long ago on FOX, someone (might have been Beck, I’m not sure) played clips of Obama saying that black Americans will “disproportionately” benefit if “we fix health care” and make college more accessible (because blacks disproportionately lack the funds to access these amenities).
It is fair to ask why a president thinks in terms of disproportionately benefitting one group of Americans over another.
I guess all those sermons from Reverend Wright just kind of ‘kicked in’ and he blurted out what he really thinks about white people and the authorities.
After all, Wright did preach hatred to the man and his family for 20 years… So his response was no surprise at all. In fact, every question he’s asked has a pre-written answer, so his response was actually thought out. That’s the scary part.
Actually — two things here (in regards to this and what you were saying, too)...
One — is that I do think some who put up websites are expecting money, even when they say they aren’t. And then, when it doesn’t work out, they will shut down...
Two — I also think that there are a lot of “cheap bastards” out there (using his words... LOL...) and even if they think someone is a “patriot” and “don’t take it down” and “we should get the birth certificate” — most people *stop* at the checkbook... LOL...
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What can I say... just normal human nature...
I am always up in the early AM to watch his show on FOX.
“Personally,I think the Native Americans should get their due.”
You make a valid point. Unfortunately the ‘tribes’ have fallen for the welfare, ‘victim’ mentality. I would like to remind the race baiters like Obama, Wright, Gates, Jackson, etc. that blacks got the right to vote in 1870. Native Americans got it years later, after women, in 1925.
My grgrgrandfather, a Cherokee, was a lawyer,a constitutionalist, an educated man named after James Madison, who wanted nothing more than to be an “American” with ‘equal rights’. He was born in 1826, died in 1915...88 years in this country and never got to vote.
http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/
Yesterday there was an article about the first Native American US attorney, who has just been replaced. With all this clamoring about the ‘wise Latina’ being the first Supreme Court Justice, it does become annoying. I guess the Injuns just haven’t learned to whine and demand and intimidate like the blacks and hispanics have...yet.
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/302783
[snip]Humetewa, the first American Indian woman to serve as U.S. attorney, will step down Sunday, according to a news release issued by her office in Phoenix. She had been in her post since December 2007.
Her resignation comes as Dennis Burke, President Obama’s nominee to take over the Arizona office, is set to go through the confirmation process.
Perhaps I should add that the Medicare cuts that are the rage with Obama and friends are disproportionately borne by white people, since the percentage of the black population 65 and over is about half the percentage of the white population 65 and over.
No, we can never doubt liberal elites. They are our betters and to doubt them means you're not only a lesser being but that you're also a racist... /s
That book is not a “watered down” version of history.
It is a front to back anti-American screed that is being taught to university students.
“Personally,I think the Native Americans should get their due.”
We’ve already gotten our “due”, don’t drag us further into this mess.
I lived on a reservation once in New Mexico.
It was good intentioned BIA people trying to help people
who had forgotten how to help themselves.
It was adult males taking their government
check and spending it on alcohol and prostitutes.
It was young school age children wearing only a sweater
when the weather was under 30 degrees.
It was a lot like the people in New Orleans expecting
the government to rescue them. Yet all they had
to do was get in their car (paid for by welfare
entitlements) and drive out of town to higher ground.
Hi Jo... of course if we “all got our due”... according to the Bible, we would all be dead right now, from God’s righteous judgment...
Of course, God could have been giving those Indians their righteous judgment, too, as a people, in regards to their ways... (can’t say for sure, but I do suspect it)...
But, it is clear that God did bless the beginnings of this nation and set it up for his purpose.
However, things may now be turning around in that this nation, itself is receiving judgment from God, just like the Indians did, so maybe it will come around to us, too — until we have national repentance...
BUT, this idea of “getting their due” — is crazy, because there is no such thing, in terms of making up for something in the past. If one considers it being the judgment of God, there is nothing to make up for...
That’s why people put advertising on the blogs, no?
I think so... although I’ve always suspected that it was just so they could irritate me... :-)
Thank you for your observation and experience. It is a powerful testimony when it comes from someone who has lived that life.
May God continue to bless you, and help those who are still stuck in the reservation lifestyle move out of bondage.
[... in terms of making up for something in the past. If
one considers it being the judgment of God, there is
nothing to make up for...]
A M E N !
Perhaps as Samson was used by God to pass judgement
on Israel, so Obama is being used by God to meet out
a judgment for our National sins.
“That book is not a “watered down” version of history.
It is a front to back anti-American screed that is being taught to university students.”
Please explain. It’s either historical BS or not. If it’s anti-American I can only surmise that it’s PC no?
Perhaps a lot of it is in trying to maintain a culture that is dead and rotting and there is no bringing it back, and there are no jobs and there is no economy and there is no vitality and there is nothing to look forward to... ummm..., come to think of it, that might drive me to drinking too...
It’s time to shift gears and stop being Indians in the past and be Americans in the present...
Congratulations on your newborn and upon
being born again! Hallelujah! Praise God!
But it's something you really can't change, and is the most obvious of group identity features, before everything else.
So you're right, on an intellectual basis, his attitudes make no sense. But on an emotional basis, it's all that he really has. If he were visibly White, where would he be? Would he have gone to Harvard?
We all know the answers. He would have maybe ended up as a decent attorney in Honolulu or worse, Wichita. His elocution is matched by hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions (I mean, hit a car lot or two and have the salesguys chat you up...).
So he really is pathological: psychopathy in it's attenuated version is described as malignant narcissism.
And that's who he is. Have him take a PCL-R test...the results would be terrifying. Note the traits in Factor 1a...
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