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Why Obama doesn't get Glenn Beck
The Washington Post's Post Partisan ^ | August 31, 2010 | Charles M. Lane

Posted on 08/31/2010 12:04:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Not every American who marches behind a hateful crackpot is a hateful crackpot. The peaceful, thoughtful throng that assembled for Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March in 1995 -- including a young Barack Obama -- proved that point. Notwithstanding some commentary, I tend to feel the same way about the much different (and rather smaller) assemblage that gathered at the behest of Glenn Beck in Washington last Saturday.

Certainly, if you’re president of the United States, the most prudent course is to draw a distinction between the leader and the anonymous masses and treat the latter with at least feigned respect -- even if, as in the case of Beck’s rally, most of them despise you, none of them voted for you and none of them ever would vote for you. Whatever you do, show that they, and their loathsome leader, can’t get your goat.

In that sense, I thought President Obama struck the wrong note in answer to a question about the rally from Brian Williams of NBC News.

The president started off okay, acknowledging that “Mr. Beck and the rest of those folks were exercising their rights under our Constitution exactly as they should.”

But then he fell back on an abstract analysis eerily reminiscent of his notorious “cling to guns or religion” riff from campaign 2008:

I -- I do think that it's important for us to recognize that right now, the country's going through a very difficult time, as a consequence of years of neglect in a whole range of areas. Our schools not working the way they need to, so we've slipped in terms of the number of college graduates, you know?

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
GODLY HERO!


EVIL ZERO!

21 posted on 08/31/2010 12:19:06 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (The "Summer of Recovery" is soon to be followed by the "Fall of America")
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To: albie

He takes “million man” at face value. Probably knows better, but it fits his plan.


22 posted on 08/31/2010 12:20:01 PM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Chuck starts out with a hateful slur and then sashays into a bald faced lie.

You just have to know the quality of his asinine ramble is going to get better with each syllable.

23 posted on 08/31/2010 12:22:22 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares if the kenyan gets Beck or not? He’s a Marxist, so who gives a sh&# WHAT he thinks? Maybe on November 3rd he’ll understand the screen door that’s rapidly coming at his little, skinny, worthless ass!


24 posted on 08/31/2010 12:22:31 PM PDT by albie
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To: circlecity

“Smaller!!!! Look at the photos. Beck drew over three times as many as the 100K Man March.”

I lived on Capitol Hill during the Farrakhan march. The difference between the two was the shop owners didn’t close during the Restore Honor gathering. They did so early and with extra protection during the 100k Man March. BTW, remember Farrakhan jumped the idea from the Promise Keepers. But instead of focusing on individual responsibility he turned it in to race. Its what they do.


25 posted on 08/31/2010 12:23:36 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I-heard-Glenn-Beck-eats-live-kittens ping.

You know, really, these stupid MSM articles get more viewers from being referenced on FR than they do via native circulation.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

26 posted on 08/31/2010 12:23:41 PM PDT by The Comedian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Not every American who marches behind a hateful crackpot is a hateful crackpot. The peaceful, thoughtful throng that assembled for Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March in 1995 -- including a young Barack Obama -- proved that point."

Shows lack of logic from the get-go.

Uses a "hateful crackpot" as an example that not everyone who marched at the behest of his fellow traveler Farrakhan was a hateful crackpot.

Liberalism is nothing if not a maze of contradictions and lack of logic.

27 posted on 08/31/2010 12:23:49 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So this is the kind of dribble that accounts for journalism these days?


28 posted on 08/31/2010 12:24:57 PM PDT by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
hateful crackpot No bias there, no siree, non, zero, zip, nada...................
29 posted on 08/31/2010 12:25:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: Lucky9teen
Evil? The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF? So I ask again,
30 posted on 08/31/2010 12:26:16 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: The Comedian

Not from me they don’t.................


31 posted on 08/31/2010 12:27:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Charles Lane is just another dopey leftist trying to spin the ‘Restoring Honor’ rally into something he can mock in an oblique manner by mildly disapproving of Obama’s comments on it - which were inane, as usual. The left doesn’t ‘get it’ and doesn’t want to - so they never will. So be it. Despite their megaphone (via the media) they are a minority population in America and, one hopes, will become a minority in congress very soon.


32 posted on 08/31/2010 12:29:04 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and their loathsome leader

Keep fooling yourselves, lefties. Tell yourselves it was an "assemblage" of, say... 1,000 people at the most, and all the pics were doctored. Oh, and tell yourselves all the attendees wore white sheets... it must be so, because to oppose 0bama, they MUST be racist! They MUST be!....

33 posted on 08/31/2010 12:30:01 PM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The comments sections was full of comments by sick sadistic white liberals. The morons win and they still cannot control their crazies.


34 posted on 08/31/2010 12:30:44 PM PDT by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the Washington Post.

Don’t ever expect to find a bi-partisan story there.

They have Kool-aidn in their water coolers and they drink it by the gallon.

Coes anybody actually buy this rag?


35 posted on 08/31/2010 12:31:09 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is the Washington Post.

Don't ever expect to find a bipartisan story there.

They have Kool-aid in their water coolers and they drink it by the gallon.

Does anybody actually buy this rag?

36 posted on 08/31/2010 12:31:55 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Genoa
Lame attempts at creating a false history 8/28. Smacks of journalistic malpractice, in my opinion.
37 posted on 08/31/2010 12:36:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zero doesn’t “get it,” and neither does the author of this article.


38 posted on 08/31/2010 12:39:00 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Lucky9teen
So it's NOT ok for the MSM to frame Obama in a god-like manner (with halos and outstretched arms) but it is perfectly ok for conservatives to deify other conservatives?

I get your inference with your post.....I just don't think the title for the top picture is keeping with the traditions of conservatives NOT being hypocritical.

Just my 2 cents...... Glenn Beck is neither god-like nor a hero, he wants to be framed as an every-man and in my book that is what he is. Once conservatives begin deifying other conservatives we become no better than the pravda MSM (and how they continually portray Obummer).
39 posted on 08/31/2010 12:40:40 PM PDT by brent13a (You're a Great American! NO you're a Great American! NO NO NO YOU'RE a Great American! Nooo.....WTF?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unbelievable...almost. So Beck is a hateful crackpot, but NOT Calypso Louie....he’s the salt of the Israel hating, white hating, US hating, whacko Muslim earth!!!


40 posted on 08/31/2010 12:41:13 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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