I think Beck did a pretty good job on himself, he didn’t really need help going over the top. I liked him when he was exposing Obama cronies and doing history, the deeper stuff was just too deep. I had a subscription to his GBTV but canceled it after he smeared Gingrich by twisting his words around, then invited Bachmann on to smear him again. Both of them deserve each other, after she lied about Perry’s vaccination debacle, and he lied about Gingrich - two peas in a pod.
Beck just lost all credibility with conservatives, in my opinion.
Beck tried using the race card for politicial or financial gain against Gingrich, when Beck had Newt on his radio show.
From Legal Insurrection:
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:
Glenn Beck doesn’t like Newt. That didn’t keep Newt from appearing on Beck’s radio show and taking the hard questions.
Beck tried to force Newt into a “Teddy Roosevelt / progressive” box, but Newt was having none of it, schooling Beck on history and Newt’s own views.
I noted at the time that Newt got the best of Beck, and now Beck is lashing out by again trying to pigeonhole Newt as a “progressive.” If that were all there were to it, I wouldn’t be doing this post.
Regrettably,Beck went a step further and said that anyone who votes for Newt over Obama is doing so on the basis of race:
“If you have a big government progressive, or a big government progressive in Obama… ask yourself this, Tea Party: is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears to be to me. If you’re against him but you’re for this guy, it must be about race. I mean, what else is it? It’s the policies that matter.”
I originally titled this post “Glenn Beck plays the race card on Newt.” But that was a mistake.
BECK PLAYED THE RACE CARD NOT ONLY ON NEWT, BUT ON ME, AND ON YOU. How dare he say that my (Willaim Jacobson’s) choice of Newt over Obama is a racial decision. Beck calls Newt a “progressive,” but BECK IS A RACE CARD PLAYER, and unlike his accusations that Newt is a progressive, the title fits.
Right Scoop, which does not support Newt, reacts as I do:
I know Newt has his problems which is why he isn’t my primary candidate. And if you don’t support him in the primaries I totally understand. But to say he’s exactly like Obama, and on top of that, to say that a Tea Party member is racist for supporting Newt over Obama, that is absolutely absurd and in my opinion enough for me to discontinue watching Beck in any format, forever.
Link for more details: http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/12/saturday-night-card-game-glenn-beck-plays-race-card-on-newt/
I quit watching Beck before he left Faux News and quit watching Faux News long ago.
Neither has our country’s best interest in mind. Both are ratings and self-dealing snake oil salesmen.