You are right.
However, I happened to listen to a segment on the radio during which he explained his position: His actions are based on a very personal level and his own family experience, related to a promise he made his father.
Can't fault him for trying, but he's not the Glenn Beck I used to know anymore. He claims to have 40 million listeners a month...for the good he's trying to do in other areas (VA, for example) I'll give him a pass on what he's trying to do here.
Besides, for all intents & purposes, this 'crisis' was intended to split the conservative vote (among other things).
This thread supports that...
There are better people out there to crap on; I don't think Beck deserves it, particularly given that we're all being manipulated into believing that he does, ya know?
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“However, I happened to listen to a segment on the radio during which he explained his position: His actions are based on a very personal level and his own family experience, related to a promise he made his father.”
I really don’t give a damn about Glenn Beck’s promises to his father. This is a willful and insidious plot to bring hundreds of thousands of people, and a ton with diseases, into the American interior, to destabilize the country.
I’m not fooled and I don’t need to talk like I’m on NPR or in some conference. These are evil acts and Beck wants to be all nicey nicey. Sickening.
Let Beck be Beck. Glenn is an emotive empathetic libertarian, and this is his latest catharsis. He is not a conservative.
I don’t recall Beck’s position on Elian Gonzalez. But I would imagine his compassion-detector would want him returned to the “father.”
If Elian’s boat had only sailed to Guatemala he’d be a free man today.
If anyone wants to adopt one of these children that is their personal business so long as the children have a clean bill of health.