Posted on 07/29/2009 6:34:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
Syndicated talk show host Glenn Beck is clearly a nut, who may be better at using the Rush Limbaugh playbook than the master himself. Take a look at this VIDEO during which Beck calls President Obama a racist but uses nothing to back it up.
To say that Obama, a man reared by his white mother and her white family in predominately white or multi-ethnic environs, is a racist, and not give proof of that--- boggles the mind...
But the problem here may not be Becks assertion, but the fact that hes a part of the same angry fringe knot as the "Birthers," who steadfastly deny that Obama was born in this country. They have been causing such a rancid stink lately that the House of Representatives on Tuesday included in a resolution celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hawaiis statehood, a statement of the obvious: The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii.
Theres nothing Obama can do that would appease any of these people.
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So it's not that the Becks and Birthers of the country dont have an opportunity to see things fairly or in a more nuanced way. Its that they choose to keep the blinders on. Or maybe, at least in Beck's case, it's less about the blinders and more about simply making a buck.
So, are discussions about race better served by ignoring folk like Beck and the Birthers or exposing them?
You tell me.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com ...
I find it very interesting that the democrats become so unhinged when someone calls them racist. The weapon that they’ve used is no longer effective against the right but seems to cause them fear.
He let his mother die without health insurance. Maybe if she was black he would have bought some for her.
0bama has made blatantly racist statements for all to see, just as has S0t0may0r. She, in fact, is a La Raza board member, which as far as I know wasn’t even addressed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Beck was simply speaking the obvious truth, a dangerous pursuit these days...
The Occidental College record thing has been debunked.
Proof that Obama is a racist:
1. Rev. Wright
2. He called his own grandmother a “typical white person”.
I made up my mind about Obama being Racist and all I had to do was look at how his friends were, and GB gets me through the week.
These same morons will claim Clarence Thomas is a sellout/Uncle Tom, yet can’t conceive that barry obama is a racist?
Wheeee. Talk about your "cleft stick". Only two possibilities here, either Obama WAS a foreign citizen (and thus not eligible to be President), or he was guilty of felonious fraud (and thus probably ALSO not eligible to be President).
Just keep up the personal attacks on Beck, Dobbs, etc., liberal media. It will SO make them stop. /s
Unfortunately, the group American for Freedom of Information” does not exist. They say so:
http://amfoi.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/welcome-to-the-americans-for-freedom-of-information/
What effect do you think it has on the discussion of the issue?
As an amateur genealogist, I thought his PBS program was fascinating.
FWIW, I think the point is robust. A real American President would answer the question the moment it arose -- if he loved and honored his country. Team Obama's approach of ignore-then-slander is...unfortunate for them, I think, and it further tramples of the dignity of the legacy of our great Founders -- the America of the Constitution -- for the very president to conduct himself with such willful disregard for it.
This is rich especially coming out of Chicago.
BTW, what ever happened to Rod Blago? Patirck Fitzgerald has been very quiet. The Trib had a role in that whole drama as well.
I think this is the probable problem. BHO’s birth certificate is probably an amended certificate (adoption) that names Lolo Soetoro as the father. BHO probably became an Indonesian citizen and probably never naturalized later as an American citizen. Moreover, during his young adult years he probably claimed Indonesian citizenship, probably applied for foreign student aid, and probably traveled on an Indonesian passport. Not only is he probably unqualified to be POTUS, he is probably an undocumented alien.
Beck calls President Obama a racist but uses nothing to back it up.
Chicago Tribune calls Glenn Beck a nut but uses nothing to back it up.
Not the claim at all. The claim is that he is not a "Natural Born Citizen" as required by that obsolete and useless living document called the Constitution of the Untied States of America. IMHO He's not!
Hey Tribune readers....pull out YOUR Birth Certificate and see if it looks ANYTHING like Bammy’s COLB!
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