Glenn Beck: The Tea Party Supporting Gingrich Over Obama ‘Must Be About Race’

mediaite.com ^ | December 10th, 2011 | Frances Martel

[Berlin_Freeper]

Glenn Beck has made no secret of how much he dislikes Newt Gingrich– not even to Newt Gingrich’s face. But he has yet to confront his supporters until last night, when he reasoned to Freedom Watch host Judge Andrew Napolitano that there was very little difference between Gingrich and President Barack Obama– so much so that the only possible explanation for Tea Partiers rallying around Gingrich is “Obama’s race.”

[US Navy Vet]

I LOVE Glenn to death but in this case I don’t think he can see the forest for the trees.

[GoldenPup]

Beck is a "Loon". That's why Fox got rid of him.
Yeah, I know...he departed with trumpets and drums and loud praise and blah, blah, blah. Fact is, he's gone from major TV...thank goodiness.

[greyfoxx39]

Glenn is worried that his mormon buddy is losing to Newt...funny he should bring up “race” when his and Romney’s shared religion has a past history of racism....oops! Pretty stupid, Glenn!

[Mozilla]

Beck is right to question Gingrich.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

I think hes trying to say Gingrich is just like Obama. That is ignorant enough. But after all of the attacks we have sustained from the media, I can’t believe he is ignorant enough to say something this insulting about the people who have made him rich and famous

Roger Ailes was right after all...

Somewhere Obama is laughing. Our side is self destructing quickly.

[Lady Lucky]

Must be something going around, like rabies. Cain supporters have called me racist because I didn’t support Cain. Now Beck says it must be a race thing if you’re for Gingrich. Is there anybody left in America who has the sanity and scruples to resist the race card?
Anybody?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sometimes Glenn is right on and sometimes Glenn is a cuckoo bird.

[Lady Lucky]

If Romney is acceptable to Beck, I don’t know what to think anymore. About Beck I mean.

[Vision]

Idiocy like this is the only reason I don't subscribe to GB.

[sodpoodle]

***We’re supporting Gingrich now because they wouldn’t let us have Cain.***

Very true - many FReepers wanted a Gingrich/Cain ticket, based on their camaraderie during their conversation.

Gingrich/Cain was my tagline until Cain suspended. Hanging on to my Cain bumper sticker as a souvenir....it didn’t make it to the bumper;(

[Jim Scott]

I generally like Glenn Beck and his sometimes Quixotic but always sincere crusades and his embrace of America’s history and exceptionalism. However, his animosity for Newt Gingrich seems over-the-top and Beck appears to be confused when he claims that he could vote for the consequential RINO, Mitt Romney, but not for Newt Gingrich. When Beck slaps down the race card to justify his wrongheaded opinion that Tea Party support for Gingrich is based on nothing more than racism, Glenn Beck loses me. His insulting comments are red meat to the left and he does conservatives a huge disservice. I’m done with Mr. Beck and his endless crusades and projects. I now know what he really thinks of me. Glenn Beck can go pound sand.

[writer33]

Beck is a fraud.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah! :-)

[reaganaut]

Then why isn’t he questioning Romney?

[reaganaut]

Oh he will just claim that ‘antis’ made that up. He just says what he is told to.

[BarnacleCenturion]

"Beck is right to question Gingrich."

Yep. He's ahead of the curve.

 

Newt Gingrich Backs Funds For Abortion - http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-04-10/news/17801484_1_poor-w...

02/15/2007 - Newt Gingrich supported a proposal for mandatory carbon cap and trade - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/intervie...

02/10/2011 - Newt Gingrich wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20031365-503544.html

01/30/2011 - Newt Gingrich lobbied for ethanol subsidies -http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870469800457610...

Newt Gingrich's Environmental Problem -http://www.salon.com/2011/05/11/gingrich_environment_america...

Newt Gingrich co-sponsored the Global Warming Prevention Act which says that “the Earth’s atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel use, and the effects of rapid population growth in many regions...global warming imperils human health and well-being...and [demands] to reduce world emissions of carbon dioxide by at least 20% from 1988 levels by 2000... major threat to political stability, international security, and economic prosperity.” - 1998 - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d101:H.R.1078:

Newt Gingrich Supported the Bailouts/TARP

Newt Gingrich says he would've voted for TARP -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJb2NfqwghY

Newt Gingrich gets back on the couch with Pelosi-http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/28/gingrich-gets-back-on-t...

Newt Gingrich Supported Federal Health Insurance

Newt Gingrich supports Obama and Mitt Romney's healthcare plan-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHSdRRLb7U

Newt Gingrich says the government must force people to buy health insurance- http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/opeds_news?pressrelea...

11/15/2010 - Newt Gingrich defended Romneycare -http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1110/Gingrich_defends...

03/19/2011 - Newt Gingrich has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability) -http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/6...

Newt Gingrich said: “All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.” - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870350910457632...

Newt Gingrich said: “I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay — help pay for health care.” MSNBC’s David Gregory: But that is the individual mandate, is it not? “It’s a variation on it.” -http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/267330/gingrich-i-oppos...

In 2008 Newt Gingrich suggested ‘insurance mandates for people who earn more than $75,000 a year.’ Two years later, he was telling Sean Hannity at Fox News that health insurance mandates were unconstitutional.” -http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0327/New...

Newt Gingrich Supports Amnesty for Illegals Aliens

Watch the video of Newt Gingrich proposing amnesty in his own voice -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-OKFOhCaDY

Conservatives are critical of Newt's amnesty stance -http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/283932/gingrich-amnesty...

More criticisms about Newt's desire for illegals to receive amnesty -http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45873.html

Newt Gingrich voted to raise the debt ceiling 4 times:
1 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-449
2 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1980-936
3 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1981-7
4 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1984-754

Newt Gingrich voted for a $50 billion tax increase - (House Roll Call Vote 569 - 1984)

Newt Gingrich was paid by Freddie Mac to lobby Republicans for support -http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-16/gingrich-said-to-be...

More on the Newt Gingrich Freddie Mac lobbyist scandal -http://www.cnbc.com/id/28108013/How_Freddie_Mac_Splashed_Cas...

Newt Gingrich's Charity Paid Money to Gingrich's Business -http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/gingrich-cha...

Newt Gingrich voted to create the Department of Education -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-468

Newt Gingrich voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion) - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/roll135.xml

Newt Gingrich flip-flops on Libya in less than 16 days-http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/weigel/2011/03/23/n...

Newt Gingrich supported the World Trade Organization, voted for GATT/WTO - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1994/roll507.xml

Newt Gingrich supported GATT - http://www.cfaba.org/cf05006.htm

Newt Gingrich supported WTO - http://www.nolanchart.com/article368-bill-clinton-and-his-na...

03/15/2011 - Newt Gingrich says that NAFTA worked 'because it created jobs in Mexico' - http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/15/150658/gingrich...

Newt Gingrich helped push through federally-funded loan guarantees to communist China - http://www.lessgovisthebestgov.com/Newt-Gingrich-Candidate-P....

"Newt Gingrich was passionately in favor of helping Russia (with US foreign aid), saying it was a "great defining moment" for America and we had to do the right thing. Newt was trying to "out-Russia" me, which I was only too happy to have him do." - Bill Clinton -http://www.issues2000.org/My_Life.htm

In one year (1994-1995) Newt Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid - http://www.unelected.org/socialist-of-the-week-newt-gingrich.

Newt Gingrich was for the United Nations before he was against it -http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/11/gingrich_...

09/16/1996 - Newt Gingrich voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign’s Lautenberg Gun Ban, which took away gun rights-http://www.nationalgunrights.org/the-inconvenient-truth-abou...

Newt Gingrich has a bad firearms record - http://gunowners.org/gingrich-mixed-record.htm

Newt Gingrich worked for the Rockefeller campaign -http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/interviews.html

10/16/2009 - Newt Gingrich endorsed super liberal Dede Scozzafava -http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/16/an-acorn-friendly-big-l...

05/04/1979 - Newt Gingrich voted for a federal land grab that put tens of millions of acres of land in the hands of Washington bureaucrats. -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-107

04/02/1987 - Newt Gingrich cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation) - http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/29/newt-gingrich-co-sponso...

Newt Gingrich voted to take land away from states and individuals. The “Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act,” which Newt Gingrich voted for in support of President Jimmy Carter, was a federal government power grab that put tens of millions of acres of land in the hands of the corrupt cronyism and bureaucracy in Washington. -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-107

Fiscal conservative Steve Forbes' magazine says that "Newt Gingrich Represents The Worst Qualities Of The GOP Primary Field" -http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/16/newt-gingric...

The Many Flip-Flops of Newt Gingrich -http://www.tnr.com/slideshow/politics/85743/newt-gingrich-li...

World Net Daily (WND) - Joe Farah says that "Gingrich is a Liberal" -http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=299873

Democrats Think Newt Gingrich Will Be Easy To Beat -http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68414.html

Jack Abramoff says 'Newt Gingrich is corrupt' -http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/jack-abramoff-n...

[org.whodat]

Race, is beck still upset about the wookie starting the nascar race. ;-)

[reaganaut]

So he says. In the end, he will come out in favor of Mitt. Bet his sacred underwear on it.

[MHGinTN]

Ales was told to sack Beck because the planned republican candidate was to be Romney, and if Beck had a large venue to try and counter the exposure the media will pummel the world with regarding the heresies and blasphemies of MormonISM, well, that would be too close to fair to suit the vermin of media and the DNC and Georgie Soros, master devil.

[Hugin]

Beck is a "Loon". That's why Fox got rid of him.

FOX didn't dump him, he quit. First, FOX wouldn't dump one of their highest rated shows. Second, when a show is cancelled, they NEVER tell people six months in advance. It's just gone one day.

No dispute about the first half though.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Beck is right to question Newt, but that and that alone isn’t enough to convince me that Beck is anything but what Levin would call a “back bencher”.