Posted on 04/24/2014 9:30:04 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Glenn Beck criticized Cliven Bundy’s comments on race on his radio program Thursday, saying the Nevada rancher is “unhinged from reality” and urging his supporters to “end your relationship” with him.
“He’s often wondered if black people would be better of as slaves?” Beck said on his program, after reading from Bundy’s comments on race reported by The New York Times. “End your relationship. End your relationship. If that doesn’t end your relationship with him, you have to go back and question where did you go wrong. You wondered if blacks were better off as slaves picking cotton and having a family life? They didn’t have a family life!”
The radio host and former Fox News contributor had previously urged conservatives not to align too closely with Bundy. Earlier this month, he warned that the standoff between Bundy and the federal government had brought in “violent, anti-government groups.”
Beck in particular zeroed in on Bundy’s comments about “family life” during slavery. “If he really thinks that slaves had a family life, just that shows you how unhinged from reality this guy is,” Beck said. “You’ve got to distance yourself, you must know who you are standing next to at all times.”
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This sounds like Harry “this ain’t over” Reid has helped to begin the media assault on Bundy.
Isn’t Bundy also Mormon? Maybe “jack” Mormon( one who selectively chooses what doctrine to follow)
LOL! You should have rolled with it...
Beck needs to retire. I suspect that what is really at work here is Huntsman money. From what I’ve seen Bundy made the same type of “liberal plantation” comment that many others have made to illustrate that the welfare state and liberalism have been profoundly damaging to blacks. People ought to remember that liberals are directly or indirectly responsible for the slaughter of millions of black babies. Even slave owners didn’t do that. And, no, this is not an endorsement of slavery. I had to add that for the feeble minded and dishonest.
Beck seems to have a need to keep proving that he is not a "racist," whatever that is even supposed to mean, anymore. His past adulation for Martin Luther King, is totally inconsistent with the rest of his normal Conservative message. (See Plastique In The Foundation--Honor & Martin Luther King).Frankly, the slave question is not even really a racial issue; not in the historic sense as a White/Black issue.. Almost every land, where agriculture with large landed estates, among any of the principle races, had a period when the land was worked by unpaid--so far as a medium of exchange--labor. Whether called serfs, slaves, bondsmen, or whatever, the quality of the life, depended upon all sorts of factors, and is not really suitable for the sweeping generalities, indulged in by people trying to smear other people, over historic phenomena.
Thus, one can talk about a cruel taskmaster, whether in Exodus, Rome, medieval France or Germany, or in the slave era in America. One can also celebrate the same institution in the Song of Roland--if one recognizes that many of those in Charlemagne's army were just such bondsmen, brought to service by their feudal lords--or as in Henry V, by Shakespeare, in the speech honoring those who served on St. Crispin's day.
It is a trap--intended as a trap--for Conservatives to get side-tracked into these Beck type apologies for what is certainly a non-issue in a debate over the BLM maliciously killing a rancher's live-stock. That does not involve speculation as to historic elements in the lives of people in other centuries. The cruelty there is documented by photographs taken this very month.
I am sorry that Beck, who does have something to say on real issues, keeps going off on tangents. We should applaud him, when he gets to the real point; but do not follow him into the pursuit of irrelevancy.
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Such an excellent post, it bears repeating.
The governments actions to enforce a court order with snipers etc were completely out of line, however Bundy was in the wrong to refuse to obey the law in the first place and is clearly a nutter.
Why people hitched their wagons to him is beyond me.
Whether he said it or not is immaterial. The point of the overall piece is about a tyrannical government action. And the proponents of that government are again providing cover for that government with fact distortion, with Rand Paul and his ilk playing right into their hands...
When I saw “the New York Times” I immediately thought Beck is out of his mind or in Dingy Reid’s pocket.
Yep that’s exactly what the Bundy is a patriot are providing to the social consciousness.
Amen.....
“Looks like Rand Paul has been trained to the Lefty Racism dog whistle.
No votes for you, Rand Paul.”
You’ve got that right!!!!
No. thats exactly what people missing the point are providing. The fact you miss it proves it.
Bundy may not be PC but his comments in context shows he is NOT a racist.
Bundy's comments were about the destructiveness of government programs.
It is shame his comments will NEVER be shown in context by most media outlets.
Mitt Romney being Mormon didn’t bother me; he is an honorable, patriotic American & I will always think him such. It was his lack of a firm set of conservative beliefs that strategically had more to do with his defeat than as an indicator as to how he would have governed as President.
And most Mormons aren’t aware of the cheesy details in the Book of Mormon & other founding documents.
Do most Mormons believe that blonde Hebrew tribes sailed westward to North America but were ultimately exterminated without a trace by darker skinned Jewish Indians? Do they all believe that G-d lives on a planet near star Kolob? Do they believe that a Mormon wife will not rise from the dead unless her husband calls her forth by name?
As for business dealings, I am told that Mormons do tend to be clannish.
No one has hitched a wagon to him. If anything, they’ve hitched a wagon to the understanding that this government means to take everything they can and kill anyone who gets in their way.
Are modern-day blacks any better-off in the big-city urban plantations with near-100% illegimacy/illiteracy rate, in regular danger of being shot (by their fellow blacks) in their own homes or just walking down the streets than they were on the southern cotton plantations?
Of course they were.
Slave wedding vows included the variation "until death or distance do us part".
Is that really any different than today's situation with near-100% illegitimacy rates?
Was the Klan any worse than today's situation when in the big-city urban plantations you can be shot dead in your sleep by some guy your next-door-neighbor pissed-off?
Government officialdom should take a lesson from history. Maybe look up Henry Plummer, Sheriff, Bannack, Montana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Plummer
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