Glenn Beck Brings On Caller ‘Honky Whitesville’ For Attack On Michelle Obama
Glenn Beck Brings On Caller ‘Honky Whitesville’ For Attack On Michelle Obama
On his radio show yesterday, CNN’s Glenn Beck devoted a 15-minute segment to making fun of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and wife Michelle, referring to them as “elitist” for running for president and talking about “just how tough it is in America today for black people.”
In the segment, Beck brought on a fictional caller by the name of “Honky Whitesville,” who alleged that he was “working with the Obama campaign.” Beck billed the apparently humorous skit as a way to “make the Obama’s seem a little more relatable to the average person”:
WHITESVILLE: I’m working with the Obama campaign and I’m very white. And I’m white. Ever see toothpaste? You know the tube with toothpaste out? That’s sort of my color. … I was looking in the mirror yesterday after I looked up and I was like, oh, no, I have toothpaste all over my face but actually I just had face all over my face because my face is white, and just so everyone knows, I work at the Obama campaign and I’m white but my first name’s Honky.
But Beck did not dismiss this “caller.” Instead, he used “Honky” to go on a tirade against Michelle Obama. “She is an elitist and she is one of the most angry people,” Beck declared. At one point, they attacked her for attending Princeton and Harvard, claiming her test scores were “too low.” Beck even tossed in a suggestion of alcoholism:
BECK: And there she is. As always, they are trying to raise the bar a little higher like they did when she went to Princeton and then Harvard and now possibly the first lady.
WHITESVILLE: Is it possible she was holding onto the bar as they were raising it?
BECK: No, I think she might have made a trip to the bar. I’m not sure.
Listen to it:
Beck has a history of making racially-charged comments on his shows. In 2007, he commented that Sen. Obama is “very white in many ways.” Beck also claimed that “to be consistent,” Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) should give Sen. Obama “five percentage points” because of affirmative action.
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May 6th, 2008 at 6:39 pmIN YOUR OPINION is there any racism implied in this comment? Inquiring minds….
Break that f ucking finger and tax him to death, for laughs.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:39 pmBut has this not always been the right wing method of stirring up racial and ethnic hatred. It is always a joke and if the liberals attack the statements, then the right wing argues that they have no sense of humor. Then antidote is to hit back with the same kind of humor. A skit about McCain and his alzheimers. A joke about Bush and his red nose and slurring speech. A joke about some of the right wing religious leaders and their lifestyle of the rich and famous. Those jokes will be attacked as inappropriate. However, the liberals will be able to point to each corresponding item of bad taste from the right. It would soon stop.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pmYou took the words out of my mouth, dbadass.
let’s have anymouse tell us why THIS isn’t racist.
Oh, wait I forgot — any mouse doesn’t DO “why”.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pmOMG. It’s quite obvious to me that these people have not one single shred of decency.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:47 pmYou know, there is a certain population of the world that simply hasn’t evolved much beyond the ape. Taliban is a good example, another example are those like Glenn Beck and his audience.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:50 pmThe comment and the “honky” diatribe are not racist per se, though they are the ravings of coward and a bigot and a fool. What’s racist is the system that not only permits the broadcast of that vile bigotry, that venal stupidity, that cowardice–cuz he’s protected; he’s got gunsels around him–under the corpoRat imprimatur of a major news organization, but rewards it with publicity, endorsements and cash. The individual act is invidious, and vicious, and opportunistic, and is made possible only by the structures of institutional racism (as if there were any other kind) which invite and disseminate, and profit from this dreck. Beck is a willing, cooperating tool of this structure and is as guilty of its crimes as the system is itself. He deserves, really, to be rolled on a spool of barb-wire and drug a half-mile behind a scared horse over the dsesert hard-scrabble. But it wuold likely be unsettling to the horse…
May 6th, 2008 at 6:53 pmGlenn Beck is pure to the bone racist, facist and useless in this country!!!
May 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pmThese people wave their ignorance like a flag and think stupid is a badge of honor. When white people are able to act with this little class while thinking they are superior to any other race it shows where the term “white trash” came from.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pmBeck is the thinking person’s on-air personality . . . for those with meat-locker temperature IQs.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pmThere is no way that I can listen to anything that Glenn Bluck has to say. He gives discusting a new meaning.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pmSome people, like Beck, who never get past high school have an urge to put down people who do well in college. Michelle did EXTREMELY well. You don’t do well in Princeton and Harvard while being an alcoholic and drug addict (as Beck says he was). Maybe Beck was damaged by his mother committing suicide when he was thirteen.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pmYeah, but he bathes in money and doesn’t have to answer to any complaints that threaten his on-air tenure. He talks as stupid as he wants, and gets paid for it. With that, he brags about the government “taking his hard-earned money.” Stupidity is far from hard-earned.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:13 pmKeith Says:
Maybe Beck was damaged by his mother committing suicide when he was thirteen.
No, Beck is a whore. He found his fountain of ‘Johns’ and he is making a living being a hero to those low life, low IQ, low education Amerikkkans. Intelligence frightens them, success frightens them. Basically anything which reminds them of their awful lot in life is to be ridiculed and discarded. Instead of increasing their knowledge and awareness, they simply avoid topics – and politics – which doesn’t match their very bigoted way of being.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:18 pmThey are cranking up the engines of the swift boats. When we have a presumptive candidate they will rev up to high speed. As opposed to 2004, we progressives need to cover Obama’s back! The neocon scum need to be answered strongly, swiftly and with utter confidence. Secondly Obama needs to be aggressive rather than passive. As bad as McBush is a wavering candidate will likely lose.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pmWhat’s all the noise?
So Beck’s showing a little thigh, down on the corner of Venal and Crass. It’s not like he’s auto eroticising off your backyard swing-set, or anything. Anyone who picks him up, knows what he’s offering. They just like it nasty…
May 6th, 2008 at 7:20 pmGet over yourself, rhf. Hillary has no chance in being the nominee. She is no longer running a democratic campaign and we don’t want her running on our behalf. The math is on Obama’s side and will remain so.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:21 pmTwo guys have been accused of racism here today, Beck and Limbaugh. If you honestly believe either of them are Hillary supporters you are sadly mistaken.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:21 pmThat last post was directed to RHF. Sorry.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:22 pmthis is fox material… cnn has really hit the skids…
hard to believe this noog is actually beneficial to that network…
May 6th, 2008 at 7:24 pmwhy DO they keep him on?
Beck is a disgusting individual with no principles. He will be “damned” to use his & others’ so-called religious terminology, yet he has no clue as to how despicable he is. A sad, hateful person, not worthy of making any comments whatsoever that any of us should listen to, let alone on the air.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pmgreat visual, barfly… or, er, ghastly actually…
May 6th, 2008 at 7:27 pmbut funny… one of your best!
katy Says:
And…
I was looking in the mirror yesterday after I looked up and I was like, oh, no, I have toothpaste all over my face,
Did it taste salty? Probably wasn’t toothpaste…
[rimshot]
Hayyo!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:31 pmMcWars Says:
Get over yourself, rhf. Hillary has no chance in being the nominee. She is no longer running a democratic campaign and we don’t want her running on our behalf.
Exactly!!!!! Mrs. Clinton is running as a GOP candidate. She makes many references comparing her opinions on a matter with McSame! Is she a dem or not? I have a feeling that if she thought she could win, she would turn republican. She really, truly wants to be President – and if you want something so badly that it changes who you are, then it is not a good thing.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:33 pmYou have to take Beck’s comments in the context of his religion, Mormonism. The Book of Mormon says that blacks (and browns and reds)are the “spawn of Satan”. But all is not lost, if one of these darkies converts to Mormonism and tithes their 10% like all good Mormons, their skin will become “white and wholesome” after a few generations.
Not making this shit up. Is that racist everyfckingrat19?
Beck is a raving POS as well as being a blatant racist.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:34 pmUPDATE: OBAMA PROJECTED TO WIN NORTH CAROLINA
May 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pmI sincerely apologize for my last post. It was wrong, and now I feel so cheap – but not so cheap that I’d ever rent Glenn With a Heart of Gold (if you know what I mean).
May 6th, 2008 at 7:36 pmnanlichi, are you sure that wasn’t a typo? That Beck actually follows the Book of Moron?
May 6th, 2008 at 7:36 pmMy name on here is andy42302. If you google the zip 42302, that’s Owensboro KY, just 12 miles west of 42378- Whitesville KY, population 750. I frequent the area regularly and feel safe in saying to Glenn, the small town welcomes most anyone but you’re not on that list.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:36 pmStratrat – and if you want something so badly that it changes who you are, then it is not a good thing.
BINGO!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pmY’know, Glenn, equating the white population with the stupid population might not be such a good idea…
May 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pmY’know, Glenn, equating the white population with the stupid population might not be such a good idea…
May 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pmZed Lefflin Says:
This is an attempt at parody aimed at the following…
This is not real parody. It is racism dressed up as parody to rouse the rabble. It political dirty “trickism.” If you believe he is doing innocent parody, I suggest you think, and look at his, and the neocon history of campaigning. You need only go back to Lee Atwater and his deciple, Rove, to see the patterns and tactics being used.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pmIt is of course directed at their “base” or the rabble as I call them. Hmmm… Maybe rubble would fit better. Beck has a specific role to play in this scheme, just as the retired generals who were used by the Pentagon or some of the pundits (Novak and Judy Miller come to mind), in the conventional media. Their roles are quite different (appealing to different audiences) but the end they hope to achieve is the same.
2 days old:
CBS/NYTimes poll: Obama 51%, McCain 40%
Hillary beats McCain by 12%
Democrats only: Obama 50%, Hillary 38%
http://www.cbsnews.com/ stories/ 2008/ 05/ 04/ opinion/ polls/ main4069259.shtml
May 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pmandy42302 Says:
My name on here is andy42302. If you google the zip 42302, that’s Owensboro KY, just 12 miles west of 42378- Whitesville KY, population 750. I frequent the area regularly and feel safe in saying to Glenn, the small town welcomes most anyone but you’re not on that list.
Nicely said….
May 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pmWho can’t win the big states? In your face, Hillary.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pmralph,
Beck wrote the Book of Moron. Or more correctly, continues to write it.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:40 pmMerlin,
May 6th, 2008 at 7:44 pmHeck, they used to just shoot anyone who tried to register blacks.
Somebody said he’s a mormon, and that makes sense. they frequently have a distinctly ‘aryan’ cast to ‘em. that outfit of baby-girl fockers down in texas is an off-shoot of mormonism. I can see Beck bedding down with his eighth teenage ‘wife,’ can’t you?
May 6th, 2008 at 7:47 pmYou know, I just hate this pr!ck more every day, it’s subhuman scum like this that need to gotten rid of, cast aside, thrown to the outskirts of society.
Hey Glennda, a BIG F YOU PUNK.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pmandy42302 Says:
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My name on here is andy42302. If you google the zip 42302, that’s Owensboro KY, just 12 miles west of 42378- Whitesville KY, population 750. I frequent the area regularly and feel safe in saying to Glenn, the small town welcomes most anyone but you’re not on that list.
Hey andy, when I was stationed at Ft. Knox I was freinds with a guy from Whitesville. We used to go there some weekends,ride horses,drink beer, smoke a doob, and chase women. His name was Chris McKinley, helluva guy. We used to go to Owensboro to a bar, I think it was called “The Brass A”. This was 20 years ago,it doesn’t sound like much has changed.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:50 pmIck. Glenn Beck is simply one of the most unattractive human beings on the face of the earth.
Sigh. So, who’s his employer? Can we apply pressure? No one has ever deserved to be fired more than that moronic bigot.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pmTP – I am wondering why you put this trash on your blog when you won’t address all the race-baiting that Hillary and Bill have done. Beck isn’t much threat. He’s preaching to the choir. The kind of knuckle dragger’s that listen to Beck are never going to vote for Obama in the first place because they are all a bunch of racists.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:53 pmcmac, his employer would be Time/Warner.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:53 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
Looks like blacks are once again voting in the 90% levels for Obama, but that’s not racism – only Hillary supporters are racists, right Zoobama?
No RFH, it is not racist. Did you forget that Hillary started out this campaign with 70% of the AA vote? So why are 90% of the AA’s today voting for Obama? Did they wake up one morning and say to themselves, I’m an AA and I can only vote for another AA? No, what happened is that Obama earned their vote and Hillary threw away their vote.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pmNice try there sparky.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:58 pmKeith Says:
Merlin,
Heck, they used to just shoot anyone who tried to register blacks.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Yeah! Now they think they know how to use use fear more subtlety. When one tactic no longer works (like lynchings) switch to another, like Diebold. The tactics (or the “means”) are unimportant. As long as the “ends” are achieved all is well. The “ends justifies the means” ideology that the neocons possess explains almost all of their “stupid”, “insane” or “incompetent” behavior. It all has a purpose, and if we don’t recognize that, they win.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pmObama has been hurt badly among white working class voters. The right will use anything that makes him look unamerican, including a slip of the tongue by his wife months ago. He needs to get a neon lapel pin that shoots out little fireworks and plays Sousa.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:03 pmhttp://newsprism.wordpress.com
specialist f, I well recall the Brass (A)ss in Owensboro. I also recall a lot of horse back riding, beer drinking and women chasing. I’m thinking that “burning one”, for political reasons, was restricted to places like Fort Knox although I do recall some great times between Whitesville and there.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:04 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
Looks like blacks are once again voting in the 90% levels for Obama, but that’s not racism – only Hillary supporters are racists, right Zoobama?
So, any white person who votes for a white person is racist? Or are you saying that this is only true if a Black person votes for another Black person?
May 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pmMerlin, I couldn’t have said it that well. Now it is deleting their registration and flipping their votes by machines we are not allowed to inspect. Also the “divide and conquer” tactics by bufoons like Limbaugh and Beck.
Exit polls said Gore won Florida by 300,000 and Kerry carried the nation by 3 million.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pmI don’t give a rats ass what anyone’s Minister says.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:21 pmBeck skipped the 12 step program. I don’t time to comprehend a nimrod like Blowhard Beck.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pmBeck follows in the footsteps of other right-wing blow-hards with only a high school education: Hannity, Boortz, Rush!
May 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
May 6th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Hey, it’s you Zoobama folks
Oooooh, look folks. RHF is baiting us again… and again… and again. (In fairness though, he did tell us he was doing that in a recent post.) I’m waiting to see which poster here bites on his bait so he can express all that anger he doesn’t want to go to bed with tonight. He better watch his blood pressure! Strokes are not fun.
What do you all think? Does it sound massively hypocritical (not to mention racist to distort Obama’s name like that? I mean he is not equating Obama to the zoo where chimps and baboons live. Is he? And by extension, putting all us folks of a different belief than his, into the same cage, is he? Nah… He is too sweet a guy for that…
May 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
gummitch Says:
republicans hate facts Says:
Looks like blacks are once again voting in the 90% levels for Obama, but that’s not racism – only Hillary supporters are racists, right Zoobama?
So, any white person who votes for a white person is racist? Or are you saying that this is only true if a Black person votes for another Black person?
Hey, it’s you Zoobama folks that have been saying that people not voting for Obama are racists, when a 92% voting pattern of blacks for Obama can only be recognized as the very thing you accuse others of. Racism (racial favoritism), pure and simple…
Why is it impossible for you to support Clinton without calling Obama supporters names? Not to mention that your claim about people here calling other people racists for voting otherwise is blatant horse manure. The criticism leveled at Clinton has been directed at Clinton, first of all, for her behavior and her voting record and her politics–not her supporters. You’re the one who constantly has to characterize Obama’s supporters with unpleasant names and accusations, probably because you’ve never yet been able to provide a convincing argument in favor of Clinton.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:28 pmWelcome the new victims of poor logic this campaign season.
Hillary has morphed into a republican in her hopes of securing the nomination, even if she ends up a DINO, and therefore RHF’s IQ has been lowered in continued support of the campaign of this Republican-lite.
There’s further evidence: On the other thread, he was defending the photo ID requirement to vote in Indiana.
I’ll repeat myself, rhf, in saying that Hillary has no chance in securing the nomination. Her delegate count, when the night is through, will fall further behind Obama.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:29 pmBuck Fen Gleck. Pacist Rig.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pmRHF
Your obligation to restore your credibility here after all the vicious insults, especially towards Zooey, will not go away with this election.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pmanymouse19 Says:
You nailed it, Zed. It takes a bit of thinking, but you nailed it.
It takes a bit of manipulating reality, but you managed to rationalize Beck’s blatant and recurring racism. I hope you’re proud of yourself.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pmA sizable segment of the American population is just plain dumb.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:38 pmThat’s why this country with it advantage of size, resources and advantageous place in history is losing ground to the Europeans, Asians, etc.
As Hillary,Beck, Rush and other similar parasites know you shouldn’t underestimate the power of the dumbass, Homer Simpson vote.
katy Says:
this is fox material… cnn has really hit the skids…
CNN is closing in on Fox. they are a waste of time and brain cells.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:41 pmWhat a lame and unfunny attempt at biased humor…When Beck has to stoop to such childish skits it shows the shallowness of the host.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:09 pmI’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again (and will keep saying it):
F-YOU, GLENN BECK!!!
A**holes like Beck are the reason I’ve turned off CNN for good. The MSM is so totally fcuked.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:45 pmX, I think you’re giving Beck too much credit. I don’t think he stooped at all. I think he had to elevate his game to even reach this debased level.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:52 pmbarfly Says: … Hayyo!
at 7:31 pm
l o l … sorry i missed that…
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MY toothpaste is blue, btw…
watching msnbc… seems indiana will keep everybody up late tonight…
May 6th, 2008 at 10:12 pmCan we move the comments to a very relevant topic…the Fairness Doctrine. From some of the comments on here I assume (and I would like some input, you know what they say about assumption being the mother of all f-ups) that many of you support bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. I’d like some feedback on this.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:34 pmIn all fairness, I think you might be a dork. Does that help?
May 7th, 2008 at 12:56 am.
Glen Feck is a modern day blackface comedian…
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May 7th, 2008 at 1:22 amShouldn’t Glenn be crying on how he “wasn’t touched” by his religion’s schizophrenic leader? I bet Glenn likes the “conversations” he has with his daughters about all the “issues” they have…especially when they’re dressed in the “Little House on the Prairie” dresses on vacation…without mom. I do like Glenn’s views on the economy with the “I don’t know anything” preamble, then the “Here’s how I got there…” line. Seriously, it’s like taking financial advice from Pat Robertson after he conversed with God…oh wait, Glenn’s serious about that stuff.
Well, I’m joking about all this. Well…sort of…maybe, that’s my pragmatic/liberal-biased conservative view on this. Words hurt when they can be focused in a rollicking, dis-ingenuous joking manner. Does Glenn get this…will he go back to Jack Daniels or Hennessey before November?! Tune in tomorrow kids! Same Whacko Glenn time, same Whako Glenn conservative cliches!
May 7th, 2008 at 1:51 amGlenn Beck: Raw sewage.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:52 amFYI: This is an attempt at parody aimed at the following….Beck has noticed that there are any number of black pundits who make regular appearances on national TV. They, rightly or wrongly, ALWAYS bring up the color of THEIR skin in the conversation.
They are asked to appear, because the hosts want a black perspective. How ignorant are you?
May 7th, 2008 at 7:38 amOr perhaps I should ask anymouse how ignorant he is, for thinking that was a good post.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:40 amAnother day gone and another day of speculations on who will be the next President. Another round of mud slinging and unfounded rumors. And I am not talking about those running to become the next US President. I am talking about the American people – or at least some of them. I am astounded to read some of the things people have to say about those leaders who are willing to put their hand up in a difficult time in the American history. What is it that makes people dig so deep to find their own worse self in the way they speak about the candidates? It’s like being in South Africa all over again back in 1994 when we had our own first democratic elections. The doomsayers lived large. But the truth is that all three would make fairly good Presidents – and all have their flaws. It won’t be the end of America. Can’t people just focus on what makes America great instead of scrapping the bottom of the barrel of humanity in the way they talk about their potential future leader? http://angryafrican.net/2008/05/07/november-is-coming-start-stockpiling-baby/
May 7th, 2008 at 9:35 amI can`t believe CNN allows discrimination from this MORON!!! Beck is just a typical re-puke bigot and racist.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:23 amdasm Says:
Beck is a disgusting individual with no principles. He will be “damned” to use his & others’ so-called religious terminology, yet he has no clue as to how despicable he is. A sad, hateful person, not worthy of making any comments whatsoever that any of us should listen to, let alone on the air.
My question to dasm is this: Who asked you to listen, if you don’t like what he has to say, don’t listen. Pretty simple concept, unless of course you just like to see your comments online. In case you didn’t realize it, Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh are all entertainers, hence the comedy routines. If thats not acceptable to you, then don’t listen, Im sure they won’t miss you.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pmYou poor poor little beings. Let’s break it down, shall we? Funny is to humor as progressive is to cancer. Lighten up and try and understand that this void exists to taunt each and every one of you into not accepting who we are and moving on. If Glenn Beck wants to portray the nonsense being demonstrated by both sides as a comedy skit reversing the black/white role to describe how Barack will go to the extreme to display his intent to diversify his campaign, t’s his perogative. I really think that these horrendous names you’re calling him are merely from hate boiling within that’s based upon your general dislike for his associated party. If you ever bother listening to him he is well liked and respected by members of both parties as he is a genuine human being who has been through human trials and tribulations like the rest of us. I myself was a long time cocaine user and view Mr. Beck with an enormous amount of respect as he was my inspiration to get healthy and realize that success has no dollar sign on it; it’s perseverence that grants unlimited wealth.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:15 pm