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After saying Obama has ‘hatred for white people,’ Beck claims, ‘I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people.’

Discussing the upcoming meeting at the White House between President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley, Glenn Beck declared that it was “unbelievable” that the three would meet for a “teachable moment” about a sensitive issue in American life. “Who needs to learn what here?” asked Beck, adding, “this president has exposed himself, I think, as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture.” Challenged by Brian Kilmeade, Beck then claimed that he wasn’t saying Obama “doesn’t like white people”:

KILMEADE: But listen, you can’t say he doesn’t like white people. David Axelrod’s white, Rahm Emanuel’s his chief of staff, this, I think 70 percent of the people we see everyday are white. Robert Gibbs is white.

BECK: I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people. I’m saying he has a problem. He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist. Look the way, look at the things he has been surrounded by.

Watch it:

According to the thesaurus, the antonym of hate is like. So, yes, when Glenn Beck says Obama has a “hatred” of white people he is saying that “he doesn’t like white people.”



90 Responses to “After saying Obama has ‘hatred for white people,’ Beck claims, ‘I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people.’”

  1. christopher wiwi says:

    Get off my computer you pile of steaming dog $hit……


  2. jlw771 says:

    Of course Becky gives no evidence that Obama hates white people, but I can provide ample evidence of Beck, Rush, Coulter, Morris, and Hannity revealing a deep seated hatred for poor, oppressed, and minority people.


  3. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Shorter Beck:

    FEAR the Marxist/Socialist/Fascist/Commie/Pinko Black man.

    .


  4. candc says:

    Glenn also said we were going to have a depression…maybe we can run down those videos and show wrong this idiot is!

    Glen Beck = fear monger and hate spewer


  5. Jim Wolf359 says:

    Can anyone plese explain to me what the hell Beck is saying? Dude needs a Straight Jacket and a Padded Room.


  6. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Dear Glen Beck,
    Don’t worry, FOXPRAVDA still hearts old white men.
    Dude, you’ve got job security there.

    .


  7. Spencer's mom says:

    Someone needs to take Beck out of his painful existence here on Earth and send him to his own magic planet in his celestial kingdom where everyone is white and Beck has all the wives he could need.

    PEACE


  8. gully foyle says:

    Jim Wolf359

    Can anyone plese explain to me what the hell Beck is saying? Dude needs a Straight Jacket and a Padded Room.

    …and a large shot of Thorazine.


  9. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    And of course, if Beck says it, well…
    … It’s the truth then, YES?

    .


  10. DNFP says:

    Glenn Beck is to tabloid-journalism what a twelve inch steaming-coiler with a double taper is to pipe a toilet plunger salesman.


  11. Wannabekool says:

    Is there a boat large enough to hold all these who just love to show off their ability to out hate the other haters?


  12. Jim Wolf359 says:

    gully foyle says:

    Maybe a stiff drink or two as well.


  13. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    And more idiotic drivel from Ben Gleck is newsworthy because/…..?


  14. lokidog says:

    So Beck is saying Obama hated his mother and her parents (his grandparents).

    Just when you think these gutless little pansy *ssed wingnuts couldn’t say anything dumber today than they did yesterday, they come through with flying colors to prove you wrong.


  15. Wayne says:

    NewsFlash!!!: Beck talks out of his A$$… again.


  16. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Like I told my dad, who lives on the word of Rush, Beck, O’Liely, etc…
    … Racists use race to divide people. They use race to cast dispersions against those they attack because that is their base message. These people say, “Screw the facts,” if you can baselessly craft arguments against someone based on their ethnicity, then you’re a racist.

    PERIOD!

    .


  17. RWeSafer says:

    Jimmy “the Greek” and Howard Cosell had their careers ended for less than this from Beck. Why is it OK now?

    The worst part for me is the collusion of management. They do not take a stand when racist crap gets spouted. They are more guilty than Beck for allowing the dialogue to deteriorate beyond the pale.


  18. Hoodathunktick says:

    It appears Glenn is living proof you can shave a dog’s behind and teach it to walk backwards on its front paws.


  19. barfly says:

    lokidog says:

    So Beck is saying Obama hated his mother and her parents (his grandparents).

    Obama is consumed by self-hatred. That shows he’s mentally unstable, and unfit for the presidency – or something like that.


  20. ranus69 says:

    “Obama wanted that question” WTF!?! These people have lost all of their common sense to the fullest. To suggest the wanted that Obama wanted to be asked that question is totally absurd, I sure would like to know where she got that from and who is reporting that?

    These right-wing nuts have LOST every single argument about Obama, so now were left with of all people Beckee boy calling President Obama a “racist.”

    Geez, Obama’s mother is white who he was close to and so was his grandmother and grandfather who he was close to.


  21. nanlichi says:

    Becky is a Mormon. The filter that he looks at the world through is way different than most.

    Mormons in general don’t hate the brown people. Their mythology includes the little gem that if a brown person converts to Mormonism and is true to the religion (ie; tithes the 10%), after a few generations their skin will become “white and wholesome”.

    Becky is worthless racist scum.

    Mormons take pride in the fact that they are persecuted and don’t seem to understand why. They think minorities and women are less than, think that any other religion is the “Church of Satan” and any non-Mormon is the spawn of Satan.

    And don’t understand why they are persecuted?

    Keep that in mind when you hear Becky pissing and moaning on TV.


  22. RWeSafer says:

    Everytime I hear a white guy rely on racism for an argument, I think of those pictures from LIFE where people of color were sprayed with firehoses and attacked by dogs in the civil rights marches.

    No, not getting your favorite job is not racism — and saying someone is racist does not make it so.


  23. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    RWeSafer,
    It’s O.K. because Obama’s not hitting a ball, or running it back 100 yards, or jamming it down court.


  24. EugeneDebs says:

    I always thought that Sean Hannity was the lowest bar. That no one stupider than Sean could POSSIBLY be put on TV and still fool enough rubes to be worth their time. Seans stupid is just so evident and strong. I do believe however the Beck has him beat and is even stupider. How either of them remembers to breathe is beyond me


  25. Zooey says:

    The crazy — IT BURNS!!


  26. Fred says:

    BECK:I’m saying he has a problem. He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist.

    Another white guy in a suit claiming someone in a minority is the racist.

    Beck and rush are the vilest that exist. Anyone remember rush defending raygun selling chemical weapons to Iraq and using it as a bludgeon on liberals because they opposed it?

    “And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam ‘allegedly’ gassed a few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a ‘war criminal’ or ‘committing crimes against humanity’ is the same old thing. LIBERAL HATE SPEECH! And speaking of poison gas . . . I SAY WE ROUND UP ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND GAS THEM.” – Rush (oxycontin) Limbaugh, Nov. 3, 1988


  27. swilliams41 says:

    They love Glenn Beck here…..in Texas.


  28. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Dear Glen Beck,
    Conspiracy theorize much?

    .


  29. TXProgressive says:

    Whew, you really have to feel for all these poor suffering white men, huh? Imagine if this whiny a$$ crybaby beck actually did have to deal with the forms of racism that minorities actually do and have dealt with. He’d be a whining steaming pile of sissy.

    His talk is nothing but nonsense. Phony martyrdom.


  30. CheeseFlap says:

    Synonym for Beck:
    Racist, fart-huffing mollusk
    Safe in little shell


  31. lvdragonlady says:

    Beck is doing nothing but projecting his views onto Obama.
    Saying this kind of thing will only bring the wingnuts out of the closet.


  32. zuch says:

    Your first misteak was expecting Glenn Beck to make sense. A bowl of Jello™ has more neuronal activity than Beck’s cranium.

    Cheers,


  33. IndSteveAZ says:

    Beck is only projecting his own racism. Not rocket science here.

    birthers, Rush, Beck, Fox, etc. all cut from the same racist cloth.


  34. okie dokie says:

    Stupid Faux News.

    Is Beck saying Obama hates his own mother?

    Better not go there, Becky.
    Save your projection for your therapist.


  35. Spencer's mom says:

    nanlichi, Becky is not just a Mormon, he’s a convert to LDS.

    Mittens doesn’t stand a chance of getting the Fundies behind him for a presidential bid, and Becky’s not doing the religion any favors with his insane, racist rants. Of course, that is the GNOP’s only remaining base, so maybe Beck helps solidify that loyalty.

    I am just amazed at the harsh and frequent attacks of the president at a time of war. Wasn’t that treason, weren’t all who spoke against Bush traitors? Funny how different the shoe feels on the other foot…

    PEACE


  36. makete says:

    So he belongs to the same club as Pat Buchanan?


  37. sazeractheclown says:

    “challenged by Brian Kilmeade”….I’ve never read that string of words before.


  38. Hoodathunktick says:

    Spencer’s Mom, most of Glenn’s audience probably isn’t aware of the shoe and foot thing.


  39. IndSteveAZ says:

    RWeSafer says: “The worst part for me is the collusion of management.”

    yes, the same folks who cheerleaded us into a war with their GOP talking point advocacy 24/7.

    They have a good size audience, ratings and the tactics to continue to focuse their editorial lens for all things white and GOP. Sadly, their target audience doesn’t reflect the diverse demographics in America today.


  40. nanlichi says:

    I didn’t realize he was a convert. Racism is an ugly thing, but somehow it takes on an even blacker tinge when it is codified in a “religion”, who is going to argue with their God?


  41. smidget says:

    White people like his mother?


  42. misscoleopteramolly says:

    Hmmm…as Barack Obama is half black and half white, which side is he racist against? Don’t let your head explode over this one, Becky.

    The term “racist” has become as loaded an epithet as the “N” word. There are times when it’s justified, but when making that accusation, there should be some evidence to back it up.

    Beck and his ilk fling the term around merely because it’s hateful. And when one is reduced to flinging meaningless hateful terms, it’s a sign they’ve lost and they’re throwing in the towel.


  43. texasrick says:

    This piece of crap punk doesn’t remember one minute to the next what he said…I hope I don’t make him cry…not!


  44. WAYNEBRO says:

    He’s sitting there calling the President of the United States a racist, and he’s on the air why?

    President Obama may not have turned out to be everything I hoped he would be, nor has he made many of the decisions I’d hoped he would, and that’s disappointing. But to call him the things they’ve called him in his first few months in office is appalling. They’ve called him a socialist, a fascist and now a racist? The man’s cabinet looks like a media ad for diversity. It’s a cornucopia of colors and backgrounds. And there’s more white in it, than anything. So how can anyone even remotely call him a racist?

    There’s a sick, twisted vile element in this country who can ultimately only be described as evil, and Beck is a part of it. Their strategy is built on complete lies. They say whatever pops into their heads, no matter how far from anything remotely resembling reality, and just repeat it over and over until the braindead portion of the population begins parroting it, and then the media starts reselling it. These people are evil, there’s just no other way to put it.


  45. SP Biloxi says:

    “After saying Obama has ‘hatred for white people,’ Beck claims, ‘I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people.’”

    Beck’s koolaid was spiked when he made that ridiculous statement that Obama has a hatred for white people. His statement doesn’t bring anger to me but laughter. Wingnuts like Beck just don’t get it and will never get it that Obama is bi-racial and he was raised by his white mother in Kansas and later raised by his white grandparents. Beck is just an ignorant wannabe journalist that wants attention on the airwaves.


  46. MapleStreet says:

    Could this be a projection of the traditional racist stance:

    I’m not racist, I just hate N***rs. I hate them but I like them………

    Kind of reminds me of a line from Peanuts:
    I love humanity. Its just people I can’t stand.


  47. CageyCretin says:

    It’s all about the big scary black man and the spanish-speaking mexican woman keeping the xistian white man (and his obedient white wife) down.

    Any bets that Glen has a “White Pride” poster in his bedroom?

    ‘Cuz nothing says “Racist” like a Glen (or Rush) rant.

    Out of curiosity…. what do you think the percentage of CEO’s and high-paid executives are minorities?

    I’ll lay odds on single digit percentile, somewhere in the very low range (say, oh, 2% or less?).

    So, who’s exactly “at the top of the food chain”, metaphorically speaking? Because only those “at the top” can “hold someone down”.


  48. Mr. Cobb says:

    If this society wasn’t so obviously screwed up and in the toilet, somebody would have taken care of that pig a long time ago. Same with Limpballs. Their continued presence and uncautious movmenet is a glaring example of that.


  49. Mike Hunt says:

    Luckily only about 30 percent of the ‘Merikun public watches and or listens to the Fixed Noise Channel so only about 70 percent of the nation has a chance to deal with fact. Still its unnerving that vile sub-human things like Beck and his ilk have a platform from which they can spew their misinformation and lies. I really wish we could bring back the fairness doctrine. Fixed Noise would be out of business in hours.


  50. NOLIESPLEASE says:

    Bill Marh was right…..”America is stup…not all of America, but America is stupid”. Interview with CNN.

    Sad but true. If what you see on TV is any indication of what the population is like…..You (America) sure do have some stupid people.

    PEACE


  51. NOLIESPLEASE says:

    “STUPID” Sorry for typo


  52. RUCeriousMaggot! says:

    Maple street: Or it goes like this.

    I like coloreds. As long as they are doing a decent job of shining my shoes.


  53. RobertSeattle says:

    Projection – or should we come up with a new word? ProBecktion


  54. NoMoreBush says:

    Maybe Mr. Glenn — Obama hates STUPID white people — after all, his mother and maternal grandparents are WHITE.


  55. Mr. Cobb says:

    It’s great that Limpballs and Beck are the pig face of the GOP laying down their little pig trails being followed by their listeners into nowhere like pig pied pipers. lol 2010 is looking better and better. We apparently need at least 70 democrats for a majority. The way things are going with the pig’s help, we will be at 100%.


  56. ewrnj says:

    What should all of us be doing when confronted with the underlying hatred, vitriol and racism put forth by the right wing fringe? They’re agitating their base, firing them up, inciting hatred, while we sit on the sidelines and laugh at them. I just can’t get past this feeling of dread that we’re not taking this seriously enough and it’s going to lead to something horrible, or at a minimum another miserable 4-8 years of listening to them spew their hatred. It’s getting worse – the fringe is getting more vocal, more mainstream and the Republician leadership can’t/won’t even disown them anymore. Desperate, ignorant people do awful things. Why aren’t we collectively, proactively trying to stop this before it goes too far?


  57. Game of Life says:

    birther says:

    President Obama hates his whiteness so much I saw him get a spray-on tan. Not only that, he sprays his white wife and kids too.


  58. Thinkforyourself says:

    If Glenn Beck had a brain he’d take it out and play with it. He is on TV simply because he tells a certain demographic exactly what they want to hear- and that is really sad.

    I believe John Stewart best described him when he said: “Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.”


  59. Johnsnottoodistracted says:

    When this simple paid noise maker started providing content for that radio media, and you know who the owners are, he sounded like a cartoon. This was (at least for me) about 98???? And for him and cred it has been a steady slide down.
    The issue is this guy started in the sewer and went down from there.
    Anyone know what he eats now?
    Remember you are what you eat?
    Just wondering.
    Can he go to dinner with anyone?
    Nevermind!


  60. okie dokie says:

    @#46 & #52
    Maple Street & RUCerious:

    Down here in the South, we’d say that’s the pot callin’ the kettle black.

    Which was a more polite way to call somebody a hypocrite.

    Manners are important where firearms are in abundance, darlin’.


  61. Pseudonym says:

    “White culture”? WTF is “white culture”? To me, this is code that racists use. I am white, but I in NO way what-so-ever share a culture with Glenn Beck. Or Sarah Palin. Or Bill Clinton. Our ancestors may all be caucasian, but they are all from different caucasian countries. This bizarre idea that there is one type of “black” person or one type of “white” person, etc. is the language of racists.


  62. fleetw1978 says:

    Seriously? Man, Beck and company have gone alot farther than I expected after the election. Now thier racism is right out there front and center for the world to see. The GOP better get thier big boy pants on soon and disown this type of discourse, or they are going to be in a deeper world of hurt in 2010 and 2012. The country,myself included, may not concur with all the Obama policies, but we do dislike the hate and stupidity with which the GOP is conducting themselves lately.


  63. EugeneDebs says:

    sazeractheclown says:

    “challenged by Brian Kilmeade”….I’ve never read that string of words before.
    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    It is true enough that they fair boggle the mind


  64. gummble-bee-itch says:

    Pseudonym says:

    “White culture”? WTF is “white culture”? To me, this is code that racists use. I am white, but I in NO way what-so-ever share a culture with Glenn Beck. Or Sarah Palin. Or Bill Clinton. Our ancestors may all be caucasian, but they are all from different caucasian countries. This bizarre idea that there is one type of “black” person or one type of “white” person, etc. is the language of racists.

    Not only different ancestors, but different parts of the country, different economic strata, different religious backgrounds — it just goes on and on. When idiots like Beck talk about “white culture” they’re referencing the mythical perfect world of the white suburbs in the 50s, or perhaps the equally mythical world of the antebellum South.

    What’s being challenged and what sends these people into a frenzy is the notion that the Western European male is the highest form of human development and should be running the planet as God intended.


  65. LizCoro says:

    Beck’s mother committed suicide . .

    Beck’s brother committed suicide . .

    In Beck’s case, all the lights are on and nobody’s home!


  66. Virtual Pebble says:

    I don’t watch Beck. That violates my own (self-imposed) rule about knowing one’s enemy, but there’s only so much I can take without pushing my blood pressure over the limit. Thus, no Beck; not only is he stupid, self-contradictory, moronic, and a racist, he doesn’t even qualify as literate.

    On yet another hand, and slightly off topic, I’d like to see someone come up with resurrection of “The Gong Show”, with the participants drawn exclusively from the politcal and bloviating classes. I think Beck could be gonged off faster than anyone else; a hands down winner, for sure.

    Beck is way off base in thinking this can’t be or isn’t a teachable moment, although it’s obvious that he can’t learn anything from it, or any other event or source. If it doesn’t conform to his presuppositions, it doesn’t exist.

    He’s even further off base in calling BHO a racist. That’s a problem that rePublicrites have, not the moderate to progressive and liberal side of the Democratic party.

    Anything Beck says is more a reflection on his own internally confused state than anything else. He may be incapable of introspection, to boot; not that matters much (except for those on whom he inflicts his ignorance and the subsequent collateral damage as they propagate his insanity into the world).


  67. Ape-Man says:

    Beck. Is he really still around?


  68. okie dokie says:

    Beck is obviously a Limbaugh wannabe.

    I guess 50 million a year is plenty of motivation to pull down your pants and show your insanity.


  69. pbeeg says:

    I’ve always matched Beck with O’Reilly. They both say anything that comes into their heads, and don’t remembeer what they said an hour ago.
    O’Reilly, though, is just your crazy old alcoholic uncle who’s core belief is that he’s always right. O’Reilly really believes that he’s not a conservative, and that he’s completely honest and impartial. And if you tell him he said something completely crazy, he won’t believe you.
    So O’Reily can launch a rant that the terrible thing is that Obama is going to destroy the White Christian Male power structure–something even Hannity would be too smart to say on the air–and probably doesn’t think he ever said that.

    Glen, though is racist-crazy. He thinks he can get his message across and sugar-coat it with self-deprecation and an easy manner–”I’m just a circus clown”–but periodically the fear just washes over him and he lets rip a wet one.

    It isn’t just that there’s a black president and Democrats run both houses of congress–it’s that the Right had unassailable national power and lost it all. They had their chance to remake America and they screwed it up horribly–and now this black president is going to do a good job: fix the foreign relations mess, pull isout of the recession, and give the country public health care.

    Beck’s worst nightmare isn’t a black President–it’s a successful black Presidenr. Because that will destroy his vision and sow his ground with salt. So he just bursts out in his sheer terror. So he cries on screen. So he desperately longs for disasters that do not come.

    Rush and Hannity are just good right-wing soldiers. They probably lose no sleep over Obama being President. They just study the plasybook and line up for scrimmage.

    But O’Reilly and Beck–ah, that’s different. They slip, they act out, and one day they’ll have that Mel Gibson Moment.


  70. LeslieBurton says:

    Barack Obama doesn’t have a hateful/racist bone in his body. That’s one of the reason I supported him so. Even though he claims to be a christian, I think of him as a humanist. Glenn Beck is a revolting human being. I do love when Stephen Colbert makes fun of him, though.


  71. LividLib says:

    Glenn Beck, the talking hemorrhoid.
    Somebody got a rubber band?


  72. wiley says:

    And then he said, “Give me librium, or give me meth.”


  73. pete says:

    I’m convinced that the Lush’s and Bill0s of the world are cruel liars but, Becky is just effing stupid to realize what an idiot he really is.


  74. evangenital says:

    I am grateful that THINK PROGRESS keeps me up to date on Glenn Beck’s crap.

    I don’t waste my time watching that FoxNews garbage.


  75. squidbilly says:

    The Beckster needs to be on Comedy Central!!! What a loon (whether he knows it or not).


  76. OutstandingInMyField says:

    Re: #30

    I love CheeseFlap.


  77. bsober says:

    I guess Glenny Boy forgot that we ALL know Barack was born to a white woman (in Hawaii no less) and raised by his WHITE mother and WHITE grandparents. Ya dip shit, makes sense to me that he would hate white folks. Is this guy suffering from a chemical imbalance, or did he have a brain injury? He certainly couldn’t have been born this way or we never would have heard of Glen Beck.


  78. MapleStreet says:

    77. bsober,

    Good point. May I also add, if memory serves me right, a good part of Obama’s family (also representing his heritage and upbringing) is Kansas. Middle America. Good Rural Values. And about as white as they come.


  79. Leftside Annie says:

    Jebus. Glenn Beck has fallen from the very tippy-top of the very tallest Stupid Tree on the planet, and he has most definitely hit *every* single branch and twig on the way down.


  80. Leftside Annie says:

    And what makes it even worse? That retarded little fruit fly looks like my brother.

    My poor brother.


  81. smidget says:

    Leftside Annie says:
    that retarded little fruit fly

    Holy shit, that’s effin hilarious! +1,000,000


  82. amish_edison says:

    People like Beck and Limbaugh are willing to do ANYTHING to preserve the white, male power structure. ANYTHING! …and that includes either 1) inciting race riots, or 2) provoking one of their wingnut viewers into making an attempt on Obama’s life.

    COWARDS. RACIST COWARDS. Plain and simple.

    And if they were to succeed in either of those goals, they would assuredly say they had nothing to do with instigating it.

    COWARDS.


  83. dasm says:

    Beck is a deranged, lying, uninformed, bigoted, dishonest, hysterical, loser, nutjob, anti-American, anti-government, terrorist, anti-immigrant, lying, info-inventor, whining, crying, stupid, idiot, incest-loving, lying, anti-journalism, dishonest, hysterical childish, tantrum-throwing buffoon. Does that sum it up? Oh, and ridiculously ugly. A fat, lying slob.


  84. EugeneDebs says:

    Just STFU Tomb-ass. You are stupid and your post is even stupider. Shove it up your tarhole.


  85. Leftside Annie says:

    tombass: Lots of stupid people say truly stupid things.

    And I include you in that, along with the wingnut “psychiatrist.”


  86. mild_bill says:

    I wish we could put Beck on the next comet to crash
    into Jupiter! Jupiter is mostly gas too!


  87. Max Anax junius -1 says:

    .

    Dear tombass,
    Well, I see you’ve removed that doubt I had about you possibly being coherent and sensible and instead confirmed that indeed, your mind is as shallow as the deep end of a slug’s pool.

    .


  88. jhuckster25 says:

    Hello, new to this forum. I feel I’m a middle of the road kind of guy. I agree that Beck is out there, but a little disappointed that a sight called think progress turns into a bash sight. How is this progressing anything? It is just a bunch of hate thrown back and forth. Oh well, so much for progress. But on the subject of race, wouldn’t it be progressive to have a more diversified staff for this sight?


  89. Intrepid says:

    Beck is another reason why I am a proponent for an Constitutional amendment to ban hate speech. This way we can put Fox News out of business and racist morons like Glen Beck and his hate filled cohorts out of jobs. Hate speech should never be protected under the First Amendment. Since inciting violence is already illegal and NOT protected under the First Amendment, would it make perfect sense to ban hate speech since it is the primary vehicle used to incite violence against targeted groups as well as targeted individuals?

    Beck hates blacks and that goes without explaining.


  90. Americanhalfbreed says:

    Just visited Beck’s website and he has some recorded comments, from President Obama’s past, and they do raise some questions. I do not believe the president is a racist, but perhaps he might have to explain the context of his comments on the Beck site.
    The real issue is that he has allowed himself to get pulled into an issue that is derailing the focus on national health care. He needs an adviser, who understands the Washington underworld, to keep him on track and out of trouble.
    Bush was no Einstein, but Karl Rowe, kept him on track.



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