Yes. Everyone knows that democrats are racists.

“both of those groups have to take some responsibility if we’re going to get beyond the kinds of divisions that we face right now.”

I guess Obama thinks everyone is a flawed individual. I can see why he holds his chin so high.

Of course you left out the main point he was making, Glynnis, which is he agreed to meet to the pres of Iran without preconditions, but wouldn’t meet with Hayward. A valid point, don’t you think?

He also wondered why in the case of the police in cambridge, he rushed to condemn them without the facts, and in the case of the ft. hood shootings, and anytime a muslim is involved, but doesn’t give the same benefit of the doubt to others. Why do you think that is, Glynnis?

In all honesty, Glynnis, why do you insist on taking Glenn out of context and continually leave out the point he is making? It’s makes you look ridiculous, but I guess getting your daily shot at Glenn is more important to you than appearing to be an actual journalist.

Someone here is obvious need of a new hubby. I know a nice Mormon man in Utah looking to add a 3rd wife to his family if anyone here is interested.

His ratings are down. He’s getting more and more desperate.

Sad, really…

Of course, the point is being missed, no doubt purposefully by the racist Glen(n), that it would have been foolish for President Obama to meet with Hayward or any other fiduciary of BP until the liability issues were framed. Like President Obama or loathe him, he is no fool.

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I suppose Glen(n) gets his second overt racist bye. They seem to be unlimited at FOX.

Oh, another instance of Beck implying that Obama is a racist. Classic Glenn.

Hey, Glenn, I’d call you a swell guy, but (in homage to your upcoming book, the Overton Window) I don’t want to…”tease the panther!”

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

JunkJunk says:
June 14, 2010 at 7:42 pm
His ratings are down. He’s getting more and more desperate.

Sad, really…

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The jury may be out on that. The trend tends to suggest you are correct, but there are sme dramatic fluctuations. Nonetheless, you are absolutely on target as to the desperation. It is increasingly difficult to meet the rising level of maniacal radicalism. At this point, I don’t think Glen(n) has much choice to appear to be more and more radical. His fan base is not expanding. He’s like one of those Classic Rock DJ’s who plays the same music he did in 1950, because all of his fans were teenagers in the 1950′s. No place else for Glen(n) to go.

Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
June 14, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Someone here is obvious need of a new hubby. I know a nice Mormon man in Utah looking to add a 3rd wife to his family if anyone here is interested.

You’re a moron.

I think we all know (most of us anyway) why Beck uses what is clearly racist language. 1) He’s a racist doing what racist do and 2) he’s a con artist and he knows his audience loves the racist rhetoric and he craves the attention. The Beck audience loves their stupid and the more asinine, the better and nobody delivers more asinine racist stupid better than Glenn Beck.

Buy seeds and that destined-to-be classic “The Overton Stupid.” Don’t tease the panther tea-baggers!!

You’re a moron.

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I’m not familiar with that sect. What are its core beliefs and principles?

There’s not necessarily a connection to be made when any president (yes, ANY president, even a Republican president) meets with one person but will not meet with another person.

For instance, President Obama will meet with the Iranian president but he won’t meet with me. Does that mean Obama loves the Iranian president, but hates white people from Los Angeles like me? No. But substitute Tony Hayward for me and that’s what Beck wants you to believe.

It’s just more sophistry for weak minds. Or, to break it down further, most talk and cable news blather is boiled down to the Hitler’s Dog theory. An example of the Hitler’s Dog theory is this:
Obama likes dogs.
Hitler liked dogs.
Therefore Obama likes Hitler.

It’s just specious reasoning that all brainwashed folks lap up like milk because they’re too lazy to think for themselves.

Who is crazier? Glenn Beck or the people that buy into his bullsh*t?

Wonderful post, redleaf, agreed 98% of what you said, except…

With a disaster as horrible as this spill and Hayward the head of the company responsible, he does need to meet with Hayward to get things done, but you are absolutely right, Beck tries every possible way to make people link Obama with someone horrible, no matter how ridiculous.

What does this whole deal have to do with Ahmadenejad anyway? Nothing, it just provides Beckerhead with a way to call Obama a racist.

Obama doesn’t hate capitalists…why else is he not hammering BP like he should? Why else did he push for bailouts? He is a corporatist, not a socialist, not a Marxist, not a communist, not a RACIST.

MichelleF, you, in your undying loyalty to GLENN have sealed your position. You will sit at HIS right hand. It shall not go unrewarded that no matter how farfetched or ludicrious GLENN’s words may be , you are in total agreement. GLENN’s blessings upon you, loyal disciple.

Why do all these comment threads end up in gang up personal attacks on one particular poster or another?

Notice Ted only comments on the Beck and Palin threads. Ted constantly insults people that are conservatives or the  tea- party crowd for lack of intelligence . Whats  absolutely hilarious about that is, the NYT did a poll of the Tea-Party supporters ,  an a  overwhelming majority have a college degree or higher ( Masters/Phd )and make a good living. 

Ted and user name Glenn Speaks for God , just Liberal Sh*t stains on the backside of America. 

Go back to TVNewser you f**king troll.

‘ Proud Teabagger ‘ my condolences I forgot to add you too.

Any more other comments directed towards the widow Michelle F about finding a hubby’ ?

Sure do. Lots in fact.

While I generally support my fellow liberals on here, going after MichelleF (I did not realize that she is a widow) with the hubby comment is way out of line.

Her politics are fair game, but her personal life and things like this that has caused her great pain should be off limits.

FN:WPPTT, I hope you are a better person than this. Let’s discuss politics. Let’s poke a little fun at the other side, but let’s not go this far. This was a shameful thing to say, and I hope you find it in you to apologize.

MichelleF, please accept my condolences (however long ago this was) and I apologize for this comment, although FN:WPPTT should be the one doing it, not me.

Stooge, spare us the bullshit. You obviously haven’t read enough of her comments including her snide speculative comments about RoxSteady’s marriage status.

Q: What do you call a good looking woman in Salt Lake City?
A: A Tourist!

So two wrongs make a right?

You sound like that hypocritical POS from TVNewser called SameTOOYou. Go home trolll.

Ok, well all of these personal attacks toward each other is getting old on here. We call each other idiots, we call each other dumbasses, we insult each other with snide remarks. If I may spare the bullshit….

If MichelleF says these things, then she should be ashamed herself. She says these things, so we show ourselves to be the better people by saying the same type of hurtful things?

Is this what this site’s message boards have come to? I’ll admit, I’ve said things against conservatives that I regret saying. Just because we are protected by the anonymity of our computers doesn’t mean we should use this opportunity to be so freaking hateful to each other.

These boards are getting so goddamned pathetic anymore. Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, there will be thoughtful discussion. Yes, we can poke fun at each other. But to get so personal is really shitty.

Seriously.

Troll – good Glenn man, only you would pay attention to such trivial matters. You don’t have much of a life do you? Very sad. No, I don’t insult conservatism; conservatism is dead and has been replaced with the ultra-moronic tea-bag party; the far far right lunatic fringe. These nut jobs have taken over conservatism; blood suckers like Glenn Beck who hope like hell that you will become an insider, buy his “books” and spend money on him, have taken it over. And yes Sarah (aka stupid) and Bachman (aka dumbass) are in the mix as well. You tea-bagger have a lot to be proud of. Really sorry that people like you buy their bullshit., but the joke is on you.

Buy seeds and The Overton Window.

So, I take it your behavior has prompted similar responses elsewhere.

Shouldn’t that tell you something?

If you want to bash people’s politics, this is the site for it.

If you want to bash people’s personal lives, I suggest facebook.

The joke is in the White House, Ted.

Ted, you kind of proved Troll’s point in responding to it, dude.

Ok F*ck. Where is the history button feature when you need it to expose rank hypocrisy.

Pablo – No the joke is on you. Be sure to become an “insider” Pablo, just $6.99 per month and that comes with a free bowl of soup and S&H green stamps.

If you want to bash people’s personal lives, I suggest facebook.

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Or, simply tune into virtually any FOX program.

But King, I thought you liked Shep, and he’s got two shows.

Rogue-Comic says:
June 14, 2010 at 8:45 pm

If you want to bash people’s personal lives, I suggest facebook.
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Why, is that what you do is hack into peoples facebook accounts? Since you have to be accepted as a friend to get into ones account.

John, I suggested no such thing. On facebook, people gossip about one another, hence the reference.

Rogue – Troll doesn’t have a point…dude.

It is lovely to see the Left get hoisted by its own petard. Every single disagreement with Obama is chalked up to ‘racism’ by the Left. Now these same elites want to declare that there’s NO possible way that racism could be bi-directional. Of COURSE Obama exhibits racist tendencies; we saw it with the Cambridge cop and we’ve seen it numerous times since. Everyone knows this to be true.

ChrisNH says:
June 14, 2010 at 9:08 pm

Everyone knows this to be true.
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OH! EVERYONE? That’s kind of stupid statement to make.

If I may borrow a catch phrase from Rep. James Clyburn –There is DONKEY dung all over this place.

Let these hyenas chew on vulture ridden meat.

Proud Teabagger is despicable .

Later

Go back to TVNewer troll and take your rank hypocrisy and filthy mouth with you.

Later

Seriously, you mini teabagging Baboons eat those turds like there are “Survival seeds” in them.

So the muckin foron returns with allegations of President Obama being a racist. And the same mucking forons return to defend the sht flinging Baboon.

That worked really well the first time.

“Now these same elites want to declare that there’s NO possible way that racism could be bi-directional.”

You know why? Because Obama’s not a RACIST.

I agreed with Obama in regards to the Cambridge deal. WHITE GUY HERE! Racist? I think not.

Just because Glenn tells you Obama is a racist, doesn’t make it so.

You think it’s ridiculous for tea partiers to be labeled as racist because a few in the tea party do display racist tendencies (like with Obama witch doctor signs, for instance)? Yeah, it is ridiculous, just as ridiculous as it is to claim Obama is racist because of a few statements he made that really doesn’t make him racist.

Regardless of what it looks like, Beck is not insane. He just seeks ratings and attention. But I am concerned that he is getting in over his head.

Obama may speak before he thinks sometimes, which is human, but, in my opinion, there’s not enough evidence to suggest he has reached a level of prejudicial thought to suggest or claim he’s a bonafide racist.

Of course both the right and left throw that label around like its a baseball during spring training. If that trend continues, true racists like David Duke will be able operate without proper sanction since the label will eventually have the social significance in the our lexicon as calling someone an a-hole. Then we all lose.

******WARNING*******

Mr.Glenn.Bovine.Merrill is The Real Royal King aka Robert Stephenson he is to be addressed as such.

He will deny this , it’s too late. 

Also BREAKING Update : 

Fox News : We Proudly Pander to Teabaggers  is……….

Big _F-ing_ Deal

He is to be addressed as such
 

Fox News : We Proudly Pander to Teabaggers is……….

Big _F-ing_ Deal

He is to be addressed as such
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And what’s your evidence to support this?

You or your other sockpuppet already said I was John T or Glenn Bovine the other day.

Rogue-

Spot on, my friend.

It is bad enough Beckerheads spend all day trolling TVNewser’s comment section, but then they scurry over here like filthy little cockroaches in an attempt to defend the sh*t flinging baboon’s comments..

Okay, I’ll bite. What’s the deal with TVNewser’s as it relates to his thread.

Fox News: We Proudly Pander To Teabaggers
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You must know by now that your cyber bully tactics will no longer go without notice . You’ ve been warned .

stoogedudes says:
June 14, 2010 at 9:39 pm

Rogue-

Spot on, my friend.
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I’m assuming you refer to my “on topic” comment at 9:34 pm. If so, thanks for your comment on my comment.

Yes, that is the comment in which I wholeheartedly agree with. It was a very well articulated comment and a breath of fresh air in a thread that is getting off track here.

The throwing around of the word “racist” is getting so old and worn out. It is about to lose it’s meaning. I refuse to call blanketly call tea partiers and conservatives racist because it does not bring anything to the conversation and most of all, it’s just not true. I know many with whom I disagree and who dislike Obama who couldn’t be farther from a racist.

It’s almost like calling someone we disagree with “Hitler”. Eventually, we’re going to forget why “Hitler” is such an ugly word and the events that led to it being as such.

Yes his ratings are going down and he is trying to sell his new book so the desperation is showing. The greatest amount of attention he has received to date is when he called President Obama a racist so obviously he is going for the attention. Though there is no doubt that he is on the burnout track, its just a matter of time.
BTW Michelle F you do seem pretty obsessed with the man.

I agree with stoogedudes regarding what I call the casual use of the Hitler adjective too; I remember even seeing a derogatory term applied to using such a comparison somewhere around the net neighborhood.

I have no intimate knowledge of any Tea parties, but I think the bulk of their fear comes from the loss of their Christian religion rather than any racist motivated manifesto; of course that is in addition to their fear of government regulating their lives.

Personally, I started coming here to read about media and for months I would only comment about the media aspect of a story, no matter how much the editors tried to stretch the definition so far out of shape, now there’s little pretense.

And what bothers me is that most of the time it’s pointless to make a comment because most visitors don’t read them, since a large percentage of the posts devolve into some kind of cross-site, multi-personality shout and insultfest that ends up having nothing to do with the topic at hand or are just the same tired ideas parroted day after day.

…much like this thread.
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As to the topic of this post… Beck starts out noble by defending the “Mom & Pop” station owners, but then even he seems to get them mixed-up with BP employees and he conveniently forgets the uproar in response to the CEO’s comments about wanting his life back, when the initial explosion caused 11 rig worker’s deaths.

Then, he goes off on some kind of huge tangent about how this nation’s Chief Executive meeting with some oil company CEO would be something more than a photo-op because you know, all the real work and cooperation is done in the penthouse suites and excuse me for not knowing, but have the two men been in the same town at the same time? Is Obama supposed to work around Hayward’s schedule to facilitate the useless photo-op or shouldn’t Hayward fly to the White House with his hat in hand?

IOW: Who bows to who?

Rogue-Comic says:
June 14, 2010 at 9:38 pm

Fox News : We Proudly Pander to Teabaggers is……….

Big _F-ing_ Deal

He is to be addressed as such
________________________________________________

And what’s your evidence to support this?

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Although I agree with RG on this I can’t speak for him so these are my reasons for my belief.

They share the same/similar working vocabularies.

They never make comments other than to directly insult and both (among others here from the left) seem to be particularly vindictive towards Michelle.

They have the same/similar writing styles.

They both have made vicious comments about Michelle’s status as a widow.

Certain types of people

BTW (For the record);

@MichelleF: I’ve actually received an email from Colby in the past, myself. Though mine was because I made a comment similar to my first couple of paragraphs to another site. Thankfully, he missed the similarly-themed comment to that same website I made four and a half months prior, or perhaps I’d no longer be welcome on these shores.

Sorry, I submitted by mistake before I was finished.

Certain types of people, usually there just to roil emotions and disrupt any civil serious debate, I have encountered around the net seem to also come armed with sock puppets.

Magister Magister says:
June 14, 2010 at 11:19 pm

Are you saying that you received a warning b/c you posted the same/similar comment at a different site from Mediaite and also at Mediaite?

Magister, if you are getting warnings 99% of all commenters here should be banned, IMHO.

BTW, what does IOW mean?

@Grammie: It wasn’t really a warning, but more of a calling out and though it was a little hard to tell from the tone, I hope the note was intended to be good-natured because I found it amusing.

Mostly, I just wanted to let Michelle, INB and any others know that Colby’s emails don’t just go to one side.

As for my actual “crime” (and I’m not going to link to either of my comments, though they’re open in another tab), I made a couple of similarly-themed snarky criticisms of this website’s “mission” in response to a post on another blog, Colby saw the one I made in April and asked how I could “reconcile” my comment with something that I had said, here.
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IOW == In other words

Grammie,

If you were half as principled as you are indignant, you would have left the board long ago, especially after your threat of doing so to Colby Hall.

But alas, Janet is still trolling Mediaite.

P.S.
I am under no obligation to believe what somebody tells me on this board about their marital status or anything else for that matter. Understand?

P.P.S.

Why don’t you go leave a comment at Johnny Dollars. Things are awfully slow over there.

@Grammie: PS, BTW, ETA, etc., etc.,

Just as I assumed Colby’s email was meant to be good-natured, though again it was a little hard to tell, I intended my little postscript about his email in the same spirit.

Thanks, Magister.

Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
June 14, 2010 at 11:45 pm

As I said when I came back I said I was going to follow in Atticus’ footsteps but they turned out to be much too big for me.

As for you calling me unprincipled what can I say that would carry weight with such a fine, courteous, upstanding and honest to a fault man such as you? I am crushed that I am unable to meet those towering heights of principle upon which you are so loftily perched.

Glynnis and the rest of the lefties just hate having the race card thrown back at them. Obama sat in a radical racist church for 20 years then uses the term “guys like this”. Imagine if a white guy sat in a church run by the grand wizard of the KKK then used the term “guys like this” referencing a black person. Glynnis would be calling for impeachment, Chris Mathews would be blow a gasket, and bathtub boy would be in prison for assassination.

Now, those same elites would like to announce that it is not possible, so that racism can be bidirectional. The course presents the racist Obama, we saw the police in Cambridge, and we saw several times a year.micro sd card

Does Beck really believe Obama is the son of the alien black Luo tribesman named as his father on the notorious certificate of live birth? If so, Obama would not be a natural born U.S. citizen because he was not born of citizens of the land of his birth. No, Chester Alan Arthur does not prove that an American mother was enough. Why did Pretender-President Arthur lie, destroy family records, and otherwise go to extreme lengths to conceal the fact that his father William was not an American citizen when Chester was born? Because he knew that an alien father rendered him ineligible. I blush to admit that the only ineligible Pretender-President before Obama was a Republican. Maybe the Democrats think they are owed one. If Obama is to prove he is a natural born U.S. citizen, he must prove that his parents were U.S. citizens. The black Luo was not. On a working assumption that the COLB was truthful as far as it went, how could the black Luo not be Obama’s birth father if he’s listed on the COLB? The COLB extracts information from an official document. That could be an amended birth certificate, reflecting U.S. citizens as birth parents. One must view the original birth certificate to identify the birth parents. We can’t be reasonably certain until we have DNA analysis and all birth records – who were Obama’s birth parents, and, therefore, whether he was a natural born citizen at birth. But five will get you ten that his birth parents were not black. He has built his political career on a charade, pretending to be the son of a black Muslim when he knew it was a lie, letting the Kenyan birth myth, fabricated to cover the adoption of a bastard at birth, lead the nation on a wild goose chase. His status at birth must be clarified, and thereafter as well, for while the status of natural born U.S. citizen can only be acquired at birth, it can be lost thereafter. Unless he wants to make a judicial stipulation that the black Luo was his birth father, which would be a confession of ineligibility. Meanwhile, it’s ludicrous to speculate about how he as a black can be racially biased against whites without conclusive proof that he is the son of a black Luo tribesman.

What a blubbering idiot Glenn Beck is. It’s so god damn depressing to think about the fact that this guy has his own TV show and that people gobble up everything he regurgitates.

>The throwing around of the word “racist” is getting so old and worn out.

This entire segment was about calling Obama racist against white people, something which Beck has done before. It’s so fucking stupid. 90% of the White House staff are white. 100% of his campaign tops were white. His mother was white. His grandparents were white.

Glenn Beck lives in a sick little twisted world.

Sick twisted world??? And the evidence for our most honorable president’s lack of prejudice against whites is a list of whites he’s connected to?????? I am not certain you have thought this thru. There are countless observations to make to obliterate that profound bit of reasoning. ..however, I’m disappointed with such shallow arguments’ll so i’ll just leave you with a question to ponder to help see how that argument is a bit fragile: To make the observation more solid (don’t folks have to take statistics or debate anymore in school -it can really strengthen your reasoning abilities )
1. You have to look at they demographics of the white groups you mentioned. What is it they all have in common? What do these folks have in common with President BO??
2. Are the demographic of white folks useful /needed by Mr. BO?Could he have gotten where he is without them? Does he need them if he has a chance of hanging on to his power?
3. Can a person set aside prejudice if they need the help of those they dislike? If the people you feel predjudiced towards. share similar Worldview and attitudes is it easier to ignore your prejudices than if they held differing views?
4. In order to include all numbers in this equation then you would need to include a list of nonwhite people Pre.BO has and still does. associate with and what are the levels of prejudices held by them? (one tends to distance themselves from close association with those who hold positions offensive to you)

Why don’t you go leave a comment at Johnny Dollars. Things are awfully slow over there.

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Janet, I really do think you owe it to Koldys.

This is as dumb as “Bush hates black people.” Way to raise the bar Beck.

Curiously, LB, do you think such ridiculous remarks are planned by Glen(n) to feed his fans, or is he just so erratic that they flow forth?

Oh Happy Day!(*:*)

Judging by the Left spewings on this blog today,
it appears Glenn Beck has hit a nerve in their central system;)

You know Glenn is doing his job exposing this thuggacracy
when u read the
manic dog foaming-s from the mouth Liberals

Priceless!

Beck’s job is to draw out the wingnuts and he does a very good job with that.

The Real Royal King says:
“Curiously, LB, do you think such ridiculous remarks are planned by Glen(n) to feed his fans, or is he just so erratic that they flow forth?”

I have no clue, nor do I really care.

Well, it’s of no particular importance.

If Obama isn’t racist, he certainly kept racist company. Rev. Wright and best friend Louis (white devils) Farrakhan are good examples. Royal King is also racist against (White) people, so Obama being racist certainly isn’t beyond the scope of possibility.

Liberty Banned says:
June 15, 2010 at 7:55 am
This is as dumb as “Bush hates black people.” Way to raise the bar Beck.

LB, I will just address you since the rest are like talking to a brick wall. He was saying it in jest. The point he was making is that BO is anti-business. He quoted BO in saying, “i didn’t meet with him (hayward) because in my OPINE (that’s for you King), THOSE people will just tell you what you want to hear”. What Glenn was saying is lumping all CEO’s in a group as dishonest is akin to not liking a person because of their color.

writer,
So your logic is that if a person is a friend of a racist, then he is a racist too? Correct? Gosh, so Murdoch is a friend of an Islamic man, Prince al-Walid, who most certainly is a racist and a misogynist, and who also owns a significant percentage of NewsCorp, thus Murdoch is an Islamic woman hating racist? LOL.

Writer, you are a intelligent and reasonable man but your partisanship messes with your gray matter.

Michelle,
Beck was joking about Obama hating white capitalists? Well, of course he was. His whole act is kind of a Stephen Colbert routine. That’s why I love him. But to those people who do not know that Beck’s act is a Stephen Colbert routine, Beck was serious.

BHO is a well known racist.

valk, whether or not Murdoch’s friend is a racist I don’t know. But I do know that Obama spent twenty years listening to a man whose best friend is Louis Farrakhan, an avowed racist. Obama is the president over all of us. Murdoch isn’t. It’s a bit more important to know whether Obama holds such sentiments than to know if Murdoch does.

@the royal jackass: Obama is a racist. He hates the white half of his heritage. He is proof positive that Loving vs the Commonwealth of Va should have NEVER EVER made it to the Supreme Court. Instead of laying the wreath on the the Tomb of the Unknown on Memorial Day he was schmoozing with Farrakhan.

writer,
Oh, so I got it wrong. If someone is the President, and is a friend of someone who is a friend of a racist, then that makes him a racist? LOL. Let me tell you, being friends with someone, especially someone who is a generation removed, who is a racist, does not make that person a racist. Otherwise, since most of our forefathers were racists, including the author of the Declaration of Independence, we are all in trouble, in that regard. The human heart is a work in progress, my friend. Obama is a step in the right direction, whether your politics can bring you to admit that, or not.

I love when progressives get mad at Glenn Beck because he backs up his points with inconvenient things like facts and direct quotes.

Don’t blame Beck for Obama’s segregated mindset. Blame Obama, it’s his fault.

valkyrie101: “Otherwise, since most of our forefathers were racists, including the author of the Declaration of Independence, we are all in trouble, in that regard.”

Yeah, they were such rampant racists that they then went and penned the United State Constitution several years later, which is undeniably an anti-slavery document. And the person who actually wrote the Declaration of Independents unconditional freed all of his slaves in his will.

Aside from that, good conclusion. You only provide no facts whatsoever to back it up.

valk, if Obama felt there was nothing wrong with Wright’s friendship, why throw him under the bus after videos came out of Wright’s sermons? And Obama had said that Wright was not only a friend but a mentor. Know what a mentor is? Obama only had trouble with Wright’s racism after he was running for president. And saying he never heard any racist rants in twenty years is unbelievable to anyone but the far left.

Tony,
Racism was part of the mind set of the time, and while some of the forefathers strongly argued against it, many supported it. And the south refused to let it go and would not ratify the Constitution without assurances that it would not be banned by a coalition of Northern states acting against their economic interests. All of that is history, Tony. That compromise over slavery at the time of the founding of our nation was the foundation for the civil war. Jefferson owned slaves and had some racists ideas, but he also was a visionary and he correctly described true freedom for all men, even if it took a hundred more years to get a consensus.

Writer,
When I was growing up I had a good friend in high school who was blatantly racist. I used to laugh at him, and after a while he got the joke. Obama certainly did not accept or endorse Wright’s racism. How could he, he is half white. Wright is a function of a different time, than Obama. In Wright’s time, during the time of his life, blacks were treated pretty rudely. Obama has a different life experience than Wright.

No, Mr. -0bama refused to meet with Mr. Hayward because Mr. Hayward can speak more than three words without saying “uh” and because Mr. Hayward would invite him to try and kick his ass…or “arse” if you prefer.

Nice to see that you side with, and apparently cheer for, the foreign corporation that pollutes our waters and devastates our gulf coast economy.