Stormfront Promotes Deleted Glenn Beck White Power Twitter Fave
The uproar over a tweet from a White Power message board that showed up in Glenn Beck‘s Twitter favorites continues, as the New York Times of White Power, Stormfront (whose founder is named Don Black), is now promoting the story on its website and Twitter feed, claiming “Glenn Beck Supports White Nationalists On Twitter.”
The site that originally sent the tweet, meanwhile, has published a blog entry that expands on the statement they gave Mediaite, while opining that Beck would make a “pretty poor White Nationalist.” Several Stormfront members appear to agree.
The website StopBeck.com was first to publicize the fact that a tweet from White Nationalist message board Malevolent Freedom appeared at the top of Beck’s Twitter favorites (all of which were later deleted). It spread to other sites, before Keith Olbermann highlighted the story on Countdown.
Stormfront added its own headline to the post that started it all, but did not directly accuse Beck of supporting White Nationalism. Upon making that leap, Stormfront’s members reacted in revoltingly predictable fashion, wondering if Beck has an “Illegal Mexican wife,” and when another member disagreed by posting a Beck family photo, one of them commented, “His wife looks like a hook nose to me.”
Malevolent Freedom, meanwhile, offered its own defense of Beck, capped with the best defense of all – a repudiation of Beck:
Twitters ability to reach out to specific demographics is also the motivating force behind this sites Twitter account using the @GlennBeck and #Beck hashtags. This isn’t an attempt to infer that those who use the same tags or view those feeds endorse or practice the doctrine of White Nationalism- but rather its an attempt to make our literature available to them if they choose to read it. As the general public starts to view the main stream media as an unreliable resource, they are taking to the internet to reference “Second Source” or “Civilian Journalism” for reference material- and Twitter is an effective tool to market your information on.
When the Tweet was made- it wasn’t directed to Mr. Beck as the individual- it was made to Glenn Beck as The Brand. I could only speculate that Mr. Beck is only himself in the few hours that he has alone with his family and those that are close to him. All other times- he represents “Glenn Beck” as the commercial entity that a person who has reached his level of exposure is forced to do. I can say with a high degree of certainty that the Tweet was favorited by “The Brand” for either reference or research use, and not by “The Individual” because I’m sure he has better things to read in his free time.
…In closing- I feel it necessary to add that Mr. Beck makes an extremely poor White Nationalist, if at any time in the future he chooses to identify himself as one. And that statement comes from the mouth (or at least the keyboard) of an actual White Nationalist. He simply would not be accepted into our community. While we both may share common ideals as it applies to the liberty of the individual as absolute above the government, and that the free practice of our founding traditions need to be safeguarded- the similarities end there. Every time a “Racist” hears that claim thrown at Mr. Beck- he shake his head. We find it hilarious that the left is trying to “throw him at us” while we don’t really even accept him in the first place.
Will disses from the White Power set mollify Beck’s critics? Probably not, and that’s really not the important thing here. Malevolent Freedom’s marketing scheme fails to explain why they’re really only trying to recruit Beck’s audience. As I’ve said before, that’s the question Beck needs to answer, and perhaps, the reason he bookmarked that tweet in the first place.
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
