A major component of today’s Glenn Beck episode was about having pride in America as well as capitalism with America being represented by a doorway to our past (literally a doorway placed on stage) and capitalism represented by the awesomeness of the iPad (something Beck gushed about in a segment sure to make Mr. Rupert “Daily” Murdoch very happy). However, there was one part of America that Beck was not happy with and that was the state of Texas because a town there recently tried to teach mandatory Arabic language and culture classes to middle and high schoolers.

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Beck’s main concern seemed to be that time was spent teaching kids about other cultures instead of our own.

“The Department of Education has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’ That’s great. I’m gonna teach my kids to drive one of those flying cars because that’s the transportation of the future or maybe a bullet train on green fuel. Maybe the D.O.E. should be told that Arabic is

actually a very old language and it’s not used here an awful lot. And it’s also a language of the present, not the future. By concentrating on that language or that culture or any and not concentrating on our kids learning English and American history and what makes our culture a culture, makes our culture a culture of the past.”

Don’t worry though, Texas. While Beck certainly didn’t like this story (or hearing that some of your schools now teach about the Alamo with stronger “sensitivity” for Mexicans) he still loves you. He ended his show with an ode to the brave men who died defending the Alamo, again quoting Davy Crockett.

Check out the clip from Fox News below:
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