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Glenn Beck Calls Obama a 'Racist'

July 29, 2009

Rob Kuznia--HispanicBusiness.com

glenn beck calls obama 'racist'

Fox News Channel personality Glenn Beck on Tuesday said he believes President Obama is a racist, upping the ante in a racially charged media controversy involving the president, a white police officer and a black Harvard professor. Beck made the comment while being interviewed for "Fox and Friends," where the commentators were weighing in on the firestorm surrounding the July 16 arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home by white Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley. Crowley was responding to a call of a possible break-in when he came upon Gates, who found himself locked out of his house after a trip. Obama has taken some heat for saying the police department "acted stupidly," but has since backed off that language and invited both men to the White House for a beer. On Tuesday, Beck said he believes Obama "is a guy ... who has a deep-seeded hatred for white people or the white culture -- I don't know what it is," he said. When Fox host Brian Kilmeade countered that 70 percent of Obama's staff is white, Beck responded: "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people; I'm saying he has a problem -- this guy, is, I believe, a racist." Fox News Channel official Bill Shine, SVP of Programming, subsequently told Mediabistro's TVNewser site that " . . . Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions."



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catnew24@yahoo.com
8/17/2009 11:25:29 AM PST
'Glenn Beck,is doing a wonderful job.He is honest!!We need more people like him.He tells it like it is.


catnew24@yahoo.com
8/17/2009 11:10:31 AM PST
'Glenn Beck,is doing a wonderful job.He is honest!!We need more people like him.He tells it like it is.


beau
8/8/2009 1:04:51 AM PST
come on,give mr.pres. a break will you.he gets slac eveywhere.he tried to brek the ice(lessen tension)amoung 2 races that still exist due to hstory, now,you call this racist(you're full of it).whats the social differance of a beer can or a wine glass?duh!!!!!!!do you need to see longlength formal wear to figure it out or you think media could appear to be somewhat smarter than to stir havic from simplicity & you wonder why it was private.lets see:why does the ? of everything being better or worse the 200 day test in office all land onto the pres. reportcard when there are other deciding factors.that's like your boss giving your brother your raise and firing you for something your coworker did,do you really think this is fair.personally,i'm not dumb enough to buy the balogna.just quit it.


granado44
7/31/2009 5:27:26 AM PST
Glenn Beck is right on the money, about Barak being a racist! Barak's comment "the dominant figure in my formative years...The values she taught me continues to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics." here he was talking about his mother Ann Durham. She was an extreme racist. An apple NEVER falls far from its tree!!!!!!


concerned1
7/30/2009 5:41:09 PM PST
Glenn Beck has nothing better to say about the President so he came up with "Barack Obama is a racist". Much of Barack's family on his mother's side are caucasian. Come on Glenn you've got to be kidding me. Let's come up with something better than that if you can.


salser
7/30/2009 3:26:46 PM PST
True,true Let me make it clear yes clear Obama statments,writings and actions over the years clearly show his true side.!!! salser


cornell
7/29/2009 7:07:27 PM PST
Does America not realize that this has to stop??!!!!!!! The people that support people like Beck, Rush, Palin have a history of doing things like blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma, bombing abortion clinics, and so on hiding behind the premiss of freedom of speech and right to bare arms. But like Palin said, Our troops are dying to protect that same freedom. So why do people like her and Beck, and Rush keep up the voice that supports domestic terrorism? One word....MONEY! JFK died from charisma.


wetpaintbrush
7/29/2009 11:45:13 AM PST
Glenn Beck, what the heck? President Obama did not refer to the cop by his race, he said the police acted stupidly. "THE POLICE ACTED STUPIDLY." What if the policeman was black and he did the same thing? Or what if Obama was white and said, "The police acted stupidly", would that still be racist? What if the professor was white and the policeman was white and a white president had said, "The police acted stupidly". Would your remarks remain the same? Glenn Beck, to call Obama racist is a racist remark in and of itself.


hmp
7/29/2009 10:57:41 AM PST
I agree that Mr. Obama has a problem with white America. He has even expressed distain for his own mother because of her race documented in his books. He has also written that he would stand with Islam, if it came down to it. I can't believe this is our (American??) president.


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