Beck, As In Wreck

Glenn Beck is an idiot.

I'm tempted to not stop there, and do the school days equivalent: write it 100 times on the blackboard, er, this post.

Hell, I'll write it 500 times. I doubt I'd get sick of it.

Glenn Beck is an idiot.

No, not even close to being tired of those words yet.

Beck, another who soils the broadcast air on Fox News, called President Obama a racist.

Beck's attack comes in the wake of the controversial arrest of Harvard University Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is black, and Obama's reaction, which included taking the police to task. Read: the white police officer to task.

Obama then backed off his statement, in which he initially said that the police had "acted stupidly."

On this morning's episode of "Fox & Friends", Beck said the president---the President of the United States---has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

WHAT??

Beck's statement, thank God, was challenged on the air by Fox host Brian Kilmeade, who noted that most of the people who work for the nation's first black president are white---though that's hardly the greatest argument in the world, seeing as though most people in this country are white. But I digress.

"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."

Wait---he's a racist, yet you're not saying that he doesn't like white people?

And Obama is the one with the problem?


The face of an idiot: Glenn Beck


Then there's the matter of Beck talking about Obama in a manner of disrespect.

"This guy, I believe, is a racist."

This guy?

It's amazing how certain folks casually toss caustic words around.

Of all the things you can call someone, when you're not really sure if they are that, "racist" is right up there among the most heinous.

Here are some others: Anti-Semitic. A child molester. Glenn Beck.

Maybe Beck saw an opportunity---a chance for the mentally challenged.

"Hey---wouldn't it be great fun to, for a change, call a black man racist?"

Beck might have figured that he could satisfy that urge with Obama as his target because, well, the president can take it.

For the record, an Obama spokesman, William Burton, said the White House had no comment on Beck.

Well, allow me then. I don't have to be as gracious.

Glenn Beck is a small-minded man who is another who's cobbled together a mini-empire by appealing to other small-minded people and leading them by the snouts. He's an intellectual lightweight with a heavyweight forum---never a good combination.

Beck wondered, during the discussion on "Fox & Friends," what other president would immediately jump on the police for their actions in the Gates case.

Not sure, but I kind of think it would have been nice if other presidents had called out some folks over the years.

Obama, in fact, should get props for backing off the "acted stupidly" remark and then offering an olive branch to Gates and the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, by inviting them to the White House for a "let bygones be bygones" beer.

But that's all beyond the range of Glenn Beck's capacity for reasoning.

Because "this guy's" an idiot.

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