Glenn Beck Exploits White Frustration to Drum Up Racism Against President Barack Obama

Barack Obama’s ascendance to the U.S. presidency was the single-best thing to happen to the careers of unrenowned, little-respected white racists like Glenn Beck — men of meager talents and hatred housed in their souls. Obama has incidentally created celebrities out of kook-conservative personalities like Glenn Beck, who drudged in deserved obscurity for years. Many have now rocketed out of the cloud of nothingness with unsubstantiated venom [and calls of racism] against the first-ever African American president. These well-dressed white supremacists are conveniently camouflaged under the respectable banner of “conservatism”, which provides a political safe haven from which they unfurl fiery, divisive rhetoric with reckless aplomb and little care for the collateral damage they inflict.

It matters little if the statements they attribute to this administration are true. Even Hitler knew that if he said Jews were bad for Germany enough times, that it would arouse enough anti-Semitic and nationalistic hatred to doom Jewish-German residents. As we obviously know now, Hitler’s diabolical and demonic plan worked. And now here comes Beck, who tosses verbal bombs onto the airwaves from a safe distance and then watches them explode around the White House. And it is a statement so far from the truth it crosses into lunacy.

“This president has exposed himself … over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don’t [know] what it is,” Beck says with a straight face. Yet, less than 15 seconds later, when it’s pointed out that over 70 percent of Obama’s inner circle and cabinet are white people, Beck contradicts himself, saying: “I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people … This guy has a problem. This guy is a racist.”

Beck proffered absolutely nothing of worth to substantiate his foolhardy accusations against Obama except to say that the president’s environmental czar subscribed to liberation theology back in the day.

Looking around the wreckage that is modern Republicanism, people like Beck clamor for the remaining scraps of political territory to horde and protect with lightning-rod statements that send high-voltage messages through the airwaves. His statement was inexcusable and indefensible by every stretch of the imagination. Beck is a mentally-disturbed demagogue – a desperate, media-hungry, spotlight-devouring bottom feeder who used the “Obama is a racist” statement to rocket himself into the national consciousness. Never mind the fact that Obama’s mother was white, his grandmother [who Obama shed tears for when she died during the campaign] was white, along with the grandfather who raised Obama — also white. To hate white people would be akin to cultural cannibalism. It would mean that Obama hates a significant part of himself. This is why Beck’s statement was pure idiotic. –terry shropshire