Thursday, July 30, 2009

TPM Reader Calls Out Beck

With the goofiness surrounding beer brands, picnic tables and the importance of the President, the Professor and the Policeman swigging a brew this evening, let us not ignore the irresponsible commentary Glenn Beck offered up on Fox News recently.

TalkingPointsMemo reader MA offers an excellent analysis including:
This is not Kanye West saying Bush doesn't care about white people, or Michael Moore saying something provocative while a guest on CNN (though I challenge anyone to find Moore saying anything this ugly on anyone's program). This is Rupert's prized employee appearing on his channel, and doing the equivalent of shouting "fire" in a crowded movie house. This is the sort of comment that I might expect to read about in some SPLC missive concerning neo-Nazi websites, or the like. But as uttered by the paid employee of Fox News, on one of the network's shows?


1 comment:

Andrea said...

huh, wha??? Because a distinguished Harvard professor was arrested on his own front porch for the crime of being black our black president is now a racist??? I fail to follow the logic (oh, yeah, right wing pundits defy all logic). Oh, and let's just forget about 300 years of systematic slavery, apartheid and institutionalized racism...by whites against blacks.