Bad Deeds from Glenn Beck

BECK: “I don`t have a lot of African-American friends, and I think part of it is because I`m afraid that I would be in an open conversation, and I would say something that somebody would take wrong, and then it would be a nightmare. Am I alone in feeling that?”

Let me translate. Glenn Beck just said that he doesn’t have many black friends because he is scared of saying something racist that would create a “nightmare”. (But he implies hat it would be the black person’s fault because he took it wrong.) In other words, Beck is so scared that his racism will reveal itself, and that something bad will happen as a result, that he makes a point of not having many black friends.

What else has Glenn Beck said?

Beck asked the first Muslim-American member of the US Congress to prove he wasn’t working with terrorists simply because he’s a Muslim-American.

Beck fantasized, on the air, about assassinating filmmaker Michael Moore

Beck said he “hates” the families of the victims of September 11: “I didn’t think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims…. when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up!’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.”

Beck called the residents of New Orleans who stayed behind during Hurricane Katrina “scumbags.”– He also said the following about the Katrina victims forced to relocate to the Houston Astrodome: “[When I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn’t think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims.”

Beck compared former President Jimmy Carter to David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, suggesting that Carter believed in Holocaust denial theories, when he most certainly does not.

Beck compared US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) to Adolph Hitler, suggesting that her health care proposal is akin to Hitler’s plan to euthanize babies and the elderly.

What can I do about Glenn Beck?

First, contact the companies who are financing Glenn Beck’s hate speech by advertising on his show. They include Office Depot , and Welch’s. Tell them that you do not appreciate them associating their brand with people who preach hate.

Next, contact CNN. Tell them that you are outraged that they would provide a microphone to someone broadcasting hate speech against entire classes of American citizens. And before CNN responds that this is simply “an opinion show,” ask them if they’d give David Duke “an opinion show” to rail against blacks and Jews? Unlikely. When you contact the advertisers and CNN, make sure to be cordial, and not to use any foul language or any insults. Simply be professional, and they will listen.

Regards,

Jim