Fox News Channel opinionist and raconteur Glenn Beck is being hammered for calling President Obama “a racist.” His comment came after Obama’s reprehensible reaction to the arrest of his (black) friend and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Obama, you recall, said the police “acted stupidly.” “Stupid” being a condition with which this Administration is becoming increasingly familiar.
So, for expressing an opinion, Beck’s program is being boycotted by a number of advertisers. Again, “stupid” comes to mind.
But wait! If what Glenn Beck did was so incredibly heinous, then what about what South Carolina Congressman and House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn said back in February about southern governors? As reported by the prestigious Huffington Post in February:
The highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is “a slap in the face of African-Americans.”
Since racism is such a damaging and pervasive attitude in the country, fairness – the antithesis of racism – should be exercised. Thus, if Wal-Mart is gonna boycott Glenn Beck, it should also boycott South Carolina, or, more precisely, Jim Clyburn’s Sixth Congressional District.
After all, as President Obama himself said:
There is not a black America and a white America and a Latino American and an Asian America — there is the United States of America.
You fail to note that South Carolina is already under a boycott thanks to racism.
But for a different – and stupid – reason. You speak of the confederate battle flag that resides in ONE place. Thus, there is a “boycott” on SC businesses and certain sports events. Consider, though, that the Georgia state flag, which flies over thousands of venues across that state, incorporates the same confederate battle emblem, yet there is no boycott against Georgia.
The point of my post (above) is the hypocrisy of the Beck boycott when SC’s own Jim Clyburn is equally guilty.
I agree, it is a stupid reason. That piece of shit flag doesn’t belong on our statehouse grounds. Case closed. They can tear Tillman out of the ground while they’re at it.
The Georgia flag does not incorporate elements of the battle flag but the national confederate flag. But more importantly, am I from Georgia? Do I care how they design their state flag? Did the people of Georgia vote for their state flag design?
Companies aren’t boycotting Beck. They choose not to purchase commercial time during his program so their product or brand isn’t associated with his ignorance. Free market, right?
Is Clyburn a spokesman for Wal-Mart? I’d love to hear how a boycott of his district might work, or maybe you were just trying to make a dumb comparison of two completely unrelated statements. Did Clyburn say “Mark Sanford is a racist” or did he suggest that Sanford and other governors were looking to reject money that would greatly affect a minority population most in need?
You worked in intelligence? Posts like this suggest that was an incredible twist of irony.
So, how much of that “stimulus” went to minorities? Get back when you have the numbers.
Yet another completely insignificant rhetorical flourish! You bureaucrats are an impressive bunch.
Personal attacks, Micah? Well, I guess when there is no defense for your party’s facist approach to governance, a president who is way over his head and a philosophy that is repeatedly rejected by the American citizenry, then ya don’t have much left other than personal attacks.
Thin skin? I didn’t know bureaucrat was a dirty word.
Don’t be so grumpy, if you’re right you’ll have Congress and the White House back in no time.
Stick to defending nuts like Beck and making pointless attacks against Democrats while your champions like Sanford go down in flames.
“If what Glenn Beck did was so incredibly heinous, then what about what South Carolina Congressman and House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn said back in February about southern governors?”
First of all, Clyburn is not exactly the ripest apple in the bag. And he also knows that he will not be called to task because “white guilt” forces some people to interpret this as something that actually sounds logical and reasonable. Then, throw in the MSM, who publishes this as fact and then asks the governors why are they such vehement racist. Just wish asshats like Clyburn would recognize the strides made in the last 40 to 50 years and stop having the reaction that everything that is confrontational and involves white people is not racist.
It just gets boring.
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