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pogo4pres -> RE: Blech the Racist (9/2/2010 11:51:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster
"Throughout his career in Top 40 radio, Beck was known for his imitations of “black guy” characters and racist tropes. According to Beck’s former colleagues in the late 90s, this included mocking unarmed blacks shot and killed by white police officers. Such was the case of Malik Jones, the victim of a controversial killing that took place in 1997.
“After the shooting, Beck sometimes did a racist shtick,” remembers Paul Bass, a former radio host and Beck colleague at a Clear Channel station cluster in New Haven. “Glenn did routines about Jones’ grandmother being on crack. Generally he made fun of his family and the loss of life -- as joke routines.”
Beck’s racially tinged tirades did not disappear after he switched formats in 1999. During his first talk radio stint in Tampa, he often referred to the Rev. Jesse Jackson as “the stinking king of the race lords.” Most recently, Beck has worked to resuscitate the names of famously anti-civil rights figures from the history of his adopted Mormon faith. He has respectfully played tapes of Ezra Taft Benson, who thought Martin Luther King was a communist agent out to destroy the Mormon Church (and who once wrote the foreward to a book of race hate whose cover illustration featured the severed, bloody head of an African American). Beck has also implored his viewers to read the “divinely inspired” books of W. Cleon Skousen, another John Birch Society fantasist who believed that the civil rights movement was part of a worldwide Communist (and, later, “New World Order”) conspiracy.
The above gives some sense, but barely scratches the surface of, Beck’s long and disgraceful record on race. The Fox News host has also played a key role in the conservative attempts to whip up white opposition to Barack Obama by painting the president’s health and environmental agendas as Trojan horses for “stealth reparations” for black Americans. For much of the summer of 2009, Beck ranted about the alleged “black nationalism” of Van Jones, a White House environmental official who resigned last September after what Jones described as conservatives’ “vicious smear campaign” against him. Beck also helped lead the racially charged cavalry charges against ACORN and Eric Holder’s Justice Department (for its handling of the New Black Panther Party “scandal”.)"
Link
As we Progressives have known all along...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/22/glenn_beck/
Hippie here is a snip from an earlier article on Glenn Beck, even the righties have to admit this is subhuman behavior:
The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween -- a recurring motif in Beck's life and career -- Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. "A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby."
"It was low class," says Miller, now president of Open Stream Broadcasting. "There are certain places you just don't go."
I know there will be a cry of hatchet job and other defenses for this ignorant motherfucker, there will be questioning of the source, none of it means a fucking thing. Any one that defends this shit is just as big a fucktard as Beck.
Journalistically,
Some Knucklehead in NJ
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