One more day, one more damning, murderous racist blast from Glen Beck “fantasizing” about the death of people not like him. In this case, President Obama:
God forbid anything bad happen to the people I so love to hate.
That was the theme of Glenn Beck’s Thursday radio broadcast, in which he spun a series of myths about the president’s ongoing trip across Asia into a violent fantasy about Obama getting his head cut off by radical Muslims angry that he’d supposedly forsaken Islam. […]
In Beck’s Thursday afternoon radio spiel, the often dramatic and conspiratorial right-wing radio host suggested that because Obama had supposedly forsaken Islam, he’s placing himself at risk of being killed by radical extremists in India, who would just as soon “behead” him.
“God help us all,” he said. “Why is the president putting himself in danger? Why is anyone allowing him to put himself in danger, and if it’s not a danger, why do we have 34 warships? […] I don’t care if you spend $10 billion to protect the President. Nothing can happen to the president, period. I don’t like the man. He’s the President of the United States nothing can happen to him, so I don’t care how much money you spend, but why is he going there? Why are we spending $2 billion to put him there?”
The remark about 34 warships, and the claim of expenditures topping $2 billion for the president’s trip, is without merit according to the White House.
People call Fox News and its “hosts” “Radio Rwanda” for a reason. In most of the country talk radio has no progressive voices to counter the hate and bigotry and eliminationist speech of right wing talk radio. All you hear are variations on a theme, and that theme is hate thy neighbor and pray for his or her death. That is especially true if your neighbor is one of the following: Democrat, liberal, progressive, homosexual, transgender, African American, Muslim, Hispanic, Scientist, atheists, ad nauseam.
Expect this kind of hateful, demonizing, “someone ought to take out these godless heathens trying to destroy America” rhetoric to ratchet up even more over the next two years.
As Sarah Palin would say: You Betcha!
You know, in Oakland you can execute a black man if you don’t mind doing two years in prison. That, of course, is a big improvement over the way things used to be. We don’t need people amplifying the grotesque amount of hate that already exists.
This was clearly a pre-meditated smear from the Wurlitzer. I’d be interested to know who’s sitting at the keyboard. I suspect he’s a paunchy, balding white guy uncomfortably shifting in an expensive suit.
The bad Roger Ailes?
What pisses me off about this article is the statement that the remarks about 34 warships and $2 billion cost are “without merit according to the White House.” No, they are without merit, period. Why can’t reporters simply call a lie a lie, rather than simply saying that one side says X and the other side says Y?
Because those in the TradMed have sold their souls to the devil.
I am so tired of this shit. About a month before the election, my good manners broke and I started sparring with “friends” and relatives on Facebook who repeated this kind of stupidity. I wasn’t too rude; I’d just hammer them with logic, reason and facts until they sputtered. In response, they seem to have decided to forgo repeating RepubliCorp lies to avoid my calling them on it. I know they’ve still got that crap in their heads but at least they think twice about expressing it where I can see it.
They right can rationalize anything. I’m sure violence is no problem. I truly believe Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are dangerous sociopaths. Just to name a few, there are many more.
I get the feeling that Beck and others of his ilk are going to go full bore with hate and violence talk.
There doesn’t seem to be a line anymore, never mind crossing it.
Its all a sleight-of-hand that’s really designed to perpetuate the meme that Obama’s trip costs $200 milly a day.