"I have a big fat mouth sometimes and I say things," Beck said during an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.

thanks for sharing..

Welcome Larry. I hope this is a beginning towards healing the racial divide within our nation. Now if only Rush Limbaugh would take back some of his inflammatory rhetoric.

Let me begin by saying that I've never understood how anyone could ever call President Obama racist. His own Mother is White. He was raised by his White Grandmother and Grandfather. And besides that he's shown no signs of being a prejudiced individual. So the claims of him being racist have always puzzled me.

His bills have all have been directed towards helping the American people, not just Black people. His appointments have been as diverse as the demography of our nation. There are those who may not agree with his bills or appointments, but in no way can you say that they are influenced by race.

Take a look at his Supreme Court nominees. Take a look at his Secretary of State. Take a look at his closest of advisers. Where is the racism? I just don't see it.

So I am glad that Fox News host Glenn Beck said Sunday that he misspoke last year when he characterized President Obama as a racist. I hope it's a beginning towards healing the racial divide that's poisoning our nation. We have much more important issues to deal with than arguing over this issue.

I urge all opposed to the President to be a part of the solution. Tell me how you would do things differently. And remember saying "NO" and "I Hope He Fails" is not an option. Let me hear what you would do to deal with the serious issues facing the American people. What is your answer when it comes to providing health care to America's most neediest? What would you do to lower the unemployment rate? How would you address the immigration issue?

I'd really like to hear answers and not just what the President is doing wrong. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback. Finding solutions is a little bit more difficult.

Let's have an open discussion regarding the direction our nation should go towards. My first thought is that we should start bringing back our manufacturing jobs. I believe that exporting these jobs led to the demise of our middle-class. Who did they think would be able to buy American products and services other than they upper-class.

What's your opinion?

I would really like to see him lead, not blame.

He is leading you just dont want to see it. HCR and wallstreet reform and cc reform.

Now a question for you. I see a lot of people say all Obama does is blame Bush but I rarily hear Obama say it so please provide me a link or source of all this blaming Obama is doing. Thank you.

Doug Geo.W. Bush is seriously racist. Here is that famous video of him wiping his hand on Clinton's shirt after he shands a Haitian Man's hand.

Bush: Racist to the core and don't forget his momma's remarks about after Katrina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oHOUnQ0gYI

Ok Doug maybe I wasnt clear enough. I said Obama blames BUSH not Republican economic policies.

You gave 2 examples...wow.

And a blog is NOT a reliable source.

"Everyone has the right to be uninformed but some abuse the privledge."

Wow Lori nice quote!!

Glad you identify with it.

So Doug, sating the obvious,
Bush/Cheney policies caused the economic crash is something you find fault with?
A fact is a fact.
Bush/Cheney economic policies caused the economic disaster.
I hope every Democrat running for office this fall says it over and over and over again.

"So I ask you Lloyd is George W Bush a racist?
Did you ask these questions of the people the last 8 years prior to this President? I really would like to know your ideas. i would also love to hear what you said and wrote about the last President."

Doug from the beginning of the George Bush's administration I believed that he was incompetent, not racist.

I believed that he lied about looking for weapons of mass destruction to gain support for HIS misguided war in Iraq.

I believe that he took his eye off the prize in Tora Bora, the mountainous region of Afghanistan, where Osama Bin Laden was cornered and allowed his to walk into the lawless region of Pakistan.

If you listen to the former President and be honest with yourself, you like I, can't believe he was capable of graduating from Harvard and Yale all on his own.

I graduated from Rutger's University and there's no way I believe that George Bush was capable of writing a thesis or making an oral presentation worthy of a Harvard or Yale degree.

So Doug this is my ideas and this is what I wrote about the former President.

Anymore questions?

Llody already stated that he does not think that Bush is racist...!

Monique this is what they do all the time. They conveniently ignore what I've said and go on to their scripted talking points.

I'll repeat my statement once again Doug. This time I will highlight it for you.

"Doug from the beginning of the George Bush's administration I believed that he was incompetent, not racist."

Doug I don't know how I can be any clearer.

Fox news interviewing Glenn Beck is like me being interview by my bathroom mirror

I understand your feelings John. But I'm hoping that Beck's rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's most famous speech made him look within and realize how extreme his behavior has been over the last 18 months.

I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt on this one.

You are obviously kinder than I am Lloyd. I don want him redeemed. I want him stopped. The I apologize routine is much over done and over valued. This man has done much damage to this country and should be held accountable

And that's why there will never be true unity when some will never forgive.

"As humans we are incapable of forgetting. Forgiveness is not bringing it up" My dad

John, would you please list the specifics of your assessment that Beck has "done much damage to this country". From what I can see, he has raised legitimate questions about some virulent people and groups that seem intent on destroying the principles on which this nation was built.

See Ned Hansom below. Glenn Beck is making a lot of money from people like you and Nora . I hioe you are getting your money's worth

Glenn Beck is making a lot of money from people like you and Nora
Exactly John. His only "god" is money. He is an entertainer who knows what sells-hate- and he is using the ignorant to line his coffers.

Lori,
What exactly was said at the 828 rally that was hateful? Be specific.
AFAIK, he didn't "make" any money in setting up this rally. In fact he raised $5 and a half million for the families of Special Ops soldiers lost in combat.
He did wear a bullet-proof vest at the rally, and the government had snipers on the roof of the Lincoln Memorial. Wonder whose hate those actions were concerned with.
You progressives are bankrupt (even as you are trying to do the same to the country).

Ken I am not specifically talking about the rally but Beck in general. For an example....look at this post with him saying Obama hates white people.

"For an example....look at this post with him saying Obama hates white people."

Lori they conveniently ignore that statement. It's all sarcasm or 'funning' in their eyes. He won't answer you.

don't fall for the okie doak

I hope that kids that went to this rally go back and check out Dr. King's rally on You Tube and then ask their parent why there were few if any minorities in attendance at Beck's rally? Parents need to be honest (after all this rally is about honor) and say it's because of the racist undertone (or not so under) of the radical right.

Brian I'm surprised that so many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren don't question why their grandmothers, grandfathers, great grandmothers, and great grandfathers were so opposed to equal rights for Black people who were treated so badly before Martin Luther King came around.

They should be asking their kin why they opposed equality in schooling, housing, voting rights, and civil rights.

What were they thinking?

Doug R.
What a pile of drivil.
Civil war=Preserve the Union.
You silly southern sympathizers constantly say that war wasn't about slavery,
It was, but you are one of the ones who claim it wasnt.
NAACP was not founded by white people.
The entire white south went Republican after Johnson and the Democrat majority congress passed the Civil Rights legislation in 1964.
Stop trying to rewrite history, some of us actually know history.

Here is the vote count for the 1964 civil rights legislation passage.
Now remember, Dems did have the majority in both houses,
But, yes a few Republicans voted for it.
The original House version:

it was more ofa regional vote than anything.

But, yes I call you a racist.
I believe you are.
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7%–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%–15%)
The Senate version:

Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5%–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%–16%)

Cena, hit girl with hard facts and glory for knowing history as you suppose to....

You are right Doug the original founders of the NAACP were white Jews and 1 Negro...W.E.B. DuBois one of America's most intelligent men the African race had to offer....

quit trying to cliam reverse racism...African people by definition can not be racist!

Uh-huh... Su-u-u-ure Glenn...

"I don't want to retract..."

No doubt. That was a pretty damned detailed statement for a "misspoke" to cover it, dontcha thimk? So you were thinkin' he was a racist before you were thinkin' he wasn't a racist? That about cover it?

Perfect example of why people should think before they speak. With the advent of the internet, people will forever hold a person accountable for their words and deeds.

Mr. Beck I hope you change your ways.

Lloyd, are you going to hold the President to that same opinion? "people should think before they speak" We do have some incidents of the President saying expressing some unsavory ideas.

This president is one of the first at least in the past 8 years that can think. I know that is hard for you to deal with

"Lloyd, are you going to hold the President to that same opinion?"

No Nora. In no way would I ever want to make anyone think that Glenn Beck and President Obama are on the same intellectual or moral levels.

Nora the president is human...did you check what you say/said...and do you hold yourself up to the same standards?

Mr. Beck has loose lips that have consistently used racist and ethnic parody to "entertain" his listeners. Nice to be charitable but - if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc. it's a duck. Beck is willing to use racism and hateful parody to sell himself - to that end he gives "support" or permission to racists and wannabe big guy teens encouragement that sometimes ends up with someone getting killed. If he wanted to sell himself as a Johnny Carson or Bob Hope type entertainer - he could easily do so. So - he either knows he does not have that talent, or he believes some or all the crap he lashes out with.

"Beck is willing to use racism and hateful parody to sell himself - to that end he gives "support" or permission to racists and wannabe big guy teens encouragement that sometimes ends up with someone getting killed."

Once again someone so influential should think before they speak. For they know not of the consequences of their words or deeds.

So sad.

YOu are wrong Ned, of all the times I've listened to him, I have NEVER heard a racist or ethnic slur.

If you have some specific proof of that, please share with us.

If you want to believe he does not dwell on racist issues for one reason or another - that is your right. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/15561/

If none of this strikes you as racist or supporting racism. that's your right - I think he give support to racism becvause of what he says and does not say.

Nora arent you always running around saying that to call someone a racist makes you a racist?

Or is Beck excluded from this?

Ned, for a white man I like your point of view, it demostrates experience and the ability to understand parody~

Next time, I will even proof read my comment before sending it up. In Cincinnati, I have met way too many people who excuse their racism with a "I did not really mean anything, I was just being funny or whatever..."

I get a lot of replies saying that I don't understand sarcasm. They'll do anything to justify their racist feelings.

a big fat mouth that fronts a small skewed brain!

I'm getting the feeling Mr. Beck will wake up wondering why he ever did this interview. LOL!

Why?? according to him he says nothing stupid~

He mispoke it is not accurate but he won't retract. Duh

I'm only hoping that he is willing to look deep within and do some soul searching. Maybe he can change the page in this chapter of his life.

What does retracting his statement do?? make us forget he said it!

sometime= all the time
he cant go back once is said is always remembered,,

It basically show that some people have little or no conscious as they act if what they've said and done didn't really happen.

Apparently Beck thinks LIBERATION is not such a great Idea, if he equates it..as he evidently does, with Racism. The poor man needs help. Or an Education.

Karl, have you looked into that movement? Their "liberation" is not the same as promoting liberties for all.

Nora, there is a lot of controversy about Liberation Theology Basically it began with the Nuns and Priests of Argentina and Chile. GOT A BUNCH OF THEM KILLED BY RADICAL RIGHT WING, ANTI COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS SUPPORTED BY RON REAGAN AND G H W BUSH AND HIS SON.
Yes Nora I have looked into that movement it is the same kind of movement ACORN was. It is the kind of movement elitist AMERICANS cannot allow to gain populist support because it threatens their oligarchy.

So, to answer you, Yes I have looked into Liberation Theology. And you are RIGHT. It does not promote the liberty that allows the exploitation of the labor and lives of working men and women without ADEQUATE AND FAIR COMPENSATION.

Doug, just out of curiosity, have you bothered to remember, or for that matter find out about the disappearances? Have you even considered that Liberation Theology is a Christian Theological Movement striving to provide LIBERATION to people oppressed by government? Do you know that Liberation Theology follows the biblical teachings of Jesus Christ?

Do you even care?

DO YOU, or for that matter Glen Beck, know the definition of the purely political term "doublespeak?"

You're Right in One Respect, Here I come, into a thread set up by people who are either ignorant of what they speak. OR EVIL. And Doug, I will keep doing it. Your nonsense notwithstanding.

Yeah. Damn those Catholics for putting their lives on the line for oppressed people!

Well Gail, the Nuns should mind their own business, teaching about Jesus and Salvation in the Afterlife. Glenn BLECH gets to teach about Jesus and submission to people who have more money than you do in this life. Those Nuns had no business trying to redistribute the wealth of a nation's natural resources to the people of that Nation. Sarah Palin can do it in Alaska, but Barack Obama can't do it in the USA. And nobody even tries in Mexico and all points south. Except for Caesar Chavez. He is the DEVIL himself for making oil companies pay for all that Venezuelan oil, and to pay wages to all those Venezuelan Oil Field Workers.

Tip of the Red White and Blue Striped Hat to Lloyd, Proud Democrat, YOUR thread has been hijacked by jack booted brownshirts intent on making America a PURE Christian Nation in the Image of Jerry Falwell.

We love your passionate liberal rhetoric Karl, keep it going!

Well Doug, I am not going to defend Clinton's Foreign Policy. I am going to attack again, Glenn Beck's THEFT of the phrase. You seem to think that since the POPE came down on Liberation Theology in 1985, Clinton should have done something to make me love him for defending it. He didn't even lift the embargo on Cuba. How dumb is that.

You are saying that I am generalizing, Well DUH....The MODERN version of Liberation Theology started in 1944, Bill Clinton was born in 1946. Of course that does not forgive my assumption that you and Glenn Beck knew what you were talking about. Beck has the audacity to put the event that tipped the scales in favor of the Civil Rights act into HIS agenda of Division and Domination, and THEN adds Liberation Theology to the list of SOCIALIST, GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION EVENTS that he wants to call Conservative. You and a lot of other "Patriots" don't even know how close the abattoir you are or that you are on a steady march to the end of the USA as we know it.

At least he is not as ambitious as Hitler. He is willing to settle for a 100years. Hitler wanted a thousand. Hitler lasted 11, if the Beck Palin Crap is going to stay true to form they have about 3 months left.

Doug, I will say this again. Have you ever heard of IRAN CONTRA?

Making sense Karl is not yet

Doc D, if you want to talk like a Jedi Knight, you might make a little more effort it is not your mother tongue.

The "president in between" was forced in bowing to right wingers... that is why his administration did little to correct the problems. Conservatism is the acid that burns the heart and soul out of America and will cause Her demise

Because of their unwarranted hatred of our President from day one, their vision has been clouded and they fall to see the real harm they are doing to our country and our Democratic experience.

They've kidnapped it and now hold the American people hostage. But not to worry. An Amber alert has been issued. And in November Democracy will return.

Karl, i got to laugh out loud...LOL

Thanks for posting this to 4 US, World News & Opinions.

Just remember these things when or if Beck runs or supports someone for the presidency of the USA. One can never trust the words that come out of his mouth.

Amen~

I am not a Beck supporter but if we would all follow in his steps and admit when we're wrong this place would be full of better people.
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We should have know this idiot hate seller was part of a cult.... but he has to be the least Mormon of any Mormon.. surely they dont promote such hate,,, or do they? The meadows?

Well anyway... the man is an entertainer who is loosing his mind, what little mind there ever was. His feeding the hate and resentment of a lot of white people against minorities and using code phrases for doing it They are racist phrases and that is why only racist understand him and like him.... he is just bringing back the time before the 60,s... I remember those days and hate to see them return. Just another White supremacist... using the "im not racist, their racist" rhetoric I heard so often many years ago from the Klan... nothing really new here.

Mormans spent millions to defeat gay rights in California.
Why haven't they lost their tax exempt status?

GEt a load of this Doug.
As for the Muslim Mosque/cultural center. It is constitutionally their right.
They are citizens.
Ps read this about Murdoch, the Saudi Prince who owns part of News Corp and . . .Silly old Glen
"...Rupert Murdoch may be getting an unpleasant phone call soon, if it hasn't come already.

That's because Glenn Beck, the Fox News network's popular opinion host, just blamed the world's 19th richest man -- Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud -- for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

As it happens, the Prince is a major investor in News Corporation; at seven percent of the company's shares, he's second only to Rupert Murdoch himself. Fox News is just one piece of the massive corporation. Murdoch, likewise, owns nine percent of the Prince's Arab media empire Rotana.
Most people would call the situation awkward, to say the least...."

From: http://www.disclose.tv/forum/glen-beck-blames-saudi-prince-for-
911-part-owner-of-newscorp-t23790.html

That is from here,
Actually World Net Daily(seriously conservative) reported this months ago, I have posted about it before.

Okay so a religion that fights against gay marriage should lose their exemptions. In other words they should lose their constitutional rights.

Now which amendment is that?

"fighting against gay rights" is political and nothing to do with religion, especially a Christian religion... Jesus spoke against such action. The closest it comes to religion would be a doctrinal issue in the denominations that preach that . Millions of Christian churches teach against such interference in government. Only certain ones agree with you Doug and they do not speak for all of Christianity.. and for many that type of doctrine is unChristian! Fundamentalist Evangelicals and Fundamentalist Muslims are no different, neither represents the true teachings of Christ and they both teach HATE.

Doug conveniently ignores the Separation of Church and State when the Church sides with him in his opposition to gay rights. Doug you can't have it both ways.

I wish the leaders on the 'right' spent more time on the issues rather than just attacking Obama. They should do what they can to stop the damage being done through bad legislation and executive orders, but personal attacks are nothing but distractions.

In Mr. Beck's case, this qualifies as a stunning level of self-awareness.

Lloyd.
I understand your desire to be hopeful. It's a big part of my life.
But. I don't think one can preface one's confession with -- I don't want to retract, but, and be taken seriously.

Well all I can say is that when I was a candidate for the Tea Party, I met tons of people who really loved Glen Beck, but frankly I never really understood what he was saying. Now that I have quit the Tea Party I keep thinking about all of those people who loved Glen Beck so much, and the main thing I can remember is that they were always angry, but I couldnt tell why. Mostly it was about losing freedom and becoming socialist and stuff like that, and comparing Obama and democrats to Nazis and communists, anyway, all really really boring. Oh boy, do I hate politics. It just makes people angry.

But anyway, since I left my flight attendant job to run for that stupid election, and then got kicked out of the Tea Party, I lost my job, and the airlines just arent hiring right now, because of the economy (which is Obama's fault too, right?) and I am now too old for modeling any more, so I dont have a job. If anyone reading this has a job for me, could you let me know? I was a model and an actress and a flight attendant, and um, well, you know, some other stuff, but I dont think I want to do that again. But other than that I will do anything. Except politics.

How are you at cleaning toilets, Abby? I think there's an opening for a rest stop attendant on I-70 near here, and as a recent Tea Party candidate, shoveling the chit should be something you could be good at....

The economy is ALL the fault of right wing influence in government < the President is just trying to correct it.

Llyod,
Such optimism, dream on, it is a failing we liberals suffer from, we think people are good. . . .
then we see what to me
was the first official gathering of the 'merican Nazi party.
All that God and Nation bs and . . . all white.

Every time I am called a racist, I wish that I had proof that I did march with Dr King.
I have been called a racists because I did not like a proposed "rule" for a charity that I was on their board of directors.
...I had to call him on this, and for his tantrum words, I demanded that he would be immediately censured, and that he can not falsely accuse anyone ever again.
...He then tried to say that I had to be a racist because, he accused, that I didn't try to get to know him. Then, using every member on the board, as a witness, that I did try to get to know him.. And shown him to have used the phrase like"Why, you aint black."
..And the other 2 from my area testified that I (at the time) had a black gf.

That was incoherent

Someone is trying to reign him in. But as he said, he is a Mormon!

"He is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology -- which is oppressor and victim.

As a Mormon, I should think Glenn Beck would relate! tame

I won't go so far to accuse conservatives of being racist but I submit that there's a kind of unconscious racism practiced when people favor those who resemble themselves. They can be very cordial to dark skins but there's that underlying provincialism and "racism" that goes on, IMO.

With all their knee-jerk nay-saying to the present Administration's efforts, I wonder if they're unknowlingly shooting themselves and the rest of us in the foot not letting the work of the people who elected Obama get on with it in their partyline loyalty ( and then yelling about the do-nothing Congress?)

"With all their knee-jerk nay-saying to the present Administration's efforts, I wonder if they're unknowingly shooting themselves and the rest of us in the foot not letting the work of the people who elected Obama get on with it in their party-line loyalty ( and then yelling about the do-nothing Congress?)"

Frank they've done everything in their power to undermine and weaken our duly elected 44th President.

We whom support the President recognize that. And their will be huge repercussions for there actions.

Beck didn't "misspeak. He lied while saying exactly what he wanted to say. He doesn't regret having said it, in my view. He regrets being skewered by reasonable people because he said it. Still, it gave him a nice boost among that targeted closeted racist-leaning portion of his audience. He then walked his half-assed "pseudo-contrition" back the next day when he was back with his peeps.

He said it when it suited him and he takes it back when it suits him.

Kind of like Republicans who claim they believe in separation of Church and State until they find an issue they can use for political gain such as denying equal rights to Gays.

Exactly!