{"id":1344,"date":"2009-07-28T12:51:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:04:09","slug":"irony-alert-glenn-beck-says-obama-is-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Irony Alert: Glenn Beck Says Obama Is A Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News freakshow and rodeo clown, Glenn Beck, appeared on Fox &#038; Friends this morning and had an amusing exchange with the mental deficients that inhabit the A.M. program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;This President has, I think, exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don&#8217;t know what it is.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the brown haired guy who isn&#8217;t Steve Doocy challenged Beck by noting that <em>&#8220;70% of the people we see everyday&#8221;<\/em> from the Obama administration are white, Beck clarified his remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying he doesn&#8217;t like white people, I&#8217;m saying he has a problem. He has a&#8230;This guy is, I believe, a racist.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That should explain it for all the liberal media weasels out there who want to smear Beck. He is definitely not saying that Obama <em>&#8220;doesn&#8217;t like white people.&#8221;<\/em> He is merely saying that Obama is a racist who has a <em>&#8220;deep seated hatred for white people.&#8221;<\/em> Two completely different things. No?<\/p>\n<p>Update: Fox News VP Bill Shine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/fnc\/fnc_responds_to_glenn_beck_calling_pres_obama_a_racist_122881.asp?dsq=13485234#comment-13485234\" target=\"_blank\">released a statement<\/a> distancing the network from Beck&#8217;s remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;During Fox &#038; Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I find interesting is that he never thought it necessary to release a similar statement when Fox News contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/20\/ralph-peters-kill-soldier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Peters said<\/a> that the Taliban should execute an American soldier. Or when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1319\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Scheuer said<\/a> that America&#8217;s only hope was for another attack by Bin Laden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News freakshow and rodeo clown, Glenn Beck, appeared on Fox &#038; Friends this morning and had an amusing exchange with the mental deficients that inhabit the A.M. program. &#8220;This President has, I think, exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for white people or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[183,532,33,44],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-shine","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-lG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1447,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1447","url_meta":{"origin":1344,"position":0},"title":"Rupert Murdoch: Glenn Beck Is Right. 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