“He is the only man I have ever met that I believe has the character of George Washington. Jon Huntsman, Sr. is a good friend and mentor of mine.”<\/p>\n
[And…]<\/em><\/p>\n“…a man I look up to and try to model myself after.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have to wonder how Beck is going to take it when someone reads him the Times’ profile and Beck learns this about his mentor:<\/p>\n
“He sympathizes with the Wall Street protesters. The political system, he agreed, is broken. Ethics have foundered.”<\/p>\n
[And…]<\/em><\/p>\n“Mr. Huntsman said his charitable work, and perhaps the influence of his son \u2014 regarded as a moderate in Utah in advocating civil unions for gays and reform of the state’s strict liquor laws as governor \u2014 had shifted his own conservative views toward the center over the years. Among his best friends, he said, are Glenn Beck, the conservative commentator, and Michael Moore, the left-wing polemicist filmmaker.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
[Note that the author of the article for the Times, a bastion of the so-called “liberal” media, found it necessary to describe Michael Moore as a “left-wing polemicist” while declining to characterize Beck as anything other than conservative, despite Beck’s far more persistent and hostile display of polemics.]<\/em><\/p>\nBut the kicker is this quote exposing Huntsman to be an advocate of economic and social justice for those less fortunate than himself:<\/p>\n
“All men and women need a roof over their heads, and need to be fed and have proper health care. I don’t know that I believed that, or even understood that, in the early days.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s about as succinct and eloquent a personal statement of compassion as any heard at Zucotti Park by the protesters occupying Wall Street.<\/p>\n
So presumably Beck will shortly denounce his mentor as a progressive, socialist, Marxist, bent on destroying America, murdering millions, and plunging the world into tyranny and darkness. Then he will be free to find a new mentor who hopefully won’t betray him by evolving into a caring human being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This has got to hurt. The New York Times published a profile of Jon Huntsman, Sr. this weekend. Huntsman is the billionaire chemical magnate best known for manufacturing fast-food containers. 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