{"id":8197,"date":"2012-10-11T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2012-10-11T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:55:47","slug":"this-video-of-mitt-romney-praising-glenn-beck-as-a-statesman-should-disqualify-him-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8197","title":{"rendered":"This Video Of Mitt Romney Praising Glenn Beck As A Statesman Should Disqualify Him For Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Corn at Mother Jones has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/mitt-romney-video-wythe-glenn-beck-cleon-skousen\" target=\"_blank\">uncovered another video<\/a> that should have serious repercussions for Mitt Romney. It shows Romney giving an introduction to his <em>&#8220;friend&#8221;<\/em> Glenn Beck at a fundraising event for a dubious college.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/romney-beck.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney &#038; Glenn Beck\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Romney begins his introduction of Beck by describing it as a <em>&#8220;special treat&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;an honor.&#8221;<\/em> He then describes Beck, who was eventually driven off the air due to his racist and deranged conspiracy rants, as one of the most popular hosts on TV with a <em>&#8220;fresh&#8221;<\/em> approach. And, finally, Romney gushes that Beck, a notoriously hyperbolic and divisive hate monger, is a <em>&#8220;statesman.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJKAp6eYN24\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If Romney regards Beck as a statesman, it shines a light (or should I say casts a pall) on the sort of appointments he would make to the state department were he president. Perhaps he&#8217;d nominate John Bolton for Secretary of State, or Ted Nugent for arms control negotiator.<\/p>\n<p>David Corn goes into some detail about the fringe university that is the beneficiary of the fundraiser. It was founded by followers of a Mormon author and professor, W. Cleon Skousen. After demonstrating that he was a fanatic who lacked any credibility (and a Nazi sympathizer), even the Mormon Church rejected him. But that didn&#8217;t stop Beck, also a Mormon, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1574\" target=\"_blank\">incessantly hyping his book<\/a>, <em>&#8220;The 5,000 Year Leap,&#8221;<\/em> which Beck effusively praised saying, <em>\u201cI beg you to read this book filled with words of wisdom which I can only describe as divinely inspired.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the videos that the right splashes around the InterTubes proclaiming falsely that they contain bombshell revelations about Obama, this video of Romney is not a twenty year old relic that has no relevance to the current campaign. Romney made this video during the current campaign in 2009, while sucking up to right-wing demagogues in pursuit of the GOP nomination. And it is precisely because of the absurd allegiances he has that he is unfit for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Corn at Mother Jones has uncovered another video that should have serious repercussions for Mitt Romney. It shows Romney giving an introduction to his &#8220;friend&#8221; Glenn Beck at a fundraising event for a dubious college. Romney begins his introduction of Beck by describing it as a &#8220;special treat&#8221; and &#8220;an honor.&#8221; He then describes [&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":[152,1],"tags":[44,260],"class_list":["post-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-glenn-beck","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-28d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8131,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8131","url_meta":{"origin":8197,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s Lead Is Driving The Right (Even More) Crazy","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/1\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When you start out with delusional notions that President Barack Obama is a socialist Muslim from Kenya who hates America, it doesn't leave very much of a preserve of sanity to fall back on. 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