Glenn Beck: I Shouldn't Have Called Obama 'Racist'

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by BluPhire

He's not being strange, he's playing the game perfectly. This part of the game is the martyrdom.

Showing he is fallible.

I hear ya. At the same time, for someone to be a martyr in this regard, they have to BE someone worth listening to. Glenn Beck can be cool sometimes but it still boils down to "who the hell is Glenn Beck?!" LOL. He's a news and politics commentator at best. He essentially jumped from the Fox News diving board into the more mainstream media in a very random matter.

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

And how frightened are you that people AGREE with him and eat up everything he's spouting.

The fact that so many people supposedly showed up for the rally is interesting and wonderful for their cause. I assume the rally was to take back America and cry out for conservatism (mostly Republicans and mostly whites) on a day when MLK called for social justice, peace, and inalienable rights for all.

It's great that they were able to have this rally and I'm not bothered on the day that they chose. I'm interested by the symbolism of it all--and what's embedded in it--which provided the context for Beck to be able to call the President racist.