Glenn Beck is a Uniter not a Divider

[ugabuga]

The event that precipitated the firing of Shirley Sherrod was the fact that the film clip of her was going to be on Glenn Beck that night.

Do you think Glenn was going to run the Whole clip & show that it was a story of redemption?of prejudice turning to love & acceptance? Or do you think he was going to show the short clip & then accuse her of being a racist?

 

[Lake View Too]

The thought that any decision made by anybody in the Federal government would be based on anything that Glenn Beck says, just scares me half to death. The right-wing blogger who gave the edited tape to Fox news admitted he knew of the existence of the un-edited tape as early as March. He's a complete sleaze bag and if anything good comes out of this, it will be that he is shown to be the hate-monger he truly is.

 

[Scooter]

Glenn Beck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ChillPill]

The event that precipitated the firing of Shirley Sherrod was the fact that the film clip of her was going to be on Glenn Beck that night.

Do you think Glenn was going to run the Whole clip & show that it was a story of redemption?of prejudice turning to love & acceptance? Or do you think he was going to show the short clip & then accuse her of being a racist?

I believe it was her boss Tom Vilsack who threatened her that she was going to be on Beck.

Glenn Beck did not play the video clip, he wholeheartedly defended her and was upset that the White House and the NAACP threw her under the bus without having the facts of the situation.

EDIT: I was incorrect, as I was reading the Transcript of the show and not watching the show. He did play video as part of his bigger story, as Gidget posted below.

 

[Gidget]

Here's what someone shared with me today.

 

[ugabuga]

Beck comes out better than FOX colleagues

Beck came out looking better than his FOX colleagues:

On his Tues 7/20 radio show, Beck told his listeners there is
"videotape of a USDA administration official discriminating against white farmers." He then asks, "Have we suddenly transported into 1956 except it's the other way around? ... Does anybody else have a sense that there are some that just want revenge? Doesn't it feel that way?" After playing the audio of the tape, Beck says, "You tell me what part of the gospel is teaching that."

After Sherrod's resignation,

on his Tues 7/20 TV show, Beck says, "I don't think Shirley should have been fired -- or, I'm sorry, forced to resign. Based on the facts that we have right now, this is something that I wouldn't air and demand a resignation on." He added that he "wouldn't air" the tape because "context matters."

Meanwhile, other Fox players were saying:

O'Reilly: "...simply unacceptable. And Ms. Sherrod must resign immediately."

Hannity: "it's interesting that it took the news media to expose this." He asked Newt Gingrigh if, "in light of the NAACP accusing the Tea Party of being a racist movement last week," he thought "the NAACP should be held to account for the very standard they were demanding from the Tea Party."

Doocy: said Sherrod made "a speech to the NAACP that sure sounded racist." After his guest host asserted that Sherrod's remarks are "outrageous and perhaps everybody needs a refresher course on what racism looks like," Doocy responded that Sherrod's comments are "Exhibit A."

Glenn Beck--the voice of reason on FOX?

 

[Minnie]

He played part of it, the same part that was released before the entire video was.

Here is my thought on it, shared on another thread.

This story is a perfect example of the importance of "context". I am not a fan of Glenn Beck, but I did watch him last night because I wanted to see what he was going to say about this incident, since Mrs. Sherrod was told when she was asked to resign that she would be talked about on his show.

He defended her and rightfully addressed that President Obama and the NAACP threw her under the bus before either one knew the entire story.

So now that entire story is out, they have had to apologize. This is the not the first time Obama has reacted quickly and spoke before thinking.

Shirley Sherrod Unsure How She'd Be Treated in a Return to USDA

I have to admit it makes me nervous that the media is influencing the President's decisions.

 

[Lake View Too]

I have to admit it makes me nervous that the media is influencing the President's decisions.[/QUOTE]

This, more than the convoluted fact that now Glenn Beck can chastise the administration for being hasty, is what bothers me. It's so convoluted that Glenn Beck's ratings go thru the roof because of a blogger's deliberately edited tape pertaining to an incident over twent-five years ago, can get so much traction. Someone has to rise above this bullshoot. I saw the blogger in question on John King at noon today, and he is a hate-monger, no question about it.

 

[Minnie]

This, more than the convoluted fact that now Glenn Beck can chastise the administration for being hasty, is what bothers me. It's so convoluted that Glenn Beck's ratings go thru the roof because of a blogger's deliberately edited tape pertaining to an incident over twent-five years ago, can get so much traction. Someone has to rise above this bullshoot. I saw the blogger in question on John King at noon today, and he is a hate-monger, no question about it.

Yep you have to wonder what made them react so quickly to the point of asking her to pull off the road and tender her resignation.

 

[Lake View Too]

Yep you have to wonder what made them react so quickly to the point of asking her to pull off the road and tender her resignation.

Yeah, that was too peculiar. It makes you think that someone was setting up someone. Does this all seem like a setup? Most of Fox is looking pretty bad right now, NAACP is also looking sheepish. The Tea Party has lost points, and, after all the stupidity and apologies, the White House is looking almost like the saviour of all things not-racist.

Meantime, the president signs the biggest overhaul of financial reform in the history of this country, and there's hardly a sound-bite.