Glenn Beck: How dare John Lewis compare himself to .... John Lewis?

[JohnWxy]

http://www.salon.com/news/glenn_beck/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/03/22/beck_lewis


The Fox News Channel host, once again, demonstrates how little he knows about what he's talking about

WASHINGTON -- By now, it's clear that Glenn Beck has invented an entire alternate history of the United States, in which the evil Progressives seized power from the Founding Fathers sometime in the 1920s, and everything went downhill from there. Still, it wasn't until Monday -- a day after the House passed sweeping healthcare reform legislation -- that the vastness of the gulf between Beck's history and reality became obvious.

"Know what this is?" he asked, showing a photo from Sunday on the screen, before flashing to a picture of a civil rights sit-in. "They locked arms, because they wanted to compare themselves to the civil rights activists. How dare you! Look at these people! They refused to get up!"

The picture he showed from Sunday, the one that so outraged him, featured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walking arm-in-arm with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Who, of course, was a leading civil rights activist in the 1960s. And part of the reason for the arm-in-arm march across Capitol Hill Sunday was because tea party protesters had called Lewis "nigger" (and yelled other racist and homophobic names at other Democrats) on Saturday; Democrats intended to show they weren't intimidated by the crowd demanding they kill the healthcare bill, as well as evoke memories of passing civil rights legislation

[BrklynLiberal]

1. The man is a total ass....and that is an insult to asses.

[Walk away]

6. And yet the little old lady up the block believes everything he says.

It makes me nuts!

[BrklynLiberal]

7. The ignorant and the fearful are the prime targets of the evil.

They are most easily manipulated.

[my2sense]

2. This fool and his followers are damaged beyond repair

::walks off in disgust::

[Bitwit1234]

3. And how some people in this country approve of this clown

just goes to show they are as stupid, and ignorant and racist as he is. But then there is the reason Beck does it, he's making money off this. The clowns that follow and enable him don't get anything but an empty pocket book, cause they are giving their money to Beck's asinine causes.

[The Genealogist]

4. If a fool and his/her money are soon parted

Glen Beck should have gone through countless fortunes by now. Pure ignorance from the mouthpiece for America's hatemongers.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. Oh, Beck is no fool....

but his audience definitely is. He knows those people will never call him on it. Shit like this just goes right over their head, whether because of lack of education or lack of intellectual curiosity. Welcome to DU.

[bulloney]

10. That's right. Beck is exploiting a lot of peoples' lizard brains all the way to the bank.

The disturbing thing is the people who actually believe the bile that spews from Beck and these other RW talk shows. If it is not a display of how stupid this country is, I don't know what is.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. just like pre-nazi germany....

people need a scapegoat. The scapegoat this time around appears to be those damn socialists running this country :crazy:

[Grand Taurean]

5. A certain 20+ blindly follow this hate filled distortion.

[classysassy]

9. Beck appeals to the insane among us

he lives in a fools paradise with his foolish friends.