
Glenn Beck has stepped back from his claim that President Obama is "racist."
The bombastic Fox News commentator now says he misspoke when he said the commander-in-chief had a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."
"It shouldn't have been said," the 46-year-old former disc jockey said on 'Fox News Sunday.' "I have a big, fat mouth sometimes and I say things, and that's not the way people should behave. And it was not accurate."
What does Beck wish he had said? He's not racist, he's just a "Marxist."
"He is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology," Beck told Chris Wallace.
Founded in Latin America during the 1950s and based in Christian beliefs, "liberation theology" involves the belief that the poor need to be freed from economic, political or social injustice.
Calling the theology "Marxism disguised as religion," Beck argued it goes against what most Christians believe.
"That is a direct opposite of what the gospel is talking about," he said.
Beck has linked Obama to liberation theology before, most notably during his time as a commentator on CNN's Headline News. He also discussed it last week on his Fox News program.
Obama was also linked with black liberation theology, which is a race-specific version of the belief, through his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Source: New York Daily News

Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and illustrator from New Jersey. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more. Follow him on Facebook.
Source: New York Daily News

Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and illustrator from New Jersey. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more. Follow him on Facebook.


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By: Little Dickie Dydoe on 8/30/2010 3:38PM
More and more Americans every day are realizing that Obama is ,in fact, a Marxist. To the radical left wing nutcases that is great news. Glenn Beck speaks for Americans who believe in freedom and the Constitution and personal responsibility. It's not the governments job to reward people for stupid behavior.
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By: hendunc on 8/31/2010 3:24AM
They were and continue to be rewarded very well for slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws. These injustices have affected Black people economically for generations. Did you ever think about how America robbed Black people? Now you folks question the "debt" your children will face in the future. What is the price of the debt Black folks paid and contiue to pay for "white entitlement"?
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By: jojo23 on 8/30/2010 4:13PM
Obama should invite Glenn over for a beer fest. Since Glenn doesn't drink, Obama should at least offer a soda. Lets all go to the garden for peace talks.
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By: RENEE GREENE on 8/31/2010 1:58AM
Glenn drinks. Hard liquor AND Kool-Aid for a spritzer.
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By: Patricia on 8/30/2010 4:21PM
If Obama blantantly doesn't like the Causcasian race then why did he throw his grandmother under the bus? Why did he not walk out of Trinity Church of Christ way before the media found out about Rev Wrights' race hatred? Why did he cossey up to Louis Farakkhan and take part in honoring him at Trinity or accept Farrakkhan's brown shirts as security?
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By: RENEE GREENE on 8/30/2010 5:04PM
Glenn Beck also said he could care less about politics and that he was getting paid to keep up the manic hysteria...but folks who are listening to him and think he is telling the truth didn't get the memo.
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By: BillSchrier on 8/30/2010 5:18PM
Notice the obsession with "hate-Glenn-Beck" articles on BV lately? This is because blacks are terrified of anybody and anything related to the Tea Party movement. If the Tea Party movement was not growing in popularity, blacks could simply ignore Glenn Beck and the Tea Party.
Why are blacks rightly terrified of the Tea Party movement?
If the goals of Tea Party were to come to fruition, large segments of the Black middle and upper-class would instantly evaporate –
capitalism, free markets, a level playing field and a gutting of government jobs would do this – so Black people are correct to be terrified of the Tea Party movement.
Without government jobs, cushy academic positions and diversity or minority outreach vocational paths, there would be minuscule upper-mobility available to the majority of Black people (so few make it in sports).
So, the truth is that blacks scream racism at the Tea Party as screaming racism is their tried and true weapon of choice. But, what blacks are really afraid of, is the the cuts in government that are coming, with or without the Tea Party and regardless of who gets elected ... these cuts are coming regardless of elections because of the huge US debt and in turn what the bond market will FORCE upon the US.
Plus, who gets elected in the near future is not going to be kind to big government and entitlement spending as blacks have recently grown used to.
So, BV, whine away about Glenn Beck and other Tea Partiers. It won't do you a bit of good, the fate of blacks is sealed. Electing the extreme left-wing socialist Obama actually hurried the process along. The taxpayers in this country are REVOLTED by Obama and the huge debt he has caused. This is not just my opinion, the polls show it. Prepare for Democrats and Obama to be WIPED OUT in November and Obama to be, at most, a one-term President.
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By: whytbull on 8/30/2010 5:34PM
why are whites so obessed with BV's. Who cares about Glenn Peck anway.
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By: Blind Justice on 8/30/2010 5:33PM
I submit black folks need to be digruntled with Beck and his white follower not accepting the first black President of the United States. They continuously, attempt to deligitimize him as America's leader. Palin and Beck have brought out racist and made them place themselves on their best behavior. Case in point:
As one Fox contributor put it,“ this is not the type of guy you expect to see on a dollar bill.”
Limbaugh: "If Obama Weren't Black He'd Be a Tour Guide in Honolulu"
Rush said that Obama "wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black," adding, "If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu." Rush also accused the liberal media of wanting the GOP to fire Michael Steele "so they can ... write about the Republicans firing a black guy."
Bigotry wrapped in Racism
Is U.S. President Barack Obama more dangerous than al-Qaeda or the former Soviet Union? Is the President a threat to the country’s founding principles? Former Colorado Congressman and Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo seems to think so.
Since Barack Obama was elected President two years ago, the Commander in Chief has been labelled and compared to any negative historical figure you can think of, including former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. He has also been labelled as a communist and a Muslim extremist.
Speaking at a campaign fundraising rally for Republican Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck, former Congressman and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo told the audience that President Barack Obama is more dangerous than al-Qaeda and even the former Soviet Union. “The President is the most dangerous threat to the founding principles of the U.S., including its liberties, the Constitution and “our way of life.”
On August 4, 2010, President Burrack Hussein Obama did celebrate his 49th Birthday. And I submit, if the president were white his gift of support would definitively have been different. But, as is stands:
A new Research 2000 poll reveals an incredibly disturbing view among registered Republicans. Because that means that 58% of them either believe he wasn’t born in the US or aren’t sure. That’s how far and deep this birthers’ nonsense has spread…from a racist chain email.
Here’s the question and the party breakdowns…
“Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?”
Republicans
Yes: 42%
No: 28%
Not Sure: 30%
Democrats
Yes: 94%
No: 4%
Not Sure: 3%
Independents
Yes: 83%
No: 8%
Not Sure: 9%
When all the numbers are put together we see that:
77% say Yes, 11% say No and 12% say Not Sure.
This is truly amazing, the Republicans want to repeal the 14th Amendment to deport all 12 million undocumented Latinos and their American born terrorist babies which means President Obama would make the 12th million and 1st in that package.
Limbaugh: "If Obama's not the first anti-American president, who is?"
The Obama Racial Divide
I would submit that Bill O’Reilly of Fox News does have an enormous handle on White folks in various aspects of our American society who do share his racist ideology. And with that having been said, I think O’Reilly clearly defines where his head is at, and speaks for the rest of America’s White racist when he describes: The Obama Racial Divide.
On August 5, 2010, O’Reilly stated on his show that “ A new Gallop poll says 88% of African Americans continue to support President Obama, but just 38% of whites Americans feel the President is doing a good job. That is a 50% differential in the President’s job approval rating! So what is going on?
Most white Americans don’t like the huge expansion of the federal government and don’t want the feds telling them what to do. But African Americans have supported a bigger federal government so it can impose “ social justice”.
A majority of blacks want money spent to redistribute income from the white establishment to their precincts. There is no question there are now two Americas - the minority community continues to believe that society is not completely fair to them and they want a huge government apparatus to change that.
While the White community may sympathize, they apparently believe more harm than good is being done to the country with the cost of social justice programs.
As far as the Beck rally is concerned, those were the folks who follow a racist who specially agrees with O'Reilly. Black folks should stop living in deniel, Palin and Beck are not stable people and seem to have 300-600,000 white folks backing them up. You want irrational thinking? Take a look.
Beck’s The “Restoring the Honor Rally”
As we all know, it was about the same time last year when Beck lead the way to Washington, DC, with his 9/12 Tea Baggers in an attempt to stop the passing of President Obama’s health care bill. That protest similar to this Honor Rally, brought out tens of thousands to the capitol but, this time there was a new twist.
This time the rally which was held on the 47th Anniversary of MLK’s “I Have A Dream Speech”, on the lower steeps of the Lincoln Memorial, was not just about restoring the honor back to America but, also according to Beck, “reclaiming the MLK’s, Civil Right’s Movement” because, “ white folks did it in the first place?” So, let’s analyze how Beck himself saw his mission of reclaiming MLK’s dream and God’s words that came from the “burning bush.”.
On August 29th the following day after his rally, Beck was interviewed on Sunday’s Fox News show, where he shed light from his prospective, on his successful message and rally.
From any sane and rational person’s prospective, Beck came across as totally disingenuous, because you can’t teach Black History lessons every Friday night on T.V. and not know that MLK’s “I Have A Dream Speech”, was given on August 28th,1963. He also projected himself to be totally disconnected to reality in that he assumed the positions of being a theologian, black historian, college drop out, bottom out reformed alcoholic, cry baby, oxymoron, entertainer, who tried to tie President Obama to a Demonic, Marxist, Rev. Wright’s Black Liberation Collective Salvation Theology.
Beck said President Obama was actually hiding behind the true aspects of Christian salvation and tried to create a nexus between the president and the vast amount of insurmountable problems America is facing today?
Beck, then took the opportunity with his new understanding of President Obama, to apologize for calling him “A Racist”, based on his previous misunderstanding of President Obama and his black radical religion?
Beck, then took a moment to reflect on the fact that his 300-600,000 followers behaved themselves by not bringing political signs, (outside of the “Don’t Tread On Me)T-shirts worn by the T-Baggers and no one brought guns.
It also appears that a lot of folks followed the “Avoid the Black People” in Washington, DC Subway Map published by Mark William’s from the Tea Party Express, because there were no racial incidents reported.
In the end, Beck recalibrated the meaning of Dr. Kings civil rights speech and movement by saying he was in disagreement with Dr. King’s message of social and economic justice civil rights, according to Beck the civil rights movement he reclaimed only dealt with equal justice based on the content of a man’s character and not his skin color.
Now I’m sure out of the 300-600,000, American patriotic followers of Beck and Palin that were present, there were many who were convinced that Beck had some legitimate knowledge of what the black civil rights movement was all about even though he admitted, he had not been born during the time of the Jim Crow struggle; and as it relates to his followers, one could easily conclude that they would be prime examples of ignorance in plenitude. They wouldn’t have the slightest clue or knowledge of the “Strange Fruit” that hung from the Poplar Tree.
As Rev. Sharpon so accurately stated, “maybe if they read the speech rather than try to reclaim something that is imaginary, they would understand it,"
Beck was asked about a Beck/ Palin ticket for 2012, and Beck humbly declined stating he wasn’t smart enough. Something tells me that’s not what Mama Grizzly Sarah is saying, especially after seeing over 300,000 people show up, the only thing difference is, she would rather call it a Palin/ Beck ticket!
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By: BillSchrier on 8/30/2010 5:56PM
Along with the Republicans gaining control of Congress in November, they will gain the power to INVESTIGATE the various frauds and law-breaking of the Obama administration, including:
1) Letting black panthers go when they blatantly broke poll place laws
2) Blagojevetch bribes and other bribes emanating from Obama to keep his favored candidates in the running
3) Lack of ever showing an Obama long form birth certificate, violating the Constitution
4) Falsifying Obama selective service card
5) Misappropriation of funds to ACORN
There is lots to impeach Obama over, it should be interesting to see if he can even last through his first term. I doubt he'll even bother running for re-election ... some other Democrat would just pick him off in the 2012 primaries.
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