Thursday, August 13, 2009

Does Anyone Even Give A Shit Now?

Human Events refers to this as "developing," whatever it is.
Though Beck acknowledged most of the Obama administration is in fact white, he concluded that the President’s world experience made him a “racist.” Now “Color of Change” has bullied at least five of Beck’s big advertisers -- SC Johnson, Progressive Insurance, Geico, Procter & Gamble and Nexus Lexis -- to pull their ads from Beck’s national cable program. Jones, the founder of “Color of Change,” was named Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- a key administrative post -- this past March.
Say, that Glenn Beck may just be right. He certainly should know a lot about racism.
Beck turned to his colleagues and said quite certainly, "[Barack Obama] has exposed himself as a guy ... who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." He then added, "This guy is ... a racist." [...] Let's pretend President Obama's mother wasn't white. Let's pretend he wasn't raised by his white grandparents, and let's pretend he didn't only months ago sit diligently by his white grandmother's deathbed. Let's pretend he didn't outfit his cabinet with a whole host of white people. And let's pretend that "white culture" actually means something (as opposed to "Irish culture" or "Polish culture"). Beck's condemnation of the president as a bigot who "hates" white people rings hollow considering the company he’s kept for about a decade now.
Oh, mere & unsurprising hypocrisy. Why do we even bring it up at this stage in the game?

3 comments:

M. Bouffant said...

Fan Mail Editor Asks:

Christena? Where are you?

Another Kiwi said...

Were you mean to her, MB??

M. Bouffant said...

Fan Mail Ed. Adds:

Even spamming robots know not to mess w/ us.