Stung By Boycott, Beck Channels McCarthy: There Are ‘Communists’ Advising The President
Stung By Boycott, Beck Channels McCarthy: There Are ‘Communists’ Advising The President
On Tuesday night, Glenn Beck invoked the red-baiting of a bygone age, making the claim that there are “Communists in the United States government.” Beck’s McCarthyite rampage came during an extended screed attacking White House Special Advisor for Green Jobs Van Jones, a former Center for American Progress senior fellow and the co-founder of Green for All, an environmental-entrepeneurial organization. After renouncing his “rowdy black nationalism” in 2000, Van Jones “has emerged as the perhaps the nation’s chief proponent of using business-based solutions to create jobs and clean up the environment.” However, Glenn Beck is convinced that Van Jones is a Communist sleeper agent in the White House:
I know there are good decent people, left and right, Democrats and Republicans that watch this program! How much more evidence do you need that we have radicals in the White House? Oh, we haven’t even begun. If you think you need more — We need to at least start having the necessary conversation of: Do we really want Communists in the United States government as special advisors to the president? To be honest with ya, and maybe it’s just me, I don’t even want Communists having lunch with our president. When Putin was having an hour with the president, I know he had to do it, but I wasn’t comfortable with it! Barack Obama did not campaign on openly changing the whole system.
Watch it:
In fact, Obama did campaign openly on a message of change. And hope.
Evidently, Beck is attacking Van Jones to divert attention from his accusations that President Obama is a “racist” who “hates white people.” A successful boycott by Color of Change, an organization co-founded by Van Jones in 2005 but with which he has had no active involvement since 2007, has led to 57 advertisers abandoning Beck’s show.
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Here we have someone named Johnson defending someone named Jones.
If you do not see the conspiracy there then you must hate the America Glenn Beck so obviously loves.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pmStung by what boycott if Beck remains in a prominent on-air timeslot? The cheering for advertisers abandoning Beck must be tempered with the fact that those advertisers continue supporting Fox News. Nothing is gained by their abandoning Beck unless it costs Fox News and so far the cost to either Beck or Fox has been nil.
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmDelusional as BECK is, I agree, if individuals continue to think that just targeting him will shut him up, we need to boycott the products and services that support/advertise on FOX!
Unfortunately, there are Americans who will believe all his fear mongering, much like they believed all the “socialist” calls for changes in healthcare…but they don’t understand that you can’t have both…but BECK doesn’t care, he is just focused on bringing down the current administration. I don’t know when these scared citizens will understand they are being played, but we should address these issues head-on rather than ignoring them.
Start simple: ASK them: How can ONE CONVERSATION to the school children somehow make them “communists”? Ask them who “outsourced” their jobs? Explain it was not the government, but private enterprise (those free market capitalist) who were more interested in profit than the citizens of this country!
September 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pmAre you people telling me that it is OK to have such a left leaning person as a czar? Someone who has in the past proclaimed their communist leanings and never recanted this?
On top of that he signed a letter stating that the undersigned believed the Bush administration was complicit in the 911 attacks?
Anyone who believes that trash is as bad or WORSE than the “birthers” and certainly have NO PLACE inside any administration.
He NEEDS to go and I will bet any of you that he WILL be gone by next week…not because Obama is surprised at the revelations, but ONLY because it will detract from his health care madness where he still cant clarify any of the elements of the 1500 page bill that is before the senate and congress.
September 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pmHey Afisher….it is NOT about the Obama giving his speech to the children…that is NOT the issue, in fact if you actually listened to the concerns of conservatives, they expressed that they welcomed the President to speak to the kids and tell them about the virtues of studying hard, and why education is so important.
NO…it was about the incredibly stupid work papers they put together for the kids to work on after the speach….”what can you do to pledge SUPPORT to the President” and such.
That is BACKWARDS…the President pledges to SERVE the AMERICAN PEOPLE not the other way around.
This is yet another incident where politics takes on the appearance of being injected into our lives where it is not wanted.
Obviously they realized their error by changing the work papers.
Dumb dumb idea, but now it appears smoothed over and will be presented as it should have been.
September 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm