Glenn Beck goes after President Obama via Derrion Albert
There are a lot of things in this world that are wrong. There are quite a few of those things happening in America right now. But I truly believe that no matter your political beliefs you can agree that a 16 year old being killed by other kids is wrong. Equally disturbing is when anyone in the media uses this tragedy to make a political point.
Now I agree with Glenn Beck on some issues. Unlike many liberals and bloggers, I don’t have a hate of FOX News or the commentators on there. I agree with some of their views and disagree with others. It’s much like President Obama, there are 1 or 2 things I think he is right on and wrong otherwise. Still there is no universal support when anyone makes a leap that never should happen.
The following video is of Glenn Beck on his show Sept 29, 2009.
To go from the tragic death of this 16 year old, to segue into what President Obama is doing wrong in the country is a leap that just doesn’t make sense to me.
Now before I hear all the fanatics that will say this is a right-wing conspiracy or that FOX News hates African Americans, let me be clear. Such nonsense is extremism and illogical if you actually watch the cable network. In regard to African Americans they are no worse than any other media outlet. (Which is far from positive across the board.)
For those that would say this is just the racist rantings of Beck, again I disagree. Yes Beck called President Obama a racist. And he made a clear case why such a thought is possible. I don’t think it’s true, but the case can be argued. Just as the actions of many Presidents over the decades I have been alive have caused them all to be called various negatives.
Still this is different. The kids singing in a school, the gang fight in Chicago, the dumb policies of the Obama Administration and the Democrat led Congress do not all connect. Just as ACORN, Iran, and my mortgage don’t connect. You can find a connection, but that doesn’t make it true.
If Glenn Beck wants to address the idiocy of gangs, the lack of care for other human beings of the next generation of kids, the degredation of the education system and/or the commoditization of Black culture then that’s one subject. But President Obama is neither the cause nor the cure of any of those things. No matter how much the right or left wish it were true.
Beck should make an apology to the Albert family. He used their heartbreak for his political ideals, much as Entertainment Tonight used the photo of Michael Jackson, or the Associated Press used the image of the dying Marine. I disagreed with each of these things, and I think everyone should.
Glenn Beck has the ability to do good things via his show. The ACORN videos, Van Jones and other ‘czars’, the Cash 4 Clunkers computer takeover are all examples of his benefit to the nation (even if the far-left hates it). But there is a line. And Beck needs to respect that line, as well as the families involved.
