Posted on 12/14/2011 5:36:58 PM PST by jazusamo
If you like Glenn Beck, you probably hate women. Sounds outlandish, I know, but if you apply Mr. Beck’s own twisted logic, it follows. Glenn Beck recently accused millions of Tea Partyers of racism. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has also accused Tea Partyers of racism. Ergo, if you like him but not her, you hate women.
This is ridiculous, of course, but no more ridiculous than Glenn Beck’s accusations against conservatives in the Tea Party who support Newt Gingrich.
Quite admirably, Mr. Beck has helped to launch a renaissance of constitutional self-education in America. His passion for the Founding Fathers has helped define the Tea Party movement and reshape conservatism. It is within this framework that Mr. Beck has declared he cannot support Newt Gingrich, presumably even in a general election against Barack Obama.
That Mr. Beck disapproves of Mr. Gingrich’s proclivity to embrace big government is certainly his right. In fact, I agree with this assessment and have advocated that the Tea Party should deploy a strategy that rewards Mr. Gingrich (and every candidate) for embracing the Tea Party principles of limited government. That Mr. Beck can see no difference between Mr. Gingrich and President Obama reveals astonishingly flawed analytical skills.
Mr. Obama has set America on a path to socialized medicine; Mr. Gingrich helped defeat this once before in the form of Hillarycare and vows to repeal Obamacare now. Mr. Obama never met a tax increase on job producers he didn’t like; Mr. Gingrich would eliminate the capital gains tax and slash both income and corporate taxes to lower levels than those under President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Obama has become the food stamp president; Mr. Gingrich reformed welfare. Mr. Obama added $4 trillion to the national debt; Mr. Gingrich was the last speaker of the House to...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“....That Mr. Beck can see no difference between Mr. Gingrich and President Obama reveals astonishingly flawed analytical skills....”
OUCH. From Obama’s uncle. This is gonna leave a (well deserved) mark.
Glenn Beck is deranged and doesn’t know who he supports or what he believes from one day to the next
What a stupid, thoughtless thing to say.
By the way, is the misleading headline you used a typo or, um, something else? Headline is not intuitive with the gist of the article and not the headline at the source.
My thoughts exactly.
No he didn't. He applied the logic of the left to the Tea Party members who continue to support the big government policies of Newt. By contrasting the big government policies of Barack Obama and the big government policies of Newt Gingrich. He said that if you support Newt then that makes you a racist because there's no difference between the progressive left and the progressive right and in the eyes of the left if you don't support Barack Obama then that makes you a racist because the only differences between Obama and Gingrich is the color of their skin.
Dr. Milton R. Wolf , you did good, VERY GOOD.
Beck is dead to me.
Gingrich supporters dishonor conservatism.
No, that’s the title and subtitle but I didn’t include Wolf:
You tied yourself in knots on that one and didn’t explain anything.
And you threw in a few straw arguments and false choices for good measure.
We're both old enough, but unlike Beck, I wasn't drunk back then.
Fox News is just about dead to me
K, got it, sorry bout that...
Beck has said T parties are racists and endorsed Paul in a third party run. He has got to be hitting the bottle again, he had become deranged.
Apart from the Beck controversy, I have a question. Does anyone recall Newt Gingrich attending a Tea Party rally in 2009 or 2010? I remember Bachmann, Cain, and Perry at several. I don’t recall either Gingrich or Romney at ANY.
Beck jumped the shark. Buh bye now.
Me too.
Do us all a favor and for once READ THE DAMNED ARTICLE being discussed.
You CAN read, cant you?
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