Glenn Beck on birther issue: 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

World Net Daily ^ | 01/04/2009 | Drew Zahn

[autumnraine]

On the air today, popular radio host Glenn Beck mocked "birthers" and claimed there is a concerted campaign to get those questioning Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility onto the airwaves – a strategy Beck said would actually benefit Obama.

"There's always games being played behind the scenes at a talk radio show," Beck said. "Rush has always called them seminar callers. But instead of being coy with the seminar callers or with you, I'm just going to expose the game that is going on. Today there is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers on the air."

"I have to tell you, are you working for the Barack Obama administration?" Beck scoffed. "I mean, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

The ongoing dialogue then spun off into ridicule as Beck caricatured those who question the sitting president's eligibility with straw-man arguments reminiscent of jibes made by Obama's apologists in other news outlets.

Beck defined birthers as people who believe Obama was born in Kenya or other foreign country, was raised as a Manchurian candidate and somehow brainwashed Hillary Clinton into not exposing his fraud. According to Beck's running joke, birthers believe someone – maybe Obama's KGB "control" – preemptively placed Obama's birth announcement in 1961 Hawaiian newspapers with a "roadmap" of getting an African man into office.

As for Obama producing a long-form birth certificate to actually prove his place of birth, Beck questioned, "Why do that when these people ['birthers'] are so discrediting themselves?"

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The radio host further argued that by distracting the public from actionable issues, "birthers" have become "a dream come true" for Obama, an ideal situation akin to the fantasies of adolescent boys after Hollywood bombshells.

[Jude in WV]

I hope you don’t think I’m continuing to post on this subject in order to argue my point. That is not my purpose. I happen to believe strongly that there are many sane (not tin foil hat wearers) people who have legitimate questions as to why this is going on. The article below is evidence of that position. So, I don’t think Glenn Beck or anyone who cares about our country should ridicule them for their opinion and actions in trying to get at the truth.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121379

[af_vet_rr]

gb does not see, hear or speak anything that his masters @ faux do not want.

While I agree that Faux News is a horrible source of news and opinions these days and only fit for idiots who can't think for themselves, you must not be very familiar with Glenn Beck - he was calling the birthers un-American going back to at least November of 2008, long before he had his Faux News show. He's been consistent on the birther issue since then, dismissing them in August of last year when talking to Michelle Malkin.

I'm not much of a fan of the man, but I find it amusing that so many who claim they are have ignored his long-time stance on the birther issue. I'm not saying you are a fan of his - obviously you are not, and hold the same view of Faux News that I do.

[af_vet_rr]

It doesn't get any more original or any more certified than this, as far as state records are concerned.

It doesn't get any more certified than that, and I think that's the point that Beck, O'Reilly, Malkin, Coulter, and others have tried to make.

I don't think very highly of those four - a bunch of showboats who will anything or change their opinions to make a buck in my opinion, but I do find myself agreeing with them occasionally, broken clock and all that, and I think they are right in that no matter what you believe, the State of Hawaii has signed off on it and that's who makes the decision.

As much as I dislike Bush and Cheney, I'm pretty confident that they would have raised a fuss if they felt he didn't meet one of the qualifications.

Hell, Hillary Clinton would have raged up and down the corridors of Congress if she didn't think he was eligible. You just think the birthers are angry, you can bet that she was much more angrier than they could ever be, that he dared to challenge her over what she considers to be rightfully hers, and she would not go down without a fight.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

As much as I dislike Bush and Cheney, I'm pretty confident that they would have raised a fuss if they felt he didn't meet one of the qualifications.

Hell, Hillary Clinton would have raged up and down the corridors of Congress if she didn't think he was eligible. You just think the birthers are angry, you can bet that she was much more angrier than they could ever be, that he dared to challenge her over what she considers to be rightfully hers, and she would not go down without a fight.

Exactly right... all these people would have raised the issue, big-time, if there was something there. And now that the State of Hawaii has made it abundantly clear that Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural born American citizen -- that puts it to rest for all, except those who don't want to accept even an official statement from the very agency who keeps the records and who makes "certified copies" of those records...

[rmlew]

Beck is correct. The second you question an established fact like his birth, you are considered a nut and racist and damage all the good things you support.

Birthers are idiots. If there were a shred of proof, Hillary would have used it. The irony is that Birthers provide cover for Obamas real flaw, his constant cleaving to things anti-American.