Glenn Beck

I think to claim Glenn Beck is speaking from his heart and is a racist because of what he said about Obama is giving him way too much credit. We're talking about someone who is paid millions to say ridiculous things to get ratings; we're talking about someone who is a vacuum of real thought. He is depicted as the most extreme of the extreme right, he is SO horrified by Obama he looks like he's about to burst....yet does ANYbody think that if he was offered one more dollar to go on the air and say the exact opposite, he wouldn't? Hell no.

But again, like I said earlier today with Michelle Malkin, my problem isn't really with him. If somebody offered me $10M/year to walk in front of a tv camera and say "Obama's a n---er, I hate him," I'd do it. Why? Because I DON'T think like that, and I know that people understand that $10M is a lot of money. If I REALLY thought like that, I'd be parading in the streets preaching the shit for free.

I'm wondering how many sponsors have pulled out of his show. My guess is so far, none. I'm also wondering what it's going to take for Republicans to finally be embarrassed with the handful of people that are representing them (and, btw, who are NOT being discredited by actual congressmen at al) a la Beck/Rush/Malkin/Coulter and on and on. Oh, your GOP friends will say "oh camon, everyone knows he/she's a whackjob!" but the tv/radio shows still go on every day. The books still sell. And insane messages that nobody actually believes (The Birthers) get spread like wildfire.

I think Republicans think that if they came out against these powerful nutjobs, they'd be showing weakness as a party. I do not agree; I think the day the Beck/Rush/Coulter gang gets publicly rebuked and discredited by the Republican Party is the day I start to get worried. Until then, it's hard to take ANY member of the GOP seriously.

As I said HERE:

I would think at some point any Republican friends I have would be embarrassed and pissed off that they were being represented by people like this. This is another case of "the 8 Republicans in charge make the other 50 million look bad," but when shit like this starts going down, maybe it's time to get rid of those 8 people?