La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for January 02, 2010

I was researching Glenn Beck for a 1954 reference in today’s Strange Brew. Here’s a video link I found:

The Return Of McCarthyism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HWKzobeya4

amazing that this guy has viewers

Nighthawks: “You’ll never go broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

Radish, for how much?

G.B. is a fear-mongering, anti-american, racist, Rush Limpball wanna be. But maybe he’s a nice guy in real life….bwuaahhhhhhhhhha

Glenn Beck is about as pro-American as anyone can get.

As long as Beck is talking calmly about liberty, preserving the Constitution, and America’s unique position in human history, I will defend him. He is a true patriot.

On the other hand, when he starts on his Mormon-based family values, pro-religion, traditionalist kick, I will turn him off and leave him to the untender mercies of snarling Lefties like Olbermann and some of the commenters here. (If the shoe fits,….) But for Beck, Limbaugh, and even Alcaraz and the Lefties here, it’s still – mostly, so far – a free country.

But what I utterly condemn is calling people like Beck a “terrorist”, as Janet (“The system worked”) Napolitano tried to do a while back. While I am decidedly NOT a conservative (conservatives hate me as much as the leftists), the smear that conservatives are to be compared to Osama and crew as a threat to America is disgusting.

Now Obama’s old bomb-throwing Chicago buddy, THAT’S a terrorist.

J-A: “Friend” was your word, not mine. Of course there are friends and there are friends. Maybe “buddy” was too strong for BHO’s relationship with Bill Ayers. What would you prefer? Neighbor? Supporter? Fund raiser? Political advisor? Let us know how you’d describe it.

As for the time gap between when Ayers was a terrorist and when he became a supposedly “model citizen” associated with Obama, so what? Would you go golfing with OJ? Take tea with Roman Polanski? Some acts are unforgivable, and despite all the press coverage of Ayers, I’ve never heard even a whiff of retraction, repentance, or apology, just regret they didn’t succeed.

As for Beck and the Constitution, I might agree with you if I knew whom you think Beck is excluding from Constitutional protections. Does that mean illegal aliens? (I think our discriminatory immigration laws are wrong, but I don’t really know Beck’s views on this. In general I’d be in favor of amnesty and mostly open borders.)

Does it mean captured terrorists or illegal combatants? (Right now they fall between the cracks of the Constitution and international agreements, so their status is still TBD. For my part, they are lucky not to have been executed already for their crimes. Compare them to the Nazi saboteurs during WWII who were delivered by sub to New Jersey and executed within about a week of their capture.)

If you have any other examples in mind, please be more specific. (Based on reading many of your postings, I’m rather surprised to hear something sounding like a defense of Obama. Maybe I misunderstand your position. You usually sound too Old Testament to be very liberal.)

Re: “Now Obama’s old bomb-throwing Chicago buddy, THAT’S a terrorist.”

From The Washington Post Fact Checker posted Feb 19, 2008

“The London Sunday Times joined the chorus this weekend by reporting that Republicans were “out to crush Barack by painting him as a leftwinger with dubious support”.

The only hard facts that have come out so far are the $200 contribution by Ayers to the Obama re-election fund, and their joint membership of the eight-person Woods Fund Board. Ayers did not respond to e-mails and telephone calls requesting clarification of the relationship. Obama spokesman Bill Burton noted in a statement that Ayers was a professor of education at the University of Illinois and a former aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley, and continued:

Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence.

But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous.

The Fact Checker

If we need Glen Beck to tell us about liberty, the constitution, history or for that matter anything we as a country are in trouble. This guy can’t spell, repeatedly gets history wrong and is a downright idiot. Lonesome Rhodes if there ever was one.