Glenn Beck is not a hypocrite. He is also nowhere near a 9/11 Truther, but he also has to be very careful when he puts his thoughts together. Ask Debra Medina how quickly misplaced words can come back and bite.
On September 3rd, 2009, upon the revelation that President Obama’s Green Jobs Czar Van Jones was a Truther, Beck correctly called the president’s vetting process into question. But in the same segment, Beck also reiterates that the people “have a responsibility to question your government”.
I dunno (as I’m not the trained professional of Beck’s calibre), but maybe that phrase shouldn’t have been used in a segment on 9/11 Truthers, considering how much disdain he rightly has towards them.
There are others who have found much smaller segments of the above clip and consider this a got’cha moment because the “responsibility” phrase is included in a Van Jones-is-a-Truther segment. The entire segment is almost seven and a half minutes, so I kept Glenn’s words in context as opposed to others that are now pushing a misleading clip less than 30 seconds in duration.
I don’t know Glenn Beck but I wouldn’t mind asking him if he believes he’s now the person who should decide what questions are worthy of asking our government as opposed to those he’ll publicly ridicule?
Doesn’t Beck express as much disdain toward those who simply point out that we do not know that, and have no good reason to believe that, Obama is a natural born citizen?
In my book, that’s a serious mark against Beck.
Well, the left-wing radicals at National Review agree with Beck about Obama’s eligibility to serve as President: http://is.gd/81uf0. Oh, and every other serious conservative organization agrees with them, too.
Well, we all have our biases. Beck’s a pretty busy guy, and depends a lot on others for input, which means it’s going to be “filtered’ (read: biased) by others. Look what we’d know if we got all our info from the Lamestream Media! Beck’s just as much prone to be off-base with his opinions as much as anybody else.
Don’t think that Beck and others don’t have an agenda, we *all* do. Question is, is his agenda a good one or a bad one? Consider the source, consider other sources, make up your own mind. “Question with boldness” is not just another pretty slogan, you know…
Igor
What Glenn actually said:
“You have a right to peacefully, reasonably, question your government. You have a responsibility to do that.”
The “quote” given above:
But in the same segment, Beck also reiterates that the people “have a responsibility to question your government”.
I fail to see what you’re after here, Bob.
Matter of fact, I heard this when it originally aired and thought the exact same thing about what Glenn was trying to get across as I thought today when hearing it again. And my thoughts were the same both times. “Reasonably” being the keyword I heard.
On the other hand, Justeder, some persons can’t reason, and others choose not to reason.
Especially not those traitors at National Review!!!!
If there is any “especially” involved, I’m fairly certain it sticks to ‘Justeder.’
I remember debating this very issue around 2006. It was very popular in those (radical “progressive” left-wing) circles who painted GW as a draft-dodger, chimp, Hitler, or just a plain ignoramus.
All this shows is the common thread that the “Truthers” signees all feverishly hated Bush, and they were willing to go to any extreme to try to take him down. Heck, even Dan Rather tried. It cost him his career, but he was due to retire anyway.
In Beck’s segment before or after this one, (maybe the next day?) he noted that Van Jones resignation in the middle of the night during labor Day weekend was the worst that could happen, since the WH got away with not answering how Van Jones got appointed to begin with.
Today Van Jones is still in the circle of power, serving at the Center for American Progress, John Podesta’s Democratic “talking points” organization.
Personally I believe that Obama should be required to submit his original Birth Certificate, and I suspect that he can’t. The online COLB is obviously a poor substitute, I’ve inspected the original Photobucket submission that Koz and later the Obama campaign site linked to. Later versions were worse, all EXIF data had been stripped, and the resolution was greatly reduced making it impossible to analyze.
To quote Beck: “I’m just sayin’ “