Beck's Racist Rap

What will it take to get Glenn Beck and his psychotic “humor” off the airwaves? Why is it that Fox News refuses to censor him in any way for his despicable antics? And above all, why does the right-wing audience find his disgusting behavior so “funny?” Last week on his radio show, Beck clearly lost himself in his own private Twilight Zone, where he reverted back into childhood, when he was a blustering bully picking on little girls. This time, his target was Malia Obama, the president’s eleven-year-old daughter. “Mimicking” a girl’s voice (actually sounding like an idiotic middle-aged moron after his gonads were removed), Beck repeatedly intoned “Daddy, daddy” asking questions a four-year-old would ask (or what a middle-aged moron without his gonads would ask), “suggesting” that Malia had a low IQ, being black. The fact is, however, that Beck’s behavior has always struck some people as lacking in intelligence, his emotional level somewhere on the lower juvenile range, his common sense non-existent--much like Sarah Palin; too bad that fence she built to keep author Joe McGinniss out-of-sight isn't meant to keep the country out of harm's way by keeping her safely locked-up.

Beck has since “apologized,” although he blamed Barack Obama for “forcing” him to do it because he was using his children as a “shield”—which, frankly, only far-right fanatics perceive. If Obama didn’t have children, they’d probably be saying he his using the dog as a shield. In any case, as someone who has repeatedly accused the president of “racism” for no discernable reason, Beck exhibited unmistakable racism (unremarked upon by the "mainstream" media) in demeaning Malia’s intelligence (as if any eleven-year-old has an advanced degree in off-shore oil drilling technology) cannot be so easily dismissed with a half-assed apology. Like a despicable coward, Beck meant to be purposefully hurtful to someone who had never done him wrong—save for the matter of her race. Never has a president been subjected to such contemptible behavior by an employee of a news network that prides itself in delivering the news with judgment and integrity. Needless-to-say, Fox News has neither quality.

And who does Beck speak for, really? I was walking through a parking lot when I saw a car with a license plate holder that bore the following inscription: “Comrade Obama – The Enemy Within.” It is one thing to criticize a president for policies you disagree with, but it is quite another to make personal attacks that have no basis in fact. Every reasonable person knows that Obama has bent over backwards trying to accommodate the right in crafting policy, to no avail. The right’s attacks on Obama are nothing if not personal and racial; “We will break him” said South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, in the old slave master lingo.