Mary Matalin Praises Glenn Beck Says He's the 'Furthest Thing From a Racist'
While discussing the recent dust up over Rep. Andre Carson's remarks that "Some of them in Congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me -- hanging on a tree" and Rep. Allen West's threat to quit the Congressional Black Caucus if they did not condemn Rep. Carson's remarks, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asks Mary Matalin to weigh in. What we heard next was some full blown wingnut praise of Glenn Beck and his revisionist history of the black Founding Fathers.
MATALIN: Well, it's not representative of great American black leaders. You know, Glenn Beck did an astounding, remarkable series on the civil rights struggle in this country, including black Founding Fathers. And that Congressman, and Maxine Waters who said all the "tea party" can go straight to hell, they're not in that great tradition. And they should be condemned. And a huge attraction, a significant attraction, and this is quantified in the polls, to Barack Obama, among white people was his promise to be post-racial. This is retro-racial and not only should the CBC condemn it, the President should condemn it.
Matalin's fellow CNN contributor, Donna Brazile was not amused to say the least. A bit later in the segment Matalin also said this about Beck after accusing Donna Brazile of never having watched any of his clap-trap on Fox, not that I'd blame her if she hasn't. Watching too much of that stuff is enough to rot someone's brain.
MATALIN: Did you see any of his programs? Did you watch any of his remarkable documentaries on the founding and the black Founding Fathers and the scholars that he had on and the scholarship that he did and the accolades that he received in the black community? This... you're making your point that you were disregarding earlier, which is we're just judging people and saying things about people, without even knowing who they are or what they've said.
This is not a show about Glenn Beck, but he's the furthest thing from a racist. And I think why we have to have this conversation is what happens with Democrats and liberals is you don't, you oppose their policies, then they brand you a racist.
Coming from someone who worked for Dick Cheney, this sort of flame throwing is not that surprising from Matalin. Blitzer did at least ask her about Beck calling President Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred of white people," but neither Brazile or Blitzer called out Matalin properly for her praise of Beck's revisionist history of the civil rights movement and the Founding Fathers on his television show before Fox finally canceled him.
AlterNet has more on the supposed "remarkable series" Matalin mentioned here -- Glenn Beck’s Shocking Drive-By on African American History:
In a moment when the absurd met the bizarre, Beck was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the most esteemed Liberty University—a seeming confirmation of his position as America’s most dilettante and grossly amateurish historian. While serious students of history after much hard work, reading and scholarship offer carefully formulated narratives of our past and present, Beck proceeds with unadulterated, untempered confidence as a scattershot, partisan, hack. In short: History says whatever Glenn Beck deems it does–a formulation which is ultimately dependent upon how the political winds blow on any given day.
However, Beck’s recent show, creatively titled “The Black Founding Fathers,” was even by his ratings driven modus operandi too much to stomach. It was an assault on taste and reason. There, Glenn Beck did a drive-by on the history of Black Americans, as well as on Progressive and forward thinking Americans everywhere. On that show, Beck extended a hand of friendship to tell a more “inclusive” story of this country’s founding, while simultaneously spitting on the memories of those very same African American visionaries who risked death so that America would be a full democracy in keeping with its radical potential.
The Black Founding Fathers
As is typical for him, on The Black Founding Fathers show Beck offered a very duplicitous narrative. There he outlined a “hidden” history of black American triumph and success in the face of discrimination and bigotry at the time of the United States’ founding. Given that Beck has displayed a not too veiled hostility to black Americans in the past, his efforts to highlight this often forgotten part of our nation’s history was surprising.
What he did next was shocking in its boldness: Beck then proceeded to use the history of African Americans as a step-stool upon which to advocate for the elimination of Ethnic Studies programs and to present the Framers and the Constitution as essentially anti-racist in intent and form. It was both fascinating and oddly perverse to watch Beck and his guests bastardize the history of Black Americans in the service of a white washed U.S. history. Sadly, the pioneering and politically radical history which Beck attempted to mine for his show is only useful to him to the degree that it uplifts a narrative of American exceptionalism and White American triumphalism. Read on...
And here's more on Beck's racism from Media Matters:
Beck's accusation that progressives have "co-opted" civil rights movement rings hollow
Beck's "talk about racism" -- more race-baiting, falsehoods, and distortions
And here's more from our own David Neiwert:
Glenn Beck lies about authors of NAACP report on Tea Party racism, and refutes not a single fact
Obama's election ended racism so we don't ever want to hear about it again!
If Glenn Beck is the "furthest thing from a racist" Matalin is aware of, she's keeping some pretty bad company.
UPDATE: Media Matters has more on this segment which might explain Matalin's praise of Glenn Beck here -- Why Is Mary Matalin Randomly Bringing Up Her Business Partner Glenn Beck On CNN?:
According to her CNN bio, Matalin is the editor-in-chief of Threshold Editions, an imprint of publisher Simon & Schuster. Threshold has published most, if not all, of Beck's recent books. In fact, it's publishing Beck's The Snow Angel next month.
That fact didn't come up as Matalin randomly injected Beck into the conversation on CNN.
Is Matalin concerned about the flagging profile of one of her most productive authors now that his Fox News show has ended and his rally in Israel was met with little fanfare?
An on-screen graphic during the segment did describe Matalin as the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster's "conservative imprint," but there was no mention of its relationship with Beck.
More analysis on the segment there and Matalin's conflict of interest as well.
from knowing what a racist is. Ugh.
me-oww!
the furthest thing from sanity, too. I said "sanity," not Hannity.
I don't know. It may depend on how one defines "racist." I do know this though, for more than forty years (at least) Republicans have been using racism to gain electoral advantage and win elections for the GOP. Is a person who is personally friendly to minorities, who personally treats all people equally, but who uses racism for political advantage a racist?
Maybe not. But such a person is undeniably an anti-democratic scumbag. And Beck, like W and Cheney, and Reagan, and Nixon certainly qualifies there.
It must be true. Is that twit still around?
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fuck matalin, she's a RACIST and a BIGOT TOO !
this woman is seriously brain-dead. her husband
gets more action from a piece of cold liver in the fridge.
Maleficent wouldn't turn on her own, now would she?
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Beck doesn't have to be a Racist to be a race-baiting hate-mongering bastard.
Matalin doesn't have to work in a whore house or walk the streets to be a cheap whore.
Educate, motivate, agitate...and if that doesn't work, take pleasure in pissing them off!
matalin has been a george bush slut her entire political life.and you get her entangled with karen huges and
babe pukeanan and perino,you got yourself a whorehouse.
george bush and the "dick" cheney's harem.nothing less nothing more.
Of course not...when she looks at Glenn Beck she sees herself??
Classic example of how lose what credibility you may have had. Defend Glenn Beck like this. The only problem is that Matalin had no credibility to begin with so this just reinforces that. Plus CNN is FOX lite. There must be smoke coming out of Ted Turner's ears.
Because in Republican Land, you're "not a racists" if you don't openly call Blacks "the N-word".
Calling all Muslim's "terrorists" or suggesting all Mexicans are a drain on society doesn't even cross their minds when they think of "racism" because they're not black.
Of course, blacks would heartily disagree with Matlin on the idea that Beck is not racist against Black's as well.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
in wing-nut world, racists all wear white sheets and spew the N-word every other sentance and have nooses everywhere.
The fact that racism and bigotry can come in subtle forms as well as blatant is lost on them compleatly.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Mary Matalin is a right wing twit...a hack...Is she a Tea Party member now???
not a chance, I've heard more intelligent things from a four year old
a lot, and I'd counter your statement that you'll hear more HONEST things from a four year old.
Beck says some things that are pretty damn dumb, and he triumphs in ignorance. However, he is not stupid. I argue that Beck is an ignorant genius of reactionary, yellow propaganda.
Now his followers are a different story. I documented a professor of psychiatry at UCLA who supports Beck, but he stuck his head in the sand when I confronted him on Beck's website about just a couple of Beck's many lies. Beck is very persuasive, and he's created an army of psychotics, people who believe his nonsense beginning to end.
Beck literally has an army of flame warriors who come after me everytime I comment using Disqus because they uyse that to track my comments and then smear me and assassinate my character because of my focus and criticism of their hero.
C & L is an oasis for me where I don't have to look back over my shoulder to see what smears have been thrown at me after I post comments here.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
I'm of the opinion that Beck is just a basic snake-oil salesman. He obviously does not care about his audience, only about how much money he can scam out of them. I do believe that he has figured out that he can control them better by becoming a cult-like figure to them which will allow him to take them for even more of their money.
That just makes his followers all the more dangerous as you've no doubt discovered with the various cult members who have attacked you on the message boards.
But he is still just a snake-oil salesman, a snake-oil salesman with a very deluded and dedicated following of low-information thinkers.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
People like Beck, Matalin and Limbaugh love them some blacks.....as long as they have been turned into Uncle Thoms.
Harry Chapin wants you.
"......as long as they have been turned into Uncle
ThomsClarence Thomas-es.""Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I really don't know from what inner well blacks like Donna Brazile and James Clyburn and others draw such dignity. Talk about grace under fire. Maybe it's the example of MLK (which seems lost on Allen West).
Keep on keeping on. I'm white, but you make me proud to be part of the same race, the human race.
That other woman is retarded. I'll add the remarks that Donna, bless her blackness, will not: Mary, you dear are a cracker-assed moron.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Luckily, it did not receive much media attention.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
Didn't a bunch of the republican members of the House of Representatives go over there to attend Beck's whatever it was? I'm betting Lieberman did too although I don't know that for sure.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Liebermann was going to go, but Dana Milbank, one guy who wrote a book about Beck, quoted some of Beck's anti-Semitic remarks to him and may have caused him to change his mind. At any rate, he did not attend.
Boehner did not allow Congresspeople to attend the event at all. There were Congressmen in Israel, but it seems that the only pol to attend Beck's rally is the non-pol, presidential candidate Herman Cain.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
but he is a race-baiter, fairly routinely.
Beck is not in bed with the racists, but he's in the next bed over and in the same room.
More than a few of Beck's supporters are racists too.
I've been giving this reactionary propagandist close scrutiny for over a year now, and he really is not a racist. I'd be the first one to point it out if I could ascertain that.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
Definition of RACE-BAITING
: the making of verbal attacks against members of a racial group.
Even if you mean something different, the fact that he uses race to whip up his flying monkeys, makes him a racist. And the fact he hangs out with them...well one is judged by the company one keeps.
me-oww!
What racists does Beck hang out with?
I'm open to your argument, that race-baiting makes one a racist, but that would mean that Herman Cain, Alan West and Bernice King are blind to your argument. Beck embraces them.
We looked into Beck's deep past, into his high school years, and he does not seem to have any background in racism.
Is race-baiting racism? I think that the reactionary propagandist is at WORST a paradox about racism. He bemoans it and race baits. I just think that calling Beck a racist is a severe and misleading over-simplification.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
Yes you are right, Cain and the others are race baiting too. But that has nothing to do with the fact that Beck is an obvious racist. All of his influences -like the John Birtch society to name one- and many people he has had on his shows are fundamentally racist. He more than keeps the company them. He promotes their worldview.
Skousen to that list. He is the author of The 5,000 Year Leap that changed Beck's life, and he was a racist too.
I still do not buy that reading The Leap makes Beck a racist. God, if it were only that easy.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
Just because you can't find anywhere he exhibited racism as a kid in high school, doesn't mean he wasn't then, or hasn't changed since. An example, my brother. We were raised in a left leaning household, both parents were active Dems. My brother was a normal troublemaking kid. First job was in a union shop and he supported the union. Now, 40 years on, he's an uptight righty whitey.
BTW, what was the racial makeup of Sehome High when Beck attended? Wa State was never known for it's large Black population and the more rural, the more White the state was back in the day. I went to HS outside of Seattle, and honestly, there were no Black kids in my school of 1800 (Ok we had on Black guy, and he was from Africa). Our minorities were primarily Asian.
And what these people, Herman Cain, Alan West and Bernice King are blind to is nothing to do with Beck's attitudes toward minorities. Just because he pals around with them does not make him 'not a racist.' Beck's Black 'friends' (I am not familiar w/ Ms King's views nor her position in the Black community, so I exempt her here. A bit of reading does point up she appears to be a conservative though, and there has been familial infighting that seems to surround her) are pretty much held in low esteem by what seems to be the majority of people (at least, a very vocal contingent) in the Black community, because their views about Blacks tend to reflect many White attitudes which denigrate Black people and their place in our society. In other words, I don't think his Black friends have Black friends. Same with Ward Connerly. I'm sure Beck loves him some Ward Connerly.
"He can't be racist because he has Black friends" is so 60s, really.
Race baiting is racism. It's very simple and not overly so, IMO.
me-oww!
I disagree.
Let's take Congressman West. Beck wants to see him in the White House! I don't care how much you want to (falsely) equate racism with race-baiting, a racist is not going to promote a black man for President. On the other hand, a propagandist will use race-baiting (lies, false claims, spin, quoting out of context, Breitbarting, misinterpretation, etc.) to attack a black President that he disagrees with.
Beck didn't just "pal around" with King; he featured her at his Restoring "Honor" rally last year.
I can find where he rails against racism, but not a word where he expresses prejudice or hatred toward blacks. (Ignorance? Definitely!) Can you? Leave me the link if you can find where he expresses racism toward blacks.
Beck's black friends may not have (many) black friends, but Beck has black supporters. Not many, but a few would help make my case that he's not a racist. He's a paradox toward blacks, but that does not mean that he's crossed the line that you're claiming he has. No one here wants to peg him as a racist more than I, but --damn it-- I won't make false equivalences to reach a false conclusion.
Matelin is lying: Beck is not far from being a racist. We agree there, but you want to cross a threshold that is not supported by the facts. You want to believe what you want to believe, but you have to detach your disdain for Beck's reactionary opinions and think about the definitions of racism and race-baiting. Just because you want to equate them does not make it so.
I'm going to end this for now with a quote from a piece I just read this morning about faith in god and cherry-picking religious texts because it is relevant to what, I think, you want to believe about Beck vs. what is the actual case regarding his alleged racism.
Your cognitive bias toward Mr. Beck is slanting you to believe that he is a racist, but that is not born out by the facts of his words, acts and desire to see a (different) black man in the White House. You confuse one of many elements of propaganda (race-baiting) that Beck uses with racism. They are not the same no matter how much you want to believe them so.
BTW, a former colleague of Beck's, a DJ in Phoenix, also never heard Beck express any prejudice toward blacks. He is an anti-Semitic bigot, a race-baiting, deceitful, ignorant master of reactionary, yellow propaganda, hate-monger, fear-monger, hypocrite and fraud (as a pundit). Is that not damning enough without having to make up criticism of Mr. Beck that doesn't actually stick?
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
we don't see eye to eye on this particular aspect of beck.
West has no Black friends. West is at the beck and call of the White power structure. He wants what Whitey wants.
I will iterate--just because beck likes a Black guy or two (and they happen to be the 'go along to get along' types), does not make him 'not a racist.'
me-oww!
Race baiting is not racism. Beck doesn't just "like" Alan West; he wants him as the next president. That does push him away from the KKK block of voters.
Beck comes as close to being a racist as a non-racist can come. You think that he's crossed the line: I believe that you confuse his race-baiting propaganda for genuine racism.
We don't see eye to eye on what qualifies as racism. Some of his rhetoric, bigotry and online postings come pretty damn close to racism; I'll grant you that.
We can surely agree that Beck is despicable and that Matalin is full of crap.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
Beck may very well be the furthest thing from a racist in Matlin's circle of associates. Look at Cheney , But then Cheney is not exactly a racist. He hates everyone equally that is not richer than himself. Beck may very well be the least racist of those she knows. Isn't that sad. And as far as her hubby the Carnival well i suspect his character flaws may be extreme. He did marry her afterall.
If you are a liar you believe everyone else lies. If you are a thief you believe everyone else steals. If you are a republican you believe everyone else is evil.
Cnn is scraping the bottom of the barrel for a show when they have to have Matalin on talking about Beck. Who cares about either of them or what either of them has to say about anything? Beck is yesterday's useless news and Matalin is yesterday's useless voice. Anyone who is defendind Beck is pathetic if that's the best they have to talk about.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
from TV preceded your illness?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
is worse than heroin or tobacco withdrawal. Many have ended up in the hospitals.
Very well said.
Exactly.
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Look, I have NO use for Glenn Beck or Mary Matalin and I will be snarky and sharp in my comments about them without reservation, but what Wolf was doing here just made me crazy. I believe there are times when the words someone says can be condemened without condeming the person who made them. A lot of people on the Left (myself included) have thoughts which are less than charitable about the scumbags on the Right (Oops!) and it is unfortunate that the center piece of this discussion is Beck because he is easily condemnable for so many reasons, but I don't think the confalgration Wolf insisted on returning to time and again is valid or helpful to the common discourse.
He kept calling for the condemnation of the person instead of focusing on what was said. "Black Congressman said this - will black woman condemn HIM?" "White talking head said this - will white woman condemn HIM?" WTF, Wolf? Where's the "Gee, what do you think he meant by that and do you support his view" question to either of them? Just by asking the way he did, he helps to increase the divide between rationality and emotional knee-jerkism. Who writes this stuff?
He was actively and energetically trying to start a flame war instead of actually trying to discuss something. It is no less incendiary than the false Fox approach and should be...condemned. Not Wolf; a chastisement, maybe, and a sit down talk about "Do you realize what you're doing when you say this shit?" with a responsible adult wouldn't hurt him, but there's no need to pull our the pillory. Maybe Howie Kurtz will notice and mention it on his show this weekend? And, then, maybe we'll all be handed lollipops and dance with Unicorns and elves...
made it about Beck. And Brazille tried in part to resist but in the end took the bait.
Flame War? Blitzer is starting a flame war? Carson's remarks I guess were not the spark, so to speak?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Wolf wanted a battle between Donna and Mary. He didn't pursue what they thought about the content, he wanted condemnation of the person and wouldn't quit shaking that bone. That was a battle HE started. The comment and who said it were secondary to his pursuing condemnation of a person - it could've been any Liberal making any sort of esoteric point requiring thought.
I realize this is no revelation in Network news; rather, it is closer to SOP. When it's this egregious, I like to see it pointed out. Donna's first reply should be highlighted and sent out virally on it's own. That part was terrific.
and I have zero interest in anything she says. CNN denigrates whatever integrity they have left with this interview.
are clear examples of how far cyborg technology has come along.
Damn science, you scary!
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Frederick Douglass may not be a Founding Father, Black or otherwise, but here's a sentence from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" that Rep. Carson might want to toss to the media instead of backing off: "I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just."
I saw the headline and the first person I thought of was the (very talented) deaf actress.
I repent!
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Not that I've missed her. She's a full-time paid apologist for the Republican plantation. I have no idea why her opinions, which are familiar to us all, would even be repeated on a progressive website. NO BODY CARES what she thinks.
I truly don't understand how James Carville can remain married to Mary Matalin. A couple decades ago one would see the occasional news segment about how they managed to live happily together despite "their differing political views."
But now we know more about how the Republicans think, how they view the world, and what their goals actually are. Those goals are quite disgusting: denying human rights to women, gays, and minorities; ruining an entire nation's economy just for the sake of greed and profit; destroying the Earth's ground, water, and air for profit; sacrificing thousands of service members' lives and causing untold suffering and grief just so the war profiteers can control energy supplies; and deliberately lying on a grand scale via huge, powerful media organizations to promote their goals as being in the cause of liberty. (And more, of course.)
People used to think that "political views" were just some superficial choice like the color of your shirt or what kind of flower you prefer. But they're not. So how can a decent human being remain in a close relationship with another human being who is working toward such evil goals?
As a child of the 60s who was in Mississippi when James Meredith was shot doing his Freedom Walk I feel it's time to take a look and do an actual assessment of national racial equality policy. I actually have some skin in the game and have ever taken a dime from the Federal government in any form. Where is the black community now as compared to say 50 years ago? What sustainable benefits can the black family attribute to the Great Society and public welfare? What sustainable benefits can the black community attribute to the community improvements? Sadly, all one really needs to do, if you dare, is drive through the very communities upon which the Democratic Party built a sustainable platform to remain in power for generations and insure individual job security among the ruling elite. The Congressional Black Caucus and the Democratic Party have literally fed off the black community and white guilt for generations and worked tireleslly to see that this sustainable constituency never reach the goals of empowerment and economic freedom. Stop attacking people who may have a new idea about how to actually help a group of people who deserve more than a hand out in exchange for a vote. When people buy into an ideology I wish they'd so some homework and actually look at problems with an open mind. We need change that is meaningful and from what I've seen, what we've been doing has done more harm than good. The dream must be restored and the individual empowered. Big govermen is the problem not the solution.
African Americans have made great gains in advancing to the middle class. I grew up in an all white community with no blacks allowed. Now I am raising my children in the same community where now I find that many of our neighbors and my children's classmates are African American -as well as other races. They are homeowners, picky about their lawns, and pay taxes just like the whites and now they live right next to me instead of in some segregated community of their own. My point is that the African American community has arrived to the middle class. This is a wonderful step forward and it is good to see.
of Matalin AND her bubble headed husband. With absolute certainty one may forecast what they are going to say. They are both whores to their funding, and intellectually dishonest. Why are the proper up on TV to jabber at us?
Matlin got the Memo from Ailles. "Support Beck, he's still useful"
Fox's tentacles reach so far I think it would be impossible to work in TV, Radio, Movies, "news" if you cross him. And we'll be seeing more people cutting Fox slack because of that power. Look at the wiretapping that they are getting away with. That stuff got Nixon booted from the WH and all the news is saying is "boys will be boys..."
that is no BIG LOSS to the caucus, because he doesn't agree with their agenda anyway.
Empty threat from a wingnut...where have I heard that before?
I'm surprised the idiot is even in the Black Caucus, he must have needed to pad out his resume.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
with a powerful hankering for attention.
For safety, stay clear of any area between her clenched being and a film crew.
Ah let me guess . . . she's still a dyspetic Gooper?
I know some really good divorce lawyers. You may want to call one now that your wife has slipped into madness.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
is said and done, who gives a crap what Mary Matalin says about anything?
Peter Everts
"Glenn Beck is not a racist", and in an abstract way she is correct. It would be difficult or impossible to prove that he is a racist.
He is a fu%$#ing bigot however, and that is well documented.
'Talk to the hand'
One could prove Beck is a racist if he'd say something explicitly racist, but he does not.
He is a bigot, but toward Jews, not blacks. (If I'm wrong about that, provide me with the quote.) It is possible that he was trying to make things right with Jews by having his Restoring Courage event in Jerusalem last week.
What Matalin is flat-out wrong about is claiming that Beck is "the furthest thing from a racist." Below is a debate with miss_kitty about whether or not Beck is a racist. If one wants to equate race-baiting with racism, then Beck is a racist. I do not think that they are equal or equivalent.
Race-baiting is a kind of dog whistle for Beck's racist followers. It's an element of propaganda, and Beck certainly employs many elements of propaganda. (It's so laughable to see his cult followers try to deny that Beck is a propagandist.)
Because Beck uses race-baiting as a dog-whistle or as a sleazy tactic to make the President out to be something he's not (socialist, a follower of black liberation theology, etc.) does not make him a racist, but Matalin's claim that he's far from being a racist is just horse shit.
Beck is damn close to being a racist, but his desire, for example, to see Congressman West in the White House tells me that he is not a racist. His anti-racist rhetoric tells me that he is not a racist. I think that is what Matalin is referring to, but she turns blind eyes toward the race-baiting that Media Matters and Neiwert point out. She is, it has been discovered, trying to sell his books. Like many salespersons, she is not adverse to lying about her falling star (product).
Beck is NOT in bed with the KKK, but his race-baiting propaganda puts him in the next bed over.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
and seen many interviews/guesting on shows. the woman clearly is mentally unbalanced. why the hell carvell married her i have no clue.
Slither back to that Louisiana swamp and stay there!
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