Glenn Beck! Live! In Person!

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Mr. Beck’s appeals to racial solidarity are delivered in the same winking way: speaking of the “grand, magnificent” founding fathers, he leans toward his visibly homogeneous Midwestern audience and says “and we’ve lost touch with how much like us they were.”

Really? The NYT reviewer (and presumably Mr. Weigel by selecting and quoting this portion) think he's using racist “code” based on those statements? Let's try a thought experiment: Janeane Garofalo has a Manhattanite “progressive” audience (most likely just as “visibly homogeneous”) and remarks of the Progressive era “we’ve lost touch with how much like us they were”. Is that “winking” racism? Or does this leap only apply to conservative pundits and Midwesterners?

As usual NYT and the author of this post –by quoting the piece– “deconstruct” racism where there isn't any. Or, most likely, make it up to have others believe there is racism– for their own ideological reasons.

Pretty interesting that Judge Sotomayor's blatantly racist statements are undergoing such profound (and surprise… favorable!) reflection and yet Glenn Beck's clear appeal to (what he believes) is the similarity between the political ideology of his audience and the ideology of the Founding Fathers.

And Mr. Beck is not the next appointment to the Supreme Court.

Just sad this passes for a “review” worthy of re-posting.

Please. The conservative obsession with the past that never was stopped being comical a long time ago. The Founding Fathers are treated as if every word and action is infallible gospel, but we're never to bring up that the Founding Fathers denied equality to blacks and women, and even allowed states to deny the vote to non-property owners? A common theme of the conservative grievance movement is that “things were better until…” and the “until” part of that usually involves offshoots of the Civil Rights movement.

Please. The conservative obsession with the past that never was stopped being comical a long time ago. The Founding Fathers are treated as if every word and action is infallible gospel, but we're never to bring up that the Founding Fathers denied equality to blacks and women, and even allowed states to deny the vote to non-property owners? A common theme of the conservative grievance movement is that “things were better until…” and the “until” part of that usually involves offshoots of the Civil Rights movement.