Beck criticizes John Lewis for comparing himself to civil rights activists: "How dare you!"

[MrScorpio]

1963: National civil rights leaders (l to r) John Lewis, Whitney Young Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer and Roy Wilkins, New York City. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

From John Lewis' bio:

He was born the son of sharecroppers on February 21, 1940, outside of Troy, Alabama. He grew up on his family's farm and attended segregated public schools in Pike County, Alabama. As a young boy, he was inspired by the activism surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he heard on radio broadcasts. In those pivotal moments, he made a decision to become a part of the Civil Rights Movement. Ever since then, he has remained at the vanguard of progressive social movements and the human rights struggle in the United States.

As a student at Fisk University, John Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. Lewis risked his life on those Rides many times by simply sitting in seats reserved for white patrons. He was also beaten severely by angry mobs and arrested by police for challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

During the height of the Movement, from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped form. SNCC was largely responsible for organizing student activism in the Movement, including sit-ins and other activities.

While still a young man, John Lewis became a nationally recognized leader. By 1963, he was dubbed one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. (The others were Whitney Young, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer and Roy Wilkins). At the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963.

The rest: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201003220073

Beck is a complete train wreck

[Bolo Boffin]

1. Dear God, his ability to deny reality is astounding!

It may be impossible to not be condescending to this idiot.

[Arkana]

2. Glenn apparently doesn't realize that John Lewis doesn't need to "compare"

himself to anyone in the civil rights movement--he was THERE. He LIVED it.

[Beetwasher]

32. Indeed, In Fact He Was And Is The movement

We can stop here with regard to proof of Beck's idiocy.

[BurtWorm]

46. In Beck's defense, he might have thought people were talking about Jerry Lewis.

:patriot:

[bridgit]

3. Beck is the most disassociated monster shouter in America

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Mr. Scorpio ..

I think you just created a new bumper Sticker.
"Glenn Beck is a Train Wreck"

Maybe a DU t-shirt?

[Dappleganger]

5. That shrimp needs a beat-down

[EFerrari]

6. I wonder what Beck's freak republic name is.

[ChicagoSuz219]

26. What is that? n/t

[EFerrari]

36. What he posts under at freeperville.

[ChicagoSuz219]

44. Thanks! n/t

[marmar]

7. His mind is a scary place.......

:scared:

[UpInArms]

23. a mind is a terrible thing to lose.

beck's is gone - too many acid trips that he never took :shrug:

Or, is he one of those Viet vets that never fought?

so sad.

[CoffeeCat]

8. Beck is a bottomless pit of stupidity...

What else is there to say about Beck, a complete fool.

[Bozita]

9. Guess there's no such thing as "a lie too big to tell" in the GOP playbook.

[Tom_Foolery]

10. Glenn Beck needs to read a REAL history book...

and quit making shit up in his head.

I'm almost 50, and I can't remember a time that John Lewis wasn't a part of this country's history.


On edit: What an idiot!!!

[msanthrope]

31. I think he used one from the state of Texas.....n/t

[old mark]

11. As if more proof was needed, Glen...they should lock you up.

A little medication and a few years in the dayroom watching Oprah will fix you right up....


mark

[Soylent Brice]

12. shitfire, they're all losing it.

:popcorn:

[Unvanguard]

13. Wait, he actually said that? For real? ROFLMAO. n/t

[Enrique]

14. there goes his reputation as a civil rights historian n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Maybe Rush can take Glen with him to Costa Rica

[etherealtruth]

16. I'm having difficulty believing this ....

No, no .... No one can be that damn stupid

[RamboLiberal]

17. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert & their writers have to be cheering

They don't even have to work that hard anymore. Beck and these other RW looney tunes give them the material!

[malaise]

18. Too good

Beck is bat shit crazy

[G_j]

19. these people have no need for research ...you don't need it

when you just make stuff up.

photo of Lewis being beaten by police,

[gratuitous]

20. How do you fix this kind of pig-ignorance?

This is stupid that goes all the way to the bone.

[MrScorpio]

21. For five minutes, Glenn Beck vilifies "losers" who depend on the help of others

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201003220081

Where will Beck's "own two feet" be when Fox eventually cans his silly ass?

[Hun Joro]

22. My first thought :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlOLfeYhlnk">Loser

[onenote]

24. I kinda wish John would show up and ask to appear on Beck's show

Beck would shit his pants right there on camera.

[Number23]

25. Rec'ing solely for the exquisite photograph in your OP

[ChicagoSuz219]

27. He's a low-grade Moran. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

28. John Lewis has the scars to prove it.

I will refrain from saying what I think about Mr. Beck.

He isn't worth my scorn.

[blm]

29. I don't blame Beck - he really IS just a plain, old ignoramus. He does know ONE thing...

that he's fraud. And THAT is why he is so overthetop with his displays. If he convinces you with his ACT, then all the better for him.

[mariawr]

30. Beck is seriously deranged. Crazy. nt

[JerseygirlCT]

33. He really is a very sick man.

He needs help.

What that says about people who actually believe him... whew.

[LeftishBrit]

34. John Lewis WAS a civil rights activist.

Even a Brit with some interest in American history knows that.

Beck on the other hand appears to be an uncivil lunacy activist.

[Fire1]

35. These people really are far beyond ignorant. n/t

[Cass]

37. Beck knows exactly who John Lewis is. What he is doing is pretty low. nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

41. Yup. He isn't ignorant; he knows EXACTLY what he is doing and who he is manipulating. (n/t)

[applegrove]

38. I don't think Beck cares that he is wrong. He only cares that Lewis

comments re: being slurred by tea baggers don't make it to his listeners. He's successfully delegitimized Lewis with this statement. Mission accomplished. Beck's listeners will never see nor hear how much of a civil rights leader Lewis was. We get it. But they won't because they will only hear what they want to hear. And that was the point of the statement.

[Roland99]

39. Maybe Beck was thinking of Richard Lewis? Lewis Black, perhaps?

[Bolo Boffin]

40. I just remembered that Beck claims Martin Luther King, Jr. as a model for what he does.

If you've ever watched his show (I did a couple of days last week and I'm good to go until next election year), his credits include a lot of American icons. One of the last, if not the very last, is Reverend King.

Which is, of course, hysterical because if Beck had been on the air back in the days of the civil rights movement, you KNOW he would have been reading copy straight from J. Edgar about the Commie King.

But that was then, and this is now, and NOW Reverend King is someone Beck chooses to look up to, and so seeing Pelosi and the other Democrats locking arms with Lewis on their way to the Capitol offended him. You see, that's HIS brand now, he believes. He's the one resisting governmental abuse. For the Democrats to take what he views as HIS offends him, and that's why he said what he did, regardless of whether John Lewis was there or not.

[Swamp Rat]

42. The Teabagger Bowel Movement is rapidly spiraling down the waterloo.

:hurts: ........ HAHA! :D

[G_j]

43. have to say

that is SCARY!

..and fitting

[Winterblues]

45. Beck has taken Colbert's "truthiness" to new levels.

I think sometimes he actually believes what he says..:shrug:

[Marr]

47. Doesn't that just sum up everything about "right wing populists"?

He publicly takes offense at the notion of someone comparing themselves to civil rights leaders, but is actually so completely indifferent about that fight, or the people involved, that he hasn't to foggiest notion who they were/are. And I'll bet half his idiot audience cheered right along, feeling morally superior.