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By David Weigel August 15 at 12:32 PM
On Friday, the radio and online host Glenn Beck arrived at the annual RedState Gathering with some hard lessons for conservatives. He could not vote for Donald Trump. He had interviewed the independent #NeverTrump candidate, Evan McMullin, and found him too "squishy." Despondent about the choice that faced voters, he had begun seriously "soul-searching" and investigating what he did not know about America.
"You can't be as universally disliked as I am, and not do some soul-searching," said Beck at a news conference before his speech in Denver. "Well, unless you're Donald Trump."
Among Beck's revelations was that the Black Lives Matter movement had a point. Beck, like many conservatives, had criticized the movement as racist and exclusionary. He had led a march in Birmingham, Ala., on the theme of "All Lives Matter." His news site, The Blaze, had written dutifully about well-meaning people who said "All Lives Matter" and were hounded by the politically correct mob. But since the police shootings in Dallas, where his programs are recorded, Beck had come to view "Black Lives Matter" differently.
"All of us are sitting around a table, and we're all friends," he said. "It's time for dessert, and everybody gets pie except for me and you. And you say, 'I didn't get any pie.' Everybody at the table looks at you and says 'I know. All pie matters.' You say, 'but I don't have any pie! What about my pie?'"
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/15/glenn-beck-urges-conservatives-to-understand-black-lives-matter/?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1
LAGC
(5,330 posts)This could actually be a really good thing, if conservatives are forced to do some serious soul-searching after this disaster of a Trump campaign comes to it's final conclusion.
Whether this will lead to any sort of "great awakening" for conservatives to rebuke the racist B.S. and start really embracing inclusion, remains to be seen...
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)think
(11,641 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Otherwise, I am shocked to see this.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)"anita hill....a little bit nutty, a little bit slutty"
Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing more than another sin committed on behalf of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
But Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come forward in support of Hill. Brock threatened to publicize vicious charges made by her ex-husband in a sealed child-custody dispute.
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,167355,00.html
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)the one about a drunken, gun toting Laura Ingraham
he used the big bucks he made off his authorial success to found media matters
LoverOfLiberty
(1,438 posts)I don't care what he says, I don't care what he thinks, I don't want anyone like him on my side.
Gman
(24,780 posts)He does this every now and then.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Nah, broken clock.
ProfessorPlum
(11,285 posts)if you consider having society routinely devalue and throw your life away to be the equivalent of not getting "pie".
Amazing to think that this is the best metaphor he could come up with.