Glenn Beck's Obama Education Center...

[No_Socialism]

Glenn Beck's Obama Education Center

Watch and Learn...

On Obama's Church's "Black Liberation Theology"

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On Obama's Church's "Black Liberation Theology" Part 2:

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On Obama Giving $27,000 to his church:

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On Obama's Chances of Winning:

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On Michelle Obama's Socialist Views:

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On Obama's Economic Policies:

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On Obama's Global Poverty Act:

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On Obama Preaching Socialism Again...

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This one mentions Obama too... About corporate bailouts and the welfare state:

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About freedom of religion (Obama isn't mentioned by name here but since socialism is mentioned it applies):

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On the Obama / Hillary Race:

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More Rev Wright Fun...

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Rev Wright Again..

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Obama Backpedals on Wright:

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[actsnoblemartin]

I've learned more from glen beck then any other conservative.

He is a genius

[hjmick]

For anyone interested, Beck will be airing full Reverend Wright sermons on his show Thursday. We'll be able to hear his words in "context."

[Yurt]

For anyone interested, Beck will be airing full Reverend Wright sermons on his show Thursday. We'll be able to hear his words in "context."

here is some context....

whitey must fall, whitey is evil, g..damn america...


unless they are giving us money.

see you almost missed the context

[actsnoblemartin]

Glen beck is civil, brilliant, and hilarious

a perfect conservative

im an indepedant-conservative

[No_Socialism]

Some more...

Barack Obama denounces and criticizes Reverend Wright:

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Rev Wright in his own words...Part 1

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Rev Wright in his own words...Part 2

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[No_Socialism]

On Obama's NC Speech:

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[No_Socialism]

More about redistribution of wealth that Obama supports...

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[gabosaurus]

Why should we listen to a right-wing extremist let loose the same sort of hate speech that he is accusing Obama of?

[Yurt]

Why should we listen to a right-wing extremist let loose the same sort of hate speech that he is accusing Obama of?

have any examples?

[avatar4321]

Why should we listen to a right-wing extremist let loose the same sort of hate speech that he is accusing Obama of?

Glenn Beck has never engaged in hate speech and you know it. You just dont want to listen to anything that might prove you wrong.

[Kathianne]

Why should we listen to a right-wing extremist let loose the same sort of hate speech that he is accusing Obama of?

Because he's not speaking, rather giving the platform to Obama's preacher the many on the left were saying was taken 'out of context', actually Obama said that, so from what I can see, Beck is giving the 'sermons' in their entirety, thus giving context. That is the right thing to do, don't you agree?

[No_Socialism]

About Obama and the 2nd Amendment

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[Yurt]

it would be nice if you could give us a short "brief" about what the vids are about and how long they are. honestly, i sometimes pop in and out of here during the day and i will not watch the whole vid. do have text?

[Psychoblues]

DP is no place for comedy. It's easy to see why you comedic wannabees flock here.

[actsnoblemartin]

are you calling glen beck a right wing extremists?

if you are, youre a moron


Why should we listen to a right-wing extremist let loose the same sort of hate speech that he is accusing Obama of?

[actsnoblemartin]

you expect a mindless, frothing at mouth, kool aid drinking lying piece of shit like gabs to tell the truth. :laugh2:


Glenn Beck has never engaged in hate speech and you know it. You just dont want to listen to anything that might prove you wrong.

[Psychoblues]

gabby could never be accused of kissing as much ass as you, martin.



you expect a mindless, frothing at mouth, kool aid drinking lying piece of shit like gabs to tell the truth. :laugh2:

Are you being honest with your doctor?

[actsnoblemartin]

I really dont get your incessant need to insult me.

I thought we were friends, apparently not :slap:



gabby could never be accused of kissing as much ass as you, martin.




Are you being honest with your doctor?

[No_Socialism]

it would be nice if you could give us a short "brief" about what the vids are about and how long they are. honestly, i sometimes pop in and out of here during the day and i will not watch the whole vid. do have text?

Sure...

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BECK: Hello, America.

It`s primary day in West Virginia. Want to know the results, check the bottom of the screen. They`re there. I don`t think this is much of a story, because everybody said Hillary Clinton`s going to win, including Barack Obama. The real story here is why won`t the good people of West Virginia pull the lever for Obama? I say a big part of that reason is guns. And all this week, I`m taking a look at how your Second Amendment gun rights are under fire.

So, here`s "The Point" tonight. Barack Obama says he doesn`t want to take away your guns, no, no, no, no. But his actions tell a very different story, and here`s how I got there.

Sometimes the only way we, the people, can know what a politician`s going to do in the future is look what they`ve done in the past. I know, crazy concept. Back in 1996, when Obama was running for state senate in Illinois, he filled out a questionnaire that said he favored a ban on the, quote, "manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns."

Now he claims that was a misrepresentation of his views. But Barack can`t deny that his handwriting is right there on the questionnaire. And when it comes to his stance on guns, handwriting really is on the wall, as well.

Back in his Chicago days, Obama sat on a board called the Joyce Foundation. This is an organization that handed out nearly $3 million to anti-gun groups. They actually paid to support a book called "Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns." Wow.

Based just on those two undeniable facts, Barack Obama is obviously anti-gun. And you know what? That`s fine. That`s cool. If that`s who you are, that`s fine. Not everybody likes guns. And if that`s how Obama feels, you know what, Obama? Grow a set. You`re entitled to your opinion. This is America.

Here`s the thing. When you`re running for president, you`ve got to own your past. Standing behind your decisions is what being a man and president of the United States is all about. Whether it`s your 20-year history with Reverend Jeremiah Wright or your position as an anti-gun advocate, Barack, it is your record. It`s clear. Stand up and tell us the truth.

I mean, your record was clear. At least it was until you started running for president. Back in February, Obama told Idaho primary voters what he thought they wanted to hear.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There are people who say, "Well, he doesn`t believe in the Second Amendment, even though I come from a state, we`ve got a lot of hunters down-state Illinois, and I have no intention of taking away folks` guns."

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: He`s got a lot of hunters. He comes from that state. Then when he was in Philadelphia -- they don`t like guns too much -- this is what he told ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: As I said, I have never favored an all-out ban on handguns. What I think we can provide is commonsense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Hmm. OK. Is he saying the same thing? Is this a radical change of heart? You decide. I think I know.

All I can tell you is this is what you need to know tonight, America. It`s, to me, plain as day. Barack Obama is not a virtuous knight in shining armor. He`s not what we all thought he was. He`s a politician, a politician that will say anything at any time just to get elected.

I think the most telling statement Barack has ever made about our Second Amendment was when he let his guard down. He was standing there. The cameras weren`t on. He was in San Francisco -- I mean, you know how they feel about guns -- and he spoke from his heart.

He said, quote, "Small-town folks deal with hardship, and it`s not surprising. They get bitter. They cling to their guns, their religions or antipathy to people who aren`t like them."

Barack, you know what? I feel safe in saying that I speak for a whole lot of Americans when I tell you I don`t need to be bitter to cling to my gun. The Constitution guarantees my right to cling to my gun during good times and bad.

And you know what? It ain`t about hunting or the tradition of gun ownership. It`s about my fundamental right as an American to protect myself from anybody that wants to do me or my family harm. And you know what? Sometimes those people are in our own government.

You don`t believe me? Read the words of the Founding Fathers.

Chris Cox is the chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, an organization which I am proudly a life member of and giving the keynote speech this Saturday at their convention.

And Jonathan Allen is a reporter with the "Congressional Quarterly."

Jonathan, let me get some of the facts out of the way with you right up front. Tell me about this -- this Barack Obama handwriting on this questionnaire. True or false?

JONATHAN ALLEN, "CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY": Well, his campaign isn`t denying that it`s his handwriting. What they say is it had nothing to do with the content of the questionnaire. They had been listing some supporters of his on the front page of the questionnaire, and hadn`t really reviewed the rest of questionnaire, in which his campaign staffer of the campaign says -- this is back in 1996 -- it indicated he would favor a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns.

BECK: Oh, all right. And somehow or another they got that wildly wrong?

ALLEN: Well, apparently -- this is what the campaign says, that Barack Obama does not now, nor has he ever, used that language favoring the ban on handguns.

BECK: It`s kind of the same thing, you know, where they`re saying now that, "Oh, that Che flag that is hanging in the campaign headquarters -- where is it, Houston -- he has nothing to do with that at all; he doesn`t know anything about it. Yet the people in his office are flying a Che flag. So is that what we`re supposed to believe?

ALLEN: Well, I think there are a lot of different data points on the gun issue. Senator Obama says that he thinks there should be a balance between the constitutional right to own guns and the need to regulate them in some places.

But for the most part his voting record has shown a willingness to put certain restrictions on gun rights, as is the case with most Democrats and in most legislatures, including the Congress, the big questions tend to be the most divisive ones, the ones that divide the parties on gun issues.

BECK: OK. Chris, you give, as the National Rifle Association, Barack Obama an "F." I mean, he`s -- is he worse than Ted Kennedy or he`s right next to Ted Kennedy?

CHRIS COX, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION: Well, Barack got his "F" rating from the NRA the old-fashioned way: he earned it. Now, every two years, every four years, gun owners see politicians like John Kerry in a goose pit 16 days before the election. So it`s not surprising that Barack Obama is in Idaho talking about supporting the Second Amendment and in Philadelphia tranquil (ph) on the Second Amendment.

Look, his position is very clear, both in the Illinois legislature and in the U.S. Congress: he doesn`t believe that there`s a fundamental right to have a handgun, that there`s a fundamental right to self-defense in your own home. He would rather leave you defenseless.

The National Rifle Association believes that honest, law-abiding people have the right to defend themselves from criminal attack, and that`s a position that Barack Obama has taken against.

And so again, Glenn, this is very clear. Election-year rhetoric. People have said that the biggest lies come before a wedding, after a hunt or during an election.

BECK: Right.

COX: And this is definitely Barack Obama lying during an election.

BECK: Do you know anything about this gun -- "Every Gun in America is Pointed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns"?

COX: He sat on the Joyce foundation doling out millions of dollars to radical gun control groups but wants the American gun owner to forget about it.

He voted to keep a guy in jail who defended his family with a handgun in Willamette, Illinois, but wants American gun owners to forget about it.

He refused to sign the amicus brief before the Supreme Court saying clearly that the Second Amendment is an individual right, but he wants American gun owners to forget about it.

Well, he`s going to find out that some American gun owners are bitter, and he`s going to see bitter on election day.

BECK: Everybody -- I want to show this. This is a video from New Orleans. This is -- everybody says, "Oh, they`re not coming for your guns. Nobody`s going to do that. They`re never going to come door to door and take your gun away." That`s exactly what happened. This is -- there you see this old lady. Chris, can you tell me how old she is?

COX: Her name is Patty Cohen and she was in her 70s. It`s a sad, tragic story, but you`re right. It happened for the first time in American history. They kicked people`s doors in, pointed guns at them and took their guns away when they needed them the most.

BECK: And here comes -- here comes the police. They`re coming into her kitchen now. They -- they pin her down to the floor. They take her out. Now, the story is -- I mean, she`s -- I mean, look at her. She`s 70 years old. She did not want to relinquish her gun to the police after Hurricane Katrina, because she said, "I have a right to protect myself. You guys, I can`t get phone calls out. I can`t call 911. The place is breaking down all around me. They took her gun by force."

What I can`t believe is that this has happened already, and yet people still are living in this dream world that, "Oh, well, you don`t have to worry, nobody`s going to come and take your guns." They`ve already done it in this country. And people are still having a hard time getting their gun back in New Orleans. True or false, Chris?

COX: That`s exactly right, Glenn.

BECK: OK. Real quick, 40 percent of people in Texas -- this is -- do you have any other evidence that people are going out and buying guns like crazy right now, because they know what`s coming?

COX: Well, gun owners all over the country are paying attention not only to that Supreme Court case that we`re expecting a decision next month, but also for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They know where these two candidates stand. They know that they stand against our freedoms, and they`re watching very closely. And they`re worried.

BECK: Both of you, thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate it.

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[Yurt]

cool thanks, you can just link me next time :)

[No_Socialism]

Glenn Beck on Obama's Questionable Middle Eastern Support

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BECK: Well, hello, America.

Tonight I want to shift our focus a little bit to the international impact of the presidential candidates. On today`s global stage, all we need to do is figure out what other countries think about our leadership. It is important to at least hear what counties think here at home. So while the Democrats are still split on who they want as president, some in the Middle East have already made up their minds.

Here`s "The Point" tonight. Some Palestinians in Gaza are campaigning for Barack Obama. In him, they see the same radical possibilities that so many Americans see that share Obama`s extreme leftist views. That is as testifying as it is dangerous, and here`s how I got there.

According to an Al Jazeera news report, a group of Palestinians in Gaza are phone banking in support of Barack Obama`s campaign. Before every U.S. primary, a 23-year-old Gaza man gathers a group of his friends and randomly call America`s -- Americans to rally support for Obama.

Here`s a bit from Al Jazeera.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ABU JAYYAB, OBAMA SUPPORTER (through translator): It all started at the time of the U.S. primaries. After studying Obama`s electoral campaign manifesto, I thought this is a man that`s capable of change inside America. As for a potential change in the Middle East, he can also do that. I think he can bring peace to the area. At least this is what we hope.

I will change, I will shift the justice in the Middle East.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Who`s paying their salaries on the phone bank?

Let`s be clear: I am not saying or even suggesting that Barack Obama has solicited, encouraged or even wants this Palestinian support. What I am saying is that this story from Al Jazeera makes it clear that some foreign countries have decided who the best American president would be for them, who will help them further their agenda.

Barack has positioned himself as an empty vessel into which Americans can project all of their hopes and dreams for change in him. Obviously, some Palestinians feel the same way.

And by the way, just a note here. This isn`t personal against him. If China were making calls for Hillary Clinton or Mexicans across the border were calling for John McCain, you`re damn right I`d bring you this story.

All of this comes as Israel celebrates their 60th anniversary. Now Israel, our most important ally in the Middle East. And the Hezbollah- controlled government of Lebanon: here`s a government that`s been charged with harboring and supporting terrorist groups like Hamas, and they`re run by Hezbollah.

And John McCain recently went so far as to say that Obama is the favorite candidate of Hamas. Now, I`m not saying that, but what we do need to look at is the company Barack Obama keeps. We know it. Twenty years with the radical Reverend Wright, close ties to the leader of the Weather Underground that bombed the Pentagon and other federal buildings.

And last week, Obama had to sever his relationship with a Middle East advisor who had a number of direct meetings with Hamas. This is not speculation; this is not smear; this is fact. There are a lot of questions about the company Obama keeps.

And he`s really got pretty lousy answers or none at all. Obama is taking the Jimmy Carter approach, thinking that the secret to the Middle East lies with meetings, that we just sit down and talk to them, with Hamas and Hezbollah. Too bad the reality is that Saudi Arabia says that Iran is pulling the strings in Lebanon.

Iran`s President Ahmadinejad, by the way, wished Israel a happy birthday by saying that Israel has reached the end like a dead rat. Israel is doomed to disappear. It can`t be revived and is a rotting corpse. Pass the birthday cake.

So tonight, America, here is what you need to know. You don`t meet with terrorist leaders; you kill them. This whole give-peace-a-chance crap might have worked when you were smoking dope laying naked on your bed with your ugly wife playing the guitar in the 1960s, but it doesn`t work now. It`s naive policy for a man who says he`s the one to lead the free world.

It`s -- this is not about flag pins. It`s not about false Muslim charges. Forget all of those things. When Obama himself says he wants to meet with some of the worst despots and tyrants the world has seen in the last 100 years, believe him.

Bottom line is some in Gaza have decided that Barack Obama is the right candidate for them, which just gives me one more reason -- one more reason -- why I know for sure he`s the wrong candidate for me.

Jed Babbin is the former deputy -- deputy undersecretary of defense and the editor of "Human Events."

Jed, important that we know what this phone bank is in Gaza?

JED BABBIN, EDITOR, "HUMAN EVENTS": Sure. I mean it`s very important to know who`s paying for it, who`s behind it, what they`re saying. You know, this could be some of the most interesting push polling that`s ever been done in the United States. This is really -- it could be a serious thing.

It`s not likely, but I`d like to know why Mr. Obama isn`t speaking out on it, rejecting anything that they could be saying nice about him. You know, as you pointed out in the opening, this man has had a very close relationship with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant former terrorist. This is something that is very troubling about Obama.

And as to his idea that he`s going to, you know, wave his little Harry Potter magic wand at Iran and all of a sudden they`re going to be good guys, it`s an astonishing level of naivete that we haven`t seen since -- since Howard Dean`s campaign for president.

BECK: I want to give you a quote. This is from the -- the Hamas political advisor, the spokesperson. "We don`t mind, actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will win the election, and we do believe he is like John Kennedy: a great man with great principle. He had a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination or arrogance."

To have Hamas tell us or Hezbollah, tell us that we want to lead the world and all be peaceful, they have caused a civil war in Lebanon. They - - it is all about Muslim fundamental extremists. That`s what this is about.

BABBIN: Absolutely.

BECK: It`s beyond naive that think that these people are going to live in harmony with us.

BABBIN: It`s a fundamental misunderstanding of what we`re up against. You have a guy who says, "Well, I`m going to ignore the fact that, since 1979 when this incredible terrorist regime took charge in Iran, absolutely no one has ever conducted a negotiation with them successfully -- zero, zip, zilch -- that I`m going to come in here. I`m going to say such charming, nice things. I`m going to smile at them and give them my nice voice. And all of a sudden, hey, they`re going to come around and agree"?

BECK: Sure.

BABBIN: This is astonishing naivete. This man -- or for the Hamas people to compare him to JFK, let me remind them that JFK was helping the Cuban resistance. And but for the Bay of Pigs disaster, he would have freed Cuba from communist oppression.

BECK: Yes. You know, Hillary Clinton, her campaign has actually suggested -- and I believe this is a quote -- "dubious ties" between Hamas and Barack Obama`s church. I don`t know if that is even true.

I can just tell you that the people he surrounds himself with should tell us an awful lot about him. That he`s either just not a good judge of character or there`s something much more about him that we don`t know.

BABBIN: Well, I would like to know -- apparently Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who`s his wife, both former Weather Underground terrorists, they were there at the start of Barack Obama`s career in politics. I`d like to know -- I`d like to know why they thought he was a good guy to launch into politics.

BECK: Right. They weren`t just there. They launched it at their house.

BABBIN: Yes. Thanks a lot.

I`ve got to switch. Got to go to religion here for a second. This one came out yesterday, and this has been driving me crazy. It`s continually coming up in this election, and never in a good way.

Republican Mike Huckabee too religious. Remember? And he`s got that scary -- look at that, it`s a cross. No, it`s not. It`s a bookcase. Mitt Romney, oh, well, that`s the wrong religion.

Funny how things change. I want to -- want to show you a photo of Barack Obama standing in front of a cross. This is for his campaign. Now that it`s crunch time before the Kentucky primary, exploding religious imagery is magically OK with everybody in the press. Obama seems to be marketing himself as the religious candidate and, if that`s what he`s selling, the hypocrisy never seems to ends.

Kevin Madden is a Republican strategist and former senior advisor to Mitt Romney. Let me ask you this, Kevin. This is -- this is the flyer for Barack Obama, and it says under, "My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want, but I won`t be fulfilling God`s will unless I go out and do the Lord`s work."

Do you think Mitt Romney could have gotten away with a campaign flyer that said that?

KEVIN MADDEN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: We would have gotten a long front-page story in the "New York Times" about Mitt Romney`s missionary work and how it affected him as a candidate. Oh, wait, that actually happened during the campaign.

BECK: Did you -- when you see this stuff, Kevin, does the blood shoot out of your eyes? Do you say -- does -- because there are times that I read the newspaper and I just look around, like, "Where are the cameras? Am I on one of those joke -- am I on `Jackass` or `Punked` or something? What is this?"

MADDEN: No, it`s a very obvious double standard. And it`s one that, you know, quite frankly, as somebody who`s worked in Republican communications for so long. I`ve gotten very used to it, Glenn.

So, look, reporters will always go out and try and litigate any use of religion by Democrats or seek to explain it to voters or wow themselves about how the wondrous brains behind it as a smart tactic. And whenever Republicans do it, it`s always framed as being somewhat divisive...

BECK: Right. Or dangerous.

MADDEN: Yes, dangerous or blurring the lines between separation of church and state.

BECK: You know what? Let me jump off on that. OK. Here`s -- play the video of the Mike Huckabee ad with the little cross on there. Again, it`s dangerous; he`s a religious kook. And, boy, you know, what`s going to happen with Mike Huckabee when he gets in and look at that, church and state.

Tell me, Kevin, a guy whose theology in his own church reduces all evil in the world to white racism, is stuck in the 1960s mentality, viewing blacks as perpetual victims, ignoring real black progress, adopts Marxist views of class warfare -- they`re just redistribute the wealth -- and looks to the government to forcefully redistribute unearned wealth as justice.

How is that not a scary theology? How is that not something that blurs the line between church and state?

MADDEN: Well, I actually don`t want to cast aspersions on anybody`s religious beliefs, but I do believe this, Glenn, that ultimately campaigns are a contest of attributes.

And when you are looking to judge -- judge a candidate based on their attributes, their leadership abilities, their world experience, and -- and how they would approach the job with those said attributes. I do think that that`s where how somebody`s faith guides them as a public policy official, does come into the bay. And that`s why we`re going to have a very robust discussion.

You know, I would like to have a discussion about Mitt Romney`s Mormonism and how certain tenets of his faith would affect him. But...

BECK: If tenets of his faith do not dictate that the government level justice by taking from one group and giving to another.

MADDEN: Correct.

BECK: That is completely different.

MADDEN: But when you talk about your faith in a public square, like Barack Obama has, it is absolutely a topic for discussion. And I think a lot of people will examine that further upon -- you know, during this campaign.

BECK: OK. Thanks. We`ll talk to you again.

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Obama's Hypocracy Regarding Michelle Obama

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Now, primary night in Kentucky and Oregon. But before Barack Obama declares victory anywhere, he wants to make sure one thing is crystal clear for the remainder of the campaign. And that is, lay off my wife, Jack!

You know, Barack, I`m sorry. But if you and Michelle are going to dish it out, you`d better learn how to take it.

So here`s "The Point" tonight. Not only is Barack Obama an arrogant hypocrite, but if he gets elected, you`d better prepare yourself for the most politically correct -- militant politically correct -- presidency in history. And here`s how I got there.

The Tennessee Republican Party is currently running an ad that raises questions about Michelle Obama`s patriotism. Well, considering that she publicly said that her husband`s candidacy is the first time that she ever felt proud to be an American, and the relationship with Jeremiah Wright, I don`t know. I think questioning her patriotism seem perfectly reasonable.

But more importantly, Michelle Obama is known as what is a campaign surrogate, just like Bill or Chelsea Clinton and Cindy McCain. She`s sent around in the country in an official capacity to speak on behalf of her candidate husband. She stops being a family member and becomes a campaign staffer who is then fair game.

Surprise, surprise. Obama, the elitist, thinks the rules apply differently to him. Here he is -- listen to this -- laying down the law on ABC`s "Good Morning America."

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OBAMA: If they think that they`re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable. The notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: OK. I`m sorry, Mr. Obama. This race is for the presidency of the United States and not one of your egomaniacal rallies. Nobody is fainting here.

Let`s cut right to the chase. Tonight, America, here`s what you need to know. On January 20, Barack Obama told ABC that Bill Clinton, quote, "continues to make statements that are not supported by the facts, that we have to directly confront Bill Clinton."

Then in March, Obama railed against Bill Clinton for making statements that questioned Barack`s patriotism. Besides his wife, there`s a laundry list of what is off-limits now to Chairman Obama. You can`t, for instance, call him a liberal, because Obama calls it, quote, "The same names and labels they pin on everybody."

You also cannot question his toughness on the war on terror, because Obama says it`s just an attempt to play on our fears. You also cannot question his extreme position on social issues, because Obama says it is, quote, "The same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives and turn us against each other."

You cannot use his middle name. You can`t bring up his close relationships with accused extortionist Tony Rezko or the Weather Underground leader and Pentagon bomber William Ayers or the radical Reverend Jeremiah Wright or his Middle East adviser, who`s meeting with Hamas. Because Obama says, this represents, quote, "pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy."

Well, I suppose we can get together and talk about the weather.

If Obama has this many gag orders during his candidacy, can you even begin to imagine how intolerant and suppressive he will be as president of the United States?

You know what? Mr. Obama, we the people will ask whatever the hell we want to ask. It is our country, after all. I understand you sticking up for your wife. Nobody wants to take a cheap shot at your wife. But if you don`t want your wife scrutinized, you`ve got to keep her off the campaign trail. Have her talking about cupcake recipes, not your policies.

I can`t figure out why you have no problem raising questions about Hillary Clinton`s spouse but you get so defensive when anybody raises questions about yours. Is it perhaps that Hillary Clinton`s spouse is a man and yours is a woman? My gosh, are you a sexist?

Arthur Brooks is the author of "Gross National Happiness," and Joe Hicks is a conservative commentator and radio talk show host on KFI 640 in Los Angeles.

Joe, let me -- let me start with you. Here is -- here`s what Michelle Obama has said in stump speeches. "This little 10-year-old girl knows what`s at stake. She knows that she is already five steps behind. She knows that her hopes for college are already dwindling. She feels the veil of impossibility, and it`s suffocating her." She said that on May 5.

She said, "The truth is someone is going to have to give up a piece of the pie so someone else can have more." She`s not talking about actual pie. She`s talking about policies. Fair game?

JOE HICKS, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Of course it is fair game. I`ve got another name for you. How about Teresa Heinz Kerry? Remember how she got savaged by the press and others because of the gaffes that she was publicly making?

Listen, she`s out there stumping for president. She`s fair game. I think what we`re being presented with here, what the candidate is saying, hands -- not only hands of my wife but hands off me, too. So I think that`s what we`re seeing here, I think, is the first politically-correct candidacy that, perhaps, we`ve seen in recent memory. And frankly, I think that the American public deserves some answers to all the things that you`ve mentioned a bit earlier.

BECK: You`re not going to get it. Arthur, let me give you another quote. This comes from Gordon Fischer. This is a former chair of the Iowa Democratic Party and part of Obama`s Iowa support team and Obama surrogate.

He said, quote, "Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot and can`t possibly said to be helping instead of hurting his own party." Wouldn`t be bad if he ended it there, but he didn`t. He said, "Bill Clinton should never be forgiven, period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper than the one on Monica`s blue dress."

That is where you cross the line into personal. This is -- they don`t seem to understand that they`re doing the same thing, if not worse.

ARTHUR BROOKS, AUTHOR, "GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS": They`re asking for a pretty sweet deal here. Because if you notice, Mr. Obama has a campaign strategy where he talks about pretty nice stuff: hope and change and things we can all get behind." His wife has a message that`s very important for his campaign.

She`s talking to people that will vote on the basis of feeling like victim, that feel like they have a sense of grievance. That`s a campaign message that, at the general level, just market tests horribly. Every time the Democratic Party is associated with being the party of bitterness and unhappiness, they lose elections.

So what do you want to do? You want to make sure that the happy part is scrutinized and the unhappy part to the very same candidate`s message is off-limits.

BECK: OK. Here`s -- here`s, Joe, what I -- everybody is going to be all up in arms when I say this. But these are the tactics of actual fascists, where they scare everybody away from asking any kind of questions. I don`t need to know about their sex life. I don`t need to know of anything else.

But there is seemingly code language, especially with Michelle Obama, that fits into the same kind of patterns and language of Jeremiah Wright, who we were accused of being racist and bigoted and taking out of context when we questioned him. And look what we found.

HICKS: Well, it`s important that we be critical of what Michelle Obama is saying, because you know, these people are married. They apparently share a great deal in common. So it`s almost like asking the same question that`s being asked about Jeremiah Wright.

How much of Michelle Obama`s very sort of victimized view of the world does Barack Obama embrace and endorse? If he does, we need to know that.

So I think in some -- in many ways, there`s a lot of very, you know, orthodox, left liberal kind of ideology being -- coming out of both of these individuals. And also, out of Barack Obama, we can`t forget here.

So I think this notion that we can`t be critical of the candidate`s wife while she`s stumping nationally and saying very provocative things, I think it`s just ludicrous.

BECK: Arthur, final word. How bad is this going to get if he`s president of the United States?

BROOKS: Well, I think it`s going to be bad for a while, because basically, he`s playing on the idea that if we`re a real -- really gentlemanly country, we can`t criticize his wife. But that`s going to come to a screeching halt sooner or later.

BECK: It`s not just his wife. I mean, it`s everything.

BROOKS: Yes, sure. But that`s going to end. And it certainly ended in the case of Bill Clinton. I mean, Hillary Clinton take a real beating as soon as Bill Clinton got into the White House. And that`s the same that`s going to happen with Barack Obama, I think.

BECK: OK. Thanks, guys.

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Is Obama the Next Jimmy Carter?

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(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, Obama on America.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We can`t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times.

BECK: Hmm. Sounds a little something like this guy. I`ll tell you why Chairman Obama will be bad for the country.

Then Mexican police chiefs murdered and forced into hiding. Just another example of the problems on our border.

And is the Senate trying to sneak amnesty in the war-spending bill? I`ll ask former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer what Washington should be doing about all of this.

And has the GOP abandoned conservatives? Jon Voight, the lone conservative voice in the Hollywood wilderness.

All this and more, tonight.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BECK: Well, hello, America.

I`m on pins and needles. I don`t know how it`s going to work out tomorrow. Kentucky and Oregon are going to have their Democratic primaries. Oregon is where Barack Obama is hoping to claim victory over his rival Hillary Clinton. Obama is also hoping to pitch himself to Oregon as the environmental president. Great, just what we needed.

At a rally near Portland the earthy, crunchy capital of the world, Barack said this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: We can`t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that every other country`s going to say OK. That`s not -- that`s not leadership.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Really? Forgive me if I respectfully disagree. America, here`s the point tonight. Barack Obama wants us to relive the Jimmy Carter years. And I don`t really want to go back there. And here`s how I got there.

I feel Jimmy Carter -- I`m out on a limb -- probably the worst president in modern history. And considering the competition, that`s saying something. He presided over 20-percent inflation, double-digit interest rates, a naive foreign policy. Think there was a burning helicopter in there someplace, epic gas shortages, and skyrocketing oil prices.

When asked how Americans should deal with a cold winter in the face of expensive heating oil, Jimmy Carter said, "I don`t know. Wear a sweater."

To make his Jimmy Carter impersonation perfect, Barack Obama, I think all he needs is a southern accent, a beer-drinking hick of a brother, and a peanut up his you know what.

Americans don`t retreat; we innovate. Invention is what moves us forward, not regulation. Putting on a sweater? Turning down the thermostat? Those are more distractions from a desperately needed long- term solution to our energy problem that I got news for you, just ain`t going away.

Let me remind you: America runs on oil. And cars are just the beginning. Driving SUVs, those are not the problem. Focusing on polar bears and ethanol, that`s the problem. We can do anything in this country. We`ve proved it time and time again. We committed to landing on the moon, and we put a whole butt-load of men up on the moon. Now we need the same kind of dedication from a president who will grow a set and lead the charge.

Better yet, we need a president that`s not an obstructionist, who will shove the obstructionist government out of the way of American entrepreneurs. The lasting solutions are staring us right in the face. It`s cold oil technology, nuclear energy, aggressive domestic drilling. Those are just medium-term solutions. But we need them. And we need the American dreamers to take us to the next step and ensure our future is as glorious as our past. And it ain`t the government that`s going to do it.

The only thing keeping us from energy independence are the weasels in Washington that lack the vision, all the while blocking the doorway to our future.

So tonight, America, here is what you need to know. America`s future is not in her past. It never has been. We made it through the four-year nightmare called the Carter administration, and returning to that same impotent thinking would be a tragic mistake and, given the world today, I think it could be a fatal mistake.

Barack Obama wants the Birkenstock crowd to vote for him. You know what, Barack? Who else are they going to vote for? He`s proving yet again he`s a politician by telling Oregon voters exactly what they want to hear. So thanks anyway, Barack but I think I`m going to keep my SUV, eat as much as I want, and crank the heat up to about 85 just to piss all the people wearing Birkenstocks that don`t shave under their armpits, just to piss them off.

I`ve got my fingers crossed, America, for a leader, not another Jimmy Carter.

Stephen Moore writes editorials on economics for the "Wall Street Journal."

Stephen, my gut says Obama is Jimmy Carter. Right or wrong?

STEPHEN MOORE, "WALL STREET JOURNAL": Yes, I feel like I have to get out my bell-bottom jeans and my disco music. I mean, it is a replay of the 1970s.

And Glenn, when I heard that excerpt you did from his speech in Oregon, it really did remind me of Jimmy Carter. Remember, he used to give these speeches in the cardigan sweaters next to the fireside and say everybody turn their thermostats down.

I mean, the four years under Jimmy Carter, Glenn, were the worst four years for family income in the last 50 years. We don`t want to go there again. We`ve done that. We`ve been there.

BECK: OK. So let`s go through it. Some of the things: tax rates.

MOORE: Seventy percent. Seventy percent. And under -- I forget. Do you live in New Jersey or New York, Glenn?

BECK: I live in Connecticut.

MOORE: Good for you. Well, if you live in New York, New Jersey, or California, when you combine his tax increase with the state`s taxes, you`re facing 60 percent marginal tax rates. So we`re right back where we were in the `70s.

BECK: Without any kind of deductions like they used to have.

MOORE: That`s exactly right.

BECK: Windfall profits.

MOORE: Yes, we did that. That was one of Jimmy Carter`s swan songs. We put in place a windfall profits tax in 1979. What happened when we did that was our reliance on foreign oil went way up.

BECK: Went up, yes.

MOORE: And our domestic production went way down. Barack Obama wants the same thing.

BECK: Spending out of control in Washington under Jimmy Carter.

MOORE: Well, I don`t think Jimmy Carter wanted to spend as much as Barack does. This is -- they both wanted to spend a lot of money, and the budget went through the roof under Jimmy Carter, but Barack Obama is calling for $300 billion a year of new spending per year.

BECK: Right. And then you`ve got the foreign policy where he wants to talk to our enemies. He wants to hollow out our military. But you know, Stephen, here`s what -- here`s what really frightens me.

There`s a possibility that the Senate only has 40 Republicans. And I`m not a fan of the Republicans. But maybe 40. That can`t stop a filibuster. That`s not going to happen. They`ll be down 70 seats in the House, and they`ll have Barack Obama. Good God almighty, what does America look like in 18 months?

MOORE: It`s a frightening proposition, because you`re talking about repeating all of the economic mistakes of the 1970s. And the problem is when Jimmy Carter did it, at least we didn`t know that all these things would go wrong. Now we know. We`ve been there.

BECK: So Stephen, I don`t understand...

MOORE: What`s the logic of repeating the mistakes of the 1970s?

BECK: You and I have had dinner, and I know you disagree with this, because we`ve argued about this a million times. It`s not the -- just the mistakes of the 1970s. These are the same mistakes we made during the Great Depression.

MOORE: Right. You know, you`re right about that. And the problem is Democrats, they look at the situation, and we all see government failure, everything from responding to Katrina to the out-of-control budget, the deficits, and then liberals respond to that: "Hmm, I think we need a little more government to deal with these problems." When government created -- government created the problem with the high gas prices and the high food prices.

BECK: Crazy. Stephen, thanks a lot.

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Glenn Beck Defends Hillary?!?!?

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GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, I can`t believe I`m going to do it, but I`m going to defend Hillary Clinton. I`ll tell you how the media used her RFK assassination remark to assassinate her campaign.

Plus, the tale of two morons. A congresswoman who wants to nationalize oil companies...

REP. MAXINE WATERS (D), CALIFORNIA: This liberal will be all about socializing.

BECK: And a former president who can`t keep his fat mouth shut. You won`t believe what Jimmy Carter has said now about Israel.

And years after "Growing Pains," Kirk Cameron is back, "Still Growing."

KIRK CAMERON, ACTOR: You can`t hit me, you`re a liberal humanist.

BECK: The star of "Left Behind" will be joining me to talk about faith and Hollywood.

All this and more, tonight.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BECK: Well, hello, America.

I -- I want you to know right off the bat, and this is not going to come as a surprise to you if you watch this show every night, I think Hillary Clinton would stink as president of the United States. But the sad truth is, no one really wants to talk about why she would stink, you know. The politics today are just ruled by lies and distortions. Facts don`t seem to matter, to the media, to candidates. The only rule now in America is, I guess, there are no rules.

So, that puts me in a position to where this weekend I`m watching the news, and I`m thinking this is crazy talk. I have to go on the air and defend Hillary Clinton?

As much as I don`t like her policies, you know what? I`m at least going to try to be fair and consistent in criticism of everybody, every politician.

You know, I`ve been keeping a list of the PC candidate Barack Obama, all the things that he says, you know, "You can`t say that about me." So tonight, I guess the point is, historical fact is now off limits and out of bounds, and here`s how I got there.

This weekend, I don`t know if you saw this -- you watch the news kind of like I did, you know, Hillary Clinton saying something crazy about RFK, bringing up his assassination. And I thought, she can`t be that stupid. Well, I did my homework, and I actually looked at the tape. Here`s exactly what she said.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Between my opponent and his camp and some in the media, there has been this urgency to end this, and you know, historically, that makes no sense, so I find it a bit of a mystery.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don`t buy the party unity argument, that...

CLINTON: I don`t. Because again, I`ve been around long enough. You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: June.

CLINTON: Right? We all remember, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know, I just, I don`t understand it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: You know, here`s what I don`t understand. The keyword in that is June, not assassination. But the mainstream media and Obama`s campaign, which have become one and the same, saw an opportunity and jumped on it. How dare Hillary have the audacity to invoke the assassination of RFK? She was talking about June.

Since making the statement, Clinton spent most of her waking hours now defending it, and then, I guess, apologizing for it. What? When do we talk about high gas prices in this country? The candidates` big plans for fixing things in this country?

Believe it or not, I think it`s reasonable to take Hillary Clinton at her word, and I can`t believe I`m saying those words! I believe she was referring to two primary campaigns that went on until June. That`s it, nothing more. Nothing to see here. Let`s move on.

So, I guess there`s now one more thing that Chairman Obama says we`re not allowed to do anymore. Apparently, you cannot mention his middle name; you can`t talk about his political positions if you disagree; you can`t talk about any of his past associations; and now, it seems, we can`t talk about our nation`s history. It`s off limits, as well.

The list of things you just can`t say around this guy is getting longer and longer and longer, in fact, longer than the list you can say. That`s un-American. In fact -- dare I say it -- it`s the method of fascist rulers.

But that`s not really surprising coming from a bunch of far left-wing socialists, isn`t it? And I`m talking mainly about the media. The mainstream media is no better. Leave it to them to not let the facts get in the way of a good story. Remember, it doesn`t matter if it`s true or not. It only matters what they can get you to believe is true.

The mainstream media has clearly picked sides in this election, and they ain`t exactly rooting for Hillary Clinton. John McCain, buckle up, because you`re next.

So tonight, America, here is what you need to know. Barack Obama is the most amazing politician I`ve ever seen. He loves to talk about a new kind of political discourse, about putting the politics of divisiveness behind us. Too bad it`s all just talk.

While Obama hides on this higher ground, his campaign minions support and encourage the kind of innuendo and misinformation that comes at Hillary Clinton`s expense.

This hatchet job began at MSNBC -- far left-leaning organization now - - and then the Obama campaign took it and circulated it to the rest of the media, and they just lapped it up. They win, you lose.

Ben Stein is the creator of the documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" and the co-author of "Yes, You Can, Supercharge Your"...

What are you doing now?

BEN STEIN, AUTHOR/FILMMAKER: Well, I`m having a potato chip. I`m not a communist. I don`t go with a potato chip.

BECK: Why are you always eating on this program? Ben, let me...

STEIN: I`m not going to eat any more because you`re punishing me.

Ben, let me -- let me play -- this comes from MSNBC and Keith Olbermann. This is where this all began. Here it is. Watch this.

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KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST, MSNBC`S "THE COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN": We cannot forgive you this, Senator, not because it is crass and low and unfeeling and brutal. This is unforgivable because this nation`s deepest shame, its most enduring horror, its most terrifying legacy is political assassination: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy. And but for the grace of the universe and the luck of the draw, Reagan, Ford, Truman, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, both Roosevelts, even George Wallace.

The politics of this nation is steeped enough in blood, Senator Clinton. You cannot and must not invoke that imagery anywhere, at any time, and do not to appreciate immediately, still not appreciate tonight just what you have done today is to reveal an incomprehension about the America you seek to lead.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEIN: Well, I mean, what -- Glenn, what could you higher praise than being bashed by Mr. Olbermann? And one of the absolutely dumbest people in the media. What could be higher praise than that?

BECK: Really, truly -- she said nothing like what he`s accusing.

STEIN: She said nothing -- she said nothing bad. And during -- earlier in the campaign when she said it took both the dynamism of Martin Luther King and the presidential power of Lyndon Baines Johnson to get the Civil Rights Act passed. That was totally true, too.

She has been framed up. She has been mistreated. If there was any justice in the world, she would get the nomination. She`s got more votes. She`s got more big states. She should be the nominee. Mr. Obama and his friends in the mainstream media have mistreated her shockingly.

BECK: Yes. Here`s -- and they`re cannibals on her. They`re eating their own.

STEIN: Cannibals, cannibals.

BECK: Give me -- give me the tape. Watch this, Ben. Tell me, tell me where the problem is. This is Barack Obama yesterday. I`ve seen this nowhere in the media. Watch this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have a uncle who was one of the -- who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.

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STEIN: Well, there`s a problem there. Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians, so unless he was in the red army.

BECK: And that could be.

STEIN: There could be a problem there.

BECK: That could be.

STEIN: But I mean, yes, Auschwitz was in Poland, Aubuchon (ph) in Poland, liberated by the red army. I don`t think the American army ever got anywhere near, close to it.

BECK: OK. So Ben...

STEIN: So I don`t know what he`s talking good, but that`s very typical of Harvard Law School. Had he gone to Yale Law School, he would have known better.

BECK: Right. OK, so here`s the thing, you tell me where the -- I think that was an elitist joke that I don`t...

STEIN: Oh, very much. A joke about how...

BECK: If you went to technical college like I did, you`d know.

STEIN: OK.

BECK: Here`s the -- here`s the thing: where`s the media on this?

STEIN: The media is a part of the Obama campaign.

BECK: But are they out on the tarmac ducking from the sniper fire? How long did that go on? Here`s a guy who may have made an innocent mistake. Maybe he went into some other concentration -- I don`t know. We`ve called the Obama campaign. Don`t have an answer yet. We`ll bring it to you as soon as we get it. But where`s the media?

STEIN: The media is backing Obama. The media, as you said, is a separate wing of the Obama campaign. It is shameful; it is disgraceful. And if I were Mr. Clinton or Mrs. Clinton, I would be hysterically angry about this. After they coddled the media, after they treated the media like their brothers and sisters, the media were turns on them in the most vicious way imaginable.

BECK: I talked to a professor at George Mason University today, and he said that the media is just looking for a guy with a fresh perspective, an anti-politician. No he doesn`t -- he`s...

STEIN: He`s not the anti-politician...

BECK: Wrong hall.

STEIN: He`s the ultimate Chicago, ward healer (ph) politician.

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Obama Quits Church

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But first, as the song says, breaking up is hard to do, and after months of bad press for both of them, really, Barack Obama has resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Michelle and I told Reverend Otis Moss that we were withdrawing as members of Trinity. And so this is not a decision I come to lightly, and frankly it`s one that I make with some sadness.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Yes. It`s not because of Obama`s former pastor and spiritual adviser, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. You know, he used the church as a forum for his radical social and political beliefs. All the while, Obama, sitting there, you know, and, you know, that revelation put Obama`s campaigns on its knees.

Even after Wright left the church, the congregation asked guest pastor Michael Pfleger last week to speak. But, you know, things didn`t really go so well last week either, especially when he did his Hillary impression.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PASTOR MICHAEL PFLEGER, GUEST SPEAKER AT TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: I`m white! I`m entitled! There`s a black man stealing my show!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Yes. Reverend, thanks for the help.

Trouble is, Obama`s departure from the church this weekend raises a couple of questions, like why did it take him so long to quit? Only took two years for Oprah Winfrey to realize Trinity was bad news. Why did it take Obama 20?

Most importantly, Obama says he`s leaving the church because his campaign is a distraction for them. Is that kind of like Robert Byrd leaving the KKK because he feels that his press would be bad for the Klan? I`m just wondering.

Kevin Madden is a Republican strategist and former senior adviser for Mitt Romney, and Joe Hicks is a conservative commentator and host of "The Joe Hicks Show" at KFI Radio in Los Angeles.

Joe, is this ever going to hurt this guy?

JOE HICKS, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Well, it won`t if people don`t ask the tough questions of this guy. They`ve got to pin him down. This is complete political expedience here. He didn`t once issue any kind of criticism of the kind of political statements coming out of the church. It was all, as you indicate, it`s tough for them, and bad for me, and therefore, I`m just out of the game for a bit. I think it`s frankly outrageous.

BECK: I mean, he did -- he went so far to say, this is really bad. It`s a distraction for the people who are going to the church. Could you be outraged by some of the things that are said? This is a group of people that are bashing whites over and over again. If it were reversed, this would never be tolerated.

HICKS: Well, it wouldn`t. I mean, listen, I think -- this guy has got to be held accountable for this stuff. And the media keeps giving this guy a pass, except obviously for you. You know, everybody`s, you know, avoiding the tough questions about this guy`s bedrock political beliefs. All the stuff, the William Ayers stuff, the Jeremiah Wright stuff, Michael Pfleger.

By the way, he`s got a 20-year association with this guy Pfleger, also. It`s outrageous.

BECK: OK. Kevin, is this ever going to help? I mean hurt? Will it ever come back to bite him? Will the 527s, at least, take this guy on?

KEVIN MADDEN, FORMER SENIOR ADVISER FOR MITT ROMNEY: Well, I think it`s baked in a cake as far as a controversy that is going to dog Barack Obama throughout this campaign.

And I would agree with Mr. Hicks that the decision to leave the church is one that`s going to continue to feed a narrative that shows that Barack Obama will make the politically expedient decision when faced with the -- with the pressures and the contours of a very difficult news cycle.

BECK: Because he didn`t ever come out and really say anything against the church. So he leaves with his street cred in that church. And to me it seems like trying to protect himself and make sure he doesn`t piss anybody off in the church so they come after him and, you know, say awful things in the news and make it worse for him.

But at the same time, he can walk away and say, "Well, you know, I left that church months ago. And this is old news."

MADDEN: Well, a couple of things, Glenn. I think that the pattern here shows that at the end, Barack Obama, when faced with a crisis, does make a politically expedient decision. It`s very similar to his remarks with meeting with the leaders of places like Iran, without preconditions. You know, he`s changed -- he`s trying to change his tune on that now.

When the Reverend Wright controversy was first introduced, Barack Obama explained that it was -- you know, it was old news. Then he said that he could no longer disassociate himself from Reverend Wright than he could his grandmother. Then he decided to disassociate himself from Reverend Wright. Now he`s left the church.

So it shows a pattern that -- that he will take that long -- the long walk towards political expediency. But in the end, he will do what is politically expedient versus doing the hard thing.

BECK: But you know what? Joe, it`s not enough for people like me to bring this up. The media is absolutely giving him a pass. Do you think that the American people...

HICKS: No, they won`t -- they won`t give him a pass, Glenn. I think what`s happened -- you see it in the polls -- that a lot of voters -- it`s clear that a lot of black voters are voting out of some sort of racial loyalty about this guy. White voters, I think, are sizing this guy up and going, "Well, wait a minute. What`s this guy`s basic beliefs here?"

And I think that`s going to be a very difficult sell for Barack Obama to convince voters that -- that he deserves their vote. They`re very suspicious of this guy.

BECK: Kevin, do you see anything -- I mean, I think Hillary Clinton actually had a case to be made when she -- I mean, she`s trouncing him in the last few primaries. She`s 30, 35, 40 points ahead of him in the last few primaries. Does that say anything?

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Glenn Beck: 75,000 Went to a Concert, Not to Hear Obama

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I wasn`t surprised this morning when I woke up and turned on the TV and saw the media love fest with Obama this morning after he clinched the Democratic nomination. But here`re some of the headlines that I found in the paper.

First one, "Obama, A New Course for America;" that`s the "Chicago Tribune." How about this one, "Obama Waits on the Threshold of History;" the "Times of London." "Destiny," oddly coming from the "New York Post." "Two words -- Black President;" "Washington Post."

I don`t know about you it`s just so warm and fuzzy inside. Of course now, Hillary Clinton wasn`t completely ignored. Remember the media hated her until today. Here`s a look at "Good Morning, America" from this morning.

(BEGIN VIDEOCLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The mid-western girl with big dreams wrote to NASA when she was 14 and said she wanted to be an astronaut.

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They said, "We`re not accepting girls." And I was crushed.

She said I want you to know something -- I am going to be okay no matter what happens.

Maya Angelou once wrote a poem about Hillary Clinton. She means to rise. Don`t give up on Hillary.

MAYA ANGELOU, POET: Rise, Hillary. Rise.

(END VIDEO TAPE)

BECK: First of all, it`s only the savior Barack Obama that can say, "Rise, Hillary." It was very touching. I mean, I turned on the TV this morning and I thought, "Did Hillary Clinton die last night?" It was like watching an obituary. "Rise, Hillary." When two days ago they were saying, "Get the hell out, Hillary."

The media is positively schizophrenic. The real story is sometimes it`s not what you see on the news that matters; sometimes it`s the stuff that you don`t see, the inconvenient details.

When it comes to covering Barack Obama, media tends to ignore some of those pesky little details. For example, lost in the media`s adulation over Obama`s victory last night, was this -- did you know that Hillary won a primary last night? In fact, she`s won 20 states; 18 million votes throughout the primaries. Who knew that?

Do you remember -- do we have the picture of the giant Barack Obama happening in Oregon? Yes, you saw this. There was this picture on the Drudge Report. It was everywhere. Look at this, giant happening. Media told you 75,000 rabid Obama fans showed up.

Well, what they failed to mention here is that Obama`s speech was sandwiched in the middle of a free concert by a rock band. They have a pretty big following in Oregon because, you know, they`re from Oregon.

But that`s a minor detail. They came on stage. Played for an hour and said "Hey, we`re going finish up the set. But first we want you to listen to this guy." Minor detail; not even worth mentioning.

And now Obama apparently has America wrapped up, the media has moved on. Convincing the world, talk about worldwide appeal of Barack Obama. Today I heard, and I`m not kidding you, the people in France love him. The people in Africa love him. Well if he`s good enough for Africa, he`s certainly good enough for me.

Funny because here in America, barely half of his own party wanted him to be the next president of the United States. The media hasn`t been this blatant in selecting a candidate since William Randolph Hearst used his newspaper empire to support FDR in 1932. He even produced a propaganda movie telling Congress, "Get the heck out of FDR`s way.

I can`t wait for the Obama movie. Wouldn`t that be great? So far the trailers have been incredible.

Kevin Madden is former senior adviser to Mitt Romney. Kevin --

KEVIN MADDEN, FORMER ADVISER TO MITT ROMNEY: Hey, Glenn.

BECK: Should the Obama campaign be charged for the media providing the coverage?

MADDEN: Yes, I wonder what a six-month infomercial would cost from the major networks. Look, let`s go back to genesis of the Obama campaign. Here`s somebody who was probably only two years out of holding a state senate seat in Illinois before people started putting him on the covers on "Newsweek" magazine, "Time" magazine, "U.S. News World Report."

He was getting long lengthy feature profiles on the network news and on cable news. Essentially what he had was exactly that, a six-month infomercial about somebody who was only halfway through a senate term.

So I mean, everybody wonders, Glenn, how he raised all of these million of dollars. Well, I wonder how not when you get that kind of coverage?

BECK: And it`s amazing to me, because his campaign, when he went to the senate, it was -- he won -- he beat Allan Keys.

MADDEN: He beat Allan Keys, really, who was labeled a carpet-bagger because he was technically at that point, he was a Maryland resident and moved to Illinois just to run as part of essentially a personality campaign on his own. This was not like he had beat some sitting senator and this was somebody who was on the rise and everybody knew across the country knew he was.

People were just getting to learn about him.

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Obama & Tony Rezko

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Now, when it comes to friends who get into trouble or get you in trouble, Barack Obama sure knows how to pick them, doesn`t he? I mean, after deliberating for 12 days a jury in Chicago -- in Chicago finally convicted Tony Rezko on 16 counts of corruption.

For those of you who are still drunk on Obama claiming victory as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, let me sober you up a bit. Not only was Tony Rezko a close personal friend and confidant of Barack Obama but Rezko raised $250,000 for Obama`s campaign, which he has now donated to charity.

When he heard about the conviction, Barack Obama issued a statement that said, and I quote, "I am saddened by today`s verdict. This isn`t the Tony Rezko I knew." Really? He didn`t -- OK. He didn`t know that -- he didn`t know that his, you know, friend and fund-raiser was a corrupt thug. He didn`t know that his pastor and spiritual advisor was a black liberation radical. He didn`t know that one of his Middle Eastern guys was in bed with Hamas. Is this guy, like, the worst judge of character ever?

Forget about the skeletons. Obama has real-life human beings in his closet, and they`re a little sketchy.

If Obama gets elected, I don`t think I like the character of the people that will be sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom. Maybe it`s just me.

Jonah Goldberg is the editor of "The National Review" online, author of "The New York Times" best-seller, "Liberal Fascism."

My mother used to always say show me your friends, and I`ll show you your future. Based on what we know about some of his friends, what does our future look like with President Obama?

JONAH GOLDBERG, AUTHOR, "LIBERAL FASCISM": Well, look, the Barack Obama you`re describing is not the Barack Obama I know. The Barack Obama I know...

BECK: Yes.

GOLDBERG: ... he is going to make the ocean levels sink.

BECK: Oh, sink. That`s right.

GOLDBERG: Cats and dogs are going to sleep together. Everyone`s going to be happy. And I really think that you should be ashamed of yourself for practicing the politics of division.

BECK: See? This is the deal. You can`t point any of these things out without being, you know, a practitioner of the politics of division and the same old, same old.

I mean, he -- he took months to say that, "OK, all right. That pastor guy, I should get away." Now it`s been what? Four or five days since he was away from his pastor and he just this week said, "That`s old news. I`ve already left that church."

Right. Here`s the problem. We`re starting to build up this track record here whether either you have to take him seriously, which is really damning, or you have to assume he`s lying, which is really damning. You can`t keep saying, "That`s not the Trinity Church I knew. That`s not the Jeremiah Wright I knew. That`s not the Tony Rezko I know. That`s not the Father Pfleger I know."

At some point either he`s right and he`s just, as you said, the worst judge of character ever and he`s a kind of guy to actually go through a brothel and say, "Those aren`t the women I knew." At some -- or, or he`s lying and, in fact, he`s a product of the Chicago corrupt political machine.

BECK: Right. Well, I mean, here`s the -- here`s the thing, Jonah. Everybody is saying that, well, Chicago, this is the way you do business in Chicago. Well, it`s the way we do business in Washington, too, and that`s not a good thing.

He says that he is a different kind of politician. If I take him at face value, he really wasn`t that involved in his church. He was really kind of there because it was a, you know, kind of a thing that helped him with the social network and helped him get involved in town. The second thing is, Tony Rezko. He was only really involved not really friends. Didn`t do anything wrong, et cetera, et cetera. But that`s the way politics are. You`re involved with people like that in Chicago. Those aren`t good things in a president.

GOLDBERG: That`s right. What also undermines the case, as you mentioned, it undermines the case that, as Obama has said repeatedly throughout the last 18 months, that he`s going to go to Washington and he`s not going to play the same old game. He`s not going to cave in to the status quo and all these sorts of things.

BECK: Right.

GOLDBERG: There`s no evidence that he is a reformer coming out of Chicago. It`s not just Tony Rezko. It`s everyone around him.

BECK: Right. I want to -- I want to show you some things that I found on the Internet. And I don`t know if you`ve noticed this. But if you look at the art work and even we have a picture here of one of the people that worked in his office. I think it was in Houston. Look at the art work here.

This is Soviet art. This is revolutionary art. And here`s one of his campaign workers with a Che flag. Socialism is cool right now. Right or wrong?

GOLDBERG: Oh, well, unfortunately, I don`t think it`s ever been uncool for people on the left. It`s a very strange thing. You know, Hugo Chavez is very popular. Che Guevara is very popular. Castro is still very popular.

And a lot of these posters that we see for Barack really come from the sort of liberation theology, left-wing sort of...

BECK: I know.

GOLDBERG: ... where he`s a messiah-like figure. His own volunteers are told to go around. They`re not supposed to talk about the issues. They`re supposed to talk about how they, quote, "came to Obama."

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Glenn Beck: Obama, Hollywood Liberals & Hugo Chavez

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Friend of the show, Hugo Chavez, has decreed a law requiring Venezuelans to spy on their neighbors and forcing judges to spy for the government. Anyone who refuses to cooperate, four years in prison. That`s funny, because I thought Hugo Chavez called the Patriot Act dictatorial.

Let me ask you this question. Where are all of Hugo`s celebrity friends? I mean, remember his buddies Sean Penn and Danny Glover? Kevin Spacey, Naomi Campbell, just to name a few? These morons actually accused President Bush of being a fascist. They called Dick Cheney Darth Vader.

And then they flocked to guys like Chavez because, oh, no. Chavez cares about civil liberties and human rights.

Well, here`s "The Real Story," gang. This is the same stuff we saw with Mussolini and Fidel Castro. These celebrities don`t care about human rights. They just want to bash the United States.

The media and the liberal elite stood with Mussolini. They said he was the leader of the future. Instead of touting Cuba`s low employment and thriving economy, celebrities in "The New York Times" touted Castro`s revolution and promised that he wasn`t a communist dictator. Then, when Cuba`s TVs and cars and jobs all went away, 1961, Castro finally said, "You know what? I am a communist. I`ve been a communist since before I started liking girls." Then I believe Hollywood liked him even more.

Now, as Venezuela becomes a police state, you`re not going to hear a peep from Hollywood. Sean Penn said that we have a dictatorship in America. So what exactly, Sean, does that make Venezuela?

You know, it`s easy for people like Danny Glover to sing Chavez`s praises when he`s financing, you know, Glover`s movies, but do you ever notice that these Chavez fans live here and not in Venezuela? Is that -- is that because they`re afraid they might be forced to spy on their neighbors and live under a real dictator or what?

Jonah Goldberg, editor of "National Review" online, author of "Liberal Fascism," joins me again.

Jonah, we were talking earlier that socialism is cool. A listener actually sent me this hat. It`s cold in here. Anyway, that socialism is cool now. These celebrities flock to people like Chavez. Why? Are they just stupid? Are they -- do they know what they`re doing? Do they know who they`re embracing?

GOLDBERG: To a certain extent, yes. I think they don`t care. This is where I think you`re actually wrong. I bet you anything within the next six weeks you`re going to see Sean Penn and all these guys -- that Kennedy guy running the ads, you know, about getting free oil from Chavez, all that stuff is going to continue. They`re all going to say he`s still a good guy. We Americans, we don`t understand, because we don`t, you know, appreciate what a hero he is.

BECK: Well, you know what?

GOLDBERG: Castro has been spying on his own people for 40 years. That hasn`t stopped Danny Glover and those guys from saying he`s a hero.

BECK: And this is really what they did when they came back and saw Stalin`s Russia. They came back, and they made excuses. They said, "OK, yes, he`s slaughtering all the business people. He`s slaughtering all of the farmers, but he has to to be able to be able to get this economic system to work."

GOLDBERG: Well, you`ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Yes. You can tell a lot about people by their heroes. It tells you something about how Che Guevara is so popular among the sort of campus left, about how Castro remains popular.

And it`s interesting. The most famous cartoon that "National Review" ever ran was back in the 1960s. They had a picture of Castro saying, "I got my job through `The New York Times`." Because Herbert Matthews wrote these slavishly sycophantic profiles of Castro, saying what a hero he was.

And what was funny about that, 30 years earlier, he wrote the same kind of profiles about Mussolini. There`s something about these dictatorial regimes and terrorists, too. Yasser Arafat is a good example. That you get these sort of men without chests, as C.S. Lewis would call it, who worship men of conviction, men of power, men that are really willing to get things done for the side of progress. And it`s really very disturbing when you think about it.

BECK: You know, this is one of the reasons why Obama bothers me so much. Because the left, as much as they say they don`t, you know, that, you know, Dick Cheney is Darth Vader and everything else, it`s -- it`s just that they don`t like their policies.

They`re willing to go to an actual dictator on the left. They`re willing to, because I mean, I`ve, you know, read up on the press and Mussolini, and I read a lot in your book. They -- they just think it needs to be the right dictator. They`re willing to do anything if it`s the right leader.

GOLDBERG: Well, there`s also this aspect of sort of bravery on the cheap. It`s very easy to drive around the United States with bumper stickers saying "Bush is scary," because Bush isn`t scary.

But, you know, in Saddam Hussein`s Iraq, I don`t think anyone drove around in cars saying, "Uday and Qusay really scare me." You know, it`s precisely because we don`t live in a dictatorship that all these people get away with saying that we do.

BECK: Yes.

GOLDBERG: And it`s -- it`s -- fine. Free speech. But that doesn`t mean these people are courageous for doing it. Like you are for that hat.

BECK: I`m going to have to tell you, I can`t think of anybody, Jonah, that, you know, you`d be afraid to speak out about. You know, here in America.

GOLDBERG: Well, if you can wear that hat, you can do anything.

BECK: You got it. Thanks, Jonah.

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Here the ultimate Israeli right-winger adopts perfectly leftist/ progressive rhetoric for his goals:
http://samsonblinded.org/blog/doing-right-by-going-left.htm
Very curious read, actually.