Quote:Umm, has any of "us people" ever said jack about Glenn Beck? I barely know or care who the guy is beyond "yet another right-wing talk show guy in the US that apparently cries a lot". Good for him, I guess!Until I read that, all I knew about Glenn Beck was that he wasn't Jeff Beck.
Quote:I'm not sure why it's supposed to be a big deal that he didn't jump to conclusions here, though.If he's a talk-show host, isn't it his job to not jump to conclusions? Thus, is it really a big deal that he's doing his job?
Quote:And yes, the White House here acted in a spineless, overcompensating, cowardly fashion to try and deflect any accusations of favouritism towards black people. That doesn't exactly shock me.I noticed this line in the article ord linked to:
Quote:“It’s sad because with the election of Barack Obama, this is a post-racial society,” Lewis said.If that was true, then nobody would have had to be fired "to try and deflect any accusations of favouritism towards black people"...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012