Do not confuse Free-Speech with Hate-Speech. When this SLOB Beck speaks, it is exclusively HATE speech.

Joan Walsh: Is GOP using race to block Obama agenda? Ya think? — There is one main reason the U.S. doesn’t have the social democratic traditions and programs enjoyed by most Western democracies — we are the only such nation without some kind of universal healthcare — and that reason is our history of ethnic, racial and class strife. (The bounty of the eternal frontier and American exceptionalism fit in there too, but I’d pick our fractious and well-manipulated heterogeneity as the top reason.) The irony is the last 50 years have seen brutal class warfare in which the forces behind the wealthy transferred income and privilege consistently upward. Yet now the forces of reaction are claiming Obama is the class warrior, and the race warrior, declaring war on whites, and trying to snatch the status-quo privileges — like healthcare, allegedly — from the haves, to provide for unworthy have nots. [ READ MORE

Should Beck apologize for his comments?: An Ed Show panel debates whether Fox News' Glenn Beck should be forced to apologize for calling President Barack Obama a racist.

Kweisi Mfume and Joan Walsh on Beck's Politics of Personal Destruction

Rush Limbaugh vs. Colin Powell

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1. Too Hot for Fox News: "In its anti-Obama hysteria, Fox has mainstreamed voices once relegated to the fever swamps. This is most immediately clear in the apocalyptic buffoonery of Glenn Beck, and in the way the network has indulged the delusions of the so-called birthers, who insist that Obama was born in Kenya and thus can't legally be president. Yet that's just scratching the surface. On the weekly, hour-long Freedom Watch, which began airing in February, Fox gives its imprimatur to the kind of rhetoric once confined to the short-wave radio broadcasts of militia movements. After eight years of championing increased executive power, the network now hosts a show whose anti-government fixation sometimes leads to cheerful talk of dissolving the United States and dark warnings of impending tyranny. [ READ MORE ]

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