Someone's been into Rush's oxy stash
Quote of the Day:
"I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today." -- CNN and syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, on the wildfires that have raged across San Diego county, killing at least one person, injuring four firefighters, scorching 100,000 acres, and driving 250,000 people from their homes.
(Yes, it is a Media Matters link ...but when you hear the video and read it in detail the old ploy about going after the website to turn attention away from what Beck said simply won’t wash ...except those whose sole goal in life is to demonize the opposition.)
Couldn’t Beck just set aside his bitter partisanship and demonizing and stop belittling the suffering of others while 250,000 people flee their homes?
And someone should tell him that mostly Republican, conservative, solidly pro-American San Diego appears to be among the hardest hit areas.
On TV I saw San Diegans desperate and trying to help each other ...pizzeria owners offering free pizzas, taxi drivers offering free rides, San Diegans offering their property to temporarily shelter displaced animals. Shopkeepers offering food, clothes, medicines. I saw a call for nurses to donate their time since many of the elderly moved to the shelters need people to be with them for the night.
And Beck thinks this suffering is because they hate America? No heartfelt wishes for the firefighters and the residents to escape injury and stay safe?
Those firefighters just probably didn't realize that the homes they were risking their lives to save were probably owned by someone who "hates" America.
What kind of twisted mind leads a person to look at the California wildfires and think about the politics of those who are suffering. I mean, I’m a political animal, but when I see a family fleeing their home, trying to find shelter because wildfires are in their backyard, it just doesn’t occur to me to wonder if those people hate America.
Could it be the same kind of twisted mind that led Rev. Jerry Falwell, along with Rev. Pat Robertson, to look at the 9/11 Twin Towers falling and claim it was brought on because of America’s decadent lifestyle, abortionists, homosexuals, the ACLU.....
"Beck continued: “There are a few people that hate America. But I don’t think the Democrats are those. I think there are those posing as Democrats that are like that.”"
He's not only offensive, he’s incoherent. Now just who does he think hates America? Fake-Democrats who live in southern California?
And since when is he the one who defines who "real" Democrats are?
For what it's worth Glenn, I don’t hate America ...I don’t even hate silly talk show hosts. But I do hate the mind-set that every .. single .. solitary .. thing that happens in the United States these days has to be twisted into some kind of bitter partisan and/or polarizing spin.
