Sunday, July 25, 2010

glenn beck and the bailout

Today @stopbeck tweeted
StopBeck This may come as a surprise: but @glennbeck was for the bailout, before he was against it: http://bit.ly/cGh1DR

While this may be true Stopbeck implies that Glenn Beck was for the bailout for a long time.  The truth is Glenn Beck was only for Tarp a total of 2 days.  He was against it when tarp came up for a vote Here is the real story from Glenn Beck himself.   http://vodpod.com/watch/2623606-glenn-beck-admits-to-supporting-tarp

Stopbeck blames Glenn Beck for violence.

1n, 1831 William Lloyd Garrison  started publishing his antislavery newspaper The Liberator in Boston. Garrison's clear and unabashed abolitionist views expressed in his press were not well received, even in the North. Eight months later, on August 21, Nat Turner led a group of slaves on a bloody rampage through Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and his band eventually killed at least 55 white men, women, and children before they were stopped by the Virginia militia. Turner initially escaped capture by hiding out, but he was caught on October 30, tired and then hanged on November 11. Many Southerners blamed Garrison and his newspaper for bringing abolitionist views to their slaves' knowledge and thus fomenting insurrection. Of course most slaves couldn't read and the circulation of The Liberator was not of much significance this early in its career, but nonetheless, such views were not to be tolerated in the slave states.

The reason I bring this little story up is because @stopbeck seems to want to blame Glenn Beck for some violence in our modern times.  He tweeted today:
Disturbing. From @mmfa: "The CA cop shooter and @glennbeck: Here's what we know" http://bit.ly/dmDerR

Now if @stopbeck is going to blame Glenn Beck for inciting this guy in California  surely he is prepared to blame American hero William Lloyd Garisson for the murderous acts of Nat Turner.