Breitbart Crushes Glenn Beck On The ‘Only Racists Would Vote For Gingrich Over Obama’ Gaffe
If you didn’t hear about this, you really missed out.
It seems that a couple of days ago Glenn Beck was on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show on Fox Business, and he said that since Newt Gingrich was every bit as much of a progressive socialist as Barack Obama the only reason somebody from the Tea Party would be for Gingrich over Obama is that somebody is a racist.
Beck says he was being facetious when he made the statement. Watch it and judge for yourself.
Lots of people didn’t believe Beck was facetious. One of them was Andrew Breitbart, who absolutely crushed Beck on a podcast radio show in which he offered up a litany of gripes lots of people in the conservative blogosphere have against Beck.
One thing you really don’t want to do if you want to stay on Breitbart’s good side is to accuse the Tea Party of being a bunch of racists. He’s fought that slur continuously, particularly since the Congressional Black Caucus and the Democrat Party concocted the fraud that Congressmen like John Lewis and Andre Carson had the “N-word” repeatedly thrown at them by a crowd of Tea Party demonstrators on that Saturday last March when Obamacare was voted into being in the House.
And given Breitbart’s nasty history with Beck, particular given the latter’s treatment of the former where the Shirley Sherrod story was concerned (Beck screwed that thing up in royal fashion), it’s not surprising that Breitbart would take the opportunity afforded to him by this latest mistake to lambaste Beck in the strongest possible terms.
These guys don’t like each other.
And frankly, even though Beck might well be the more entertaining personality of the two, Breitbart is very much in the right here. Regardless of the other problems he might have with Beck, the fact is you’d have to be a moron to conclude there’s no difference between Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama other than race.
Can you make the argument that Gingrich isn’t a dyed-in-the-wool conservative? Yes. He’s dabbled in lots of different policy options, and some of them involve making common cause or accomodations with the Left. None of them appear in his current campaign agenda, which means that accusations of Gingrich-as-closet-Lefty are based on taking him at all his worst positions and failing to afford him any potential for growth or evolution as the GOP and the conservative movement has shifted to a more libertarian/small government orientation and away from the Big Government conservatism of the Bush years.
But even at the worst evaluation of Gingrich from the Right, you still have the fact that when he was the Speaker of the House the federal budget was balanced and fundamental reforms of major federal entitlements were enacted. Compare that with the leftist idiocy of the current administration and it’s a Night and Day difference. No serious observer of federal policy would place these two men on the same side of the political aisle.
So Beck has no leg to stand on. And his statements greatly damage his credibility with his own audience at a time when he’s attempting to build a web-based video property out of whole cloth.
We didn’t think Glenn Beck would end up as the Keith Olbermann of conservative punditry. But that’s the direction he’s moving in if he continues to make the kinds of statements he made on Napolitano’s show.
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Egotistical Beck has always been envious of the TEA Party Movement’s strength and influence. He had hoped his 9/12 Project would hold such sway, but it didn’t get much traction. That said, Breitbart is absolutely right to claim that Beck is a swindling snake, who thinks he needs to be outrageous to get the attention he has lost. I’m grateful to Breitbart for taking him down.
Interestingly, yesterday, I was in the car while Beck’s radio show was rebroadcast and heard his interview with Michele Bachmann. She was extemely critical of Newt and spent much of the interview appealing to TEA Party voters to return their support to her – “I’m the true TEA Party candidate and Newt is not.” She went so far as to assert that a Newt or a Mitt presidency would be as disastrous as Obama’s. Beck was uncharacteristically terse and, now, I know why. He liked what Michele was saying about Newt – Mormon Mitt, not so much? – but didn’t like her constant mention of the TEA Party, without even a hat tip to 9/12ers.
This whole “accomodating the left” notion is just disturbing to me– not only should we NOT “cross the aisle” as Newt has been known to do (e.g. the creepy park bench moment with the Zombie Queen), we should intend to just simply take possession of it– to leave “maybe” a couple of them on the left in place, as Rush has always suggested, to point and laugh at how utterly detestable and wrong their attitude towards the American people is…..
Agreed, spepper. Newt certainly isn’t my favorite. However, given Elmer Fudd would be better than the current prez, should Newt win the nomination, he’ll have my vote. If he wins the White House, we’ll just have to hold his feet to the fire. No rest for the weary…
10 4 BayouBabe– and not to be confused with ”Elmer FUDGE” ( = Bawney Fwank)!
First, Newt did a LOT more than dabble in “progressive” areas and has done so for years.
On Beck, never liked the guy. I’m really pissed off at WJBO for taking Buggs of the air and putting Beck zany morning freak show in its place.
I agree. I don’t listen to J-BO in the mornings any more. I’ll tune in to Rush if I think about it.
Beck says, “It’s the policies that matter”. OK… seeing what Obama has done to this country in his first three years and looking back over what Newt did when he was in Congress, the comparison shows major differences and those differences aren’t about RACE. Sure Newt may be a progressive, I’m not sure about that, but at least Newt did some things that were good for this country. Obama has failed 100%. So yeah, if the choice is between Newt or Obama, then I’d have to go with Newt and not because he’s white. I just can’t seriously believe Newt would drag this country to the pits of hell like Obama has.
Beck just said it to get the Tea Party’s attention and think about why some of them are looking to big-government Newt Gingrinch instead of to other candidates. Heck, you’d think the Taxed Enough Already Party would all be voting for the guy who wants to cut a trillion dollars of waste his first year and wants to eliminate the income tax and the IRS….
racist ?did anyone actually figure out what obamas true race is ??from all the different versions I have heard,I am confused and does it even matter ??what religion is he anyway ?can any one unconfufe me ?