Beck's Guest List Included White Supremacists, Other Extremists

[wndycty]

Beck's Guest List Included White Supremacists, Other Extremists

Sam Stein
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Conservative radio and television talk show host Glenn Beck has made his reputation and fortune in part by taking innocent if not strictly professional relations and turning them into major political scandals. His crusades against Obama administration advisers Patrick Gaspard and Van Jones, who has since resigned, stand out as crowning achievements of the guilt-by-association game.

What happens, however, when one looks closely at the people Beck has chosen to invite onto his show, and to whom he has lent his megaphone?

The Huffington Post took a look some of the bombastic host's past guests and found names steeped in controversy. Beck has hosted, and even occasionally praised, a renowned white supremacist, a devout southern secessionist, a defender of slavery, and a 9/11 skeptic.

On October 4, 2007, for instance, Beck had on his CNN/Headline News show Michael Hill, the founder and president of the League of the South, and Thomas Naylor, a secessionist who is head of the Second Vermont Republic. The conversation, which centered on dissolving the government, was at times, contentious. But Beck - for all the pushback he offered - did acknowledge that he was kind of intrigued. "Don`t get me wrong," he said. "There`s part of me that says, mm-hmm."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/becks-guest-list-included_n_359120.html

[EFerrari]

1. If Sam digs a little more, maybe he'll find as Amy did about Lou Dobbs

that he actually gets his material and guests from a hate group.

What an ugly time this is. Sheesh.

[wndycty]

2. Exactly . . .

. . .we are at an all time low.

[EFerrari]

3. When that @sshole arrested Skip Gates, I was hoping that was the lowest

we could possibly go.

[StarfarerBill]

4. Color me not in the least surprised.

The sponsor strong-arming failed to get this git off the air; what's next?