Beck Rethinks His Take on Holder‘s ’My People’ Comment
- Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:00pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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On his radio show this morning, Glenn Beck gave a candid glimpse into the inner workings of his TV show. He admitted that “45 seconds” before a segment dealing with a government officials controversial comments was set to air, he changed it. To Beck, the context of those comments was unclear.
The person? Attorney General Eric Holder. The statement? That comparing the recent New Black Panther case to the civil rights movement is a “disservice” to those who defended “my people.”
According to Beck’s explanation, he and his staff weren‘t able to get audio of Holder’s comments until immediately before the show. When Beck did hear that audio, he said it became unclear whether “my people” referred to the entire black race or just Holder’s family, which Holder referenced in his statement. Beck decided to use caution.
Later in the show, Beck went as far as to say he owed Holder an apology for discussing the incident on his radio show yesterday — a story first broken by Politico, which used the headline, “Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans ‘my people.’” Beck said reading the transcript and hearing Holder deliver the actual remarks made a difference:
You can watch Holder’s comments below:
Beck made a similar decision not to run video of former agriculture official Shirley Sherrod saying race once played a role in her job and decision-making. Those comments were eventually found to be taken out of context.
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Comments (226)
Islesfordian
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:34pmDoes this mean that in the future the Blaze will be NOT be posting snippets of video or audio as a “story” without the broader context that would inform us of their meaning?
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:52pmI suspect that if the explanation takes five times longer than the comment itself, you are trying to lead me. Like an attorney.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:33pmAny rational-thinking American is aware that Mr. Holder is a self-seeking, apathetic “holder” of an office that is much bigger than he will ever be. He needs to go for our American sake.
Report Post »Light Brigade2011
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:28pmAGOTUS: loyalty issue?, he would have to denouce the OBPP before he could claim the NBPP as “his people”? ….I’m confused :(
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:27pmPffft! Seriously? Come on, we know what he meant. Race is inferred here.
Cain/West 2012
Report Post »hopester55
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:27pmBS!! “My people” ment “his people” and that is not the American people. I am Irish and I don’t refer to my family or my ancestry as my people
Report Post »Light Brigade2011
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:36pmSo where does that leave us “Black Irish”?
Report Post »JimmyT
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:26pmSorry Glenn–He made the reference to “my people” following comments about the civil rights movement and BEFORE his reference to a family member. He’s talking about blacks being his people. I still believe he should be removed. He is a racist and will NOT enforce the laws.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 11:01pmJIMMYT….,THANK YOU! You’re correct.
It is apparent that Holder is of mixed race. It is apparent that his total identity is with the black race.
It is sad that we have an Attorney General of the United States of America who has not moved further along in time than the 60′s.Apparently he ignores the struggles of all other ethnicities that were vilified and overcame! There must be something in the DSM that addresses this.
It sickens me that as a “WHITE” American I am a racist in Holder’s eyes! It’s total Bull@#%T!
It is Holder that is the racist not me.
This entire administration operates under the odious Saul Alinsky.
I do not give a flying feather what color my President is! I do not!
I just want my President to recognize “The Shining City On The Hill” that is this nation. It IS special.
It does stand for freedom!
Sadly…,since Barry Dunham became President with his phony mantra of “Hope and Change”, we are on the fast track to becoming Zimbabwe! UGH!
Holder?……,a useful idiot in the destruction.
What are we doing about it? NOTHING!
Another post from WONDERLAND where down is up and up is down. We’re painting the roses red.
To add…..,”We have met the enemy and he is us.” POGO
Report Post »Kerri g
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:26pmAnd what does any of this have to do with the man doing his job? If he can’t do his job for the American people he needs to quit and get another type of job. Period. He has proven himself incompetent do be head of the DOJ.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:25pmYou know if you want us conservatives to think you are more than one person you might want to change your picture there BOOBHAWTNDANGLIN.
Report Post »CARBON HOG
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:25pmGlenn buddy, what did “nation of cowards” sound like?? c’mon!!!!!!
Report Post »Rob
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:24pmAnd Holder got his job just like the president, because he is……qualified.
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:44pm@ ROB NAH..because he fits the profile of what Oblamer wanted to do his dirty work..
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:23pmPeople like Holder will continue to “harbor” ill will and feelings of necessary and “deserved” retribution at the expense of innocent caucasian and other ethnicities for the purpose of validating, continually, the atrocities that were perpetrated against african americans by red neck miscreants, etc., 50 years ago. How is that moving forward ? How is that progress, Mr. Holder, Mr. Obama ? What, if any, reprehensibility do people like me, my children, millions of white americans have to do with the actions of some misguided racists 50 years ago ? By doing what you are doing sir, you continue to discriminate, in a reverse or retaliaory manner, against innocent, primarily white people…It’s wrong…it’s got to stop….I have personally endured the efftects of “Affirmative Action” throughout my whole adult working life because of these measures to “be fair and impartial” and in doing so, and in promulagating and enforcing these measures, states like New Jersey have continue to deny caucasian people, that were more qualified for certain positions, rightful jobs….When does it end ? I am 53 years old…
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:23pmWhen he referenced “my sister in law”, he was citing a specific example of a broader “class” of people (in his mind, they were a class) called “my people”.
Surely, a single person – his sister in law – would not make the larger case he was trying to make. That’s how you know that “my people” referred to black people.
Holder is certainly a racist.
Report Post »clinicalminded
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:23pmMy great great grandfather was an indian so me robbing the casino is justified. Come on dude.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:04pmMy grandfather served under George Custer so, you owe me reparations, buddy boy. :-)
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:20pmMr Beck is a good decent man, but this family says no matter what, the preponderance of evidence is eric holder is a total racist and puts American blacks (and islamic terrorists) over American Whites in every aspect and every case.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:50pmHolder thinks he’s evening things out to make up for unfair treatment of “his people” decades ago. It’s the same mentality that made blacks all over America celebrate when O.J. Simpson was aquitted. They knew he was guilty but, it was evening things out. It’s all ridiculous.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:19pmholder, hold this!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »marvlus
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:18pmWas Holder referring to his staff ?
Report Post »El Jefe
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:17pmAnd Obama sat in Rev Wright’s church for 20 years (that’s more than 1000 Sundays), the church that teaches Black Liberation Theology…explain that one to me…
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:34pmThat little glass of whine.
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:16pmWhoTH calls their family “My people”?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:23pmtrue, we certainly never call anyone, anyone, “my people”. that’s certainly not ”family”. we would think even biblically that would mean some huge RACE or religion incidents. like, God told Moses to tell Pharaoh LET MY PEOPLE GOI! and Moses led his people out of Egypt.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:27pmWhen Moses said to Pharo, “Let my people go.” He only meant his wife and 2 sons.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:29pmJinx
Report Post »hannahh
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 8:56pm@Gonzo
Report Post »Brilliant!
It’s more like -our wine is bitter but it is still our wine
El Jefe
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:15pmMy position is still the same. The DOJ dropped the case and they shouldn’t have. They’re wrong and their best excuse everytime is the race card…
Report Post »IronDioPriest
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:14pmHolder was talking about Blacks.
Report Post »alaskarob
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:13pmSince he’s the AG of the USA I thought his people were us, the citizens of the USA
Report Post »fblair
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:25pmIf he meant everyone, he would have said Americans, my people always refers to his race.
Report Post »tenring
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:13pmWhat about my people?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:25pmObviously that all depends on what color they are Tenring.
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:12pmBetter to be SAFE than SORRY. However, I am of the opinion Holder meant “his people” to be his
Report Post »race. He does as told to do by Obamarama. And Obamarama and wife HATE anyone who is not “BLACK” in “attitude” if not in skin color.
OhSuzieQ
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 3:56pmDobbs…sounds like that to me too.
Report Post »I agree
Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:10pm“Compared to what the people edured in the South in the 60′s?” This is 2011 Holder, get over it. We’re talking about today. Quit wallowing in self pitty.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:09pmI’m no fan of Holder; never will be.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:23pmEric Holder, and the department of injustice
HappyStretchedThin
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:29pmI’m inclined to give Holder the benefit of the doubt on the idea that in context he was talking about his family. But in the even broader context, he STILL demonstrated that this WAS an issue of race for him, otherwise his counter-example, his sister-in-law‘s courage doesn’t make sense to use. Beck was right the first time to point out that Holder’s job is to STOP thinking about blacks as HIS people, STOP thinking about his FAMILY as HIS people, and apply the law UNIFORMLY for ALL of WE THE PEOPLE–all citizens of the US.
Report Post »As to Holder‘s affirmation that there’s no bias in his department: what do you expect him to say? We’re not obliged to take him at his word on that. And there‘s mounting evidence that he’s lying.
SheriS
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:29pmSorry, Glenn, for the first time I have to totally disagree with you! When Holder made his comment, there was no doubt what he meant by his “my people”. Obvious to me this man is still fighting his own war with white people over the many years prior to his birth the black population was handled. For me, it is personal as some of my relatives provided refuse for the black people trying to escape from the South into northern terrority! To have this idiot attack the people in the North who disagreed with what happened and were WHITE to be attacked by this flawed, hateful man is offensive to me as I am white as were my relatives who helped “his people.” Hateful doesn’t justify hateful comments!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:36pmNope Glenn…I STILL disagree with you (even after listening to Mr. Holder’s statement)…He is a smart lil’ cookie…he IMMEDIATELY inserted the reference “my sister” to cover what he previously had just said…he was covering his butt with that insertion…That’s my take on it…After he said “my people”…he simply caught himself and inserted the sister reference…Besides…there is sooooo much else to hold this man accountable for as it is!
AND…right there on the tape he is admitting that he INTERPRETS the law…(comparing the 60′s offenses to the recent voter intimidation claims)…it is NOT HIS JOB TO INTERPRET THE LAWS…his job is to ENFORCE THEM…same goes for the DOMA that he and Mr. Obama NOW refuse to enforce…these people MUST BE CALLED INTO ACCOUNT FOR THESE OFFENSES!
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:49pmI agree. I’m definitely not a fan of Holder either but all of those jokers in the WH and the others controlling them needs to pay special attention to this story and the honor it displays. Maybe just maybe one or two of them may learn at least a tiny bit of honor as well.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:54pmEveryone in this admin. need to GO NOW. It appears every thing they have done is injustice against the good people of AMERICA.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:01pmI disagree with Glenn as well. Regardless of whether he was talking about black people as a whole, or just his family, he is still discussing race as a defense against accusations of wrong doing. His defense should have simply been demonstrating how the DoJ handled this case without bias. All Holder had to do was explain why the case was dropped after the defendants had already been found guilty, and point out other examples of how the DoJ acted similarly in other cases. Oh wait…. nevermind – I guess there wasn’t a defense there after all.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:09pmtypical Left tactic–When you can’t win on the fact–deflect, demonized and discredit. Well you Holder Saul Alinsky would be proud.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:16pmAre we just acting cowardly?
Report Post »ozz
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:26pmI have yet to see any one Obummer has appointed that even deserves a dog catcher appointment, let alone the one they were given.
Report Post »OneFootRandy
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:28pmI am not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. Actions speak louder than words and sometimes actions clarify the meaning of words. Holders actions scream the meaning and context of ‘my people’. Stop trying to be so PC Mr. Beck.
Report Post »_waTson_
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:34pmFirst of all, Holder never answered his question, the answer is “they lost because they did not show up”. This is “NOT A TECHNICALITY” as he infers, it’s a fact. Next, he is referring to “his people” meaning blacks. He even goes on to make a comparison, i.e., the strife of all blacks to get the right to vote vs. the Black Panthers’ action in this case. Sorry, but the racist here is HOLDER. Furthermore, he is only going to follow the laws he likes. Scary, this man does whatever he wants and he should be forced OUT. The nerve, this is serious and this is becoming beyond SCARY.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:37pmSo the Black Panthers were let go because ****?????
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:44pmHis family?
Question: Who in here refers to their own family, in a normal conversation, as “my people”. When I muse about somebody may be treating my family, I say “treat my family”. I cannot ever, not once, recall saying, nor hearing, somebody say “my people” regarding their own family. The only context I’ve ever heard “my people” brought up was either concerning ethnicity/race, or affiliation with a non-family group (“my people over at the bank can get you a good deal”).
Family? Please. That’s stretching the benefit of the doubt so far as to make conversation meaningless.
Report Post »Incredulousone
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:55pmI watched the video. Holder is a racist, and this is payback. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Some of my own family have issues with absolutes.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:05pmGood for Beck–although I’ve noticed that he tends to turn his “mistakes” into opportinities for self-promotion. Just look at how he went on and on when correcting himself for the radicalized reform Jews comment.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:07pmHmm So what Holder is saying is, that no matter what a black man does to a white person today, it will never equal what the white man did to the black man 60 years ago, therefore, is not worthy of persuit legally. So….free passes for all blacks? And if a white person has a problem with it, then point out the evils of the 60′s to imply guilt and shut them up. So tell me, Eric – who is the gutless people here? Yea, I’m a racist for refusing to let you get away with your own racism.
Report Post »leftiesaredangerous
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:08pmWho refers to their family as ‘my people’? Nobody.
Beck is not God and can be wrong. He’s wrong in this case. Holder is indeed a racist and has demonstrated it many times over.
Report Post »Tundra4x4
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:11pmThe only ambiguous part of Holder’s statement was whether he was speaking about muslims, blacks, or both!!! He, and his boss are devout racists, muslims and puppets of the liberal/progressives, no question!
Report Post »Duddio
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:27pmSo….. IN CONTEXT, AG Eric Holder selectively chooses which laws to uphold and which crimes to prosecute based on either his race or his family history. AND if anyone ever did anything worse out there years ago, then he doesn’t feel the need to prosecute current violations of the LAW.
Gee, Glenn, yeah, I see your logic for giving him a pass? =/
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:40pmHolder, another traitor of America. Do we miss Bush yet?
Report Post »bread and circuses
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 3:16pmHey Beck, are you going to “rethink” the actions of the new black panther party also ?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 3:59pmTrying to compare what went on 45 years ago to the BPP intimidation in 2008 is BS. I wonder if the two BP’s in the video were even born then. We have no more need for affimative action. The playing field is more than level now, dare I say, is tipped in favor of blacks. Blow it out of your @$$ Mr. Holder.
Report Post »wally
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 4:14pmYeah…whatever Glenn. Don‘t dislocate your shoulder when you’re patting yourself on the back.
Report Post »NotaLemming
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 4:16pm@Cheezywezzy, Are you the only one that asked the question…….So the Black Panthers were let go because ****????? you are one smart bunny! Watch the right hand while we keep letting the NBP slide with the left….. INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 5:16pmI does change the fact that he look the other way………….and let “His People” walk
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 5:27pmMr. Beck, as someone with ‘MD’ after their name I have no trouble calling you spineless on this matter……without hesitation…………
Report Post »hownowbrownmao
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 8:44pmbeck rethinks?,,,,,,that implies that he had a thought quit lying to me
Report Post »Wheels141
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 11:09pmSo what if he meant his people as all blacks? His argument about the Black Panther case basically was that since his people went through so much for the right to vote, then one Black Panther with a billy club is nothing to complain about. Fine, let him stand there. It’s up to the residents, and community to have their neighbors backs. It’s racist alright, and it all comes from Holder, and Obama.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 11:13pm@GhostOfJefferson:
“His family?
Question: Who in here refers to their own family, in a normal conversation, as “my people”. When I muse about somebody may be treating my family, I say “treat my family”. I cannot ever, not once, recall saying, nor hearing, somebody say “my people” regarding their own family. The only context I’ve ever heard “my people” brought up was either concerning ethnicity/race, or affiliation with a non-family group (“my people over at the bank can get you a good deal”).”
Family? Please. That’s stretching the benefit of the doubt so far as to make conversation meaningless.”
Report Post »___________________
Excellent point! Especially loved the line “Please. That’s stretching the benefit of the doubt so far as to make conversation meaningless”….AMEN!
The Realist
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:46amWow so is the new name of this site gonna be the Huffington Blaze or what? That’s twice now that you guys have deleted my post, so here goes again. “You don‘t know what’s in Holder’s heart”? Are you kidding man? Come on! Stop with the O’Reilly syndrome already. Stop ignoring things as plain as the nose on your face to try and appease both sides. Perhaps you need to watch your own video from a short time ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZ3-Lcbwmc
Now what’s so offensive about that, that you had to delete it twice? Just admit you’re wrong Glenn.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:23amThe minute AG Eric Holder came into power, he slandered America as “a nation of cowards when it came to race”… Barack Obama had just been elected, but we were a bunch of cowards?
My opinion of Eric Holder has only slid further down the tubes as he continually supported whatever most Americans were against… Civilian trials for terrorists, the Ground Zero Victory mosque, the New Black Panthers and of course, his lawsuit against Arizona simply for trying to do what the Feds won’t do – protect their citizens from the ongoing invasion from south of the border…
And the biggest irony of all is that Eric Holder is a racist!
Report Post »*************************
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:43amNEVER give an enemy of America the … what? … benefit of the … doubt? What do you doubt about a marxist Obama and his communist White House team and the Progressives (communists) Democrats in Congress and the commie Union bosses & thugs and the … [you take it from here]. This country has laws and these people have been breaking those laws to the ruin and overthrow of America — that’s treason and past time to follow through on the penalty.
HEDLEY LAMARR: “Qualifications?”
Report Post »cowboy GUNMAN [chewing]: “Murder, armed robbery, mayhem …”
HEDLEY LAMARR: “Wait a moment. What have you got in your mouth?”
cowboy GUNMAN [panics, stops chewing]: “Nuff’m.”
HEDLEY LAMARR: “Nuff’m, eh? Lyle!”
cowboy LYLE [searches gunman's mouth & yank out a wad]: “Gum!”
HEDLEY LAMARR: “Chewing gum on line, eh? I hope you brought enough for everybody.”
cowboy GUNMAN: “I didn’t know there was going to be so many!”
[Hedley Lamarr shoots the gum chewer]
town drunk JIM [hidden behind a rock]: “Boy, is he strict!”
-Blazing Saddles
kevinsonjah
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:07amGlenn, I am black american and i have served my country, I feel holder is justifing his action, if you can see through the twisted answers, he is well versed, but i am not fooled by his answers, he is not doing his job. The black panther party are wrong to intemadating voters, Glenn truth has no motive, I know Mr, Holder has a clue about what he is doing to this country, and not holden to laws set before him.top , dottom up, and the heart part, Glenn he is part of the pressure, all small things add to the pressure in the media.
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