Fareed Zakaria Digs Into Glenn Beck, Says Birtherism Is ‘Coded’ Race-Talk
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In an interview with Jay Leno, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria dug into Glenn Beck, responding to Beck’s characterization of him–Zakaria–as an “America basher and useful idiot.”
Zakaria told Leno, “I’m an immigrant. I’m not an American by accident of birth, as Glenn Beck is. I’m an American by choice. I came to this country.”
In the same interview, Zakaria also implied that birthers are racist:
Look, I think that some of this [birtherism]–maybe there are people who feel genuinely worried about this–I think some of it is being used by politicians as a coded way to talk about race, and the fact that he’s [Obama's] different from us, whatever that means. I think it’s a great shame. Because first of all, it’s unbecoming, it’s un-American. Secondly, look at this last census. What does it mean to be different from us? You’ve got 50 million Hispanic Americans. You’ve got a country that is increasingly a mixture of minorities. Look at us, we all have funny last names.
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abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:11pmThat’s coded profanity.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:42pmCome over to my house ABC I teach you how to say “ that hurt” in five different languages.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:11pmFareed is an immigrant. Ok fine. But it seems he hasn’t been here long enough to understand America. He walks in, gets his papers and begins opining. And people actually listen to him as he dumps on native born Americans as if he has no friggin clue.
BTW.. what the hell are these people doing on Leno anyway? Are they trying to be stars or something? I know in Fareed’s case. it’s all about him.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:57pmPlease Nappy, the final arbiter on the “right” understanding of America, let us know what the “truth” and “correct” answers are. We are all holding our breaths to hear you impose your opinions on the rest of us as the final word. For someone who cannot even recognize definitive proof when you see it, you are rather arrogant to insist that we adopt your opinions as our own. Try to master facts and logic first, and then we’ll start to give you credibility. Until then, you are just an amusement.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:09pmZakaria is the best. It is time to call out the attacks on Obama for what they are–irrational and driven by a secret hatred of someone who looks different. McCain had more questions around his native born birth than Obama did, and the birthers continue to sound like complete fools when they focus on fake controversies around one while taking the other for granted without information. The only way such lies can be repeated so often is if those repeating them irrationally hate the guy. We didn’t see this nearly as much with Clinton, so it cannot be his ideology that they hate, as much as it is his ethnic background. To say all Obama haters are racists is wrong, but to say that many Obama haters are not racist is to ignore the strange inconsistency in their attacks on him as the outsider. Zakaria is hardly an idiot. He’s at least twice as smart as Beck.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:24pmZakaria is smarter than Beck?
Report Post »ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ABC PUT down that liberal loonbat kool aid
axel@25
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:25pmI would venture that the percentage of racist Obama supporters vastly out number racist Obama critics.
When a candidate gets 99% support from 1 race that he’s identified with. that’s due to voting by color…
Report Post »You can bet they weren’t voting for his white half. (the only half I ever criticise)
1956Danelectro
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:42pmYeah, and Obama ” is perhaps the most intelligent man to ever run for president. In fact ,in the future they will date time by Before Obama and After Obama”
Report Post »Glenn has never stated he was smarter than anyone, but like most who are really passionate about what they love{America} he does his research. Fareed is a telepromter reading fool with an axe to grind just like B Soetero. OH yeah, go ahead , call me a racist just because my birth certificate can be produced in less than 5 minutes for a drivers license and I can pass an FBI background check. Your messiah can’t seem to do either.
abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:53pmAxel, that could very well be true. I don’t think Zakaria would deny that, nor would I. But to like someone of the same race since it furthers your personal interests and breaks glass ceilings is very different than insisting that something that is demonstrably false is true merely to exploit blind, irrational racism. The most you’ve proven is that birthers are not the only racists, but I would maintain that they are the most destructive racists, after the Nazi’s, KKK and other groups since, while they do not kill, they hurt the democratic process by creating lies that distort it. There is no denying that having a black President helps all blacks in terms of social status, but saying Obama is foreign born when he is not is just stupid and unproductive.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:25pmWell then, when blacks criticized president Bush, it was racism, correct?
Report Post »Planned Parenthood aborts twice as many black babies then white ones, they are a racist organization, correct?
Football and basketball teams have a lot more black players then white ones so they are racist organizations, correct?
swigs
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:58pm@ABC
“McCain had more questions around his native born birth than Obama did, and the birthers continue to sound like complete fools when they focus on fake controversies around one while taking the other for granted without information.”
He most certainly did and both his parents were US military citizens so you can be damn sure the Dems at the time were looking for any possible angle to disqualify McCain. Here‘s the kicker and pay attention cause it’s sometimes difficult to believe several senators signed 2008 Senate Resolution 511 declaring McCain a natural born citizen eligible to run for POTUS. The SR 511 uses the 1790 Congressional definition for NBC which is….wait for it…..one born to citizen parents (plural).
Guess who signed it?…..Google it and see.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:39amCan you also explain to us the use of someone else’s social security number – like a dead person from CT? I’d be interested to hear your spin on that one.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:12amFYI, AXEL@25, in the 2008 election Obama ALSO got the largest share “of white support of any Democrat in a two-man race since 1976.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15297.html
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:14pmI’m with you ABC–all of those racist birthers or birther racists are worse than the KKK! Worse than Nazis! And if you don’t agree with me, you are worse than Hitler! (sorry Red-Eye)
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:17pmMy apologies, Red Eye, but ABC up there started it. He was stealing your material.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:03pmWhy don’t you tale your crap and go to politico where you will be welcomed with open rears.
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:08pm2 weeks ago I was pretty sure that “Birthers” were sorta loopy…now I am one.
Is there no way to force the failure-in-chief to produce the certifacate?
Report Post »I remember there was a screw-up during the swearing in …was that ever completed correctly?I seem to remember it had to be re-done the following day…were there witnesses?
Amica
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:40pmYes, Chief Justice Roberts messed up the oath of office and it was re-done the same day, and there were witnesses. Don’t waste energy on things that mean nothing.
On the birth certificate, personally, I don‘t want to know if it doesn’t exist. If it turns out he’s not a citizen, we’ll get Biden for President. Please…no.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:07pmUm.. Fareed.. you idiot.. coded race talk for WHAT?
You mean coded race talk like “prosecuting the Black Panthers will demean my people?”
Or “You have to let an F grade qualify black officers for duty?”
I could go on Farood.
The left really needs a bomb to drop on them before they realize that not everything is racism and substantial issues don’t just GO AWAY when you play the race card.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:31pmThat could be racism too, but at least one can state that we want advocacy groups for African Americans or that we want to ensure that there are black police officers as well. We cannot state with any factual accuracy that Obama was not born in the US.
It is not PC but also not controversial to state that the human mind is more sympathetic toward people who look more like us. And we don’t even notice this unless we are objectively studied. This is proven in the psychological literature. So the only way to remain honest about race is to focus on the facts. If I can make a case for why affirmative action and advocacy for minorities should occur, and there are many that can, you shouldn’t assume that the focus pushing those positions are doing it for race. However, if you cannot make a rational case for claiming that Obama was not US-born, then you are only left with irrational cases, of which racism would be a good candidate. This is why your analysis is sadly wrong.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:23pmwow.. pretty big leaps there.
1. You can not make a case for affirmative action in a free, merit based society. If you do, you are simply applying discrimination to solve discrimination. So you’re sadly wrong there.
2. You are asserting that a case can not be made for Obama’s birth records. That’s a giant leap as well. Your posts in this thread are full of assumptions. Must be a comfortable life to have things all so simple. The case for Obama’s birth certificate is made simply be the lack of one. That doesn’t require any deep analysis, doctor. Some believe that we can not factually state with absolute certainty that Obama WAS born in the US. Simple.
Amusing how you glossed over obvious racism to declare “that may be racism too” as if to say.. “ahhh so what. yes it is racism but no one should bat an eye about it.”
That is why your assertions are woefully inadequate.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:00pm@Nappy
Report Post »They already KNOW that racism is on its way down the tubes. Ever since we elected a minority President they are desperate to get it back. What other free democratic republic has elected a minority president? (Peru, but that was truly weird.) Strange how we never hear about those racist Europeans (where it is UNTHINKABLE to elect a minority president) from the likes of Fareed.
The progressives are losing one of their major tools of manipulation.
They are frantically trying to stir up that emotional fear of racism to get some of it back.
abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:53pmNappy, the Supreme Court has supported Harvard College’s attempt to create diversity by admitting students with lower scores who are minorities. As long as sharp quotas are not used, affirmative action has been endorsed by the final arbiter on the issue. You can spout your uninformed opinion all you want, but it is not worth much.
Obama has provided definitive proof that he is US born, and multiple courts have endorsed that proof. I do not make any assumptions, but rely upon the discovery process and judgment of these lawyers. The legal process in multiple districts independently confirmed that he is US born. The two papers in Honolulu 40 years ago also provide independent confirmation. Only a crazy person would question it. There are no assumptions here, unless you don’t live in reality. I have heard no proof on the other side, except that all of this evidence is still not enough. Short of transporting you back to ‘63 in Honolulu to watch it in person, there is no evidence that would satisfy these people. Everything else would be a fraud in their mind. They are irrational. And you either are too dumb to see this or you are crazy too.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:07pmWhen they kill a baby, it’s a “choice”.
When we have a baby, it’s an “accident”.
Liberals lack consistency.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:26pmYou are aware how illogical those statements are, correct? You have a choice to have a baby or not. And to claim implicitly that there are only accidents prompting abortions kind of ignores things like rape and incest. In any case, to say that a woman has control over her body until a baby is viable without its help (the ruling in Roe v Wade), is pretty consistent actually. The critique of it isn’t its internal logic, but the fact that it was authored by judges rather than legislators. Read much?
Report Post »nappy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:27pmok snarky
I believe you meant “the baby is viable without her help” (write much?)
A baby is not ‘viable’ without a mother’s help for many years. There is little difference between the womb and life as a breathing infant considering they are still virtually attached to the mother to sustain life.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:55amWell put Nappy,
That is a strong argument.
Thank you
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:48pmNappy, you truly are stupid. It refers to the mother’s body. It is also how Roe v Wade refers to it. Read much?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:07pmWell, that was certainly plain enough! No code at all.
You shoot from the hip, Tsunami!
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:06pmI think, calling someone a racist is coded talk for saying; I am a stuck up democrat who is morally superior to you so I won’t answer your question or deal with the issue at hand.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:22pmSometimes we call racists racists because they really are racist.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:38pmYea, except when you need a decoder ring.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:44pmYou always need a decoder ring. We don’t live in the 1850s or even 1950s anymore.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:03pmThe I have witnessed the most was a my last place of employment. People of African descent walking up to each other saying”What’s sup my N*****”. What a disgusting phrase. the first time i heard that word was out of my fathers mouth about my best friend. I had to look up the word ; we had three dictionaries… word was not in any of them, but i had a 1st edition Websters that i had come across…i was appalled to find the word meant THEIF.
no decoder ring needed.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:04pmThe racism i have witnessed
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:07pmWhat does that mean?
The definition of racist was different in the past?
Your statement refutes your previous comment about a racist being a racist, because if it is all some kind of moving blob that can’t be pinned down then a racist could be whatever you say it is depending on what your decoder ring says.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:19pmLet me be clear. The racism is the same, but what you can say and how you say it in public has changed. Decoder rings for what is said publicly, but not for what is happening inside the minds and behind the closed doors. If you think racial resentment doesn’t exist, even though people are more subtle and careful in how they express it, then you must live in Japan, Korea or some other racially homogeneous society.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:33pmLOL….. thanks for admitting it…the truth comes out.
Report Post »sheik
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:05pmWhat do you expect from the son of an imam?
This guy is a Mohammedan agit prop. He wants to see America destroyed. That’s his sole purpose in life. He is no different from the 9/11 hijackers, he only does it with other methods.
He should be locked up in Gitmo or put up against the wall.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:10pmFareed is Christian. Get a clue.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:36pmZakaria is Christian? Any evidence of that?
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:54pmHe went to a Catholic school for 12 years and he married a Christian wife. I do think he is actually an agnostic, but his exposure to Christian ideas is pretty strong.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:51pmABC:
Zakaria was born to a Konkani Muslim family, and his father was an Islamic scholar. He went to The Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay, of Anglican-Scottish origins. Nowhere on the school’s site is there a mention of Catholicism. Of his wife, I cannot readily find that she has any ties to Christianity, save that the etymology of her name, Throckmorton, traces back to England. Perhaps you know the family personally? Interesting. FWIW, the NNDB lists his religion as Muslim. Zakaria has stated that he is not a religious person.
I believe I have successfully refuted your previous assertion that “Fareed is Christian. Get a clue.”
Your blatant error may lead one to question the accuracy of your other arguments.
Report Post »fatpatriot
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:19am@abc
Report Post »So by this logic going to a Mcdonalds would make me a hamburger ? Using the same thought process if I married my mare that would make me a Stud?
Seriously… citing veracitystew.com and about.com to make your arguments is lazy. Do you believe that folks here won’t look for more substantive information? Stoic handed you your a$$ on the 15 lies cited at veracitystew.
By the way the “evidence” on the birther issue has never been heard. The suits have been dismissed because the plaintiffs lack standing according to the courts. This has nothing to do with logic or reason. It’s the law.
abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:46pmBrick Moon, you apparently believe everything on Wikipedia… You are a genius.
His being born into a non-religious but nominally Muslim home, but his parents sending him to Christian school… What is the bigger influence on him? Think about it.
Finally, you prove definitively that you cannot think. You say because someone is wrong about one thing then they are presumably wrong about all things. You apparently only listen to infallible people. When you find that person, let me know. Until then, I guess everyone is wrong about everything. Good logic there.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:00pmWikipedia? What’s that?
An absolute statement by you, ABC, is proven false, using facts and a quotation from the subject himself, essentially contradicting the statement — and instead of conceding, you shoo — launch a kinetic military action on the messenger. I can cite several sources, and you have only your own assumption.
The former president and prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was also educated at the Cathedral School, and studied law at Christ Church, Oxford. So he was most likely a Christian?
Yes, Zakaria moved to the US and married an American woman. And their son is named after the second Caliph. His wife, Paula, must have insisted.
I’m not presuming you are wrong on other matters by citing one false statement of yours, but when it is framed as a fact, followed by an insult, it does cast a shadow on your other arguments, especially on the topic at hand.
If a person immediately admits their errors on matters of fact, then I think there is a better chance of respecting that person regarding other facts and opinions. (He said, awaiting a gratuitous, trifling example of hypocrisy against a right-wing blah blah…)
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:04pmZakaria made be a idiot in some peoples mind – but, there are also a lot of Americans that believe as he does! But that is just my opinion! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Mstrrlm
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:04pmWhy is it if anybody says anything bad about OBAMA you are just racist? Answer because they dont like to know the facts like he sucks.
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:15pmThe interests of equal opportunity and correcting past injustices, is why I ONLY criticise his white half.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:24pmTrue. But many more of us do not actually like Obama’s policies, but we still think the impossible claims of the birthers can only be sustained by racial enmity. There are so many things about Obama to complain about. If you need to resort to false claims, then there really is a lot wrong with you. Perhaps racism isn’t even the biggest one.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:22am@ABC: I’m not a birther but because of all the NON transparency in this administration (and don’t remind me of the transparency award given a few days ago behind doors … isn’t that an oxymoron?), I am very suspicious of ulterior motives with every statement or action coming out of this president! I’m an old lady and have lived through several presidents. I have NEVER seen one so ill fitted to hold the office!
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:45pmPray Issa can jerk a knot in his posterior, most crooked white house ever!
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:03pm“Look, I think that some of this [birtherism]–maybe there are people who feel genuinely worried about this–I think some of it is being used by politicians as a coded way to talk about race, and the fact that he’s [Obama's] different from us, whatever that means.”
Different from us? Damned right! WE THE PEOPLE aren’t socialists. WE THE PEOPLE don’t spend millions on lawyers to hide our birth certificates, academic records, etc. It’s about race? WE THE PEOPLE would gradly vote for Cain or West.
“Look at us, we all have funny last names.”
Report Post »True, but tens of millions of those with funny last names are in this country illegally.
Clara88
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:03pmRacists??? LOL *YAWN*
Report Post »Rob
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:03pmYep, yep, yep…..
Report Post »Rob
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:02pmYeah, a dark skined dude with an accent and weird name that works for the lame stream media and thinks Beck is bad.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Screw him and the company he lies for.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:21pmState the lie.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:46pmABC
Report Post »It is a lie to say Glenn Beck makes wild claims; they are documented. glen says the country is broke;they (libs) say we are not. this is pretty much documented, we are, broke. I have listened to the radio show the subject comes up of “THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE” glen says it is a non issue.
Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:49pmwhether you agree with glens conclusions or not is you choice. I have found glen and his staff to be more thorough than media matters and NPR combined.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:01pmBeck makes lots of wild, unsupported claims. Here are 15 doozies from last year:
http://veracitystew.com/2011/01/03/15-lies-glenn-beck-got-away-with-in-2010/
Report Post »Koolaiders
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:10pmHe has a PhD.
Most of the Blazers didnt make high school and if they did, there should be an investigation
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:18pm#15 what is the timeline on when the FED paid back the money
Report Post »#14 I heard that on the radio and i heard the retraction/apology the next day
#13 I was Riveted to the oil spill news from EVERY WHERE. glen did not get it wrong.
Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:53pm#12 read the recent news about the FED lending to Europe
#11 WHAT?
#10 sorry this has been open news Glens right
# 9 the sounds pretty hostile to me.
#8 yes obamas energy policy for those paying attention it was most certainly a part of his campaign. yes soros spouted his support for cap & trade. the manipulation part is a conclusion.
#7 global warming. the follow up news.. NASA & NOAA made some adjustments.
#6 wildly inflated without facts. all those things, being done for security cost nothing.
#5 yep read that too game & wildlife fisheries or some such. the way the recommendation was written,
fishing would have been banned the group fishers & hunters pointed that out. the DEPT said OOPS, and fixed it
#4 Glen sees Soros every where. Obama did pledge $2b Soros did invest.
#3 so the Officials of wilmington are liars. once again listened to the interviews; could not go; only60mi away.
#2 not going there……that was Nazi germany
Report Post »#1?????
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:35pm@ABC
Veracity Stew? You post that link as a reference? And you want to be taken seriously?
We are in deeper doo doo than I ever thought possible.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:57pm@Koolaiders
OMG, R U serious? A PhD? Really?
Well that changes everything, I mean wow, a PhD, I had no Idea.
Man, that’s some serious brain power there. Too bad he can’t run for prez.
Do you see it? Do you see how far we have fallen?
The most advanced nation on earth, and we are turning out herds of mindless sheeple.
And the scariest part is that they are allowed to vote.
De-fund the Dept. of Education.
Think maybe we can
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:39pmABC- it’s my prerogative to be racist, you don’t pay my bills, you can take all your PC and put it where Obummer keeps his head. We will have to check the list and see if you turn up here..http://thejaghunter.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/lets-ask-and-do-tell-is-obama-gay/
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:42pmStoic, nice try, but you raised more questions about Beck than putting the concerns to rest.
Billy, you cannot even address the substance, as if the name of the messenger makes the message false. This is why we are in doo doo. You are too dumb to see that you do not know how to think.
King, at least you are honest. You are a proud racist.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:00pmAll of us here in America are immigrants. Most of us came to our new country legally and pledged our allegiance to America. We all spoke different languages and a majority of us have funny sounding last names. But we came together for the good of all because we want our Nation to succeed. So Zakaria can stick it with the name calling.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:04pmBering strait… EVERYONE is an immigrant!!!!
Report Post »Doc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:22pmI’m not an immigrant. I’m a native born American of the United States as were my parents and their parents before them. I pledge Allegiance to the flag and took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies. My neighbors are Americans of many different ethnicities and backgrounds. They are, by-and-large, my friends. Fareed Zakaria is offensive and ignorant and I will defend to the death his right to be both.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:39pmHey DOC
Report Post »BRAVO! I like that , and agree!
randy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:00pmBoy Glenn really has them all shaking in their boots.
Report Post »Koolaiders
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:07pmBecks rating are down 30% ad dropping more more more more more
Radio stations are dumping him by the dozen.
Soon all he’ll have is the Blaze and the far right wing racist Islamphobic unemployed aged trailer trash folks who troll its forums
Report Post »luvtheright
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:53pmSeems kool-aid has his talking points down!
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:27pmKOOLAIDERS nothing but a Soros troll, and ABC you can go back to your basement, and leave the intelligent people to discuss matters not pertaining to anything you have to say!
Report Post »Ed Kidon
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:59pmFareed is a useless ass. I wouldn’t have given him the airtime. Shame on u Jay!
Report Post »http://twitter.com/ekidon
commonsenseguy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:05pm2ed kidon, what did you expect fom a georges soros funded t v station. i will never watch jay or the other idiots,
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:07pmEd Kidon
Report Post »Fareed is a useless ass. I wouldn’t have given him the airtime. Shame on u Jay!
———–
Jay works for NBC, he has to do his part for GE to keep Obama’s campaign going
abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:56pmYou call Zakaria and ass, and the Blaze leaves it up. I call him useless to morons and useful to people who rely on facts, and the Blaze takes it down. The Blaze is selectively sensitive and (again) a total joke. But I stand by the earlier comment. Zakaria is only useless to people who find facts inconvenient.
Report Post »bellasbrat
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:58pmYeah, I’m a racist. HERMAN CAIN IN 2012!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:15pmRight on! We’re racist! HERRRRRMANNNNN CAAAAAINNNNN!
Report Post »Echad
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:29pmI’m must be a racist too! Because I would vote for Alan West in half a heartbeat!
Report Post »Echad
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:34pmOOPS! That should be Allen West!
Report Post »Koolaiders
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:22pm@showtime
Your not a racist. Just an insane birther with ZEROOOOOOOOOOO proof.
Howz your trailer holding up since your unemployment ran out?
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:45am@koolaider–(aiding Fahreed in his time of need….)
Report Post »You are right! But give them a break, all of these idiots just don’t have a clue that the burden of proof is on THEM. How could they be so stupid! Also, we need to remind them that because he is President of the United States of America, he only needs to show “more than one independent birth announcement” as proof that he lost his long form birth certificate. Ignorants! They just don’t know the rules!
uzi4u2
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:57pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:15pmZebras need not apply, praise the 12 states that will pass the law requiring the actual birth certificate to be shone before registering for the elections in 2012, that should settle it.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:57pmLook, I think that some of this [birtherism]–maybe there are people who feel genuinely worried about this–I think some of it is being used by politicians as a coded way to talk about race, and the fact that he’s [Obama's] different from us, whatever that means.
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So Obama should NOT be made to prove his eligibility for the job
because he is ‘different’ ( whatever TF that means ) ?
Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:11pmBITE him, Cheez!
Report Post »uzi4u2
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:56pmyes, and those minorities blend in and inhance America. It‘s the ones like this jerk that don’t want to blend in and insist that WE change to meet his culture are the problem. I don’t see race at all in asking obama to show us his birth certifcate. Put and end to the controvercy, show us the paper….unless there really IS something fishy there
Report Post »I have no problem showing me BC if asked, why can’t we request the same of our president? Race my ass, show us that he IS American.
abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:20pmHe did show his birth certificate. He also showed two independent announcements of his birth, at a time when no one would have had an incentive to lie about it. (Think about it, the birthers ask us to assume that his parents had planned for him to run for President, so they bribed two independent papers to print the same lie on the same day…only a moron could believe this garbage.)
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:27pmno…his “proud” grandparents would have placed those ads to annouce they had a grandson born…the add didn’t say where, only that he was
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:32pmWrong. Those ads were placed for every baby born. Many papers used to do that in medium sized and smaller cities.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:32pmYou seem to be going on a number of assumptions. No, it was not a requirement of every paper to place birth ads. You would have to provide PROOF (google that if you’re having a problem with the meaning) that the newspaper in question DID publish every birth.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:39pmNappy, do not put words in my mouth. I said some papers do this, and the two in Honolulu are two of them. You cannot think logically, which is why you are so confused. You hear some and assume all. Foolish.
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:56pmYou know, I wasn’t really all that curious about the birth certificate, until brain trusts like this started calling me racist for even thinking there might be something funny about it. But I’m not racist. And to feel the need to cover the whole controversy with a blanket accusation of racism to get people to back off makes me think more and more that there is something to this. Keep talking buddy. I bet there are a lot of other Americans feeling the same way. What the heck is he hiding? Maybe this does need to be investigated.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:13pmJane, I have document after document of proof that he is not even an American citizen, much less born in a US territory!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:14pmI scanned my birth certificate (the long form) to a government agency just this afternoon.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:16pmHe’s not talking about you. He’s talking about people who keep insisting that Obama is foreign born even after all evidence supports the claim that he was born here. The only way to explain the irrational clinging to factually incorrect beliefs is irrationality. So what is driving this irrationality? Zakaria thinks it’s racism. Not a bad possibility, if you ask me. If it were ideology, then they would be doing this thing with every white liberal as well, but they do not.
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:29pmeven if he was born in the US (doubtful) his parents had to BOTH be US born or naturalized to qualify.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:42pmAxel, you are wrong on both counts. It is not doubtful that obama is US born, and you do not need to have US born parents to be President if you are born on US soil. You’d think this misinformation would eventually die:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k9Y3bdBmVUEJ:urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_citizen.htm+us+president+must+have+us+born+parents&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
Report Post »Koolaiders
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:20pm@showtime
Please leave us your phone number so we can call the FBI to pick up your “document after document.” proving Obama is not US-born.
Show us the docs this time, @showtime. Or please just close the squeaky door to your trailer and leave us sane people alone.
Thanks, and have a nice day, mayor of Trailer Park Town. Fool.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:40pm@JANEDOUGH1:
The President is hiding the fact that he was born Muslim according to the tradition of his father. He then converted to Christianity as an adult because he’s basically an Atheist. It’s not a big deal for me.
However, for Muslims, it is a very big deal! What do they call it? Oh, yeah, Infidel! He doesn’t want to be persona non grata in the Muslim world, it would hurt his image as a “Leader of the World”.
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:20pmI’m with you, Showtime. I’ve seen enough in the last couple of weeks to have raised questions in my mind. Apparently Showtime doesn’t realize that newspapers print birth announcements for residents who have children while overseas, and he doesn’t realize that a certificate of live birth and a birth certificate are not the same thing. He also probably doesn’t realize that immigration law changes from one decade to the next. When my husband was born, out of the country to an American parent and a foreign parent, he had to choose a country by age 22. His younger siblings have dual citizenship. I don’t know what the law was in 1965, I’d have to do some research.
Report Post »swigs
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:33pm@ABC
“He’s talking about people who keep insisting that Obama is foreign born even after all evidence supports the claim that he was born here.”
Ok where’s the evidence? It matters not where he was born. In his own words his father was a Kenyan. As a side note there are actually more people in Kenya who have testified his being born there than there are Hawaiians who can testify he was born in HI.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:47pmEither way, eligible or not, Obama loses. What’s he going to say if ever he presents proof of eligibility?
Ha ha I told you so (+ uncontrollable laughter…)?
Sooo presidential…
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:37pmSWIGS: “Ok where’s the evidence? It matters not where he was born. In his own words his father was a Kenyan. As a side note there are actually more people in Kenya who have testified his being born there than there are Hawaiians who can testify he was born in HI.”
Show me the proof that there are more in Kenya saying that, who are actually able to prove what they say are true. And explain how it is possible that two papers independently confirm his US birth without any incentive to lie, since no one knew it would be important 40 years ago? I’d love to hear that explanation. Remember: you need to be logical and rational. And you need to show proof. This is what the courts, and there are multiple ones, that have said that you and the birthers are full of it. To side with you, one needs to be crazy or just stupid. Or racist.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:56pmWhat an idiot!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:09pmHe’s not an idiot. He’s firing back against Donald Trump. Don’t forget, Zakaria is a Progressive.
And, for his information, if he cannot understand the importance of the words in our Constitution, he needs to go back from whence he came. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an undocumented alien posing as a front man who is trying desperately to overthrow America.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:14pmShowtime, the false claims about Obama not being a US-born American have nothing to do with the Constitution. Those claims have had their day in court, as they should, and they were thrown out consistently and even by Republican judges. Just because the Constitution requires the President be US born doesn’t mean that every claim that Obama is a foreigner should be re-heard by the Supreme Court when the plaintiffs cannot even show evidence enough to get out of district court. They are regularly thrown out of court not because the judges disrespect the Constitution. But because the birthers have no case, no fact and no logic on their side. It is this blind irrational hate that Zakaria is concluded must be driven by racism. How else can people be so dumb for so long so insistently? If not racism, then what?????
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:33pm@ABC
Report Post »How about hatred of socialism? of communism? of let them eat cakism?
I think Obama is a citizen, yet i despise the above. those adjective/nouns seem to describe Obama to a tee.
abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:43pmStoic. Name the socialism.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:52pmHealthcare, general motors, chrysler, GE, three trillion spending proposal,
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:06pmHealthcare–Nixon and McCain were in favor of Obamacare before Obama proposed it, so they are socialists too, apparently…
general motors–Reagan did a bigger bailout of the S&Ls, so he was a bigger socialist, apparently…
three trillion spending proposal–Bush has added more in unfunded liabilities than Obama, so he was a bigger socialist, apparently…
Report Post »nappy
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:29pmABC said:
“the false claims about Obama not being a US-born American have nothing to do with the Constitution”
Apparently there is enough proof for ABC. And ABC believes that should be enough proof for everyone. Therefore, ABC can not fathom any other reason than racism.
Pretty thin logic. Perhaps that’s why he stopped at “C” with his screen name.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:34amThe whole “Obama is a socialist” meme is a laugh. Anybody who knows what SOCIALISM is would recognize that. “Obamacare” (another chuckle) is anything BUT socialized! (A single-payer program would have gone in that direction.) Neither the economy nor the banks have been nationalized. The auto bailouts may have given the gov’t a stake in the industry, or partial ownership, but that in itself did NOT socialize the auto industry. Looking for socialism? Look no further than $arah Palin, who taxed big-oil co’s and gave the $ to the people in her state (ACES.) http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/nyt-there-you-go-again/10150114865173435 Now THAT, folks, is socialism.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 11:04amHey TIF, if the republicans are the socialist, then why do the American socialists and communists support and rally with the democrats?
Report Post »You claim that what Obama is doing isn’t socialism, but other socialists, like Chevez are cheering him on. Why is that?
tifosa
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 11:57amSomething I wrote implied “the republicans are the socialist,?” Do you have an example of an Obama socialism?
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:29pmNappy, two papers in Hawaii independently reported that it was 75 degrees? Was that a conspiracy too? Do you even understand the significance of independent confirmation?
You are dumb.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:17pmABC you ignorant fool, calling them false claims doesn’t make the false, any more than your moronic claims about global warming make it real, shut up fool, and suck on that government utter you get all substance from and leave those that love this nation alone.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:54pmso who is he stirring the fire? code word?
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:58pmAccording to liberals, just about everything you can imagine is “coded race talk.” They can‘t conceive of anyone being against Obama unless it’s out of racism. Because not being a liberal is “evil” in their eyes: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/how-liberal-journalists-think.html Of course they can’t see any bigotry, “coded” or otherwise, in their own party.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:06pmLet him state and think what he will; any imigrant who is willing to integrate fully into the greatest melting pot of the world, America, is welcome. I may have this wrong, it seems to me he is in a indirect manner trying to make Beck appear to be both a racist and a birther all in one.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:11pmHey Revere, I’m against Obama AND I think the birthers are driven by a lot of racism. You are conflating issues.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:22pmZakaria’s credibility and authority hovers somewhere between that of PETA and the Westboro Baptist Church.
Report Post »Jamie
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:23pmGeorge Bush had to show his birth certificate and so did John McCain, but Oblamer did not. Does this mean that it is racist that only white candidates were asked to produce their papers???
Jesse, Al Help me out with this one.?.?.?.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:27pmOne of the things I truly enjoy about this sight is that there is disagreement. I went to media matters yesterday and read a couple of hundred comments; there was no disagreement. I mostly visited “non Glen Beck” articles; I was astounded at the vitriol concerning Glen. There is a whole section dedicated to Glenny.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:27pmbrickmoon
Report Post »Zakaria’s credibility and authority hovers somewhere between that of PETA and the Westboro Baptist Church.
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He works for CNN. How credible can he be anyway ?
Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:32pm“and the fact that he’s [Obama's] different from us”
Yes, you got it, Obama sure is different from us and it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with destroying our nation. God, free enterprise, opportunity to enjoy the fruits or your LABOR, freedom and liberty and a whole lot more that Comrade Obama seems to know nothing about, that‘s where’s he’s different.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:50pmLOL .. everything is a “coded” race word … with the left. Look who the REAL racists are .. those who insist on dividing everyone by race!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:52pmIt is impossible to claim that race isn’t a part of conservative fear of Obama because race is part of his resentment against America. Whites fear he is prejudiced against them and that they won’t get a fair shake because he is fixated on blacks not having gotten a fair shake in the past. It is a perfect cycle of racial suspicion. No one is clean because it is a contagion that infects everyone around. Racism feeds on division. It creates division initially to pit one groups against each other and then the crimes committed because of that division create lasting hostility keeping the groups separate and hostile. The only way to be free of the grip of racism is to acknowledge its power and renounce. This cannot be done while accusing the other side of being racists.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:54pmI thought it was Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton who brought up the subject in the first place. Secondly, if the President were doing a good job, few would question his status, but were desperate to get him out of there!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:56pmThen you would think he would be more appreciative of the freedoms he has instead of siding with the socialist/marxist/communist administration. Apparently he did not get the memo that Glenn is trying to preserve life as we know it. Apparently he has not studied the founders and the history of the progressives. Apparently someone is feeding him incorrect information and he does not have the ability to find out the truth. This country needs the true “American soul”, not some sheeple who came here to stir up more trouble. My father came from Hungary by choice and made the American dream – so what is your point!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:01pm“I’m against Obama AND I think the birthers are driven by a lot of racism.”
ABC, This statement itself feeds racism, because racism is premised upon suspicions of a group of people merely because they are part of a group. Fareed is doing the same thing. If I accuse a group of something but can’t point to evidence that clearly demonstrates my accusation I am guilty of group prejudice, the very foundatiopn of racism. He and you say you “think” but you can’t point to WHY. You make it clear you are ASSUMING racism.
Is it racist to think that a black man is predisposed toward crime? Yes.
Is it racist to think that a white man is predisposed toward racism agaisnt a black man. Yes.
They are both equally racist statements.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:02pmHe who smelt it dealt it! I am tired of saying anyone that does not agree with them is a racist. McCain was not born in a qualifying base or US possession, to a foreign born mother and I feel he is not qualified to be in Congress or the Presidency either….does that make me sexist because I feel both he and Obama are not qualified? It does not matter if he served in the military, he does not meet all the qualifiers.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:03pmHave fun with this stuff. I told a black friend and associate of mine that when we go to the bank to borrow money we just tell them how much we need and don’t even need to fill out paperwork. They just give us the cash, because we are white.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:04pmLast week Herman Cain made a joke involving white’s. I laughed because I knew it was nothing because he is a visible man. It’s not racist, it’s the law of the Land. You must be born in America and a legal Citizen to be president. Is it wrong to ask for his birth certificate? I don’t think so. Is it racist? Maybe to some but only a small minority.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:06pmWHO? In my experience those who call out and charge others with racism tend to be the rue racists. Race has nothing to do with the birthers crusade, although I think it is misguided on their part and misdirected on purpose by BHO and his handlers! Why to keep the focus off his legal identity!
Fact is BHO has sealed his records, no one has come forward from his past in any regard be it fellow student, a teacher/ professor, a student of his when he was teaching, oddly no friends or other family members have spoken up either! This guy is completely off the radar, in other cases there is always someone somewhere who comes forward if nothing more in hopes of making a buck or two and getting a book deal… but this guy NO ONE?!?!
Zakaria in essence is, as Mr. Scheuer put it, “just carrying the water for Mr. Obama”
What is that?
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:14pmIsle:
” If I accuse a group of something but can’t point to evidence that clearly demonstrates my accusation I am guilty of group prejudice, the very foundatiopn of racism. He and you say you “think” but you can’t point to WHY. You make it clear you are ASSUMING racism.”
I am not assuming racism. There is no factual basis for the birthers, the specific subset of Obama critics that I am calling out and Zakaria is as well, to believe that Obama was not born in the US. Their case was heard in court and thrown out. They have no case, no facts, no logic to support their claim, yet they cling to it anyway. What irrationality can account for this? Racism is a very likely reason. Coupled with the astonishingly high percentage of whites that are birthers, and the racist signs that they have carried at their rallies, this is not an assumption but a conclusion founded on facts. There is no fear in the analysis, unlike your explanation for why conservatives fear that Obama is prejudiced against white people, although most facts would deny this: 1) mother is white; 2) grandparents who raised him are white; 3) majority of staff is white, with fewer top officials in his administration being black than Bush; 4) economic policies do not favor blacks; and I could go on…
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:17pmSomewhere somebody had to see some form of legal paper work for Mr. Wizard to become the President of the US. So it is really a mute point at this time in his presidency, he is a goner in 2012 and if not then somebody (Soros related) stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes because there are too many people being polled that don’t like his policies but lets hope the person that replaces him is not just a Rino or neo-con because then they would be Progressive/Socialist LITE…
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:22pmOnce again, Mr. Zakaria, proves that you can’t tell the truth. Mr. Beck never said that 10% of Muslims were terrorists. He read the results of a survey and picked the lowest figures.
Secondly, the number of unemployed is closer to 13-14 million, not 20 – 25 million.
I believe he took roughly 8% of 300 million and came up with his figures not realizing that there aren’t 300 million Americans in the labor pool.
13 – 14 million is the figure released by the Dept. of Labor.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:33pmRemember when Pat Buchanan ran for Pres in 1992? The left said he had code words for Jews and blacks. They didn’t know what the words were, but it sounded good to them. Anyone who doesn’t go along with their agenda to destroy America is a racist or bigot or whatever.
Report Post »Most Muslims are jihadists’ and most all of them will never assimilate to other cultures. NEVER! They must go! I will not trust any of them. EVER!
There! If you don’t like it….Tough!
ottodiedacktick
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:44pm@DECENDENTOF56:
You mean to tell me you don’t trust Muhammad Ali, the Muslim Fighting Irishman?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:48pm“Code words” are frequently and dogmatically used by islam and the socialist left. Honesty and integrity do not ‘compute’ to them. They are foreign concepts and make little sense to them intellectually. Naturally, you could assume they would claim reciprocal untrustworthy behaviors.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:00pm@ABC
Report Post »Totally disagree with your premise that the birthers are driven by racism. Many of them just want the truth about his birth because they sense a cover-up. What the heck does that have to do with race? Libs think using the race card is their automatic trump card in every argument. They are becoming more and more like the boy who cried “Wolf!”, only to find that no-one will listen to them anymore because they are no longer credible.
ottodiedacktick
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:03pm@KOOLAIDERS:
I like the way you use words like Phd and Harvard to indicate intelligence. Harvard graduates: Al Gore, George Bush II, and Barack Obama are all super intelligent even without the little finger. If you don’t mind, I want to get back to my trash. Oh, look what I found, KOOLAID!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:37pmKoolaiders
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:12pm
He has a Phd from Harvard and has more intelligence in his left toe than the entire population of Trailer Trash town that inhabit The Blaze
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Wow .. don’t put yourself down like that … since you are “inhabiting” The Blaze.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:48pmABC,
“What irrationality can account for this? Racism is a very likely reason.”
This is the very presumption I am talking about ABC. You dismiss other possible explanation and leap to the racism charge. Why? because of the high percentahe of whites at Tea Party rallies? Why not charge blacks for being racist ofr NOT being at those rallies? It’s ridiclous to make charges of racism based upon groupings.
And what “racist sign” are ytou talking about? Is the definition for a racist sign the same subjecvtive one that is used to accuse Tea Partiers of racism in the first place? Are you reading the racist “codes” in the signs, which you can indentify because you know that they are racists who are carrying the sign?
And as for having no basis for distrusting Obama’s attitude toward whites, when he says something like “typical white person” how can that be construed as anything other than racial prejudice”?
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:23pmEverything to a liberal is race related, except of course if a liberal says it. Al Sharpton has made a living off of race baiting. Who could forget when he went after Limbaugh recently? There is a great Youtube video on this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJEfQXbJNQ Imagine Sharpton saying Rush is offensive. Who is more offensive than Al Sharpton?
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:57pmHe is a professed born Kenyan-American, with one side of his parentage a subject of the United Kingdom.
What’s racist about that, Mumbai boy?
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:02pmHate to tell you Fareed, but Glenn thinks that Obama is a legal citizen. I am not convinced either way. My best guess is that it is used to keep people busy while he passes or builds a “new society”.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:05pm“Diversity‘ is ’coded race talk’. Where favoritism and ‘affirmative-action’ are implemented according to race. To them it means ‘no whites need apply’.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:16pmRemember Zakaria, all Obama has to do is remove the seal on all his blocked records, including his REAL birth certificate. It won’t cost Obama a thing and is certainly cheaper than hiding them any further. All you liberals can do is attack the character of someone asking the question, but never give a sensible, logical answer.
Report Post »swigs
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:25pm@ABC
“Their case was heard in court and thrown out. They have no case, no facts, no logic to support their claim, yet they cling to it anyway.”
Blatantly false. No court has heard the case, the merits of the case have not been heard. They’ve all been dismissed because plantiffs have no legal standing. According to the courts the issue of his birth is a political matter and they refuse to hear the evidence.
ABC wrote;
“He did show his birth certificate. He also showed two independent announcements of his birth, at a time when no one would have had an incentive to lie about it.”
False. He didn’t show his actual BC. He infact signed an executive order keeping all his records a secret. Robert Gibbs posted a bogus COLB on line and waved it around during a press conference.
Odumba to date has spent nearly 2 million in legal fees to make sure his actual BC if there is one never makes it to court.
As for the newspaper announcements they have been proven bogus also. And besides anyone can call a newspaper to publish an announcement, it’s not a legal proof of anything except that somebody wanted to make an announcement.
Since you are well informed in these matters surrounding his birth answer this?
Can a dual citizen be eligible for POTUS?
Report Post »mill
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:38pmanything the left disagrees with is, racists, code talk, mean spirited…and the left seems to be into everything but the truth
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:03amThis is the same thing Whoopi said.. ….. “you only care about this because he is Black.”
No, we read his book. He was not raised in this country. Noone in his childhood remembers him from Hawaii.
But I really don’t care about where he was born. I just want to see one example. one. Where he puts America first and speaks of an America that he loves and not just an America he would love to change.
Period.
Report Post »RedRockNv
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:53amObama’s grandmother in Kenya says she was present in Kenya at his birth. So tell me is it racist to not believe which one the grandmother who was an adult at the time of the birth or the one freshly born? Beng a natural born citizen is a requirment. The Dems asked his opponent the same question because he was born on a service base outside the country. Clue to all you racists. It isn’t racist to ask a legitimate question.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:16amWhat a bunch of idiots. The code that Glenn is using has to do with NASCAR Racing, not Racism.
Now can we get back to crushing the progressive hoarde in this country?!
Our proof CNN Tea Party Poll is Bogus!
Report Post »http://www.americasteapartynews.com/cnnpoll.php
Jackers
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:01amThese Progressives are rapidly losing their Socialist/Marxist message, and now they’re rapidly running out of race cards! In fact, after decades of abuse, the race deck has finally run out of cards!
Report Post »TheRev1776
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:30amSo, if Rep. Allen West runs and gets elected either as President or V.P. to Christie, or if Herman Cain runs, are we then still racist ? Or are they now “uncle toms” ? The left is so very confusing….I don’t like Salmon is that code for I hate fishermen ?
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:59amWith a name like Fareed Zakiria,he must be a Muslim and leftwing liberal who could care less about The Constitution of the United States of America. I and millions of other NATIVE BORN AMERICANS aren‘t interested in this guy’s opinion about anything, much less racism in America. and legallity of Obama’s qualifications for the office of the POTUS.
Question, is CNN having a recruiting problem and unable to hire Americans for it’s programs ? Come on, when I tune into an American news program like CNN I expect to see American reporters. I‘m not the least bit interested in hearing an immigrant’s opinion of current American events or world events that envolve Americans.
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:00amYes, we have MILLIONS of people who are “different from us” in America. It did not use to be this way; used to, the people coming here had to be exceptional and have something to offer. Now, they can be ill with AIDS, uneducated, poor and a burden from the moment they enter, Thanks to Democratic Senator and Murderer Ted Kennedy. Our Country is destroyed FROM THE INSIDE and we say nothing.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:00amSTOIC ONE, re: “One of the things I truly enjoy about this sight is that there is disagreement. I went to media matters yesterday and read a couple of hundred comments; there was no disagreement. I mostly visited “non Glen Beck” articles; I was astounded at the vitriol concerning Glen. There is a whole section dedicated to Glenny.”
Report Post »Does the vitriol toward anybody on the left bother you (ie. pundits on MSNBC, POTUS, FLOTUS, etc) ? It’s not a surprise that you MAY HAVE found a thread on MM where there was NOT “disagreement,” as you do at the blaze, but most often people from both sides of the political aisle post there.
G.W. Dobbs
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:11am“You must be born in America to be President of the United States”. YES. But you do NOT need to be born in America to be President of the Corporation entitled and legally established as THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Obama is President of the CORPORATION, not the Nation.
http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm
http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/the-united-states-a-corporation/
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:34amI was a survivor of the One world “progressive Education experiment of the sixties. Had abortion been as
Report Post »accepted as it became in the 1970‘s and 1980’s I might have been aborted -as the last of four children in a home where my father resisted the “progressive” drive to have both dad and mom out of the house and working –and with my dad resisting the “progesssive” -no fault divorce crap.It was kinda natural I would resist the One world-global citizen crap pushed in public school-much like they push homosexuality now. I was not an accidental American by birth but the sure result of normal sexual activity between two natural born citizens.Both my mom and dad were Americans who were born of American citizens who had been born in the USA . I have no problem with any who want to come to America to become Americans in that old fashioned “meltingpot ”sense of e- pluribus -unim. But we have a US Constitution and it is written that no-one can be eligible for the Office of the President except a natural born citizen. = born of two parents who were citizens. To the best of my knowledge
the American by choice Fareed Z. has never campaigned for the Office of the President-should he do so if our Constitution still has any meaning — he would be as inelligible as the Pretender in the WhiteHouse whose desire is to fundamentally change America.
GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:58amThe morning after the presidential elections, the progressives realized they had just shot themselves in the foot…How could they ever replace the “racism” so useful in their “public relations”?! They have been scrambling ever since to reinstate it, but so far have just shown themselves–over and over again to be the racist ones. I‘m surprised they haven’t yet thought to put emphasis on the fact that BHO isn’t really really black after all….Anyway, it’s fun to watch.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:16pm@abc
Report Post »Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:11pm
Hey Revere, I’m against Obama AND I think the birthers are driven by a lot of racism. You are conflating issues.
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Hey, brilliant one: How do you get “racism” out of “constitutionally ineligible”
He is either eligible or he is not. His race has nothing to do with it, other than the fact that his father was a British subject, as he is or was.
GETLIFE
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:42pmWhat I want to know is who waived Obama’s responsibility to prove himself eligible?
So now the burden of proof is on US?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:50pmottodiedacktick says, “Once again, Mr. Zakaria, proves that you can’t tell the truth. Mr. Beck never said that 10% of Muslims were terrorists. He read the results of a survey and picked the lowest figures.
Sorry, wrong. Beck said his best guess is that 10% of Muslims are terrorist. Listen for youself:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-guesses-10-of-muslims-are-terrorists-and-0-5-of-americans-are-violent-radicals/
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:10pmI think his talk of “codes” is code for Mr. Zakaria having come to a battle of wits unarmed.
Zakaria is a typical liberal/Progressive drone with no critical thinking abilities. No ability to formulate an argument based on facts and truth, as the facts and truth destroy their arguments. I think Mr. Zakaria is a fine example of the “educated idiots” my WW2-vet father used to grumble about.
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:01pmIdiot
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:02pmThis guy is nothing but a slick terrorist, slick like Obummer, how can one look at his face and believe anything other.
Report Post »rattler1958
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:39pmGE ownes 51% of NBC. Obama Liberals RULE the “BIG 3”. The guy does speak EAGLISH. 1 FLAG, 1 LANGUAGE, 1 LOYLATY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA!!!!!!!!! NOT USE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:26pmWHO is Fareed Zakaria ???? LOL
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:09amI think that there are a lot of people that don’t even think of Obama as being black. He may choose to call himself a black man but In most peoples minds he is a hybrid. He looks and sounds white. What the sam hill is so black about him?
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:59amIt is NOT the birthers who believe a black man is incapable of succeeding without government. It is NOT the libertarians or the right who believe a black man is incapable of succeeding without government.
Report Post »It is the left. Stop lying to yourselves lefties.
abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:20pmIsle and Restore ought to actually state what the alternative explanation is. I am not in the business in inventing conspiracy theories. That is the work of crazy people. There is no rational basis for believing Obama is not US born, and I cannot think of another reason for the persistent ignoring of reason, other than racism. If you have another explanation, share it. Otherwise, don’t criticize me for my opinion without offering one of your own.
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:26pmShowtime, he is constitutionally eligible and multiple courts have said so. Your opinion, which is ill-informed doesn’t trump that of multiple judges. That his father is not a citizen doesn’t make Obama illegible since he was born in the US. You are right, though. There are probably two reasons for people insisting on something when all the evidence and authority says something else: 1) racism, and 2) embarassing stupidity. Which one explains you??
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:14pm99.9% of it has nothing to do with race, but name calling is the only card the left has, they have to play it. Conservatives don’t like murder, destruction of the middle class, harming the young, harming the poor, discriminating against others, that America shouldn’t be a world leader all thing Obama has worked hard for. True conservatives don’t like that Obama never earned anything he has gotten, has been given grades, admission into schools, votes all because of his race, this discrimination against others makes us ill, but really doesn’t have anything to do with race, just fairness.
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