Glenn Beck Makes Stunning Claim About LGBT Rights

Sometimes a headline floats across my computer screen or iPhone where I just sit there for a moment thinking to myself, “Did I really just read that?”  Usually these moments are triggered by a comment some conservative said that is so utterly ridiculous my brain can’t grasp the reality that someone actually said it.

However, sometimes somebody who normally says nothing but completely ridiculous things shocks me by actually making sense.  Though rare, it does happen every now and then.

Now, when someone like Glenn Beck happens to be the person who made the comments that shocked me, well — that’s a whole other level of stunned.  After all, Beck makes a living off of saying asinine things for the sake of reaction and ratings.  Actually making sense isn’t good for business if you’re Glenn Beck.

Well, Beck recently spoke out harshly against Russia’s anti-LGBT culture while professing his support for GLAAD, which is a leading group that fights for equal rights for the LGBT community.

While speaking with S.E. Cupp on CNN, Beck brought up comments made by a leading Russian television star:

“Do you know what happened last week in Russia? One of their biggest stars on television said that homosexuals should be put into the ovens alive.  I didn’t think you could make the Holocaust worse but he’s like ‘Why the gas chamber? That seems a little too humane.  Let’s put them alive in the ovens.’”

Beck then followed that by saying:

“I said on the air this week, I will stand with GLAAD.  I will stand with anybody who will stand up and say that’s crazy. That’s dangerous. That’s hetero-fascism.”

Now, is this an actual endorsement for the rights of the LGBT community by Beck?  Some might say yes, but I don’t really see it that way.  While I applaud Beck for at least making sense when it comes to the disgusting anti-LGBT policies in Russia, this seems more like a response to Nazi-like suggestions by this Russian television stars than a ringing endorsement for equality for the gay community.

After all, Beck is obsessed with Nazis and fascism.  I can’t count the numerous events, people or instances where he’s somehow tied it back to Nazi Germany and fascism.

But I like to give credit where credit is due.  At least for this rare moment, Glenn Beck’s comments were on the right side of this issue.

Glenn Beck Makes Asinine Claim about Time Magazine Choosing Pope Francis as Person of the Year

And the attacks on Pope Francis just keep on coming. 

Then again, following the news that Time magazine has chosen the Pope as their “Person of the Year,” you knew that was going to tick off quite a few Republicans.

This time it was Glenn Beck who went off on a rant about the audacity Time magazine showed with its selection of Pope Francis over someone like – Ted Cruz.

Yes, this buffoon really believes Ted Cruz deserved to be “Person of the Year.”  I mean, why not, right?  After all, his biggest accomplishment this year was staging a fake 21-hour filibuster and heading a government shutdown that accomplished absolutely nothing.  How “remarkable” of him.

Beck claimed the reason why Time didn’t choose Cruz is because they “didn’t want to give him any more power.”  I’ll be honest, I actually laughed when I read that part.  He also reminded his audience to, “Remember, progressives are fascist.  They are for fascism.”

But of course we are.  Then again, this is Glenn Beck we’re talking about.  He’s obsessed with fascism and Nazi Germany.  A good asinine rant from Mr. Beck wouldn’t be complete without some kind of reference to fascism.

What his rant basically says to me is that he’s fully embraced the belief that Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, is a full-fledged fascist.  Amazing, isn’t it?  All he has to do is point out that trickle-down economics does nothing but give more to the rich at the expense of everyone else and suddenly he’s a fascist.

It still makes me laugh that Pope Francis actually behaves more like an actual Christian — based on the teachings of Jesus Christ — than any other Pope in recent history, and it’s driving conservatives crazy.

Here’s a fun fact: Before trickle-down economics, and in decades such as the 50′s and 60′s when we had much higher taxes and stronger unions, we were still a nation based on capitalism.  Opposing massive tax breaks for the rich doesn’t equate to fascism.  Unless of course these people are insinuating that presidents like Eisenhower and Kennedy were fascists.

Then again, most of these fools who yell words like fascism, communism or socialism don’t even know what they mean.  They’ll happily drive on public roads – to a meeting to complain about how horrific all forms of socialism are.  Not understanding that those roads built by the government, paid for by tax dollars, are socialism in action.  

Glenn Beck is just another in a growing list of well-known conservatives who continue their attack of Pope Francis.  If they keep it up I can promise you this — it’s not going to turn out well for the Republican party.

Glenn Beck slaps Oprah!

Glenn Beck has not just joined the right-wing war on Oprah Winfrey, he’s holding himself up as some kind of living Statue of Liberty to lead the poor, huddled masses who are oppressed by her racism into the light of freedom. I kid you not.

In case you missed it, Winfrey recently told The Grio she felt that Trayvon Martin’s death was “parallel” to and, “in my mind, same thing” as the lynching of Emmett Till. Even though, almost in the same breath she added:

“You can get stuck in that and not allow yourself to move forward and see how far we’ve come. …We need to give ourselves a round of applause. In this country, with all of its injustices, look at what we’ve been able to do in the span of one man’s lifetime.”

It’s pretty clear to me that Winfrey was not saying the two events were literally the same but that she was speaking about their impact on and resonance with African-Americans. But instead of trying to understand what she meant or how an African-American might view the killing of Trayvon through a different prism than a white person, the right-wing has been frothing at the mouth with racial animus toward her.

Oprah sent the right into another tailspin relaying an incident in which she said she’d felt racially profiled when a salesclerk in Zurich would not show her a very expensive handbag.

So, leave it to Glenn Beck to join the outrage and use the opportunity to promote himself – the guy who was pushed out of Fox News after he infamously accused President Obama of hating white people – as some kind of racial liberator.

Beck said:

“We’re not the country that is trying to do the right thing. We are not that country. But the good news is, we are those people.”

Actually, what Beck meant is he is those people:

“Oprah Winfrey, you disgust me.
“…Why are you telling everybody else they can’t make it? Why are you telling us that white people are the problem? Oprah, I choose to be the person that America thought you were. I choose to be the person that will overcome the bad things in my life. Nobody’s going to tell me what I can and can’t do and who I am. I know who I am and I will not be beaten down by the system. And I will hold those people up that feel the same way, no matter what color. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Give me the ones that you have told ‘You’ll never make it.’ Send… to me the tempest-tossed because I hold my lamp beside a golden door.”

If anyone can show me where Oprah ever said that “white people are the problem,” then I’ll believe that Beck has a smidgen of credibility on the subject of her race remarks. Until then, I’ll keep on thinking that he has a bad case of Freudian projection.