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From Glenn Beck today:
I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. (MediaMatters 10/22/07)
Besides the obvious lack of knowing what he's talking about, this is so inappropriate that it's practically laughable. First of all, has Beck even ever been to SoCal? First, they are called wildfires, next, the areas that are buring are some of the redder in the state. Funny, except, that people are losing their homes and becoming homeless. And this jerk has the gall to call other people anti-American? Perhaps the guy laughing at people's loss shouldn't be the one too judge others. More of the offending remarks over the flip, and audio at Media Matters.
BECK: Schwarzenegger came out over the weekend and he said the Republicans need to run to the center and they need to grab the center. And the headline -- I looked at it, and I went "OK, OK, what is this? What is this? Oh, it's Schwarzenegger. I'm probably going to disagree with it." And then I started reading it, and I absolutely disagreed with it. He said they need to start talking about health care and education. That's not the way to win.
Let's talk about health care and education? That's not the way to win. That's not the way to win on any front. I'm not even talking about -- the least I care about is winning the election. How about winning the war? How about saving our country? And, you know, it made me think. I want to make this very clear. When I say on the air, and I've said it a lot lately, that we need to come together and we need to get back into the center, we're being pushed on to the edges -- I want you to understand, that is not on policies. I don't mean that we come in the center on policies. We come to the center on principles. We come back to the center of the melting pot, that we're all one America, that just because I disagree with you doesn't mean you hate America, and I love America. We all love America. We just disagree on how we should function, what we should do, big government, small government. It doesn't mean you hate America. I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.
