Glenn Beck accuses Mike Huckabee of being liberal, Huckabee strikes back

[alp227]

Simply because Huckabee supported First Lady Obama's healthy eating campaign, on his radio show, Glenn Beck called Huckabee "progressive". In response, Huckabee wrote on his HuckPAC blog that Beck "needs to stick to conspiracies that can’t be so easily de-bunked by facts" and addressed conservative hysteria over Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative: "The First Lady’s approach is about personal responsibility—not the government literally taking candy from a baby’s mouth." Right Wing Watch has more.

This isn't the first time Beck talked trash about Huckabee; in 2007, Beck said in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that Huckabee would "implode" in the 2008 primaries.

And in 2007, Mitt Romney put out a TV ad accusing Huckabee of being soft on crime due to Wayne DuMond.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Oh, my! I do love it when they start eating their own.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

2. Glen Beck's an idiot.

Huckabee's right about this. Michelle is not advocating strict government control on foods; she is simply encouraging people to look more closely at what they put into their body. Nothing wrong with education.

[DCKit]

3. "Nothing wrong with education."

Unless you're one of Beck's (or Rush's) followers. Or think Sarah/Michele are qualified to be President/VP.

"Some People" are averse to edumacation - about 23% of the U.S. population.

[gratuitous]

4. So refreshing to watch the two-face shuffle

On the one hand, nitwits such as Beck piss and moan about childhood obesity and how parents are doing such a shit job of raising kids. Instead of looking at the cheap and ready availability of processed foods that contribute to all sorts of health problems, the blame solely and exclusively lands on the parents - or should I say parent? Someone who is hustling for all she's worth, trying to keep the household together, and one of the corners that often gets cut is wholesome food.

So, when the First Lady lends the prestige of her office to back healthy eating habits and making it easier for people to feed their children a proper diet, Beck and his ilk pivot on a dime to complain about how the elitists are taking candy from a baby's mouth or slapping the s'mores out of kids' hands. Horrors! And the Fox corporation chuckleheads are there to serve as a latter day Greek chorus, echoing the absurdities and convincing a not inconsiderable segment of the public that healthy eating is some kind of dark conspiracy.

I look forward to a protracted dust-up between Beck and Huckabee.

[Turbineguy]

5. BUM FIGHT!!!!!

:rofl:


Pathetic.

[struggle4progress]

6. Beck is from Fruitcakeville in Bonkersland, and it's a waste of time to think about anything he says

... On his June 4 radio program, Beck sang the praises of Elizabeth Dilling’s 1936 book, The Red Network: A “Who’s Who” and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, in which she declared that “the problem of the large number of revolutionary Russian Jews in Germany doubtless contributed toward making Fascist Germany anti-Semitic.” “Naziism <sic>,” Dilling wrote in the screed Beck is now heralding, “has directed its attacks more against conspiring, revolutionary Communist Jews, than against nationalist German Jews who aided Germany during the war.”

Dilling’s book, Beck told his audience, was “from people who were doing what we’re doing now.” Ok, at least we now know what Beck purports to be doing.

Dilling, it should be noted, was an admirer of Adolf Hitler who appeared at rallies organized by the German-American Bund, the largest Nazi group in the United States . As Eric Hananoki observed on Media Matters for America, http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/201006040053, she has become a cult hero for White Supremacists like Women for Aryan Unity and Stormfront.org “who revere her ‘fearless’ work against Jewish people” ...

June 10, 2010
Glenn Beck’s Nazi Loving Train Wreck
Menachem Rosensaft
Special to the Jewish Times
http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/glenn_becks_nazi_loving_train_wreck/