Hard Left continues boycott of Beck

Too bad for them that their boycotts only really affect outlets like Whole Foods.  I think that the Left already hates Wal Mart so I am not sure what they think that they are accomplishing with this.  Having said that I do not understand why some of the advertisers are caving given that the WTO-hating hard left crowd does not have a lot of disposable income.

In the interest of full disclosure I will admit that I am not a big fan of Glenn Beck.  We likely agree on a majority of positions but his personality and the “Aw Shucks” sorta routine irritates me too much to watch him.

Writing over at the always-vacuous Huffington Post, James Rucker belches out an attack on Beck which includes an implicit acceptance of the president’s bigotry:

Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends.

Beck’s mistake was in misusing the language in exactly the same way as the Left.  Perhaps they claim ownership of redefining words to corrupt their meanings – I refer to their constant redefininition and misuse of the words racist and

President Obama

liberal and nazi and fascist and, perhaps most egregious, the self-congratulatory progressive.  Beck used the word racist to describe President Obama when he should have more correctly used the word bigoted.  I have no evidence that President Obama believes in the inherent genetic superiority of one race over another (racism) but it is obvious to me from his long association with his race-obsessed preacher Jeremiah Wright that he is an outright race-hustling bigot.  His ignorant taking of sides in the Crowley-Gates confrontation just proves his default perspective on race.  He is a bigot.  Beck is completely right.

The other quote from HuffPo’s Beck hit piece, that Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people”, can be easily defended (unless you are still drunk on the Obama Kool-Aid).  Everyone reading this knows that if we had a white politician who attended a church for 20 years where the redneck preacher ranted about black people being the devil and a hatred of America everyone would agree that it reflects on, and in many way defines, that white politician’s ideology.  The same is true if the potential bigot is black and Obama’s association with Jeremiah Wright puts him squarely in the same ideological camp with David Duke, his bigoted counterpart.

Barack Obama is a race-hustling bigot.  He is no more post-racial than Bull Conner was.

POTUS provides an ObamaCare demonstration

This picture speaks a thousand words:

Leaving the elderly behind

My first thought when I saw this photograph was that it was typical Barack Obama.  He smelled some cameras and is rushing ahead to get first dibs while leaving behind the old guy about whom he was so allegedly concerned.

But Thomas Lifson over at The American Thinker had a very sharp take on it.

I think this photo constitutes another major Obama blunder.

As some AT commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for ObamaCare. The elderly are left in the back, with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world, the stand up guys, to depend on. The government has other priorities.

That is indeed a perfect metaphor for ObamaCare: throwing the elderly under the bus when they stand in the way of the priorities of younger people.  But what does it specifically say about the false-compassion of Barack Obama?

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped  Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.

That is so true.  I found long ago that watching how a highly successful person treats waiters or other service industry people tells you a lot about that person and their true sense of self-importance.  POTUS’ self-importance is unprecedented because of the combination of his immense preexisting hubris and the fact that he began to believe in his own creepy personality cult.