NYT Frank Rich: Mormons believe there is something wrong with Blacks:
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: NYT Frank Rich: Mormons believe there is something wrong with
Blacks:
Date: Sep 20, 2009 2:59 AM
ARTICLE BELOW about the Racist Mormon Glenn Beck
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Mormons believe there is something wrong with Blacks:
http://www.christiandefense.org/mor_black.htm
"Bad Seed"
"Sons of Cain"
Especially due to their higher rate of illegitimacy:
http://www.tldm.org/bible/Old%20Testament/wisdom.htm
"3:16. But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection,
and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.
3:17. And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and
their
last old age shall be without honour."
They don't like Chinese people, either. They're very,
very prejudiced, and look down their noses at everyone
who is not one of *them.* But they also believe they will
be gods one day, and that the number of people they're
related to will have some effect on their status as Gods
in the next world.
That's also why they treat their women like trash. 'Baby
factories.
Every false belief serves some self-flattering purpose.
Mormonism is one of the worst offenders of this ^^ type.
It's important for everyone to know not to be fooled by
them. They're world-class phonies.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20rich.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print
September 20, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day
By FRANK RICH
IF only it were just about the color of his skin.
With all due respect to Jimmy Carter, the racist component of Obama-
hatred has been undeniable since the summer of 2008, when Sarah Palin
rallied all-white mobs to the defense of the “real America.” Joe
Wilson may or may not be in that camp, but, either way, that’s not the
news. As we watched and rewatched the South Carolina congressman’s
star turn, what grabbed us was the act itself.
What made the lone, piercing cry of “You lie!” shocking was that it
breached a previously secure barrier. It was the first time that the
violent rage surging in town-hall meetings all summer blasted into the
same room as the president. Wilson’s televised shout was tantamount to
yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. When he later explained that his
behavior was “spontaneous” rather than premeditated, that was even
more disturbing. It’s not good for the country that a lawmaker can’t
control his anger at Barack Obama. It gives permission to crazy
people.
The White House was right not to second Carter’s motion and cue
another “national conversation about race.” No matter how many
teachable moments we have, some people won’t be taught. (Though how
satisfying it would have been for Obama to dismiss Wilson, like the
boorish Kanye West, as a “jackass.”) But there is a national
conversation we must have right now — the one about what, in addition
to race, is driving this anger and what can be done about it. We are
kidding ourselves if we think it’s only about bigotry, or health care,
or even Obama. The growing minority that feels disenfranchised by
Washington can’t be so easily ghettoized and dismissed.
Many of those Americans may hate Obama, but they don’t love the
Republican establishment either. Michael Steele, who was declared
persona non grata at one of the mad “tea parties” in April, was not
invited to that right-wing 9/12 March on Washington last weekend.
There were no public encomiums for McCain or Bush. No Senate leader
spoke to the gathering, and perhaps only Palin and Ron Paul would have
been welcome from the ranks of what passes for G.O.P. presidential
timber. If there was a real hero to this crowd, it was the protest’s
most prominent promoter, the radio and TV talker Glenn Beck.
Time put Beck on its cover this week. Man of the Year may not be far
behind. Beck is not, as many liberals assume, merely the latest
incarnation of Rush Limbaugh. He is something different. That’s why he
is gaining on his antecedents — and gaining traction in the country’s
angrier precincts.
Though Beck’s daily Fox News show is in the sleepy slot of 5 p.m., his
ratings are increasingly neck and neck with the prime-time tag team of
Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, and he has beaten them in the prized
25-to-54 demographic. It’s not just because he is younger (45). This
self-described “rodeo clown,” who wells up with tears for dramatic
effect, doesn’t come across as cranky or pompous, like Limbaugh and
O’Reilly. A fervent Mormon convert and proselytizer, he is untainted
by association with the old Dobson-Robertson-Reed religious right.
Unlike Limbaugh, he bonds with his fallible listeners by openly and
repeatedly owning up to his own mistakes, including his history of
drug and alcohol abuse. Unlike Hannity, he is not a Republican
apparatchik.
Beck has notoriously defamed Obama as a “racist,” but the race card is
just one in his deck. His ideology, if it can be called that, mixes
idolatrous Ayn Rand libertarianism with bumper-sticker slogans about
“freedom,” self-help homilies and lunatic conspiracy theories. (He
fanned Internet rumors that FEMA was establishing concentration camps
before tardily beating a retreat.) It’s the same crazy-quilt cosmology
that could be found in last weekend’s Washington protest, where the
marchers variously called Obama a fascist, a communist and a
socialist, likening him to Hitler, Stalin, Castro and Pol Pot. They
may not know that some of these libels are mutually exclusive. But
what they do know is that they need a scapegoat for what ails them,
and there is no one handier than a liberal, all-powerful president
(who just happens to be black).
Beck captures this crowd’s common emotional denominator — with
appropriately overheated capital letters — in his best-selling book
portraying himself as a latter-day Tom Paine, “Glenn Beck’s Common
Sense.” Americans “know that SOMETHING JUST DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT,” he
writes, “but they don’t know how to describe it or, more importantly,
how to stop it.” This is right-wing populism in the classic American
style, as inchoate and paranoid as that hawked by Father Coughlin
during the Great Depression and George Wallace in the late 1960s.
Wallace is most remembered for his racism, but he, like Beck, also
played on the class and cultural resentment of those sharing his view
that there wasn’t “a dime’s worth of difference” between the two
parties.
Now, as then, a Dixie-oriented movement like this won’t remotely
capture the White House. Now, unlike then, it is a catastrophe for the
Republicans. The old G.O.P. Southern strategy is gone with the wind.
The more the party is identified with nasty name-calling, freak-show
protestors, immigrant-bashing (the proximate cause of Wilson’s
outburst at Obama) and, yes, racism, the faster it will commit
demographic suicide as America becomes ever younger and more diverse.
But Democrats shouldn’t be cocky. Over the short term, the real
economic grievances lurking beneath the extremism of the Beck brigades
can do damage to both parties. A stopped clock is right twice a day.
The recession-spawned anger that Beck has tapped into on the right
could yet find a more mainstream outlet in a populist revolt from the
left and center.
“Wall Street owns our government,” Beck declared in one rant this
July. “Our government and these gigantic corporations have merged.” He
drew a chart to dramatize the revolving door between Washington and
Goldman Sachs in both the Hank Paulson and Timothy Geithner Treasury
departments. A couple of weeks later, Beck mockingly replaced the
stars on the American flag with the logos of corporate giants like
G.E., General Motors, Wal-Mart and Citigroup (as well as the right’s
usual nemesis, the Service Employees International Union). Little of
it would be out of place in a Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone.
Or, we can assume, in Michael Moore’s coming film, “Capitalism: A Love
Story,” which reportedly takes on Goldman and the Obama economic team
along with conservative targets.
Unlike liberal critics of capitalist inequities, of course, Beck and
his claque are driven by an over-the-top detestation of government.
Washington is always the enemy, stealing their hard-earned money to
redistribute it to the undeserving and shiftless poor (some of whom
just happen to be immigrants or black). Though there is nothing Obama
can do to stop racists from being racist, he could help stanch the
economic piece of this by demonstrating how a reformed government can
at times actually make Americans’ lives better. That’s what F.D.R.
did, and that’s the promise Obama made, swaying some Republicans and
even some racists, during the campaign.
Too many Americans are impatiently waiting for results. It’s hard to
argue that the stimulus package reviled by big government-loathers is
a success when unemployment continues to rise and most Americans feel
none of the incipient “recovery” spotted by Ben Bernanke. The
potential dividends to be gained at the end of the protracted health
care debate also remain, for now, an abstraction to many who have lost
and are continuing to lose their jobs, their savings and their homes.
Nor has Obama succeeded in persuading critics on the left or right
that he will do as much for those Americans who are suffering as he
has for the corporations his administration and his predecessor’s
rushed to rescue. To mark the anniversary of Lehman’s fall, the
president gave a speech on Wall Street last Monday again vowing
reform. But everyone’s back to business as usual: The Wall Street
Journal reported that not a single C.E.O. from a top bank attended.
The speech sank with scant notice because there has been so little
action to back it up and because its conciliatory stance was tone-deaf
to the anger beyond the financial district.
That same day a United States District Court judge in New York, Jed S.
Rakoff, scathingly condemned the Obama Securities and Exchange
Commission for letting Bank of America skate away with what Rakoff
called an immoral and unjust wrist tap to settle charges that it
covered up $3.6 billion paid out in bonuses when it purchased Merrill
Lynch. How is this S.E.C. a change from the Clinton-Bush S.E.C. that
ignored all the red flags on Bernie Madoff?
Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even
insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning
of domestic terrorism in the form of a new Timothy McVeigh. On this,
one fears he knows whereof he speaks. For all our nation’s unfinished
business on race, racism is not Obama’s biggest challenge during our
unfinished Great Recession. He — and our political system — are being
seriously tested by a rage that is no less real for being shouted by a
demagogue from Fox and a backbencher from South Carolina.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci
Dennis
> Subject: NYT Frank Rich: Mormons believe there is something wrong with
> Blacks:
Well, a lot of *us* believe there's something wrong with *you!* :-)
Mort Zuckerman
Subject: NYT Frank Rich: Mormons believe there is something wrong with
Blacks:
Date: Sep 20, 2009 2:59 AM
ARTICLE BELOW about the Racist Mormon Glenn Beck
============================
Mormons believe there is something wrong with Blacks: