Thoughts 7/31

It has taken a long time to get it together to start writing. I promise nothing except to say what I believe, keeping an open mind and verifying whenever I can.
To our customer Priscilla this week, folks like you keep us going.

I've spent time this week reading comments people post following various articles online. Two in particular critical of Glenn Beck. It is amazing to me how much some folks hate the man. They call him a racist, a nazi, a fascist, a conspiracy theorist and more. He is accused of inciting some deranged man to kill people of the Tides Foundation. In that case, because he was the only person in the media who was found to have actually discussed the Tides Foundation. Unlike many of these critics, we have actually watched Glenn Beck on a regular basis since he was on CNN. Yes, he has evolved over the years. Who hasn't? Yes, he has an opinion. Who doesn't? His opinion may be different from yours. But that doesn't make him an evil person.
What we have not seen Glenn Beck do is spout hate or hateful lies or anything like that. He goes to great lengths to research and back up what he says about people, their background, their beliefs and their associations . Whether it is what they did, wrote or said, where they worked, who they worked or associated with, what projects or causes they promoted or espoused. The point is, he backs it up and then states without fail, if I'm wrong, show me where I've got it wrong.
No one else on TV has even bothered to question who the current people in power are, what their beliefs and associations are, or what their political objectives are. No one else on TV has researched the links between people and groups like the Tides Foundation, the Apollo Group, Acorn, SEIU, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones, the founders of the Weathermen Underground and what is their involvement and influence in the Obama administration.
It was Glenn Beck who came to the defense of Shirley Sherrod after she was fired without a fair investigation following the NAACP speech clip aired by Andrew Breitbart. A clip that was aired to show the hypocrisy of the NAACP calling the Tea Party groups racist. Not Ms Sherrod a racist, but the convention group whooping and clapping when they thought Ms Sherrod had said she had discriminated against a white farmer in her job.
If more journalists and media people actually did their jobs of questioning and digging to get facts rather than circling the wagons to protect their ideological favored, then those like Glenn Beck who do, would not be such a big target for the left.