A Timeline Of Fox News’ Handling Of Glenn Beck’s Controversial Tenure
It started in 2009 when Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist. (It could be easily argued that anyone who pimps John Birch Society books is racist, since the bulk of their direction is to keep the US Christian, European, and their “bodily fluids” pure…)
July 2009: Fox Forced To Address Beck’s Statement That Obama Is A “Racist” Who Has A “Deep-Seated Hatred For White People Or The White Culture”
Beck: President Obama “Is, I Believe, A Racist.” Discussing Obama’s response to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Beck asserted that Obama has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” After being reminded that Obama has numerous white staffers, Beck contradicted himself, stating, “I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people. I’m saying he has a problem,” before going on to state, “this guy is, I believe, a racist.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/28/09]
Fox News VP: Beck’s Words Are “His Own Views, Not Those Of The Fox News Channel.” The same day that Beck called President Obama a “racist,” Bill Shine, then Fox’s Senior Vice President of Programming, said:
During Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions. [TVNewser, 7/28/09]