re: #74 theheat

OMG, what bullshit. Good find.

Well, I was excited and thought it was a good find, but it turns out that gawker caught the vid back in June— the rest of the internets (crooks and liars, etc) are just now catching up.

This is better though: remember that piece Salon did on Beck’s hero, Cleon Skousen? Charles linked it. MMFA did a follow up. Guess who is yet another white supremacist?

Fox News’ Glenn Beck has heavily promoted the writings of far-right activist W. Cleon Skousen, even making Skousen’s book, The 5000 Year Leap, a central part of his 9-12 Project. Skousen is the author of several controversial works, including The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, which presented as “the story of slavery in America” a passage from a book that attacked abolitionists for delaying emancipation; cast slave owners as “the worst victims of the system”; claimed white schoolchildren “were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates”; and claimed that “[s]lavery did not make white labor unrespectable, but merely inefficient,” because “the slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken.”

Shorter Skousen: the worst victims of slavery were the slaveowners.

Beck guru Skousen’s “story of slavery” suggests slave owners were “worst victims of the system”

(apologies if this has already been mentioned too)