Talk show host's upcoming visit draws criticism, causes tension

Rivard needs to practice what he tries to preach. When did he or the MSU Dems call for a boycott when Kanye West said President Bush hated black people, or when Van Jones accused Bush of playing a role in 9/11? Enough is enough! Quit being a puppet for Obama and start thinking for yourself. If you want to fix government start by looking at yourself and your party, same goes to the Republicans.

I hope the rumors are false and the protests don’t consist of students dressing up as “fat cats” trying to portray Michigan Businesspeople as evil villains. The members of the C of C are the men and women who stand the only chance to turn this state around. We need to stand behind our business leaders and drop the partisan games/protests. This looks like a play from Mark Brewer because the C of C called his plan a bust!

WOW, how hypocritical. The democrats LOVE to label the GOP as racist. Apparently they alone hold the right to call someone a racist.

Since Bush has left office, it seems the Dems are desperate in the need to protest someone. I wouldn’t be surprised if they started to protest members of their own party in 10 years.

glenn beck is a complete idiot—so are those that defend him. the idiots that agree with him are worse idiots than he is.

Great argument Adam…. you add so much to the debate with all your name calling, maybe Congress should call you to DC, you would fit in great! You miss the whole problem, because you are the problem.

Even though I’m a staunch Democrat who can’t stand dimwit-wack jobs like Beck, I actually WELCOME the idea of Beck coming to MSU — it’s an internationally recognized university — UNIVERSITY — represents the universe of ideas and thoughts (although Beck never had an origial one). Dems and liberals can and should protest… peacefully. Let’s take a page out of Beck’s own goofy 9-12 march on D.C. last Sat. as an exmple of how NOT to protest (racist, bigoted, hateful and violent toward Pres. Obama)… Instead, Beck needs to be hammered with tough, and smart questions, that will expose truly what an intellectual lightweight he truly is…

DemocRATS and lieberals cannot tolerate the free exchange of thoughts and ideals. Only under their iron fist of “diversity” might a speaker be allowed to utter pre-approved statements.

True to form, they’ll probably invade and shout down the speaker, as they’ve done so many times before. Will the campus police “man up” and defend Glenn Beck’s right to speak in front of the CofC?

“adam” is right.

Glenn Beck is an idiot and a racist.

Wow, Townsend, your version of the 9/12 events is different from every other one that I’ve read. Were you there, or did you pick it up on HuffPo, or what ?

So this guy Mr. Glenn Beck is coming to town? Welcome! But I wonder one thing? He called Mr. Obama a racist? Hasn’t he look in the mirror and see the real racist? be welcome, and go to damn hell later!

Start thinking for yourself? I could say the same thing to these narrowminded conservative republicans myrmidons!

Townsend and all the rest of the leftists proved a great point. Apparently these days the only thing they have to go on is calling someone bigoted or a racist. Once again, the great keepers of the word “racist” make their mark in American society.

It’s funny how the democrats label every republican as a racist, but people in their own party are the real racists. Let’s see rev. wright, van jones and yes obama himself and his wife are the biggest racists I have ever seen. People need to listen to what Hannity and Beck and Oreily have to say.

I don’t have a problem with people who watch fox news, I watch fox news, but if you watch fox news and actually believe the stuff they say, you have to be ridiculously stupid. Glen beck is a high school graduate. Hannity is a high school graduate. Limbaugh is a high school graduate. But no, they are right and everyone else is wrong. Do you think it’s a coincidence our dumbest and fattest states all vote republican? MSU is so conservative it makes me sick

Yeah they all have high school educations and still make more than all of us. Jealous much?

@Jason –

So is money the only deciding factor in your mind regarding if one is successful or a failure?

And no, not jealous or Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh. It doesn’t seem too appealing to be one of the most hated individuals on the planet while battling varying drug issues.

I have no problem with Beck speaking anywhere. If you don’t like him, don’t watch his show or go to his speeches. Why is anyone calling Beck racist? Is it because they don’t like him calling the president racist or because his beliefs are conservative? Neither of those make a person racist.

@ Steve

No what I was saying was the other guy was judging them on not even having a college education. I was saying that they are successful without it.

The issue, for me, is that by virtue of their over-the-top rhetoric, Beck, et.al, provide a platform for those among us who are bigots and end up carrying guns into townhall meetings. So the important, rational civil discourse that should be occurring — about health care reform, for instance, is stalled while people rant about whether or not our President is a citizen and the reincarnation of Hitler, or the subliminal Marxist architecture of Rockefeller Center. Meanwhile, Beck is laughing all the way to the bank. He’s a con artist — even, it seems, of many of you.

Go spartan’s for inviting Glenn Beck to campus and showing true diversity. Glenn has been boldly reporting real news while the rest of the media has had there foot stuck in the MJ funeral, the MTV awards, and Oh my did Joe Wilson apoligize enought times (even tho Obama repeatedly called Sarah Palin and half of america “Liars” in his health care speach and never once apoligized. Did you miss that 1-2 million people marched on Washington Saturday? Glenn didn’t. Or that Van Jones quitely resigned after Beck exposed that Obama appointed a self discribed Communist Radical to be his Environmental Czar (shh, you aren’t suppost to know)Or that Millions of your tax dollars are paying for corruption of Acorn giving advise on how to cheat on taxes and run a brothal for the child sex trade? Get your head out of the sand and actually watch Beck instead of listen to what others want you to believe about him.

@A True Divider: Kanye West exclaimed that, “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people!” but he’s also exclaimed that Beyonce had “the best music video ever!” and we should remind ourselves that President Obama has, himself, called Kanye, “a jackass”.

Anyway; Mr. Wests’s statements are quite a bit different than saying that the President has “a deep-seated hatred of White people” and that “the man is a racist” (the exact phrases your Glenn Beck used to describe President Obama).

You right-wing memory-hole operators need to get the facts straight before you defend your Idiot Kings.

You should also be reminded where the GOP stood during the Civil Rights Movement (with the segregationists).

Also; Beck’s comments betray a fundamental ignorance of the fact that Racism is a system of degradation, oppression, and exploitation which is based upon feelings of racial superiority. It’s what Anglo-Saxons have been doing to the rest of the world since long before the American Colonies.

Ignorance of that history is how morons like Beck claim that, just because there’s a “Black” man in the “White House” that the shoe is, somehow, on the other foot. That’s ludicrous. President Obama is still being victimized because of his skin tone and heritage in spite of the fact that he was elected “leader of the free world”.

If you GOP morons want to talk about who “hates” America and Democracy then you really need to check yourselves. You see; President Obama, unlike GWB, was ELECTED by popular and electoral vote (not “selected” by cronies in the Supreme Court). Mr. Obama’s margin of success in the electoral vote was the largest in history.

The GOP needs to get their own racism under control and support the duly elected leader of this great nation.

The source of frustration for me is personified by characters such as Beck and Olberman. They make a living saying outlandish things and preaching to a very specific group. It isn’t news, its just more sensationalism. With 24 hours of ‘news coverage’ these cable news personalities are required to fill time, sometimes hours. All they are offering is their opinions on what the current state of the world is. They are not journalists.

Unfortunately some people, myself included, become upset by the grandstanding of people like Limbaugh or the self righteousness of ‘news’ sites like Huffington Post that we can not see past our own opinions and feelings to the truth of the matter. Forget about solving problems together. We can’t even agree what the problems are.

I’m not asking everyone to lock arms and welcome the dawn of Aquarius but perhaps we can take a second to pull back and look at the world around us with a larger, more long view perspective. We have been given a powerful tool in our own sense of truth to know bullsh*t when we smell it.

If we allow our own rationality to be swayed by the talking heads then we have surrendered and admitted that critical thinking is just too hard.

Don’t let the TV, Congress, Granholm or the iNet tell you what and how you should think and do.

Personally the only thing I proudly admit my partisanship to is MSU.

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Mr. Beck seem “disturbed” over Islam. He thinks it should “change”. Mr. Beck, say that to 1.3 billions of Muslims. It won’t be easy kid. And I am no Muslim. And they don’t bother me.

@Angry White Male

The GOP was actually founded to help abolish slavery. Lincoln was a Republican, you need to get your facts right. I know Wikipedia isn’t the most reliable, but line one under history states: “Founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers”.

@ ????

Both parties have been through ideological shifts. The GOP may have been “The Party of Lincoln” and the Democrats may have been “The White Man’s Party” but that’s certainly not the role they’ve been playing for the last fifty years. The GOP became the party of “State’s Rights” (to segregation) and the Democrats (with JFK) became the party of Civil Rights; a 180-degree shift in core values.

I wasn’t talking about 1869; more like 1969. And don’t even get me started on the GOP of 2009. So kindly shut your condescending “mouth”.