Wuh????We have several pieces; George Bush says my grandmother was a typical African-American that had, that had her views bred into her. You don’t think maybe we would ask questions about that comment?
I have a question…  
George Bush had an African American grandmother or if he did indeed say that would it just be another of his brain/mouth typos?

Beck flaccid……way way tmiThank you I’d like to think of Beck as having Ken Doll equipment….nothing sexual in any manner. Anything else would give me nightmares.
somebody gushing about Beck on Breibart thought his tears made him so sincere and honest and of course want to believe he needs no teleprompter.
I answered, “his WET BRAIN leaks out of his eyes….on cue.”
I also mentioned Jim Jones and Charles Manson didn’t use teleprompters.

What IS “White Culture”???American Idol, Hannah Montana, Britney Spears, Grand Theft Auto, Friends (TV show), Girls Gone Wild, Maury Povich, bad teenybopper remakes of 80′s horror movies, Guitar Hero…..
yeah, everyone’s jealous of the awesome white culture.
(this coming from a white guy LOL)

Beck’s bilgeOkay, we need to truth squad Beck.  I’ll take his statement: “George Bush says my grandmother was a typical African-American that had, that had her views bred into her. You don’t think maybe we would ask questions about that comment?”
Here is what Obama really said, during an interview on a radio show:

“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know – there’s a reaction in her that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. What makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling less like that. And that’s pretty powerful stuff”

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/Obama_on_WIP_My_grandmothers_a_typical_white_person.html
Obama was merely referencing that the dominant US culture  instills a generalized fear of persons with a race different from one’s own.  I don’t see how anyone, even Glenn Beck, can dispute Obama’s observation.  
Instead, Beck twists Obama’s words into something that wasn’t said. I know Beck is an entertainer and needs to attract and hold and audience, but this kind of distortion really needs to be called out.  
Kudos to Ms. Couric for asking about Beck’s “white culture” comment.  Its a shame she couldn’t call up Obama’s actual quote to compare it to what Beck claimed was said.  But, then, I guess that is what sites such as this are for.  

Here’s the Deal with Glenn BeckWhen the national dialogue reached a kind of fever pitch following Beck’s assertion that President Obama is a “racist,” leading to the advertiser boycott of Beck’s FIXED Noise TV program, I decided to watch Glenn Beck (for the first time) over a one week period.
I jotted down a few themes (there weren’t many) and key phrases and research them using the trusty internet. This is what I discovered.
Virtually 90% of Glenn Beck’s TV program is a cut-and-paste job ripped off from a far rightwing radio host out of Austin, TX by the name of Alex Jones. Jones also has a popular website called Prison Planet. He’s been kicking around since at least the early 1990s when he carved out a name for himself covering the slaughter of the Branch Davidians in Waco, TX.
Basically, Alex Jones spews such nonsense as:
1. H1N1 swine flu was created by the government
2. HIV was created by the government
3. Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama are secret, cardcarrying members of the New World Order
4. Dark, sinister cabals will steal our water and food
5. the Globalists are intent on culling 2/3rds of the human population
6. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein were all on the U.S. payroll
Back to Glenn Beck, I think, and I believe, Beck has never had an original thought in his entire life, so, when Miss Katie queried him as to what he meant by “white culture,” he was caught with his pants down and his only response was to engage in parlor games of deception.
Seriously. If you can handle a journey into the land of the genuine Crazies, visit Alex Jones’ blog and you will find every theme and idea Glenn Beck uses on his TV program.

There’s no such thing as “white culture”That’s why he can’t answer the question without sounding like a racist.
The concept of a a single white culture was created to support racist beliefs.
There’s really no single African-American culture either.
And besides that, Barack Obama was raised by white women from the Midwest.  

Bleh.Geez, he basically muttered a pant load of nothing there.  He went off on this tangent and nothing made sense.
Then, he directs his anger at KC.  He doesn’t want to be a sound byte….  but he knows that his entire show is based on sound bytes.  
Yesterday, I went to the store.  I nearly spewed when I saw how much of the most visible shelf space was reserved for his book.  I was surprised.  I mean, his followers can read?

Beck is primarily an actorOne shouldn’t expect serious thought from him. Nice to see his empty head exposed.

Naw, wait…After watching the clip, I’m mad about two things.
1. Beck playing the victim card, after how many rants on his sad little show about how others should not play the victim card.
2. People should “… turn over all the rocks and make their own decisions.” Really? Was that your tune when Bush was in the White House? As I recall, back then, your game was “Dissent is treason.”
Hypocrite.

Don’t forgetthe WWF, Adam Sandler, Dancing with the Stars, the tabloids (both print and broadcast), Michelle Bachman, the Flat Earth Society, Sarah Palin, Jay Leno, Ted Haggard, Hee Haw, Pat Robertson, Penthouse.  And…oh yeah…Glenn Beck.  The list is nearly inexhaustible.

I take offenseI’ll have you know Hee Haw is considered educational television where I live (Oklahoma).
Dena  

White culturecan also be Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Thomas Mann, Goethe, Schiller, Rabelais, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Proust, Madame de Stael, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Mariya Yudina, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Of course, Beck doesn’t mean that. Especially not cheese eating surrender monkeys such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Proust, de Stael.
White culture, or Asian culture, or English culture, or whatever cultural identity the speaker claims to want to defend and protect, basically means stuff that the speaker likes. That is what Couric should have keyed on, IMO.  

LOL!Good list!
And one more I forgot…..
the same Fall Out Boy song over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
Oh yeah, Bad.Ass.
LAME!

Great Question!That was an excellent question! I’d like to know the answer myself.
I am of Sicilian descent and people are always asking me if I’m either Puerto Rican, Mexican or African-American?
Usually, I just don’t answer them. I hate being asked what race I am. On job applications I always write in ‘human race’. Why do people make an issue of race I’ll never, ever understand. I know it sounds very naive, but I just do not get it. And never will. And I don’t think I want to. Because if people (one’s that you don’t even know) are that curious about what ‘race’ you are, then they are racist and I don’t want to know them.
I suppose I’ll have to click on the link just to satify my curiosity.
This is some crazy stuff. You would think people would evolve as fast as animal and plant life, huh?

Music industry? Vanilla Ice…
Dena  

“I Love You…..‘Cuz I Love You”.
Inspiring lyrics from the Ice Man.

Well, that’s reassuringIt’s nice to know that anything is considered educational in Oklahoma–or that they even know the word there.  :)