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GOP Rep: Glenn Beck's Views 'Not America I Know'
As we told you earlier, Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) was viciously booed at a town hall Thursday for telling the audience to turn off Glenn Beck.
Now, Inglis is pretty right-wing, and opposes the president's health care reform plans. But, as he told local blogger Jason Spencer after the town hall, he finds Beck -- a pretty strong voice for conservatives these days -- a fear-monger.
I don't listen often to Glenn Beck, but when I have, I've come away just so disappointed with the negativity... the 'We've just gone to pot as a country,' and 'All is lost' and 'There is no hope.' It's not consistent with the America that I know. The America I know was founded by people who took tiny boats across a big ocean, and pushed west in tiny wagons, and landed on the moon.The America that Glenn Beck seems to see is a place where we all should be fearful, thinking that our best days are behind us. It sure does sell soap, but it sure does a disservice to America.
Will Inglis repent to Beck, the way Michael Steele, Eric Cantor and other Republican luminaries repented to Rush Limbaugh a few months ago?
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August 7, 2009 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I know when I pushed west in my tiny wagon, I landed on the moon, too.
Sorry, couldn't resist--I got the same thing out of his statement you did. ; )
August 7, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rep. Inglis added, "But don't push too far west or you'll fall off the earth."
August 7, 2009 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Before this comment, Inglis had already attracted several serious conservative Republican primary challengers who argue that he isn't sufficiently a true-believing right winger to represent this district.
Comments like this may make renomination in 2010 even harder for him.
He has been showing serious signs of sanity in recent years -- voted with the Democrats against funding Iraq in 2007, has dismissed climate change skeptics, voted against warrantless wiretapping, opposes off-shire drilling, and a number of other acts of apostasy.
Add in some recent quotes of his:
-- Commented on the Mark Sanford affair by urging the Republican party to “lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness” and “This may be an opportunity to extend a little grace to other people, to realize that maybe it’s not 100% this way or that way."
-- “What we’re seeing here in South Carolina is typical of the question we face nationwide as Republicans. The question is whether conservatism is about our love of country or dislike of our opponents..."
-- warning about the risk of the Republican party being defined by the "ideology of a small and angry sect.”
In many places, these actions and comments would demonstrate that Inglis is a sane politician, but in Greensville South Carolina (home to Bob Jones University) this puts him on the left side of the political spectrum. He runs a real risk of being purged in next year's primary.
August 7, 2009 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
We've just discovered an actual adult in the Republican party. Amazing.
August 7, 2009 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone who brags on television about carrying a concealed firearm when he goes to the movie theater is communicating that he has very questionable judgement. But even worse are the laws and permitting system that gives someone as weird as Mr. Beck the license to carry a concealed gun in the first place.
August 8, 2009 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink