Glenn Beck, the maniacal Fox News conservative personality who has taken great pleasure out of taking shots at black people, has made some ridiculous comparisons over the years.Here is an excerpt, from Media Matters for America, of Beck comparing himself to iconic figures Rosa Parks and Gandhi.
Beck compared himself to Rosa Parks, Gandhi. During the April 5 edition of his radio program, Beck said:
This man, Glenn Beck, is nuts. He is delusional and borders on being dangerous. Here is a man who has no respect for black people. He openly takes shots at all black people who don't fit his vision of what black people are supposed to be like (quiet and/or conservative).BECK: Let me tell you something. You are the key. Not me or people like me. But you and people like you. Millions of people like you. They're not afraid of me, they're afraid of you. Just like Gandhi. Just like Rosa Parks. It wasn't Rosa Parks, it was the millions of people that were inspired by Rosa Parks' non-movement. Rosa Parks wasn't a danger. The people who watched her and said, "Yeah, I'm with her. I'm not moving either." It's the people who sat at a counter -- a soda fountain counter. You think people were afraid of them? No. They were afraid of the people that those people inspired. Martin Luther King was just one man.
You see, what they're doing is they're saying, "Get up from the counter. You don't have a seat at this counter." Yes, you do. They're telling you, "Get to the back of the bus. You sit up here. You sit back there." No, I don't.
This guy thinks of himself as some kind of a civil rights leader.
He is nuts.
