Beck guest warns of ‘black genocide’ from health care reform
Published: September 1, 2009
Updated 5 months ago
It appears Fox News host Glenn Beck has found an unlikely ally — an African-American preacher who peddles conspiracy theories about a white plot to exterminate black people.
Beck gave airtime Monday to Dallas-area pastor Stephen Broden, who argued that the health reform bill being debated in Congress will lead to a campaign to exterminate black people in America.
On Fox News’ Glenn Beck, Broden plugged a documentary, Maafa 21, that claims the pro-choice movement, and Planned Parenthood in particular, is part of a 150-year-old plot to exterminate the African-American race.
“Slavery = Abortion = Genocide — that seems to be the message of this Life Dynamics documentary called Maafa 21,” the Right Wing Watch blog sums up.
“What’s going on in that documentary is what’s going to happen in the health care package,” Broden told Glenn Beck.
“I believe what we’re seeing is an orchestrated attempt to radically change this country from what the founders had in mind,” Broden said. “There is a deliberate attempt on the part of Marxist, socialist and … Darwin atheists who are changing this country.”
“Yes, Pastor Broden also believes that Obama’s administration will lead to socialism, ideologically-motivated hit squads and general cultural disintegration,” writes Andrew Belonsky at Gawker. “Beck wonders aloud whether Broden, who supported McCain during last year’s election, too has become a pariah. Certainly he can’t be called a racist, because he’s black, so what pejoratives does Broden face? The good pastor hasn’t the foggiest. He just hopes people call him a ‘patriot,’ a moniker Beck readily affixes.”
Broden’s theory, via Maafa 21, has made its way into the fringes of conservative thought. In July, Arizona House Rep. Trent Franks cited the film as evidence that abortion is a racist plot.
Maafa 21 “does an excellent job of documenting the prominent role racism played in bringing about abortion-on-demand in the United States, as former slave owners and elites turned to eugenics as a means of keeping minorities underfoot,” Franks wrote in a response to remarks by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The retired justice had argued that access to abortions for low-income women is limited.
Even civil rights activists have been swept up in the theory’s unlikely blend of race issues and abortion. Alveda C. King, niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., plugged the movie in a Washington Times op-ed last month.
Broden, who is African-American, also had praise for the occasionally race-baiting Beck.
“Do you think I have it right that these are Marxist radicals that have positions of tremendous power?”
“You are dead on, and unfortunately you are the only voice in the marketplace, in the public square, that is raising the red flag,” Broden said.
This video is from Fox News’ Glenn Beck, broadcast Aug. 31, 2009.
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Hmmm …. Let’s see: Do two wrongs make a right? No. Do two equally insane arguments make one sensible one? No.
Both of these people are bat shit crazy. They sputter non-sense. Without being equivocated by anyone. (Other than Keith Olberman hours or even days after the fact, such that it really does no good.) The fact that a conversation like that can take place on the air, appear to be logical, get into the mind of people with otherwise normally average IQ and become a meme in society is a little scary. Hell, it’s a lot scary.
Still hoping the search for extra terrestrial intelligence is afoot and succeeds because intelligence here on earth? Not so much.
so, when the white woman I know who had an abortion at 18 because she got pregnant by a mistake (and subsequently never made the same mistake again), she was trying to kill black people?
This country, spearheaded by religious psychos, is circling the drain quite readily now. Too many idiots given freedoms without the tools to properly wield them. Of course, that’s by design.. stupid people buy shit they don’t need with credit they can’t repay.. but at least the wealth is flowing UP.. right?
Republicans like Sean Hannity and Beck will do and say anything to kill health care. Watch this video of Hannity and guest claiming that Democrats care more about Kennedy’s vote than they do about Kennedy himself.
Just vulgar!
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2764
Rooney, we have a looney.
Well as you know, every other industrialized, first world nation has racist hit squads, full blown Marxist economies and death panels simply because they provide a government health care option. How much more proof does anyone need?
The shit-eating grins on both these guys makes me think that even they can’t take themselves seriously. Conspiracy theories are one thing, but both Beck and this preacher fool are so off the charts that it has reached the level of Wrestlemania’s ridiculousness. Please tell me this is really a Saturday Night Live parody.
glen beck is a scumbag. I have to seriously question the self-respect and sanity of anyone who takes this tool seriously.
They are ALL tools. Both parties are parties of lies and half-truths.
Spot on Savantster, spot on. You hit it right on the head, to many of us in the US don’t know how to use our freedoms and don’t understand what it really means. The elite have dumbed down this population to a point where many of us can’t even look out for our own best interest anymore. It’s so easy to control stupid people. Stupid people will do anything as long as their “leaders” say it’s okay. When the curtains finally close on the “American Century”, what will become of the US people? They will be trying to hold onto the glories of the past, they will be drawn more into the religious zealots as an answer to why they don’t have this or that. Our ideals that we always preached about but never used for anyone else but our own tribe will start to become more and more alien in it’s appearance.
At one point in our country history, just like Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken, we came to a fork in the road. One road looked rubble strewn and leaves on it and cracked, rarely used. The other well worn and less rubble, used alot. But unlike Rober Frost, we decided to go down the well worn road, the well worn road of what happens to powerful countries/empires. Instead of going down the one that may have helped us more as a country, we decided to follow the patterns of Britian and Rome and the other empires of the world to their start, their rise, their leveling off and their eventuall decline. We as a nation is declining in the eyes of the world and in the eyes fo the US elite. They know what has happened, they along with the rest of the world is jocking for position when we finally fall down and can’t get up. Then they will carve us up like a turkey.
If black genocide were truly the intended outcome of the pro-choice movement then Republicans wouldn’t have made anti-choice the cornerstone of their platform for the last thirty years.
De-evolution?
Eugenics, also known as forced sterilization mandated by the state originated in the US by elitist like Francis Galton, Charles R. Darwin’s cousin. The Nazis were so impressed by the program they adopted it for Germany.
Eugenics was America’s attempt at achieving racial purity by weeding out the “feeble minded” idiots, imbeciles and morons that were considered to be a drag on society.
The term eugenics is primarily used in a historical sense, however modern day genetics continues the field of study.
Glenn Beck should be reminded that eugenics was created by a “capitalist” economy and adopted by extreme fascists who murdered communist as a part of their final solution.
Red baiting has been the great propaganda tool of the right.
The US is a fascist country with some socialist programs.
The corporatist would like nothing more than to privatize social security, public schools, libraries and any other public service they can make a buck on.
Health care will continue to be joined at the hip with insurance companies until we have campaign finance reform that prohibits corporate lobbyist from bribing politicians.
HUH???? That Genocide started with Bush and Katrina!
Full moon’s in a few days - These two “loons” are just getting started early.
Extree! Extree! Read all about it!
Republicans are FOR national health care, now that they’ve found out it will cause genocide of blacks!!!!!!!!
EXTREE!!!!!!!! EXTREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!