Glen Beck said in a debate on Fox and Friends show that, Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people," Beck said. "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist." This statement, while controversial is not a “hate speech” by any standards of the definition.

To boycott Glen Beck for his statements about President Obama is a step away from freedom of speech. The companies that are pulling their advertising from his programming need to now take the time to pull their advertising from all the shows that have stated the same thing in reverse. It is common practice to call Republicans and any one else who does not agree with the Left side, racist, unintelligent and ‘redneck’ (redneck is a racial slur comparable to the N word in the south). These comments heard on talk shows that have views opposite of Glen Beck’s go unaccounted for daily. If CVS, Wal-Mart, Geico, and the other big name companies feel obliged to pull their advertising for Glen Beck’s comments then they are also just as obligated to pull advertising from all the other talk shows that speak strongly about issues. Unless they really are trying to censor Glen Beck and in that case, we have bigger issues in our country than a controversial talk show host making a comment about the president. I know that a non government entity boycotting a person is not censorship but when these big companies single out one speaker with different political views and allow the other speakers who are just as controversial to get away with their words then it is as close as you can get without being official.

If the media cannot scrutinize our president the same way that they have every prior president, just because he happens to be black then that in its self is a form of discrimination. Obama can handle media coverage, good or bad, just as well all the former presidents have. I wonder why when Bush was president and the media made it a point to mock him daily, there were no boycotts.

Whether or not they agree with Beck’s comments on Obama no well-educated American citizen with a firm grasp of what our constitution says can logically condone a boycott of a person for speaking their views. After all, free speech is one of the founding ideas of our country. I am sure even our great leader (who by the way has officially declined comment on the subject) can agree that the media, whether they agree with him or not and whether they like him or not, has a right to their opinion and to share it in a debate setting just as Glen Beck did. It should be noted that during the controversial interview Glen Beck’s statement was argued quite well by Brian Kilmeade. This so called “hate speech” was really a discussion that did not leave viewers with only one side of the issue.
 

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