Beck: Stem-cell research will lead directly to the search for a new ‘master race.’

[cynatnite]

On his radio show today, conservative talker Glenn Beck commented on President Obama overturning the ban on federally funded stem-cell research. Beck argued that funding stem-cell research would lead directly to a search for a new “master race,” the revival of Eugenics, and the reincarnation of the Nazi’s “final solution.” Believing that Obama’s success as president would hasten the arrival of his conspiracy theory, Beck then declared, “I hope Barack Obama fails”:

BECK: So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research, and then some, fundamentally changing – remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought us Eugenics. It was the progressive movement and it science. Let’s put science truly in her place. If evolution is right, why don’t we just help out evolution? That was the idea. And sane people agreed with it!

And it was from America. Progressive movement in America. Eugenics. In case you don’t know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. …. The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening. So I guess I have to put my name on yes, I hope Barack Obama fails. But I just want his policies to fail; I want America to wake up.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/09/beck-eugenics/

[av8rdave]

1. He's truly crazy

[jesus_of_suburbia]

22. I think he is even crazier than Rush and Coulter. I think they are just greedy.

To me, Beck seems "off" big time.

[Confusious]

26. He's F*ing coo coo for cocoa puffs

I don't think greed has anything to do with it. Rush and Coulter are a different story. They want the right to treat people like sh*t, like they feel about themselves.

[liberal N proud]

2. Straight off the loony express

[tanngrisnir3]

3. Beck's just pissed that he and his progeny can never be part of it.

[polichick]

4. This guy seems to have zero intelligence - how did he ever get on the air??

[skypilot]

5. People who can walk, remember stuff...

...and produce insulin=Master Race.

Idiot.

[thereismore]

6. Spoken like a true scientist... what a freak. nt

[Bill McBlueState]

7. Yeah, maybe we can isolate the gene for "moron"

and save future generations from people like Glenn Beck.

[Political Tiger]

8. I should think that would make him happy. n/t

[HeresyLives]

9. Isn't he aware the research

has been going on around the world all this time?

It was only Bush that banned it, not everybody else.

[marmar]

10. You'd think such a prospect would make Glenn BecKKK all tingly inside....

n/t

[Tempest]

11. Beck is an idiot

It wasn't progressives in America who pushed Eugenics, it was conservatives like Henry Ford.

[Vickers]

12. I love getting my science and history lessons from college dropouts.

:rofl:

[Believing Is Art]

13. So let me get this straight

We have a white man, a very white man, accusing a black man of spearheading the search for a "master race."

You gotta be shittin' me.

[wuvuj]

14. He understands that if science wins....

...he loses. There are rumors that the genetic pattern for conservatism has been found.

[tech3149]

15. Just because an asshole makes noise doesn't mean it matters

unless you have to deal with the smell. Anyone who truly remembers the foundation of eugenics know that the conservative/RW mindset were the primary ideology behind wanting to eliminate those who couldn't agree with their ideas of who had value to the society. Just remember Lindbergh and P. Bush supporting the Nazi regime. There were many more but I've tried to numb myself to this pain for too many years.

I'll agree with Beck on this one idea. I want America to wake up. I want people to realize where the "corporate medias "bread is buttered". They aren't trying to provide you any truth or understanding, they're just doing their best to give the true consumer, the advertiser, the biggest audience they can get.

Just remember when you deal with corporate media, you are NOT the consumer, you are the wage slave. If you shut it out or show it for the BS that it is, you buy out of being their bitch.

[spanone]

16. if this master race excludes assholes like beck, i'm all for it

[FormerDittoHead]

17. Don't forget that legalizing abortion will lead to genocide in the nursing homes.

:sarcasm:

I'm still waiting for any evidence of THAT happening....

Slippery slope is the bread and butter of right wing demagogues.

[bigtree]

18. the Pope is running around saying almost the same thing

. . . talking about killing babies for the research

[LeftinOH]

19. Well- that'll certainly leave him in the dust.........n/t

[11 Bravo]

20. It's bullshit, of course, but you can see why Beck would be petrified.

That dipshit wades in the very shallowest end of the gene pool.

[anonymous171]

21. The odd thing is that many libertarians and RWers wouldn't mind that.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Lying Liar. I want America to wake up also, so Lying Liars like this are exposed.

[DemocracyInaction]

24. Do you see a pattern here?

Limbaugh - dropout - brain fried on Oxy - jumps around in his chair and acts like a hyper-active hippo.

Beck - dropout - alcholic with similar brain fried symptoms - Flits and jumps around and rolls his eyes like hyper-active weazle.

Republicans obviously can't stand functioning brains and people who are not addicted to something.

[derby378]

25. So Obama, who happens to be half-black...

...is going to use stem-cell research to push a pro-white racial agenda, which is what a lot of unsavory doctors have viewed eugenics as? This is too much.

[marshall]

27. If by master race he means healthier, stronger, longer lived people

regardless of race or background, then yeah, I can see his point. Sort of.