A Gentleman’s view.

Change has definitely come to the Glen Beck Show and Fox News Channel.

UPDATE: September 8, 2009; 57 Companies have decided to leave the Glenn Beck Show.

The party leaders sit on their prospective asses and pretend that all the verbal abuse and disrespect being leveled at the office of the Presidency coming from their Party’s gatherings and minions has nothing to do with them. So, as the tenor turns worse than ugly with threats and outrageous inquiries into the legitimacy of this President or his citizenship, the leadership looks the other way. No one stands up to any of the verbal madness and fights for and demands respect for the office of the Presidency as this position today is being held be a black man. There are just way to many white males in long-term positions of power and privilege having issues accepting this, so if this gets out of hand, if some loon takes it upon himself to save the ‘Union’ or other anti-black theory being expressed and pull off an successful assassination, they would be ever so grateful, never express it, but you understand. Seemingly, that would suggest they are about defending the republic only if it being be lead by an acceptable leader. Who defines acceptable?

Fox News found out that it is not them who define what is acceptable. The network defining itself by hiring talented by but people of limited scope as their mission is only to present any and all news, events or commentary from the far right point of view. This policy has allowed for a very generous interpretation of news and events as they take place and affect our lives. What has been allowed to date has been no less than a full frontal assault to block or completely destroy the attempt by this president to solve our national health care crisis. The President has spent much time on the road explaining the benefits of reducing costs of all of us, and as much clearing up the lies presented by the talking heads like those at the Fox News network. One particular person taking an outlandish perspective on things said by President Obama to the point of calling him an outright racist is Glen Beck. I was aware that there would be many white men in positions of privilege and power, who were not aware of the fact that they are prejudiced and are now just finding this out. I can only imagine what that must be like. I really believe that Glen falls into this category, and the only way to rationalize this is to accuse the President of the very crime Glen Beck and even Rush Limbaugh is guilty of; namely being a racist. Change that this particular President brings is again, what the hard right folks didn’t project for when deciding to take the tact of allowing all the fringe elements within the Republican Party loose. Any and every possible claim is being made about the illegitimacy of the Presidency of this black man. Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks as party leadership watch in silence to see where it might head, hoping to get out of a big jam and not have to kowtow to this black man for the next four to eight years.

But change has come to America and on the way stopped by the Fox News Network and put them on notice that your political leadership may ignore threats to a Black President, and all kinds of verbal abuse on his character, but commercially we have decided that position is not in the best interest of our list of companies and therefore concluded it is in our interest to no longer advertise on your network as long as those attacks are still allowed to be verbalized over network airwaves. The network; The Fox News Network has lost about a dozen or more sponsors to include Geico, Progressive insurance companies and Ford Motor and Proctor and Gamble to name but a few prominent companies to pull advertising from all of Glen Beck programs. Change means that this black man can’t be treated as we have treated black men before him no matter their position, this man is the leader of the most powerful country on this planet; namely us, the United States of America, chosen by a majority of over two to one. These companies are saying that attacking the President has been and always will be considered the most highest of crimes in America whether he is white, black or whatever. This is a most uniquely different take on the position of a black man in America. This black man is not like any other in the history of this country, for like it or not, this black man is President and that means this black man is ‘Ours’.

© 2009, agentleman.