Palin on Beck: A virtual white power movement unto themselves

"But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He's a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way," Sarah Palin told NewsMax last fall. The two cultural phenomena go one-on-one for the first time on Glenn Beck on Fox tonight. (AP photo)

“It’s not about me personally,” newly-minted Fox News analyst Sarah Palin told a gratingly supercilious Bill O'Reilly last night when asked what's eating Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferers like MSNBC's Chris Matthews:

How can she be a pundit? She doesn`t know anything.

And Time's Michael Scherer:

Palin, "as mascot and martyr … had become the message."

Sarah sets 'em straight:

They don’t like the message, they don’t like the common sense conservative solutions I articulate.

We understand the feeling, having been virtually accused — based upon our disagreement with his political philosophy — of being a racist by then Senator Barack Obama way back in December of 2006:

"Are some voters not going to vote for me because I’m African-American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn’t vote for me because of my politics,” Barack Obama told ecstatic New Hampshire voters yesterday. Being one of those voters who probably wouldn't vote for him because of his politics, we were naturally offended at his suggestion that people like us are racists. Swept up in the locals' devotional hysteria, however, the media didn't seem to notice. Folks hear what they want to hear.

Taking her cue from the President himself, Janeane Garafolo spoke for our betters in her "teabagger" rant — again gratuitously smearing people like ourselves, the I'm-mad-as-hell tea partiers and town hallers of spring and summer — before a fawning Keith Olberman last April:

These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House … If you have a cerebral electorate, Fox News goes down the toilet very, very fast … The Republican-Conservative movement has now crystalized into the white power movement.

"A Palin-Beck ticket, I'm absolutely ruling it out," Glenn Beck joked on his radio show last fall. "I’m just saying, Beck-Palin, I’ll consider."

Palin's white, Glenn Beck's white, and they're both powerful cultural icons, a virtual white power movement unto themselves who'll go one-on-one for the entire hour of Glenn Beck on Fox this evening starting at five. We'll bet a lot of those cerebral types will be covering their faces with their hands and peeking through their fingers. Who knows what those two forces of nature will bring out in each other? A teaser, from Beck's radio show a couple of months back when the host was joking about the idea that he and Palin should run for president and vice president together in 2012:

"I was just thinking, what, I'm going to take a back seat to a chick?" Beck quipped, to laughter from the studio. "Go shoot a bear, make some stew, I'm hungry in here."

Stay tuned.

Comments

[Gayle Miller]

I honestly cannot decide what I think about Glenn Beck. There are times when I truly believe he is nothing more than a clown who is adept at spouting alarmist theories that cannot bear closer examination. At other times, he seems like a prophet warning us of things to come. I would like to see him with Sarah Palin today - but didn't know about her appearance with him until the excellent Sissy provided the information! Didn't set the DVR. Grump!

[doug]

sometimes he is aclown thats ok.he always backs his opinions w/facts.his opponents never challenge them,just his demeanor. im the same