Beck causes stir with comments
Zohaib Ahmad
Issue date: 10/2/09 Section: News
On his FOX News Channel TV show Aug. 31, Glenn Beck said President Barack Obama has surrounded himself with radical advisers including Marxists, socialists, radicals and self-proclaimed communists.
He also claimed that these advisers were "fighting a revolution."
These claims could be easily researched just by searching up adviser's names on Google, Beck said.
But is Obama really recruiting radical minds as his advisers? Do his advisers really have a communist agenda?
According to the White House blog, "Many of the arbitrarily labeled 'czars' on Beck's list are Senate-confirmed appointees or advisory roles carried over from previous administrations."
However, democrats at Drexel do not respect Beck's comments.
"I'm really not familiar with Glenn Beck's comments. I know who he is and know his views but try to void out his criticisms," Giancarlo Stefanoni, president of the Drexel Democrats said.
Self-avowed "progressive" Sukhdeep Singh, sophomore biology major, said, "Beck and other shows on FOX News serve to promote fear-mongering and the right-wing propaganda machine."
Other students felt similarly.
"You can't erase what's in the past, but Beck seems to be pulling things and putting extra emphasis on them like slander," Kevin Hou, sophomore biology major, said.
Yet many students, like Stefanoni, were not familiar with Beck's comments, including Mike Hess, chairman of the College Republicans at Drexel University.
According to Hess, people like Beck generally exaggerate and place bias on whatever details that suit them.
Hess also said since voter turnout was around 70-30 for Obama, many students, especially in the Philadelphia area, were probably not paying much attention to Beck.
"I doubt people are taking Beck's comments very seriously," Hess said.
Beck's first "czar" was Van Jones, of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
On his Web site, Beck said Jones was a self-proclaimed communist and had worked with a "revolutionary" group who were radical communists and anarchists.
He also claimed that these advisers were "fighting a revolution."
These claims could be easily researched just by searching up adviser's names on Google, Beck said.
But is Obama really recruiting radical minds as his advisers? Do his advisers really have a communist agenda?
According to the White House blog, "Many of the arbitrarily labeled 'czars' on Beck's list are Senate-confirmed appointees or advisory roles carried over from previous administrations."
However, democrats at Drexel do not respect Beck's comments.
"I'm really not familiar with Glenn Beck's comments. I know who he is and know his views but try to void out his criticisms," Giancarlo Stefanoni, president of the Drexel Democrats said.
Self-avowed "progressive" Sukhdeep Singh, sophomore biology major, said, "Beck and other shows on FOX News serve to promote fear-mongering and the right-wing propaganda machine."
Other students felt similarly.
"You can't erase what's in the past, but Beck seems to be pulling things and putting extra emphasis on them like slander," Kevin Hou, sophomore biology major, said.
Yet many students, like Stefanoni, were not familiar with Beck's comments, including Mike Hess, chairman of the College Republicans at Drexel University.
According to Hess, people like Beck generally exaggerate and place bias on whatever details that suit them.
Hess also said since voter turnout was around 70-30 for Obama, many students, especially in the Philadelphia area, were probably not paying much attention to Beck.
"I doubt people are taking Beck's comments very seriously," Hess said.
Beck's first "czar" was Van Jones, of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
On his Web site, Beck said Jones was a self-proclaimed communist and had worked with a "revolutionary" group who were radical communists and anarchists.
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