Glenn Beck Removes States' Stars From American Flag Until "They Get Serious About States' RIghts" Like Alaska, Tennessee (VIDEO)

Fox News host Glenn Beck is known for the bizarre antics he pulls on his radio and TV show.

But, in his latest stunt, caught by Media Matters, Beck just may have outdone himself.

Noting that one of the reasons he loves Sarah Palin is that she recently signed a joint resolution claiming sovereignty for Alaska under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, Beck said "That means states rights." Evidently, this resolution exists in six other states, but only Alaska and Tennessee have had their governors formally sign it.

The fact that so few states have these types of resolutions asserting their rights infuriated Beck, and to show his displeasure he went to a board with an American flag and swept off all the stars representing the states except for Alaska and Tennessee.

Beck warned that he wouldn't replace the stars until their representative states "decide to get serious about states' rights."

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Comments

[Nyain Swe]

it's always interesting to watch what ridiculousness he's going to be up to next - at least those eyes he used to put at the side of the screen are gone! gone i say - they were freaking me out

[jymfrancais]

thats such a 80s look he's wearing

[tisfilm]

Official, Gleen Beck h.ates U.S.A

[RonGallion]

Easy for you to spew blather, prove it post something show us. I'll bet you cant. Your just a rock thrower.

[CFAmick]

Does Glenn Beck really care about state's rights, or did a marketing consultant from New York City tell his producers that old white men from the South (ie, Fox News' audience) like to watch programs that pretend to care about state's rights?

[omar younis]

HA!

[fratricide08]

I seriously doubt Bredesen signed what Beck is claiming.

[Jwoo]

That's exactly what I was thinking. Tennessean here, and I definitely don't think that my state is the only one of two that deserve to be on the flag. Beck is a lunatic.

[donnabella]

L00ny bin time

[donnabella]

yet another individual suff3ring from delusi0ns of grand3ur . . .

[Slingingstones]

@G.Beck:

Keep your 4skin pickers off of our flag. Too many good men have protected it with their lives.

[ABriggs1]

When Bush was ignoring the constitution Republicans were saying "support the President" and "you're a bad American if you complain about it!" I myself am a big fan of state's rights, but I'm in fear that having these people talk about it will only make it look stupid. If there is one word that sums up the Republican part it's hypocrisy.

[ErnestPayne]

Wow yet more proof that you don't have to be crazy to live in the US but it, surely, must help. When Fox reaches the level of "The Naked News" you know its all over.

[Veteranscircle]

As ususal, unless you watched the show, you don't get the full story. I am a Veteran and respect the Flag enough to have volunteered to die for it. I agreed with what he was saying. Disrespect for the Flag is happening everyday in Washington. Let's start cleaning up there.

[LawHoo]

Hmmm...He doesn't respect the flag OR a State's right not to do everything he wants? He must think States exist to appease his every whim...

[Bude]

There are standards for how the flag is displayed. What he is doing is seriously anti-American. What does the American Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars think about Beck desecrating the flag?

We Beck burn it next?

[jwatso7]

But Bude, he's a conservative. Surely you know there are different rules that apply to him!

[ICanHasDemocracy]

Actually Beck proclaims himself a "Libertarian", but as that fringe party goes there is no real cohesiveness to the party.

[Andman0121]

and now its flag desecration...tsk tsk tsk do you neocons know the meaning of the word hypocrisy? I mean honestly it just flies above your heads doesnt it?

[MillinMn]

“ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. " 10th Amendment to the US Constitution.


So does that mean Tennessee and Alaska seek to grab power relative to the people? Is this a state vs citizen problem looming?

What does "state sovereignty have to do with the 10th Amendment?