Yesterday, the head of Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network "resigned" under fire for those silly "circuit board" promo ads that freaked out Bostonians. The same ads promoting "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" that had been up in eight other cities for as many as three weeks - without the slightest bit of alarm.
Alarmed Bostonians thought the harmless devices could be connected to terrorism. But at Turner, the terror isn't being spread by cartoon characters, but by a hate-monger named Glenn Beck.
Beck- whose intolerant countenance arrived on this planet 43 years ago today- has referred to Katrina victims as "scum."
Bring up that footage of the people screaming to be rescued from the Superdome parking lot, or from rooftops in the Ninth Ward, and you see terror on their faces. Yet in contrast to Anderson Cooper's humanistic portrayal of these real "hunger force" people, Beck seems to assess these folks as less than human.
Well so did the U.S. Government. At the same exact moment in time food was being sloppily directed to these victimes, you can bet that U.S. contractors in Iraq were eating well.
Scum=De-humanization. That's how terror starts.
And as to the poverty that Beck seemed to blame the Katrina victims for, Beck has long been against raising the minimum wage.
Then, not all that long ago, Beck indicated to newly elected Rep. Keith Ellision (D-Minnesota), that he wanted an affirmation that Congress' first Muslim was not "working with our enemies." Failing that, Beck said he could envision Rep. Ellison as being imprisoned behind barbed wire. Think, um, Gitmo.
When you prejudge a person because of his or her faith, and indicate that prison might be where they wind up, that's terrorism. History is rife with examples of that.
Do I really need to cite examples?
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