When a media personality makes more news than he actually reports, then there is something seriously amiss. Such has been the case with Glenn Beck for some time. His conspiracy theories and far right rhetoric continually stoke the embers of glowering racial tensions in this nation. Lately, that has been no more apparent than in his revisionism of slavery in America.

In a radio clip from his program on June 25, Beck falsely claims that during the revolutionary war there was “no delineation between white and black” soldiers.

In the same program Beck pulls a similar revision on the founding of Liberia. According to Simon Maloy at Media Matters,

There’s an episode of the classic (if underappreciated) HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show in which the state of Mississippi makes reparations for slavery by giving every African American in the state “Mississippi fun bucks,” redeemable for “any one-way ticket out of Mississippi on the Mississippi Fun Bus.”

I was reminded of this as I listened to Glenn Beck tell his radio audience today that the founding of Liberia in the 1820s was evidence that the antebellum United States was not “an oppressive country”:

Devona Walker wrote on alternet.org about Beck’s latest trick:

Only a few weeks after whitewashing the entire slave trade by falsely claiming our Founding Fathers were both black and white, Glenn Beck is on another mission: the Fox news host is planning a massive “take our country back” Tea Party rally at the Lincoln Memorial — on the anniversary of the day Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Beck even addressed the controversy on his radio program, saying he wasn’t initially aware that the date they picked was significant, but now he thinks it was “divine providence.”  Right, I’m sure Martin Luther King will be looking down with pride that day at how far we’ve come.

All of this comes after Beck’s inexcusable remarks about President Obama. When Beck said, “This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people … this guy is, I believe, a racist,” he set off a national effort to hold him and Fox News accountable.

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