I am extremely disappointed in Beck. If you'll remember, I have been very supportive of him. What he is doing is wrong. Charity begins at home. We have plenty of legal children in the U.S. that are suffering. Instead, he just encouraged more illegals to cross the border and threw conservatives under the bus (after attacking them and claiming they show no mercy).
Border Crisis: What Glenn Beck Did Wrongby John Nolte 10 Jul 2014, 8:15 AM PDT Breitbart.comWednesday morning The Blaze's Glenn Beck announced it was "deadly to my career" for him to provide truckloads of meals and soccer balls as a way to "help care for some of the roughly 60,000 underage refugees who have crossed into America illegally in 2014."
Early Thursday morning on "Morning Joe," the left-wing Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski did exactly what I feared the media would do after Beck's announcement: they trashed conservatives who disagreed with Beck as lacking in compassion. Scarborough even mocked them as un-Christian. And they are not alone.
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But for Beck (and the media currently using him to club conservatives) to pretend there isn't a compassionate argument to be made against what Beck's doing is simply wrong, unfair, and a bit sanctimonious.
It's just a fact that these children are already being cared for once they arrive here. I'm not even sure they need Beck's charity. Regardless, the unthinkable danger for them occurs during the journey across a continent to get here. It's not just the natural elements these children have to worry about, I'm hearing on the news that fully
one-third of young girls are sexually assaulted during the trip.
Therefore, the truly compassionate thing to do is to
ensure you’re not doing anything that might encourage more parents to send their unaccompanied children on that harrowing trek. And it is not insane, unreasonable, or lacking in compassion to argue that news of a major American media figure greeting children at the border with toys could be used by the drug smugglers and human traffickers already exploiting these kids as a way to recruit more.
Beck obviously doesn't believe his acts of charity will exploited in that way.
But rather than acknowledge the other side has a reasonable argument against what he's doing that is every bit as humane as his, he chose to puff himself up as a martyr and handed the likes of "Morning Joe" ready-made talking points to bash his own supporters and conservatives in general.
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Beck also went on his radio show to trash conservatives as a whole as looking "like they just want judgment" as opposed to mercy.
Beck's fans should expect more from him than this. Rather than put himself above his own for a sanctimonious finger-wagging lecture, Beck should be using his spotlight to explain why his fans feel the way the way they do -- even if he disagrees with them.
Instead he throws them under the bus for the likes of a Joe Scarborough to feast on.
More at:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/07/10/border-crisis-what-glenn-beck-did-wrong
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