Did Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990?

[Xiahou]

I don't think it's because he's black. I think that a lot of people jump on the bandwagon for that reason, but I don't think that's why it started. Regardless, the birther movement is silly. Which, incidentally...

Lemur's convinced himself that anyone who is angry at Obama must have racial motivations. I don't think you're going to change his mind.

It's worth pointing out that natural born citizen challenges are not unique to Obama. People speculated about whether McCain was a natural born citizen and, yes, there were even lawsuits filed by fringe leftists to challenge his eligibility. Of course, McCain lost, so that kind of put an end to the craziness on his account. We'll never know whether or not we'd still have small bands of kooks running around complaining about his citizenship had he won.

"Birthers" aren't even new to this election cycle. People like George Romney, Barry Goldwater, and (iirc) even Chester A. Arthur had questions raised about their eligibility for office. If someone thinks that this time it's different and they can see into the "birthers" hearts and pronounce them all racists.... well, what can you say? Some even think that all the people who are angrily protesting health care reform are really doing so because they don't like blacks.

Is Glen Beck even a birther? Seriously- I don't know. A search on Youtube for "glen beck birther" yields, among other things, this clip from his radio show where he's speaking rather dismissively of them and even seems to suggest that birthers are counter productive.

Regardless, I don't think that claiming he's ineligible for the presidency based on a technicality adds up to treason.

As to the rest of the topic, I think Beck sets himself up for ridicule and deserves it. But I also think frivolously claiming he raped and murdered a girl is in pretty poor taste. I don't know that the best way to paint Beck as an ass is for people to make asses of themselves as well.