Ignore Stack At Your Own Peril
By Wes Keene | February 19, 2010 | In Category: General
I’m normally a huge fan of Glenn Beck. I find his insights on our political landscape refreshing. However, on his radio show today Glenn Beck could not have missed the mark more than he did.
Glenn fell into the trap laid by the liberal media. The trap was designed by putting Stack squarely in the Tea Party. Of course, he isn’t a Tea Party supporter and his manifesto laid blame pretty equally to all sides. But right on cue, Beck stepped on the landmine by spending his show today righting the score going line by line through the manifesto.
Glenn then says this guy is “insane”, and so he isn’t really right or left. He proceeds to criticise any blog that said Stack had a point. Well, this blog said that, and I stand by it. Just because a guy does something attrocious doesn’t mean nothing he says is right.
In particular, Glenn sounded hypocritical calling Stack insane after reading a portion of the manifesto in which Stack decries our complex laws that even scholars don’t understand. I appreciate Glenn’s repuduiation of Stack’s actions and I concur with him. However, hearing Beck read Stack you’d think it was just Beck talking for certain portions of it.
Why not admit the guy did have some valid criticisms of our country and still condemn his actions? Can bad people make good points? Of course they can, and Stack’s points on legal complexities are actually right on the nail.
It doesn’t make you any less moral to understand a point made by a person who did something very wrong.
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