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By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Glenn Beck says he has come under fierce attack from some of his fellow conservatives for a grave transgression.
His crime? He announced plans to bring food, water, teddy bears and soccer balls to at least some of the tens of thousands of Central American children who have crossed the border into the United States.
Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire, Beck said. Anyone, left or right, seeking political gain at the expense of these desperate, vulnerable, poor and suffering people are reprehensible.
Beck, not averse to a certain grandiosity, let us know that Ive never taken a position more deadly to my career than this. But assume hes right and he may well be. Its one more sign of how the crisis at our border has brought out the very worst in our political system and a degree of plain nastiness that we should not be proud of as a nation.
Lets stipulate: This is a difficult problem. Unless the United States is willing to open its borders to all comers a goal of only the purest libertarians and a very few liberals we will face agonizing choices about whom to let in and whom to turn away.
Read it all here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-republicans-are-bordering-on-heartless/2014/07/13/cc152306-092e-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I don't know if he's cynical. Limbaugh and Hannity I think are 100% just in it for the money - yeah they believe a lot of what they say, but mostly they do what they do because it's a good way to make money.
Beck on the other hand, as wrong as he is, may sincerely believe the bulk of what he says.
I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
Bryant
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)That would be a step in the right direction.
Another would be telling them to shove their
assault rifle up their ass, but I just can't see
that happening.
Rex
(65,616 posts)If you can do some good in this world, even if it is a tiny bit...do so.