Van Jones challenged Glenn Beck to a debate. On his radio show today, Beck declined.
Here's how Think Progress characterized Beck's reaction to Van Jones:
Here's how Think Progress characterized Beck's reaction to Van Jones:
Glenn Beck took to his radio show to assault Jones’ record. Beck refused Jones’ debate challenge, claiming that Jones is hiding his true desire for a “violent overthrow for a Marxist government.” Beck continued his smears against Jones, comparing him to Mao, Che Guevara, and Joseph Stalin and saying the policies Jones supports — which Beck claims are communist — “only lead to death.”Here's what Beck said according to an audioclip at Media Matters. Read it, and you tell me if you think that Think Progress has accurately described Beck's response to Jones. [For a complete understanding of Beck's tone, check out the radio clip below (cut by Media Matter). Any mistakes or typos in the following transcript are completely mine.]
I just want you to know, Van, I truly love you as a brother as well. I think you are so misguided. I just said my prayers this morning with some members of my team where I prayed for people like you -- and you're included in this -- that I hope we become a nation that can weep for you, we can actually weep for your misguided action. I love you as well, and I would hope that you would put your Communist revolutionary tactics aside, because it only leads to death -- as it did with Mao, as it did with Che, as it did with Stalin... as it does every single time anyone has the government try to solve things through Socialism and then surround themselves with people who are full of hate, cloak that hate...
