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Published: Tuesday, Sept. 1 2009 12:05 a.m. MDT

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Lew Jeppson

And how! Does anybody besides me find it fantastically incongruous to have the general brethren graciously deliver President Obama's genealogy, while at the same time Deseret Book markets Beck's line of demonic hyperbole against the president?

Hear hear

I agree with Janita Andersen entirely. Deseret Book should not show itself as a religious hypocrite. Pull the ads and stop promoting the books of an ungodly man.

Simple solution

If you don't like Beck, don't listen to him! For the rest of us, we enjoy a breath of fresh air, taking a break from the left spin we get on the other news networks! Most of us know we are smart enough to listen and decide for ourselves! Is that what you liberal hate so much, that some of us can actually think for ourselves? If one advertiser drops him, three more will come running with money in their hands to be able to reach his ever growing audience! It's call free speech and yes, its not only for liberals!

E.B.R.

So you are now in favor of censorship just because you disagree with Beck’s opinions. We live in the United States of America I thought. But comments I’m seeing here scare me. We have people who are for class warfare and censorship. Both are un-American and against the Constitution. Now a days if anyone talks or mentions the Constitution, you are labeled a fanatic and called names. Why is that? There was a time when people in this country actually loved that document. They held sacred the freedoms it provides. But now it is almost a dirty word. People want to shred it in favor of socialism.
Are any of you thinking? Has any of you read that document? Or are all of you “heaping to yourselves teachers having itching ears.”

Anonymous

I am truly sorry if Glen Beck's statements of Obama being a "racist" strike you as a "truth". I can only assume you also believe Pallin's "truths" about "death panels".

If you are honest people who look into the facts, you will realize these people will only lead you down that "slippery slope" they keep talking about, along with Bennet and Hatch.

Re Simple solution

You seem to miss the point of the letter.

Is it appropriate for Deseret Book to continue selling his books when he makes statements like that?

How does it reflect on the church?

I agree...

...pull the ads.

Timj

Deseret Book pulled "Twilight" from its shelves. If "Twilight" was a problem, I'd think Beck's books would be an even bigger problem.
Maybe it's time to start sending complaints to Deseret Book.

LDS LEADERSHIP

For many, many Mormons, Glenn Beck is the voice of leadership.

example: SIMPLE SOLUTION says the racist Beck is a "breath of fresh air"

it is sickening to live amongst such racists and religious bigots.

LoyalUt

Limbaugh,Hannity and Beck should all be pulled off the air for attempting to disown the political nature of the USA with their cleverly crafted lies against our great president. Obama has more inteligence than all three combined. Give him a chance to do his job,America will be a better country for it.

Left wing nut jobs

I've been watching those companies that have been pulling back their ads from the Glenn Beck show. I figure if they can "black mail" FOX and Glenn Beck, I too can "black mail" back by not buying they're products. I'm sure the same sentiment is being passed around by many.

Funny part is, Obama is a "Racist" and so is his wife!! If any of you far left extremists had half a brain you would be crying foul on Obama, not Glenn Beck.

I feel the pain for so many that have they head buried beyond their neck in sand.

Spoc

I was wondering where I could get his book. Thanks for the tip.

Mike Richards

Mr. Obama's machine has extended it's fingers even into Utah.

How dare you suggest that the freedom loving, freedom promoting man, Glenn Beck, be censored for speaking truth! How can you even suggest that Mr. Obama is protecting and defending the Constution of the United States? Mr. Beck is pointing out the obvious, something that is so obvious that all but a close-minded brain-washed Obama supporter would see it.

This country is in grave peril. Not since the days of FDR has a government trampled the Constitution so thoroughly as has this administration. Not since the days of Wilson has a government tried to squelch those who have the courage to speak out against the abuse of the leaders of this nation.

When Mr. Obama has chosen a known communist as one of his "CZARS" it is time to speak up and demand an accounting from Mr. Obama.

When Mr. Obama has seized two automobile companies and turned them over to his union buddies, it is time to demand an accounting from Mr. Obama.

When Mr. Obama plays the race card to his advantage, it is time to demand and accounting from Mr. Obama.

WOW! What a swing!

Just a little over two years ago, people were being held as heroes who blatantly called President Bush all sorts of names. Now one influential person on tv gets blasted for pointing out facts and then forming his own opinion about pres BO? Whether Pres. BO is racist or not, doesn't matter; whether someone says he is, doesn't matter. Actions speak louder than words. Amen to 'Simple solution'; if you don't like Beck, don't listen to him or read his book. He has every right to do according to his own will. All I hear from Beck is "look at the facts and think for yourselves."

the left is hypocrtical

while I dont listen to Beck - I am going to start merely based upon the lefts intolerance
No Lew: I dont find it weird that the LDS Church would deliver Obama a geneology while still allowing for dissent - something the left does not do. I find the liberal intolerance of Lew et. al. far more "inconguent, ungodly and demonic" than anything I have head from any Obamam critic

thanks

I plan on going to Deseret Book and buying a Glen Beck book today based entirely upon this letter and thread

when you look at

the people Barak Obama has, and is, associating himself with you've got to conclude he hates somebody. I'm inclined to think he hates successful, productive people.

oh shut up

This is rediculous. I doubt Janita has ever been to orem much less lives there. I'm sick to death of this garbage and the continued campaigning in this country. Great your man won fantastic, now revel in it. Just hold the campaign until say 2011 at least. Beck could stand to talk about something else too. I also find it hilarious that Lew posted twice to make it look like a more popular position. It took 6 minutes between posts Nice going.

Minister of Propaganda?

Who is going to tell us who we can and cannot read or listen to? Who is telling the truth and who is lying through their teeth, or merely badly mistaken?

I don't like Beck, but frankly I believe he is being a lot more honest with what he says than our President.

If the news media had provided more complete and accurate reporting on what Obama actually said and did and believed, perhaps we would not be int he disaster we experience today.

Free speech is much better than censorship.

Let all ideas compete in the marketplace of ideas and see who wins.

Or, perhaps you prefer that other retailers decide that Books of Mormon are offensive and should be banned?

JMT

Once again we see Liberals and their version of "Free Speech." It has always been "free speech for me, but not for thee."

We need to remember that when Adolph Hitler took over Germany it was the liberal socialists who engaged in burning books, not the Christian conservatives.

While no books are being burned, yet, we see the Liberal philosophy hard at work. When will we see Obama's crew going after the Deseret News opinion page for allowing letters that criticize their "dear leader", which is all Beck has done.

From one person who has never listened to a Glenn Beck program, the zeal with which the liberal left attacks the Constitution is just frigthening!

Revolutionary Bolshevism and I don't even think they are aware they are doing it!

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