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Beck apologizes for calling Obama a 'racist', did not start civil rights movement
Aug. 27, 2010, 2:45 p.m. - Talk host Glenn Beck today said he made a mistake when he called President Barack Obama a "racist" during an interview last year.
"I did not understand his liberation theology," Beck told XM 169 morning host Joe Madison.
It was Beck's first apology since July of last year, when he accused the nation's half-white president of being a bigot on "On Fox & Friends" - Beck was discussing the Henry Louis Gates arrest.
"This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture," Beck said. "I don't know what it is."
The next day, Beck restated the remarks: "I think the president is a racist."
Aug. 27, 2010, 2:45 p.m. - Talk host Glenn Beck today said he made a mistake when he called President Barack Obama a "racist" during an interview last year.
"I did not understand his liberation theology," Beck told XM 169 morning host Joe Madison.
It was Beck's first apology since July of last year, when he accused the nation's half-white president of being a bigot on "On Fox & Friends" - Beck was discussing the Henry Louis Gates arrest.
"This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture," Beck said. "I don't know what it is."
The next day, Beck restated the remarks: "I think the president is a racist."