Beck's Guest List Included White Supremacists, Other Extremists


	Beck's Guest List Included White Supremacists, Other Extremists

ratilfar

11-16-2009 2:41 PM

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extremist, glenn, chicken little, beck, histeria, paranoia, fear, stupidity

ratilfar says:

Another Beck guest with a controversial past is Larry Pratt, the president of Gun Owners of America. Pratt appeared on the Fox News program on February 16, 2009.

A Second-Amendment rights enthusiast, Pratt may be best known for being forced to resign as co-chair of Pat Buchanan's 1996 presidential campaign because of ties to white supremacist and extremist groups. The same year, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Pratt was contributing to an anti-Semitic periodical titled "United Sovereigns of America." Gun Owners of America, meanwhile, was discovered donating money to a white supremacist attorney's group.

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