UPDATE: Read a related interview here with civil rights activist James Rucker about Color of Change's new campaign to take down Fox News.
A few minutes past 7 a.m. last July 28, the sofa-sitting triumvirate on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends were giggling over a segment about a bodybuilder when Glenn Beck appeared at the edge of the set, his arm curled in a mock flex. Seeing Beck, cohost Steve Doocy switched the subject to President Barack Obama's upcoming White House "beer fest" with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the police officer who had arrested Gates outside his home nearly two weeks earlier. Obama had called the racially charged episode a "teachable moment" and was under fire from Beck and other conservative commentators for saying the police had "acted stupidly."
"That is unbelievable!" Beck shot back. When cohost Brian Kilmeade asked him to elaborate, Beck presented his theory: "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, I don't know what it is."
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