On his radio program yesterday, Glenn Beck spent a segment discussing the situation in which a Texas pastor who had threatened to sue Whole Foods, claiming that employees had written an anti-gay slur on a cake that he had ordered, admitted to making up the story.
Whole Foods, which had initially responded by threatening to counter-sue the pastor, announced that it was dropping its lawsuit after receiving an apology and Beck was upset that this guy was going to get away with trying to smear Whole Foods and destroy its reputation.
“Again, we find over and over and over, the leftist activists that run false flags,” Beck said. “They make this stuff up or set people up and then run with it and then it’s found out and nobody does anything about it. There is never a consequence … You were trying to destroy their business. You were calling them the worst names you could. You were going to make them into a sub-human in their own community, and an apology is okay? Is there no consequence any more?”
“Don’t drop the lawsuit,” Beck said, because baseless smears like this “destroy people.”
“You have to now teach others: Don’t you dare even try it,” Beck stated, “because if you’re lying about it, I will destroy you … Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. That’s what I’m saying. You pull a knife on me, I got a gun so I’m gonna defend myself. Keep your cute little knife, but if you’re trying to smear me, you’re trying to defame me and you’re taking me to court, okay, you could win, that’s fine. But should we, as companies, go after those people and say, ‘No, that’s not enough, that’s not enough, I want to teach everybody else, I’m putting an end to this nonsense.’ You don’t do that. You don’t do that. Where everybody else settles and walks away and is just like forget it, let’s just get back to work. I’m not sure that’s the right thing to do anymore.”
That is an interesting position for Beck to take, considering that he and his company are currently being sued for defamation and slander by Abdulrahman Alharbi, who was injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and whom Beck spent weeks accusing of being an al Qaeda “control agent” and “money man” who had financed the bombing and recruited the Tsarnaev brothers to carry it out.
