Glenn Beck spent a segment on his radio program yesterday ripping the foreign policy speech that Donald Trump recently delivered in which he declared that “‘America First’ will be the major and overriding theme of my administration,” because the phrase “America First” also happens to be the name of an anti-Semitic, isolationist political party that opposed U.S. involvement in World War II and urged appeasement of Adolf Hitler.
Beck said that this is the sort of information that can be learned through a simple Google search and the fact that nobody on the Trump campaign knew this or bothered to look it up means that Trump is totally unqualified to be president.
“You would think that someone would do a little bit of homework,” Beck said. “Can somebody Google search? … That is the bare minimum everyone should do. Google search.”
“If you can’t do a simple Google search, you’re not qualified to be president,” he continued. “You’re really not.”
We agree.
Earlier this month, we noted that Ted Cruz has been trying to rewrite the history regarding his appearance last year at a conference organized by radical anti-gay activist Kevin Swanson, who openly advocates imposing the death penalty for homosexuality, by falsely claiming that he was not aware of Swanson’s views before he attended and that he immediately denounced them once he learned about them:
This is nonsense, as Swanson’s views were well documented long before Cruz attended the rally and Cruz himself was directly confronted about them by CNN’s Jake Tapper the day before he spoke alongside Swanson. Both Cruz and his father, Rafael Cruz, nonetheless agreed to appear at the conference and then his campaign proceeded to dismiss any criticism of his decision.
When Beck’s own daughter confronted Cruz about his appearance with Swanson, Cruz lied to her face and feigned ignorance, claiming that he chewed out his staff for allowing him to appear with someone like Swanson, at least according to Beck’s account of the conversation.
As we said before, “if nobody on the Cruz campaign was aware of Swanson’s extreme views, it is only because they didn’t bother to check since Swanson’s long history of unrepentant bigotry has been well documented.”
A simple Google search would have easily allowed anyone on the Cruz campaign to discover Swanson’s extremism, but apparently nobody bothered to “do a little bit of homework,” which makes Cruz, according to Beck’s own standard, unqualified to be president.
