Someone on the Glenn Beck's radio show had sense enough to tell him that teasing an eleven-year-old girl was not a good look and that he should probably apologize
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In a statement posted on his website Friday afternoon, Beck said he broke his own rule about โleaving kids out of political debates.โ
โIn discussing how President Obama uses children to shield himself from criticism, I broke my own rule about leaving kids out of political debates,โ said Beck in the statement. โThe children of public figures should be left on the sidelines. It was a stupid mistake and I apologizeโand as a dad I should have known better.โ
Beckโs apology came hours after the radio host and his sidekicks imitated a pretend conversation between the president and Malia, in which Beck has his version of 11-year-old ask a series of questions that included โDaddyโฆwhy do you hate black people so much?โ
Beckโs routine was prompted by a remark Obama made in his press conference Thursday, in which he said Malia had asked him earlier in the morning of the BP oil spill, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?"
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