Listening to Glenn Beck on NPR so you don't have to.
By bluegal Monday Feb 25, 2008 10:15pm
I am not making this up. NPR's Morning Edition:
Beck, a recovering alcoholic, says he needed to bottom out before he could recover. He says the conservative movement might need to do the same thing...
"Let [Democrat] Barack Obama get in, let them put these policies in. It will either work, or it will be a disaster."
Such a scenario would be good for the conservative movement, Beck says: "Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan. Bill Clinton gave us Newt Gingrich. Every time there is this swing to extreme, the other side comes back with real conservative values, and you start to move forward again."
Beck says the conservative he admires most these days is former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), who was defeated for re-election in 2006. "I think this guy really has it. I think he really understands the world we live in right now."
NPR, are you having fun yet? Morning Edition is running a "Conservatives Hate McCain" festival all week. Yesterday, they faked us out with an interview with the director of the Conservative Union. Today they had "noted conservative" Glenn Beck. And tomorrow they interview...wait for it...Grover Norquist.
I promise you, NPR, if you have Katherine Harris on by Friday I'll pledge for another tote bag. Honest.
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Glenn Beck is a waste of pig flesh. Just think of how many footballs we could have sent to an inner city high school's sports program.
Rick Santorum is a waste of horse flesh. Just think of how many cans of Alpo we could have sent to an inner city animal shelter.
With 8 years of Barack Obama on their way, beck has the chance to out-bottom himself this time around.
Beck, a recovering alcoholic, (and drug addict)
NPR's been assimilated.
Newt Gingrich? HAHAHAHAHA
L.A. Confidential @ 5:
They serve up Soft Serve
McCain is known to be going over the edge mentally (see the Green Zone Follies) and just another sleazy politician on the take. John is coasting on his “war record” which really has been overblown but mentally, he is losing it.
Beck's a stunted bigot and the reasoning centers of his brain are hopelessly scorched by a case of terminal assholeness.
Whenever I hear his voice trying to float a political position for himself, I think of that character in the movie "Airplane";
"They bought their tickets, they knew the risks. I say, LET 'em crash!"
Uff, I cannot stomach this stuff. Why are these people all over the media?
I don't see anything wrong with NPR having asshats on to talk considering that most of the time its programming is preaching to the choir. There are plenty of intelligent, non-TV watching, academic types out there (like myself) who have never seen Glenn Beck or his ilk outside of the post here on C&L. I don't think it's such a bad move. Let idiots talk, so more people know they are idiots I always say.
Porkbutt Grandiose @ 10:
It's the Fair and Balanced thing.
No, Nixon gave us Reagan. His mess was so awful that Carter couldn't fix it in four years.
Newt's the result of the Bush Sr.'s successful whiting out the S+L Scandal and the Exxon oil spill from the American collective consciousness.
I heard this one, too. Calling Clinton and Carter far left or very liberal or whatever he did was pretty crazy, but not as crazy as singing the praises of Santorum!
lol so how does being more conservative move you forward? thats contradictory....
at least people are turning against the neocons. i'd take a real conservative over a neocon anyday
sharkcellar @ 11:
The way I feel. God put these morons on Earth so we have something to judge our own personal growth and progress with.
Gland Dreck
Does Glen Beck not have a forum for his CONservative point of view already?! Why does NPR give this little Limbaugh air time. It's time like these that remind me why I don't donate!
"Bill Clinton gave us Newt Gingrich."
He thinks that was good for the GOP?
I understand that having a big ass like Beck on NPR can only help us, but I am sure NPR doesn't understand that.
In short, fuck NPR an its semi-closeted Bushites: they are part of our - America's - problems, and may we solve that part soon!
Glenn Beck is a loser and it wouldn't surprise me if he was a participant in the government's operation mockingbird
And we need to talk more openly about that and the history of false flag terrorist tactics in the war community.
Lord knows our Media is in a disasterous state and our foreign policy is the worst its ever been.
National
Propaganda
Radio
"Public" media with a corporate twist
By the way what are Newt and Sanctimonius doing now? Oh that's right...
What the hell are "real conservative values?"
wasnt it gingrich who tried to defund NPR in the mid 90's? perhaps someone whispered in his ear,, "pssst, not so fast newt,,, we have other plans for that thing,,,"
I promise you, NPR, if you have Katherine Harris on by Friday I’ll pledge for another tote bag. Honest.
Would that be a Nina Tote(n)bag?
SNARK!
I listened this morning. It was like a waking nightmare. Beck is an asshole, lunatic numbskull. For the life of me why this and the rest actually get air time is a mystery of life. Goldberg compared FDR and Obama to Hitler today. This is a piece of filth that writes for the LATimes. Why they aren't fired and sued for theft of wages is truly a mystery.
Cd @ 19:
No wonder he was so pissed at Clinton. I wonder how old he was when his mother told him?
Bud @ 22:
That may be the case in general but this series is really about how much trouble McCain is in with Conservatives in his own party. I think that's a valid news story. The problem is that the best "conservatives" anyone can get to analyze anything are Glenn Beck, Ralph Reed, Rick Santorum, Newt etc. It's a disgusting cesspool, and there are very few intellectual conservatives left. People like John Dean and David Gergen have essentially abandoned ship.
Haven't listened to NPR/local MNPR since early 2003. They are part of the problem. Don't support them or listen. Public Radio spells Establishment.
and george w. bush will give us obama :)
NPR has been shit-ifying for years now, especially after the Michael Powell FCC episode which provided the hole for rightwing infiltration of the organization. Now the contagion is metastisizing full bore.
Public Radio USED to be the voice of dissent from the conservo-rightwing establishment media. Now it appears to be an arm of it.
Fuck them.
glenn beck's brain has been damaged from his heavy cocaine use and alcohol abuse.
he has slandered FDR, told Michelle Obama to "shut the pie hole", and other horrible things.
AND THAT WAS JUST THIS WEEK!
Giving this ilk airtime is neither fair nor balanced. Reserve that term for "honorable opposition". When someone uses lies deceit to make their case, they are not honorable and have eliminated themselves from the argument.
It is clearly established that Beck and the others like him are liars. When NPR puts him on, it does not give Beck credibility, it only undermines NPR's credibility.
I have stopped donating to NPR and this is why.
... exactly the sort of thing that lead me to stop listening to the national feed on my local NPR station. I only listen to local programming and the PRI/BBC feeds now.
I guess it bears stating the obvious that "Carter begat Reagan, which ended with the criminal scandal of Iran/Contra". "Clinton begat Gingrich, , which ended with the criminal scandal of Gingrich resigning for ethics violations". And if we go back further, "LBJ begat Nixon, which ended with the criminal scandal of Watergate". And of course "Clinton second term begat Dubya, which ended with the criminal scandal of... gawd... where to start?"
The pattern then is that if electing a Democrat means the people will return to voting Republican soon after, that Republican will revert to their criminal ways as sure as swallows return to Capistrano.
LOL Bluegal!
Speaking of the Lunatic Fringe how could i forget the Republican pin up girl, Katherine Harris?
I agree she'd make a damn good Republican Presidential candidate. She's a living SNL rerun!
Hey Glenn, if you like 'santorum' so much, why don't you google it?
moondancer @ 27:
I have come to the conclusion that the Reptillians hate the memory of FDR so much because he didnt allow the USA to go fascist.
Hitler and Mussolini were RW pinups in the thirties to a certain section of the brain dead in some parts of the Americas and Europe (outside Germany)
We still have a substantial amount of flag wrapping, uniform worshiping (of people who wear uniforms) and knee jerk fascism and thugs who would quite happily form death squads to cleanse the nation.
Infragard that secret squirrel club of local worthies and fatcats which made the news blogs the the other week is a nasty shadow of things to come.
ferrofluid @ 39:
Who won the debate? * 22553 responses
Hillary Clinton won.
23% Barack Obama won.
65%
Neither won.
13%
Did the debate help you decide who to vote for? * 22009 responses
Yes, my mind's made up.
51% No, I still can't decide.
4.1%
It made me lean toward Hillary Clinton.
11% It made me lean toward Barack Obama.
30%
It made me want to look elsewhere.
2.7%
Will Ralph Nader's entrance into the presidential race hurt the Democrats? * 21971 responses
Yes, once again Nader could siphon off just enough votes to hurt the Democrats.
20% No, Nader doesn't have the sway he once had.
80%
Will Obama and Clinton combine forces to create a "Dream Team"? * 22202 responses
Yes, Obama-Clinton.
10% Yes, Clinton-Obama.
10%
No, there's no way either of them would bow to accept the other as running mate.
80%
So that explains it.His dry drunk rants.That's the only rational explanation
Beck, a recovering alcoholic, says he needed to bottom out >>
You know, I always figured Glenn Beck was a bottom.
An interesting concept, but...
There IS no bottom for the right-wing to hit! Every time you think "shit, they can't possibly sink any further", they SINK FURTHER!
It is incredible, the concept of "infinitely lower".
Glen Beck needs a drink. Or another hit on that rock pipe, or something. No kind of "recovering" person talks like that.
nice post X.
guess what I want?
So did Beck 'denounce' or 'reject' the bottle?
From what I gather, Beck is banking on an Obama Administration as being more disasterous than the Bush Administration which will then propel (at least in Beck's mind) the Conservative movement forward. I do not see that happening. Obama would basically have to totally run the country into the ground to match what the Bush Administration has achieved.
42 mudshark Says:
"So that explains it.His dry drunk rants.That’s the only rational explanation."
I am much more into wet drunk responses. No rational explanation needed.
After 7 years of Bushco. I just can't feature how spotty little Toadies like Beck can continue to espouse the "virtues" of "Conservative Values" whilst Democratic front runners and power brokers continue to run away from the "L" word.I want one of these Dems to stand up for "Liberal Values".Real values.
Oh, and C&L....perfect title. Thank you for not making me listen.
Fanon @ 47:
Fanon, the comments downstairs closed on me before I got to say hey........HEY! Enjoy the beer, wait until you have to brush teeth by chasing after them, tackling them, rolling them in a towel, and torturing them with a Sonicare....those times call for Bombay or Stoli...sometimes both with a little grenadine.
X@49..
O....kaaaaaay
Glenn Beck on NPR. I heard it this morning. I guess David Duke wasn't available.
Strawberry
I know, I can't believe they closed the comments!! So far she finds teeth brushing very entertaining. She is a strange and funny creature.
[Comments close When the thread hits 550. I'll see if we can have another-Sitemonitor]
The only super natural evil force behind the clintons at this point would be Ann Coulter.
clear channel pulled our air america down here in 'wanna be orange county-diego. There's nothing else to listen to. Used to be a good classical station but, they done got run out of town
How 'bout a hallejugah for us folks living in fossil land. (The weather is pretty good tho)
He's right, the conservative movement needs to bottom out for a century or so.
Beck is the poster boy for reactionary idiots who harbor nothing but contempt for the concept of critical thinking.
How dare you NPR, your suppose to be all bat shit crazy lib all the time!!! No scratch that "progressive" !!!! no hearing the truth out of you!!!!
This was a good segment though, This country can ill afford 4 years of Barak, I think Ann's right though, nothing will get done
Fanon @ 55:
......? Tooth brushing entertaining? She's a girl, (it must be), critical thinking skills standard equipment and all. Boys love to annoy and see mommy go neocon.
i don't think i'd go so far as to call coulter natural.
"Beck, a recovering alcoholic"
Another one??
Jesus, who's listening to these people?
Cokeheads and drunks. What makes the rethuglican party great.
God, and to think that people actually VOTED for a cokehead and a drunk..
L.A. Confidential @ 5:
Isn't Lil' Tuckie "Bowtie" Carlson's daddy involved in running NPR into the ground and sending money to Tom DeLay's defense fund?
NPR is a mere shadow of it's glory days during Watergate. Now, rather than getting to the bottom of a story they are more concerned with hidding the story. National Propaganda Radio would be a more appropriate name.
chris @ 60:
Like we could afford 8 years of the far right wing Bush regime?
We had a surplus when your idiot wunderkind seized power, now we have a national debt of:
$ 9 , 3 2 2 , 8 2 9 , 1 0 3 , 9 3 6 . 7 9
The estimated population of the United States is 304,470,074
so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,619.85.
i remember when i actually used to listen to npr for insightful commentary and ideas.
chris @ 60:
and by bat shit crazy Lib,I assume you mean actual investigative journalism?
Why is there no open thread for post debate commentary. I am frustrated. Rachel Maddow talking now.....
"I’ll pledge for another tote bag. Honest."
I won't ... NPR shouldn't be wasting air time on knuckle dragging simpletons like Beck the director of the Conservative Union, or Norquist.
If they ask for my money, I'll tell them to keep bigoted reprobates like this off their shows, and then I'll consider giving them my hard earned money.
Until these people are off their bandwidth, they don't get any of my money ... when these kinds of people are on other outlets, I ignore them ... you put these people on, you give them a voice, you have lost me.
He's a real douche!
LOL @ chris @ 60
How much more "ill" can this country get , than having the highest deficit in our and the world's history , along with the worst reputation ; both by-products of the most moronic douchebag to ever hold high office in Chimpy , whom you still blindly and stupidly worship ?
I do not think that neither Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton were "liberal extremists" at all.
It is pathetic that polemics have replaced serious studying of issues as well as history in the United States, which gives credence to the erroneous analysis espoused, by people such as, Glen Beck on NPR.
Just stop funding NPR until they hang a sign in the window that says "under new management and now with real journalists."
This morning I was returning from dropping my brother and sister in-law off at the airport - I almost drove off the road when he said Rick Santorum!
I can only hope that the rest of the wing-nuts feel the same way.
Strawberry,
Sorry about our misunderstanding, but i was there from the beginning of the debate and saw that you chimed in late. My last post that couldn't get the time was that I cannot (underscored) see this United States with presidents named ""Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Clinton"". I can't.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@ Glenn Speck(ofshit)
You mean "the" Rick Sanitarium ? The same stupid fucking douchebag who claimed to an AP reporter that the right to privacy "doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution" when the then-pending U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law,was asked of him ?
The same stupid jackass that tried to equate homosexuality with beastiality (man-on-dog sex) ?
Yeah Speck , Sanitarium is truly a "Rennaissance Man" ....ROFLMAO
Barack Obama almost has 1,000,000 contributors to his campaign. That is amazing.
Listening to Glenn Beck on NPR so you don’t have to.
thank you for your sacrifice.
The question is, Who does Glenn Beck work for? Who hired him? Who's agenda does he serve by preaching hated?
So where is this "liberal media" that runs the air waves and why do they give all the air time to the "Parasitic Right?" Because Liberal media does not exist! It's a fabricated lie to disguise the the Radical right who manipulate facts into fiction and who behave as merely "parasites." By parasite I mean they seek to devour the earth, and anything else that gets in their way of personal gratification. The right is guilt of Exactly what they blame liberals to be guilty of doing! Such Hypocrisy!!
And how is it that all they do is fabricate what a "lib'ral" would say, when in fact it is their own HATE that is authoring the slander!? Especially without any "librals even on the show??
Such cowardly weasels!!
This piece only shows Coulter and Beck to be the vapid, heartless, small minded cowards they really are. They dare not face those they accuse!
Pathetic!
I sent an angry, blasphemous e-mail to NPR before they were 90 seconds into that Beck segment. If I want to listen to that fool, I'll turn to commercial-ridden am radio, where he's on for something like fifteen hours a week. I gave $$$ to NPR for twenty years running, but no more. Steve Innskeep was interviewing a scientist on the potentially catastrophic disappearance of the honeybee population. At the end of the disquieting interview, Innskeep asked, "at the lab where you work, do you have any bee jokes?" That was another time I e-mailed NPR. E-mails, yes; donations, no.
I can't wait until we get a Democrat back in the Presidency and put the head of NPR back into non-partisan hands where it belongs.
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
and hemorrhoid sufferer...
A tip for Beck: get back on the sauce. You were on the right road before.
NPR. I once knew thee well. How far ye have fallen.
Maybe this was their intent the whole time. Poison the public news outlets with goose-stepping idiots so sane people will stop giving them donations, and ultimately bankrupt the "liberal media establishment".
Have Amy Goodman on all next week, and I won't demand a damn refund and hurl my tote bag at the local station the next time I'm in the neighborhood. (Well, no, I'd fill it with organic goodies and give it tot homeless person. There was a family on the side of Hwy 6 last week asking for donations.)
But, really, is this ay surprise? NPR is almost, ALMOST, as biased as the corporate media. That's why we should al support Pacifica and LOW-POWER FM!
Puhlllleaaaaaaase lay off the Ann Coulter clips! I cannot keep emersis my dinner every night! Then again, its a good weight loss program: Watch Ann Coulter, purge, lost a few pounds.
Glen Beck is on crack
Our family hasn't listened to NPR since Air America hit the airwaves. Since NPR
has been sharing on-air personalities with Faux News(Mara Liasson, Juan Williams), we don't share our blue dollars with Public Radio. NPR is useless...and as stated already...this might be their grand plan all along.
A mormon puke is a bottomed-out alcoholic? What a loser.
What a douche bag! An alternate interpretation is that the Nixon and Ford administrations gave us Carter and the failure of Bush I in dealing with the economy gave us Clinton. Looking at it from this perspective bodes well for the Democrats post-Bush II.
Of course, is we step back for a moment, this amounts to nothing more than a big circle jerk because such armchair commentary can go either way when there are only two viable political parties.
jimt @ 45:
...true--don't mean to take his inventory, but Ol' Glen sure sounds like he could use work on the 10th step...
Bollox Ref @ 30:
It's kind of sad isn't it?
Glen Beck. Somewhere out there, a guilty nurse is sorry she dropped him.
Thank God NPR gave Beck a venue where he could finally speak his mind unchallenged.
In general, I could care less he is on NPR... no one really heard a word that rod said on NPR - it will only help the Media Matters "Is the media really liberal?" argument.
The REAL question is why was that fool given his own show on CNN Headline NEWS channel? His is not a program about News. CNN should be treated with the same disdain as Fox News ... treated like the political crap sell out it has become. For example, I would have like the Dems to refuse to debate on Fox AND CNN.
I listened to it. It was really sad listening to NPR treat this bile-spewing, half-wit as a respected pundit. Not one time did they call him on any of his inanities or talking points. Not one single mention of any of the hateful and bigotted things he regularly says.
They even referenced a racist comment by him calling John McCain "Juan" because of his immigration views in the lead-in, almost laughing themselves about it themselves.
It was a pathetic performance by NPR. I lost a lot of respect for them today.
I think Beck is mad at the republican party because they rejected Romney in part because he's a mormon.
Ann Coulter is like the left of the democratic party. She's not satisfied with anyone that doesnt pass her conservative purity test. The moderate wing of her party is more of an enemy to her than the democrat is, sort of the same way the left hates the DLC more than the GOP.
I could only listen to the first minute and then stopped.
It sounds like a junior high school level conversation between two girls about some senseless gossip. The U.S. media has definitely hit an all-time low. This clip is proof.
i managed to watch EXACTLY ONE MINUTE of that...
any more and it would have been SCANNERS
Jonesy @ 99:
Don't believe a word Coulter says. She is playing Dems and independents for fools.
I dislike Beck's ideas. But I respect him as a person. Somehow you can see he's actually human with a soul. Unlike that piece of garbage Limbaugh.
Ah, yes. The "gift" of Newt.
MCMetal @ 72:
Lib, did I ever say I followed the prez? No, But he did not get that deficit by himself, can you say spendacrat controlled congress??
FYI Ron Paul is publishing a book in April, he's the only REAL hope, not O'bambi
I haven't listened to NPR for going on five years now - I used to listen every single day.
Now I remember why I gave it up. The same reason I gave up the Chicago Tribune.
Luckily I am in range for Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR.) That and Liberal talk radio . . . .
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So, Ann, you're saying that Stalin would be a Republican? ;-)
Welcome to "1984"!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/314216/the_george_w_bush_admini...
It's as if NPR is being controlled by the RNC.
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This probably sounds harsh: I've had enough of these egotistical ba$tards who deny their addictions until they figure out they are killing themselves and then think they have become enlightened because they "found" God, who really they must have fried their brains because they cling to these simple "moralistic" views. Or just simplistic. Where was the follow up on the "analysis" Carter>Raygun; Clinton>Nudie? I wish I could still subscribe to give someone enough rope....but unfortunately, most people let such simplicity wash over them (but remember it because it is, well, simplistic). Obviously, NPR could have had much more insightful representatives of the Repugnant cause than Beck. This seems to be a pattern of button-pushing stories they've been having on more and more.
But NPR is still much more valuable than other major media because most of the time, they do ask follow up questions. Presumably, they saw Beck as the lightweight that he is and went easy on him-WHY??? Actually, Norquist is someone who should be given air time; hopefully the "give him enough rope" principle will be in effect--assuming that they actually ask follow-up questions.
Of course, if one were to follow Beck's logic to its end, you would say
George Bush gave us [insert Democratic candidate name here] -- a real boon to the progressive movement.
Personally, I think they should just continue being bombastic and obnoxious, making round fools of themselves. It's such a nice contrast to at least one other candidate.
Sure enough, I had a "BleckHead" (tm) attempt to use that line of thinking on me yesterday. I simply copy and pasted his comment/whine with the preface "(insert right-wing extremist lying-type propaganda artist's pseudo here) *WHINES* -", I'm waiting for his next response (which will probably be a combination of a "straw man" and a "red-herring".)
"Beck, a recovering alcoholic, says he needed to bottom out before he could recover."
And of course, we know that Limbaugh is a recovering (I presume) drug addict.
Is there any reason we shouldn't now routinely refer to these two clowns as "Beck, a recovering alcoholic" and "Limbaugh, a recovering drug addict"? Or would that not be nice?
Nice is for wimps. Nice is for losers. I want my side to win. If our enemies have chosen to be alcoholics and drug addicts (I doubt if anyone FORCED them to consume these poisons at the barrel of a gun), and then they routinely spew forth their venom via the radiowaves, then they're living in the glassiest of glass houses, and I'd paint 'em for what they are -- recovering alcoholics and drug addicts -- with a fierce vengance. Nice is for those who don't mind getting steamrolled this November.
Glenn,
Most of the GOP are on a dry drunk. The rest pickled their brain, Like you did and it can't be reversed.
I suggest Glenn begin to attend church and pray an awful lot.
If one believes in that sort of thing, of course.
You're absolutely right, TC-14. Republicans are weak-minded people who need desperately to follow some form of dogma so they don't self-destruct. Ever wonder why so many born-agains are recovering alcoholics?
And I presume when he says, the country, by swinging conservative, moves forward, that what he really means is makes progress BACKWARD.
You can't possibly consider the destruction of scientific knowledge in favour of superstition "moving forward." What's next from the Republicans? A witch hunt? Sacrificing humans to a mythological being?
(Oh, that's right, they did give us a witch hunt in the '50s (i.e. Red Scare) and the '90s (i.e. Ken Starr). And they've been sacrificing humans for Jesus pretty regularly since the Iraq Invasion.)
I do have to admit, they are winning: The country certainly isn't as free as it was when it was founded. That's Republican progress.
Thank God or Budda (whoever) that you watch Beck so I don't have to.
I will say this. Beck recently spoke out of his Alcoholism.
I think their both on a dry drunk and niether are currently practicing the 12 steps of AA. And desperately should be !
Who the hell is Glenn Beck?
VegasRage @ 89:
Glen Dreck is Rick Santorum on crack.
The beginning of their 12 step program is the 12 STEPS many republicans are taking to register as democrats---- where most of them see a new light to replace the proctoscope they have been using.
NPR is deeply, maddeningly, disgustingly, appallingly conservative. Fox News with little bow ties and beanies and pinching their noses when they talk. The way I figure it, they owe ME a hundred bucks. And I'm not sending them a tote bag for it.
there is no more ignorant a creature that has ever inhabitated the earth then a republican.
they vote against there own best interests, they spend there time trying to steal things, they are just greedy ignorant pedophiles.
Assuming that Beck is in recovery, he has failed to learn one of the primary lessons taught by Bill W, restraint of tongue and pen.
He needs to talk to his sponsor -
Jeff @ 31:
Bush is such an easy act to follow that Obama will seem OVERqualified.
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
It's the 'recovering' part he's having problems with. He's got the booze and drugs down pat however.
“noted conservative” What does that mean? He has a note from his shrink?
Santorum, that frothy mixture....
Conservatives simply prove that no matter how mentally ill you are, they can't hold you in lock-up forever....
W also gave us Osama.
Yeah, but the Splendid Table is pretty good. And, no sarcasm, This American Life is radio art. And there was a time I thought the Car Talk guys were fun. Otherwise, anybody who thinks NPR is informative on current events needs to raise his or her standards.
NPR is nothing like it used to be. National Propaganda Radio is a right on name! If it wasn't for Garrison and some good jazz, the news is snooze.
Anybody that has An Coulter on their show is crazy as she is that pretty bad !!!!!!!
Who died and made Glenn Beck God? He's omnipresent and obnoxious.
Le Misanthrope aka Jim W @ 82:
Good lord! I thought we public radio members were a wee bit more open-minded. Where else would I hear the ideas spewed by these idiots? Don't watch network news. And remember, public radio is just that.
My own thoughts, listening to Mr. Beck? Wow! It's more dangerous out there than I thought. Keep up the fight . . .
Perhaps you'll reconsider whether to support a mass-news source that presents straight-on discussions from all influential voices, regardless how odious.
You know what though, I think the country is in a position where to fix it, we're going to have to be slapped around and eat a lot of humble pie. And if the next prez doesn't have the guts to do it, the country will get worse and the dems will get the blame. If the prez does do it, getting slapped around and America eating humble pie is the kind of things repubs will rally around like frothing dogs.
I stopped giving money to NPR when it dawned on me that just about every goddamn guest they have on has coincidentally just come out with a book. Why should I donate to what seems to be an unofficial PR wing of the publishing industry. Let Harper Collins donate.
I stopped giving money to NPR/MPR when I realized that their "subscriber magazine" was aimed at multi-millionaires. I was scraping to make my guilt-reducing pledge, and meanwhile their advertisements for luxury cars and expensive wines made clear that they were marketing their subscriber magazine to people whose primary interest in NPR was listening to Sound Money.
Their guests are either Ivory Tower academics with no real-world experience of life, or the latest "expert" from a "think tank," inevitably a conservative talking head.
Nowaday's I subscribe to Stephanie Miller (only $4.95 a week if you subscribe a year in advance). I prefer her scurrilous rumors and fart jokes to Nice Polite Republicans...
$4.95 a month, I meant. Need an edit button.
maybe something should be addressed about corporate sponsors of headline news because glenn beck is an inferior brand and cnn could do better-and knows it. there are so many quality journalists and hosts that are not in national circulation that deserve exposure than this. hatemongering doofuses aren't the only ones paying for airtime.
Albatross @ 134:
Yeah!, agreed............... and don't get me started on Bill Kling and the Klingon Radio Empire
Since Air America started, I've completely given up on NPR. I haven't listened to it in years. With AA as an option, I don't see the reason to bother with NPR.
I refused to renew my membership after listening to first some dickwad from the Weekly Standard who was just presented as a journalist with NO mention of what kinda rag it was followed a few days later by some wackjob from the heritage foundation. Nope, they don't need MY money. AA is nice IF you live in a market that carries it. Isn't it nice that poor ol Ann Coulter finally got some face time. REALLY embarrassing about that credit card denial huh Ann? Guess the money flow has slowed down some huh? Keep up the boycot of anyone who advertises on a show she is on, do the same for that asshole Beck too.
NPR is just coming out into the open with their conservative, er, excuse me, "moderate" establishment standpoint.
For years one could bank on hearing someone from the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, or other top rightwing thinktanks, weighing in on whatever the issue.
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I don't donate to PBS or NPR, but I view and listen to them both. Without guilt by the way. I do enjoy NPR long form news.
To bad it can't be done by others for competition.
Glen is covering his a**. He knows that this is undoubtedly a Democratic year, so this way, he's never wrong. He predicted it. He can then pick apart everything that is done for the next 4-8 years to keep his viewers happy. Only flaw is that my gut tells me he will screw up long before the end of the Dem times. Some scandal will take him down. The conservatives are very quick to forgive his likes, but they never actually forget. His ratings will suffer once he falls off his high and mighty wagon.
I periodically tune in to see if NPR is still shamelessly spewing the propganda. This is the piece that happened to be running when I tuned in. It got progressively more bizzare and divorced from reality, until it got so weird that I could no longer keep myself from alternately cursing NPR's perfidity and laughing at the cretin who was being interview by a fawning cheerleader. The point where I had to change the channel was when he started singing Rick Santorum's virtues. I didn't tune in early enough to hear who the GOPer douchebag was who was being interviewed, as if he actually had a trace of gravitas. Now I see it was Douchebag Beck.
And my local public radio station wonders why I no longer support them, after decades of donations.
Anyone with an ounce of Gaydar knows that Beck is the biggest closet Queen since Swaggart.
Glen Beck, even more repulsive than Man Coulter. I want to vomit!
Yeah, I loved how they said they were spending the week examining "conservative thinking" - an oxymoron is ever there was one.
My question (which I also emailed to NPR) is when they're going to devote a week to progressive thought - e.g., with Rachel Maddow in for Glenn Beck, John Podesta and MoveOn folks in for the ACU, and Katrina vanden Heuvel in for Nuncle "Drown it in the bathtub" Grover.
This was an awful way to wake up. I don't listen to Beck so his style surprised me. He'd make a platitude or snark-ism and then the interviewer (Steve?) would ask him to elaborate and there would be a huge pause. Does Beck never think about what he says? Does he never have guests or callers to his show? What a pompous self-centered buffoon.
I would say the republicans have already hit rock bottom if they need advice from Glenn Beck.
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